Lorenzo joins Stiegeler as casualty of 2002
■ Decathlon champion
Santiago Lorenzo will sit out
the rest of this season
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Hayward Field sidelines are
starting to resemble a very talented
emergency room.
Oregon defending national de
cathlon champion Santiago Loren
zo has decided to redshirt the 2002
season after a quadricep injury
kept him from training for much of
this year, Lorenzo said Tuesday.
The decision came two weeks after
defending national javelin champi
on John Stiegeler announced he
would sit out the season with a
torn anterior cruciate ligament.
“It wouldn’t be a smart idea (to
keep competing) because it’s the
type of injury you don’t want to be
chronic,” Lorenzo said. “Plus I nev
er redshirted, I have one more year
of school anyway, so I can come
back next year. It’s not the best de
cision, but with the limited choic
es that we have it’s the smartest.”
Lorenzo has not competed yet
this season, so he is eligible to red
shirt. He vvill likely return next
season with Stiegeler, if Stiegeler
can successfully petition for a
medical redshirt.
“John’s injury helped to make
the decision, not for me but for the
whole coaching staff,” Lorenzo
said. “When you have two nation
al champions injured for the sea
son, it’s much easier to make the
choice than just having one. It was
n’t the determining factor, but it
did influence the decision.”
Lorenzo, who is currently going
through rehabilitation, said he’s
going to spend as much time at the
track as possible.
“Oh, I’m going to be the No. 1
cheerleader,” Lorenzo said with a
smile Tuesday.
Lorenzo, who won the de
cathlon at the NCAA Ghampi
“It wouldn’t be a smart idea
(to keep competing)
because it’s the type of
injury you don’t want
to be chronic.”.
Santiago Lorenzo
Oregon track and field
onships last season in front of his
home crowd, injured his quadri
cep in February and said he rein
jured it slightly several weeks
later, which led to his decision to
redshirt the season.
Fun with computers
A national Web site,
www.team-power.org, lets users
pit teams against each other in
head-to-head action. The Ducks
are seventh on the site’s national
rankings, which are formulated
by taking each individual’s best
mark and assigning points on a
decathlon-like scale.
Want to know who would win
a clash between Oregon and
UCLA? The Bruins would win a
squeaker, 105-96. But Oregon
would take out Stanford with a
Adam Amato Emerald
Oregon decathlete Santiago Lorenzo will not return to the track this season, but will use his redshirt year instead.
landslide 140-0 victory. In fact,
according to the site, Oregon
could beat any other team in the
Pacific-10 Conference in a
dual-meet setting except Arizona
State.
Want to know how accurate the
site is? When Oregon and Wash
ington met on April 13, the Ducks
blew out the Huskies 117-81. The
brains at www.team-power.org
have Oregon winning 113-88.
Updating the list
With the relative complacency
of the Oregon squad last weekend
— the Ducks sent only a handful
of athletes to the Mt. San Antonio
College Relays in California
— some of Oregon’s athletes
moved around the national lists
without even competing.
Simon Kimata, who had held
the national lead in the 800-meter
race until recently, saw that lead
fall to Otukile Lekote of South
Carolina. Jason Hartmann moved
to eighth on the national list in
the 5,000, and Adam Kriz moved
to 13th in the hammer.
Micah Harris jumped into the
national rankings with a school
record in the 110 hurdles Sun
day. Harris now ranks seventh
nationally in the event. Billy
Pappas also jumped into the na
tional decathlon rankings — at
No. 12 — after his first decathlon
of the season.
But some athletes stayed put.
Trevor Woods’ 18-foot jump was
fourth-best in the nation when it
happened, and it still is. Stiegeler
still leads the nation in the
javelin, even though he won’t
throw again this season.
E-mail sports reporter Peter Hockaday
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Sports briefs
UO golfers move up to ninth
The Oregon women’s golf team
found their game Tuesday and
moved into ninth place after the
second round of the 2002 Pac-10
Championships at the Walla Walla
Country Club.
The Ducks improved by 12 strokes
in the second round with a 317 to
lead Oregon State by one stroke.
Senior Kathy Cho was much im
proved in her second day, shooting
a plus-one 73 to stand tied for 18th
at 154. Cho improved eight strokes
in the second round and moved up
22 places, after being in a tie for
40th after the first round.
Sophomore Lacy Erickson and
freshman Johnna Nealy both tied for
45th at 163. Freshmen Jaime Seefried
shot 83 for 168 and sits 54th.
Arizona, the defending champi
on, maintained the lead after
shooting 304 for a 36-hole total of
597. UCLA fired off 299 for the
second round’s lowest score to sit
in second place but, stills trail the
Wildcats by three strokes.
USC did not have a solid second
round with 308 and fell to third at
605, followed by top-seeded Ari
zona State who improved to fourth
at 606.
As with first round play only
two players were able to shoot par.
UCLA’s Yvonne Cho and Washing
ton’s Lindsay Morgan were the two
golfers in the second round to
shoot par-72. Defending individual
champion Lorena Ochoa of Ari
zona is just two strokes back from
UCLA’s Cho who leads with 143.
— Jesse Thomas
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Knight drops out of luncheon
FORT WORTH, Texas (KRT) —
Texas Tech men’s basketball
coach Bobby Knight has opted
out of a book-signing luncheon
co-sponsored by the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram because he did not
like a newspaper article that
scrutinized his older son’s busi
ness practices.
The April 12 article, which ran
on the front page of the Star
Telegram, stated that records
showed that Tim Knight, an assis
tant athletic director at the school,
had shipped school merchandise
to an Indianapolis store operated
by his mother without the univer
sity receiving payment. Bobby
Knight was a long-time coach at
Indiana University.
“I was notified by St. Martin’s
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Star-Telegram, and that because
of that, he is refusing to honor
his commitment to the Book and
Author program,” said Jeff
Guinn, the newspaper’s books
editor.
The controversial coach, who
is the author of “Knight: A
Coach’s Life,” was scheduled to
be one of six at the event, which
will benefit the Fort Worth Public
Library. It is scheduled for noon
May 1 at the Will Rogers Memori
al Center.
— Ginger D. Richardson
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