Ducks finish 12th in Hawaii tournament
Freshman Therese Wenslow
ties for 16th overall at the
Rainbow Wahine Fall Classic
Jon Roetman
Freelance Sports Reporter
Oregon freshman Therese
* Wenslow continued her impressive
rookie campaign Wednesday, as she
finished in a tie for 16th place at the
Rainbow Wahine Fall Classic.
Wenslow fired a final round, 3-over
par 75, helping the Oregon women’s
golf team to a 12th place finish on the
Kapolei Golf Course. Wenslow’s 75,
along with rounds of 72 and 76 on
Tuesday, put her at 223, eight strokes
off the lead. Sophomore Johnna
Nealy also finished in the top 40 with
a 14-over 230.
“There were a lot of positives that
can be taken from this tournament,”
Oregon head coach Shannon Rouil
lard said. “Johnna and Therese both
had a solid tournament and are be
coming players who we can count on.”
The Ducks finished with a 67-over
931, 61 strokes behind tournament
winner California, ranked 11th na
tionally. No. 21 UCLA was in second
with an 888, followed by Stanford at
893 and defending champion New
Mexico at 898. San Francisco
capped the top five with a 901. No.
25 New Mexico State finished sev
enth at 909. Tournament host
Hawaii ended the day in 17th with a
963. The Ducks failed to break 300
in each of the three rounds.
Stanford senior Kim Rowton won
individual honors, and was the only
golfer to finish under par, carding a 1
under 215. California senior Ria Quia
zon and Texas A&M sophomore
Nicole Melton tied for second with 1
over 217’s. New Mexico’s Kailin Downs
and California’s Sophia Sheridan
round out the top five. Oregon senior
Annie Davis, who joined the team last
winter after two seasons on Oregon’s
track and field team, finished a career
best 51st with a 235.
“Annie’s game has come a long
way,” Rouillard said. “She’s been with
us less than a year and it’s been espe
cially satisfying to watch her blossom.”
Junior Lacy Erickson, making her
fall debut as a member of the top five
after a long bout with mononucleo
sis, finished in 71st with a 243, in
cluding rounds of 78, 82 and 83.
Sophomore Jess Carlyon ended the
day in 89th with a 259.
The Ducks’ last tournament of the
fall will be the UNLV Founder’s Day
Club, Nov. 11 through 13 in Hender
son, Nev. Teams will play 18 holes a
day over the three-day tournament.
Jon Roetman is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Bynum’s back and less selfish
than last season’s big debacle
Maxx Wolfson
Arizona Daily Wildcat (U. Arizona)
TUCSON, Ariz. (U-WIRE) — Two
weeks ago, Will Bynum was encir
cled by a horde of media members.
He was answering questions left and
right about how Arizona is going to
respond to being ranked No. 1 in the
preseason, about the four new fresh
men and so on.
Then one reporter dropped the
bomb, saying “Will, I’m surprised to
see you back this year.”
The rest of the media members
stopped and anxiously awaited the
answer to the question.
Bynum blushed and said, “I’m just
happy to be around these guys. I’m
definitely not going anywhere for a
long time.”
There it is, done, settled. Bynum
is not going anywhere this season,
or anytime soon, in fact; even
though many never thought he
would be back for his second season
in the desert.
The lightning-fast guard is a year
removed from a season in which he
was forced to ride the bench for 25
minutes a game because of an over
load at the guard position and selfish
play when he had the basketball.
“I know I probably looked bad at
times,” said Bynum about his play
last year.
Many thought that the team’s
shortest player would transfer after
he flew straight home to Chicago, his
hometown, halfway through the UA
basketball team’s trip to Australia
last May.
But now Bynum, arguably the
team’s most athletic player, is back
in Tucson and is willing to do any
thing possible to improve the team.
“I would be happy playing 10
minutes a game,” said Bynum, who
averaged 14.9 minutes, 6.4 points
and 1.4 assists in 2001-02. “What
ever I can do to help out this bas
ketball team. I love playing with
these guys.”
But what has been even more
surprising about the high-flyer is his
new style of play on the basketball
court, which head coach Lute Ol
son learned about from senior
guard Jason Gardner and others in
the offseason.
One of Olson’s favorite sayings is:
“It’s often said that a college basket
ball player grows more between his
freshman and sophomore year than
in any other year.”
So far, Olson seems to be right on.
Feest
continued from page 13
In one more warm-up before Sat
urday’s Pacific-10 Conference
Championship, Feest led a “B” team
to victory at the Oregon State-host
ed Beaver Classic in Corvallis. Feest
won the individual title in the 4,000
meter race.
“Nicole is one of the hardest
working people and the most fo
cused,” said Jack Brady, Feest’s
track coach at Glenbard East High
School in Lombard, 111.
Feest prides herself on being in
dependent, and says she has a defi
nite competitive nature.
“She’s eager and aggressive and
wants to be really good,”
Heinonen said.
The 19-year-old participated in
cross country and track throughout
her four years of high school. She
received a letter in the mail from
Glenbard’s cross country coach,
Marty Donnelly, which said he had
heard about her prior running re
sults and that she should think
about going out for Glenbard’s
cross country team.
Donnelly and Brady were Feest’s
two running coaches at Glenbard,
and her first running coaches ever.
“They were very, very different. I
took what I learned from both of
them and I grasped a lot of con
cepts,” Feest said.
Feest finished fourth in her senior
year at the Illinois 2A cross country
meet, and her team took fifth.
Feest said her best cross coun
try memory was when her team
made the state championships
her sophomore year. The team
had never gone to state in the
school’s history.
Nicole Feest file
Bom: Nicole Feest on October 5,1983, in
Elmhurst, Hi.
High School: Took fourth in the 2001 filinois
2A cross country meet as team took fifth. Also
claimed conference, sectional and regional
titles. Trained through a shin injury to take
19th in the state 3,200 her senior year. As a
sophomore, took second in state with
Glenbard East High School’s 4x800 relay team.
Oregon: ted Oregon women to first at OSU
Beaver Classic with individual title. Scored in first collegiate meet,
taking fifth place in Roy Griak Invitational.
Brady recalled a specific event
that showed Feest’s determination.
Her senior year, Feest was hurt for
the state meet and Brady thought she
shouldn’t run. She wasn’t going to
stop, though, and even ran in the fast
heat of the race.
“She is probably the most talented
female through here,” Brady said.
Not only is Feest talented, but she
also thinks things through.
“I took a big risk to come here be
cause I knew, even though I’m walk
ing on the team, that I was going to
be good, I was going to be coached
by an amazing coach and I was go
ing to get a good education,” Feest
said. “A lot of female athletes, par
ticularly, when they pick their
school, they tend to pick the school
that has the better offer or better
deal. It’s sad to know that they don’t
necessarily look at what you will be
come in the long run.
“It’s tempting, when people are
offering you money to go to their
school, but what if you can’t run
anymore? What if you get hurt?
You’re stuck at this school you
don’t like.”
When Feest looked at colleges,
she made running a priority on her
list, but also wanted a “well-round
ed” school.
“I don’t have time to be home
sick; I have a lot going on,” Feest
said.
She has many goals for herself
and her running future, “but
some of them are on hold.
“I’d like to be an All-American.
For now, I’m enjoying Tom’s last
year, and having the opportunity
to be coached by him,” Feest said.
She says the team has very
diverse personalities, and every
one is supportive of each other.
Feest is excited about the team
and about traveling. When the
Ducks travel to the Midwest for
meets, her family comes out and
supports her and the team.
Feest says college running is
harder but more fun. She is deter
mined to make a place for herself
in the Oregon program.
“A lot of people think I’m dumb
for coming down here,” Feest said.
“I have to prove people wrong.”
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Jude
continued from page 13
freshman? Scary...
Even more scary: Pacific-10
Conference quarterbacks. Jason
Oesser, Carson Palmer, Cody
Pickett, Andrew Walter and Jason
Johnson have combined for a
record nine 400-yard passing
games this season. Wow. In any
other conference, Kyle Boiler and
Jason Fife would be good...
Scariest Halloween costume:
.....» .
That damn Duck. Send complaints
to the Athletic Department via
wwW.goducks.com.
Contact the senior sports reporter
at adamjude@daiiyemerald.com. His
opinions do not necessarily represent
those of the Emerald.
Lou leaves Seattle
like many others
Bill Conlin
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
PHILADELPHIA — Lou, meet
Alex. Oh, yeah, silly me. You’ve al
ready met.
In fact, Lou Piniella was manager
of the almost-great Seattle Mariners
when Alex Rodriguez sold his soul to
Tom Hicks and a serial baseball dis
aster, the Texas Rangers.
Piniella was accustomed to super
stars running for the free-agent mon
ey, or being traded because the
Mariners refused to play the big
money game. He lost Randy John
son, the game’s best lefthander, and
Ken Griffey, who was still baseball’s
best all-around player before con
tracting a chronic ague in his ham.
The Mariners became a beta test
for how a team committed to sanity
not only could survive but thrive.
Fortified by Japanese superstars
Kaz Sasaki and Ichiro Suzuki — an
expensive but brilliant acquisition
— moderately-priced free agent
Bret Boone, top prospects from the
Griffey deal and veterans John
Olerud and Edgar Martinez, the
Mariners won 116 games last year.
They set the damp Pacific North
west aflame and sold every seat in
Safeco Field. Ichiro was rookie of
the year and MVP, an improbable
Piniella quinella.
But the honeymoon turned out to
be a weekend in Tacoma. Martinez
went down with injuries and Boone
didn’t come close to his incredible
2001 numbers. Piniella begged for
trade-deadline help and simmered
when nothing was done to bail out
his scuffling offense.
When Lou’s club limped home
third behind the A’s and Angels, it
was obvious the next big-name
Mariner free agent would be
named Piniella.
Like A-Rod, Sweet Lou has cho
sen the worst possible baseball situa
tion. Rodriguez chose the heat, hu
midity and historic ineptness of the
Rangers organization in exchange
for the comfort of a startling, indus
try-altering #252 million contract.
The shortstop with Hank Aaron-plus
power and Gal Ripken-plus fielding
ability has been the best player in
the universe not named Bonds dur
ing his two seasons in Texas and has
two last-place finishes to show for it.
Free agent Piniella chose base
ball’s worst franchise — by a light
year — as his next stop. The money
is dazzling for a manager — #13 mil
lion plus incentives for four years,
No. 2 in big-league history behind
Joe Torre’s #5 million-a-year deal
with the Yankees.
The good news is Lou gets to sleep
in his own bed. The bad news is he’ll
commute to St. Petersburg’s Tropi
cana Field. The only thing more
grotesque than the tilting Teflon
temple of tee-hee is the team that
plays there, the Devil Rays.
“For 40 years now, I’ve been pack
ing for spring training. I don’t need to
pack anymore. I’m home,” Lou said
at his news conference Monday. Hey,
all it cost Rays general manager
Hedy, uh, Chuck LaMar for the nego
tiating rights to Piniella was center
fielder Randy Winn, the Rays’ only
2002 All-Star. That in itself repre
sents a huge win — no pun — for a
serial bungler who makes Mets
clown prince Steve Phillips look like
Giants guru Brian Sabean.
Lou’s new boss is the same guy
who spent $14.5 million for amateur
pitchers Matt White and Bobby Seay
and decided shortstop Kevin Stock
er would be a better anchor for the
expansion franchise than outfielder
Bobby Abreu.
Piniella is hardly the only manag
er to leave green pastures for what
Vietnam war veterans called “the
bleep,” which sums up the Shea Sta
dium scene.
Art Howe turned his back on the
best pitching staff in baseball and
two of the game’s top position play
ers for the helm of a leaking tramp
steamer Phillips put together in Shea
Stadium at luxury-liner prices.
Howe is a helluva manager. You
can see what owner Fred Wilpon,
who defied logic by firing Bobby
Valentine and retaining Phillips, saw
in a blue-collar-type guy coming off
back-to-back 100-victory seasons.
But Howe, who was the Mets’ second
choice after Piniella, had some seri
ous talent in Oakland. Like Piniella
in Seattle, he lost a trio of high-pro
file stars in Jason Giambi, Johnny
Damon and Jason Isringhausen, but
never skipped a beat.
Now, he’s stuck with Mo Vaughn,
his vast body and vaster contract.
His outfield is a defensive joke and
doesn’t hit many home runs. His
shortstop is a non-hitting, mustard
engorged hot-dog, and his free-agent
third baseman, Gar Alfonzo, could
wind up with the Phillies.
Maybe Art can get into the head
of prematurely old second baseman
Roberto Alomar while managing an
MLB all-star team in the annual
Japan exhibition tour. One season,
Alomar was a mortal-lock, first-bal
lot Hall of Fame selection. The
next, it was hard to tell him from
Marlon Anderson. As for Mets
pitching, a staggering number of
stiffs who faltered for Valentine are
on the free-agent list — including
Pedro Astacio (Mets option), Jeff
D’Amico, Mark Guthrie, Steve Reed
and Steve Trachsel.
Howe will have an equal say in per
sonnel decisions, according to Phillips.
Which is like getting half a blank check
from Rodney Dangerfield.
There is still an empty chair in
this game of High Roller Free Agent
Manager reserved for Dusty Baker.
It appears that when the music
stops, the genius of McGovey Gove
will take a seat in the Mariners’
dugout. Batboys R Us is poised to
move north.
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