Sports Editor
Peter Hockaday
peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com
Friday, April 4,2003
-Oregon Daily Emerald
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Ranked foes await Ducks in Bay Area
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Erin Goodell and the No. 21 Ducks head south to California in search of snapping a three-game losing streak.
Oregon softball heads south to
battle Stanford and defending
national champion California
for three decisive games
Softball
Mindi Rice
Sports Reporter
Forecasts show signs of rain.
A windy, damp trip to California may
be just what the softball team needs to
turn its season back to the winning trend
the Ducks had in the preseason.
The Ducks take on Pacific-10 Confer
ence rivals Stanford and California in
three games this weekend — facing the
Cardinal today, and then playing Califor
nia on Saturday and Sunday.
After their 17th win against Oregon
State in the team’s conference opener,
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overall, 1-3 Pac-10)
has lost three
straight games for
the first time this
season. During the
preseason, the
Ducks won three
tournament titles in
five national tourna
ments — beating
ranked opponents
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Oregon has played three games in the
last three weeks — during the team’s
road trip to Arizona. The Ducks lost 2-0
to No. 12 Arizona State before losing 4-1
and 8-0 to No. 2 Arizona, collecting only
eight hits on the weekend.
“Playing on the road in the Pac-10 is so
difficult,” head coach Kathy Arendsen
said. “We’ll have to play better defense
and we’ve got to hit the ball. If we’re only
going to get eight hits in three games,
we’re not going to be very successful. If
we can only score one run in the games, I
can guarantee we won’t be successful.”
The Ducks have missed 11 games this
season because of weather, including a
snowed-out road trip to Colorado and an
entire tournament canceled in Utah.
They have played the least amount of
games in the Pac-10 this season.
Oregon and California faced off earlier
this season, with the Golden Bears
pulling out the 6-0 win in a preseason
tournament championship game.
Oregon ended the 2002 season with a
4-0 win at Stanford, but has not won at
California since 2000, when the Ducks
swept both schools on the road.
Two Ducks have already won confer
ence awards this season — freshman
pitcher Amy Harris and sophomore sec
ond baseman Erin Goodell.
Harris won the season’s first Pac-10
Pitcher of the Week award on Feb. 10.
The Eugene native picked up wins
against two ranked teams the previous
"Playing on the road in
the Pac-10 is so difficult
We'll have to play better
defense and we've got
to hit the ball."
Kathy Arendsen
Oregon head coach
week, and currently
leads the team in
strikeouts — 83 —
and ERA —0.90.
Goodell was
named the Pac-10
Player of the Week
on Mar. 17 after her
performance in the
Ducks’ 10-2 win
against Oregon
State two days earli
er. i ne Koseourg na
tive hit two home runs — her entire
home run total during the 2002 season
— scored three runs and has picked up
three runs batted in.
Senior Andrea Vidlund has nine RBI
this season, moving her career total to 88
and putting her at ninth on Oregon’s all
time RBI list.
The Ducks are currently seventh in
the conference of eight. Oregon State is
0-4 in Pac-10 play to round out the
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Oregon tennis
teams head
south for sun,
game victories
The Oregon tennis teams look to end losing
streaks this weekend in California and Arizona
Tennis
Ryan Heath
Freelance Sports Reporter
Sometimes a change of scenery is a good way to end a los
ing streak.
The Oregon men’s and women’s tennis teams hope that is the
case this weekend as they head south for important matches
against ranked opponents.
The men, ranked 58th in the nation and coming off two
straight Pacific-10 Conference losses, are in Tucson, Ariz., on
Friday to take on No. 40 Arizona and visit Tempe on Saturday
to battle No. 49 Arizona State.
The Ducks have struggled on the road this year, going 2-4,
but three of the four losses were against teams in the top-35 and
the fourth was to Purdue, currently ranked 50th.
Oregon sends the 92nd-ranked singles player in the nation,
Manuel Kost, and the No. 42 doubles team of Sven Swinnen and
Oded Teig to face an Arizona squad without a single player in the na
tional rankings. The Wildcats have kept their high ranking in the
polls with strong doubles and solid singles play from the bottom spots.
The Sun Devils welcome the Ducks with No. 125 Pirn Van
Mele in singles and the 21st ranked duo of Oliver Charroin and
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Lorenzo takes second in Texas
Santiago Lorenzo staged a comeback in a
decathlon that almost crowned him champion
Track and field
Jesse Thomas
Sports Reporter
Even after three personal bests and an NCAA automatic
qualifying mark, redshirt senior Santiago Lorenzo did all he
could to state his case that he is back and better than ever.
With the conclusion of the decathlon Thursday, Lorenzo
I was 14 points shy of his second title at the 2(X)3 Clyde Lit
terfield Texas Relays.
Lorenzo walked away from Mike A. Myers Stadium with
a 22-point personal best and an NCAA automatic qualifying
mark of 7,911 points. He fell short to Auburn junior Maurice
Smith (7,925) after a charge in the final three events where
Lorenzo made up 333 points.
“It’s a little bittersweet,” Lorenzo said. “I can’t complain
with a PR but I felt a little rusty.”
Lorenzo’s other personal bests came in the 110 hurdles at
14.83 seconds and the discus, at 145-feet-8 inches. His other
marks include 15-9 in the pole vault, 199-2 in the javelin
and 4:32:58 in the 1,500 meters.
After sitting in third place after day one and a sour finish in the
400 where he ran his slowest time in six years, Lorenzo got off on
the right foot with a personal best opener of the 110 hurdles.
Although Lorenzo’s 3,950-point day was capped early,
Smith cushioned his lead by 112 points after winning the
hurdles and throwing the event’s best mark in the discus.
Lorenzo had been there before, with his best events still
ahead. After clearing 15-9 in the pole vault, the eighth event,
Lorenzo had rallied 196 points and earned 75 more with a
199-2 toss in the javelin.
Emerald
Santiago Lorenzo nearly won the decathalon at the Texas Relays.
1 was really proud ot the way I was able to step up on the
third-attempt chances in the field events,” Lorenzo said.
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