Golfers finish fourth at Calif, tournament
Four Duck individuals finish in
top 30, led byjunior Mike Sica
Men’s golf
Scott Archer
Freelance Sports Reporter
What started out as an impressive
beginning to the 57th annual Western
Intercollegiate was even better Tues
day as Oregon was able to hold its po
sition from the opening two rounds to
finish the tournament fourth overall.
It was Oregon’s first top-5 finish —
other than its own Oregon Duck Invi
tational — since the California Invi
tational Oct. 14-15.
The Ducks shot a final-round 291 to
edge Pacific by one stroke, however,
the Ducks were out-dueled by third
place finisher Texas El Paso and fin
ished only one stroke behind UTEP.
Junior Mike Sica concluded the
tournament with a career best finish
after shooting his second consecu
tive even-par round of 70. Sica led
three other Ducks in the top 30 over
all. Sica finished the tournament in
a tie for 10th overall after shooting
rounds of 74-70-70 for a four-over
214. Sica’s previous best finish was a
tie for 12th at the Alister Mackenzie
Invitational last October.
No. 10 UCLA held on for the
tournament victory after posting a
13-stroke lead over second place
finisher UG Irvine after the first
two rounds of competition. UG
Irvine came within seven strokes of
"I'm quite pleased with our performances.
The greens were very fast today and we gave
some shots away but we also made some
very good shots."
Steve Nosier
Oregon head coach
UCLA. Steve Conway of UCLA won
the individual title after shooting a
two-under 208.
Another notable finisher for the
Ducks was senior Chris Carnahan’s
14th-place finish at 217 for the
three-round tournament. John Ellis
followed that with a 26th-place fin
ish at 221. Redshirt Freshman Kyle
Johnson, in his first varsity appear
ance since the Club Grove Intercol
legiate Oct. 7-8, concluded the tour
nament tied for 30th overall at 222.
Johnson was one off his career low
Tuesday in which he shot a final
round one-over 71.
“I’m quite pleased with our per
formances,” coach Steve Nosier said.
“The greens were very fast today, and
we gave some shots away, but we also
made some very good shots.”
It was Oregon’s fourth-consecu
tive top-6 finish at 6,445 yard, par
70 Pasatiempo Golf Course.
The Ducks, unsure if their previ
ous play would earn them a bid in
next month’s NCAA West Regional,
helped their cause by defeating 10 of
the other 12 District 8 teams.
“I think we helped ourselves quite
a bit by finishing higher than most of
the teams in our district who were
here, including a few who were
ranked ahead of us,” Nosier said.
“This puts us in good shape to go
down and have a good tournament
at Arizona State.”
Scott Archer is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Track
continued from page 7
followed that up with his stellar per
formance in Texas.
“I’m excited because not too
many freshmen hit sub-14 in their
first year,” Mitchum said. “I’m just
excited to be one of the top fresh
men in the nation right now.”
Mitchum said the older hurdlers
on the team, especially 400-meter
hurdles star Brandon Holliday, have
been supportive.
“I run the 400 hurdles too, so I
push him and he pushes me, just
some friendly competition,”
Mitchum said.
But the hurdling star of tomorrow
still wants to win today.
“I want to go to NCAAs; I want to
win Pac-lOs as a team,” Mitchum
said. “I would like to hit about
13.80, 13.70 possibly by the time
it’s all over with. 13.80 is pretty real
istic, 70, that’d be pushing it. But
you’ve got to set your goals high to
accomplish them.”
Like most wide-eyed freshmen,
Mitchum has lofty goals and big
dreams. But the difference is,
Mitchum just might have the talent
to accomplish them.
Ducks dot
early rankings
The first ballots are in, and Ore
gon is on the cusp of being one of
the 10 best track programs in
the nation.
In the first rankings of the sea
son, released Tuesday by Track
wire.com, the men are ranked
11th in the nation, scoring 23
points in the site’s mock national
championship meet. The women
sit tied for 16th in their version of
the national rankings.
As usual, the Pac-10 shows up
often in the rankings. On the
men’s side, USG is ranked No. 5
and Stanford — which edged Ore
gon for the Pac-10 title last season
— sits right behind the Ducks in
12th. On the women’s side, USG is
No. 4, UCLA is No. 7, Stanford is
14th and Arizona is 23rd.
The Minnesota men’s team, one
of Oregon’s three opponents in the
Pepsi Team Invitational on Satur
day, are ranked No. 15 in the poll.
Colorado and Washington, Oregon’s
other opponents, aren’t ranked.
Power barred
We here at the Emerald hesitate
to use the words “track” and “nerd”
in the same sentence for fear of be
ing redundant, but the track nerds
at www.team-power.org have disap
pointed us this week, so we’ll use
the words freely.
The Web site is the only one
which allows the user to pit two
teams against each other in head-to
head competition to see who will
win. But this early in the season,
very few teams have full scores in,
so for this weekend we could only
pit Washington against... Washing
ton. We won’t do this. But watch
this space later in the season for
constant team-power.org updates.
Contact the sports editor
at peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Softball
continued from page 7
National Championship for the
third consecutive year.
Internationally, White helped the
USA Men’s team to its first gold medal
in 18 years at the 2002 Pan Am Qual
ifier. He earned a perfect 5-0 record,
striking out 25 batters in 26 innings
pitched. White’s team earned the top
seed in the 2003 Pan Am games.
The Ducks remain at home this
weekend for their conference
home opener. Washington comes
to town Friday, while Oregon faces
UCLA on Saturday and Sunday.
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