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Golfers head to regional
The Ducks are seeded No. 18,
but that wont matter once the
regionals get underway today
Men’s golf
Scott Archer
Freelance Sports Reporter
It’s been two weeks since the Ore
gon men’s golf team finished sev
enth in the Pacific-10 Conference
Championships, but the Ducks
won’t be entering this year’s NCAA
West Regional wide-eyed.
The NCAA Regional — one of
three NCAA regional tournaments
nationwide — will be hosted by the
Washington Huskies at their 7,183
yard, par-72 Washington National
Course in Auburn, Wash.
Oregon is making its seventh con
secutive NCAA Regional appear
ance; their 12th in 15 years. This
year’s squad is the 18th-seeded team
of the 27 teams competing. The
Ducks will see many familiar faces as
nine Pac-10 teams will vye for a spot
in the National Championships,
along with 10 of the nation’s top 30
teams, according to the Golf
Week/Sagarin rankings.
The top 10 teams from each region
al, along with two individuals, will ad
vance to the NCAA Championships,
slated for May 28 through 30 at Okla
homa State. Auburn and Kansas State
are the two other schools hosting
NCAA Regionals this week.
Oregon, ranked No. 49 nationally,
will be paired with No. 16-seed Texas
E1 Paso and No. 17 Denver, teeing off
at 7:12 a.m. today on the first hole. Af
ter the first two rounds, teams are re
seeded according to their standings.
Although the NCAA West Regional
is nothing new to the Ducks, only
three of the five participating Ducks
have seen any postseason action.
Danielle Hickey Emerald
Chris Carnahan will look to improve on his regional performance from last year.
All-Pae-10 first team member senior
John Ellis is making his third NCAA
Regional appearance. Ellis’ best fin
ish came last year when he finished
tied for 29th overall.
Senior captain Chris Carnahan is
making his fourth NCAA Regional
appearance, however, Carnahan has
yet to notch a top-50 finish. Junior
Mike Sica is participating in his sec
ond NCAA Regional, while redshirt
freshman Kyle Johnson and true
freshman Gregg LaVoie will get their
first taste of postseason play.
The Ducks finished last year’s
NCAA Regional tied for 13th overall
and haven’t advanced to the NCAA
Championships since the team did it
in back-to-back seasons in 1998-99.
Oregon was then led by current PGA
tour member Ben Crane.
Women advance
in U.S. Open qualifier
Senior Annie Davis and freshmen
Erin Andrews and Therese Wenslow
have clinched a spot in next month’s
sectional qualifying round of the
U.S. Women’s Open. The three ad
vanced to the sectionals after finish
ing among the top 14 in Tuesday’s
U.S. Women’s Open local qualifying
tournament in Portland.
Scott Archer is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Baseball
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California,” Krause said, adding
that the top Oregon signees often
turned professional. “We had
good college players, but at the
end, we didn’t have as many as
we normally had.”
Wrestling, which had also been on
thin ice before 1981, won the Pac-10
title that year. The team originally
folded, but was then reinstated.
“I wish there was some way to
get that back there,” said Lees, also
the head coach of the Eugene Pepsi
Challengers, an American Legion
club. “I know that with Title IX and
money for this and money for that,
but I just can’t believe it wouldn’t
survive. It would. There are too
many people around that would
make it survive.”
Dave Williford, assistant athlet
ic director for media services, said
the same obstacles that presented
themselves in 1981 would pop up
again. A new team would face Ti
tle IX and budgetary issues again.
The Ducks had a long history in
baseball before the dreaded day
came. As Oregon’s oldest program,
the sport began play in 1877. It
didn’t start regularly until 1885,
and save for a break during World
War II from 1944-45, didn’t have a
hiccup in play until 1981.
The Ducks saw the postseason
twice, making it as far as the Col
lege World Series in 1954. The
team bowed out in two games — a
5-3 loss to Massachusetts and a
12-1 blowout to Arizona — but
had won three games previously
in the tournament.
In the years since Duck baseball
went the way of the dodo, Donny
Harrel resurrected a program at
Lane that once laid dormant. Gut
in 1991, the Titans also failed to
field a team for five years. Howev
er, that ended when the school
brought them back in 1995. Now,
the school is faced once again
with the loss of baseball.
On April 28, the LGG Board vot
ed to cut baseball and volleyball.
After next season, Titan baseball
will be no more.
“It’s frustrating because I fought
hard to get this thing back in ’92,”
Harrel said. “Just the thought of
keeping it alive was important to a
lot of people.”
The Titans have flourished this
season, posting a 30-10 overall
record and a 25-5 ledger in the
Northwest Athletic Association of
Community Colleges. Last season,
Harrel said, the Titans sent 11 of
12 eligible players to four-year
schools. He is just as proud of that
figure as this year’s record.
“That’s our job as a JC,” he said.
“It’s a stepping stone and we’ve
done our job as good as we can do.
We’ve given plenty of opportuni
ties for kids to move on.
“That’s what hurts. We’re show
ing that we’re doing the job. And
through budget crises, that’s just
not something that comes up in
the matter.”
Contact the sports reporter
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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