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Sports briefs
Sica struggles
individually
After the Oregon men’s golf team
was unceremoniously axed by a
surprise team cut at the NCAA
Championships, Duck junior Mike
Sica was left to carry the torch for
Oregon into the finals. He was
ranked 13 th in the field and was in
vited to stay along with the top play
ers from each of the losing squads.
But Sica couldn’t continue the
magic without his teammates. He
struggled in the final round and shot
a 12-over-par 84 on the final day of
the NCAA tournament in Stillwater,
Okla. He finished the tournament
tied for 43rd overall.
Sica said he missed a lot of fair
ways Friday, which led to his demise.
“I felt confident coming into the
round, but it just didn’t happen to
day,” Sica said. “You can’t play this
course if you’re not in the fairway.
It’s that simple.”
Sica and the Ducks have now
ended their 2002-03 campaign.
—Peter Hockaday
Softball squad earns
national respect
The Oregon softball team’s dream
season ended with a wake-up call —
now other people know how good
the Ducks were.
Oregon, which finished one win
shy of the College World Series, also
finished one spot shy of the nation’s
top 10. The Ducks earned a No. 11
ranking in the final ESPN.com/USA
softball poll of the season. Their
previous highest ranking was 18th.
Oregon was a unanimous choice
to finish last in the Pacific-10 Con
ference before the season started
but ended the season tied for third
in the nation’s toughest league. The
Ducks made it to the championship
game of the Fullerton, Calif., region
al but fell to Louisiana-Lafayette.
—Peter Hockaday
Clemens fails again
in attempt at No. 300
Jim Salisbury
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
DETROIT — As if George Stein
brenner stomping around and
breathing fire in the wake of an un
acceptable 11-17 record in May
hadn’t placed enough pressure on
the New York Yankees, they now
have Roger Clemens’ pursuit of his
tory causing them stress.
It showed Sunday in the form of
four errors and a blown six-run lead.
The Yankees survived and did
what matters most to Steinbrenner,
beating the lowly but pesky Detroit
Tigers, 10-9, in 17 arduous innings
at Comerica Park.
Outside of the Bronx and Stein
brenner’s Tampa headquarters,
however, the Yankees’ 33rd win of
the season was a mere subplot to
Clemens’ bid for win No. 300, a
quest that has now gone unrequited
for two straight starts.
The Tigers frequently have trou
ble filling a quarter of the seats in
their shiny home ballpark, but un
der a sunny sky they had their
biggest crowd ever at Comerica
Park — 44,095. Those who couldn’t
get seats climbed to the roof of a
nearby parking garage and looked
down on the action.
Were they there to see Clemens
become the 21st member of Club
300 or to see him be denied?
That answer came in the bottom
of the seventh, when the Tigers tied
the game at 8-8, completing a
comeback from a 7-1 deficit and
eliminating Clemens’ chance for the
historic win.
Shane Halter, who drove in the
tying run, pumped his fist with a lit
tle more emotion than usually seen
on a sacrifice fly.
Players in the Tigers’ dugout
jumped to their feet and high-fived
Dmitri Young, who scored the
tying run.
In the stands — and on the roof
of the parking garage beyond center
field — giddy fans raised their arms
and shouted.
Not in our house, Rocket.
Better luck Saturday in Wrigley
Field.
“It’ll be great to get it over and
move on to something else,”
Clemens said.
That notion was echoed in the
Yankees clubhouse, where the play
ers were clearly drained emotionally
by the 5-hour, 10-minute game and
by the feeling they had let Clemens
down on a day when he had friends
and family in the stands.
“Everyone was probably pressing
a little,” said shortstop Derek Jeter,
who made an error in the Tigers’
five-run fifth inning. “We want him
to win it so bad.”
Facing baseball’s worst hitting
team, Clemens took a 7-1 lead to
the mound in the bottom of the
fifth. He allowed a leadoff single to
Brandon Inge and a two-run homer
to Gene Kingsale. Alex Sanchez and
Ramon Santiago followed with sin
gles, and the Yankees’ defense be
gan to unravel as Clemens labored
through a 31-pitch inning.
Leftfielder Juan Rivera made a
throwing error. Then Jeter made
one. Then second baseman Alfonso
Soriano made one. The Tigers par
layed those errors into five runs,
cutting the Yanks’ lead to 7-6.
“It’s disappointing, no question,
that Roger didn’t get the win,” man
ager Joe Torre said. “That’s what
added to our problems in the fifth
inning. Everyone is trying to do it
for Roger, and that caused anxious
ness. Everyone is trying to slam the
door by themselves.”
When Clemens left the game
leading 8-6 after six innings, the
Yanks’ bullpen picked up where the
defense left off and failed to pre
serve the lead. Sterling Hitchcock
allowed hits to two of the three bat
ters he faced. Antonio Osuna then
gave up an RBI single, a walk and a
sacrifice fly as Detroit tied the
game, 8-8, in the seventh.
“Some of the relievers apologized,”
Clemens said. “But they wouldn’t
have been in there if I didn’t have
problems in the fifth inning.”
The game went so long that David
Wells, who began the game in
sneakers, had to put on his spikes
and pitch 5 2/3 innings. He got the
win, thanks to homers by Soriano
and Jorge Posada in the 17th.
Clemens’ next chance at 300 will
come Saturday against Cubs
righthander Kerry Wood. The two
hard-throwing Texans are the only
men to strike out 20 batters in a
nine-inning game.
The last time the Yankees played
at Wrigley Field was in the 1938
World Series. Before that, it was the
1932 World Series, in which Babe
Ruth hit his famous called-shot
home run.
Could there be some more Yan
kees history Saturday at Wrigley?
The Yankees sure hope so, be
cause as great as Clemens’ pursuit
of 300 may be, it sure is nerve
racking.
© 2003, The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.