Peering into the Ducks’
crystal ball for2003-04
As Becky Holliday, Niki McEwen
and Santiago Lorenzo prepare for
the upcoming NCAA Champi
onships in Sacramento, Calif., you
start to get a sense of the situation
Oregon athletics is facing next
year.
Maybe a little like this year, maybe
not, most of the
Ducks enter the
2003-04 year
with a bit of un
certainty. Foot
ball, soccer and
volleyball all
had defections
—to the draft,
graduation and
other schools
— that could
weigh heavily
on their results
next season.
Some names to keep an eye on:
Kellen Clemens and Chris Vin
cent for football, Nicole Garbin
(no surprise there) in soccer, and
Lauren Westendorf in volleyball.
However, that last name could be
one of any five returning players
to the volleyball team, showing
that yes, volleyball may be in
store for another type of year that
has plagued them since the early
1990s.
Clemens is on the fast track to
taking the starting quarterback spot,
showing in the team’s annual spring
game what he’s made of. Vincent did
the same, although he is going to
have to battle three others.
Garbin and Westendorf should
show the same kind of play they ex
hibited this season. The former is a
goal-scoring machine. The latter,
Westendorf, inherits the captaincy
from the Ducks next season — al
most by default — but should run
with it.
Time to shift to winter. OK, so
Luke Ridnour has taken the high
road to the NBA, but Luke Jackson,
Ian Crosswhite and the rest of the
team should still make their mark in
the NCAA Tournament.
Chelsea Wagner and Corrie Mizu
sawa make their marks for the
women’s hoops program next sea
son, getting on the court for the first
time since transferring. Both are at
guard spots, and with only Brandi
Hank
Hager
Behind the dish
Davis and Kayla Steen having any
kind of experience running the of
fense, both could see significant
playing time.
For wrestling, Shane Webster
brings back his smack downs to
McArthur Court next year. The
wrestling program is going strong, as
usual, and should bring the same
kind of excitement.
OK, here were go to sun and
fun in the spring. Eric Mitchum
and Jordan Kent have already
shown they can fly by their op
ponents in their events, making
next year’s men’s track and field
program pretty formidable. So,
Lorenzo won’t be there. But Mike
McGrath from Portland will be,
and so could Tommy Skipper,
the Sandy High School star who
has yet to sign an NCAA letter of
intent.
It’ll be the time for Kirsten Riley to
shine in the pole vault for the re
vamped women’s program. The cur
rent junior will step out of Holliday
and McEwen’s shadows. She’s not
quite at their level yet, but the way
she has been progressing, it wouldn’t
be surprising to see her get there
quickly.
Side note: It will be interesting to
see how the women’s program does
under head coach Martin Smith. It
will be tough for the mentor to keep
them on the up and up, especially if
javelin throwers Elisa Crumley and
Roslyn Lundeen take off.
Finally, we have the amazing soft
ball team of 2003. First off, see what
head coach Kathy Arendsen put in
their water. Whatever it was, it sure
as hell worked.
As for 2004, the only name you
need to know (right now) is Amy
Harris. The star pitcher moved the
Ducks to new heights this year, and
can I hear it, Pac-10 Pitcher of the
Year next season?
Well, I’m done for the year. Hope
you’ve liked reading what I’ve
shared with you in 2002-03. But
don’t despair. I’ll be back next year,
bringing more cheer (and not) to the
Oregon programs.
Contact the sports reporter
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
His views do not necessarily represent
those of the Emerald.
Sports briefs
Football players lift
competition
In Saturday’s 12th annual Oregon
Weightlifting Classic, four members
of the Oregon football team joined
21 members of the USA Weightlift
ing Federation.
The competition was divided into
weight classes. Each competitor had
three attempts at two different lifts
— the snatch and the clean and
jerk.
In the 85 kg division, Jared Siegel
finished second with a snatch of
87.5 kg and a clean and jerk of 127.5
for a total of 215.
Three Ducks participated in the
105 division. Luke Rowley placed
first with a combined effort of 257.5
— 110 in the snatch and 147.5 in
the clean and jerk.
Jason Fife finished second with a
snatch of 115 and a clean and jerk of
135, for a total of 250.
Rounding out the Ducks, Erik Ch
eney placed fourth with a total of
245.
Of the 21 weightlifters who com
peted, eight of them were in the fe
male division.
The annual competition features
a team of Ducks every season.
—MindiRice
Mariners lake two from
Mets
NEW YORK — Ernie Banks used
to say, “Let’s play two.” He appar
ently didn’t envision watching the
2003 Mets play a doubleheader.
The feeble Mets were swept in
their third straight home double
header this season — and their sec
ond in four days — in getting pum
meled, 13-1 and 7-0, by the
AL-leading Mariners Sunday at
Shea.
That should be enough to make
their fans pray for no more rain to
flood the area for the rest of the sea
son.
“You lose two doubleheaders in a
row, it’s definitely tough. It definitely
brings you down,” outfielder Jeromy
Bumitz said. “The way we’re going,
we’ll probably leave here and the
weather will be perfect once we
leave.”
The Mets begin their interleague
tour Tuesday with Alex Rodriguez
and the homer-happy Rangers, with
a weekend stop in Anaheim against
the defending World Series champi
ons to follow. With three more
games in Florida next week, Howe
acknowledged, “It’s going to be a
long road trip.”
—Peter Botte, New York Daily
News (KRT)
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