TENNIS
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think people realize what a big event
this is with the winner heading to the
National Indoor Championships. 1
know we're all very excited to play
here and hopefully we get some peo
ple out there to support us. *
Having the tournament at home
will be an advantage for the six Ducks.
It will be the first event this season in
Eugene The players are excited about
the prospect of not having to travel.
"Playing at home makes it a lot
easier, * Kost said. "We get to be in our
own home, sleep in our own place
and it's a lot more comfortable."
Freshman Vladimir Pino will be
the first Duck to compete when he
faces California's lake Leivent at 8
a m. today. The newcomer im
pressed his coaches after being nar
rowly defeated in his first collegiate
match last weekend at the Bulldog
Classic in Fresno, Calif. Pino is excit
ed to be competing in his first ever
tournament in Eugene as a Duck.
"I've heard a lot about the previous
games played here at home," lW> said.
"I'm pretty excited about it I'm just go
ing to play my game and do my best."
Many of the top tennis players
from the West Coast will be partici
pating this weekend, headed by No.
23 KC Corkery of Stanford and Cali
fornia's Conor Niland, ranked 25th
nationally according to the 1TA pre
season polls. Ihese two inherit the
top two seeds in the tournament.
Perhaps the best chance for the
Ducks will be the Swiss native, Kost.
He will face Stanford's Chris Ras
mussen in the first round at 9:15
a m. today. There are high hopes for
the third-year player as he enters this
season at the highest ranking of his
college career.
"It will be nice for him to live up
to his seeding," Russell said. "He's
part of the nucleus that we have
been trying to set for this program."
Kost has already set goals for his
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The Oregon men host the ITA Regionals this weekend in Eugene. The winner of the
tournament will head to the National Indoor Championships.
participation in the tournament.
"I want to win the tournament,"
he said.
The ITA Regionals will conclude
Monday at the Student Tennis Center.
Alex Tam is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Boone, New York
off to World Series
The Yankees defeat Boston
in the 11th Thursday night
in New York to go to its sixth
World Series in eight years
By Philip Hersh
Chicago Tribune (KRT)
NEW YORK—This time, the Boston
Red Sox cannot blame failure on the
sale of Babe Ruth, or the ground ball
that went through Bill Buckner's legs, or
Johnny Pesky holding the ball.
This time, Boston lost Game 7 of
the American League Championship
Series — 6-5 to the New York Yankees
— on Aaron Boone's first-pitch home
run in the bottom of the 11th inning
Thursday night; there was no doubt
who would get the blame.
Manager Grady Little.
Little's inexplicable decision not to
take starter Pedro Martinez out of the
game in the eighth inning before he
could give up three game-tying runs
and leave the potential leading run on
second base will go forever into the
Red Sox's chamber of horrors.
Boone launched Tim Wakefield's first
knuckleball in the bottom of the 11th
over the left-field wall, just inside the
foul pole Wakefield, who won Games
1 and 4 for the Red Sox, had entered in
the 10th. Mariano Rivera fended off two
Red Sox scoring chances in pitching the
final three innings to pick up the win.
Martinez is the Boston ace but he had
pitched more than seven innings only
five times in his 33 previous starts.
He had been in trouble during the
seventh inning, giving up Jason Gi
ambi's second homer of the game cut
ting the Boston lead to 4-2, and two
more hits before striking out Alfonso
Soriano for the fourth straight time.
Boston's third homer of the game; by
David Ortiz, made the maigin an appar
ently more comfortable 5-2. It figured
Little would open the eighth with Mike
Timlin, who hid retired 25 of the 26 bat
ters he had faced in the postseason.
But Martinez still pitched, getting
Nick Johnson to pop up for the first out
Derek Jeter doubled. Martinez still
pitched.
Bemie Williams singled to drive in
Jeter. Martinez still pitched.
Hideki Matsui doubled, sending
Williams to third. Martinez still pitched.
Jorge Posada hit a bloop double to
center, scoring Williams and Matsui,
trying the game 5-5. Martinez was re
lieved by Alan Embree.
"The largest factor with our ball
club is they just don't quit," little said
before the game."
Grinding and bopping. The Red Sox
bats came back to life in Game 6, and
they wound up with 11 home runs
against the Yankees, a record for an
American league Championship Se
ries. They hit two off Roger Clemens, by
Trot Nixon, his third of the series, and
Kevin Millar, and the last by David Or
tiz off Game 5 winner David Wells.
Between the trillion-decibel volume
of the sound system and the stunningly
loud noise coming from the 56,879
Yankee Stadium spectators on almost
every Clemens pitch in the first inning, it
was fandemonium in the South Bronx.
The Red Sox rocked Clemens in the
second inning, beginning with Ortiz's
liner to center for the first out. That was
followed by Millar's long single to cen
ter, Nixon's homer deep to right-center
field and Jason Varitek's double to right.
Varitek scored when third baseman
Enrique Wilson made a wild throw
on a routine grounder. Wilson, in the
lineup because he had past success
against Martinez, made three errors in
Game 7 of the 2001 World Series.
(c) 2003, Chicago Tribune. Distributed
by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
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