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Duck golf travels to Hawaii
The Oregon men's golf team
looks to continue improving
in this weekend’s matchup
By Brian Smith
Freelance Reporter
The Oregon men's golf team contin
ues its early portion of the 2004 golf
season attheTaylorMade/Waikoloa In
tercollegiate on the big island of
Hawaii. The Ducks, along with 20 other
schools —
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three of which
are ranked in
the top six of
_ this week's
Golfweek rank
ings — will compete on the par-72,
6,594-yard Waikoloa King's Course in
Waikoloa, Hawaii.
The Ducks will look to improve on
last year's 14th place finish, when they
came in 31 strokes behind the winner,
No. 4 UCLA. They also will also look
to improve on their inconsistent play,
which has resulted in only two top-10
finishes in the 2003-2004 season; a tie
for fourth at the Northwest Collegiate
Classic and a ninth place finish at the
Husky Invitational.
As the season progresses, so does
the play of many of the young mem
bers on the roster. Freshman Dustin
Pewarchuk, coming off his first top-20
placing of his career at last week's
PING-Arizona Intercollegiate, will
join fellow freshman and Hawaiian
native Matt Ma. Sophomores Kyle
Johnson, Gregg LaVoie and Justin
St.Clair round out the Oregon contin
gent. Devoid of any seniors, the tour
nament will provide an excellent op
portunity to gain valuable experience.
Included in the 21-team field are
nine of the top-50 ranked teams ac
cording to Golfweek. Fifth-ranked
Georgia Tech and No. 6 TCU will join
the likes of No. 9 Arizona State, No.
18 Arkansas and Washington. The rest
of the field includes UC Davis,
Hawaii, host school Hawaii-Hilo,
Houston, Nagoya (Japan) Commerce,
Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon State,
Pepperdine, Rhode Island, Stanford,
Texas Tech, Tulsa and USC.
Leading the field will be No. 4
UCLA. Since February, the Bruins have
won 10 out of 14 events and have pro
duced six individual champions. Dur
ing the 2003 fall season, the Bruins
won three out of the five tournaments
they played, and dating back to fall of
2002, UCLA has placed in the top 10
in 18 straight events. Another team to
watch is Georgia lech, which has won
the Waikoloa event three times in six
previous trips and never finished low
er than eighth place.
Individually, the player to watch is
Washington's Brock MacKenzie, cur
rently ranked 13th in the nation and
looking to better last year's tie for
third at the Waikoloa. MacKenzie has
a current stroke average of 69.92 in
the four fall events.
Traditionally, the winds in Hawaii
have wreaked havoc on the participants.
"The wind can really take the fun
out of Hawaii, believe it or not,"
Georgia Tech's coach Bruce Heppler
said. "If you get trapped on one
course one day and the wind was bad,
it could be 10 or 15 shots worse than
teams on the other course. Now, all
the teams are on the same golf course
each day under the same conditions.
It's a good golf course and a little
more forgiving if the wind blows."
The Ducks will play 18 holes
Wednesday, 18 holes Thursday and con
clude the 54-hole tournament Friday.
Brian Smith is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Rivalry match headlines
stretch run for UO wrestlers
Oregon prepares for its final
two matches of the season
before postseason play
By Scott Archer
Freelance Reporter
It's been slow for the Oregon
wrestling team lately, but that doesn't
mean that the Ducks have had it easy.
Oregon last wrestled Feb. 1 at Arizona
State and will
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resume play
when the
Ducks host
Oregon State
on Sunday.
Oregon is
entering what it calls its second sea
son. It has only two regular-season
matches left — against the Beavers
and against Portland State — fol
lowed by the Pacific-10 Conference
Championships in Tempe, Ariz., and
the NCAA Championships in St.
Louis, Mo.
"That's when we get our final
grades," head coach Chuck Kearney
said. "All the things that have hap
pened up until the end of the year are
things you can learn from (and apply
to post-season)."
First up, however, is the always un
predictable rivalry match.
"Records go out the window," Kear
ney said. "It's a pride contest. The ma
jority of their wrestlers and our
wrestlers are from Oregon, and it
makes it a more passionate event."
Although several wrestlers for Ore
gon State were also high school team
mates with current Duck wrestlers,
there is no love lost.
"These programs have completely
different philosophies, and different
kinds of kids, character and personali
ties," Kearney said. "And these differ
ences make for an intense battle."
All work and no play
The two-week break Oregon is go
ing through before Sunday's match
pales in comparison to the waiting
that Oregon's redshirt wrestlers have
had to endure.
Martin Mitchell, who started in the
125-pound weight class last year, is
redshirting this year with plans to take
over the 133-pound weight class next
year when senior Jason Harless leaves.
"Right now I'm weighing about
145-150 pounds," Mitchell said. "But
I'm not trying to get too big. I am
concentrating on getting big in the
weight room, so next year I can step
in as one of the biggest 133-pounders
in the nation.
"It's really frustrating not wrestling.
It's hard to prepare in practice like you
are going out there to compete as a
starter. I don't want to lose a step com
pared to everyone else."
The redshirts participate with the
team but don't get the chance to show
off their skills to the public. It works
that way for Mitchell and other Ducks
who wake for the team's 7 a.m. spring
sessions three times a week. The work
is there, the payoff isn't.
At least not until next year when
Mitchell and other redshirts will final
ly be able to compete again.
The Ducks are redshirting key
wrestlers in order to stock up for
next season.
"Everyone is excited," Mitchell said.
"I'm not letting any doubts come into
my mind that we aren't going to be
one of the top teams in the nation
next year."
Scott Archer is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
SPORTS BRIEF
Miami recruit in hot water
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Uni
versity of Miami football recruit
Willie Williams will spend at least
three nights in Broward County Jail
pending a bond hearing Friday, his
future with the Hurricanes uncer
tain.
Williams, a Parade All-American
from Miami Carol City HS, surren
dered to authorities Tuesday morn
ing only hours after Gainesville au
thorities filed more charges arising
from complaints made against him
during a recruiting trip to the Uni
versity of Florida.
Williams, who has been arrested
on theft-related charges 10 times in
the past five years, was jailed after an
arrest warrant was issued that
charged him with violating proba
tion in a 2002 burglary case. His
probation was set to end on
Wednesday.
( . "He's(fine, r said Williams' lawyer,
^aullazakis, who accompanied him
to the jail. "Obviously he'd rather not
be where he is, but he's going to make
the best of the situation."
With Lazarus' advice, family
members declined to comment.
Williams, 19, began his jail stint
in Broward's downtown facility at
11:15 a.m. Tuesday. During the after
noon he was transferred to the
North Broward Detention Center in
Pompano Beach, where he will stay
until a 1:30 p.m. bond hearing Fri
day before Broward County Circuit
Court Judge Michael G. Kaplan.
Kaplan presided over the felony
burglary case in 2002 that resulted
in Williams being placed on 18
months' probation.
Lazarus said Williams will plead
not guilty to violating his probation.
Kaplan denied Lazarus' request
that Williams surrender himself to
the court instead of Broward County
Jails. Kaplan did set a speedy bond
hearing for Williams, granting him
his first available opening.
. . If found ,tp be; ip yiplation of his pro
bation, Williams could be sentenced to
five years in jail. It's also possible that
he could be freed with his probation
extended.
Williams could face other penal
ties for the Gainesville charges.
On Monday, Williams was
charged with misdemeanor battery
by Gainesville State Attorney Bill
Cervone for allegedly hugging a
woman against her will at UF's stu
dent union. On Tuesday morning,
Cervone's office filed charges for ob
structing extinguishment and crimi
nal mischief stemming from an inci
dent that involved Williams
allegedly discharging three fire ex
tinguishers in the Hilton Conference
Center hotel, where he was housed
during his recruiting visit to UF.
The charge of obstructing extin
guishment is a felony that carries a
possible five-year sentence. The mis
demeanor charges are punishable by
up to a year in county jail.
— Omar Kelly
South Florida Sun-Sentinel