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Club crew takes to machines
Oregon’s Club Crew team
will row for 48 straight
hours to raise money
for upcoming regatta fees
By Kirsten McEwen
Freelance Reporter
Oregon's Club Crew team will begin
its annual fund-raiser at 4 a.m. today.
The team will then end it in the same
fashion as it started — in the dark.
Club
Sports
For 48
straight hours,
until the dock
hits 4 a.m. on
Friday, 35 mem
bers of Oregon's
crew team will
take turns rowing on exg machines out
side of the University Bookstore Each
member will row for one hour and
then hand the machine over to the next
teammate in line.
For more than 20 years, the team
has been putting on the fund-raiser in
order to raise money to cover entry
fees for upcoming regattas.
"We used to row in the middle of the
EMU amphitheater in real water, but re
cently we have moved it to the bookstore
location and we just use erg machines,"
crew coordinator Melissa johnson said.
"We really count on everyone to partici
pate because it's a good time to make
some money that will really help us out"
The club will set up two individual
erg machines, and students will be able
to buy raffle tickets on Wednesday and
Thursday. A donation of $ 1 will buy
students one raffle ticket or students can
donate $5 and receive six raffle tickets.
By entering the raffle, students have
the chance to win various electronic
prizes and gift certificates to several
Eugene restaurants and businesses.
The Ducks have been training all
year, but this Monday marked the be
ginning of their first day of training
outside — Dexter Lake — since the
Thanksgiving holiday.
"We are really excited to finally get
back on the lake since all winter we
have just been training inside on the
same erg machines you will see us us
ing during the fund-raiser," Johnson
said. Although Oregon has not been
on the water for quite some time, they
have managed to find other ways to
compete. Last month, the Ducks com
peted in Erg-O-Mania in Seattle.
Seven rowers represented Oregon
in the event. In the lightweight divi
sion, Oregon took home both "The
Fastest College Female" and "The
Fastest College Male" titles.
Oregon will host its first regatta at
Dexter Lake on March 13. Evergreen
State, Oregon State, Portland State
and Washington State will all com
pete against Oregon. The regatta will
mark the beginning of a string of eight
straight weekend outings for the
Ducks.
Kirsten McEwen is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
CRUNCH
continued from page 5A
the glove he had been wearing during
Oregon's games against Arizona and
Arizona State.
All systems are well for the freshman
from Seattle. His wrist is feeling fine.
"It's the same as before the games,"
he said. "It's getting better every day, to
be honest. It's not carefree. It's always
on my mind, some of the stuff I do. But
not enough to limit my game at all."
Brooks' next big challenge comes
Saturday at Stanford. Not only do the
Ducks take on the top-ranked Cardi
nal, but Brooks also gets his one and
only chance to play on Maples Pavil
ion's infamous bouncy floor.
It's being replaced prior to next sea
son during the arena's $30 million
renovation, but the Ducks will get to
play on it once more.
"I heard about (the floor)," Brooks
said. "I'm going to be excited. We're
all going to come out excited because
they're No. 1 in the country. I don't
know what to expect, though."
Still one of them
Luke Jackson is still one of six players
in the nation who leads his team in
points, rebounds and assists per game.
The Creswell native is averaging a
Pac-10 second-best 22 points per
game. He's doing this while grabbing
seven rebounds and dishing out five
assists per game.
The other five players are Stetson's E. J.
Gordon, Nicholls State's Willie Depron,
Eastern Washington's Alvin Snow,
Southwest Texas State's Terry Conerway
and Southern Illinois' Darren Brooks.
Jackson leads every player in every
category, except for Gordon. The two
are tied in rebounds.
More Jackson
With 42 points against Arizona in a
losing effort Thursday, the senior now
has two of the top seven individual
scoring efforts in a game by an Ore
gon player.
He scored 39 against Oregon State
on Jan. 10, displacing Terrell Brandon
— who had 38 against the Beavers in
1991 — for seventh all-time.
Jackson's effort against the Wildcats
was one point less than the all-time
Oregon record of 43. That mark was
set by Greg Ballard in 1977.
Coincidentally, with 53 more
points, Jackson will pass Ballard for
third all-time on Oregon's career scor
ing list. Jackson has 1,777 points in
116 career games.
Contact the sports editor
at hankhageri@dailyemerald.com.
BATTLE
continued from page 5A
The ninth-place Golden Bears (10
15, 3-13) have wins against Oregon,
Washington State and USC. The Ducks
(12-14, 4-12) sit at eighth in the con
ference, but close the regular season
against California to decide which
team will have the higher seed when
the two likely meet in the tournament.
Freshman honors
Noelle Quinn, a UCLA guard, was
named Pac-10 Player of the Week on
Monday, the second consecutive week
that the freshman has earned the honor.
The Bmins split road games at Cal
ifornia and Stanford during the
weekend. Quinn averaged 19 points,
11.5 rebounds and six assists in the
games. She also had the Pac-10's first
triple-double of the season and the
first of her career in UCLA's win
against California.
Top 25 reports
Despite the four-team race for the
Pac- 10's top seed, Stanford remained
the only conference team ranked in the
top 25 in both polls released Monday
In the ESPN/USA Today Coaches
Poll, No. 10 Stanford kept its ranking
from last week. Arizona State, Arizona
and USC all received votes, though
none came in the top 30.
The Cardinal also remained No. 10
in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll,
while Arizona was the only other
team to receive votes.
Contact the senior sports reporter
at mindirice@dailyemerald.coni.
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The field does need a few additions
before it meets the facility requirements
for hosting a regional, though. It needs
a lighted field, improved seating areas
— where the crowd can actually see
over the dugouts — and a larger press
box. Also needed is a larger concessions
stand and improved restroom facilities
(i.e more than two portable toilets).
Those are all mandatory improve
ments that Howe Field would have to
include to be eligible to host a region
al tournament.
When the original arena location
announcement was made Oct. 4,
2003, Arendsen said she would have
been happy if the athletic department
had decided to renovate Howe Field
for the softball program instead.
"If they had put seating all the way
to the backstop and added lights here
(I'd be happy)," Arendsen had elabo
rated. "But it's not in the best interests
of the University. We're proud that
they care about us and that they're go
ing to take care of us."
With the setback in planning for the
new arena, the athletic department ad
ministrators have some time to reeval
uate the best interests of the depart
ment and the various programs
construction will effect. If they take care
of the softball team, they will realize a
campus locale will make the best fit.
They might also want to talk to the
community again — not just Ore
gon's community directly south of
Howe, but also the basketball and
softball communities.
"I'm sentimentally attached to Howe
Field," Arendsen said. "I respect the his
tory of Howe with the many athletes and
coaches and teams who have played
here, not only for softball, but for base
ball, our brother sport. The season we
had last year is certainly tied to this. I
don't think there's a more scenic park in
the country—looking at the hills outside
left field or my big, beautiful tree in right."
And just a two-block trek from the
heart of campus, Howe is accessible to
the athletes for practice and to the stu
dents for games.
In the race to have the biggest are
na, the best recruits and more money
spent on facilities than the team itself,
Oregon can't forget why it is building
a new arena in the first place: the ath
letes and the students.
There isn't a better way to reward a
rising program like the softball team
than to renovate a location they love.
Contact the senior sports reporter
at mindirice@dailyemerald.com.
Her views do not necessarily
represent those of the Emerald.