Tim Bobosky Photographer
Oregon senior Julie Jaime, seen here earlier this season, is one of two reserves to see a large amount of playing time with the Ducks this
„ season. The Ducks wrap up their 2004 Pac-10 campaign by hosting Stanford and California for three games this weekend.
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offensive kick — scoring five or more
runs in eight games that month.
Oregon is currently in a slight of
fensive slump after being shutout —
5-0, 1 -0 and 3-0 — in Arizona during
the weekend.
When the Ducks do well offensive
ly, catcher Jenn Poore and third base
man Ashley Richards lead the way.
Poore leads the team with the .323
batting average while Richards leads
the team with a .531 slugging percent
age.
Recently, Oregon has recovered its
inconsistent defense and solidified
the infield with extra practice and a
dose of confidence. Other than a five
error hiccup Sunday, the defense has
gotten off the roller coaster it had
been on earlier this season.
Another part of Oregon's attack is
the frequent use of reserves. While
four players — Poore, Richards, desig
nated player Beth Boskovich and
shortstop Breanne Sabol — have start
ed all 54 games, reserve players Julie
Jaime and Ann Marie Topps have each
played in a majority of Oregon's
games this season.
The most consistent facet of this
season's Oregon team has been the
pitching. Oregon's top pitcher — Ani
Nyhus — recently became the fifth
Duck to win 20 games in a season.
The Ducks' team earned run average
is 1.71.
Career K's
Three of Oregon's four current
pitchers have pitched their way into
Oregon's career top 10 list for strike
outs.
Senior Anissa Meashintubby has
worked her way up to No. 5 on the
list, with 82 strikeouts this season on
top of her 228 last season.
Sophomore Amy Harris, who last
season set Oregon's single-season
strikeouts record with 180, has added
84 strikeouts this season to put her at
No. 6 on the list.
Nyhus has jumped onto the list
during her first season as a Duck. She
has struck out 172 batters this season,
putting herself at No. 9 on the list.
Desert disasters
Looking at recent history, the state
of Arizona has not been kind to the
Ducks. In the past five seasons, Ore
gon is 2-13 at Arizona and Arizona
State, with both wins against the Sun
Devils. Since the Ducks' last winning
record in Arizona — they went 4-0 in
1989 — they are 10-45 in the desert,
with all 10 wins against Arizona State.
This past weekend was the first time
this season that the Ducks lost three
consecutive games.
Regional revealing
The 64 teams selected for the
NCAA Division I Softball Regionals
will be announced in a selection show
Sunday. The show will be shown on
ESPNews, beginning at 5 p.m.
Oregon is eligible for five of the
eight regional locations — at host
schools Baylor, Michigan, Nebraska,
Georgia and Florida State. Arizona,
UCLA and Stanford will host their
own regionals. Pac-10 schools are not
eligible to participate in a regional at
another Pac-10 site.
Ducks head coach Kathy Arendsen
was unavailable by phone Tuesday.
Contact the senior sports reporter
at mindirice@dailyemerald.com.
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Game 2 beckons
Flyers, Lightning
Philadelphia evened up
the conference final series
at one apiece with a
6-2 victory on Monday
By Ray Parrillo
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
PHILADELPHIA — Ken Hitch
cock began by talking about horse
racing, advising his questioners to
plop their cash down on Smarty
Jones to win Saturday's Preakness.
"Don't even bother betting place
or show on Smarty," the Flyers'
coach said Tuesday. "I don't think
there's any doubt he's going to win."
Inside stuff, maybe? "Yeah. I talk
to horses. Sometimes the wrong
end."
From thoroughbred racing, the
news conference segued into the
best-of-seven Eastern Conference fi
nal between the Flyers and Tampa
Bay, which the Flyers locked up at
one game apiece with Monday's 6-2
blowout at the St. Pete Times Fo
rum.
The series resumes on Thursday
night at the Wachovia Center, where
the Flyers, who on Tuesday were giv
en a day away from practice, happen
to be 6-0 during the postseason.
The segue seemed appropriate. If
the first two games of the series have
suggested anything, it is that the Fly
ers are quite willing to engage the
Lightning in the high-speed, high
risk approach that launched Tampa
to the top of the conference during
the regular season.
This may seem outrageous to any
one familiar with Hitchcock when
he coached the Dallas Stars to the
Stanley Cup in 1999 by demanding
that his players adhere to a button
down, cautious system that empha
sized defense, defense and more de
fense. Boring, but remarkably
effective.
According to Hitchcock, he didn't
want to play the game that way, but,
he said, "We didn't have the foot
speed and we certainly didn't have
the mobility on the back end (de
fense) to play this way."
In the Flyers, Hitchcock believes
he does have the speed and mobility
to go stride for stride with Tampa
Bay. So after a grinding second
round series against Toronto in
which each foot of ice was chal
lenged, and after five straight losses
to the Lightning that included the 3
1 setback in Game 1, Hitchcock de
cided a change had to be made. A
change of mind-set.
"Sometimes, when you play
against a team like Tampa, you want
to play conservative. We want to go
the other way," Hitchcock said. "We
want to play with some risk. We
want to take chances, and hopefully
it'll pay off. It did (in Game 2). Our
thought process changed a little bit.
We couldn't continue to play the
same way we were because we
weren't getting enough goals."
If the Flyers and Lightning contin
ue this match race all the way to the
finish line, it will be a welcome
change in an era when the NHL can
use a little octane in its game. Hitch
cock said the Lightning's hell-bent
style of play reminds him of the way
the Edmonton Oilers played when
they dominated the league in the
1980s.
"Neither one of these teams is
playing with a conservative mind
set," he said. "We're all kind of going
for it. It's good for the fans, and it's
good for the game."
For the Flyers, the reward for their
risk-taking was an astonishing five
odd-man rushes in the first period
of Game 2. In a blink, they were in
front, 3-0. John LeClair scored his
first goal of the postseason less than
two minutes after the opening face
off when his shot from a tough an
gle went between the legs of goalie
Nikolai Khabibulin.
"I should stop that shot," said
Khabibulin, who was pulled early in
the second period after giving up
four goals, the first three on four
shots.
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Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
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