IN BRIEF
Jordan Carey admits
to drug problem
Former Oregon football player Jor
dan Carey admitted in a written state
ment provided to The Olympian that
he was released from the team be
cause traces of the active ingredient
in pot were found during a drug test
for the second time.
Drug tests are given to Division 1
athletes twice a year, and since he
tested positive once, Carey was sus
ceptible for random testing.
“1 know that 1 have a substance
abuse problem and that I need to
work this through to move forward in
a positive and healthy way,” Carey
said. “Over the summer I worked on
making different choices, but I was
not successful.”
Carey was dismissed from the
team Monday for what head coach
Mike Bellotti said was a repeated vio
lation of team rules.
Softball to play two
exhibition games
Oregon softball hosts Western Bap
tist, affiliated with the NAIA, in a
nine-inning exhibition game today at
2 p.m. The Ducks finished last sea
son No. 11 in the ESPN.com/ USA
Softball Top 25 poll.
Head coach Kathy Arendsen will
begin her third season at Oregon,
where she has helped lead the
Ducks to back-to-back postseason
appearances.
Oregon will be returning 12 letter
winners, including All-Pac-10 pitch
er and 2004 Athens Olympian Ani
Nyhus (representing Canada) and
honorable mention All-Pac-10 play
ers Beth Boskovich and Ashley
Richards.
The Ducks will be bringing in six
new players to the team, including
Alicia Cook, Lovena Chaput, Kristi
Jorgensen, Lauren Rascon, T.J. Eadus
and Joanna Gail.
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Oregon plays Western Oregon Sun
day at 12:30 p.m. Both games will be
played at Howe Field.
Hazing may have
saved pitcher
Cleveland Indians rookie pitcher
Kyle Denney might be thanking his
lucky stars his teammates were
pulled some rookie hazing on him
and put him in a USC cheerleader
outfit Wednesday night.
Denney was shot in the leg later
that night when a bullet shot ripped
through the team’s bus on its way to
Kansas City International Airport.
The team trainers extracted the
bullet from Denney’s right calf and
said the tall, white cheerleading
boots may have saved the pitcher
from further injury.
Denney, originally from
Oklahoma, said his teammates
made him wear the USC outfit
because the Sooners are ranked be
hind the No. 1 Ttojans.
“I’ve never been so glad to have a
USC thing on,” Denney said.
National soccer player
on local radio
US National Women’s soccer team
member Abby Wambach will join
host John Strong on KWVA 88.1 FM
tonight at 6:30 p.m.
Wambach and the rest of the soc
cer team, fresh off their gold-medal
performance in Athens, will be con
cluding the first segment of their na
tional tour in Portland Sunday.
Wambach was named the 2003
U.S. Soccer Chevrolet Female Athlete
of the Year and currently leads the
team in goals. Her 18 goals account
for 27.3 percent of the team’s scoring
this year.
— Clayton Jones
Soccer: Gonzaga tough
midfield could trouble Ducks
Continued from page 11A
Lainez has surrendered 17
goals in the first eight games, giving
her a 2.35 goals against average. The
Ducks were almost doubled up on in
shots last weekend against Portland
and Portland State (36-21 with Port
land holding a 27-7 advantage).
Oregon (1-6-1)
vs. Gonzaga (7-3)
Gonzaga rolls into Eugene on Sun
day, off to its best start in program his
tory. For the past two
seasons the Bulldogs have recorded 18
wins, surpassing the total number of
wins over the previous four seasons.
The Bulldogs have won four out of
their last five and look to continue that
trend behind a 19-5 season advantage
in goals against opponents.
“They have some very talented
technical individuals,” Steffan said.
“Their strength is probably more in
the middle of the field instead of the
ends, so they will be a little bit of a
different challenge (than Wyoming).”
Offensively, the Bulldogs are paced
by senior forward Annie Hawkins.
Hawkins has five goals and two as
sists on the season and during the
Bulldogs’ four-game winning streak,
Hawkins found the net four times, in
cluding a game winner.
Freshman striker Heather Horn
has also been hot as of late. Horn has
recorded a goal in three of the last
four games and has also added two
assists in that time.
Momentum will be crucial to the
Ducks as they prepare to enter anoth
er tough conference schedule, start
ing next week against USC.
“We have lost five in a row,” Ore
gon freshman forward Kami Kapaku
said. “We’re just looking to win.”
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Tennis: Panova, Dieskova play
in All-American tournament
Continued from page 11A
and then win some matches and win
a couple of tournaments, and we’ll
do great.” His teammate, Kost, is also
one of the top ranked players in the
nation this season. The 22-year-old
Kost is ranked the No. 30 singles
player in the nation. It is the highest
ranking ever in his career.
“J want to have my best
season... I hope we have
the best season as a team,
too, because we have only
one senior who left. ”
Manuel Kost | Oregon tennis player
Kost, a native of Kuessnacht,
Switzerland, reached his second con
secutive NCAA Tournament last spring
after tallying an 18-10 singles record.
In his final season as a Duck, Kost
said he is dedicated to having his
finest year ever in Eugene.
“I want to have my best season,”
said Kost, who earned an All-Pac-10
mention in 2004. “I hope we have the
best season as a team, too, because
we have only one senior (Chris King)
who left.”
Also slated to compete in the singles
portion is junior Thomas Bieri, who
had a 13-16 singles record last season.
In doubles, Swinnen and junior
Arron Spencer are scheduled to
compete after posting a 17-9 record
last season. The duo is ranked No. 9
in the country.
Women head to California
While the men head east, the Ore
gon women’s team stays on the west
coast and will travel to Pacific Pal
isades, Calif., for the 2004
Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American
Championships , beginning tomor
row and ending Oct. 10.
The tournament will feature 22 of
the top 25 players in the preseason
1TA singles rankings in the singles
main draw.
One of the top eight seeds in the
main draw is Oregon senior Daria
Panova. The 22-year-old Panova,
who is a two-time All-American and
three-time Pac-10 Conference cham
pion, is ranked No. 8 in the nation,
according to the 1TA.
Last season, she tied her own school
record of most season victories in sin
gles from 2003 when she posted 32
wins. With one more victory, Panova
will become the all-time career leader
at Oregon, passing Krissy Barger, who
had 72 victories from 1991-94.
The other Oregon entrant is sopho
more Dominika Dieskova, who quali
fied for the NCAA Tournament as a
freshman last season. Dieskova, who
had a 20-17 record in 2004, is ranked
No. 51 in the nation.
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