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BASEBALL
While players and owners
put off negotiations until Tues
day, the general counsel of the
National Labor Relations Board
has asked the five member panel
for permission to seek an injunc
tion that could end the strike.
Players say they will end
their seven-month strike if the
NLRB obtains and injunction
restoring salary arbitration, free
agent biddingandanti-collusion
rules.
FOOTBALL
Eagles Sign
Watters:
Ricky Watters, who’s run
ning game helped lead the San
Francisco 49ers to its fifth Super
Bowl tittle has signed an offer
sheet to play for the Philadelphia
Eagles.
The 49ers have seven days
to match the offer, a front loaded
three-year deal worth a guaran
teed 3.6 million in its first year.
Allen Signs
With Saints:
Eric Allen a pro-bow l
cornerback has signed a five year
offer sheet, estimated at 14 mil
lion dollars with the New Or
leans Saints.
As a result Allen could wind
up as the second highest paid
member on the squad. Allen’s
lawyer does not expect Philadel
phia to match the Saints offer.
D w w B ell .
Friday was St P atrick’s Day,
but the luck o f the Irish w asn’t
with the Duck’s as they lost to
Louisville in a closely contested
game in the last seconds, when
L eatrice S co tt, a 65 p ercen t
freethrow sh o o ter n ailed tw o
from the charity stripe with 3.7
seconds left to lift the C ardinals
to a 67-65 win.
This was the D uck’s second
appearance in as many years for»
the second year coach Jody Runge
in the NCAA tournam ent. They
had accum altive 18-10 win lost
record com ing into the to u rn a
ment. "W e’ve had lapses like this
before, had games where people
did n ’t score” Runge said. “ You
ca n ’t win basketball games like
th at.”
The game teeter-totered with
each team gaining a ten point
lead, Oregon in the first half 25-
15 with 14:12 played and L ouis
ville gaining the advantaged in
the second.
"We should have put them
away then.” We let them run all
over us offensively and defen
sively. I thought we were resting.
O regon's first half lead dw in
dled to 34-31 by interm ission,
then Louisville came out with a
vengeance taking a 54-44 lead
midway through the second p e ri
od. Louisville 3-point shots d is
sem inated Oregon as they were
10 for 20 from 3 point range.
The Ducks came back to run
o ff nine consecutive points in the
space o f 2:01, and then it was
touch and go from there. Twice
down the stretch the Ducks turned
over the ball. Trailing 65-64 with
1:34 to play. Sally C row e's pass
to an open Arianne Boyer on the
base line sailed through B oyer's
hands out o f bounds.
Thirty-five seconds later the
Ducks were in possession of the
ball and trailed by one. T histim e,
Renae Fegent was called for an
offensive foul.
“ If we had scored on either
one o f those possessions we prob
able would have won the gam e.”
Runge said.
The C ardinals w eren’t exact
ly tw iddling their thum bs as O r
egon was m isfiring. The 25-7
Louisville C ardinals capitalized
on their outside game bene fitting
from their 3 point shooting, while
Oregon only m anaged 3 for 10
from 3 point range.
“ We were getting 2s and they
were getting 3s” Crowe said “No
way y o u ’re going to win in a
exchange like th at.”
The main gun for the C ardi
nals was sophom ore M arla Inman
a transfer from Indiana U niversi
ty who was named Miss Indiana
Basketball when she was a senior
in highschool.
She was treacherous against
Oregon making 5 o f 6 3 point
shots.
"We thought we could come out
and take this game,” said Inman.
"We just didn’t adjust to things” said
Crowe, whose one-season career at
Oregon is over as she returns to Aus
tralian) try for a spot on her country’s
Olympic team. "We just kept letting
them do it. We were always getting
there a second or two too late.”
Scott who drove the final nail
in the coffin, gave them a glim
mer o f hope earlier, with the score
65-64 and the C ardinals leading,
she m issed the front end o f a one
and one with 48 seconds left. The
Ducks tied it when Boyer hit the
second o f two freethrow s. There
was no more scoring until Scott
finished it o ff in the final sec
onds.
Louisville second h alf shoot
ing forced Oregon to switch from
a trapping zone to a man to man
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Sally Crowe, University of Oregon Womens Basketball
defense.
“ Then they started driving
on us” Fegent said" and we didn t
have the help there."
inent.
With 18:20 in the first half the
Beavers had only scored one field
goal and Mollerstrom had already
picked up two fouls.
The Beavers built a lead o f 14
points with 5:39 left in the first, but
had by no means taken control o f the
game. Oregon State was flat footed
on rebounds and were incurring fouls
going over their smaller opponents
for the ball.
Oregon State took 41-34 lead
: locker room at half-time.
College
Launches
Probe:
Rodman
Cleared:
Ihe San Antonio Spurs
elected not to take action against
Dennis Rodman for showing up
late to Thursday nights game
against the Philadelphia 76ers.
They accepted his excuse that he
overslept because his alarm clock
failed to go off, calling it an
innocent mistake
Coach Runge hoped for an
other out come. She thought the
Ducks had not stepped up to the
challenge o f tournam ent play.
“ Its a very disappointing way
to end the season." she said, not
because we lost, but because of
the way that we perform ed.
O.S.U. WOMEN K.O. TENNESSEE STATE
Tanja Kostic, OSU Beavers
Boxy Vidic, Oregon Sate University
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In Friday night’s game against
Tennessee State Annette Mollerstrom
stepped up with some last minute
heroics and averted disaster with a 3-
point shot in the last 36 seconds of
regulation to tie the game Oregon
State went on to win 88-75 in over
time.
Early on the prognosis did not
look good as though O.S.U. would
be making an early exit from the
women’s NCAA tournament along
with Oregon and University of Port
land.
Mollerstrom a player accus
tomed to playing most the game
missed all but 17 minutes as she sat
out with foul trouble. Prior to hitting
the crucial 3-pointer she had scored
only four points. "It wasn't bad until
we went down by five points" said
Mollerstrom whose full-contact de
fense didn't sit well with the game’s
officials "! didn't mind sitting on the
bench as long as the team was doing
ok.
I hadn't played well. I kind of
owed it to the team to make
Mollerstrom's shot knocked some of
the wind out the sails of the 12th
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B a s k e tb a ll
The president ofNortheast-
em University announced that a
panel has been formed to ex
plore the possible drug-use of
former stand-out player Reggie
Lewis.
The issue at question was
that if Lewis tested positive tor
cocaine in 1987, when he was a
senior and star basketball player
atthe school. Lewis died in 1993.
John Curry said a former
athletic director told him that
Lewis tested positive, but the
doctor in charge of the test told
him the test was negative.
Curry said what he had
learned was "both disturbing and
contradictory" and he could no
longer with certainty say the
Reugie Lewis was free from drugs
while he played basketball tor
us.
Lewis collapsed during a
play-off game in April of 1993.
three months later while casually
shooting baskets he collapsed
again and died.
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seeded Tigers, who had rallied from
a 14 point deficit in the first halt and
led by as a many a five in the second.
After battling the Beavers for 40
minutes ofregulation. Tennessee state
had little gas left to keep up with the
taller O.S.U. and the Tigers were
outscored 19-6 in the five minute
overtime.
Tennessee state did not go down
without a fight. \A ith Oregon State
focusing its attention on star guard
Carolyn Alderidge. forward Connie
Swift scored a career high 38 points
- ninth highest in tournament history
- and she was a perfect 14 from the
freethrow line. T.S.U. forced the
Beavers into 24 turnovers and out
rebounded O.S.U. 49-46 but on the
other side of the coin forward Tonja
Kostic was able to effectively shut
down the high scoring Aldrich who
has been averaging 22.6 points a
game. Kostic played superb defense
on Aldridge limiting her to 5 of 30
from the field, and 18 points.
Kostic and Tina Leias scored 25
points a piece Leias only pulled down
one rebound in the first half but she
grabbed 14 in the second.
Both teams entered the game
jittery and stiff, with intentions of
avoiding an early exit that had been
their experience in the 1994 tourna-
“ I appreciated that the team
wanted it-too badly." Oregon State
coach Aki Hill said ” The emotion
was there. The judgement wasn t unti I
overtime.
The Tigers made their move with
8:26 remaining in regulation. Swift
took a pass from Aldridge stepped
back and made a "3" igniting a 10-0
run that put Tennessee state 65-60.
Things looked dim until
Mollerstrom stepped up with her shot
and changed the momentum of the
whole game.
WORKOUT FOR HOPE
Leading the Portland Workout for Hope on Saturday, April 15,
1995, is Chair Kim R Jones of Lloyds Athletic Club (above) The
Three-hour Workout will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 pm. at the
Portland State University Gym, 930 SW Hall Blvd. Registration
begins at 9 a.m. Fitness experts from around the city leading all
styles of exercise programs for participants at all levels of fitness.
Proceeds will benefit HIV/AIDS and related cancer research at the
City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research
Institute. To register call 800/934-9196