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©fye ^îortlanh (©bseruer March 20, 2002 3 rt la nò Miserner Page B3 S puhts /METRO Oregon Trio Shine at NCAA Tournament (AP) — Just how tremendous is O regon’s high-scoring trio o f Luke Jackson, Luke Ridnour and F re d e ric k Jo n e s? Good enough to beat hot-shoot ing Wake Forest in what seemed like a game o f 5 -on-3— and maybe good enough to go a whole lot further in the NCAA tournament. Jackson matched his career high with 29 points, Ridnour scored a career-high 28, and Jones had 24 as second-seeded Oregon sur vived a strong challenge from the Demon Deacons, winning 92-87 Saturday to advance to the Mid west Regional semifinals. Jackson, Jones and Ridnour, who carried Oregon (25-8) to its first Pac-10 Conference title since 1939, accounted for all but 11 o f the Ducks’ points as they held o ff the Demon Deacons (21 -13) in a thrilling, end-to-end game with little defense but plenty o f fire works. “ We all expect this out o f each one o f us,” Jones said af terward w hile looking at his two team m ates. “ We have a lot o f confidence in each other. We d o n ’t think it’s anything new .” O regon’s three stars scored all o f the D ucks’ points in the sec ond h alf until three free throw s by their team m ates in the final 17 seconds. “It was a great rhythm to the game,” Oregon coach Ernie Kent Annual Golf Tournament Eastmoreland Golf Course April 10, 2002 Join golfers from around the country at the National Forum For Black Public Administrators (NFBPA) annual golf tournament. This is a scramble format tournament. 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W ake F o re st c o a c h Skip Woods Heads Into ( Big Tournaments Prosser, who said his team lost one o f its more satisfying games, compared O regon’s trio to the high-flying NBA team that usu ally holds court at Sacramento’s Arco Arena. “T h o se th ree kids — we couldn’t find a way to even slow them down, much less stop them,” Prosser said. “Today, they prob ably could have played for the Kings.” Wake Forest shot 55 percent for most of the game and made 11 - of-19 3-pointers, but its chances evaporated when Craig Dawson, who scored 20 points, left with a dislocated shoulder with 7:45 to play. Fans in the decidedly pro- Ducks crowd chanted, “Sweet Sixteen!” in the final seconds. Blazers Beat Boston; Win 15 of Last 16 (A P) — T ig er the toughest finish ing holes in golf-the to declare his game famous island green in p e rfe c t sh ap e on the par-3 17th, heading into two o f followed by the 447- the biggest tourna yard 18th, which was ments in golf. At the hardest hole on least he knows what tour last year. to expect should he _____ Two weeks later is th e M a ste rs, j wind up in the lead w h ich has been late in the final round. J No mistakes. ‘ renovated to put a Tiger Woods premium on driving. W oods o n ly Shaw n Kem p had 12 points added to his reputation as being Instead o f a back-nine barrage o f the best closer in golf by winning birdies at Augusta National, sev and 11 rebounds in his second the Bay Hill Invitational for the eral players are expecting par to be gam e subbing for the su s third straight year. O f 20 players just as valuable because o f all the pended D ale Davis and Port within five shots o f the lead going changes. land beat Boston 100-91 M on into the final round. Woods was Bay Hill was W ood’s 30th vic day night to win for the 15th the only one who didn’t make a tory ofhis career, and it was like so tim e in 16 games. bogey on the back nine. many others: Get in the lead late B onzi W ells scored 20 for “His biggest strength is som e Sunday afternoon, watch every the T rail B lazers, including a thing you c a n ’t see - his mind one else trip while trying to chase 3 -p o in te r w ith 11 seconds him. and his h e a rt,” sw ing coach le f t to m a k e it 9 8 - 9 1 . 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