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ASU rolls to victory over Ducks.


Byline: The Register-Guard

Arizona State scored six runs in the first two innings and was never threatened as the Sun Devils
  • Arizona State Sun Devils
  • Sun Devils, a DC Comics maxi-series
 defeated Oregon 9-1 in six innings in a Pac-10 softball game on Friday at Howe Field, keeping the Ducks winless in conference play.

Erica Beach hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning and drove in three runs, and Kara Kara (kär`ə), river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian Russia. It is navigable in its lower course.  Brun had three hits and drove in three runs for the sixth-ranked Sun Devils (34-9, 4-2 Pac-10).

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 had five hits in the first two innings and took advantage of two Oregon errors to take the big early lead.

Oregon (18-16, 0-7), which was held to just five hits for the game, got runners on base in each of the first two innings, but both times was stymied by inning-ending double plays.

Arizona's Jennie Finch Jennie Finch (born September 3, 1980), or occasionally using her husband's name, Daigle, is a softball player and an American athlete. She is widely regarded as the most famous softball player of all time.  tossed a five-hit shutout, and the top-ranked Wildcats took advantage of a three-run first inning to defeat 14th-ranked Oregon State 4-0 in a Pac-10 softball game on Friday in Corvallis.

MacKenzie Vandergeest's bloop bloop   Baseball
n.
A blooper.

tr.v. blooped, bloop·ing, bloops
To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield.

adj.
Hit just beyond the infield.
 single scored two runs to give Arizona a 3-0 lead.

Oregon State's Crystal Draper, who entered the game in the second inning, struck out 10 Arizona batters in relief.

Tennis

Oregon won the top three singles matches but lost in the bottom three matches and the doubles competition to lose 4-3 to No. 10 Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region,  in a Pac-10 men's match at the UO Student Tennis Center.

The Ducks (12-8, 0-5) got straight-sets victories from Oded Teig and Manuel Kost and a 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory over USC's Nick Rainey by Sven Swinnen.

Golf

Oregon carded its best score of the season, a 280, over the final 18 holes, to move into a tie for sixth place after the opening day of the ASU/Thunderbird Invitational on Friday in Tempe, Ariz.

The Ducks are tied with 25th-ranked Arizona at 563, two strokes ahead of eighth-ranked Texas Christian and four strokes ahead of ninth-ranked Southern California.

Texas leads the meet with a 547, 11 strokes ahead of Arizona State.

Oregon's Chris Carnahan shot a career-best 64 over the final 18 holes and is in second place in the medalist race with a 12-under-par 132.

The tournament concludes today.

Mitchell Gillis of Williams Lake Williams Lake is the name of several places:

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Cities and towns:
: Williams Lake, British Columbia, town approximately 300 km south of Prince George and 600 km north of Vancouver, along highway 97


, B.C., has signed a letter of intent to play for the Oregon State men's team next season.

Gillis captained the Canadian team that won the America's Cup America's Cup: see sailing.
America's Cup

Most prestigious trophy in international yachting competition. First offered under another name in Britain in 1851, the cup was won easily by the America from New York and subsequently became known as the
 championship in 2001.

Gillis is the Beavers' only pickup of the late signing period. Kenny Coakley of Lakewood, Colo., signed in the fall.

Basketball

Oregon State's Felicia Ragland was among those invited to the WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association
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 Pre-Draft Camp in Chicago this weekend.

Ragland was the Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2001 and a first-team all-conference pick the past three years. The league's four-round draft will be on April 19.

Triathlon

Registration is continuing for Sunday's third annual Duck Bill Chill sprint triathlon, a fund-raiser for the UO Club Sports Triathlon program.

The race, which includes a 500-yard swim, 20-kilometer bike ride and five-kilometer run, begins at 8 a.m. at the south end of the Student Recreation Center Student Recreation Center may refer to:
  • A Lesiure centre
  • The Student Recreation Center at University of California, Riverside
 near the UO Student Tennis Center.

Registration is $30 for individuals and $75 for relays and is available at the EMU Club Sports Office or at 6:30 a.m. the day of the race.

Muay Thai

Eight local Muay Thai fighters trained by Mike Walrath will fight today at Willard Elementary School elementary school: see school.  on 29th Avenue and Lincoln Street.

The matches begin at 7:30 p.m. Local fighters at the event are Paul Gould, Josh Dalton, Pat Farr, Reni Aquino, Jeremy Wijers, Damion Hommel, and Tyler and Treven Dumilieu. Fighters from as far away as Canada will participate in the event.

Muay Thai, or Thai boxing, is a 2,500-year-old art that includes punches, kicks, knee and elbow strikes, grappling and throwing techniques and chokes and holds.
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Title Annotation:Regional Roundup: The Sun Devils score six runs in the first two innings of a 9-1 win.; Sports
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date:Apr 13, 2002
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