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Sheldon's Dukeminier, four others sign with Oregon.


Byline: The Register-Guard

REGIONAL ROUNDUP

Oregon signed four high school golfers to national letters of intent including Sheldon senior Jack Dukeminier, who helped lead the Irish to back-to-back state titles in 2005 and 2006, and shared state medalist honors last season.

Isaiah Telles of Tualatin, Sean Maekawa of Paiauilo, Hawaii, and John Paton John Paton may refer to:
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 UO coach Casey Martin Casey Martin (born June 2, 1972 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American professional golfer. He still resides in Eugene. He was educated at Stanford University, and was briefly a teammate of Tiger Woods. .

"Bringing in four quality players, I think this is a great start to building the program," Martin said. "This class will have an immediate impact for us and contribute right away."

Dukeminier was a quarterfinalist at the 2006 Oregon Amateur and was the state junior champion in 2005.

"It was important to get Jack in a lot of ways," Martin said. "It's good to keep kids like him at home. There have been a lot of good golfers who have come out of Eugene like Eric Johnson

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Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas.
, Brian Henninger Brian Hatfield Henninger (born October 19, 1962) is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the Nationwide Tour. He has won two tournaments in his PGA Tour career.

Henninger was born in Sacramento, California and graduated from Sheldon High School.
, myself and Jeff Quinney Jeffrey Michael Quinney (born November 17, 1978) is an American professional golfer.

Quinney was born in Eugene, Oregon. He had a successful amateur career, winning the U.S. Amateur Championship in 2000, and represented the USA in the Walker Cup in 2001.
, and Jack has the potential to be the next in that group."

Telles has won three junior tournaments in the state since March and helped lead Tualatin High School Tualatin High School is a public school located in Tualatin, Oregon, USA. Opened in 1992, it currently enrolls approximately 2100 students, of which about 80% continue into secondary education. It is part of the Tigard-Tualatin School District.  to the 2004 state championship as a freshman when he tied for sixth.

Maekawa finished 11th at the USGA USGA United States Golf Association
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 Junior America Championships in July, and has won three times on the junior circuit since April.

Oregon signs former

Colorado tennis champion

Former Colorado state champion Doug Mayeda has signed a National Letter of Intent to play tennis and attend Oregon in 2007.

`We are absolutely thrilled to have Doug joining the team,' director of tennis Nils Schyllander said.

`He is an extremely hard worker whose aggressiveness will make him a very good Pac-10 tennis player, especially with as much indoor tennis as we play.'

Mayeda was the leader of the Cherry Creek Cherry Creek may refer to:
  • Cherry Creek Golf Links, Riverhead, New York
  • Cherry Creek, Columbus, Ohio
  • Cherry Creek, a tributary of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota in the United States
  • Cherry Creek, in Tuolumne County, California in the United States
 High team the past two seasons, capturing a state title in 2005 and finishing second in 2006.

Beaver wrestlers win in Zalesky's debut as coach

CORVALLIS - Heavyweight Ty Watterson and 174-pounder Jeremy Larson each won Tuesday as Oregon State opened its season under new coach Jim Zalesky with a 48-3 victory over Portland State in nonconference wrestling at Gill Coliseum.

Watterson, ranked seventh in the nation in the coach's poll, pinned Steve Fittinger in 2:46. Larson, ranked 20th, beat Tony Contreras in a technical fall in 6:44.

Pleasant Hill's Novak

wins state honor

Pleasant Hill's Jennifer Novak and North Medford's Garrett Frierson were chosen as Oregon's top scholar-athletes in competition for the 2006 Wendy's High School Heisman Award.

The award is based on outstanding achievements in athletics, academics and community service. In addition to Novak and Frierson, a field of 18 state finalists was announced, which included Churchill's Andrew Schumacher and Yoncalla's Ann Sublette and Brett Andry.

Novak, who carries a 4.0 grade-point average, competed in both soccer and cross country for the Billies during the fall sports season, and she also participates in basketball, softball and track and field.

Novak and Frierson join two winners from each state and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States).  for the next round of elimination in mid-November when Wendy's chooses the 12 national finalists from six regions.

North Bend's Green will swim for Boise State

North Bend senior Denise Green has signed a letter of intent to swim for Boise State University.

Green has won eight state championships at the 3A/2A/1A meet, including six individual titles.

Green has won the 100-meter backstroke during each of the past three years. Green won the 100 freestyle as a junior and captured the 50 freestyle during her freshman and sophomore seasons.

She also helped North Bend with the 200 and 400 freestyle relays as a sophomore.

Oregon State inks

California golfer Freeman

CORVALLIS - Golfer Cara Freeman of San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano (săn wän kăpĭsträ`nō), city (1990 pop. 26,183), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1961. San Juan Capistrano has some manufactures, including aircraft parts, medical apparatus, and boats, but the economy is , Calif., to a letter of intent to attend Oregon State.

Freeman is a senior at Capistrano Valley High School Capistrano Valley High School (often called Capo Valley High School or CVHS, known informally as Capo) is a comprehensive public high school at the southern border of Mission Viejo, California that belongs to the Capistrano Unified School District.  in Mission Viejo, Calif. She tied for 13th out of 124 golfers at this week's California state regional championship, narrowly missing out on a spot in the state finals.
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