Two Ducks honored with Pac-10 awards
Oregon center Andrea Bills and forward Eleanor Haring earned Pacific-10 Conference awards Thursday.
Haring was named to the Pac-10 All-Freshman team. She is Oregon’s second-leading scorer, with 10.4 points per game, and rebounder, with 4.9 per game. The Australia native led Oregon’s reserves for seven games before she earned a starting spot this season.
Bills, a junior from Moreno Valley, Calif., was named an honorable mention to the All-Pac-10 team. She is the Ducks’ leading scorer and rebounder, averaging 11.3 points and 8.0 rebounds per game.
Bills was named an honorable mention on the freshman team two years ago.
Haring and Bills are two of the three Oregon players to start all 18 conference games. Point guard Corrie Mizusawa is the third.
Stanford’s Nicole Powell was named Pac-10 Player of the Year, UCLA’s Noelle Quinn earned Freshman of the Year and California head coach Caren Horstmeyer was named Coach of the Year.
Ducks win two in Florida
Sixteenth-ranked Oregon softball extended its winning streak to a school-record 12 games Thursday with two victories in the Speedline Invitational in Clearwater, Fla.
The Ducks (15-4) started their day with a 6-0 win against Rutgers. After a 30-minute break, they played Temple and picked up a 6-2 win for Oregon’s first 12-game winning streak in school history.
“I like the way that we are continuing to play with confidence,” Oregon head coach Kathy Arendsen said. “We have the feeling that we are going to win when we play and I think we’re playing very good softball right now. The biggest thing is for us to continue to get better and continue to improve.”
Anissa Meashintubby and Lindsey Kontra combined to pitch a three-hit shutout of Rutgers for Oregon’s first win Thursday.
Shortstop Breanne Sabol was 4 for 4 against the Scarlet Knights and designated player Beth Boskovich was 2 for 3. Catcher Jenn Poore was 1 for 4, with three RBIs.
Meashintubby improved to 6-1 on the season with a five-inning effort.
In Oregon’s second game of the day, a 6-2 victory against Temple, the Ducks were again led by Boskovich, Poore and Sabol.
Boskovich was 2 for 3 with two RBIs, while Poore was 2 for 2 with two runs scored. Sabol went 1 for 1 with a walk. Julie Jaime went 1 for 3 with two RBIs in the game.
In the second game, Amy Harris and Kontra combined for a two-hit effort. Each pitcher gave up one hit. Harris struck out five to earn the victory, moving her record to 2-1 this season.
Oregon continues tournament play today with a game against Jacksonville and a game against Northwestern. The Ducks play Coastal Carolina and Team USA on Saturday.
— Mindi Rice
