Club baseball allotted $6,400 for Florida trip
In order to fund their trip to the National Club Baseball Association World Series in Bradenton, Fla., Oregon’s Club baseball team members Tory Caputo, Travis Chock and Jon Loomis presented their request for $6,400 at the Student Senate meeting on Wednesday.
The Club was granted the full amount of their request after it passed unanimously by a 13-0 vote.
“This is a once and lifetime opportunity for us,” Caputo said while addressing the Senate.
The team began the 2003-2004 school year with $3,800, which was allotted to them from Club Sports. Loomis explained to the Senate that the baseball program’s operating budget is $15,000 and that was calculated before a trip to the NCBA’s Regional Tournament in Kaysville, Utah, and to the World Series.
The team has been contacting team alumni to fund raise for other costs.
Loomis said any money raised before the tournament — which runs from May 26 to 31 — “will go to relieve personal player costs to attend the tournament.”
Women’s Club lacrosse takes 11th at Nationals
A Northwest Region conference title. A winning record. A berth in the US Lacrosse Intercollegiate Associates National Championships.
The Oregon women’s Club Lacrosse team wanted just one more thing to cap off a stellar season — a win at the National Championships in St. Louis.
Following two close losses, to No. 5 Texas A&M and No. 9 Pittsburgh, the Ducks won their final game against No. 11 Texas at the Anheuser-Busch Sports Center on May 14.
With four seconds left in the match and with No. 12 Oregon behind 9-8, senior Traci Geist scored a goal in the last seconds to tie the game. With her goal forcing a three-minute overtime, Geist scored again 11 seconds into sudden death play to give Oregon its first win of the tournament, 10-9. With a 1-2 tournament record, Oregon captured 11th place.
“There was no way we were going to end a great season on a loss,” junior Marissa White said.
For Oregon’s six seniors — Mary Beebe, Louisa Dorsch, Geist, Liz Harrison, Anya Janowsky and Tara McGann — the win was a fitting end to a better-than-average season.
— Kirsten McEwen
