UO women golfers

finish eighth
The Oregon women’s golf team captured its best finish of the year as it placed eighth at the Pioneer Electronic Bruin Classic, played at the 6,116-yard, par 72 Menifee Lakes Country Club in Menifee, Calif.
Freshman Jess Carlyon shot a third round career-low 71 and placed fifth (73-78-71-222), the highest individual Duck finish this season. Senior Kathy Cho finished at plus-10 and tied for 15th with a 226 composite.
Overall, the Ducks shot a 925 in the three rounds. Oregon finished 49 strokes behind tournament champion Pepperdine, which shot a 12-over 876.
Up next, the Ducks will host the Duck Invitational, March 28 and 29 at the Mallard Creek Golf Course in Lebanon, Ore.

— from staff and wire reports

Western Kentucky

surprised by seed
(U-WIRE) BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — More than 1,000 Hilltopper fans packed into two combined ballrooms in the Plaza Hotel’s Sloan Convention Center Sunday, anxious to find out whom, when and where their beloved Western Kentucky men’s basketball team would play in the NCAA Tournament.
A 76-70 win over Louisiana-Lafayette in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament championship last week guaranteed Western a seat at the NCAA table.
A measure of the national attention the Hilltoppers have earned was shown by CBS choosing Western as one of 10 sites to broadcast during the announcement.
Western’s No. 9 seed in the Midwest Region of the NCAA Tournament drew cheers and applause from some Western fans.
“Ooooh!” Hilltopper coach Dennis Felton said, sounding like someone had pinched him.
He said before the pairings were announced that he expected a No. 7 seed or better.
“I didn’t think we’d be any lower than seven,” Felton said. “It’s surprising, but then it isn’t surprising because I’ve been trained to expect that kind of thing out of the NCAA.”
An 8 or 9 seed was exactly where the Hilltoppers did not want to be, associate head coach Pete Herrmann said after winning the conference final. Those positions mean playing a nearly equal team — in this case, Stanford — and, in case of a win, almost ensure a meeting with the No. 1-seed Kansas in the second round.
“It’s really clear that they favor the six power leagues,” Felton said after the seeds were announced. “I clearly have no idea what the committee considers.”
The Southeastern Conference placed four teams, the most of any conference, in the tournament with a 4 seed or better. Those included fourth-seeded Kentucky (in the East), whom Western beat in its season opener, and third-seeded Mississippi State (in the Midwest), which won the SEC Tournament. MSU.

— By Malcolm C. Knox

College Heights Herald

(Western Kentucky U.)