Warsaw Classic to shoot
out Parkinson’s disease
The fifth annual Warsaw Classic, a 3-on-3 basketball tournament established to raise money to research Parkinson’s disease, will be held Saturday at McArthur Court.
As many as 96 teams of four can register for the tournament, which includes a women’s-only bracket for the second year. Teams are guaranteed at least three games.
Students from the University’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center created the event in 1998 to honor Jim Warsaw, the center’s founder who is afflicted with Parkinson’s disease. The event raised $5,000 in its first year and has since donated more than $41,000 to the National Parkinson Foundation.
Co-chairman Jason Racette said the goal of this year’s Warsaw Classic is to raise $20,000. “This is a very important cause and it helps give back to a man who has given so much to the U of O,” Racette said.
Registration is available at the event’s Web site at www.warsawcenter.com/3on3. Registration, which includes T-shirts and food, is $40 per team. Donations are also accepted.
Pistons return from Toronto after double losses
TORONTO (KRT) — Staggered from two poor games in Toronto, the Detroit Pistons are coming home for a Game 5 Thursday night because they didn’t play well enough to win either game.
Using the inside strength of Keon Clark and the outside shooting of Morris Peterson, the Raptors tied the series at 2, beating the Pistons, 89-83, Monday night.
On Saturday, it was Antonio Davis bruising the Pistons’ inside players. On Monday it was Clark, who scored 19 points and pulled down 15 rebounds in his first 25 minutes of action. He finished with 19 and 16.
Neither Ben Wallace or Cliff Robinson was able to contain Clark, who entered the game averaging 11 points and six rebounds. Wallace had 12 rebounds and two points. Robinson had 11 points and three rebounds. Peterson had 20 for Toronto, making 8 of 12 field-goal attempts.
Jerry Stackhouse made just 6-of-18 shots and scored 15; Chucky Atkins had 20. Corliss Williamson had 14 off the bench, but was just 4-for-13 from the field. Detroit shot just 38.4 percent from the field Monday. Toronto simply dominated the hustle plays, playing with more desperation than the Pistons.
Twelves minutes from having to play a Game 5, the Pistons started the fourth quarter slowly and fell behind even further when Peterson and Hakeem Olajuwon scored on consecutive trips down the floor to increase the home team’s lead to 70-61 with 9:26 to play. Peterson, who’d sputtered most of the series, then scored six straight points to put Toronto ahead, 76-68.
Jon Barry had just hit the second of consecutive three-pointers — bringing Detroit within 76-71 – when he called for a foul by Bernie Fryer. Barry, whose shoe had come undone in transition, gave the ball to Fryer and raced to the sideline to tie the shoe — and was called for a technical foul.
Stackhouse made consecutive baskets to pull the losers to within three, 80-77, but Davis countered for the winners, making it a five-point game.
— Perry A. Farrell
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Pit Crew creates
3-on-3 tournament
The Pit Crew can’t get enough basketball, so it has extended the season — sort of.
Nate Jolly, Pit Crew president, has created a 3-on-3 tournament that will feature slam dunk and three-point shooting contests on May 11. The tournament will be begin at 10 a.m. at the courts outside of the Bean Complex.
Registration is $20 for the tournament, which includes men’s and coed divisions.
Teams can register at the University Bookstore from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday. Sign-up forms are also available at the tournament’s Web site at http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~pitcrew1.
— Adam Jude