UO golfers move up to ninth
The Oregon women’s golf team found their game Tuesday and moved into ninth place after the second round of the 2002 Pac-10 Championships at the Walla Walla Country Club.
The Ducks improved by 12 strokes in the second round with a 317 to lead Oregon State by one stroke.
Senior Kathy Cho was much improved in her second day, shooting a plus-one 73 to stand tied for 18th at 154. Cho improved eight strokes in the second round and moved up 22 places, after being in a tie for 40th after the first round.
Sophomore Lacy Erickson and freshman Johnna Nealy both tied for 45th at 163. Freshmen Jaime Seefried shot 83 for 168 and sits 54th.
Arizona, the defending champion, maintained the lead after shooting 304 for a 36-hole total of 597. UCLA fired off 299 for the second round’s lowest score to sit in second place but, stills trail the Wildcats by three strokes.
USC did not have a solid second round with 308 and fell to third at 605, followed by top-seeded Arizona State who improved to fourth at 606.
As with first round play only two players were able to shoot par. UCLA’s Yvonne Cho and Washington’s Lindsay Morgan were the two golfers in the second round to shoot par-72. Defending individual champion Lorena Ochoa of Arizona is just two strokes back from UCLA’s Cho who leads with 143.

— Jesse Thomas

for the Emerald

Knight drops out of luncheon
FORT WORTH, Texas (KRT) — Texas Tech men’s basketball coach Bobby Knight has opted out of a book-signing luncheon co-sponsored by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram because he did not like a newspaper article that scrutinized his older son’s business practices.
The April 12 article, which ran on the front page of the Star-Telegram, stated that records showed that Tim Knight, an assistant athletic director at the school, had shipped school merchandise to an Indianapolis store operated by his mother without the university receiving payment. Bobby Knight was a long-time coach at Indiana University.
“I was notified by St. Martin’s Press, Bob Knight’s publisher, that he didn’t like the story in the Star-Telegram, and that because of that, he is refusing to honor his commitment to the Book and Author program,” said Jeff Guinn, the newspaper’s books editor.
The controversial coach, who is the author of “Knight: A Coach’s Life,” was scheduled to be one of six at the event, which will benefit the Fort Worth Public Library. It is scheduled for noon May 1 at the Will Rogers Memorial Center.

— Ginger D. Richardson

Knight Ridder Newspapers