Brooks Hatch: Monday update, at the pool Comments
The Blog was over at Stevens Natatorium on Monday for a story on the OSU-Lewis & Clark swimming dual and an overall look at the Beavers, who are five weeks away from the Pac-10 Championships, the biggest meet of their season.
As expected, the Beavers streamrolled the Division III Pioneers 133-67, but the real news was that coach Larry Liebowitz is “absolutely” pleased with this team’s progress and confident a handful can qualify for the March 18-20 NCAA meet at Purdue.
(PS: Some who is one step above drowning on his M-W-F swim workouts at Timberhill can really appreciate how the OSU she-sharks literally rip through the water.)
Here’s a preview of our story, which will appear online tonight and in Tuesday’s print edition.
The Oregon State swim team began its five-week buildup to the Pacific-10 Conference meet with a 133-67 victory over Lewis & Clark on Monday at Stevens Natatorium.
The Beavers (4-6) jumbled their lineup and strategy, and held NCAA-meet returnee Anna Crandall out completely to rest a sore shoulder. They still won every event in what essentially was a training session against the Division III Pioneers.
“It was a chance to try some different things,” coach Larry Liebowitz said. “We had some people try other events, and we had some who tried different ways to swim their races to see if they felt better doing it that way. They did well.”
Sophomore Jenni Dole swam the 200 individual medley for the first time this season and won in (2:12.71). She was a non-counting exhibition entrant in the 100 backstroke, her signature event, and won in 57.72.
She’s already met the ‘B’ standard for NCAA qualification in that event.
“My training has been off and on,” she said. “But I’m really happy where I am … last week I went a 56 and today, swimming for fun, just because my parents and grandparents were here, I swam a 57. So I’m pretty happy about that.”
Dole set a lifetime-best of 55.23 in the 100 backstroke at the 2009 Pac-10 meet, the second-fastest time in school history in that event. She said she felt she’s on track to better that mark.
“I’ve never been faster than a 56 before Pac-10s, and I’ve (swum) three 56s so far,” she said. “That’s good news.”
The Beavers are home again at 4 p.m. Friday, against Seattle University. Pac-10s are Feb. 24-27 at Long Beach, Calif.
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Former Corvallis Knights infielder Bryant Kraus, a late-season addition who played a key role on the 2008 West Coast League championship team, is playing professionally in Australia and has been promoted to the Perth Heat.
Here are the details from the Knights’ website, Corvallisknights.com.
The current Knights begin their fourth season in Corvallis on June 4, at Kitsap in the opener of an eight-game road trip that also includes three games in Bellingham and two against Cowlitz in Kelso-Longview.
Their home opener is June 15 against the Bend Elks.
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We figure the Norv Turner family probably needs a dose of god news in the wake of San Diego’s unexpected loss to the J-E-T-S Jets in Sunday’s NFL playoffs. So how about this?
Norv’s son Scott Turner, an OSU graduate assistant in 2005, has been promoted to wide receivers coach at the University of Pittsburgh. Here are the details, from ESPN.com via The Associated Press.
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And speaking of OSU football, the website SBNation reports that the Beavers are among the teams being considered as a possible transfer destination by Syracuse strong safety Randy McKinnon. Supposedly SMU has the inside edge.
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Interesting story from the Arizona Daily Star on walk-on Arizona basketball player Ross Davidson. His father is ex-OSU football player Jim Davidson, a letterman in the Dee Andros coaching era (1969-1971).
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