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Softball success highlights need for Howe Field facelift.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-APR-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Softball success highlights need for Howe Field facelift.(Columns)(Column)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Ron Bellamy / The Register-Guard

In five years, perhaps we'll look back on last weekend as a milestone in the evolution of the Oregon softball program, a turning point with an unexpected impact.

On Saturday, a throng of more than 1,000 fans watched the feisty Ducks take on No. 1 Arizona; given the bad sight lines in the Howe Field stands caused by the errantly designed dugouts, it was realistically a standing-room-only crowd.

Oregon lost that game, but still almost 800 fans were there Sunday, when the Ducks defeated the Wildcats, 1-0, on Ashley Richards' walk-off homer in the eighth.

"The atmosphere on Saturday and Sunday was...

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