Beavers Beat Ducks By Sam Vahey Emerald Sport* Editor Oregon ended its 1952-53 *tfasket'f>all season on a sour •note Saturday night on the fa aniliar maple of McArthur court, dropping the contest -that could have given them sole possession of second place the Northern Division and ■that could have given them a winning percentage, for the whole season. The defeat, coupled with the Idaho reversal put the Ducks in FINAL ND STANDINGS Washitigtdr. .15 I .^.'S <>RIZOO*i . 9 ft .500 ■♦ini'. . 8 ft- .500 Oicgon- Staff . 6- la. ..os ft* ■ .h-fign-r' Stare . 3 13 .188 FRIDAY'S RESULTS OTtECaK 74. at Oregon State.-?*. Vv ashttagtor. 04. at Idaho, 04. SATURDAY’S RESULTS Ob*>p State ;,t Oregon 55. Washington 1.1. at Idaho, 5J. •fi final tie with the Vandals for ■the runner-up position on the ND "♦'wider. Both squads had 8 and- 8 wracks. It also marked the end of the ^regular basketball season for the locals who ended up with an overall mark of 14 wins and a Idee number of losses, Alohg with the aforementioned items, the Webfoots also lost their chance of having possession of the coveted Chancellor's cup. which -a£oes to the winner of the best out of four Oregor.-OSC games. A victory on the final night would tin ve earned at least half a year's “tern-ping of the trophy. Record Breaking About the only consolation of the ■ night was the fact that it ended e. season of offensive record break ing unequalled by any previous dhvick outfit. The season's point total estab lished a new Oregon ND scoring r RON ROBINS 1UM (LitSlMdlA OSCI stars BrraK Oregon's tsarK mark; the team shooting average was also a top performance. Chet Noe. brilliant Oregon center, blasted marks in school and ND scoring books and tied and set two new division rebound records. Ducks Ahead — at First As for the game. Oregon started off, intent on chasing the Beavers home on the short end of a lop sided count Oregon stayed ahead until four minutes remained in the third quarter, at which time Ted Romanoff tipped in a rebound to send the winners out front to stay. The We'ofoots threatened to re gain the advantage in the last | canto and, due mostly to the ei> 1 forts of Noe, tied the ball game up J two more times. But when the | game boiled down to the wire, Tony Vlastelica. Ron Robins and Beaver crowd were ahead by four and nothing the Ducks could do couid break up the effective OSC stall. Kenny Wegner amassed eleven points in the first half of the fray to partially lead the Ducks (Please turn to page five) Webfoots Drop First Tilt at Corvallis, 75-74 Giii Coliseum, Corvallis—Tony Vlastelica. who came off the OSC - in the third quarter after -rifting out the first half of the with a back injury, broke 4be- Oregon Ducks’ back by con necting on a free throw in the final six. minutes of the overtime period ~td earn his Orange and Black •"irate's a 75-74 edge in the first of weekend games Friday night. -tJitfcle Ron- Robins only five min Aitis--earlier had pulled the game ■out of the fire for the Beavers with ■*> 75 foot set shot that deadlocked -4he- score, with three seconds left *4^-411 e-regulation distance: Oregon's Webfoots had pre vwijgly fought* an nphill battle -after a slow start and had gone •ahead by three points at one spot 'dsfe in the fourth period, 68-65, -tavjstly on the strength of a ! Whirling book by Hank Bonne «*nana, -Vlastelica closed the gap with a •a ctaliation hook shot, but Barney/ ♦toUand came through with a free 4-oas to-separate the two quints by <4*vo~ points again. This set the -•stage for Robin's long, game-sav •aug-set-. shot. ^Oregon. drew first blood in the -overtime period om a gifter by i4Kftfr.tr >. Farcam, but the pesky Rob dfeifi draped the Oregons behind by -one with another long field goal. "Bill Toole made two free toss -ufi for the Corvallis crew, aod «*»i.oraents later Vlastelica added another one pointer. Oregon "bought back to a tie with a sln .KgfStOb by Holland and Ed Hal <*»erg, and a long pusher by Bob out. The Beavers gambled on a last lanoment shaft at the basket and at to stall. Vlastelica drew a -doul-dn the: final six seconds, how-' ever, and made good on one out his two shots. Big Chet Noe was top Oregon scorer before fouling out in the last period. The lanky center dropped in 27 points for high point honors. OREGON 74 (g ft tp Halberg, f 2 3 7 Farnazn, f 0 3 3 Noe.c 7 13 27 Wegner, g 5 2 12 Holland, g 4 6 14 Stout, f 2 1 5 Hawes, f 2 0 4 ■Bonnemaiin.c 10 2 Oregon State 75 *'g h tp Jar1»oe, f 4 4 12 Romanoff, f 3 0 6 Sugrue, c 6 4 lo Roliins, g 8 2 18 Toole, g 2 7 11 Iialligun, (10 2 Edwards, f Oil Vlastelica, c 2 5 9 -23 28 74 Totals- 26 23 75 Totals Duck Bowlers Defeat Staters University of Oregon’s bowling team got some revenge over the OSC Beavers over the weekend, sweeping all four matches in a home and home series. Oregon's six varsity men keg lers, Leo Naapi, George Troeh, Jim Ekstrom, Don Hannu. Norm Roecker and Sam Sorenson, all turned in over 500 series in the Friday meet and Naapi lead the group with a high 601. His three sets were 191, 198, and 212. Score of this match, rolled in Coivaliis, was 2,799-2,450. The next day, Coach Louis Bel lisimo experimented with a squau consisting of only seniors and the Webfoot alleymen still won, 2,516 2-494. On this team were Champ Husted, Steve Cannon, Jerry Shaw, Dick Graham and Bruce Koppe. Only one of these fellows dropped below the 500 mark. Hal Green turned in the top to tal for Oregon State with 202, 183 and 206 for a 591 series. Oregon's gal bowlers fared equally well winning at Corvallis, 2,081-2,031, and at Eugene, 2.15G 1818. Top series was rolled by Mary Brooks, who knocked down 469, high for women Others on the traveling team were Jean Mangan, Jane Hande, Marilyn Jaehnke, Donna Donahue and Betty-Coe Ekstrom. All of the Saturday's totals were in the 400’s. Betty Ann Garner and Norma Munie were added to the team for the final round. The men’s varsity squad, in preparation for the Northwest Re gional tournament, April 10, will have a practice match with the Faculty All-Stars this Saturday. MURAL CHAMPS French Hall Defeats Phi Delts for Crown French hall, sporting a non-tir ing team of ex-prep stars, became the second frosh dorm in as many years to capture the A intramur al basketball title. The French men Jumped to an early lead over the runner-up Phi Delts last Fri day und went on to win easily, 53-37. The winners were slightly press ed in the third quarter when the margin closed to three points, but led by IM All-Star Lloyd Lewis and Harry Johnson, the younger team jumped back into a 40 34 command going into the last frame. Ironiuen Five The starting French five, Ray Bell, Lewis, Johnson, Jerry Ross and Dick Pavlat lasted almost the entire route and could have kept up the pace for the whole game had they not been relieved when ! the game was in the bag. After At Mumlle put the l*hl Delts into a temporary 2-0 lead at the opening of the game, the French hall crew poured 12 straight points through the hoop. Lewis contributed five, and ltoss countered seven in this siege. At the termination of the period French was on lop by a one sided 16-1! count. Ross and Bell were a two-man destruction duo for the winners in the next frame and before the Phi Delts could get set, the frosh had extended the margin to 16 points. When Ross wasn’t driving through for lay-ups, Bell was con Meeting on howitzers from -10 feet out. Subs Lead I’lli Dells Neal Marlett and Nick Schmer came into the contest for the los ers midway through the quarter and succeeded in spaiking their Phi Delt mates to a rally. Dimin utive guard Schmer made three set shots in a like number of at tempts and Marlett added a jump er and a lay-in, pulling the Phi Delta to within 12 at the half, 31-19. As the last half opened It was the French team that was asleep at the switch and led by aforementioned Marlett the trailers retaliated on three quirk field goals. French picked up three points, but not before Phi Delta Theta had come up to within four counters. It looked like the fraternity squad was going to repeat pre vious comeback performances when the score was closed to 35-32, but this time French revived and was never again threatened. Ross made 19 points for the tri umphant five, followed closely by Bell who picked up 14. Marlett led the Phi Delts with 11. Plii Delts (37) (53) French Wagner, 2.F 14, Bell Albright, 2 .F 7. Lewis Livesay, 2 C 8, Johnson Lewis, 1 . G 19. Ross Mundle, 4 .G 6. Pavlat Scoring subs: for Phi Delts - Hendrickson, 2; Holt, 4; Schmer, 9: and Marlett 11. Freshmen Hoopsters Defeat Stars In High Scoring Prelim Contest By Rodney Morrison Oregon’s Ducklings, paced by Gary McManus with 21 points coasted to an 84-05 decision over the intramural all-star team in the preliminary to the Oregon-Orcgon State encounter Satuiday night in McArthur court. The Frosh held a 15-6 first pe riod lead but the All-Stars nar rowed the gap to three points, 30 -27, at halftime. The All-Stars trailed 55 to 56 going into the final canto but the frosh paced by McManus and Don Porter domin ated the final period. Jerry Ross paced the All-Stars with 20 points. Loyd Lewis, Ross’ team mate from the intramural champion team of French hall, ac counted for 17 markers. f ND SECOND IN ND Ducks Drop One. Win Two Although Oregon lost to Wash ington university for the Northern Division -swimming dual meet championship on Friday, the Ducks came back the next day to win two meets, one from Western Wash ington College of Education, 52-32, and the other from the University