Ducks Win First Game
In Two Extra Periods
Oregon's never - say - die
Ducks forced Oregon State in
to a showdown battle for the
Northern Division champion
ship when they scored a spine
tingling M-fjO win over the Hea
vers iira double overtime thril
ler at McArthur Court Friday
evening.
Mill Horcher’s W e b f o o t s,
fighting an uphill battle moat of
the way against their favored
opponenta, pulled the game out of
the fire In the second overtime
period of this gigantic battle
which left fans limp in their
seats from the excitement. With
the score tied at 58-al! and a little
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FRIDAY RESULTS
At Ofrgofi 6.1, OSI* 60.
At I‘i«»ho 74, \Ya«hm|(lnn 66.
SATURDAY RESULTS
At OSC* 55, Oregon 46.
At I'iiibo 77, WiinhmKlU’ti 76.
Ipm.h than thre^c* rntnuU*# remaining,
;uani Barney Hoilaw! put the
Ducks ahead to stay with a neat
Jump shot from the key. One min
ute later Howard Page pushed
home two free tosses on a foul
by the Beavers' Jay Dean and with
only f>8 seconds remaining Holland
connected on one of two charity
attempts.
This flurry of points by the
Webfoota put the game on ice at
63-58. Two last second free throws
by Wade Halbrook were only in
cidental to the final outcome of
the tussle.
Wegner Save* Came
Before this final Duck drive It
was anybody's guess who would
come out on top In this ‘Civil
War’ content between the two bit
ter rivals from the state of Ore
gon. Captain Kenny Wegner saved
his Oregon teammates from the
depths of defeat with only three
seconds remaining in the fourth
canto when he pitched in a 25-foot
jump shot through the hoop from
in front of the key. Wegner’s
last gasp goal tied up the? ball
game at 51-51 and made necessary
the extra period play.
Oregon took command in the
first overtime session and looked
to have the game In the bag with
a 56-54 lead with less than a min
ute left to play. But Hal brook
squelched this with 3 seconds to
go as he rebounded his own missed
free throw.
llalbrook’s tip-in tied the count
at 50-all and set the stage for the
dramatic second overtime period.
Close All the Way
The game was close all the way
with neither team being able to
take a commanding lead. Oregon
State grabbed the Initial advan
tage and ran up a 7-1 lead early in
the fracas and was ahead 11-7 at
the end of the first quarter.
The Orangemen continued to
add to their lead early in the sec
ond stanza and st one time they
pushed theip-Wad to seven points,
19-9. Tpia was the biggest margin
that Cither team possessed during
the entire game and seemed to
serve as a signal for the Oregons
to put on a rally. Paced by Hol
land, Wegner, and Ed Halberg,
the Ducks scored 10 straight
points in a little over two minutes
of action and, as a result, pushed
into a 19-16 lead.
Oregon stayed in front until Jay
Dean put the Beavers back to the
fore, 25-24, with six seconds left
in the first hulf. With only one
second remaining until the inter
mission Tex Whiteman cashed in
on a foul toss to give his team a
2G-24 halftime lead.
The teams see-sawed back and
forth in the third period with first
one getting the advantage and
then the other. At the conclusion
of the third ten minute session the
visitors from Corvallis were lead
ing by a 41-38 score.
Ducks Catch Up
Oregon erased this deficit early
in the final quarter when Page hit
with a long one-hander and Ilal
berg hit a free throw to tie the
I count, 43-43. OSC went In front
"gain on a tlp-ln by Whiteman but
with only 4:53 remaining' in the
game Page hit a jumper to tie
it up once more at 48 apiece.
Dean nut the Giilmen ahead
48-40 with a puaher from the foul
circle but Wegner equalized this
aa he looped one home from the
aide. With a minute and a half
to go Whiteman connected on a
hook shot and one minute later
flalberg and Dean traded free
throws to make the score 51-49 in
favor of Oregon State. Then came
Wegner’s heart-stopping Kwiaher.
Leading the victorious Ducks in
scoring was Halberg with 17
i points. He was well seconded by
i Holland with 18 and Wegner with
15. For the Beavers, Halbrook had
28 and Dean 1C.
The line-ups follow:
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VLASTEUCA HITS 12
Beavers Grab N D Crown
It took Oregon State coach,
Slatft Gil), an entire season to see
it, hut, in the final Northern Di
vision basketball game of the year
for the Beavers, the veteran
Orange tutor discovered that his
team could play good ball without
their towering center, Swede Hal
brook.
Early in the third quarter, with
Oregon's Ducks on the long end of
a 27-25 score, Gill decided to give
his "big boy” a rest. He inserted
reserve Tony Vlastelica in his
place and hook-shooting Tony re
sponded like a true champion by
leading his team to a clutch 55-46
win over the determined Webfoots.
Vlastelica had only been in the
game some 45 seconds when he
wiggled loose under the basket,
and looped one home to tie the
score at 27-all. With Oregon State
rooters all over Gill Coliseum yell
ing their lungs out with joy, Tony
swished a beautiful hook shot to
put the Beavers ahead 31-29. These
two shots changed the whole
! complexion of the tussle.
The Beavers, after once pulling
; into the lead, were not to be de
nied. This win was to mean the
; championship for the Corvallis
bombers and they decided it was
time to take home all the marbles.
The Beavers led 43-33 at the third
period rent stop.
Ducks (tally
The Ducks, seeing their last
championship chances floating out
the back window, tried gamely in
the final ten minute session to j
pull back into the game but it just!
wasn t to be on this particular \
night. A driving field goal by Max
Anderson with four minutes re
maining in the fray pulled the
Eugene lads to within four points
of their opponents at 47-43 but
this was the high water mark for J
Oregon.
The first half of the game was
much like the Friday night game.
OSC grabber] the lead right at the
start and led at the first rest
stop 14-12. With only two minutes
remaining until halftime they were
still in front 2 -16.
Oregon Leads at Half
Oregon came to life at this point
and on a basket and free throw by
Holland and the same by Anderson
the Ducks pulled into a 22-21 in
termission Fad.
Ed Halberg started the second
half with an Oregon field goal but
Toole matched it for the Gill net
ters. Jerry Ross collected on a
Beaver foul* and added a niffy
jump slant. from the side which wf?«s
almost duplicated by a jump shot
by Dean. This made the score £7
25 for the Ducks and set the stago
for the Beavers’ donnybrook rally.
Oregon (46) (55) Oregon State
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