Beavers Defeat Ducks Twice
Oregon 8 Ducks face a long up
hill battle In the second half of
the Northern Division basket
hall race after losing two heart
breaking decisions to the league
leading Oregon State Beavers
Friday and Saturday.
Friday night, at Kugene it was
the deadly shooting of OSC's
fabulous Tony Vlastellca that
gave the Heavers a 56-53 win
after Oregon had put on a late
rally to nearly catch their rivals
from Corvallis.
The following evening In the
Oregon State coliseum, the
Ducks came even closer as the
game ended in a 52-52 tie after
the regulation 40 minutes. Hut
the Beavers’ Ron Itobins sank
a two-hander from the corner
with five seconds left in the over- !
time to edge the Webfoots, 58-54,
and give the Orangemen a sweep
of the two-game series.
Beavers 56, Ducks 53
It was a case of too much |
Tony Vlastellca plus some fine
Hhooling by the whole Oregon
State squad Friday night in Mc
Arthur court as the Beavers
staved off an Oregon rally to
win by three points. Vlastellca
was firing them in from all over
the court, with hook shots, push
ers. and lay-ins, all contributing ,
to his 24 points for the night.
The star OSC forward got
nine baskets in 111 attempts
as neither the Ducks' Kay Bel!
nor Jerry Ross could put a stop
to his deudoye dunking. Me
Mas so much the Beaver leader
that Tex Whiteman's seven
points was the closest any of
the other Ktuters could come
to his total.
Th«- game started out as an
Oregon State romp and It was
three and one-half minutes be
fore Jim Loscutoff got Oregon’s
first points on a driving lay-in.
Tlie Ducks kept pace with the
Beavers for three minutes and
then rallied, catching up at 11-11
on Kay Bell's free throw.
The lead changed hands four
times in the next six minutes but
the Beavers put on a bally on a
lay-in and a hook shot by Vlaste
llca plus a pusher by Jay Dean
to take a five-point lead with
1:45 left in the half. The Ducks
came back to get four points be
fore the horn to trail 27-28 at
intermission.
For the first 10 minutes In
the second period it looked
like a Beaver runaway as Vlas
telica scored II points to lend
Coach Slats Gill’s crew to a
50-38 bulge with 9:16 left. At
that point the Ducks woke up,
scoring 10 points In the next
three minutes while holding
OSC scoreless to bring down
their deficit to two points at
50-48.
After trading baskets, Oregon
got within one point of the Bea
vers when Bell sank both free
throws on a foul by Bill Toole.
At that point, however, Gill sent
Beavers Extend
Division Lead
Oregon State and Oregon con
tinued in their 1-2 positions as a
result of Northern Division play
over the weekend, with Washing
ton State moving up to knot
Washington for third place.
The Beavers increased their
perfect record with 56-53 and
56-54 wins over Oregon, while
the Huskies and Cougars split a
Pullman series. The UW five won
69-38 and then lost a 74-73 de
cision.
Slats Gill’s Beavers now main
tain a 6-0 mark ahead of Ore
gon's 5-3. Washington and Wash
ington State are pegged at 2-4
and 3-6 respectively and Idaho
has a 1-4 slate.
in hi« flint ball-handle™ to stall
out the game and Johnny Jorbae
clinched the Beaver win with two
free throws on a foul by Jerry
Kokh with only 15 seconds left.
OSC shot a terrific .579 from
the floor in the second half as
they took 19 shots at the basket
and made 11 good. They finished
the contest wrth a .396 average
compared to Oregon's even .300,
including a mediocre .286 aver
age in the vital second half.
For one of the few times in
recent Oregon-OSC games none
fouled out. The crowd of 10,321
set a new McArthur court record.
OREGON (53)
Itrll, (
1 .own toff, f
M. A wler»un, c
McHugh, g
Page. g
Mu..,
If. AmlrrMiti, g
Total*
OSC (56)
llran, f
Vla.tci.ca, f
•Shadoin, c .
Muhina, g
Panina, f
Afford. I
Whitctnan, c ..
Hall.gan g
Twite, g
larltor, g
Funiiing.tan.l, g
Total.
FG FT PF TP
.3 7 2 IJ
5 1. 3 11
3 2 3 S
.3 4 2 10
2 2 4 6
2 1 2 5
.0 0 0 0
18 17 16 53
FG FT PF TP
2
. 9
0
.. 2
2
0
3
2
1
0
0
21
0
6
4
0
0
0
1
0
1
2
0
14
4
24
4
17
4
4
0
7
4
3
2
0
56
Beavers 56, Ducks 54
Hon Hoblns' high-arching two
hander swished through the bas
ket from the corner with less
than five seconds left in the five
minute overtime period Saturday
night to give OSC its second win
in as close a game as has ever
been played in Oregon.
The game had ended in a tie
when Vlastclica canned an un
derhanded layup with 1:23 re
maining of the regulation 40 to
give each team 52 points. Ore
gon Guard Howard Page had a
chance to put the Ducks ahead
with less than a minute remain
ing as he waa fouled by Toole
of the Beavers but missed both
tosses.
In the dying seconds of the
game, Toole held the hall out
front with the score tied for
the Beavers to take one last
shot at the basket before the
horn. With five seconds left
he passed it to Vlastrltca in
the right corner who fired one
of his specialty hooks, but It
bounced off the rim to send the
Kimr into uvi'riimr.
Oregon got the tip when the
overtime period began but got
only one shot at the basket be
fore the Beavers grabbed the
ball and raced downcourt with
Vlastellca putting them ahead
with another layup with 4:05 left.
A minute later Jim Loscutoff
caged a jump shot from the key
to tie it up for the Ducks.
The Webfoota got only one
more shot at the basket and
missed it as OSC started hanging
onto the ball with two minutes
left and kept it until those final
seconds which saw Robins, the
hero, with his game-winning
bucket.
Actually the Ducks lost the
game on free throws with the
team displaying one of the poor
est shooting eyes from the foul
line this season. The anxious
Ducks fired 30 times from the
charity ma.k and got only 10
to go in while outscoring their
opponents from the floor, 22
baskets to 19.
Aside from their poor shooting
from the free throw line, Oregon
was ahead in nearly every de
partment. They took more shots
and made more baskets and had
fewer personal fouls than the
Beavers. Jim Loscutoff was high
point man for the game with 20,
one ahead of Vlastelica’s 19 to
tal.
For the second night In a
row, the Webfoots out rebound
ed the Orangemen, with a fat
50-38 margin in swipes for the
Saturday night game. Los
OKfXiO.VH JERKY ROS8 (40) hooks in a two-pointer for the Ducks in Friday night's game at
McArthur court, won by the Beavers, 56-53. Making a vain effort to check the shot are Reggie
Haliigan (18) and Tex Whiteman (20) of the Staters.
cutoff Increased hh league
leadership In the rebound de
partment with 18 in Saturday’s
game, more than twice as
many as any Beaver could col
i lect, and a total of S3 for the
series, compared to OSC star
backboard man day Dean’s 18.
Oregon State again came out
on top in shooting Saturday as
the deadeye Beavers racked up
a .432 average for the game to
the Webfoots' .361. Gill’s league
j leaders' had a .455 average for
I the first half and continued their
string of not having shot less
than .400 in six conference
games.
There were two other notable
points in Saturday's contest.
OSC Center Swede Halbrook was
reinstated by Gill Saturday after
he promised to be good again
and got to play briefly against
the Webfoots, but contributed
nothing to the winner's cause
save a lone free throw. And the
crowd of 11,315 that jammed the
Coliseum was the biggest one
ever in the state of Oregon.
Oregon (54)
Ross, { .
Loscutoff. f .
Anderson, c
Page, k
McHugh, g ..
Bell, f .
Bingham, f
Totals .
FG FT PF TP
.2 0 4 4
9 2 3 20
10 2 2
4 2 3 10
.3 1 2 7
.1 3 3 5
.2 2 1 b
22 10 18 54
OSC (58)
Dean, ( .
Vlastelica, f .
Shadoin, c .
Robins, g ...
Paulus, g
Whiteman, c
Toole, g .
Fuudingslattd, g
Halligan, f ..
Jarboe. g
Halbrooks, c .
Totals .
FG FT PF TP
1 0 5 2
5 9 2 19
1 0 0 2
.3 4 2 10
. 1 0 2 2
0 3 1 3
..2 1 2 5
. 0 0 1 0
.5 0 4 10
1 0 2 2
. 0 1 3 1
19 18 24 56
Sports Staff
Desk Editor: Allen Johnson.
Staff: Jerry Claussen, Jerry
Olson, Don Lovett, Jack Wilson.
Frosh Hoopers Beaten
Twice By OSC Rooks
Oregon State's talented Rooks
scored with regularity both Fri
day and Saturday nights and
hung up 61-47 and 66-53 wins
over the Oregon Frosh.
Coach Paul Valenti’s Rooks
used superior height to advan
tage, with 6' 8" Wayne Moss and
6' 6” Dave Gambee carrying the
scoring burden. Moss had 21 for
the series and Gambee scored 38.
Rooks 61, Frosh 47
A frigid Oregon second half
gave the Oregon State Rooks a
chance to overcome a first-half
Duckling lead and coast to a
61-47 win Friday at McArthur
court. The loss saw Oregon’s
high-scoring Paul Tuchardt held
to eight points, his lowest total
of the season.
Rook Center Wayne Moss had
17 for high point honors, and
Forward Dave Gambee was close
behind with 15, six points off his
season’s average of 21.
Don Kirsch’s Ducklings led
30-26 at the halfway mark, due
primarily to the efforts of
Tuchardt, who got all of his
points in that period, and Wendy
Rasor, who hit for ten of his 12.
As the second half opened,
scoring fell into a two-and-a
half-minute doldrum before Ra
sor tallied to break the ice. But
the well-balanced Rook attack
began to roll, and with 6' 8”
Wayne Moss tipping in four
stray shots, the visitors piled up
a fast ten-point lead and held on
to win.
The lead changed hands sev
eral times in the first half. Ore
gon controlled the tip, and Wimp
Hastings executed a beautiful
driving lay-in to start the scor
ing. But three OSC field goal3
and a charity toss made it 7-2
for the Rooks before the Duck
ling marksmen went back to
work.
Rooks 66, Frosh 53
Once again led by the fine
shooting of big Dave Gambee,
the OSC Rooks took their sec
and straight game Saturday at
Corvallis from Don Kirsch’s
Oregon freshman squad.
After an early 15-15 tie, the
Rooks began to pull away and
were never headed. Gambee and
Guard Gordy Carrigan led the
attack.
A second period rally brought
the Ducklings from a 50-38 de
ficit to a five-point margin at
56-51, but Gambee and Carrigan
combined with three baskets to
up the Rook lead.
Wendy Rasor sparked the
Frosh early in the game with
three driving layins, with the
game being tied six times and
twice the Frosh leading.
Gambee’s 23 tallies led OSC,
followed by Carrigan’s 19. Paul
Tuchardt counted 18 t« lead
Oregon, and Rasor registered 12
IM Schedule
Monday
Basketball
3:50 Phi Delta Theta B vs. Sig
ma Nu B, court 40.
4:35 Sigma Chi B vs. Delta Up
silon B, court 40.
5:15 Beta Theta Pi B vs. Delta
Tau Delta B, court 40.
Handball
4:00 Beta Theta Pi vs. Sigma
Nu, courts 42, 44, 46.