Ducks Falter Twice
In Weekend Contests
By .JOE BERGER
and CHRIS CHI BOH
Emerald Sports Writers
The University of Oregon
Docks lost their dominating pos
ition in the race to the regionals
as they fell twice on their own
floor, once to the Vandals from
Idaho and then to Washington
State University. These losses
dropped them one-half game be
hind the pace-setting Oregon
State Beavers.
The Beavers took the lead from
the faltering Ducks by scoring
narrow victories over the same
two squads that proved so rough
for the Webfoots .
IDAHO, coming into McArthur
Court with a lowly 5-13 record,
seemed to have little trouble in
ending the Oregon win streak at
seven games by downing the rag
ged Oregon cagers to the tune of
61 to 57 on Friday.
Saturday night the Cougars
from WSU took over where the
Vandals left off and roared to a
77 to 73 victory ov®r the Ducks,
having complete control of the
situation throughout most of the
game.
Oregon vs. Idaho
A little common sense will tell
you that you can’t win ball games
unless you - get the ball, and
Coach Steve Belko's hoopsters
found out just how true this is
as they allowed Idaho's Vandals
almost complete control of the
backboards in dropping a four
point decision Friday night.
In the first half the spirited
visitors cleared the boards 32
times, while the Ducks managed
to pull down only 14. But in the
closing period things evened out
a little more and the contest end
ed with the final rebound count
standing at 53-35.
THK 4423 avid Oregon support
ers. who weathered the wind and
rain to take in the battle, found
out all too soon that Joe Cipri
ano's boys weren't about to be
defeated by their opponents’ press
clippings. After six minutes of
action Idaho, mainly through the
efforts of Chuck White and Dale
James, a sharpshooting Pendle
tonian. had built up a startling
15-2 lead over the rattled Web
foots.
James awed the fans with his
deadliness as he shouldered most
of the Vandals’ early offensive
duty with soft jump shots from
the head of the key.
But. as if to make up for Ida
ho's unerring ability from the
field, fate had the Ducks just as
cold as their rivals were hot. And
as the rebounding statistics show,
if the home forces missed their
first shot, they just didn't get an
other one.
AFTKR THIS faltering start,
however, the tide began to turn
in favor of the Oregon squad and
the boys came stomping back to
narrow the gap to 21-18 toward
HOOK SHOT—Keg Carolan, Idaho’s 6-6 forward, tries a left
handed hook in front of Oregon’s Glenn Moore and Denny Strick
land. The fine all-around play of the rugged Carolan helped Idaho
defeat the Ducks, 61-57, Friday night at McArthur Court.
UO Swimmers Edge
WSU, Arden Hills
The University of Oregon swim
mers scored two dual meet vic
tories Friday, downing Washing
ton State and Arden Hills Swim
ming Club of Sacramento, Calif
ornia.
The Oregon-WSU meet was
close all the way with the Web
foots coming through in the 400
yard freestyle relay the final
event of the day - to edge the
Cougars 50-45. Oregon defeated
Arden Hills by 58-34.
Oregon edged WSU despite
fine performances by Gary and
Del Chase of the Cougars. Gary
Chase won two events, the 220
individual medley and the 200
backstroke and his brother Del
picked up a win in the 440 free
style, edging out Dick Moody of
Oregon.
Dave Boyd, probably Oregon’s
outstanding swimmer, turned in
another impressive performance.
Boyd won the 100 and 200 free
style sprints and also was a
member of Oregon’s winning re
lay team.
Oregon’s Rick Friberg took div
ing honors with a total score of
255.05 points.
In the Oregon-WSU meet, the
Ducks broke three meet records
and one varsity record while the
Cougars bettered five meet and
two pool records.
When the Webfoots and Arden
Hills met, six meet records were
broken along with one pool rec
ord as Boyd again was a double
winner in record-breaking time in
both of his races.
the latter stages of the half. But
then, still lacking that extra
"something” they displayed
against OSC last weekend, the
Ducks committed a barrage of
costly errors, and by halftime the
eager invaders from the east had
widened their margin to 30-22.
On the prompting of the public
address announcer, the Oregon
rooting section sent their cage
representatives a rousing wel
come as they appeared on the
floor for the second half, and this
wild enthusiasm continued as the
two quintets lined up for the sec
ond half tip-off.
And with the start of action,
it looked like they were out to
make sure they didn't let their
noisy rooters down. Bill Simmons,
Glenn Moore, and Denny Strick
land contributed fielders as the
Ducks came out to knot the score
at 32-all with less than three min
utes gone by.
AFTER A SHORT scoring
standoff, the Webfoots contin
ued their blazing attack, and with
eight minutes to go, they had
their biggest lead of the encount
er. 46-36. But at this point Chuck
White again moved into the pic
ture and helped his teammates
come roaring back to tie the
score at 52-52. And how long did
it take for the Vandals to close
this ten point gap? A little over a
minute!
At the five minute mark White
dropped in a layup to give Idaho
the lead, and from then on they
were never behind. The Ducks
fought gamely for the rest of the
contest, but nothing seemed to go
right for them. As they tried des
perately to break up the Idaho
stall, they were forced time and
again to foul, and then had to
watch helplessly as one of their
deadeye opponents dumped in the
free throws.
White led the point parade in
the contest with 21 counters, all
of which seemed to Oregon fans
to come at the most crucial mom
ents. Warren had 20 for the
Ducks.
Oregon vs. WSU
Some 6,055 fans, many of them
visiting Dads on campus for the
annual Dad’s Weekend, watched
the slipping Ducks complete their
weed-end downfall by taking a
beating from the WSU Cougars.
From the beginning to the end
the-Ducks were not impressive in
any respect, just the opposite of
what they were just a week ago
when they knocked off the OSC
Beavers twice.
CHARLIE WARREN, the man
who has saved the W'ebfoots time
and again from the flames of de
feat, piled up 25 points, but at
the same time missed shots he
normally has no trouble with.
WHITE OVER WARREN—Idaho’* Chuck White leap* In front
of Wehfoot Charlie Warren to grab a rebound. The Vandal*’ con
trol of the hoard* enabled them to heat Oregon, tfl-.11.
The Oregon quint was not even
in the game for more than hulf
of it and Oregon fans will have
to admit the contest was not as
close as the score 77-73 would In
dicate.
Three Cougars. Charlie Sells.
Terry Ball, and Nick August,
proved to be the executioners for
the Webfoots as they compiled 48
points in their combined efforts.
KAI.L TOOK scoring honors
for the victors with 21 points,
most of them coming from the
charity line where he hit 11 of
12 trie*. And unfortunately for
the Duck*, many of them came in
the closing minutes of the con
test when the Oregon athletes
were trying one last desperate
drive to victory.
Tile game was a see saw battle
for the first 10 minutes with each
team taking the lead again and
again. Then, with 4:34 showing
! on the clock in the first half, the
spirited WSU squad started a
(Continued on Poge 7)
Team Statistics
IDAHO
White
Carolan
Maren
James
Gwilliam
Parks
61
fg ft pf tp
9
2
1
6
1
2
3
3
3
6
2
2
August
Ball
Woods
Carlson
Sells
Damon
McKenzie
Dirom
Lemery
5
5
1
0
7
2
0
2
3
3
11
1
1
0
6
4
0
1
4
3
5
4
1
1
WASH. STATE
ig ft
21
7
5
18
4
6
77
Pf ll>
1 13
2 21
0
0
4
5
1
5
1
3
1
14
10
4
4
7
OREGON
Warren
Simmons
Moore
Strickland
Hayes
Kimpton
OREGON
/
Kimpton
Hayes
Strickland
Simmons
Warren
Moore
Knecht
Mack
fg ft
7 6
6
1
5
2
0
3
3
3
9
8
0
0
1
2
1
5
0
57
pf tp
4
2
3
5
5
1
ig ft
0 0
0
7
1
7
6
0
0
20
13
4
11
9
0
73
pf tp
1
4
5
2
5
3
2
0
0
6
13
7
25
22
0
0
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