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Ducks DroD PAC Hoop Openers From AP Reports The Oregon Ducks returned to Eugene Sunday afternoon, the victims of a double blitz, at the hands of L'SC and UCLA in PAC action over the weekend in Los Angeles. Friday night the Ducks were buried 92 66 by powerful South ern Cal and then went across town to Westwood where the de fending NCAA champion UCLA Bruins did the same thing. 97 65 Steve Belko’s young quintet came out a much wiser group if nothing else as the induction in the '66 league play gave them some idea how Southern Califor nia schools play basketball. Against the Trojans, or should it be John Block and the Trojans, the Ducks were never unable to get untracked in the first 20 min utes. Even with the return of Jim Barnett the Ducks seemed wide-eyed and awed at the Tro jan's ability. They were Hat. list class, outclassed by the faster, more poised Trojan squad. Block Uses Moves All-American candidate Block just out-maneuvered and out scored the Ducks. The 6-9 giant from Glendale used fine moves and his height and weight advan tage to ruin any chance t h e ( Ducks had at an upset. Block led all scorers with 24, points, most of them on easy lay ins, and retrieved 10 caroms. The Trojans as a team completely dominated the statistics with a 459 shooting percentage and a big margin in rebounds with 62 to the Ducks' 36. The Ducks shot .367 for the game. The Ducks never led in the contest as the Trojans jumped out to a quick lead on baskets by Dillon and Block and led 7 6. All of a sudden the Ducks couldn't do a thing right and the Trojans went wild with a 12-point spree and hiked the score to 19-6. From there on out it was no contest. The Trojan horse then ran to a 20-point advantage at the half, 4020, and was never headed. Ducks Improve The Ducks played much better in the second half as Barnett, Dave Kafoury. John PinkestaiT. and Bob Craven kept the Ducks from falling into oblivion. Coach Forrest Twogood of SC took out Block with nine minutes left in the same but his reserves continued to hold their own against the slower Ducks and Oregon was content to keep the EMERALD SPORTS Oregon Swimmers Split Tank Meets By GORDON ROSENBERG Sports Writer Oregon’s youthful swimming team gained a split in last week end’s activity, losing to strong Stanford. 65-30. Friday night and coming back to topple California. 51-44, Saturday afternoon. In dominating Friday’s meet, Stanford issued a strong warning that they are ready to vie for the league title this season. “Stanford is much stronger than they w'ere last year,” em phasized Oregon head coach Don Van Rossen. "Their sophomores have really improved their team.” Led by senior captain Bill Schu bach and sophomore sensations Mike W’all and Mark Parmely, the Indians picked up first place in eight of the eleven events. Wall, a veteran of the 1964 Olympic Games, placed first in both the 200- and 500-yard free style events. Parmely took first in the 200 yard medley’and sec ond in the 500-yard freestyle, and Schubach was first in the 200 yard backstroke and swam the opening leg of Stanford’s winning 400-yard medley performance. Greening. Holding Star Sophomore Jay Greening was a stand-out for Oregon, swimming to first place in the 50-yard free style in a time of 22.5. Junior Monty Holding took first in the 200-yard butterfly with a INI Schedule Basketball 3:50—Court 40, Alpha A vs. Sherry Ross A Court 43, Stafford A vs. Young A 4:35—Court 40, Gamma A vs. Counselors A Court 43, Watson A vs. Campbell A 5:15—Court 40, Sigma Phi Ep silon A vs. Beta Theta Pi A Court 43, Sigma Alpha Ep silon A vs. Sigma Chi A Handball 4:00—Burgess vs. Spiller 4:45—Decou vs. Chargers good time of 2:04.8, and sopho more Bruce Hess won the 100 vard freestyle in 51.2. Senior Dave MacKenzie finished a close sec ond in 51.3 seconds. But these performances just weren’t enough to keep the Ducks close to the powerful Indians. “Stanford will be competing with USC for the title this year,” stated coach Van Rossen. Two meet records were broken, both by Stanford performers. Bill Momsen finished the 200-vard breaststroke in 2:18.6, breaking the record set by Stanford's Ilka Suvanto in 1964 by nearly five seconds. “Momsen’s time in the breast stroke is excellent,” stated Van Rossen, “especially for this early in the season.” Record Broken Stanford’s Parmely swam the 200-yard individual medley in 2:05.6 to break another record set last year by Suvanto (2:08.2). The California meet went more favorably for Oregon. It was a tight battle all the way, and wasn’t decided until the last event ended in favor of the Ducks. “I think we had a little first meet jitters against Stanford,” explained Van Rossen. “The boys were much better Saturday.” Van Rossen praised Hess’ “fine performance” in the individual medley. The sophomore from Medford finished first in 2:09.7. He also finished in a tie for first in the 100-yard freestyle at 50.7. But an official decision gave first place to his California opponent Wood Improves Also turning in an improved performance was senior captain Dale Wood, who cut nine seconds off his Friday time in the 500-yard freestyle and three seconds off his 200-yard freestyle time. Wood finished second in both events. “Dale’s improvement is very satisfactory,” stated Van Rossen. “He did well in both events.” Greening captured the 50-yard freestyle again (22.7), and Hold ing easily won the 200-yard but terfly again (2:08.2). (Continued on page 5) Sports Car Service 75 Years in Servicing Cars IMPORTED CARS ONLY Service from Lube and Oil to Major Overhaul 3998 Franklin 726-7681 score as respectable as they, could. For the Ducks, Barnett, s o r e , finger and all, led the scorers j with 16 points followed by Ka foury with 13, PinkstafT with 11. and Craven with 10. Craven seem ed to play one of his best games for the Ducks as he rebounded well against his taller and quick er opponents. However, this was i not enough to offset the Trojans blistering attack. Besides Block, Harvey Dillon. Bill Westphal. and Doug Bolcom were in double figures for the Trojans who showed a well rounded attack. UCLA Saturday night the Ducks be came the Bruin’s 35th consecutive PAC victim. The Ducks have not beaten UCLA since 19™ The Ducks were no match for the fired up Bruins, who took u minutes in the first half to nin in) a 25 point lead and then hold the Ducks at bay for the rest of the game, except for a brief in terval after intermission when the Ducks got within 10 at -17 The same game pattern devel oped as the previous night against SC. The Ducks just couldn't gel untracked to make an attempt at an offensive attack In fact, the Ducks hit only two Held goals in the first 12 minutes, one by Ka foury and the other by I’ink stall. , Again the only bright spot for the Ducks was Barnett, the game's leading scorer, but he got absolutely no imp «rom the n-st of his tfain and the result was the same, a humiliating loss, 0765 The Bruins were faster, taller, better play makers, and just run the poor Ducks Into the new door at Pauley i’avillion l.ynn l ends Bruins UCLA was led by forward Mike Lynn who tallied 20 points How ever. a lot of balanced scoring was right behind with Kenny Washington getting IB. Kdgar I.a cey IB, Mike Warren 15, ami Fred die (Joss 13 For the game the Ducks shot a respectable 35 per cent hut the Bruins were even better at -to per cent On the boards the Ducks were completely outclasses! as the taller Bruins held a substantial margin in that department Wrestlers Stop Huskies By RANDE WILMARTII Sports Editor Oregon wrestlers nabbed their first dual meet win of the season Saturday night in McArthur Court—thanks to a 15-12 loss the night before to Western Wash ington. Washington’s Huskies fell to the Ducks by a huge 41 0 margin and caused new varsity head coach Art Keith to remark: "That first match Friday night helped a lot. For most of the team it was the first match of the season It was a good one to get under our belts." The Washington win was also the first victory for Keith in his collegiate coaching career: he's been tutoring the Ducks officially since Thursday after a successful nine years in prep coaching ranks. And, according to Keith, the Oregon grapplers looked much better 24 hours later in the Husky match. “Washington wasn’t near ly as tough as Western Washing ton but we were shooting more and weren’t being controlled from underneath as much.” Keith Pleased Keith added that he was also pleased with the Ducks’ ability to get underneath the opposing wrestlers on tries for takedowns Four Webfoots gained victories during both matches. Curt Scott, a 137-pounder, nabbed 5-3 and 17-2 decisions. “I was real pleased : with Scott,” said Keith. Scott picked up three takedowns and a couple of near falls Saturday in his big win over Washington’s Dan Smoots. Although 160-pound Craig Cas ter of Oregon officially won one match by decision and the other by a forfeit—one of four forfeits the Huskies surrendered — he wrestled an exhibition bout against a Washington opponent and gained one of four falls pick ed up by the Ducks Saturday night. After scoring a 6-4 decision against Western on a switch re versal in the third round, Caster used a three-quarter nelson on a takedown in his exhibition match against Washington to set up a fall at 4:33. “Caster looked real good,” mentioned Keith. Bruce Glenn, 177, and Bob Mil chell. 1(57, also picked up a pair of victories apiece in the two meets, each winning by fall in the W ashington meet Mitchell, a defending AAWU champion, put together two re versals and two riding time points for a 6 2 decision over Western's Harry Smith, and then wrapped up his weekend competition with a pin at 7 25 over Washington’s Charles Locke Mitchell was lead ing 7 2 at the time. Wins by Falls Glenn controlled both of his matches, scoring a 14-3 victory Friday and a fail in the second round Saturday "Bruce looked good,” added Keith Although I) tick heavyweight Bob Lawrence split a pair of bouts, Keith seemed quite happy with the sophomore's perform ance. "I was real pleased with Lawrence. I like a big guy who can move and he competed real well He hasn't had much prac time " Lawrence lost a 5-2 decision to Western Washington’* Terry Lane after Lane reversed Lawrence early tn the final round of their match But Lawrence's Husky opponent, Jerry Houde. was no match for the Duck grappler as Lawrence held a 5 0 advanta when he gained his pin at 5:31 One aspect of the Washington meet pleased Keith and that was takedowns There were a lot more takedowns,” the coach said "They hustled and worked hard " Statistics point this out as six oi nine Oregon grappler* gained at least one TI> Saturday, while only three Ducks could pick one up a day earlier. The only other win for Keith's crew over the weekend went to 152 pound sophomore Steffen Criner, who nabbed a 11-6 deci sion over Washington's Dale Har less. 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