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Beavers, Ducks Split Hoop Series JOHN FRANZ “Best of His Career” By PAUL POLSKY Associate Sports Editor It's all tied up at one apiece and so the weekend comes out a draw between the Beavers and the Ducks. The weekend series was one of the wildest in the cage history of the two teams as Oregon State dominated Friday night's game at Corvallis, winning 62-46, but coach Steve Belko's lighting Ore gon warriors came back before the home folks and a west coast television audience to dump the Beavers, 61-60. Both nights, the fans played an important role in the game as the home team seemed to have a decided advantage. At Gill Coliseum the Ducks were unable to get going from the beginning and the large crowd of 10.011 just rode them into the hardwood floor. Then Saturday afternoon the Ducks with the television crowd and their own home fans car ried the game from the Beavers slow, control type ofTense to run and shoot, mixing a devastat ing confusion zone defense in the last half to shatter the Beaver hopes of coming from behind and winning. Only Seven Points The Ducks were never in the game at Corvallis after the first ten minutes. They could garner only a measly seven points through that time and then had only eight with 5:27 remaining. The board play was the biggest factor in the Duck's downfall as Freshmen Teams Suffer Defeats By DAVE BAROXTI Sports Writer Winning coaches may not like to think about the law of aver age* but it's still there — and the Oregon freshman teams seemed to have been victimized by it over the weekend. A couple weeks ago, the frosh were in action three times, and won three close games. Last week they had three more close ones . . . and the Ducklings did not win once. The basketball game at Corval lis Friday night—won 40-37 by the Oregon State Rooks—set the pace. At intermission, the Bea vers were leading 21-17, mostly as a result of the steady out side shooting of State’s Vince Fritz, who wound up with a game high of 18 points. However, a pressing by the Frosh put the Ducklings back on top at several points in the sec ond half—the final time being 35 34 with less than two minutes left. Then ball-control came back to plague the Ducks. After the Beavers regained the lead at 36 35, the Frosh had three chances to go ahead—but gave up the ball on turnovers each time. Three-Point Lead The Rooks capitalized, and with less than a minute to play, the Ducklings were trailing 38-35. A basket by Rick Abrahamson with 30 seconds left pulled the mar gin back to one—and the Beav ers had only to play keep-aw'ay. In a desperate effort to get the ball, Oregon fouled Elliott Levin with five seconds remaining. Le vin sank the free throws and that was the game. The following afternoon the two teams met again in Eugene The first-half was a little more successful than the one the pre vious night as the Frosh abandon ed their ball-control antics and managed a 28-28 deadlock. Then Fritz came back to haunt the Ducklings. The highly-touted Beaver prospect hit for 10 of his eventual 20 points in the opening minutes of the second half, and the Rooks took it in from there. Final score was 60 50. High man for the Frosh both sessions was guard Rick Abraham son with 18 and 16 points respec tively. Wrestlers Tie The Duckling wrestlers manag ed a tie with visiting Portland State immediately after the final Frosh-Rook contest . . . but, ac cording to at least one partcipant, “it may as well have been a loss.” Oregon could win only two of the seven matches. The final score resulted only because the visi tors had to forfeit three weights. “Portland State’s tough,” said coach Art Keith after the match. "But we could have been tougher ourselves. Boy, we’ve got to get ourselves in shape.” He was pleased with his only two winners. “John Fraelich did a good job at 168. He was aggres sive and went in there and got the takedown. Nick Shur, our heavy weight, also looked good.” Next weekend, the two teams meet again, this time in Portland. LAST CHANCE to ask that DATE to the FROSH SNOBALL FEB. 29 —9-12 Semi-Formal — S.U. Ballroom DATES DATES DATES DATES they had only one offensive carom in the first 10 minutes and only a few more defensive. Meantime the Beavers were dumping in shots from all over and had a 2810 lead at the hulf. The Ducks made a couple of runs at the hosts in the second half but were unable to sustain a drive. The tough OSU defense and their own ineptness on the boards kept the Ducks out of range. At one point the Ducks did manage to get within eight of the Beavers but a three point play by Scott Eaton and a jump shot by l,oy Petersen put the home team out of range. High point man for the win ners was Petersen, the fine sopho more transfer from Pepperdine A A College in I .os Angeles with 15, followed by Charlie White with 13, Scott Eaton with 11, ami Rich Whelan with 10. Itarnett (lets 13 The Duck's scoring, or what there was of it, was divided be tween Jiin Harnett with 13, Bill Jennings, who played extremely well in the second half after coming olT the bench with 12, and Nick Jones with 10 The re maining 11 points were distrib utcd among Don DuShane, John PinkstalT, Dave Kafoury and Bill Thomas. In the all important rebound department where the game was actually won. the Ducks had only 27 compared to 38 for the Heav ers The Ducks got hurt worst when the Beavers were able to JV X w *-* *"» Coaches Express Game Happiness By PAUL POLSKY Associate Sports Kditor Coaches Paul Valenti of the OSU Beavers and Steve Belko of the Oregon Ducks both express ed happiness in their teams’ per formances after the squads split the weekend Civil War. Friday night Valenti, who saw OSU win, 62 46, credited his team with a fine ‘overall perform ance.” Then Saturday afternoon the Ducks came back from a terrible trouncing to hold on and win, 61-60. An elated Belko said, "They’re not a bunch of quit ters, I’ll tell you that . . . espe cially after last night." He quick ly added, “I guess they like to play for that TV audience.” He went on to talk about the game, "Wasn’t that a hard-nosed, hard-fought game, though. It’s got to be one of our best games this year." In the other dressing room a somewhat quieter Velenti credit ed the Ducks with a fine perform ance, "They’re a good basketball team. It went down to the wire, quite a contest no matter how you look at it.” “Great Team” Valenti then went on to say, “We had to play like crazy to stay in because we’re playing a great basketball team.” Asked to single out individual performances Valenti said, "Most everyone played well. Lots of kids played good basketball. White and Petersen played well and so did Barnett and that Jones. Lots of kids played good basketball . . . had to, to make it a good game.” Valenti concluded with, “Ore gon played good basketball today. They’re just tough, that’s all.” Friday night Boiko felt that the Ducks' main problem lay in their bad starts. "We knocked each other down on the boards I’m mad at the rebounding We gave them second and third shots The turnovers hurt; the first ten minutes was the ball game Our defense wasn't bad, though" He went further to say. Some of our starters didn't perform. We have a good solid team 1 (Continued on page 7) take two and three shots at a time and they converted a lot of their second efforts. The second game was com pletely different from start to finish The Ducks and the Heavers went right after cacti other as they both showed no sign of fa tigue from playing less than 17 hours earlier Trade Baskets The two teams traded baskets from tiu* start The Heavers hit the lirst five shots from the floor and a free throw but the Ducks got five of their first seven and then another quick one to trail 13 12 with 14 48 remaining The Ducks then went on a quick sprint and had their biggest lead of the game at six points, 24 18 with 8 43 remaining With 3:19 left the Ducks seem ed to lie destined to hold at least a slim margin at the half, but it wasn't to tie Petersen hit two quick ones at the free throw line after Jim Harnett had fouled him and then Charlie White hit a bomb from the top of the key to set the Heavers up by one, 34 33 Harnett then went on a dribble drive and was fouled in the act of shooting by Petersen He made them both amt the Ducks had a one point lead. 35 34 with 1:02 to go The Heavers went for one final shot, stalling the ball until :02 remaining and then Ix»y Prtet sen put in a long 25-foot jumper and the Heavers led, 30-35 at intermission. 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