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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
The second half started out
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