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EMERALD SPORTS WEBFOOT-PRINTS ... Soccer Champs By RANDE WILMARTH Sports Editor Although the Oregon basketball squad is still in the thick of things in the AAWU hoop race, one Duck team has already nabbed a championship this winter. And it still has a third of a season to go. Jan Broekhoff's soccer team, third-place finishers in the Oregon Intercollegiate Soccer Association last year, flew to six straight wins this fall and winter over conference opponents and wrapped up the league title. No. 6 came Saturday in Corvallis on a come from-behind 3-2 victory over Oregon State. And even though the Duck team, and the OISA’s other squads, have three contests remaining, the tension of a title race is all over. The reason? Compare second place Oregon State and Lewis and Clark's 2-3-1 records—good for five points—with Oregon’s 6-0 mark—worth 12 points in the standings—and you have it. All other contenders were mathematically eliminated. “It’s a relief,’’ said BroekhofI Wednesday. “It’s always nice to WTap it up. The rest of the games will just be sort of frosting on the cake.’’ One of Broekhoff’s trademarks this year was strong optimism towards his team's weekly contests—and it looks like this attitude has been fairly effective after the six victories. One of the reasons for the apparent optimistic outlook has been a rejuvenated team. “Personnel Better, Competition Easier . . ‘The competition for us has been quite a lot easier this year in the conference,” he said. “It’s mainly because we’ve added some new players.” Along with the Oregon additions, according to BroekhofT, Lewis and Clark suffered a loss in personnel and Oregon State "stayed about the same as last year.” Performance-wise, BroekhofT said. “We have improved much more than the other teams while Lewis and Clark is definitely weaker.” A look at the association's standings a week before the final competition last year will show the different type of championship battle in 1965 as compared to ’66. Oregon, with a 4-2-1 record, still had a chance to tie league-leading Lewis and Clark and force a play off with a win in the final game of the season. But a loss to OSU upset this idea of the Oregon team. “That shows how tight it was last year,” remarked BroekhofT. One of the three contests remaining for the Ducks will be played in Eugene. Feb. 26 Oregon will meet Portland—the fourth member of the conference, and resting solidly in last place—on the University campus. The other two conference tilts will be held in Portland against Lewis and Clark, the next one being this Saturday. Along with this trio of matches, BroekhofT is trying to arrange an all-star game in Eugene with Oregon playing against members of the other three teams. Included in the affair would be the transferring of the Walter Kyllmann Cup from Lewis and Clark possession to Oregon. "It’s still tentative,” BroekhofT said, “but I’ll try to get something done on it.” Sonnenschein’s Back ... and Winning An interesting sidelight to the Oregon soccer story is a first-team reserve forward, Werner Sonnenschein. Sonnenschein competed for Bill Bowerman’s track squad last spring—setting the school record in the triple jump at 49-5% and many times winning the admiration of the crowd with a warm smile and a few gestures toward the fans. Sonnenschein tallied two goals Saturday while competing for the Oregon second team, adding to the points he scored in first team competition earlier this year. The second team beat OSU, 2-0. “It’s good conditioning,” said Broekhoff. “You use your leg muscles quite a lot. He’s a good soccer player, a good man. He made two nice goals Saturday.” The conflict between the German students iwu sports doesn’t seem to upset Bowerman. “Bill Bowerman said to go ahead and play soccer. It doesn’t bother Bowerman and it doesn’t bother me,” added Broekhoff. Notes . . . Friday’s wrestling win by Oregon over California saw a former placer in the NCAA championships fall to a Duck grappler. Cal’s Alan Seigel, a fifth-place finisher in 1965 at 130 pounds, was soundly defeated by Oregon’s Craig Caster, 21-8. But the fact that Seigel was wrestling up a couple of weights might have had some thing to do with the result. Seigel, who had only lost one out of nine matches before the meet in McArthur Court, will more than likely enter tournament competition in a few weeks at 137 pounds, quite a bit lower than Caster’s 152-pound weight division. . . . Jim Barnett continues climbing the Oregon career basketball scoring ladder. The Duck senior now has 1,185 points—303 this year in 17 games—and trails second place Dick Wilkins by one point. Wilkins gained his total in a four-year period, from 1945 48 . . . . When Southern California meets Oregon in Mac Court Friday night, the Trojans will also have a competitor aiming for scoring records. All-conference center John Block has scored at almost a 33-point average in his last five games—164 points—and is nearing the Troy single season mark of 645 points set in 1961 by John Rudometkin. Block now has 485 counters. . . . Block set the AAWU consecutive free throw record over again by running his charity string to 37 straight last weeked. . . . Oregon hoop scoring after 20 games G FGA FG Pet. FTA FT Pet. Reb. PF TP Barnett, f-g 'N. Jones, g Pinkstaff, c Craven, f Kafoury, g Jennings, f Thomas, f Smith, f Franz, c DuShane, g J. Jones, g Nicksic, g Romppanen, Total.; Opponents 17 257 109 20 237 97 20 196 81 19 148 62 18 113 45 90 32 82 34 52 22 64 24 37 12 21 9 4 3 7 2 20 1308 532 20 1283 505 17 18 13 19 12 6 9 f 3 .424 111 .409 66 .413 82 .419 33 .398 13 .356 28 .415 31 .423 27 .375 12 .324 15 .429 1 .750 2 .286 3 .407 424 .394 480 85 .766 96 43 .652 68 65 .793 168 19 .576 110 11 .846 34 22 .786 16 .516 19 .704 6 .500 13 .867 1 1.000 12 1 .500 4 2 .667 12 303 .714 885 342 .712 930 51 303 51 237 49 227 22 143 30 101 62 77 38 52 19 PAC Avg. Avg. 17.8 19.0 29 37 17 29 25 6 5 3 86 84 63 54 37 19 7 6 354 1367 356 1352 11.9 11.4 7.5 5.6 5.1 4.6 4.8 2.8 3.1 3.2 0.8 2.0 68.3 67.6 11.4 10.7 5.4 9.1 5.3 2.9 2.0 2.9 2.0 0.0 0.0 66.4 70.1 Swim Finals Draw Near By GORDON ROSENBERG Sports Writer The Pacific Athletic Conference swimming finals are drawing near, and this weekend is the last chance for Oregon swimmers to qualify for the championships, which will be held in Los Angeles, March 3-5. “We must turn in our entries next week," stated coach Don Van Rossen. "This weekend’s perform ances will decide our line-up for the finals.” The Ducks follow their vic tory over Washington State by hosting the University of Pacific at Leighton Pool Friday at 7:30 p.m. The swimmers conclude their part in Dads’ Weekend with the annual Frosh Varsity meet at 10 a m. Saturday. The University of Pacific dump ed San Jose State earlier in the season, in what was- their best performance of the year In case you’ve forgotten, SJS tied Ore | gon, 47-47, two weeks ago in Leighton Pool. •TOP Like Arden Hills" “They (UOP) are quite a bit like Arden Hills in that we don’t ; know much about them," stated ' Van Rossen. This should serve as a warning i to the Ducks, since Arden Hills surprised Oregon earlier in the i season with a 52-42 victory. Van Rossen has had his boys working all week on speed in an ! effort to qualify as many as pos ' sible for the championships “Our times have been very : good this week,” he said. “We could have some top perform ances this weekend.” The Frosh-Varsity meet will actually be an intrasquad meet with several swimmers who have been out of action this year par i ticipating for the teams. Greening Leads PAC “This should make the meet a little more exciting,” said Van Rossen. Going into the last two weeks IM Schedule Basketball 3:50—Court 50, Hilyard Mets A vs. Fuddlers A Court 43, Legal Eagles A vs 69 A 4:35—Court 40, Delta Tau Delta A vs. Phi Sigma Kappa A Court 43, Delta Chi A vs. Accelerators A 5:15—Court 40, Kappa Sigma A vs. Tau Kappa Epsilon A Court 43, Sigma Nu A vs. Pi Kappa Alpha A Handball 4:00—Phi Delta Theta vs. Hauna of the regular season, sophomore i sprinter .lay Greening still holds j the faster conference time in the ! SOyard freestyle Greening cut one tenth of a second off his own mark against WSU by lowering his league leading time from 22 3 to 22.2. lie leads USC’s sensational all Amor ican Roy Saari by two-tenths of a second. Besides Greening, senior cap tain Dale Wood and junior Monty Holding will be Important to the Duck cause this weekend and in the finals. Practice Times Good "Woodie,” as the Duck captain is known to his teammates, has been improving his 200- and 300 yard freestyle times of late, and should be about ready for the finals. "Dale has turned in some fine times in practice this week." praised Van Itossen. Holding has been a key to the Ducks all season long. He has earned some lop times In t>olli the 200-yard butterfly ami in the freestyle event*, including a very strong 5 <HI 8 in the SIM) against Arden Hills An interesting sidelight to Fri day's meet Duck sprinter Dave MacKenzie may oppose his young er brother Jim, who is one of UOP's top sprinters. It's a good bet that the two will turn up in the same event. PL-3 Program THURSDAY r, lit lir.NTI.KV HMINKI.KV UKI'OKT 7.I1U « llll iiKKN S MTKKATttRK: Clttlilrcii'r Dink Awards s (HI fitN sl( At. kDl'f ATION I It M: 'Hrwlir llitrtlhllif. 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