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Webfoots Top UCLA Bruins By PAUL POI.SKY Associate Sports Editor “This was a great lift for our kids after last night’s game when they got down because of the shooting exhibition of Block (John of USC): the kids show ed a lot of character out there." These were the words of a somewhat relieved but still tense Steve Belko following the Duck's “upset" 79-72 win over UCLA Saturday. With the win and OSU’s sub sequent loss to USC, the Ducks are in a four-way tie for second place with UCLA, SC, and Stan ford All of the clubs have 6-4 PAC marks. The Ducks put on a gritty per formance before some 9.500 home fans, including a Dads' Weekend audience, and countless others who viewed the weekend's region al telecast up and down the West Coast. It was the largest crowd of the year. Pinkstalf Tired Belko. fidgitting with his after game coke, went on to praise the work of center John PinkstatT and guard Dave Kafoury. "John was tired out there but he showed a lot of character He played well in the second half, but. oh. was he tired, so tired He played a lot of it on guts. Kafoury helped us a lot when they charged us with the press. He broke it and show ed some fine ball handling." Belko had a lot of praise for UCLA's Kenny Washington, a 6-3 string bean with tremendous jumping ability. "Washington is the quickest jumper around the boards I have ever seen. I have never seen the likes of it anywhere," marvelled the Duck coach. Washington, UCLA's leading scorer with 28 counters, had 20 rebounds to go with his points. He was the mainstay of the some what shoddy Bruin attack. His jumping ability and quickness got him a second and third shot at the basket time and time again. Win First Since '50 Tne win puts the Ducks at a 13 9 for the season. The win over UCLA was the first in al most 16 years. The Ducks last bested the Bruins on Dec. 9, 1950. The first half was a fairly close period, with each team getting slight leads, but never able to increase it to more than s i x i points. The Ducks got a big ' boost at the end of the first half when Bill Jennings hit a 25 foot set shot with just live seconds left. The Ducks took a three point lead into the dressing room, ' 32-29 i Oregon came out in the second I half and never let the Bruins get closer than a pair of points and held them off with some fine shooting and clutch defensive ; work. ! With 8:33 to go the Ducks had | a 12 point lead at 82 50 and kept the pressure on the Bruins, who cut into the lead a little at a j time. The famed full court press of the Bruins turned into a trap and directly led to their downfall. ‘■Shoot Farly” •The reason they press is so you shoot early, they want the ball back and thus try to set, the tempo With the quicker kids they have they want to take the game away from you and shoot," was the way Belko ex plained the UCLA strategy. However, Belko had some plans of his own and they work ed to perfection for the most part, and won the game. "Our plan was to create the tempo, we wanted to be on offense more than defense, you can't afford to be on defense too long against them. We wanted to take 45 sec onds and get two points to cut down on their control. The long er we take to score the more it cuts down on their attack. "The full-court press they live by, today they died by,” said the personable Duck coach. Time and time again the Ducks were able to break the press and move in for easy cripples under t h e basket whiie UCLA men were de ployed at the wrong position on the floor. Another part of the strategy late in the game was used to keep the clock moving. "The only thing we didn't want to do was foul and stop the clock,” said iX ix w w SC Blocks Ducks In PAC Hoop Tilt By LYNX MLCKEN Sports Writer John Block may not be the best center in the Pacific Athletic Con ference. But if he isn’t don’t tell the Oregon Webfoots. They just might refuse to take the court against another oppo nent. Block, the 6-9 pivot man for Southern California, did every thing but sell programs Friday night as he led the Trojans past the Ducks, 82 67. A lay-in here, a tip-in there, and jump shots everywhere added up to 44 points, and the ball game, as Block completely dominated the action. ‘’Block was the difference,” said Webfoot mentor Steve Belko after the game in one of the greatest understatements of all times. Duck reserve Dave Romppanen pretty well summed up the whole evening with his words, ‘That was some sweet shooting.” Block Ruins Hopes Sweet to the Trojans, perhaps, but sour to Oregon as Block hit 15 out of 19 from the field in the second panel to completely foil any comeback hopes the Ducks might have entertained after falling behind, 33-27, at the half. The Webfoots rushed out to an early lead as each of the starting five of Nick Jones, Jim Barnett, John Pinkstaff, Bill Thomas, and Bill Jennings con tributed a fielder to the score to tal. The Trojans quickly closed this gap on the gunning of Block, who scored the first nine points for Southern Cal, and moved into a 13-12 lead on a lay-in by Mike Maggard. Although the Ducks pulled even at 25-all. they never led again as the sophomore Maggard, with able aid from Ron Shackel ford, gradually widened the lead to a six-point margin at half - time. With the opening of the second half, Duck fans were looking for ward to the comeback that has marked the team as of late. But Southern California had differ ent ideas, and four quick baskets by the hot-shooting Block proved to be a convincing argument. Commanding Lead This scoring splurge shot the Trojans into a commanding 41 29 lead, and Oregon never seri ously threatened again. Not that they didn’t try. Five times in the closing period the Ducks made a run at the steady Southern Cal lead, but each time the powerful Trojan center would pop in a jumper, usually with a pair of Webfoots drapped on his back, and push the margin back to 11 or 13 points. Southern California coach For i est Twogood withdrew his ace : with 1:23 remaining amid well I deserved cheers from the McAr thur Court fans and with h i s squad ahead, 78-64. j Weak shooting by the Oregon guards, who hit only 11 for 41 from the field probably was the ; deciding factor in the game. Barnett Scores It is only too obvious that Ore gon lives on the play of Jim Bar nett and Nick Jones. Although Barnett scored 19 points and ! moved into second place in the all-time Oregon scoring list, he didn’t have a particularly good (Continued on page 5) Boiko The Ducks did stop the clock, but it was for their free-throw chances that finally proved the downfall of the Bruins. At the end of scrambling, the running Bruins fouled Jim Barnett nu merous times, only to have the I senior guard go 13-13 from the foul line. With 1:11 left in the | game Barnett put it in the ice 1 box with a one-and-one chance as he converted both and put the Ducks too far away at 75t>C. Barnett High Mark For Barnett this was his high est scoring game as a collegiate eager at Oregon. His 33 points on 13-13 from the line and 10 fielders put him a notch closer to Charlie Warren's career rec ord. "If this doesn't eliminate UCLA, it'll be the funniest race on record,” said Boiko. "We're still playing for the blue chips,” he quietly added. The Ducks do have the best shot left as they are the only contender with two games left against OSU "Our line-up changes hurt in many ways without Lynn (Mike) at full strength and McIntosh (Doug). We aren't a good ball club without them and I.acey <Kd gar),” UCLA coach John Wooden told reporters. Edgar Lacey is a regular forward who was left at home with a fracture in his knee cap and McIntosh was low - bridged Friday night at Corval lis and couldn’t play because of a severe bruise around the fifth lumbar. Emerald SPORTS NICK JONES Oregon Guard Scores 16 In Two Game Series Title Won by Ruggers By DICK DENNIS Sports Writer It’s a lucky thing that coach Bruce Howe is the smallest man on the Oregon rugby squad. Oth erwise, the team never would have had the strength to carry him off the field Saturday, follow ing their 11-6 victory over Oregon State. The game gave the Ducks the championship in the Northwest Intercollegiate Rugby conference. The battle was a proper finish to the Webfoots’ campaign for the league title. The Ducks were in complete control of the game at all times, with OSU never crossing the Oregon goal line. The first half didn’t have much scoring, but it was anything but dull. After some early pressure by the Beavers, Oregon moved the ball steadily downfield on a 30 yard run by wing Warren Hamill and some good punting by the rest of the team. “Certain to Score" The Ducks crept to within a few feet of the OSU goal line and camped there for a good portion of the first period. For awhile it seemed as though an invisible shield was protecting the Beav-' ers' goal line “I was certain we were going to score, because we kept con stant pressure on them," said Howe. It was only a matter of time." Center Dave Bottemiller finally shattered the shield with the first try of the game. The first half ended at 3 0. Oregon hiked its lead early in the second period on a 5-yard tr> by Hamill A 40yard punt along the sideline by halfback Joe Hav en set up the score. Barry Ward's extra point attempt was good, making the margin 8 0. OSU finally broke up the shut out on a short penalty kick by Tom Hussey. With the score at 8-3, Ward booted a 45yard line drive penalty kick, then Hussey scored on another short kick to complete the scoring. Freeman Impressive Howe, who had earlier feared that OSU might have better for wards than the Ducks, said, "The forwards actually won the game for us. There was nobody that didn’t play well." The coach felt that Cliff Free man did the best job, “upsetting their inside hark*. giving them a real hard time throughout the Hanie " Howe commended all the forwards for keeping constant pressure on OSU the whole game. Among the backs, "Joe Raven had an outstanding game." ac cording to his coach. "So did Dave Bottcmillcr in his first game back after an injury.” Howe wasn't as impressed with the Beavers as he had been with previous Oregon opponents. "OSU wasn't very steady, not as good as the University of British Col umbia.” said the coach Oregon beat UBC last month, 96. 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