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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1971)
Frosh basketball retrospect; ‘a good year, good team By JIM lU'NTKK Of (hr Finer aid In the realm of spirt* jargon, wla-n a coach says his tiasketball tram is going to be "mediocre to good" you can expect 20 or more wins Coaches are just prone to gross understatement Hut the next time Coach Jim Diets says one of his teams is going to be merely "mediocre to good" you'd lietter believe that's the call tier squad la- lias Diet*contended that this year's Frosh basketball team was. at lies! "good;" not a squad that nsoukl go undefeated or even win 22. like tin- ltxtw 70 version And strangely enough la- was right For tla- first half of the season the Frosh were averaging 104 2 points a game and had won It of 12 Then with a 12 t record the I hick lings proceeded to lien- 6 of their last II gami-s on tla- way to a 17 7 record No* only (ltd tlwir (storing drop off IH point* .< game m tlie second tmlf but tlM'ir points allowed iiKTcined ten. from 77 l to H7 1 I lift/ frit it wan the double losses to Oregon State in tlie middle ol the season tliat set off the dismal chain of events "When OSU took it to us ( KM. 97 and Vi M> we lost confidence in wluil vie bad been doing And after they l>e«t us everyone else thought we eiMild l>e taken And they were By teams like the Cortland Slate Krosh. who tliey had previously dumped by points atx! Clark College, who they had I .eaten by it points But as Diet* continued, "we came Iwck hMiglier at tlie end and l>eat the We slung ton Krosh by three after t>eing down by 17 at tlie half We also took OSU in (tie last game of the season, bidding (Item to (Mily Ml (mmoIs "More unpurtanUy, tlie team may luive lost confidence Init tliey didn't give up Caul Sun derlaiMl played with an injured loot Hilly I Ingram) had a had ankle ami Jim Bristol had ten donitua in one knee But tliey all played Amt as coaches are also prone to do amt Jim thru is no ex ceptton pint season plaudits are ties towed "Individually Billy had just a fantastic seastHi tie had to carry us We askrxt a great deal ig him amt hr tespmxied extremely well Caul Sunderland is an ex erptional shot Anyixie who can have It tor II amt II tor II game* lias to have promise Uieti also praised three iHickhngs on tlirir improved play over (hr courae tg thr season Tennis squad meets Beavers » irtuuk aquad Ai an thr MMiMm »tll liatrl to Car valln thik t-iMla> far a mulch with the He*\-rrs Thr match tk »» hedulcd tur J®pm t'uarh Huu Sumnw»» Mjuad U»t to a hlghl) touted Scat Hr I'wvmit) tram 7 S laat »M with Hitan Kouchrr and Head txMh u|> thr tmh points lor thr IHicik Thr> each potted • ink in thr single matches U»«4 « a> competing m hik f intf »arut> adiun n rf ak hr i*il planted hik oppunmt * l and A t HAM I T> M tUrgor 4 (llkk Mak > ikrfM S \lflkf HiU» * (tfega* I. 1 miUmtmim » lHr(a« •. Maalard * Oi rgua *. Seattle I Page 1C "Eklridge (Broussard) was great •me <j»i <me when he fame here hut he learned to pass off and improved his defease also "Paul lialupa had to make an adjustment as his outside shot alone wouldn't carry him Towards the end lie he was really driving And Bruce Posey was the most improved player by far Me just improved overall." Bather Ilian individual heroics, the one aspect of the team that impressed Dietz most was that it was "tlx* most unselfish hall club I've ever had No one complained mIhui I took someone (Hit and put someone else in That's real class Considering the tallest player on the squad was only 6'6", to top 100 points ten tunes and average Uft 5 points a game was an ac complishment That can 1m* at Iributed to a sometimes shoddy, Ihi( usually effective, fastbreak and to "the real battling we did for (lull ball ” Ingram broke the Frosh single season rebounding record, Ducks beat OCE by 4-2 The Oregon Ducks scored a -I 2 baseball victory over visiting Oregon College of Education Wednesday behind the 10 strikeout pitching of senior Hick Mealev Bill laiwrence had two tuts lor the Ducks, and scored the deciding run in (lie fifth inning when he tripled and came across (Hi a wild pitch Oregon hosts tlx* University of Portland today in a I pm doubleheader at Howe Field Hah lladerer and Bicb Zeider are scheduled to pitch hauling down 329. besting by eight the total established last season by Doug Little Ingram also scored 521 points, second on the all time Frosh scoring list tiehmd Stan Ixive's 561 The 6’4" forward averaged 21 7 points a game and scored 30 or more points on five occassions with a high of 39 points Paul Halupa, who scored 380 points, ended up ninth on the all time scoring list “While I don't know if the other two basketball coaches agree with me 1 feel.” explained Dietz, “the most important aspect of athletics is attitude improvement and the maturing Freshman athelete's go through In this aspect I am very pleased "Record wise the team can be very proud of what they did With the lieight we had to score the way we did it's very, very remarkable ” The BSU Presents “Warm Excursion” Coins Dig Mis Brothers from Dallas Toias Playing their biggost hit “Hang Up” m Dance Thurs. ■ Aprils,'71 | 9:30 12:00 I Wesley Foundation 1231 Kincaid Donation $1.00 U Z.U.T. pr* ®«*T« »jm i prtstnts »!?!« »!♦!« »55« >5^! Frederico Fellini's l Juliet of The Spirits I" ... a mastery* .'k, certainly one of the most beautiful and stimulating films ■ ever made." Judith Crist N Y. Herold Tribune I Sunday, April 11 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 EMU Ballroom Admission $1.00 I I f & ? 9 9 Introducing an unbelievable new product: Student-Railpass. (Would you believe two whole months of unlimited rail travel throughout thirteen European countries * for a modest $125?) Our brand new Student Railpass gives you all that Second Class ra;l travel on the over 100,000 mile railroad systems ot Austria. Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland. Italy. Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spam, Sweden and Switzerland You’ll discover that there"'- very little second class about Second Class You can sleep in a Couchette for only $4.50 a night, and eat in inexpensive cafeteria-type Dining Cars. If you haven’t got two months, or you prefer the luxury of First Class, there’s our regular Eurailpass. 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