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NW Relay title goes to Oregon, OSU swimmers Oregon State won the final relay event to tie Oregon for first place in the Northwest Relay Championships held Saturday at Leighton Pool. Both teams wound up with 120 points to outdistance Highline Community College and Southern Oregon College who finished with 72 and 44 points respectively. The meet marked the opening of the competitive season for the Ducks and despite the tie, Coach Don Van Rossen found reason for optimism about his young team. “I felt they showed good spirit and there were several good efforts. I had expected that the meet would go down to the final event but actually believed we would pull it out,” said the Duck coach. Indeed, the Ducks came within .33 second of winning first place outright. After Oregon State had built up a lead of some five yards in the 4 x 100 yard freestyle relay, Oregon freshman Tony Ciochetti turned in a 47.9100 yard final leg and was barely touched out at the wall by OSU’s Dave Castner in the exciting final event. Earlier, Oregon’s Rich Ross had come from behind to nip Castner in the final leg of the 4 x 50 freestyle relay. Additionally, the Ducks picked up a victory in the 4 x 200 yard freestyle relay as well as the one and three meter diving events. Some of the Duck finishes were influenced by sickness during the past weeks. Dan Kelley, a J.C. transfer with good credentials in the freestyle, was swimming on only one day’s practice in the past two weeks and Gary Hidle was likewise under the weather. Breaststroker Ron Bonaparte suffered from the effects of illness and coupled with the absence of All-American breaststroker Mike Dirksen, the Duck effort in that event was definitely impaired. Fortunately for the Oregon team effort, nothing seemed to have affected the Duck divers except good practice sessions as the Ducks bounced to easy victories on both boards. As the official entries for the Ducks on one meter, freshman John Dufficy and senior Jim Brinson gained the victory, while sophomore Pat McComack and junior Jerry Benterou captured the three meter. However, none of the Ducks wasted the chance to compete as all five team members qualified for the Pacific-8 conference meet on both boards. In addition, Dufficy and sophomore Jay Lerew both met the qualifying standards for the NCAA championships next March on both boards. Diving Coach Don McGavem was justifiably pleased and said, “The team is further along in development right now than they were at this time last year.” Van Rossen noted particularly Tony Ciochetti’s 100 yard freestyle effort. “His clocking of 47.9 at this time in the season is quite fast and only .5 seconds from the NCAA qualifying mark fra* the nationals,” said Van Rossen. The Ducks will now wait for the opening of dual meet competition in the first week of January when they meet Simon Fraser University of Canada. Ten mile OTC sponsored race slated for Sunday The Oregon Track Club will sponsor a ten mile road run on the new bicycle paths near Autzen Stadium Sunday at 1:30p.m. The road run will feature two five mile loops on the bike paths and Day Island Road. There #ae 10 age divisions for men and six for women. Entry fee is 25 cents and registration will start at Autzen Stadium one hour before race time. The course route may be subject to change, depending on the water level of the Willamette River which borders the bike paths, but race time and meeting place will remain the same, regardless. For more information, call 344-7927. Photo by Jamn Link Oregon’s Gary Hidle leads a Southern Oregon CoDege swimmer in the 3x100 butterfly relay. Oregon State took the event and tied the favored Ducks. 120-120, for the Northwest Relay Championships held Saturday at Leighton Pool. Volleyball team shows potential The Emerald Open Volleyball Tournament was the first event on the schedule for the University Volleyball club and while they did not win it they showed the potential that makes .coach Richard Cox optimistic. The first team played in AA competition and lost four of the six matches they played in, all by close scores. The two they won were quite lopsided. A good example of the closeness in the games was the match against Oregon State in which the Beavers won the first, 15-«, lost the second, 15-4, and came back to edge out the Ducks, 15-12. Oregon’s play was lead by the outstanding spiking of John Phillips who used the good setups of Dale Shostrom well. During the A competition Bruce Burns and Ben Mahar earned positions on the varsity team for the next match to be played in Seattle in January. The two led a team of reserves to a surprising ft-8 record during the competition with teams who all had more experience than these beginners. They did not win the tournament, but on the other hand went in expecting to win no more than one or two games. Coach Cox feels that once they eliminate the few errors common on teams which have not played together during competition they will be tough to beat, as they moved the ball around as well or better than most of the teams in the tournament which was eventually won by defending Northwest Champ, Reuben’s Five. Rugby Getting back into action after several weeks of inactivity the Louis Hardin (Moon dog) interprets his 13 contemporary rounds. 4:13 p.m. TODAY KWAX fm 91.1 W R A OPEN RECREATION COED M-Th 7-10 p.m. Sat. 12-4 p.m. Sun. 1-5 p.m. Gerlinger Annex TERMPAPER Do you need a termpaper, speech, essay, booh report, or other research material in one of your classes in the future? WEBER’s TERMPAPERS & RESEARCH will write it tor you! 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Two other teams were sent by the rugby club but both fell in two straight during the double elimination tournament. A bright spot in one of those losses was in that it came at the hands of the Oregon Physical Education rugby class, many of whom will later Join the rugby team. The P.E. class made it all the way to the semi-finals in the consolation round after losing their first game. Coach Bob Kerr was happy with the way they used team work and passed the ball and felt that had they had time to warm up before that opening match they would have made it a bit further in the championship bracket. Soccer Two of the four soccer teams saw action over the weekend. The second team, Mallards, traveled to Portland where they faced Portland State and the third team. Coots, were hosted by Oregon Suite’s B team. Portland State used an opening flurry of three quick goals to take a lead and coast to a 4-3 win over the Mallards. ITie loss puts the Mallards in a tight position where they will have to win almost all of the rest of their games to suc cessfully defend their OISA title. They are currently in last place in the tougher of two divisions in the light team league and are in danger of dropping into second division should they be unable to regain their winning ways. The Coots once again called on their tough defense, lead by the outstanding play of Alan Greizinger and Chuck Rear, to beat the Beavers, 2-1. Ron Hunt scored the first Duck goal in the opening period with a breakaway pass play and Jim Koskimen kicked in the winning goal off the foot of a defender. Poor field conditions and tough play among the halfbacks of both teams kept the scoring down. Table Tennis In their first action of the year the Oregon Table Tennis club sent six players to Linfield College for a match. 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