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sports
Helping to rebuild grid teams is
nothing new for Ducks’ Becker
Oregon coach John Becker says the Ducks may not win a conference title next season, "but it's not so
hard to hold on to the ball or catch it when it's thrown to you." The Ducks will display those skills Saturday
when spring football closes with its annual scrimmage, beginning at 2:30 p.m at Autzen Stadium.
By MIKE MARINO
Of the Emerald
Taking a coaching job in a re
building football program isn't the
easiest job in the world, but John
Becker isn't worried. He's been
through it all before.
“I’ve been involved in some
programs that have had difficult
times,” says the Ducks’ new of
fensive coordinator. “So the situ
ation is not new to me."
The initial steps in the rebuild
ing process will be on display this
Saturday, as the Ducks dash in
the annual intra-squad game to
be held at Autzen Stadium at 2:30
p.m. to give the fans a chance to
see the new offense, the new
coaches and the new philosophy.
Becker, one of those new
coaches, comes to Oregon after
being head coach at Los Angeles
Valley Junior College where he
says, “they hadn’t won a champ
ionship in 20 years.” Two years
after Becker took the helm, his
team took the crown. At Oregon,
however, the 35-year-old Becker
doesn’t see such a quick rise.
“It’s going to be hard to go out
and kick everybody, and I don’t
foresee that right away.
“But it’s not so hard to hold on
to the ball, or to catch it when it’s
thrown to you,” he adds. “You
may not have the size or talent
that other people have, but if
there’s air between you and the
ball, you should be able to catch
it.”
Becker, as offensive coor
dinator, is taking over the most
maligned aspect of Duck football
in the wake of the “wide-open of
fense” abatross. That doesn’t
worry him either. “I don’t care
about Ihe past,” he says flatly. “I
haven’t dwelled on past years
here, we re not interested in that.
We’re interested in working for
the future.”
After working at UCLA, New
Mexico, New Mexico State and
finaRy LA Valley, Becker wasn’t
sure he wanted to come to
Oregon. “There was a lot of hesi
tation,” he recals. “I was happy
where I was. The coaches I was
working with were not only good
coaches but also my best friends,
so I had a lot of positive reasons
to stay there.
“But I respect Rich (Brooks)
and had been to Eugene three or
four times before and liked it,”
Becker says. "I love the area and
I like the people I'm working
with.”
But, after all, it was football that
brought Becker to Oregon, and
so far the results have been
favorable.
“We re doing a good job with
the option, we re moving the ball
well and doing better than I ex
pected,” he says. “We re trying to
get a good balance of running
and throwing, but that doesn't
mean 50-50, running the ball half
the time and passing half. Just
having the ability to do them.
And we’ve moved the ball well
this spring.”
While admitting it may be an
over-used statement, Becker’s
goal is "to feel that the team is
playing to the best of its ability.”
And while also admitting that ‘we
haven’t faced a USC yet’’ he is
freshly optimistic.
"It’s not an impossible situation
to come into,” he concludes, “be
cause the administration has
made a commitment to do things
the right way by bringing in new
people. I don't expect overnight
miracles, but Oregon doesn't
have to be the doormat of the
Pac-10.”
It’s not a new thought, but the
new look certainly makes it one of
excitement.
Women netters favored
in NCWSA tournament
By NICK DAWSON
Of the Emerald
Coach Marti Schey's tennis team will be the favorite when the
Oregon women travel to Monmouth for the NCWSA Southern Area
Tennis Tournament, today and Saturday.
Lewis and Clark College, Portland State, Southern Oregon State
College, Oregon College of Education and Willamette will join the
Ducks in a bid to dethrone defending champion Oregon State.
Oregon, sporting a 9-3 dual match record, rates the favorites role
on the strengths of wins over the other Southern Area schools. The
netters enter the tourney with a five match win streak, including last
week’s wins over OSU and PSU.
“We haven’t lost to any Oregon schools this year, so we should be
favored to win this,” said Schey. "We’ve been doing very well lately.
The girls are really geared up.”
Schey sees her team’s toughest competition coming from SOSC
and OSU, even though Oregon has already beaten both schools.
Oregon has two goals to shoot for this weekend. The first is win
ning the team championship, and the second, and perhaps more im
portant, is placing high in individual categories. The top two finishers in
each division of the six singles or three doubles competition will ad
vance to the Northwest Regional Tournament, to be held next
weekend.
It will be at the regionals that Oregon hopes to make up for its only
three losses of the season, two of which came at the hands of
Washington State, the other thanks to Washington.
“We should win the Southern Area Tournament,” predicted
Schey, adding that her women have a good chance at regionals
against Washington and Washington State.
The Ducks should be well prepared for action this weekend in the
Southern Area Tournament because Schey has kept her charges out
of competition for the last week.
Oregon’s line-up will indude Helen Vozenilek, Debbie Borchers
Joanna Fong, Tina Mikelson, Sue Reynolds, and Julie Hutchinson as
Nos. 1 through 6 singles respectively, while Vozenilek and Borchers,
Mikelson and Reynolds and Fong-Ann Thomson wil comprise the
doubles team.
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