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sports Oregon grapplers pin Fresno State, 45-5 By NICK DAWSON Of the Emerald Oregon’s grapplers rode the wave of four pins on the way to a 45-5 thrashing of the Fresno State Bulldogs Wednesday night in MacArthur Court. The Ducks got pins from Scott Bliss, Jeff Stuebing, Randy Besaw and Don Brown in improv ing their dual meet record to 4-8. Tuesday night the Ducks defeated eleventh ranked Clarion State, 33-10. However, the loss may have been costly to the Ducks. Norm Knight, Oregon’s 118-pounder, in jured his shoulder near the end of his match and may be sidelined. “I’m scared Norm is hurt,” ad mitted Oregon coach Ron Finley. Knight’s injury could be espe cially damaging to the Ducks as they prepare for a road trip to Utah. Friday night, the Ducks face nationally ranked Brigham Young in Provo, then meet Utah on Saturday. Facing a lack of depth, Finley doesn’t need to see any of his wrestlers out of action. “We can’t afford to have any body hurt,” Finley stated. “We’ve really been lucky so far this year that we haven’t had many injuries, considering the amount of matches we’ve had,” he added. If Oregon has wrestled a lot of matches this year, it certainly didn’t show in any fatigue factor. Coming off their Tuesday night victory over eleventh ranked Clar ion State, the Ducks looked more than ready to handle Fresno State. The match started well for Oregon, at least as far as the score went. Knight completely dominated Crecensiano Romero throughout the match. With a 12-4 lead and 36 seconds remaining, Knight injured his shoulder, but still managed to run up eight more points on his foe. In the 126-pound match, Oregon’s Larry Gleason escaped with 20 seconds to go to earn a draw with Fresno’s Scott Hasson. Oregon increased its team lead as Steve Starzenski pulled out the 134 pound match, 5-4, by scoring a two point reversal at the end of the final period. Fresno State picked up its final Women cagers face a tough test on Washington road swing By MIKE GRADY Of the Emerald The Oregon women’s basket ball team will get their chance this weekend to find out just how good they are, or aren’t. Coach Elwin Heiny will take his squad and their unblemished re cord of 6-0 to the state of Washington to tangle with the supposedly top two teams in the league — the University of Washington and Western Washington University. Washington, the Ducks’ first op ponent of the weekend on Friday night, had the best record in the Northwest last year at 22-4 and are off to just as an impressive start this year. The Huskies (6-1) are currently averaging 79 points per game and have topped 90 on three separate occasions. A typical game for Washington might best be indicated by last weekend’s performance against Portland State University. In that contest, the Huskies out rebounded a very competitive PSU team by a 71-40 margin and coasted to an easy 92-53 final score. “Right now Washington is con sidered the top team,” said Oregon coach Elwin Heiny. “I talked with Karen Morgan, PSU’s coach, over the phone after their game against UW and she said that if we beat them, it’ll be an upset.” Margie Nielson, a six-foot center and 1976-77 NCWSA Southern Division All-Star is the main weapon to Washington's of fensive attack. Nielson currently leads the Huskies in the statistical departments with 18 points a game and 15.1 rebounds. “She was a very good player for them last year,” said Heiny about Nielson, “and she has supposedly improved this year. She's not their only player though.” Another whom the Ducks will have to look out for is 5-10 sophomore Carol Hanshaw. Han shaw, who can play both guard or forward, is averaging 11.9 points per game. Heiny also expects a similar type of game from Western Washington on Saturday night. The Vikettes (4-2) haven’t jumped off to as impressive a start this season as their three consecutive regional tournament champion ships would lead you to believe they would, but are still consi dered as one of the more danger ous teams in the league. Western Washington has also faced PSU this year, walking away with almost as easy a win as Washington, 72-51. “Both UW and Western Washington are very physical,” Heiny said. “The Portland State coach told me that they were so physical that most of her kids couldn’t cope with it.” “Both teams play a man-to-man defense and like to put on the full court pressure. They’re big and they’re quick, but I think we can match ’em up.” “They have an advantage,” continued Heiny, “they’ve played some tough games and we haven’t yet.” For Oregon, the weekend will be the most important part of their schedule to date as well as an ex cellent opportunity to take the in itiative in league action. Two vic tories would put them all alone at the top of the league with the toughest road trip behind them. But having not faced any stiff chal lenges so far this year, the thing that worries Heiny most is how his team will react to tough competi tion. “I think we’re good,” he said, “but we’ll see how good.” points of the dual match when Roy Moz came back from a 4-0 deficit to defeat Duck freshman Barry Boyles in the 142-pound match. Moz used a lateral drop to put Boyles on the mat as the match ended to pull out a 5-4 victory. Oregon’s pin parade then started. Scott Bliss improved his team best season record to 21-3 by flooring Mike Ribera at 6:07 of the match. Dan Hollemback racked up the most lopsided decision of the night in his 19-1 win over Warren Flynn. Hollemback jumped out to a 10-1 lead after two periods and repeatedly had Flynn on his back in the final period but couldn't re gister a pin. Oregon’s second pin came on the 167 pound division when freshman Jeff Stuebing rolled Bob Berg on his back at 6:22 in the match. Randy Besaw then put the sparse crowd on its feet when he took only 50 seconds to pin David Buss. Of course the pin has been be coming second hat for Oregon 190-pounder Don Brown. Brown registered his fifth pin in the last eight matches, defeating Amos Scott in a wild match in the second period. Oregon’s final points came on a forfeit in the heavyweight class. ,-sportfolio Corvallis PRD job openings The Corvallis Parks & Recreation Department is now accept ing applications for summer employment. Interested persons should apply at 601 S.W. Washington, Corvallis. Interviews will be held in March just before and during spring vacation. Positions include baseball coaches, tennis instructors, playground leaders, lifeguards, and park maintenance. Karate Club meetings The Karate Club meets Monday and Wednesday nights from 5 to 7 p.m. in room B-50 Gerlinger Annex. All interested persons are invited to observe or participate in the workouts. ^ ‘r ' * y/£> FILL IN THE BLANK BUBBLE AND WIN! EMU invites all to submit a funny question which would evoke the answer “EMU” Funniest entry will win choice of Deli sandwich. Drop entries of 15 words or less in box at EMU Deli Case in Fishbowl. Deadline Friday, 5 p.m. 'wHAT* yoo THuJiS, x^^nJaMeMT3% PiH&A
