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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.
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