Oregon daily emerald., January 23, 1978, Page 9, Image 9

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Beavers humble Ducks, 62-48
By MIKE GRADY
Of the Emerald
It has become a tradition that
any basketball game between
Oregon and Oregon State be a
hard-fought affair. And Saturday
afternoon's Pac-8 conference ac
tion at Mac Court was no excep
tion as the Beavers defeated the
Ducks 62-48.
“I don't need to say anything,
said relieved Beaver head coach
Ralph Miller after the game. “We
won and that’s what we came
down here to do.
Miller praised his team for the
job they did in the second half,
pointing to the poise his young
sters showed at the free throw line
as a major reason for beating the
Ducks in McArthur Court.
"In the second half they came
out and played a complete game,"
Miller said about his players. “I
was proud of 'em."
And it was the second half that
proved to be the deciding factor of
Women key on defense
to dispatch Oregon State
By MARK STEWART
Of the Emerald
The Oregon women's basketball team, on the strength of a ball
hawking defense in the first half, beat the cold-shooting Oregon State
women 67-48 Saturday afternoon
Julie Cushing, the Northwest Women's Basketball League's lead
ing scorer, led all scorers with 20 points, canning 10 of 19 shots from the
field.
Betty Codings led Oregon State with 10 points, the only Beaver in
double figures.
“I played all right,” said Cushing. "The team played well together.
The team was too high at the beginning. When we settled down, we
started beating them.'
Oregon coach Elwin Heiny echoed Cushing's thoughts.
“I thought we played well,' said Heiny, “but we could have played
better. At the start we were too up for the game—we didnt take
advantage of their turnovers."
Oregon State had 26 turnovers in the game compared to 17 by the
Ducks. Oregon had 13 steals in the game.
Oregon State took a 12-11 lead with 8 minutes gone in the first half.
Oregon then tightened up on defense, started picking off errant Oregon
State passes and allowed the Beavers only 2 points in the next 51/2
minutes while reeling off 10 to take a 21-14 lead. The Ducks never
looked back, taking a 37-24 lead at half time.
"When we concentrated on defense, said Heiny, "we were quite
effective. We did switch between a man-to-man and a zone. We played
a man-to-man early and it didn't work at the beginning.
Cushing began the second half on fire—she scored 12 of the
Ducks' first 14 points, while the Beavers could only score 8, and it put
the game out of reach.
The next six minutes saw the Ducks limit the Beavers to only 6
points, keeping the Beavers out on the perimeter for long shots that
didn't go. The Beavers shot a paltry 28 percent for the game.
Heiny thought the man-to-man defense broke down in the second half
and thus switched to a 2-1-2 zone for the last seven minutes of the
second half.
“If our defense had worked,” Heiny said, “they (OSU) would prob
ably have stayed out on the perimeter.”
The Oregon bench played a strong game—though outscored by
starters 38-29, the bench out-rebounded the starters 36-20 while play
ing fewer minutes. The bench also had just 1 less steal than did the
starters.
Coming off the bench, Becky Paschke was the second leading
scorer for the Ducks with 10, and Shannon Kelly the leading rebounder
with 9.
“I'm trying to get the whole team involved,” said Heiny.
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the game. After both teams went
to the locker rooms at halftime tied
at 25, the Beavers came back out
ready while the Ducks never came
out.
OSU, now 4-1 in Pac-8 play,
took the lead for good just two mi
nutes into the half with Brian Hil
liard popping in a 12-foot jumper
over the guard of Mike Drum
mond. Then by capitalizing on a
number of Oregon turnovers and
switching defenses back and forth
from zone to man-to-man, the
Beavers soon found themselves
on top by 11 with 10 minutes left.
Perhaps Oregon’s most indica
tive statistic was that Kelvin
Small's lay-up with 11:45 left in the
half was the Ducks first field goal
of the period and only their fifth
attempt.
‘We talked at halftime about
coming out and playing hard, but
we didn’t,’’ Oregon coach Dick
Harter said quietly after meeting
with his players for 40 minutes fol
lowing the game.
“I thought we were playing soft
and that’s why we took those two
timeouts (both came within tne
first 1:17 of the half)," Harter said.
“Maybe we should have taken
three or four because we never
started playing strong.
Oregon who fell to 2-3, did
manage to scramble their way
back to a four point dificit with 2:53
remaining, 46-42. But a back door
lay-in by Ray Blume off of the
Beaver's spread offense, followed
by four straight OSU free throws,
quickly sealed the Ducks' fate.
“We were going for the steals
down the stretch,” explained Har
ter about the Ducks last gasp ef
forts to close the gap. “It’s very
difficult to foul the guy you want to
foul and they were all good foul
shooters that were in there be
sides.”
One aspect of the game that
marred the Beaver's jubilation of
taking over sole possession of
second place in the Pac-8 was the
re-injury of senior captain Ricky
Lee. Lee, who has had a back
problem since the opening
weekend of conference play, was
escorted to the OSU locker room
with 53 seconds remaining after a
Photo by Steve Schneider
Oregon spent a lot of the second half beating itself Saturday en route to
a 62-48 conference loss to OSU. Here center Rich Davis cuts off
teammate Mike Drummond, who pursues the Beavers' Brian Hilliard.
scuffle with Oregon s Mike Clark.
Clark and Lee had become
tangled up under Oregon’s basket
and neither enjoyed the other’s
ensuing efforts to undo himself.
Referee Frank Bosone managed
to step between the two, but not
before Lee had thrown Clark to the
floor. Clark quickly got to his feet
and dove on both Bosone and
Lee, who had stumbled back
wards and out of bounds along the
baseline.
Both benches emptied and by
the time all of the pushing and talk
ing was brought to an end, Hilliard
was shooting a technical that had
been assessed to Clark, and Lee
was downstairs, lying face down
and in pain on a training table.
Oregon State (62)—Radford 6. HiSard 10, Lae
6, Allen 6, McShane 9, Blume 15, A Campbet 2,
Smith 8. „ _ ,
Oregon (48)—Drummond 6, Murray 6. Sealey,
Smal 9, Hartshorns A. Lyon. Bamer 6. and 4, Clark
12. Davis 1.
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