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Ducks 6-game slide ends,
tables turn on Huskies
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Of the Emerald
After a month of thirst, the
Oregon basketball squad brought
their league victory drought to an
end on Saturday night.
The Ducks handed the
Washington Huskies a 64-60 loss
at McArthur Court winning their
first Pac-8 game in a month, lifting
their conference record to 3-6 and
their overall count to 13-9.
The difference for the Ducks
Saturday night was an improved
ability to move the ball on offense.
In weeks past they had shown
snail-like qualities while moving
the ball around and through an
opponent’s zone defense. But that
wasn’t the case against
Washington.
Husky head coach Marv
Harshman agreed the Ducks
handled his zone quite easily —
the same zone which Washington
had used just nine days previously
when holding Oregon to a
shooting percentage of .219 in the
second half, but he gave his own
reason as to why that was so.
They shot the ball better and
from further out tonight than what
they did last week,” explained
Harshman. "That’s one of the
reasons why I hate to play zone on
the road."
Meanwhile the scene at the
Ducks’ dressing room was a little
different than what it had been in
the past few weeks. While waiting
for a radio interview, Oregon head
coach Dick Harter joked to one
reporter that he'd almost forgotten
how to smile. Music blared from
the stereo system and players
recognized friends and acquaint
ances by faces instead of shoes.
The first 10 minutes were
outstanding," explained Harter.
“That was as hard as we’ve
played since I’ve been at
Oregon."
And they needed to play that
hard too, as the game turned out
to be a typical Washington
Oregon battle. The fur
thest the Ducks could get away
from the Huskies in the first half
was six points as Andra Griffin and
Steve Matzen of Washington kept
their team in the game with
accurate outside shooting. Each
of them had eight points at
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halftime, with the Ducks leading
33-28.
Oregon opened that margin to
10 points at the start of the second
half with Phil Barner hitting a
three-point play and Rich Davis
following with a short jumper in the
lane. Then came a five-minute
stretch that had Harter wondering
why the second half had ever
been invented.
Reminiscent of recent games,
when they’ve come out for the
second half acting like they’d
been chosen for the KUGN
loot-shoot” contest, Oregon
allowed the Huskies to creep
within four points and right back
into the ballgame.
Freshman Mike Clark finally
broke the ice for the Ducks, hitting
a 10-foot banker from the right
side and moments later with a
twenty-footer. Fellow freshman
Felton Sealey then got back into
the act after being forced to the
bench because of fouls. The 6-4
Sealey’s seven-foot jump shot
and subsequent free throw after
being fouled, gave Oregon a four
point lead, 46-42.
Washington closed to within
three, 49-46, with 5:27 remaining,
but five straight points by Sealey
on one field goal and three free
throws gave the Ducks breathing
room once more.
“Felton and Mike Clark hit the
big buckets down the stretch for
us,” said Harter about his two
starting forwards. Sealey, in one
of his best overall games as a
Duck, finished as game-high
scorer with 17 points.
WaeNngton (60) — Matzen 11, Nell *, Vaughn
8, Scott, Griffin 14, Walter 6, Woods 7, Frank 6
Gudnundsson 2. Hartman 2.
Oegon (64) — Drammond 6, Lyon 2, Bauer 12
Sealey 17, Clark 7, Smal 8, Hartshorns 8, Davis 4.
Washington's Stan Walker (32) Steve Matzen (H
watched Felton Sealey (35) and Mike Clark take
64-60 win Saturday.
Photo by Steve Schneider
1) and Andra Griffin
charge in Oregon's
Injuries hurt Oregon in weekend split
or mnnr\ SIEWAHI
Of the Emerald
Plagued with injury and illness, the Oregon
women s basketball team split a pair of games
last weekend, beating Western Washington
78-60 Friday and losing to Washington 72-50
Saturday.
With his roster looking more like the roll call
fora hospital ward, Oregon coach Elwin Heiny
said after the loss to Washington he may
activate some junior varsity players for games
this week against Southern Oregon and
Portland State.
He may only be able to suit up six healthy (or
nearly healthy) players for Tuesday's game
with SOSC, possibly losing Debbie Adams
(foot injury) and Ann Doherty (nose) because
of incidents in the Washington game.
Oregon came out blazing in the second half
against Western, limiting them to only one field
goal in the first eight minutes while scoring 20
points of its own to put the game away for
keeps.
Julie Cushing led Oregon scorers with 18
points. Kerry Clawson turned in herfourth solid
game in a row, netting 10 points, grabbing 10
rebounds, blocking six shots and getting five
steals. Metzger led ail scorers with 30 points.
“The key,” Heiny explained, “was we
started playing defense in the second half.”
Oregon used a variety of zones that
completely fooled Western. The 1-3-1 zone
Oregon employed in the first half especially
created problems. "They just didn't attack it
well.”
Oregon, however, was fooled the next night
by a zone defense. After going up 21-14 in the
first 11 minutes of the game the Huskies threw
up a 2-1 -2 zone that Oregon had a difficult time
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penetrating.
“We really showed we were missing people
like Becky (Paschke) — ankle sprain, and
Debbie (Adams) didn’t play against the zone.
We got beat where we normally would have
gone wild.
“Washington was tough on the boards. They
played well where we would have had
someone to play.”
Washington continually burned the Ducks
on alley-oop passes from the top of the key
inside to their forwards for easy layups.
“We were not in proper position and not as
sharp as usual,” explained Heiny. “Basically
we played six people.”
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