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Ducks revert to old ways in loss to Cal
by MIKE MARINO
Emerald Sports Editor
BERKELEY, Calif. — Every
thing that Oregon had gained in
two straight Pac-8 wins it lost
Saturday afternoon.
Through lack of intensity, bad
shooting, poor defense or what
ever, Oregon managed to take a
giant step backwards in a 76-67
Pac-8 loss to California.
Oregon, now 4-7, managed to
escape a terrible first half Thurs
day night at Stanford, but Satur
day they weren’t so lucky. After
racing to a 10-3 lead with six mi
nutes gone, the Ducks went
lethargic and didn’t score again for
another six minutes, after Cal had
taken a 12-10 lead.
They took the lead once more,
14-12, on a Phil Barner jump
shot, but that was it. The rest of the
televised game was worse than a
rerun of “Wild Kingdom”.
‘There’s no real mystery,” said
Oregon coach Dick Harter. "They
(Cal) played hard, and we didn't.
Bad is a kind word for my team
today.”
Oregon woke up somewhat in
the final minutes of the game, but
even othen their hustle went for
naught. Down 69-57 with 1:09 left,
the Ducks hit three driving shots
— but drew charging calls after
every one. Cal’s Doug True made
three freethrows in the mean
time and the outcome stayed the
same.
“I thought we played hard in the
last 10 minutes,” Harter said
somberly. “I thought we'd catch
them, but with the charging calls,
we were just trading baskets.”
kets.”
It was the kind of afternoon in
which, once the Ducks got behind,
you doubted they could come
back. The only thing gained in
Harmon Gym was the knowledge
that, after nearly a year to the con
trary, Oregon is once again a
one-man team.
Felton Sealey has become
damn important.
“We're not 75 percent of what
we are when he’s in the game,”
Harter said of the 6-4 freshman.
“He’s absolutely essential to this
team.”
And then, the inevitable.
“He’s as much an MVP as Greg
Ballard was last year, ” he added.
“Without him, there’s no leader
ship.”
Saturday, there sure wasn’t.
Sealey left with three fouls at the
halfway mark of the first half,
when Oregon led, 10-6. He re
turned at 16:04 of the second half,
and the Ducks trailed 34-22. In
those 14 minutes, Oregon looked
like the wandering lost.
“I couldn’t start the second half
with Felton (because of the three
fouls),” Harter sighed. “Add it up
— see what the score was when
Felton was in the game. My guess
is that we won.”
Yep, 29-22 to be exact. Trouble
is, that when Sealey got in foul
trouble, Harter was forced to go to
the bench. It didn’t pan out.
“The same people that didn’t
respond Thursday night, didn’t re
spond today,” Harter said. “The
trouble is, it spread to the young
people.”
At times Cal took advantage of
the Ducks’ apathy to put on a full
court passing exhibition. Gene
Kelch, Truedson shine
as Ducks win PNW title
Jim Kelch of Oregon qualified
for the U.S. Gymnastics Federa
tion nationals as the Flying Ducks
won the Pacific Northwest
Championship in Portland over
the weekend.
Kelch scored a total of 106.5 in
the all-around competition to beat
the qualifying mark of 106 needed
for the USGF meet. He won the
compulsory all-around competi
tion Sunday with a 54.2 total after
taking third Saturday with 52.3
Oregon swept the ring both
Wrestlers beat
Portland State
Oregon won by the biggest
margin ever over Portland State s
wrestlers Saturday as it took the
first six straight matches en route
to a 38-9 win in Mac Court Satur
day.
It was the Ducks' easiest mat
win of the year. Oregon won all but
the 167- and 177-pound weight
classes.
Oregon's Don Brown, who had
set a school recod earlier while in
the 190 class, was moved to
heavyweight but still won, defeat
ing PSU’s MIKE Wagner 6-3.
Scott Bliss upped his season
record to 30-6 with a win over Mike
McKernan, 20-9. Norm Knight,
Larry Gleason, Dave Lofts,
Steve Starzenski, Dan Hollem
baek and Randy Besaw also won
for Oregon.
nights, with Scott McEldowey and
Jerry Bush taking one to two.
Tom Truedson tied an Oregon
school record Saturday with a
9.75 score on the pommel horse,
equalling Curt Todgers 1977
mark.
The best score of the meet
came, though, in the high bar,
where Washington’s Mel Cooley
turned in a 9.8. The Huskies
finished second to the Ducks both
nights, with Washington State
third and Portland State fourth.
Ransom was in foul trouble also
and scored only four points. But
he still combined with 6-11 center
Tom Schneiderjohn for some
bombs that looked right out of
Rich Brooks’ playbook.
One only needed to gander at
the free throw line to see more
evidence of non-hustle. Cal shot
15 times from the stripe — making
twelve — when the Ducks re
sorted to the“arm-defense.”
Oregon though, didn’t shoot any
until Sealey — fittingly — tanked
one of two with five minutes gone
after intermission.
“There’s not too much force,”
Harter said, “when you don’t
shoot a foul shot for a half.”
There wasn’t much force inside,
either. Oregon seemed content to
launch shots from the 15-20 foot
range, while Cal’s range was usu
ally 10 feet and in. Sealey was the
only prevalent Duck underneath,
as Schneiderjohn and his mates
blocked eight other Oregon at
tempts inside.
“Felton stands out so much be
cause there aren’t too many ag
gressive guys out there," Harter
said frankly. “He’s our best player
inside on the zone, but he’s also
our best baseline guy and our best
point guy.”
Women snag
weekend wins
Looking like they have a case of
the mid-season blahs, Oregon’s
women’s basketball team won a
pair of sloppily played games last
weekend, beating Portland State
67-58 Friday and Dr. Bernard’s
AAU team 70-58 Sunday.
After spotting PSU a one-point
lead with seven minutes gone in
the first half, the Ducks scored 10
unanswered points in the next four
minutes to put the game away.
Debbie Adams led the Ducks with
17, and grabbed 12 rebounds.
Six-foot-three inch freshman
Lynne Holzfuss of PSU was lead
ing scorer and rebounder for the
game with 22 and 18 respectively.
Shannon Kelly scored on her
first five field goal attempts to give
Oregon a 10-6 lead that it never
gave up against Dr. Bernard.
Oregon’s Tara Smith was high for
the Ducks with 13 points while Dr.
Bernards Cheryl Trainer high for
the game with 20.
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Generally, the whole game was
sloppy. In the eight minute stretch
when the Bears took the lead for
good, the action had the folks turn
ing back and forth like a tennis
match.
It began when Sealey stole the
ball from Cal’s Kevin Singleton
and drove the length of the floor
for a lay-in. Then Cal turned a
block shot into a basket by
Schneiderjohn. Mike Drummond
had a 20-footer go in and out for
Oregon, but at the other end, after
a foul, Cal couldn’t get the ball in
under five seconds.
The Ducks then played popcorr
machine with four straight tips thal
I
missed, but Barner got it back with
a steal. Schneiderjohn then re
jected Hartshorne underneath,
Stu Lyon traveled, Barner lofted
an intended pass for Drummond
into the stands and, well, you get
the idea.
‘‘We’ve been trying to get the
intensity up since October 15,”
Harter said. ‘‘We ll just have to try
again.”
The way things looked, it’s defi
nitely back to the drawing board.
Oregon (67) — Barner 4. Clark 2. Davis 2,
Drummond 10. Seeley 13, Smal 12, Hartshorne 3,
Lyon 2. Murray 14. Closs, Mack 4
California (76) — Singleton 9. True 9,
Schneiderjohn 16. Casein 12. Hansom 4, Davis 1,
Mitchell 4, Gillespie 7, Griffith, Vilotti 14
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