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sports -'W wmr anMMHMP Photo by Steve Schneider Mike Drummond played tough defense all night in his last performance for Oregon, but it was his last two free throws with little time remaining that sealed the win over Oregon State. Oregon matmen shooting for second; Beavers heavily favored in Pac-8 meet By NICK DAWSON Of the Emerald Oregon State will be the favored team when the Pac-8 wrestling championships take place in the Beaver’s Gill Coliseum today and Saturday. Preliminary rounds will be held this afternoon and tonight, while the semi-finals and finals will be contested all day Saturday. Realistically, Oregon has no chance to win the title, said coach Ron Finley. “I think everyone pretty well agrees that Oregon State is going to be number one," he said. Finley added Oregon should have a legitimate shot at second place, though it will be a dog fight to determine the runner-up to the Beavers. UCLA, Washington, California and Oregon are all in the running for the second spot, said Finley. As far as individual titles, the Ducks have a few possibilities. Probably the top hope is Dan Hollembaek at 158 pounds. Finley believes Hollembaek can take the title, especially since he’s beaten his main competitor, OSU’s Ron Ziebart, twice this year. Scott Bliss could win at 150 pounds, but he would have to knock off OSU’s Dick Knorr, whom he has never beaten. “Yeah, I think he does have a chance,” said Finley. 'Scotty’s capable of beating Knorr, he’s just got to do it.” Finley added that Bliss will have to be more aggres sive to beat Knorr, which is some thing he hasn’t done this year against the Beaver senior. Other Ducks with a shot at win ning weight class titles are 177-pounder Randy Besaw and 126-pounder Larry Gleason. Besaw’s primary competition will come from Marty Ryan of Oregon State, a man Besaw has lost to four times this year. There is no clear favorite at 126 pounds. “I think Larry's got a sportfolio Rugby Club to face OSU The Oregon Rugby Club will take on Oregon State at noon Saturday in Corvallis. This will be the first league game for the Ducks before they travel to California for the Monterey Tourna ment during Spring Break. V-ballers play tonight The Oregon Volleyball Club will host both the Eugene YMCA and Humboldt State this Friday night in B-54 Gerlinger annex. The junior varsity will play the YMCA at 5 p.m., with the varsity taking on Humboldt at 7 p.m. Admission is free. ACS hosting jog-a-thon The American Cancer Society will conduct a county-wide Jog-A-Thon Saturday to raise money for Cancer Research, Edu cation, and Service. Bill Dellinger, Oregon's track coach, is the honorary chairman for the event. Sponsor sheets can be picked up at the ACS, 1892 Willamette. legitimate shot — as much as anyone in the weight class — to win at 126,’’ Finley said. First and second place winners in each weight class, plus six wild-card third place winners, will go to nationals. Finley believes the four mentioned above, plus Don Brown, Norm Knight, Jeff Stuebing and Steve Strazenlki have shots at national berths. Oregon will not be at full strength this weekend. Barry Boyles, 142 pounds, is out of the meet with the flu. Stueb ing and heavyweight Dan Thors ness will be slowed by illness, while Knight will be wrestling for the first time since a shoulder in jury Jan. 11. Finley will not take any easy outs. “We can’t let that bother us. We still have to compete in order to do the job,” he said. Ducks botch OSU post-season hopes By MIKE GRADY Of the Emerald Oregon survived a wild and wooly finish Thursday night in Corvallis, downing Oregon State 54-51 and dimming any hopes the Beavers may have had for a post-season play-off bid. Four free throws in the last 15 seconds, two each by Rob Closs and Mike Drummond, were the deciding factors as the Ducks managed to finish off the year 6-8 in Pac-8 play and 16-10 overall. “I thought we played very hard throughout the whole ball game," said a relieved Oregon Coach Dick Harter after the game. “We deserved this game. I thought we played better than they did.” Beaver Coach Ralph Miller, on the other hand, could only shake his head in disgust. 'We just made too many mistakes,” said Miller. ‘‘We made three or four turnovers in the last two or three minutes. And that’s not taking anything away from Oregon; I thought they played very well. In all due respect I’ve got to credit us with making the mistakes.” Perhaps one of the mistakes came from the Beaver’s senior forward Ricky Lee. Lee, who did everything he could possibly do in his last game as a Beaver, missed a 20 foot jump shot with 20 sec onds remaining and OSU down by one, 50-49. Five seconds elapsed before Bill McShane of OSU fouled Closs. Closs calmly sank both free throws in front of 9,500 screaming Gill Coliseum fans to push the Duck lead to three. Following an Oregon time out, Lee, who finished with 21 as the high-point man, drove the length of the court and stuffed one to draw the Beavers back within one. “We wanted to make them run some time off the clock,” Harter explained on his defensive strategy in the final fifteen sec onds. "As it was Lee made a great play in taking it down so quickly and putting it in.” Closs took the ball out of bounds for Oregon and passed in to Drummond. Brian Hilliard of the Beavers fouled the 5-8 senior cap tain while going for the steal and Drummond found himself in the position to steal his sweetest, last victory with two ticks remaining on the clock. "I was just telling myself to bend my knees and follow through straight,” said Drummond as he prepared to take off jersey number 10 for the final time. I actually thought that Robbie's free throws were more important than mine. When he went to the line I told him that if he ever wanted to do anything for me, it would be to hit those two.” After Drummond’s second free throw rattled around and dropped through it was over. Lee quickly picked the ball out of the nets and threw it up court to Ray Blume, but the Ducks weren’t about to get in the freshman s way and watched as time ran out. Our defense stayed consistent throughout the second half,” said Harter on what enabled his team to come from a five point deficit at the half. We also kept control of the boards when we needed it.” Final statistics showed the Ducks outrebounded the Beav ers, 31-20, as junior forward Kel vin Small grabbed nine on his own. Kelvin, Stu Lyon, John Murray and Robbie Closs all had great games for us," said Harter. “To night Robbie showed what he could have done if we played more this year.” Oregon (54) — Clark 4, Sealey 9. Davis 2, Drummond 6. Closs 11, Lyon 6. 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