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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. Bamer4 Murray 4
Small 6.
Oregon State (51) — Lee 21. Alton 5. Carrpbat
4. Radford 6. Hilliard 2. Blume 9. McShane 2.
McClouskey Smith 2
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