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sports Women cagers beat MSU with hit shots By MARK STEWART Of the Emerald On the strength of hot shooting by Becky Paschke and long bombs canned by Tara Smith in the second half, the Oregon women’s basketball team finished regutar season play Friday with a 71-56 win over Montana State at McArthur Court. Paschke hit on nine of 14 shots from the field and scored 16 of her game high 22 points in the second half. Smith scored 16, eight in each half, to get second leading scorer honors. The Ducks started the game running the fast break and playing solid defense. Montana State was continually forced to take shots with less than 10 seconds left on the 30 second shot clock, not being able to penetrate effectively. After taking an 18-10 lead with eight minutes gone in the half, Oregon quit running and quit play ing defense, allowing Montana to take control of the boards and take a 21-19 lead in the next six mi nutes. The Ducks tied the score with six minutes left in the half and scratched out a three point lead by half-time, 33-30. Oregon finished the first half shooting only 34 percent, hitting 13 of 38 shots from the field. ‘‘Stupid mistakes — we had those,” said coach Elwin Heiny of his team’s play in the first half. “We were taking poor shots and trying to force shots. It’s happened in other games, we've blown lads because of stupid mistakes.” The Ducks came out of the locker room running, scoring twice in the first minute and forcing Mon tana State to take a quick time out with just a minute gone in the half. Oregon shot a sizzling 77 percent from the floor in the second half. By the 14:30 mark of the half, the Ducks had a 10 point lead when Paschke took control. Paschke had a string of 12 points broken only by a 20 footer by Smith and a free throw line jumper by Vickie Hunt. At the end of Paschke’s on slaught, the Ducks had a comfor tabe 61 -46 lead with five and a half minutes left. Oregon’s leading scorer, Julie Cushing, was held to 10 points on four of 13 shooting because of Montana State’s effective use of box-and-one diamond-and-one defenses against the Ducks. Both of these defenses employ four players in a zone with one playing man-to-man. “I thought they had a good de fense,” said Heiny. "Their diamond-and-one presented problems for us. Julie was guarded man-to-man and was under pressure. Becky and Tara carried us.” “We showed we were trying to get ready for regionals. When we run we can be tough. Our defense in the second half was good and once we settled down we played a good game.” The Ducks, who lost only one game at home all year, ended up with a 12-7 record for the season and will play either Western Washington or Portland State in the first round of play Thursday at the regional tourna ment at Bellingham, Washington (home of Western Washington) at 6 p.m. Montana Stata (56)—McDonald, Robb 14, Robinson 12. Hutton 2. Wal, Bignel 6. KenczKa. Hansen 13, Hill 1, Reimers 8. Oregon (71 >—Adam* 9, Doherty 6, Paachke 22, Stickle 2. Cushing 10. Hunt 2. Clawson 4. Shekel, Smith 16. Washington trounces Oregon in Nor-Pac By CHRISTY BODE Of the Emerald The overwhelming Washington Huskies scored 1,0941/2 points to recapture their team crown at the Fourth Annual Northern Pacific Swimming and Diving Champion ships held over the weekend at Leighton Pool. Oregon gained the runner-up position in their final meet of the season with a 7991/2 point total. The Huskies can attribute their victory to depth and the talent of powerhouse John Weston. Wes ton set meet records in three events and qualified for the NCAA Championships, in the 500 frees tyle (4:29.46) and 1650 freestyle, (15:33.95). For a championship meet, you must be sharp all three days,” Duck coach Rich Schleicher said. “We had good momentum the first two days and good prelim results on the third day. However, in the finals we did not perform up to our expectations.” “Overall, we were outstanding and did a super job,” he added. “It is always best to leave with a good taste in your mouth because you feel like a world-beater. But it just wasn’t one of those days for us.” Senior Steve Hamilton, the Ducks’ team captain, swam in his last meet of his career for the Ducks. On Friday, he retained his Nor-Pac crown in the 100 back stroke by churning to a 52.46, breaking his own mark of 52.60. The time also qualifies him for the NCAA meet which will be held in two weeks in Huntington, Calif. Hamilton failed to qualify in the 200 backstroke, placing a disap pointing fourth. “Steve is one of the top ten backstrokers and should have beat the time standards by two sec onds,” Schleicher said. “He was not in the race mentally. He should have gone out in 54 seconds for the first 100 yards but his first 50 time indicated that he would have to do a negative split to make it. "Steve realized it and gave up,” Schleicher added. "I feel respon sible because of the performance there.” Paul Buvick was the other indi vidual winner for the Ducks, nab bing the 50 freestyle with a time of 21.85. Other bright performances came from Jay Evans in the free style events, Tom Gamble in the backstroke and I.M., and Tack Goodell in the butterfly events, a swimmer who Schleicher credits as being the most improved team member. r 687-2823 ‘on campus’ r3ke note; Our services are free to you! EUGENE TRAVEL 831 E. 13th St. Eugene, Oregon CLOSE-OUT ALL INVENTORY MUST GO! TREMENDOUS VALUES ON ALL: 25% OFF ON ALL Diamond engagement sets, and other diamond jewelry TREMENDOUS VALUES ON ALL Wedding bands, all lady’s and gent’s 14 kt., gold-filled, and sterling jewelry Fantastic prices on all Seiko, Citizen, Caravelle, and Arnex Watches! Prices slashed on our fine giftware and sea shells. RUN, DON’T WALK TO BRISTOW’S JEWELERS IN THE BROADWAY DEPARTMENT STORE BY THE BIG STREET CLOCK. At 30 E. BROADWAY IN THE DOWNTOWN MALL Beavers romp Ducks fall to ills in Pac-8 CORVALLIS — Oregon had its problems here but Oregon State had none as the Beavers beat the Ducks and everybody else for The Pac-8 wrestling crown in the conference meet over the weekend. The Beavers won six of the 10 individual events in the cham pionships, with Washington, Washington State, UCLA, and Cal getting firsts in the four other spots. Oregon, meanwhile, was flat tened by the flu and ended the meet in fourth for their lowest finish in five years. The Ducks had two wrestlers in the finals, but Scott Bliss (150) and Randy Besaw (177) both lost to their Oregon State opponents. Bliss, one of the favorites at 150, was bothered by chest con gestion, and was beaten by OSU’s Ron Ziebart, 13-5. Ten of Ziebart’s points came on take downs of Bliss, who was too weak to put up much of a fight. Besaw’s loss was a bit closer, although it ended up a 12-6 win for the Beavers’ Marty Ryan. Ryan held a slim 7-6 edge with one mi nute to go in the match, but scored on a takedown and a near fall to win it. Oregon’s two other top conten ders, Don Brown (190) and Dan Hollembaek (158) fell into hard times in the semi-finals. Brown, who had set a school record for pins this season, had the tables turned on him this time as Fred Bonha of UCLA nailed Brown with 4:58 gone in the match. Bohna went on to lose to Oregon State’s Howard Harris in the fi nals, 9-5. Hollembaek fared little better. After suffering a groin injury early in his semi-final, Hollembaek couldn’t quite catch up to UCLA's Mike Burgher and lost aclose one, 12-10. Burgher won the 158-pound division with a 7-6 edg ing of OSU’s Bob Hess. Brown finished third in the meet by defeating Jay Sullivan of third place Washington, 10-8, while Hollembaek lost in that bracket to Roy Glenn of Cal. Oregon had four other wrestlers in the consolation finals, but the Ducks captured only one match as Norm Knight won at 118. Oregon totaled 46 points for their fourth place finish, while Oregon State walloped everyone with a total of 101%. The Huskies had 601/2 with UCLA third with 50%. Finals 11*—Pat Plourd, Oregon State, d. Tom Good win, Washington State, 17-4. 126—Mike Bauer, Oregon State, d. Cart Mangrum, Washington, 13-7 134—Bobby Sparks, Washington, d. Dan Cabal lero, Oregon State. 10-3.142—Dan Hicks, Oregon State, p. Doug Smith, Washington, 608 150—Ron Zlebart, Oregon State, d. Scott Biss, Oregon, 13-5. 158—Mike Burgher. UCLA, d. Bob Hess. Oregon State, 7-6.187—Mike James, Washington State, d. Richard Evans, Washington, 14-9. 177—Marly Ryan, Oregon State, d. Randy Besaw, Oregon 12-6. 190—Howard Harris, Oregon State, d. Fred Bohna, UCLA, 9-5. Heavyweight—George Mos kowite. Caifornia, p Mike Garrison, Washington, 1:10. Team Oregon State 10114, Washington 60V4, UCLA 5014, Oregon 46, Calfomia 32, Washington State 30y«, Stanford 3V4. VW’S MERCEDES BMW’S DATSUN TOYOTA GUENTER SCHOENER 2025 Franklin bw. 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