Ducks kept running ’til they won
By KEN SANDS
Of the Emeratd
When the Lone Ranger and the
basketball pep band ignited the
crowd at McArthur Court Friday
night, it was just like old times, but
a fast break and a 75-64 win over
San Diego State, made obvious
the changes.
Coach Jim Haney's new "transi
tion game" provided constant ex
citement, but in the end it was the
Duck defense that won the game.
“The complexion of the game
changed with 14 minutes left in the
contest when our defense forced
them out of their offense," safe
Haney.
Defense had the fans cheering
as in years past, but even it was
different. "We overplayed one
pass away and tried to deflect or
intercept passes,” said Haney.
Last year’s sagging defense re
sulted in fewer fast break oppor
tunities according to senior co
captain Rob Qoss. "The defense
set tge tempo for the offense,” he
says.
Closs led the team with 16
points and made all 10 of his free
throws late in the game, as the
visitors committed desperation
fouls. Senior co-captain Kelvin
Small, junior Dan Hartshome and
freshman Barry Walker each
added nine.
That's the balanced scoring that
Haney was looking for. Offen
sively we did not execute well, but
we were productive enough to
win,” he said.
Improvement throughout the
game was evident said Haney, as
turnovers were reduced from 17 in
the first half to 11 in the second
half. “I told them at halftime that I
thought the first half looked like
the first intrasquad game.’’ he
said.
But in the second half the up
perclassmen took control. Small
brought the crowd to its feet sev
eral times with five rebounds, a
blocked shot and a full-court pass
that resulted in a Stu Lyon lay-in.
What was the difference in the
halves? ‘We didn't block out in the
first half,” said Small.
Hartshorne blocked out his
opponent Steve Malovic well
enough to grab 10 rebounds
though. The 6-10 postman also
passed for six assists. “We had to
read the defense and adjust the
passes to it,” he explained.
It worked to Haney’s pleasure.
“Of our 13 second half field goals,
11 were off of assists—that’s a big
difference. ’ he said. “We got four
erf five key baskets from passes
inside."
Freshmen come through
as wrestlers win opener
Just as coach Ron Finley ex
pected Oregon's wrestlers won
their first match, beating Eastern
Washington 37-6 Saturday night
in Mac Court.
And as Finley had hoped, the
Ducks' freshmen lightweights
wrestled well, winning three of
four matches. But after it was all
over, Finley admitted hts team s
performance reflected its youth.
“I’m pleased with the win, of
course, and I'm pleased with the
margin (of victory),’’ he said. “Bas
icaSy, I wanted to see how the
team would perform outside of the
wrestling room. For the first per
formance some of the guys have a
lot to learn, but I was really
pleased with the younger guys in
the lower weights.”
Freshman 118-pounder Adam
Cuestes, who won 108 of his 109
matches last year (hts only loss
was a default when he slammed
his opponent to the mat too hard),
won the opening match by forfeit
but did have a chance to display
his talents. In an exhibition, he
easily outpointed Randy Garcia of
Umpqua Community College,
who appeared to have a distinct
weight advantage over Cuestes
' Let’s just say he (Cuestes)
weighs almost 118 pounds," Fin
ley said with a sly grin.
In the second match at 126
pounds, freshman Russ Miller fell
behind EWU’s Rubin Martinez 8-1
after the first period, but then tied
the score 8-8 after two periods be
fore eventually losing 13-10.
Miller, who was third in Califor
nia the past two years, said the
longer periods in college affected
him. In high school ail three
periods last two minutes, while in
college the first period is two mi
nutes long, but the second and
third last three minutes
each. Tonight was a lot tougher
than high school, especially be
cause of the longer periods,” Mil
ler said. ”1 made mistakes in this
match I shouldn’t have.”
Miller was the only freshman to
lose, but Finley was still very
pleased with his performance
“Even though he lost, he made an
excellent effort. He just kept mak
ing the same mistake over and
over, but I wasn t disappointed in
Russ’s effort at all."
The error of Miller's ways was
his failure to lift his opponent off
the mat when he had him by the
ankle. Instead, Miller let Martinez
stay on the ground and gain a re
versal to go ahead for good 10-8.
Freshman Bill Nugent (134
pounds) beat Larry Bush 7-2, de
spite receiving a cut under Ns eye
that required stitching in the tNrd
period.
Oregon’s fourth freshman,
Jimmy Hildebrand, defeated Jay
Breckenridge, a senior, 19-7 in the
142-pound class, while Duck all
American Scott Bliss (150
pounds) was pushed to the end by
Dave Rimnitz before winning 9-8
on a takedown with just 48 sec
onds left.
Barry Boyles and No Neck
Brown recorded Oregon’s only
pins of fte night In the 158-pound
class Boyles flattened Tim Bratten
with 1 35 gone in the first period,
while Brown (190 pounds) pinned
Guitierrez with 6:18 gone in the
match.
In the remaining classes, the
Ducks' Leonard Simon (167)
super-decistoned Uoyd Cherry
20-8. Mike Stolp of EWU stopped
Oregon s Ryan Kelly 14-3 at 177
pounds and Oregon heavyweight
Craig Schoene beat Dan Thew
8-3.
The victory was Finley’s 99th as
head coach of the Ducks. Wed
nesday Oregon wiN go after No.
100 for Finley when the Ducks
travel to California for a 7:30 p.m.
contest with the Bears.
Women make national presence felt
in volleyball and field hockey tourneys
An eighth place finish in the na
tional tournament by the field hoc
key team and qualification to the
national tournament by the vol
leyball team marked a highly suc
cessful weekend for Oregon
women s athletics.
The CXjck stickers, under the
guidance of first-year coach Nancy
Plantz, won their first match ever
in a national tournament after fail
ing to register a victory in previous
tries the past three years. Oregon
opened the tourney with a 3-1 loss
to Virginia but bounced back to
whip Central Washington 4-0 and
Connecticut 1-0 in three over
times. The Ducks next met St.
Louis University, who eventually
finished fifth overall, and fefl 2-0.
In the fight for seventh place
Oregon was beated 2-0 by Long
Beach State
West Chester State won the na
tional title for the fourth straight
year, followed by Delaware, San
Jose State (who earner in the year
beat Oregon 2-0), Massachusetts
and St Louis.
The breakthrough into the top
eight by three West Coast teams
(San Jose, Long Beach and
Oregon) and two Midwest squads
(St Louis and Southern Illinois)
denotes a change in the balance
of power in the four-year-old na
tional tournament that has
tradctionaty been dominated by
Eastern schools
Oregon finished its season un
defeated in Region 9 play and
25-4 overall
The Duck volleyballers. who
have a first-year head coach of
their own, Chris Voelz, shocked
defending regional champion
Washington State en route to a
third place finish and a berth in the
national tournament that will be
held Dec. 7-9 in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama.
In the preliminary to the champ
ionship match the Ducks defeated
the Beavers in five games for third
place, and then Portland State
downed Washington—giving
Oregon the right to go to Tus
caloosa.
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Walker received several of
these passes, and created a few
of his own. “Barry is like everyone
else—when he was confident he
pushed with the ball,” stated
Haney.
aoss and Lyon controlled the
bad late in the game and drew
praise from the coach. “In the
second half the guards settled
down, and they settled the team
down.
Closs said the offense im
proved in the second hatf. “ For the
first game, I think our offense was
pretty efficient.*’
Thinking basketball is neces
sary, said Haney during the pre
season. “We want to become the
soundest team in the league men
tally. Becoming an effective team,
designed to get the ball to the
player closest to the basket will be
one area of concentration. Shoot
ing improvement will be the
other.’’
Friday’s shooting percentage of
58 is a gam on last year’s confer
ence mark of 41 percent Again,
Haney was pleased.
With much the same team, why
the change9 There are several
reasons. The nature of ihe new
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offense provides more “easy”
shots, and the new coaching
philosophy has relieved much
pressure. “I was recruited as a
shooter, and if I shot and missed
last year I was out of the game,”
explained junior John Murray.
Small describes a change in
emotion from tension to expecta
tion. “ If s a different kind of f eeli ng.
This year you can anticipate
something happening, and it gets
the adrenalin flowing more and
more," he sad.
Hartshome felt the anticipation
in another way too. “ I’m excited for
the whole program. We needed to
get off on the right foot, and we got
what we needed,” he sad.
But before anyone begins think
ing too far ahead, Hartshome
cautioned, "It's going to take time.
This was just the first game in pre
season."
But it was more than just a pre
season for the curious
spectators—and for the coach.
Said Haney of his coaching debut,
"It sure is nice to get that first one."
Haney and the Ducks' next
chance for a win comes Wednes
day night when they entertain
Sacramento State.
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