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Civil War! Ducks’ and Beavers’ women b-ballers face off today in crucial league contest By MARK STEWART Of the Emerald The women’s basketball team travels to Corvalis for their first road game of the year against Oregon State this afternoon. The Ducks, with a 9-0 season and 4-0 in Northwest Women’s Basketball League record, face the Beavers, 7-1 on the season and 3-1 in NWBL play, in Gill Col iseum at 5 p.m. “The gym will be different; it will be empty behind the baskets and they’ve got scoreboards be hind the backboards. We’ve got to be really sharp and really concert trate,” says Oregon coach Elwin Heiny. “We know Oregon State is a much improved team. They play very good defense and they do have good size.” Carol Menken, 6’4", has been the Beavers main offensive weapon this year, leading the NWBL in scoring (25.1 points per game). In her iast three games she has scored, in order, 30, 37 and 38 points. Her 38 points against Oregon College of Educa tion was an OSU record. She also has been rebounding at an 12.6 per game clip, second in the Stow away your books; the Super Bowl is on! LOS ANGELES (AP) — NBC is getting stiffed in the ratings. It faces dismal prospects for the near future. But for one day, at least, the No. 3 network has the only show in town. Super Bowl Sunday Inads on NBC's calendar this year, and the other two networks might as well shut down operations until it's over. This isn't a holiday. It's a na tional obligation. Super Bowl parties are thrown by people who don't know what a football is. Football widows who considered divorce during the regular season suddenly start talk ing point spreads. Competing en tertainment enterprises, such as race tracks, plan their events around it. The game is always dull. And we always watch it. So you can’t blame NBC for milking the thing. Ratings have re vealed America's gluttonous ap petite for the Super Bowl, and NBC is more than happy to cater the affair. The feast starts Saturday with "Super Bowl Saturday Night," an inane variety-type show in which athletes and actors sing and dance and do other things people wouldn't ordinarily watch them do. sports haps Th# woman travel to Cotvalte tonight lor ■ 5 pm women's haahathall version ot me CMI War with Oregon Stele The men meet Washington State In Putt men Saturday night at 8 Wreeling The Duck grapptere play host to Arizona tontffM at 730 in Mac Cain Saturday me team travata to Seattle for a meet with Waahtngtcn The men travel to Arizona tomtit and Arizona Star tomorrow, while me women entertain Cel Staie-Chico Saturday at 130 pm m Mac Cotat. Boil the men and the women wM be in Seatttn tonight lor a 7 p.m con tael aim Washington Saturday both tea me travel to Simon Fraear Unireraty it Bril ah Columbia The men* meet gate underway at 130p.m. and the woman's at 7 p.m. woodside brewery ^etSTAuftAm • Tauten • otsco Join us In the woods. 2166 W. 111h Av«. This gives O.J. Simpson the op portunity to show that, as a TV star, he's still the greatest running back of all. Then, when you ’re still clearing the sleep from your eyes Sunday morning, NBC is waiting in your living room, beckoning you to the tube. Dick Enberg, who should be calling the game, hosts one and-a-half hours of Sports World, followed by two hours of football junk. They think well sit and watch three-and-a-half hours of prefoot ball football. We will. "You know, I've looked at past Super Bowls and wondered if it's too much,” says Chet Simmons, head of NBC sports. league to Oregon’s Bev Smith. "Menken is the tallest player we ll see,” Heiny says. When asked how the Ducks would de fend Menken, he replied, “We'll play her like we play everyone. We won't change anything. If we could play good team defense like we did against Hawaii (holding the Rainbows to just nine points in the second half), our team will come together." "Our team is very dependent on defense,” says Oregon State’s first year coach Aki Hall. “But Oregon is 10 (points per game) ahead of us offensively.” Both teams like to run, and Hall says the key for Oregon State is controlling the tempo. “If we let them play their tempo, they will run over us. I just told my players we have to play our tempo. Oregon is very strong on rebounding. “The key for us is how we keep our intensity on defense. Bev Smith likes to play full court games.” The Beavers also have a pair of fine guards, Betty Collins, the league leader in assists with nearly six each game, and Mangy Becker, who is third in the league in assists with a 4.5 average. In OSU’s game with Boise State, Collins passed out a school record with 12 assists. DUCK NOTES—Bev Smith was named NWBL player of the week for her 58 point 47 rebound, three game series last week. She scored 35 points, grabbed 17 re bounds and had nine steals against Boise State. Women gymnasts meet Chico State The women’s gymnastics team, 6-0 on the season, will be shooting for a season high 130 points when they entertain Cal State-Chico Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Mac Court. “We know very little about Chico State, but it will be good to Women sports banquet slated The Fall Women’s Sports Awards Dessert will be held Sun day at 730 p.m. in Gelinger Hall. Women athletes who partici pated in field hockey, volleyball and crosscountry will be honored. The public is invited. be home with good equipment,” says coach Henrietta Heiny. “Our team goal is to reach 130 points this weekend and to show more consistency on the balance beam.” The Ducks hit a season high of 126.72 in their dual meet win over Montana last week. Freshman Dawn Haberland won the vault (8.46) and the all-around title with 33.22 points. Teammates Wendy Halberg (first on the bars with 8.26 points) and Sara Gustafson (first on the beam, 7.90, and the floor, 8.46) completed the Oregon sweep of the meet. 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