Cagers level guns at No. 1
By JODY MURRAY
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The Oregon men's basketball squad demon
strated Monday night that any reports of their
death were greatly exaggerated as they canned
Cal-Berkeley, 87-80.
At about the same time, Oregon State’s team
was being told the defeat of DePaul had indeed
nudged them to the top of the nation's heap.
One program hits the peak, while the other
shows signs of climbing up. And they meet for the
second time this season Saturday at 4 p.m. at Gill
Coliseum in Corvallis.
The Beavers, of course, won the first round in a
67-57 decisions in the final of the Far West
Classic.
The key to that game was free throws — or a
lack thereof. The Ducks were blitzed at the free
throw line, 25-9. However, Oregon led OSU in field
goals made, 24-21.
The Ducks have since surpassed the Beavers in
free throws — 70 to 66 percent. But OSU holds a
58 to 50 field goal percentage edge.
With a 22-point performance against the Bears,
Oregon’s Mike Clark raised his season scoring
average to 15.5 points per game. It was the 11th
straight game in which Clark has scored in double
figures. He’s averaged 18.4 in the 11-game
stretch.
Freshman guard Fred Cofield shed a brief
shooting slump to bomb the Bears for 18 points.
His season average is now 11.8.
Cofield’s counterpart at OSU, Ray Blume, is
popping in 10.8 points a game. Like Cofield,
Blume is the Beaver’s playmaker and one of the
quickest people on OSU’s squad.
Blume's play is overshadowed by the accolades
heaped upon 6-10 center Steve Johnson. After
flirting with the 80 percent mark in field goals,
Johnson has settled into a comfortable
77-percent clip. More than likely he’ll break his
own NCAA record of .710, set last year.
Johnson, naturally, leads OSU with 18.9 points
a game
Belief in long-fanged ogres and the tooth fairy is
not a prerequisite to believing Oregon might win
this one.
Besides the free throw factor, the Ducks have
two things they didn't have less than a week ago.
One is the return of Ray Whiting and Barry
Walker. Whiting may be rusty, but he’s available,
and that’s more than Oregon could say six days
ago. And despite missing two games, Walker still
leads the team in assists.
The other is a sudden reduction in turnovers.
After averaging 12 per game, the Ducks
committed only eight against Cal.
"We got this momentum from tonight," said
Oregon guard John Cheatham after Cal when
asked about OSU. "We’re gonna get ’em."
Gymnasts face test in quadrangle meet
A wounded women’s gym
nastics team will be tested again
this Saturday when the Ducks
host a quadrangular meet at
McArthur Court starting at I p.m.
The Ducks, 2-0 in dual meets
this season, will face the
University of Alberta, San Fran
cisco State University and Cal
State-Hayward University. The
young Oregon squad is the
meet favorite, although
Hayward, which finshed
seventh in the AIAW Division III
meet last year is expected to
challenge the Ducks.
Leading the Oregon squad,
which defeated Portland State ‘
University 129.5-109.15 last
week, is Junior all-arounder Sa
ra Gustafson, who scored 33.70
to win the all-around at the PSU
meet, vault 9.10, beam 8.20 and
floor exercises 8.45.
Freshman standouts Maur
een Nolan, who scored 32.2,
and Holly Holmes, who scored
31.75, were second and third in
the all-around at Portland State.
Challenging the Oregon
women for individual honors will
be Hayward’s Nancy Hemeon,
who finished llth at the AIAW
Division III nationals, and Betsy
Skellengen, who finished 20th
at nationals.
Judge refuses
to drop charges
EUGENE (AP) - A motion for
dismissal of theft charges
against former University assis
tant basketball coaches Mark
Barwig and Ron Billingslea was
denied by Lane County Circuit
Judge Douglas Spencer
Wednesday night.
Billingslea, accused of taking
$1,680 from a secret recruiting
travel fund, will face trial Feb. 4
Barwig, charged with taking
$2,000 in University funds, will
be tried on April 29. The alleged
thefts occurred in I978.
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The Ducks continue to look
strong this season despite the
loss of all-arounders Dawn
Haberland, Chris Krueger and
freshman Nancy Krogseng to
injuries.
The key to winning the PSU
meet, says Oregon coach Hen
riette Heiny, was strong perfor
mances from freshman Nolan
and Holmes and walk-on Lynn
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Fenton.
"Maureen (Nolan) is an
agressive, assertive performer
who doesn’t hold back. Holly
Holmes, competing in her first
meet of the season, won the
bars (8.20), despite a fall.
The season is still quite young
and we’re still building our per
formance level,” says Heiny.
“But we’re getting there."
OSU features pressure
defense against Ducks
By TAMARA SWENSON
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Pressure defense versus
explosive offense.
Oregon State University’s
women’s basketball team has
spared no expense in promot
ing tonight’s Civil War match
up between OSU and Oregon,
taking out a two-column ad
vertisement in the Oregonian
touting themselves as the
"pressure defense" team ver
sus Oregon’s "explosive
offense.”
The Duck women had one
reaction to the ad Thursday:
Oregon has both defense and
offense while the Beavers will
fall behind in both.
OSU is Oregon’s toughest
league foe and the only team
expected to challenge the
Ducks in their quest for a
second straight Region 9
crown.
The last time OSU defeated
the Ducks was in 1979
regional final, since then the
Beavers have come close,
falling to Oregon by one point,
72-71, in the semifinals of this
season’s Guisti Tournament,
but not close enough.
The Beaver’s bring a talent
ed and experienced squad in
to tonight’s 7:30 p.m. contest
at Gill Coliseum. Carol Men
ken, OSU'S 6-5 center, leads
the nation in scoring with an
average 30.1 points a game,
rum
shooting 72.9 percent.
“At the Guisti, in the first half
we couldn’t handle it too well,”
said OSU coach Aki Hill. In the
second half we saw the other
side of Menken.
Menken is backed up by
guards Betty Collings and
Margy Becker, who lead
OSU’s halfcourt defense. *
Oregon will be responding
to OSU’s inside threat with full
pressure, said 5-3 Oregon
guard Allison Towriss. “The
more time we can make them
take to get the ball down the
court to Menken the less time
she’ll have to score.”
Oregon's defense will con
centrate on pressure and con
trol, while the offense works to
score, Towriss said. "It kinda
seemed almost that we lost our
nerve in the second half (of the
Guisti). We were too cautious
and didn’t get in to score —
and we’re usually a second
half team.”
“We’ve got to play better
pressure defense than they
do,” Oregon coach Elwin
Heiny told his players during
Thursday’s workout. “Show
them who the pressure team is
— Oregon.”
“It’ll be a good match-up,”
Adams said. “Their pressure
defense is a pressure defense,
but because there’s so much
pressure you can get through
it real easy.”
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