Beavers’ accuracy destroys Ducks
By JODY MURRAY
Of the Emerald
Oregon State's Steve Johnson
pumped in 20 points, teammate Jeff
Stoutt came off the bench to score 18,
and Oregon spent all Thursday night
trying to find the basket as the Beavers
trounced the Ducks, 78-61.
Before a capacity and sometimes
thunderous McArthur Court crowd, the
Beavers hit nine of their first 10 shots and
finished with a school-record 72.5 field
goal percentage to record their 20th
season win against no losses.
Oregon fell to 10-11 and 3-9 in the
Pacific-10 Conference.
OSU's opening burst put rthem in
charge of the game, while Oregon's
atrocious shooting kept them there. The
Ducks shot a wincing 40.7 percent from
the field, and only 32 percent in the first
half.
“We plaxed like a team that’s been
hurt by losing two in the Bay Area,’’ said
Oregon coach Jim Haney, referring to
last weekend’s setbacks to Cal and
Stanford. “We didn’t want to go out and
give it all and give it with heart.”
Informed of Oregon State’s field goal
performance, Haney admitted “its tough
to beat anybody that shoots 72 percent.”
Johnson had his usual phemonenal
night, scoring six of eight from the field
and eight of 10 from the line. This was
despite early foul trouble that made OSU
coach Ralph Miller yank his star center
with 14:14 left in the first half.
Johnson sat out the rest of the half, but
the Beavers didn’t seem to mind as Mark
Radford zipped in all five of his shots for
10 points. Felton Sealey was high-point
man in the first half for the frustrated
Ducks with seven. Sealey finished the
game with a team-high 12 points.
But the emphasis in this game was not
on any individual — the hero Thursday
night was the entire Oregon State suad
and its mentor, Miller. With a nationally
televised game against St. Johns waiting
for them Saturday, the Beavers chalked
up a fat, heavy mark for their claim to the
top spot on the polls.
“They’re playing with a lot of con
fidence,” Haney said. “They believe in
what they’re doing."
“That’s the number-one team, a great
OSU sets school field goal mark
team," said Oregon's Fred Cofield, who
finished with 10 points and seven assists.
"They plaxed well out there."
John Greig, who overcame a tender
knee to score 11 points for the Ducks,
had a conditional assessment of his
opponents.
“I don’t know," he said, “we’ll see
Saturday. But you have to give them their
due — they’ve beaten us three times."
Because of that unsavory distinction,
Haney has one of the best viewpoints of
Beavs feel near-perfect,
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They come about as close to
perfection as any college basketball
team has a.right to expect.
Watching them move the ball up the
court is like watching Rembrandt paint
one of his masterpieces. On defense
they remind you of a diamond cutter, ail
precision, a finely honed cutting edge
They are Oregon State, and
Thursday night in McArthur Court the
Beavers proved just how good they are,
shelling Oregon by a 78-61 margin in a
Pac-10 conference game
"I think we have progressed as far as
we can," said OSU coach Ralph Miller
of his top-ranked, undefeated (20-0)
Beavers
"The only weak link we had for some
time has been Jeff (Stoutt) and he’s
come back out of the doldrums.'
Although Stoutt scored 18 points
(including eight of nine from the field)
and passed out six assists, this was a
team effort by the Beavers.
Stoutt’s performance seemed to be
just one wheel of a many-wheeled
machine, each piece having its own
specific role in the movement of the
machine as a whole.
Stop one cog and another one pops
up to beat you. Stop that cog and
another one seems to avpear
"I’ve been saying all year," said
Miller, "that I can substitute from my
bench and not lose any strength."
Center Steve Johnson, who hit for 20
potnis, tnciuatng six or eignt from the
field and eight of 10 from the foul line,
thinks that is why the Beavers could be
unstoppable.
But what about Ralph Sampson and
the Virginia Cavaliers, the other
number-one-ranked team in tme
nation?
“He would create problems for me
because of his size, but I think we could
present problems for him. He can't beat
us by himself, and although he has
good players around him I think we
have more depth all the way down the
bench,” said Johnson.
“Besides, I don’t think he's ever seen
any team that can pass the ball around
like we do."
Against the Ducks. Oregon State
passed well enough to register 21
assists on 29 baskets And if that isn’t
impressive, they also shot .725 from the
field as a team.
“People have been criticizing our
play lately and tonight J think we dug
down and played well,*’ explained
senior guard Mark Radford, who had 13
points on the night.
“We stuck with our offense and
except for some calls by the officials at
the end, we kept our composure."
All too true, agreed Oregon coach
Jim Haney.
“Oregon State should be happy with
the way it played before an Oregon
crowd,” said Haney.
“You are not going to beat anyone
who shoots more than 72 percent ”
the Beaver's progress. Was Thursday
night the best game OSU has played
against the Ducks?
"That’s difficult to access,” Haney
said, "They played good in Gill (Colise
um in Corvallis), they were good to
night...” He paused . “The cir
cumstances were tougher here, they had
no home crowd, so they had to be
pleased with what they accomplished.”
Oregon managed to hang onto the
Beavers for the first three minutes of the
game, but then OSU broke a 4-4 tie with
10 unanswered points, led by three
Radford jumpers.
Two eight-foot jumpers by Cofield
pulled Oregon back to a 28-23 deficit
with 2:24 left in the half. Cofield then
fouled William Brew, and Haney waved
his awns at his sides as Brew stepped to
the line. The sporadically enthusiastic
Mac Court crowd responded with a
deafening racket and Brew missed one
of two.
But Radford popped in an 18 footer
with 1:15 to go and a last-second field
goal attempt by Clark was deflected The
half ended with the Beavers up 31-23.
“In the first half we almost played
afraid," Haney said. "We were tentative
with what we wanted to do."
"We can't wait for the crowd to do
something for us," Greig said. "Although
it was nice for (seniors) Mike and Felton,
and the young kids haven’t heard it a
lot.”
"It was a good crowd," said Cofield.
"They came to see us uvset them. And
we could’ve. State faithfuls, who were
sometimes louder than the Duck fans,
roared their approval.
Oregon was left to comtemplate the
night’s events and the pain of its first
losing season record this year.
"The ball just wasn’t dropping," Clark
said. "That’s the way it went tonight.
"They were were pretty much in con
trol of the whole game," Clark added.
"What can I say?”
Not much. The Beavers said it all.
Oregon - Sealey 4 4-6 12, Greig 4 3-311, Cofield 5 10.
Clark 4 1-1 9, Whiting 2 5-7 9, Cheatham 2 4, Walker 2 4
Burns 1 2. Totals — 24 13-17 61
Oregon State — Johnson 6 8-10 20, Stoutt 8 2-2 18,
Radford 5 3-5 13. Sitton 3 6, Conner 1 2-4 4, Blume 2 4,
McShane 1 2-2 4, Holbrook 2 4, Evans 1 2-2 4 Totals —
40 20-29 78
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