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Ducks challenge Washington foes
Struggling men seek
end to losing streak
Oregon’s men’s basketball team will be looking to
break a four-game losing streak when they host
Washington State University today and the University of
Washinton Saturday at McArthur Court. Both games will
start at 8:10 p.m.
Oregon, 10-11 this season and 3-8 in the Pacific-10
Conference, is coming off an eight-day rest after losing
to Oregon State, 78-61. Before that were consecutive
losses to Stanford, Cal-Berkeley and UCLA
Oregon coach Jim Haney says the one-week layoff
was beneficial, especially for the mental level of the
team.
"I think it was valuable for us to take a step back,"
Haney says. “Our mental status was in a negative form
of mind."
Haney has been pleased with the practices so far
this week, and feels the Ducks can bounce back from
the season-low .407 shooting performance against the
Beavers.
"There’s been a little more crispness in our shoot
ing during the practices," Haney says, who saw his
team toss up three or four consecutive shots under the
basket against OSU without scoring.
Making those high-percentage shots will be es
sential against Washington, which allowed Oregon 91
points earlier this season but scored 102 points of their
own.
Haney wouldn’t be surprised if another scorefest
occurs in Mac Court. “I’m not content to walk the ball up
the court," he says, adding his hopes that the Ducks will
play better defense than the last Husky outing.
The Huskies, 6-7 and 12-10, played some impres
sive basketball against the Arizona schools last wee
kend, losing both games by only two points apiece.
The Cougars, on the other hand, have the distinc
tion of being the only team Oregon has defeated on the
road — a 70-66 decision in Pullman.
League games await
14th-ranked women
With only five home games remaining on its regular
season schedule, Oregon’s 14th-ranked women’s bas
ketball team is aiming for another perfect league record
and top-seeding in the regional tournament.
The Ducks, 7-0 in league play and 18-5 this season,
will take on Washington State University tonight and
Eastern Washington State University Saturday. Tip-off
time for both games is 5:45 as the women open two
doubleheaders, while the men will follow with Pac-10
foes.
Both games should provide some tough competi
tion, says Duck coach Elwin Heiny, whose team has
won 36 straight league games. The Cougars will again
be lead by Jeanne Eggart, who sat out last season.
Eggart is averaging 23.8 points a game for the
Cougars, who sport an 11-10 season record
’’She’s their top player," Heiny said. “And they
(WSU) are probably the top team on that side of the
league.” WSU and Eastern Washington, members of
Region 9’s Mountain Division, are currently in a three
way tie with Montana for first place in the division. All
three teams have 4-3 league records.
The Eagles have had a rocky season, though, says
Heiny. "Eastern Washington was favored in its division.
They are the tallest as far as average height, but they
have no performaned totally up to their potential this
season."
The Eagles, who start four people 6-0 or taller, won
the Mountain Division last season and finished third at
the Region 9 tournament. They are 9-12 this season.
"We won’t worry about what they might do,” says
Heiny. "We’ll just go out in both games and play our
game. I'm sure our defense can take them out of their
game."
Fans must have tickets to the men’s games to see
the women’s games. But KRVM (91.9 FM) will broadcast
both women’s games beginning at 5:35 p.m.
Emerald photo
Oregon's Mike Clark should key the Duck offense as the
men face two Washington foes in a doubleheader with
the women tonight and Saturday.
Axe may fall on gymnastics, swim teams
By JODY MURRAY
Of fhe Emerald
Both men’s and women's
swimming and gymnastics
teams are being recommended
by the athletic department to be
dropped from the program.
The recommendation,
proposed Thursday night by
Athletic Director John Caine
will be sent to the Intercollegiate
Athletic Committee. The com
mittee, composed of faculty,
students and community
representatives, will send its
recommendation to Acting
Pres. Paul Olum for final affir
mation.
Caine will also recommend
that the remaining 16 sports be
split into two classifications —
national and regional. Caine
would not say how those
classifications would be dis
tributed.
The committee, chaired by
Paul Swadener, associate
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professor of finance, will con
sider Caine’s proposals at
meetings next week.
The cuts are a result of a
$375,000 budget deficit in
curred this year by the athletic
department. Caine said his
proposal is based on “absolute
necessity" and are the result of
a review of eight criteria, of
which cost was the most critical.
"I am very much opposed to
dropping any sports,’’ Caine
saia, and I have the greatest
admiration for the sports that I
am forced to recommend to be
dropped.
“But neccessity has over
come any of these considera
tions. It needs to be understood
that we must yet identify addi
tional areas of expense reduc
tion, because income potential
is beginning to level off, and we
in athletics have specific direc
tives from the University admin
istration that the budget is to be
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balanced and the debt eliminat
ed.”
Caine said the four programs
represent a cost of $197,728 for
this year’s budget. Dropping the
two men's programs would
leave the University with the
minimum of eight men’s sports
necessary for NCAA member
ship.
The national or regional
priority for the surviving sports
entails saving costs by limiting
travel of certain programs.
A ‘ great effort” is still
required to balance this year’s
budget, Caine said, and he
hoped a major concert at Aut
zen Stadium this June could
help achieve it. The last Autzen
concert was June 1978, featur
ing the Grateful Dead.
Virginia Van Rossen, the
women’s swimming coach, felt
the proposal is misdirected.
“It’s not going to save a lot of
money,” she said. "I can’t un
derstand it. They’re cutting the
wrong sport."
Unlike the gymnastics pro
grams, men’s and women’s
swimming is only partially fund
ed by the athletic department.
Except for the coaches’ salar
ies, most of the team's costs are
covered by fund-raising activi
ties.
"There are still (budget-cut
ting) solutions where we don’t
have to cut sports,” said Van
Rossen, who hopes the com
mittee will "do what’s fair and
logical.”