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CASH For Textbooks Mon -Fri Smith Family Bookstore 768 E 13th 1 Bl From Campus 34 S- 16S1 TEETH Ignore them and they will go away Teeth Cleaning and Exam 525 Will Mommgsun D.O.S. Thomas R. Huhn D.D.S. call for appointment 746-6517 1V2 miles from campus next to the Bike Path 528 Mill St Springfield UNIVERSITY THEATRE presents THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF DANCE DANCE for tickets and information call University Theatre box office 686-4191 J emerald sports Oregon men down Cougars 60-56 By Steve Spate Of ttf EnwaU If they were coming to McArthur Court to watch an ex citing college basketball game. Oregon fans would have been better off arriving late Saturday night to catch Oregon's 60-56 win over Washington State In fact, very late. Those fans in attendance for the first 38 minutes of play wit nessed an exhibition of lousy rebounding, sloppy passing and slow-reacting defense on the Ducks' part. In turn, the Cougars seemed to determined not to allow the Ducks to fall to their fourth straight Pacific 10 Conference defeat But those who were just set tling into their seats at the two minute mark saw Oregon come to life and play heads-up bas ketball down the stretch. With the score tied 55-55 and 1:10 left, Oregon’s Barry Walker swiped the ball from WSU's Ty rone Brown in the backcourt, then unselfishly dished off to a streaking Dave Brantley for the go-ahead layup After that it was a matter of the Ducks intelligently stopping WSU's final offensive chance, then hitting a few free throws to push Oregon to 3-3 in Pacific 10 Conference standings, and give them momentumn for tonight's Mac Court matchup against the Washington Huskies (8 p.m.) “I'm quite pleased with the win,” croaked Oregon coach Jim Haney, battling the effects of a cold and 40 minutes of screaming at referees "We played with good intensity down the stretch — enough to win anyway "That was such an unselfish play by Barry at the end It was a nice way to win it." "When he (Brown) came up the court I said to myself ‘Hey, I gotta go for it’ ” said Walker, who has matured immeasuably in his last season. Dribbling hard for the hoop, Walker drew the lone Cougar safety away from the bucket to him, then passed off to Brantley “I saw Dave hustling down the floor out of the corner of my eye and I flipped it in his direction.” The Cougars never re grouped after that Brown launched an off-balance 17 footer with 20 seconds that car omed into Brantley s hands WSU then was left with fouling Oregon four times in the next 12 seconds to no avail Before switching to a man-to man in the latter stages, Oregon opened with a new variation of Continued on Page 9 Photo by Dovtd Corny “Grace" wasn’t always the byword ol the Ducks against WSU, but they got the lob done Saturday, beating the Cougars 60-56. Women start slowly, finish fast By Steve Turcotte OtthaEmaraU The Oregon women's basket ball team started slowly and then turned on the gas to beat the University of Washington, 105-74, Saturday afternoon at McArthur Court in a Northwest Women's League basketball game The Ducks began the game very slowly, but that's been their usual style this year In fact, they only led 16-12 with 12 minutes Jimu Cultural Forum presents An exclusive film showing of "A Poem is A Naked Person" A film by Les Blank about Leon Russell i "...the best rock film ever made" — Tom Zho, The Washington Post. This film has never been released publicly. Shown by Filmaker Les Blank 150 Geology—UO Campus Thursday/ January 28 * 8 p.m. ‘2.50 UO Students • ‘3.50 General Public Tickets available at the door remaining in the first half But Oregon then outscored the Huskies 34-22 the rest of the way in the first half to take com mand of the game The 11th-ranked Ducks made things worse for the school from Seattle outscoring them 55-40 in the second half to post the victory, its 12th on the season against two setbacks "Washington was leading the league in rebounding and we had a goal of getting the boards today," said Duck coach Elwin Heiny For the game, the Ducks ou trebounded the Huskies 67-45 The sparkplug for this Duck win was 6-4 sophomore center Alison Lang All Lang did was score 34 points, grab 17 rebounds and reject nine Washington shots All in a day's work for the talented young Canadian “I know I can play better,” Lang said. "I missed a couple of K* ■ 1 Cultural J Program Committee Presents ©©©©»©©&©© y “This Week in the EMU’ January 25 through 29 Monday Noon gig in the I.INK ’ Last- Lobby with Rob & Laurie Wednesday Ja/.z Gig in the LMU lishbowl b 10 p.m. Jerry Gleason Thursday Noon gig'in the-Skylight Refectory with Tim Klee Friday ‘ Beer Garden 4 7'p.m. in the EMU Qining Room Puzzle also: Greg Kihn Band , 8 pm, • \ Ml l;r in J lay-ins which I should have made But I feel good about this game I had an awful lot of help from Bev (Smith) by her pass ing "Everybody did a good job today " Smith, the senior all-Amer ican, turned in her usual out standing performance against the Huskies She scored 18 points, snared 12 rebounds and dished out 10 assists Oregon shot 582 from the field, hitting on 39-of-67 shots The Huskies were cold, con necting on just 27-of-96 at tempts for a ,281 percentage Leteia Hughley led the Hus kies with 14 points as they dropped to 6-6 on the year Next action for the Ducks is tonight, when they take on Portland State in Portland Then, the Ducks hit the road to Los Angeles for games this weekend against USC and UCLA kinko's copies Ap self IV/ servic computerized Xerox reduction 2 sided copies binding lamination 344-7894 764 E. 13th
