Cagers open with a split
By John Healy
Ot the Emerald
One thing is certain about this year's Oregon
basketball team — it's a world away from the
run-n'-gun club that wore the Oregon colors
last fall.
The key words now are patience and pass
ing, with a very liberal dose of sticky man-to
man defense
All three elements were in evidence over th#
Thanksgiving weekend as the Ducks wobbled
to a 63-46 home win over the University of
California-San Diego Friday night in their first
counting game, then came back Saturday
night to almost derail the Eugene stop in
Athletes in Action's yearly basketball crusade
The Ducks followed the same pattern in both
games — tough at the start, soft in the middle
portion of the game — with a slightly different
twist at the end
In the win over the NCAA Division III Tritons,
Oregon opened a quick 18-4 lead Junior David
Brantley, the 6-6 forward from Churchill,
scored 10 of Oregon's first 18 points He
finished the weekend with 30 points and 10
rebounds, tops for the Ducks in both categor
ies
A rally by Cal-San Diego cut the lead to 25-20
at the end of the first half, But some torrid
outside shooting from the baseline by soph
omore forward Bryan Trendall in the final
stanza held off the Tritons
The 55-53 loss to AlA's Canadian branch
was nip-and-tuck for the entire first half The
game was tied five times and the lead changed
hands six times
After Oregon opened the second half with a
quick layup by 7-foot center Blair Rasmussen,
AIA-Canada outscored Oregon 12-4 to take a
38-30 lead Marvin Delph and Ken Owens,
everybody's "Why aren’t they in the NBA?"
picks, keyed the drive by combining for five
field goals
The Ducks came back, though, riding the
fiery play of backup guard Paul Bain, the only
senior on this year's team Bain provided an
element the Ducks seemed to lack both nights
Photo by Dave Kao
Oregon's David Brantley lofts a jumper in
Friday's Duck win over Cal-San Diego at Mac
Court Brantley led the Ducks with 30 points as
they split a pair of weekend contests
— creativity — as he popped in tour field goals
and four free throws in the last 10:44 of the
second half
But fittingly. Owens and Delph — who proved
they had a soft touch at the line after leaving no
doubt about their one-on-one skills — each hit
both ends on one-and-ones from the line to ice
the AIA win It was their second win in the state
in the last week after a 62-60 victory in Corvallis
over Oregon State
Women get
first victory
After a cold start on their sea
son-opening trip to the midwest,
the Oregon women's basketball
team finally heated up enough
to break into the win column
Saturday with a 74-64 victory
over DePaul
The win came in the consola
tion game of the Dial Classic at
Minneapolis. Minn The Ducks
dropped their first game of the
tournament 71-65 to Memphis
State Friday night
But the biggest loss of the trip
may have come Saturday when
freshman guard Laurie Tennant
injured her ankle The 5-10
guard from Gresham's Sam
Barlow High School is the
Ducks' second leading scorer
through four games averaging
118 points per game. The ex
tent of her injury won't be
known until Monday, but she
could be sidelined for up to
three weeks.
Center Alison Lang matched
her team-leading 23 point aver
age to pace the Ducks against
DePaul Lang, who also tops
Duck rebounders with an aver
age of 10 5 per game, pulled
down 14 on Saturday Lang got
scoring help trom forward Chris
Metzger, who tallied 18 points
Before injuring her ankle,
Tennant, who has 19 assists
and 16 steals on the season,
came up with six steals in 19
minutes of action
Friday, Lang collected 25
points and Tennant added 15,
but it wasn't enough to over
come a 10 point Tiger run which
erased a five point Oregon
second half lead.
The Ducks, who opened the
season with losses at Drake and
Illinois State, are now 1-3
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On 11/18 inter-varsity
Christian Fellowship
received a total of 90
pledges for a total of
$1,425
That brings the grand
total for the telefund to
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The most pledges for one
night was achieved by
Alpha Phi Omega and
Circle K Club with 162
pledges.
Tonight the New Student
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Backs lead in
Heisman race
NEW YORK (AP) - The Heis
man Trophy, symbol of college
football excellence, will be
awarded next Saturday with
Herschel Walker or John Elway
likely to make the winner a back
for the 46th time in 48 years
Walker, the Georgia running
back who was third as a fresh
man two years ago and second
last year, is favored to advance
the final step this year
If anyone can keep him from
it, it's probably Elway, the Stan
ford quarterback who's broken
most of the passing records at a
school that's turned out pla
toons of great signal callers
Besides Walker and Elway,
other contenders include run
ning back Eric Dickerson of
Southern Methodist, quarter
backs Dan Marino of Pitt and
Todd Blackledge of Penn State
and flanker Anthony Carter of
Michigan
The sleeper is center David
Rimington of Nebraska, named
for the second year in a row the
winner of the Outland Trophy as
the nation's best lineman
But Rimington is in an almost
impossible spot Only two line
men have won the Heisman
and both were ends who also
played defense — Larry Kelley
of Yale in 1936 and Leon Hart of
Notre Dame in 1949
In recent years, only Hugh
Green of Pitt, a defensive end
with a penchant for eye-catch
ing plays, came close He was
second to running back George
Rogers of South Carolina in
1980
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