Oregon will be counting on pins from heavyweight Den Cook if they're going to do well this year
Grapplers hit the road
The old Willie Nelson tune "On the Road
Again" would be appropriate for this year's
Oregon wrestling team.
The Duck grapplers, off to a relatively slow
start this year due to Injuries, take to the road
for the second time this season traveling to the
Bay Area to take on San Jose State and
Stanford in dual meets. They’ll then travel to
Las Vegas to participate in the 33-team
Caesar's Palace Invitational
The Ducks opened their season a week
ago in Areata, Caiif. iaking on Humboldt State
After forfeiting at 118 pounds, Oregon never
got untracked losing a 25-20 decision.
Next came the Lumberjack invitational for
the Ducks. Senior 126-pounder Miles Hancock
was the biggest bright spot by capturing the
title in his weight division
Oregon Coach Ron Finley describes to
night's opponent. San Jose State, as "a tradi
tionally scrappy bunch who do a lot of upper
body wrestling. They really don't have a weak
spot in their lineup."
But. unfortunately. Oregon does Mike
Erb, the 118-pound defending Pac-10 champ
has an injured knee and 190-pound Lance
Hochanadel is out for the year with a damaged
knee.
The next stop for the Oucks is Stanford,
where the Oucks captured the Pac-10
championship last year. Oregon brings a
perfect 10-0 record against the Cardinal into
the dual meet The last time the two teams met
was in 1976 when Oregon swept past Stanford
46-0
The final destination is Las Vegas where
Oregon will match up with the likes of power- |
houses Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in the
Caesar s Palace Invitational
"The Las Vegas meet is like a mini-NCAA
meet," Finley said. "Caesar's is going ait out to
make the tournament a great one for year's to
come "
Oregon will open its home wrestling
season against Athletes in Action on Dec 9 at
7:30 p.m at McArthur Court.
Cavaliers retain No.1 ranking
From Associated Pross Rsports
Virginia, which opened the
season by winning the Virginia
Tipotf tournament, remained
the No 1 team in The Associat
ed Press college basketball poll
T uesday
The Cavaliers, the preseason
favorite, received 55 of 63 first
place votes and 1,245 of a pos
sible 1,260 points from the
nationwide panel of sports
writers and broadcasters Vir
ginia defeated Johns Hopkins
and Virginia Commonwealth to
win the Tipoff tourney during
the Thanksgiving Day weekend
North Carolina, the defending
NCAA champion and No 3 in
the preseason, dropped to No
15 after Missouri dealt the Tar
Heels their second straight loss
last Saturday. Coach Dean
Smith s club lost its opener to
St John's
Georgetown, which posted
victories over Brigham Young
Hawaii and Hawaii Hilo, mainta
ined its hold on the No. 2 spot by
collecting three first-place
ballots and collected 1,140
points
Kentucky, an easy victor over
Butler, moved into the No 3 spot
by getting two first-place votes
and 1,024 points
Villanova moved up a notch to
No 4 Memphis State, UCLA,
Louisville and Indiana also each
moved up a spot in the poll and
took over the Nos 5 through 8
positions. Missouri's 64-60 win
over North Carolina boosted the
Tigers from No 15 to ninth,
while Iowa, 1-0, moved from a
No. 11 to No. 10
Villanova, a winnner over
Colgate in its only start,
attracted two first-place votes
and 965 points, 23 more than
Memphis State, 2-0 UCLA, a
winner over Brigham Young in
its only game this season,
landed 907 points.
Louisville, winner of the Great
Alaska Shootout that gave the
Cardinals a 3-0 start, got the
other first-place vote and 89C
points Indiana, 2-0, had 80C
points
Missouri collected 694 points
while Iowa had 659 points and
replaced Oregon State in the
10th spot
OSU in for difficult times, says Miller
PORTLAND (AP) - Oregon
State Coach Ralph Miller says
his basketball team doesn't
deserve to be ranked among
the nation s top 20, and he
feels the team will be doing "a
heckuva job" to have a win
ning record by the end of
December
The winless Beavers, rated
10th in the Associated Press
pre-season poll, tumbled to
19th this week after last
Friday's 68-62 overtime loss to
Utah in Salt Lake City Oregon
State also has lost a 62-61
non-counting decision to the
Athletes In Action of Canada.
Miller said in a telephone
interview from his Corvallis of
fice Tuesday that the
unexpected loss of starting
guard Danny Evans has been
the major reason the team
hasn't developed as well as
expected.
‘This young man
represented about 25 percent
of my experience,'' Miller said
Evans was hospitalized for
several days due to a severe
virus and the date for his
return to the team isn't known.
Without Evans, the
remainder of the Oregon State
players took it on themselves
to take up the slack, rather
than continuing to play the
offense and defense that had
established the Beavers as a
national power, Miller said.
Blazers sink Clippers
PORTLAND (AP) - Mychal
Thompson took over where two
Portland teammates left off
Tuesday night and the Trail
Blazers beat the San Diego
Clippers 121-114 in a National
Basketball Association game
Jim Paxson scored 15 of his
21 points in the first quarter,
during which the Blazers went
ahead 33-23 Calvin Natt
concentrated 16 of his 22 points
in the first half They managed
only nine shots between them in
the second half
Thompson got 11 of his
team-high 23 points in the third
quarter, when Portland out
scored San Diego 29-24 He got
10 rebounds
"I started slow." Thompson
said "It wasn't that I was
playing terrible in the first half,
but I wasn't getting the ball
much In the second half, the
guys started looking inside for
the big guys I got some good
shots and, fortunately, they
went in “
Once Portland established its
lead in the first quarter, San
Diego never caught up The
Clippers closed to within six
points twice in the fourth period
Paxson said of his second
half scoring letdown. "It
seemed we weren't very positive
about running the offense We
weren’t running things through
I was stili doing the same things
I was in the first half, but I wasn t
getting the ball, it seemed
We were taking quick shots,
not running things through I ‘
was just kind of out there." he
said
Portland broke a three-game
losing streak and improved its
record to 9-9 San Diego fell to
3-13
"We ll take the win," said
Portland Coach Jack Ramsay
Natt had a great game Paxson
played a classic basketball
game for a No 2 guard in the
first half ,"
Terry Cummings of San Diego
led all scorers with 26 points,
and teammate Lionel Hollins
scored 23
San Diego Coach Paul Silas
lamented that the playing time
of Cummings and Tom
Chambers was limited by foul
trouble.
“The fouls killed us,” Silas
said "This could have been an
interesting game The teams are
well matched, but the officials
controlled the game when
Cummings and Chambers were
put into foul trouble so early
Instead of an interesting game,
it got to be boring
Walter, Brown named
to Pac-10 all-star team
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP)
— Defensive end Mike Walter
and punt returner Steve Brown
both were named to the Pac-10
Conference all-star team
Linebacker Chris Cosgrove
was also named honorable
mention
Walter is a 6-foot-4,
235-pound senior Brown, who
made the all-star squad as a
defensive back last year, is a
6-foot, 182-pound senior
OFFENSE
WIDE RECEIVER - Cormac Carney,
UCLA. Paul Skansi. Washington
TIGHT END — Chris Dressel. Stanford
LINEMEN — Tony Slaton, USC Bruce
Mathews. USC. Jeff Kiewel. Arizona. Don
Mosebar. USC, Harvey Salem. California
QUARTERBACK - Tie. John Elway,
Stanford. Tom Ramsey. UCLA
RUNNING BACKS — Jacque Robinson.
Washington, Vincent White, Stanford
Vance Johnson, Arizona
PLACE KICKER — Chuck Nelson.
Washington
DEFENSE
LINEMEN — George Achia, USC; Jim
Jeffcoat, ASU: Mike Walter. Oregon Karl
Morgan, UCLA
LINEBACKERS — Ricky Hunley, Arizona,
Mark Stewart. Washington, Vernon Maxwell,
ASU; Jack Del Rio, USC
BACKS — Mike Richardson, ASU. Joey
Browner, USC; Vaughn Williams, Stanford;
Al Goss, Arizona
PUNTER — Mike Black, ASU
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