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Sports Ducks sloppy, drop to 1-3 PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) - Forward Kevin Black scored 16 of his game-high 18 points in the second half to lead Rutgers to a 53-42 victory over Oregon in college basketball Monday night The game was a sloppy one. with Oregon committing 23 tur novers and Rutgers losing the ball 19 times. The teams played evenly in the first half, tying the score three times and ending the first 20 minutes with Rutgers ahead 18-17 But with 12:56 left to play, Rutgers took the lead for good at 24-23 when senior forward Kevin Black sank a layup Rutgers built its biggest lead with 6 48 left when it took a 37-25 advantage The Scarlet Knights also were helped by a career-high 10 blocked shots by Roy Hinson, a senior center Hinson scored 10 points and Rich Brunson, a senior guard, added 8 for Rutgers For Oregon, sophomore center Blair Rasmussen was the leading scorer with 14 points Paul Bain, a senior guard, ad ded 13 Rutgers is now 4-0, while Oregon's record dropped to 1-3 OREGON (42) Brantley 2 0-0 4 Trendell 1 0-0 2 Ras mussen 6 2-2 14 Bell 0 0-0 0. Gatewood 0 1-21. Matheson 1 0-0 2 Batn 6 1-1 13. Dutton 0 1-21 Adams 21-25 Totals 18 6-9 42 RUTGERS (53) Black 4 10-11 18. Tillman 2 0-0 4 Hinson 3 4 6 10 Ellert>e 2 2-2 6 Brunson 1 6-9 8 Battle 0 1-3 1 Remlev 1 0-0 2 Randolph 0 0-0 0 Nieberiem 2 0-0 4 Moses 0 0-0 0 Totals 15 23-32 53 Halftime — Rutgers 18. Oregon 1? Three point goals — None Fouled out — Brantiev Bel' Total Fouls — Oregon 29 Rutgers 16 Green Oregon hits hard times The early season has not been the best of times for the Oregon wrestlers First, the Ducks lost a pair of dual meets to Humboldt State and San Jose State before they picked up a win against Stan ford And last weekend, the Ducks finished a disappointing 22nd in the 33-team Cae sar's Palace Invitational in Las Vegas "I definitely thought we could do better,'' said Duck coach Ron Finley But you have to remember that this is just like an NCAA meet There are a lot of good teams and a lot of good individuals " This year's Duck wrestlers have a youth ful look about them Finley's starting lineup at the Las Vegas meet included a number of freshman Basically, we have four guys on the team that have past experience and are good, sound wrestlers,'' Finley said "The rest of the wrestlers are inexperienced ” But Finley believes that the freshman improve "The freshman have to come along." said a hopeful Finley "It will take some time, but I believe they will come along as the season progresses " Duck veteran heavyweight Dan Cook suffered a knee injury in the Oregon-Stan ford dual meet a week ago and underwent an arthorgram Monday His status will not be known for a few days, and he'll be kept out of Thursday's dual meet with Athletes In Action "Cook has possible cartilage damage," Finley said We ll know today if he does or not Finley expects a tough meet from the Christian wrestlers, which will start at 7:30 p m at Mac Court AIA boasts a couple of former All-American collegiate wrestlers. First, there is Danny Cuestas, who wrestled at 126-pounds for Cal-State Bakersfield, but will go at 142 pounds for AIA Also Steve Sutter is another All-American They are the closest thing to a profes sional wrestling team there is," Finley said "It will be tough for us We have never beat them and they have beaten some good teams this year " Virginia tops poll after big blowouts From Associated Press reports Two more decisive victories over out-manned opponents last week kept unbeaten Virginia on top ot The Associated Press college basketball poll announced Monday The Cavaliers, who battered James Madison 51-34 and Virginia Military 86-41 last week, received 49 first place ballots and totaled 1,149 points in the nationwide poll of sports writers and broadcasters That gave Virginia a comfortable 80-point lead over Kentucky, which moved up a notch to No 2 on the strength of victories over Notre Dame, 58-45, and Villanova. 93-79 Kentucky's advance to No 2 dropped Geor getown back to third place this week and upset a long-anticipated confrontation between Virginia and the Hoyas next Saturday night Had George town maintained its position, that contest would have matched the nation's top two teams. Georgetown walloped Morgan State 91-57 and St Francis, Pa 75-40, but needed an over time to edge past Western Kentucky, 70-66 Kentucky's victory over Villanova cost the Big East school six spots in the standings, tumbling it from fourth place to No 10 Moving into the No 4 slot this week is Memphis State, up one place after beating St Louis 75-56 and Ball State 104-81 last week UCLA also advanced one spot, from No 6 to No 5, after a pair of close victories. 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