Oregon daily emerald., January 24, 1983, Page 9, Image 9

Ducks sing a sad song, 54-51
By John Healy
Of th* Emerald
It was the same old song Saturday night at
McArthur Court, but this time with a different
set of lyrics as Oregon dropped a nip-and-tuck
Pac-10 encounter into the hands of Washington
State, 54-51.
The loss dropped the 5-9 Ducks into ninth
place in the conference with a 1-4 record, barely
ahead of cellar-dwellar Arizona, which stayed
winless after a 72-59 loss to Arizona State.
Oregon looked like it might be in the hunt
Saturday when 7-0 sophomore Blair
Rasmussen, who scored a career high 22
points, wedged in a five-foot baseline jumper
from behind the basket with 2:27 left on the
clock to give the Ducks a 47-46 lead.
And when Cougar forward Steve Harriers
jumper from near the free throw line with 2:08
remaining popped in and then fell out into the
hands of three Ducks, Oregon looked like a
sure winner.
But senior guard Paul Bain got stalled at
mid-court by a den of Cougars, and his cross
court pass was stolen by former McMinville
star Chris Winkler, who ended up at the line
after Bain fouled him on the layin attempt.
Winkler hit both free throws — he was five
for five from the line for the night — to nudge
Washington State into a 48-47 lead, and when
guard Gary Gatewood missed a wide-open
jumper at the other end, all that was left was for
Harriel to hit four consecutive free throws
down the stretch to keep the Ducks on ice and
send them into tonight's encounter at Mac
Court with Washington on the short end of a
four-game losing streak.
“We fouled the wrong people tonight,"
said Oregon coach Jim Haney of Winkler and
Harriel, who tied for team scoring honors with
13 apiece. "And we did not perform efficiently
in the last two minutes."
That game-ending lack of efficiency has
haunted the Ducks all seson. This was
Oregon's fourth loss by fewer than four points,
and the fourth consecutive Pac-10 loss in
which the Ducks could conceivably have won
the game.
There were bright spots, namely
Rasmussen’s one-man offensive show He hit
nine of 17 from the floor on an endless array of
Emerald Photo
Gary Gatewood was one of the wounded Ducks
who came up short Saturday night against
Washington State. Oregon will host
Washington tonight at 8 p.m. at Mac Court
short-range baseline jumpers and rolling hook
shots over Washington State's densely-packed
zone, which usually draped two or three
Cougars around him.
"I'm not going to do this team any good if
I'm tip-toeing around,'' said Rasmussen, who is
averaging 18.2 points and 6.2 rebounds per
game in conference play.
“I'm not trying to do things I’m not capable
of, like I was at the beginning of the year,” he
said. “But I have to be aggressive because it
opens other aspects of the game for us."
But with Gatewood hampered by a
hyperextended right elbow and Bain's right
hand thumb wrapped in a soft cast, Oregon's
other aspect — outside shooting from the
guards — never materialized.
The result left Haney glum and shaken —
seemingly on the verge of tears.
“We had our chances, and we didn’t get it
done," said Haney, wiping his eyes. "We just
have to keep plugging away and try to do
better.”
Blazers rake
San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO. Texas (AP)
— Calvin Natt hit a short
jumper from the baseline with
25 seconds left as the
Portland Trail Blazers beat the
San Antonio Spurs 108-107 in
National Basketball Associa
tion play Sunday night.
Natt's basket gave the
Blazers a 105-104 lead and
broke the momentum of a San
Antonio comeback. The Spurs
had rallied from a six-point
deficit with 2:20 to play.
San Antonio made only two
field goals over the first 10
minutes of the fourth quarter.
The Spurs saw their
chances to regain control die
with nine seconds left when
George Gervin missed a short
jump shot, which Natt re
bounded. Jim Paxson added a
three-point play four seconds
later to put the Blazers up
108-104 with five seconds left.
Mychal Thompson and Pax
son led Portland’s scoring
with 25 and 23 points
respectively.
Artis Gilmore and Mike
Dunleavy, the prime figures in
the Spurs’ fourth quarter rally,
finished with 24 points each.
The loss drops San Antonio
into a tie with Kansas City for
the Midwest Division lead.
Portland, which trails
second-place Phoenix by a
half game in the Pacific Divi
sion, has won nine of its last
11 games.
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