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Kickers boot OSU
By Steve Irvin
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After a half of frustrated efforts, the
Oregon men's club soccer team scored a
second-half goal to punch out a 1-0 win
over Oregon State in its league opener
Sunday at South Bank Field.
Midfielder Tim Brugger scored late in
the game to reward the shutout goalten
ding of David Rosenbaum and give the
Ducks impetus towards an Oregon In
terscholastic Soccer Association title.
The Ducks' pressuring offensive style
created many one-on-one scoring oppor
tunities, but they were either thwarted by
OSU's goalie or wasted by Duck miscues.
Future Duck opponents only can hope
to be as fortunate.
First-year coach Richard Paxton has
assembled a talented blend of returning
veterans, transfers and freshmen in an ef
fort to improve on last year's third-place
finish in the OISA.
Forward Steve Cooney and midfielder
Tim Bricker, both three-year veterans, are
joined by University of Portland transfer
Brugger and Eric Gorelik from Warner
Pacific to form the nucleus of a deeper
and more gifted Duck team.
"We have a lot of skill on the team,”
Paxton says. So much skill, in fact, that on
ly six players from last year's team made
the 22-man roster. And Paxton adds that
several good players must sit on the
bench.
The team's 2-1 pre-season record and
the win over OSU give Paxton good
reason to be optimistic about his team's
talent.
Paxton's optimism is echoed by his
players, who believe a league champion
ship, and possibly an undefeated season,
are within their grasp.
"We should win the league," Cooney
says. "We have much stronger people and
much more depth. We re |ust picking up
where we left off last year."
"Depth will make all the difference,"
says Bricker. ""Right now, the only thing
on our mind is Nov. 12 (the OISA finals at
Portland's Civic Stadium)."
Talent and depth mean nothing,
however, if they can't be molded into a
cohesive unit; this is what the Ducks are
striving for.
Paxton says the players lack a team con
cept, due in part to ongoing battles for
starting positions, due in part to a late first
game. The coach says most teams in the
state already were into their seasons when
Oregon had its Sept. 13 opener.
Brugger sees the problem as one of ad
justing to new teammates in a short time.
"I'm still getting used to these people,
and I'm sure they're still getting used to
me," he says.
Bricker adds, "We're still about three
weeks from meshing." He emphasizes
that playing together is crucial to the
team's strategy of spreading opponents
out by working the ball from the back
line.
But according to Paxton, Oregon’s
-strategy is a simple one.
"I prefer getting the ball to the other
team's half as quickly and easily as possi
ble," says the rookie coach.
To do that, he uses a pro-style attack
consisting of four fullbacks, four mid
fielders and two forwards. The 4-4-2 for
mation takes advantage of South Bank
Field, one of the biggest fields in Oregon
at 80 yards by 110 yards.
Because most teams use a 4-3-3 setup,
Paxton says the 4-4-2 attack forces oppos
ing teams' midfielders to cover more
ground than normal, tiring them out and
leading to greater scoring opportunities
for Oregon.
Newcomers Brugger and Gorelik are
not strangers to the 4-4-2 — both en
countered it at their previous schools.
Brugger, in particular, thinks the Ducks
are well-suited to the formation.
"We have guys who can take it to the
front and score," says midfielder Brugger.
"I like that."
For transfers Brugger and Gorelik, next
door neighbors and teammates at
Portland's Wilson High School, the big
gest adjustment has been adapting to the
tight budget of a club sports team after
being on scholarship at other schools.
At the University of Portland, "soccer
and basketball are the only thing," Brug
ger says. "We'd all get free cleats. We'd
get free everything."
Gorelik, also a midfielder, expected
more when he came to Eugene after play
ing for Warner Pacific, which has Loui
siana Pac ific as one of its mam sponsors.
"The money is there," he says.
At Oregon, the players pay for almost
everything, including their uniforms and
transportation to out-of-town games, a
contrast hammered home to Gorelik
when he was traveling to a pre-season
game against Oregon State.
The car Gorelik was in broke down, for
cing he and his teammates to hitchhike to
Corvallis.
Such are the trials and tribulations in a
program where one plays, as Bricker
says,"for the love of it, not the money."
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Photo* by Polly Kaplan
Oregon's Tim Bricker paces the Oregon attack against Oregon State (above)
and leads the cheers (below) after the Ducks beat the Beavers 1-0 at South
Bank Field Sunday. Oregon is tentatively scheduled to play at home against
Oregon Institute of Technology Oct. 19. The kickers are 1-0.
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