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Ducks face tough Wildcats
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The Oregon basketball team will take on the
University of Arizona tonight at 8 p.m. at MnAr
thur Court in a Pat>10 Conference clash.
The game will lie a contest between two
teams that are going in different directions.
The Ducks are 8-15 for the season and 3-10 in
the conference, while the Wildcats are 18-7
overall and 0-3 in the conference, one-half game
behind conference-leader Washington. • • •
The game will lie the start of four games in
the last five for the Ducks at home, and Oregon,
coach Don Monson is happy about that.'- . —
"We have five games left, and four.of thorn,
ure at homo." Monson said after Oregon lost a .
tough one to Washington Sunday in Seattle, "it
would be nice to come home and play well* in.
front of our crowd." •
The game will be important for Arizona In its \
chase for a possible first-ever Pac-kO
championship. . •» .
They lieat the Ducks with relative ease.
85-88, in the first meeting lietween the two teams
this season on |an. 25 in Tucson.
The magnitude of this contost becomes ap
parent with a glance at the res! of the Wildcats'
schedule.
After facing the Ducks. Arizona will travel to
Corvallis to take on the struggling Oregon State
University Beavers Saturday.
Next week they will face a showdown with
the Huskies at home, but coach Lute Olson is not
overlooking this weekend.
"We have a chance for the conference cham
pionship. so we have to take each game one at a
time." Olson said. "We have to beat Oregon, to
make that Washington game mean very much."
The Ducks, on the other hand, are playing for
pride now, but that does not mean they will be an
easy target for the Wildcats.
Oregon played the Huskies well in their last
game, although they came out on the short end of
a 7.1-67 score.
Monson said, ’‘That was the first-place team
playing the last-place team in their place, so I d
say it was a credible effort."
The Ducks certainly did have a credible effort
* in that game, especially senior |erry Adams.
Adams had a career-high 21 points to go
along with 11 rebounds. He is leading the con
ference irr rebounding at 10.1 per game, and has
been having a stellar senior season on a team that
is struggling.. •.'•••
.. fhe Wildcats are Jed by their only returning
starterguard Steve Kelt. '
• Kerr always has had a reputation as a deadly
ouisjdo shooter, but this year he has been called
upon to. jead th«? Wildcats offense fro°m.thepoint
gtiard posit ion . ’, ■ f ' .
Kerr had. only" four turnovers in the first six
corifertmce games and has given Arizona an add
ed dimension this season from the point-guard
position. p .
. o Kerr was a pre-Season AII-Pac-10 pick by the
league's coaches, and he has not disappointed
any of them.
Oregon is expected tocontinue to use a three
guard starting unit that Monson has employed in
the last five games.
The Ducks will have leading scorer Anthony
lay lor (16.6 points per game). Rick Osborn (10.9
points per game) arid David Girley (5.1 points per
Kuine) in the back court. Sophomore Keith
Balderston will join Adams in the front court for
the Ducks.
Arizona will counter with freshman Anthony
Cook (5.0 points per game) and Sean Elliott (14.8
points per game) as forwards.
The Wildcats will have senior John Edgar at
the post position, and Craig McMillan and Kerr in
the back court;
Oregon golf team
hosts invitational
By Lynn* Casey
Of Mm RmaraM
The Oregon golf team will swing into action for the se
cond time this season as it hosts the Pacific Northwest Invita
tional tournament on Feb. 24 and 25 The first 27 holes of the
tourney will be at the Eugene Country Club on Monday, and
the next 27 holes will be at Emerald Valley Country Club on
Tuesday.
In earlier competition, the Ducks finished eighth at the
Michelob National Golf Invitational in Tucson, Ariz. Senior
Tim Scott headed the list for the Ducks as he tied for 12th
place overall with a 54-hole total of 219.
Although the team finished eighth overall, it finished the
tournament strongly with its best round on the third day of
the tournament.
•*A lot of good things came out of that tournament,”
senior Paul Weinhold said. ”We should be considered an
equal favorite towards the end of the season.”
Scott added. “It was good to get a good start and get
some experience early in the season. That experience will
help us when Pac-10 and NCAA tourney time comes
around.”
Although the competition within the conference is tough
this season, the Duck’s strong point will be their experience
and depth aa they start the season with three returning
seniors
Coach Scott Krieger said there are also at least two quali
ty players in each class, and he feels the Ducks are the most
balanced team in the conference.
Sophomore Steve Rintoul said, ‘The competition in the
Pac-10 is the strongest St has ever been, which just means
srs*U have to work a Utils hsrdsr.”
The tournament Monday will be the smallest of all the
compellton* the Ducks will take part In this spring. The field
will include Oregon State University, Portland State Univer
sity, the University of Portland, Washington State University
and the University of Washington.
”We use this one to get ready for the rest of the
Krieger seid.
Duck swimmers go to PacWest Invitational
By Jeff I.utzky
Of Mw KntnM
Coming off a two-week break, the Oregon men's
and women's swim learns will return to action in the
Pat:West Invitation!, in Moscow. Idaho. Thursday
through Saturday.
The meet will feature six teams the Ducks have
already swam against this season (the University of
Washington, the University of Puget Sound.
Willamette University. Oregon State University, Idaho
University and Washington State University).
All but Idaho and WSU will send both men's and
women’s teams.
Idaho will send only a men's team and WSU only a
women's team. Also, the University of California at San
Diego and Northern Arizona University will send
teams, and the University of Arizona will send a
women's team.
Of the teams Oregon has already swam against, on
ly Washington and WSU have defeated the Ducks, and
Oregon coach Dan Cole doesn’t see a reversal of this
trend against the Huskies.
"Washington will win the men's and women's
meets," Cole says. "Second place should be a tussle
Jr
between us and UCSD on the men's side, and us and
WSU, Arizona and UCSD on the women's. The
women's meet should be a little tighter.”
• Although the WSU women beat the Ducks twice
this season, once at the Washington State Triangular,
and the other time at the Oregon State Invitational, Cole
feels they will end this trend in Idaho.
"WSU has beaten us twice this season.” Cole says.
"But I think we'll win this time."
The PacWests started out as an unofficial Nor
thwest championship but recently has brought in other
schools like UCSD and Northern Arizona. For those
schools, it is more like a championship meet.
"UCSD is a division III school and will be trying to
make their NCAA cuts,” Cole says. “We’re not
shooting for NCAA cuts. We’ve had some rest, but
we’re not capable completely yet. It’s a good quality
meet."
The meet will lie used more by the Ducks as a
testing ground for the upcoming NorPac and Pac-10
championships.
"It will help us decide on relay spots still up for
grabs," Cole says. "Also for some of the men. it is the
end of the season. We won’t take the whole team down
to the Pac-10 s in Los Angeles. All the women will be
going to the NorPac’s in Portland,'”
But Cole doesn't think; this will be an extra
motivating factor to the men who are on the borderline”
of whether they will go td Pac-10’s or not.
It won’t be that much different," says Cole. "It is
a question of who will swim the fastest. All of them will
swim hard and fast, it’s just a matter of who will swim
the best..” . ,
Driving to the.meet also
the Ducks’ performance. ’
won’t play any factor in
"It will take at least 10 hours to drive up. but 1
don t think that will cause us any problems,” Cole
says. “We ll probably swim a little in the morning
before we leave and at night after we get there to get the
kinks out. Going by. bys isn’t as bad as in vans; since at
least you can walk around.” .
Going into .this meet and their final champion
ships. the Ducks are in gopd health. Cole says.
"We’ve been real lucky to have no major illness,’’
(.ole says. ’.So far it has been real good. But you never
know, suddenly six or seven of them could come down
with the flu.”
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