I Oregon women left out in cold
The Oregon women 8 basket
ball team was snubbed Sunday
morning when the NCAA an
nounced its 40-toam tourna
ment and the Ducks wore not
included
Oregon finished the season
21*7, and 10-2 in the NorPac
Conference. Their conference „•
mark tied them with thuUniver
* sity of Washington for the top.
spot in the league. Washington ;
got the NorPac’s only automatic
bid when because they finished
with « 2-0- record,, against .the
• conference’s third placr team —
Fresno State." University',' while,
the'iDuckV split- With. The
. tiulldogs.
• •.. bregqn . txiach ' Klwin;.:|leiny
expressed his surprise’ when his
./team -vyas; omitted froih the
"I'm more than a little bit sur
prised," Heiny said. "We cer
tainly thought that 21-7 would
be good enough to get in (to the
tournament)."
I'he Ducks could have won
the league title outright with a
victory at FSV on, March 1st
when Washington lost to the
California Hears, but Oregon
dropped a 71-tiB decision to the
Bulldogs.
V ‘ Hai'ny pointed'out that NCAA
officials just ran out of roorti for
at-large teams’-of the Ducks
caliber because, of many'. upsets
'•#^cditf«r&ig:«;tp^raSi^qntSMhatV
"'-..'sitnt;'Unh'erajded.;teams;l6 the
; NCAA tdurney by way, of a con
fo r e nd 0;.,jC^h.itf:mvp ion sh i p
“ f-as A'egas gof in with a win
.over:1 (nationally:; ranked) Long.
Beach (State University), and
Maryland got in with 12
losses," tleiny said.
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The Oregon women’s tennis
team escaped with a 5-4 win
against the University of Idaho
Saturday at the covered courts,
while the Oregon men beat the
Vanda|ir9-0. ...
t^api l.yhn. of the Oregon
softball team, rapped three
singlas., fnchiding.-'the game
winning hit in the fifth inning |
tb' lead the Ducks to a 3-2 win
over Mesa College in their se
cond game of the Las .Vegas
women's' softball .tournament
Saturday Earlier/ the Ducks lost
to the Kost Rebels. 3-0.;/ J
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i -staff, before the.gamn started
■ \ UoCapse of Miller and this rest of
. ." the.UCLA «r**nil. '. ’ ■.%/'. -V
. y ?TbeDupke controlled Miller
! effectively ,al lgame long; hut
.they ' alhmst / lot 'knot her guy
■v rtamed',Montel Hatcher kill
*♦ .them: Hatcher;‘>yas wjnsationa.l
•as he hit the outside jumper and *
then drbve d’nalde, giving . the
Duck*--fits' all night'/ and
’ .finishing with ;'a 'team-high 22
points on llof tfi tdtootihg for
•; -the Bruins.. ...; v;y \ I'-'.
V '"We 'did - a.. good job on
<r . “.Miller,." M(ih«)n ‘iiald 'Then
Hatcher started killing us "
■. ' .Oregon fell ./-behind' early,
*. l.4-4;'hiit- rallied behind Taylor
■ and Adams''. wHo'jiad 'li and 11
' first-half points/rrfpoctively, to
.oiwn:a 4p ;t;rlfalftlinr lead The
. • |)uck*.;lu»d Miller in chock'as .
ifienation’s fdurth-leading
scorer- di'd .hav»^ 121 faints, bdI
was pqly three of nine from the
\ /field' iri the first half.
I.n/the second half, Halderston
caime'-to life and joined the
-.Oregon hit parade as he made
six. of his seven second-half
. -ii->t•- l '
TKTAout scored the Ducks
8>4 to ype'n the second half and
cut the margin to 44-41 with
17:31}: to play.but then Mouton
-; hit a jumper from the corner and
> Halderston followed with a
three-point play as he was foul
ed by l jCLA!s Craig lackxnn.
■ --—
That Rave the Ducks a 49-41
lead with 16:04 to play, and the
lead stayed between six and
eight until the clock ticked
down tovvard the eight-minute
mark with theDuclis still cling
ing to a tiii-5S advantage.
A television timeout gave the
Bruins time to.design a play for
Miller .V'hut .. Mbutbn’s. -tight
defense denied him the ball;
aitd IJCvlA was forced to settle
for Rod Planter's off-balance
jumper. -The shot was off the
mark.: artd: Balderston hit two
straight shots to put Ducks up,
tMH55. wlth 6:37 left
;UGI.A promptly called
timeout and replaced Palmer
with (loreyGaines and readied
themselves for one final push at
the surprising guys in white
and.yellow
Gaines hit a shot from the cor
ner to pull the Bruins to.Within
06-57 with 0:12 to gd. but that
was as close as the Westwood
Ixiys would get as Oregon went
back inside to Balderston for a
lay in and then to Adams who
was fouled by lack Haley
Adams’ two free throws put the
Ducks ahead 70-57 with 5:24 to
K<>
I ?C!I-A coach Walt Ha/.zard
was certainly not pleased with
the officials after the game as
his team was whistled for 31
fouls compared to 16 for the
Ducks.
"Our manpower was^ Cut
short (by foul trouble)." Haz
ard said. "Kveryone knows our
bench is not that deep.”
The Bruin head coach saw
nothing special in the defensive
effort of Mouton on Miller for '
much of the game. "He played
him OK. I don’t think he did
anything* special.- W.e're not a
one-man team,”-Hazzard said.
Miller also refused to credit
Mouton or the Ducks with an
outstanding defensive effort. "I
got the ball. (But) 1 guess they
must have talked to the refs
before the game. Most of the
time when I went up. I got
touched on the arm and nothing
was called." Miller said.
Mttz/ard declined to criticize
his players’ effort — "I didn't
think our team looked that
l>ad." However, he did offer
begrudging credit to several
Duck players.
"Adams played an outstan
ding game...so did Taylor.
He's ( Adams) one of those blue
collar workers."
The Bruin coach did disclose
that his team w'ould accept an
NIT berth to defend the cham
pionship they won last year On
Saturday, at least for one shin
ing afternoon, the Ducks were
the ones that looked like they
were the team headed for a post
season tournament.
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