Sports
Oregon State grid coach
gets two-year extension
CORVALLIS (AP) — Oregon State University has given a
two-year contract extension to head football coach Dave
Kragthorpe.
» Kragthorpe. who just completed his second season with
the Beavers, now has five years remaining on his contract
with the Pacific-10 Conference school. His new contract ex
pires Dec. 31, 1991.
“We are extremely pleased with the job Dave has done in
returning our football program to respectability." Athletic
Director Lynn Snyder said Tuesday. "Dave and his staff have
done an outstanding job. both on and off the field, and are
great representatives of intercollegiate football and Oregon
State University.”
Kragthorpe. 53, has guided Oregon State to back-to-back
3-8 seasons. The six victories in two seasons represent the
best two-year record for the long-suffering Beaver program
since 1971-72.
"I am very excited about the immediate future of Oregon
State football and the improvements that we have made in the
last two years." Kragthorpe said.
"I am also pleased with the development of plans to
remodel Parker Stadium and provide better football facilities
here at OSU,” he said. "I think it's imperative for the future
of OSU football to accomplish these improvements. "
Kragthorpe was athletic director at Utah State when he
was hired two years ago to replace joe Avezzano at Oregon
State. He has installed a pass-oriented attack styled after that
of Brigham Young University, where Kragthorpe was an
assistant coach for 10 seasons.
Kragthorpe was head coach at Idaho State for three years.
He directed the Bengals to the NCAA Division I-AA cham
pionship in 1981.
At Oregon State, Kragthorpe’s teams have pulled off a
pair of major upsets, defeating Washington in Seattle in 1985
and Brigham Young in Provo. Utah, last season.
Oregon State has not had a winning football season since
1970 and hasn’t been in a bowl game since 1965.
•Sean Madden, an Oregon volleyball assistant coach for two
years, has left the Ducks to become the head volleyball coach at
Gonzaga University in Spokane. Wash. Madden was the top assis
tant for former coach Chris Voelz and was retained under current
coach Gerry Gregory.
•Oregon basketball player Anthony Taylor recently became the
15th Duck player to register 1.000 career points. The 0-foot-4
Taylor, a junior from Beaverton, currently has 1,059 career points
to his credit. Only four Oregon players have scored more than
1.500 points.
•Yes, that was former Oregon football star Lew Barnes fumbl
ing a punt on national television Sunday. Barnes has been fielding
punts all season as a rookie with the Chicago Bears, who were upset
in the playoffs by the Washington Redskins 27-14. The Redskins
returned the muffed punt for a touchdown.
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Win streak, first league victory
highlight women hoopers' holiday
By Dennis Fernandes
or is* Kmuid
After a shoddy start, it ap
pears that Oregon women's
basketball is back on track and
flying high
The Ducks began their first
ever Pacific-10 Conference
season Friday by defeating
Arizona State University rather
handily. 84-70. The win was the
sixth straight for the hoopers,
now 7-2 overall.
That comes as a welcome
relief to coach Elwin Ueiny.
whose team struggled early on
when they lost two in a row at
home last month against ranked
teams Texas Tech and Long
Beach State University.
To date, consistency and im
proved shooting percentage has
been the rule for the Ducks in
Christmas break victories over
University of Nevada-Reno.
University of Colorado. U.S. In
ternational and ASU.
"I think we're playing closer
to where we want to tie," Ueiny
said. “Our consistency at ex
ecuting offense is there Our
defense is not playing great but
adequate.” he added.
Steady forward Lauri
l,anderholm has been her usual
self and will check into this Fri
day's counter with Oregon State
University with a 19.6 scaring
average. Landerholm had a
season-high 28 points in the
105-69 rout over U.S.
International.
But the key to Oregon's suc
cess has been some new faces
coming off the bench, the big
gest contributor being one
6-foot-7 Stefanie Kasperski. The
West German center is seeing
substantial playing time and
responded strongly against the
Sun Devils with a 15-point,
seven-rebound effort She also
had a season-high 10 points
against U.S. International.
kasperski's emergence gives
Ueiny the flexibility to bulk up
the front line as he wishes by
running Kasperski and the
6-foot-5 Gabi Neumann in the
same lineup, and he will even
add 6-foot-3 reserve forward
Kris Glidden for greater power.
Heiny is quick to applaud
Kasperski's sudden emergence
as a force on this Duck squad.
"She's done very well. It's
not a surprise because we had
seen what she could do. but she
is playing better earlier than we
expected. It would be great if
she continues to improve as she
has." ho said.
jacquie Semoniuk, a 5-foot-10
freshman guard-forward, has
lawn awarded a starting slot as a
result of her recent perfor
mance. Her playing time in
creased when the Ducks learned
that 5-foot-It) forward Shelly
Kay, a strong rebounder, was
declared academically ineligi
ble and would not las available
to the team until next season.
Semeniuk has rebounded
well, grabbing a game-high
nine boards in the ASU game,
but Heiny wants her to register
some points as well
"She doesn't have quite the
confidence she needs in her
shooting even though she's a
great shooter, but she's only a
freshman and that comes with
maturity," Heiny said.
A weakness for the Ducks is
their defensive play. Although
opponents have averaged a .412
shooting clip, Heiny still sees
room for improvement,
especially as the schedule
toughens.
"It comes down to how we
plan on executing,” ho said.
"Each game we’ve broken
down on some fundamentals,
which have been basic defen
sive fundamentals rather than
'zone' or 'man' fundamentals
It’s just a matter of working on
it."
The Ducks have had plenty of
opportunity to work on it. Their
toughest matchup in the win
streak came against Colorado,
and Oregon pulled off the non
conference win. HI-75, thanks
to Neumann's career-high 29
points and (larol Drouot's 20
"It was good to see us win a
game, which could have, at any
time, gone either direction.”
Heiny said.
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