SPORTS
Ducks win with 98-71 rout of UAB
Guards lead way as Brandon, Mixon combine for 55 points
By Jake Berg
Emerald Sports Reporier
Oregon guards Terrell Bran
don and Kevin Mixon com
Killed for r>5 points Tuesday
night at McArthur dourt. load
ing the Ducks to a OH-71 romp
over Alabama Birmingham for
their first win of the season
Brandon. Oregon's point
guard, scored 20 in the game,
and Mixon broke out of a i> of
21 shooting slump from the
Dinks first two games In go
mg 10 of 14 against ('All for 2l>
points
Oregon raised its record to
J-2 with the victory, and the
Blazers fell to 1-2
The Din ks shot .i blistering
h i H pen ent from the floor and
approached the game with
much more intensity than in
the the team's home opener, a
72-70 overtime loss to U iscon
sin.
"We ( nine out and felt that if
we plavcd with the kind of in
tensitv that we had against Mis
souri th.it we would heat
would boat some teams.'' said
team captain Richard l.ticas
"Alabama Hirmingham is no
slouch. they're a real good
team." hi- said
The game was inur h < loser in
tile first half than the final
s< ore indie ated as the Hla/.ers
quietly kept up with Oregon
during the opening half and led
the Due ks for mui h of that
time
Hut the Ducks made it i tear
they were intent on winning
their first game of the season
Mixon canned his first two
three point attempts to help set
the fast pace which the Oregon
offense would follow
"If Mixon had lieen hitting
those at Missouri pi tiS-'ifl loss),
it would have been a different
s!or\ there loo." said Oregon
('oai h I )on Munson
"Personally. I knew I had to
come off and have a good game
for us to get us into it." Mixon
said
The guard tallied 14 of his
team’s lirst J4 points nit hiding
a ste.il leading to a breakaway
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liiv-in on which he was fouled
lie hit the ensuing shot from
the foul line to U|> tile Ducks'
lead to 24-10
UAH came right back, how
ever. and used a 7-t) run to take
a 20 24 lead
After going hack in front by a
m-2B More. Oregon rode 11-2
spurt to the lead 40-42 at half
time
Saving its best half of the
year for after the break, the
Dinks completely shut UAH
down in the game's final 20
minutes
The Duck defense limited
UAH which hit for a til)
pen outage from the floor in the
first half, to a poor sis ond half
effii lent \ of to H percent and
only 20 points
"1 think our defense definite
l\ made the difference." Hran
don saul
A ud the Ducks' of feuse
wasn't too shabby either the
offense t omplemented the de
fense by hitting 20 of their It
shots in the half en route to an
other 4") point half
Oregon's Hob l ife ignited the
Mar (iourt crowd with several
dunks including one where lie
burned a UAH defender from
the high post by driving in for a
two handed slam and a 07 Til)
lead
"I gotta see that on tape I
don’t know what I did." said
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Photo bt Nr*n Potlan
Seven-footer Hob Fife hail a bin i(ame for the Ducks against
l AH. si orinft a career-high Iti points on dunks like these.
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