SPORTS Ducks’ fortunes change as Pac-10 play opens By Jake Berg Emerald Sports Reporter As winners of seven out of their last eight games, the Ore gon women's basketball team had to feel good entering the Pacific-10 Conference season on Thursday. Coming out of the conference-opening week end. Oregon may not be feeling the same way. Prior to Thursday, the Ducks were 7-lt and only a loss to sev enth- ranked Auburn had spoiled eight straight wins for Oregon The Ducks had just won the Rose City Classic bas ketball tournament in Portland and had held their opponents to 35.6 percent shooting in their seven wins Hut none of this mattered this weekend as California and St a n f o r d crushed the visiting Ducks. 04-67 .md 88-61 respectively. in Oregon's conference debuts Freshman Debbie Sport u li and junior Stac:i VVallenborn combined to score 44 of Ore gon’s 67 points in an unbal anced Duc ks' women's offen sive attack Spore ich’s career high 28 points on 11 of u> shooting led the team and her 1.1 rebounds were also tops for Oregon Despite hitting only 4 of 18 shots from the field. Wallenborn scored 16 points and also grabbed 10 boards Defending national champi on and eighth ranked Stanford outclassed Oregon Saturday mght in defeating the Ducks for the Cardinal's t’th straight home win. Similar to the California con test Thursday night. Sport ich and U’allcntmrn joined fortes to scon* a majority of Oregon's points against Stanford. Sport k h lot for -t) points and Wullenhorn tossed in !‘t .is the two comtiincd for ,t‘l of Ore Turn to DUCKS Page 27 .Pac-10 VVomen Calitomia Stanford Washington Arizona SI Washington St UCLA use Arizona Oragon Oregon St C<H»t Own w i 93 83 10 1 10 2 83 55 54 5 tO 7 5 84 * i 20 2 0 20 It t 1 00 00 02 0 1 02 FREEDOM Continued from Page 13 It wasn't just turnovers and mistakes that hurl the Due ks ei ther. Oregon never was able to establish a running game, gain mg only seven net yards in 20 attempts. Forced to rely on Musgrave's passing all night, the Ducks were able to shred the Ram se< - ondary and really were only stopped when they turned the ball over. "The pressure laid squarely on Bill Musgrave's shoulders and as he has done many, many, many, many times in his career, he took the challenge and responded and played a great football game." Brooks said. After Colorado State jumped out to a 7-0 lead. Musgrave went right to work, hitting four different receivers on a 12-play. 7‘1-yard drive that vv.is capped by Anthony (ones' first career touchdown, a 10 yard strike from Musgrave Oregon added 10 more points in the first half on a 2 ! yard Gregg McCall urn field goal and a three-yard touchdown from Musgrave to Burwell On both drives. Musgrave primarily went to Hurwell. split end Jot- Reitzug and flanker Mi chael McClellan. who was back at full speed tor the first time in more than two months after un dergoing arthoscropic knee sur gery midway through the sea son. It was Musgrave and McClel lan hooking up again to give the Ducks a 25-HI lead early in the fourth quarter as Oregon fi nally got out of the disastrous third period. Starting at their own nine, the Ducks went til yards for the score when Musgrave found a wide open McClellan over the middle for 44 yards. Musgrave then hit Hurwell with the two point conversion. McClellan caught nine passes for 148 yards in the game, both career-highs and both Freedom Howl records. ‘‘I think McClellan gave our offense a dimension that's been missing for a while." Brooks said. "His quickness is some thing we missed obviously." After Yert's score. Musgrave calmly brought Oregon, com pleting third down passes of 31 and 21 yards to Keit/ug that led to Burnell's one-yard touch down dive to make the score 32-31. The Ducks went for two and the win. Musgrave hit McClel lan in the end zone, but al though his feet were in. Mc Clellan never did get the ball in the end zone. "Mv feet might have been in. but the ball wasn't." 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