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.
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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." McClellan
said "It just didn't go our
wav.”
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