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Oregon's /ennifer Bourn (15) nailed five three-pointers,
including the name-winner with five second left, as the Ducks
beat Orefton State 65-6.1 Sunday.
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Bourn’s three-pointers beat OSU
By Jake Berg
Emerald Soom Oepodei
CORVALLIS If the saving
rings true, the lights in (.ill
Coliseum and McArthur Court
ought to l«* replaced
Oregon guard Jennifer Uourn.
who totaled 11 three-point bas
kets m home wins over Arizona
and Arizona State last week,
shot the lights out at Oregon
State's Citl Coliseum Sunday
afternoon by nailing five of
eight baskets from behind the
three point stripe, including
the game winner
Bourn's winning shot fell
with five seconds remaining,
putting the Ducks ahead (>5-lj.t
She made the shot despite hav
ing Oregon State's Margo
Kvashevski frantically waving
her arms within ini hes of her
face, and shooting approxi
mately three feet behind the
three-point mark
"We said keep moving, set
your picks, and just wait and
get a good shot." said Oregon
Coat h Elwin Heiny of the
Ducks' last series “And we got
a good shot
"To tell you the truth, it felt
awful when I shot it." Bourn
said of the game's final basket
"I really didn't think it was go
ing to go in "
It did go in, and following a
Beavers' timeout. Evashevski's
own three-point attempt
bourn ed out of the basket, plac
ing the l)u> ks on top of a l>T>-i>:t
final
The win was Oregon's third
Pacific-10 Conference vti torv
in a row, after a dismal 0-7
start, and avenges a 74-58 em
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barrassment the Beavers dealt
Oregon at Ma< Court in (anu
arv
Oregon upped its record to
1-7 in the Pac-10 and 10-10
o v e r a 11. a n d t h e B e a vers
dropped to Kl-7 and 5-f>
Oregon's 49 percent field
goal shooting Sunday proved to
lie much of tin* difference, as
the team shot only 91 percent
against Oregon State in Janu
arv It marked tin1 third game in
a row that the Ducks shot better
than 4H percent, all wins for
(Iregon
Oregon State's transition
game also disappeared Sunday
from the last time it played Or
egon The Heavers were able to
run up and dow n the court and
score on lay-ins at will in Eu
gene. hut not so this time.
"(The Beavers) did not get
the breakaway lay-ups and
transition plays like they did at
Mac Court." Heiny said "It
turned us around."
Having to claw for their Iws
kets early in the face of a physi
cal I)u( k defense, the Beavers
found themselves down 19-12
midway through the opening
half before stagmg a 12-2 run to
climb ahead.
The Ducks kept with the Bea
v('rs' offense and left the court
down only 31-30 at halftime
Appearing to take charge at
the beginning of the set ond
half. Oregon State jumped out
to a quick six-point lead
Oregon looked lifellss in the
second half before Bourn's
third trey at 17:35 sounded the
starting gun for the Ducks'
scoring. Her two free throws
with nine minutes left capped .1
six-point comeback for the
surging Ducks, and tied the
contest at
Bourn picked up her fourth
foul of the game a minute later
but stayed in and again tied the
game for Oregon Her fourth
three-pointer with just over
four minutes remaining loc ked
the score at 56-56.
The two teams exchanged
baskets and leads during the*
next three minutes, and after
Oregon State's Natalia Mattick
scored a lay-in with 33 seconds
to give her club a 63-62 lead,
the- Beavers were in the driver's
seat and heading toward the
finish line.
But the Ducks got in the; way
of the Oregon State victory
road, and it was the Beavers
that ended up as roadkill. Ore
gon's Trina McCartney drove
the lane looking for a shot but
instead dished off to Bourn on
the outside for the high-arcing
winning shot.
The senior guard scored only
one three-pointer in this sea
son's first meeting of the two
teams, but her fifth trey at Ore
gon State left her shooting a re
markable 16 of 22 from three1
point land in Oregon's last
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