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SPORTS Bourn continues amazing three-point barrage On <i day of basketball games that may have seemed more exciting, a thrilling storm of women's hoops brewed in Corvallis' (’.ill Coliseum Sunday was featured as a basketball junkie's dream: the first meeting between the first and second ranked men’s college teams in years, a traditional matchup involving many of the world’s best basketball players, and an overtime c liffhanger which may have decided the winner of the men’s Pacific-10 Confer ence. A game that went virtually unnoticed by all ex cept those 1,020 in attendance and the television audi ence watching the game on tape delay Monday night was Sunday’s meeting of the (Jregon and Oregon State women’s teams at Corvallis If you stayed at home with your remote control to watch No. 1 UNI.V beat No.2 Arkansas. Charles Hark ley grab 22 rebounds and the NBA All-Star Game's MVP trophy, and UCLA choke away a win against Ari zona, then you missed a remarkable Duck win on the Beavers’ home court, and an even more outstanding performance from Oregon guard lenniter Bourn Not to say that Sunday’s clash between the two in terstate rivals was anticipated to come down to the last shot as it did After all. Oregon State had come into Eugene a month earlier and mopped McArthur Court with the Ducks. 74-5H. But prior to the second meet From the Sidelines i” JAKK BKRC; ing. Oregon had won two games in .1 row. its first two I’m -10 triumphs of the season, and Bourn's deft shoot ing hand was fit to lie bronzed The li-foot-4 senior was four of six from three point land in Oregon's Ian U win over Arizona and followed th.it up by hitting everything in a win over Arizona State two nights later Well almost every thing She did miss one three-pointer out of eight at tempts against the Sun Devils, but the seven treys she did hit was good enough to he.it her two-month old school record of six. Following the Arizona State victory, a reporter asked Bourn how she felt about breaking her school re cord “I did? I did?" a surprised Bourn responded "I didn't know that Wow. I'm exi Bed!" What will liven the senior even more is the very real possibility of topping Oregon's three point single season record for a player Michelle Kble. a former teammate ot Bourn's Ini -11 troys during the 1088-80 campaign. <iti<1 willi right games mumming tins sea son. Bourn is utmost assured of assuming that si hoot ro< ortl, as sht* lias already i iinnci tod .10 timos from l>e hind tho an (aiming into Sunday's gamo at Orogon Stitto, Bourn was a plaver on a proverbial roll And at (oil Coliseum! Bourn |iist kept rolling Starting at point guard tor tho lirst timo since lior froshrnan soar Bourn kept tho Beavers at liav. landing fivo of oight three pointers for a game high lit points More importantly, she hit ,i throo point Basket when the Dm ks needed it the most, hitting the gamo winner with five seconds left, and a defender in her fai e I unnv things these wins I'he Dm ks have walked off the i ourt as vvioners in each of its last three games, and Bourn has walked off after eai h of those contests is ith .1 three point shooting peri outage that won't stop growing She has lilt in of 22 attempts Irom hehind tfie three poult stripe in the Ducks' three wins and leads the I’ai 10 in three point ac< urai \ at Ml pen out (.10 of 7H| However, the 17 three pointers she made during her lirst three seasons and her to this \e.ir i urrentlv total vs e11 short of hide's school record 00 three point ers for a career The i areer mark is one record she w ill have to do nn ithout Monson named to Pan Am staff Oregon basketball Coach Don Monson has been named as an assistant coach for this sum mers' United States Pan Ameri can Games team Monson. along with Ohio State’s Kandy Ayers, was named to assist Purdue coach Gene Ready, who was picked as the bead coach last Novem ber Monson was also the coach of the West team in hist sum mer's U S Olympic Festival Monson has been at Oregon s"tn< e the l‘)H t-B4 season, after a five year stint at Idaho Mon son is 107-lit) in bis eighth year at Oregon and 207-Hit) overall in the collegiate ranks He lias bad four winning sea sons at the helm of the Due k program and taken three teams, ini hiding last year’s squad, to the National Invitational Tour nament Monson was named the IJrl West Coast coach of tile year af ter leading the Ducks to a Held record and an NIT bid in his first season at Oregon. 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