Oregon Daily Emerald Sports
Ducks and Huskies trade places
By Steve Mims
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There will be an interesting
twist when Oregon and Wash
ington renew their Northwest
rivalry in Seattle on Saturday
Oregon will have something tan
gible on the line, and the
Huskies won't
As everyone knows by now,
Washington (4-2 overall. 2-t in
the conference) was placed on
two-year probation by the Pacif
ic-id Conference before the sea
son. ending its chance of playing
in the Rose Bowl for the fourth
consecutive year.
When the Huskies take the
field at 12:30 p.m. Saturday,
they will be playing to continue
their revenge against the schools
that placed them on probation.
For the Ducks (4-2. 1-2). the
game is important to their post
season bowl hopes, as a loss not
only knocks them out of the
Rose Bowl race, it forces them to
win three of their final four
games to bo eligible for any bowl
game. This is quite a turnaround
from past years, when the Ducks
were playing for pride and try
ing to divert the Huskies' bowl
plans.
There were plenty of ques
tions about how Washington
would respond to the penalties
this season, but they all have
been answered There has been
little dropoff from the past few
Washington teams, which built
a national power in the 1980s
and have continued their strong
play into this decade.
Washington was off to a 4-1
start before blowing a 15-0 first
Washington defensive tackle D Marco Farr has been a force for the
Huskies this year with four sacks and 10 tackles tor losses.
half lead last week at UCLA,
where the Huskies lost :t‘l-25
Washington's only other loss
was to third-ranked Ohio State
in Columbus, Ohio. It's apparent
that although the Huskies are
now under the guidaru e of head
coach Jim Lambright, they have
not lost a step.
“I haven't seen vulnerability
111 the Washington program in
my l? years here," Oregon head
coach Rich Brooks said. "I think
they are a great football team.
We need to play a great game to
win.”
Washington's most potent
weapon on offense is junior run
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Duck volleyball strives to improve
By Scott Simonson
OrGQOn Daily B met aid
This week. Oregon volleyball head coach Gerry
Gregory was talking about getting better, meeting
goals and potential. He wasn't talking about win
ning
Oregon plays USC and UCLA, two of the na
tion's top-ranked teams, on the road this weekend.
Oregon. 1-8 in the Pacific-10 Conference and 4-13
overall, is confident after two strong showings last
weekend, but strong showings probably will lie the
only things the Ducks achieve against the Trojans
and Bruins.
"For a team to continue to improve and to know
it’s realizing its potential, even a loss can be
encouraging." Gregory said. "If we focused on
wins and losses right now. we might never win
another game. But we focus on setting and meeting
intermediate goals."
In two losses lust weekend. Oregon met some
of Gregory's goals. Gregory praised his team's pass
ing and serving in the two matches.
"It was our most consistent weekend series so
far." he said. "I think we've gotten Iietter Karissa
Meith had two very good games. Anna Gomez also
did some good things for us Our defense really
came alive."
Gregory called the Southern California schools
the "toughest pair of teams that we play, I said that
when we played them in September, and it is even
more of a challenge when you have to play them
on their home turf We have our work cut out for
u>."
Oregon plays USC. which is f>-3 in the Pac-10
and ranked fifth in the nation. Friday night. The
Ducks play UCLA, undefeated for the year and No
1 in the country, Saturday night. Kadi team beat
Oregon in throe games earlier in the season.
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