Women win sloppy Civil War
By Scott Simonson
Vtugon CX.pl)r
The team that makes thi' fewest mistakes wins,
but the mistakes came so often at Me Arthur Court
oil Friday that it was hard to tell who was ahead
The Oregon women s hasketfiall team beat Ore
gon State 5a -Mi in a game lacking in aesthetic s fmt
full of intunsctv Amid the mass of mistakes. Ore
gon did manage to do a few things right, and those
mode the different e m the game
The team played solid defense tor almost evert
one ot the game s 4(1 minutes It kept its poise
under pressure, and its veterans provided leader
ship
Most importantl\. the Out ks saved their best
basketball for the second half After making six of
24 shots and scoring 17 points in the first 20 min
utes ()regon put together a solid se< ond halt while
Oregon Stale foundered
Oregon is 7 - A in the Par i fit;-10 ('.on fereme. good
lor fourth plac e, and are 1.1-0 overall
"I thought it would tie more of an offensw e game
than a defensive gome." Oregon hood coach |odv
Kongo said I thought wtt covered their outside
shooters pretty well, and took core of their hig kids
prottv well Imt they shut down our outside
shooting altogether We kept pounding the hall
inside and finally it started going in the basket
Calling the game a "defensive game" mnv have
been a polite way of saying the two teams took
turns shooting badly enough to make the basket
look like a thimble. Oregon State's 47 points was
its lowest total of the year. Oregon It.is scored few
er than .r)4 only once tins season.
Oregon drew 3,H5!t fans for the game, the set
ond-largest crowd ever for a regular-season
women's basketball game at McArthur Court
Defense dominated Iruni the onset with both
teams applying intense hall-court pressure
Alter three minutes the st nre was 1 •() (fregon
Alter six minutes the Ducks led > l and it
appeared that the only wav either team would
real h 50 was to keep committing turnovers l he
two teams combined for 1 a turnovers in the game s
lirst five minutes
Oregon started i|uieker. hul it was the Heavers
who were in control in the closing minutes ol the
first hall Alter lulling behind I t-9 w ith l> 97 left in
the first half, (fregon State outsi ored the 1 fucks I -I
•4 to finish the half
Oregon State center Kristina betas found room to
operate in Oregon's zone defense, accounting tor
seven points in lour minutes The Ducks trailed
2t 11 at halftime
The second half was o different store Oregon
passes that even- mtssed or dropped in the 'irs! half
started to prorim e easy baskets Tough shots start
ed to fall.
Trailing 2H-22 early in the second half, the
Dm ks outscored the {leas ers I l-.l in the span of
five minutes 1 ittmgh it was two Dm ks who were
playing their last game against the Heavers that
made tile difference
Senior forward Debhie Sportich scored 15
points and had seven points in the second hall
while senior i enter Sara W ilson had 10 points and
seven relrounds F’ho pair scored Oregon's first 12
points of the halt and lt> of Oregon's first 1H
"At all times through the game we thought that
we were going to w in. Wilson said That's our
attitude this Near when we go out on the court
Spore n il pu ked up her fourth foul with 10 \\7
remaining to play, hut played the last eight mm
utes uf tfie game and scored five points Mean
while. Oregon State saw its two host players, lor
ward Ionia Kostn and point guard flo/ana Vidic.
foul out
Oregon streti bed Ms lead to 4 I Hi on a Wilson
jump shot with 7 H left Oregon State y\as shoot
ing abysmally and appeared to he ready to fold
when the Beavers got two baskets off steals in t
s*>< onds to make the snore -1 I 40
The teams took turns making mistakes down the
streti h. but ()n»gnn yyas able to get to the foul line
while Oregon State continued to struggle from the
field.
Oregon st ored its last 11 points on free throws
The l)iu ks made some mistakes in the dosing
minutes, hut Oregon State shot only -!‘)0 in the
second half and was not able to knock down
enough open shots to i hallenge the Dm ks at the
end.
I think we did |ust atxnil every thing to lose that
game Sport it h said We were missing a lot of
shots (in the first half) They yvere good shuts but
maybe yye yvere pumped up a little I think yye set
tied doysn a little in tile set otnl half
We played our game better than they did
tonight Last time yye played, they look us com
pletely out of our game. Ortgon guard Missy
Croshayv said
Oregon plays Washington .'hursdav at Mat
Court The Huskies were ranked No 15 in last
week's Assot cited I’rtiss poll After up jetting No
4 USC on Saturday, Washington y\as a half game
ahead of Oregon in lint conference standings
Mti ll»! 1 1II! . i ,
Oregon's Sara Wilson puts up a shot during th Ducks Civil War victo
ry over OSU Friday
Crook joins
DAF staff
Brady Crook has been
appointed regional direi tor
for the Uin.k Athletic Fund m
southern Oregon and north
urn (laliforma, athlete direi
tor Rich Bruoks annoum ed
Friday.
Crook graduated from
Washington State University
in 1991 and later served as
an assistant to the director of
athlete development, han
dling donor stewardship
The Pullman, Wash native
was a three-sport varsity uth
lete in high school and went
on as u scholarship baseball
player for Washington State
Women’s tennis picks up three wins at home
By Sean Forsha
I of to,, <. .Wnjofi /At, f /ntv.i ,/
1 lut Oregon women's tennis
teem displayed impressive form
by going undefeated in its first
liomostand of tlit* season tins
weekend
Tridav, tlin Ducks faced Port
land and Portland Stain in a gru
eling double-header The women
were without their two top
seeds senior k'lise Adams due
to bronchitis, and junior Kara
Yoshida due to foot infection;
however, this seemed like only a
minor setback lor the team as it
pounded its toes 8-1 and *1-0,
respectively
Seniors Jackie DeKord and
hrissy Barger stepped up two
places each in their team rank
ings and both played very well
DeFord (iro|)(K)d only fivu games
total lor tlio two matches while
dominating both opponents
Barger looked solid in her indi
vidual matches, i oming Irom
behind in ii long second set to
defeat her Portland rival
I'he doubles teams of Del’ord
and Cynthia Armstrong. Sherry
f'airgrieve und Barger and Anna
y i 111k and Ann Tilmams made
short work of their opponents in
both mail.lies flic only Dut.k
loss of tfii’ evening was suffered
by Tilmams. who rebounded
qun kly and played strong with
Yillik in their doubles contest
On Sunday.the Ducks faced
a more formidable opponent in
the form of Seattle I he day con
sisted of long individual matt li
es two ol them were decided by
seven-point tie breaker
a
IVKord shined one e again taking
her match in straight sots, and
freshman Anna 'V'iIIik hatllcd
Kit k from ii set down to win in a
tie breaker.
The contest was marred by
r.iin, whi( li i aused matches to
be moved from < ourt to court in
scan li of a dry surfm e Seattle's
Hum lira Mou|ahid suffered ii
knee in)urv. which ultimately
forced her to retire from her bout
with Armstrong I lie women
ended up winning S--4. hut
coach loin (ireider said he
wished the win did not have to
(.nine because of Moujahid's
injury
We had people really step up
today (ireider saidd "We luck
dv played \sell enough to win '
(ireider said the absence of
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tunm ns a whulu hut Del-'ord and
othurs helped fill tflu gap. (irei
der also mentioned that the cir
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Iduhuadiir on Kriday was tough,
hut that it was good preparation
for thr opt oiuing road trip to
(California where they also will
have to play two mail.lies in one
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