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Thu Oregon Ducks weren't sup
posed to win on Saturday The
starting quarterback, tailback
and arguably best all-around
player on the team couldn't
even make the trip
But instead of an expected
Inciting from the heavily-favored
use Trojans. Oregon head
conch Rich Brooks received one
of the best all-around efforts in
recent memory, largely on the
play of a group of younger play
ers.
"We're a young football
team,” Brooks said "With 17 of
the top 22 on offense being
freshman and sophomores. I
think for them to perform like
they did tonight is a real credit
to them They showed n lot of
poise and a lot of character.”
The unexpected, stellar play
of rodshirt freshman Kenny
Wheaton, true freshman Bat
Johnson and sophomore Tony
Graziani was all the more
important considering the fai t
that Oregon was without three
of its biggest weapons: Danny
O'Neil, Kick\ Whittle and Her
man O'Berry
"1 think you can judge the
heart of tins football team -- the
toughness of this football team
out here today," Brooks said
immediate!) following the
game "It was a real gutty perfor
mance."
Wheaton, who rm oived more
playing time because of the
injury to O'Berry, stepped up on
several occasions against the
Trojan offense Wheaton broke
up the Trojan's opening drive
with his first interception of the
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Oregon’s Cristin McLemore and Dino Philyaw celebrate after McLemore's second quarter touchdown.
Trojans out of sync
during home defeat
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The USC Trojans and head coach John Robinson lost a Kama,
a quarterback. and its national ranking as the team broke down
mentally and physically on Saturday.
“Obviously, all the credit goes to Oregon," Robinson said.
"They played a great game."
USC was kept off stride all day with great defensive and offen
sive stances by Oregon. Tailback Shawn Walters carried for 207
yards against Baylor the week before, but was only able to car
ry for 78 yards against a Ducks’ defense that posted its sec
ond-straight week of outstanding rush defense.
"For us to hold SC's running game to what we did. is.! think,
a remarkable performance." Oregon head coach Rich Brooks
said.
"We expected to run the ball against them because wu knew
they were going to come after us.” Robinson said. “We hoped
to run the trail and wear them down as the game went on. Obvi
ously that didn't work."
USC wasn't just having trouble with its running game because,
like the Ducks, it also had to find another quarterback USC
starting quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Rob John
son suffered a leg injury during the third quarter. Backup quar
terback Brad Otton ran into the same trouble that Johnson faced
prior to his injury — having to scramble for his life. The Ore
gon defense zeroed in on Johnson and Otton for nine sacks
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Oregon drops two
more over weekend
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Oregon's volleyball loam
dropped its seventh-straight
match with tough losses to Cali
forma on Friday and Stanford on
Saturday, keeping the Ducks win
less in conference play and li-H
overall
The Cal loss was an esper lully
bitter pill for the Ducks to swal
low because the team wasted its
(rest chance to earn its first con
ference victory so far this season.
The Golden Bears. f-H overall and
1-3 in conference, upset the
Ducks 15-11. 15-10. 15-0 in front
of a shocked crowd of more thun
450.
"I felt that Cal played well and
created problems for us." Head
coach (ieiTy Gregory said. "Not
to take anything away from their
victory but we beat ourselves.
"I think the team had expecta
tions to play better and. when it
didn't happen, it just seemed like
they got frustrated really early in
the match and pressed It really
looked like we play tight."
The Golden Hears outplayed
the Due ks in nearly every cate
gory. outhitting Oregon 107 to
.2 1 f> with 1 2 more sets and six
more kills
"1 thought our setters didn't
give a high-quality set," said (ire
gory. "and 1 thought that our hit
ters did not do a good job with
the quality sets that they did
receive They were tense and not
able to react and that's the kiss of
death right there.”
Senior An gee Henderson led
Oregon with It kills and nine
digs. Sophomore Amy McNeel
led the team in hitting at 2Hti
with nine kills and It digs
Senior l.aReina Woods sat out
most of the second game but was
able to come up with nine kills
and a team-leading 12 digs.
The Ducks bounced back
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