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■ SPORTS EXTRA FOOTBALL Ducks brace for another tough “D” marw me i yr« C^BQOn Ctody After Inst weekimd's tough loss to Washington State. the Oregon Ducks have yet another high hur dle to get over this weekend, against the California Golden Bears (3-2 overall. M in confer ence). The meeting between these two teams last year was one that many Oregon and California fans will never forget Oregon traveled to Berkeley as a major underdog to face the 15lh-ranked Bears The Ducks posted a solid 10-7 halftime lead before a mammoth comeback by the Dave Barr-led Bears produced a stunning 42-41 California victory. This weekend the Ducks will be running into another lough California team that is strong on both the offensive and defensive end. Aftor starting the season with two-straight losses. Califor nia has turned its game around with three-consecutive victories to remain atop the Pacific-to along with Arizona and Wash ington State. In California's first two games of the season, the Bears averaged only Ci 5 points a game. hut In their last three games they are averaging over 15 points a game (iatifomia's success this season can be largely attributed to the efforts of its defense Thu Bears ore giving up only 14 2 points a game in their first five games the school’s best average sini e 1979 when the defensive squad allowed only 11 H points a gam« The Bears' 12th-rankod defense, second best in the Pnc-tO. is allow ing just 2tiH yards a game California's defense is most effective during the first half The Cal defense has only allowed an average of seven points, 115 8 yards and fi.4 first downs in the first half this season and have yet to allow a point in the first tjuar ter "Their defense is going to get a look at what Washington State did to u* and figure they can do ns much damage," Oregon head coach Rich Brooks said "I've been very impressed with the play of their defensive front as a group." One thing that could hamper the Bears is the injury of starting quarterfvv k Dave Barr [hiring the second quarter of the Hears win Over UCLA last week, Harr wont down with a broken loft collar bone and is expected to la* out 4 fi weeks Backup Kerry Mctkmi gal. a graduate of flood River Valiev High School and the tout Oregon JA Player of the Year, filled in nicely for Harr against UCLA and will get the start against Oregon List year, Mi Go nignl made one start for an injured Barr against Washington State completing 10 of 27 for t()7 yards anil a tout hdown "California is in much the same situation without their starting quarterback that we were two weeks ago," Brooks said "Kerry Mi (ioing.il knows what to do and he did n good job against UCLA.” The Ducks are trying to regroup for this game, but injuries are a major concern right now for the coaching staff Oregon has lost at least two more players for an extended period of time due to injuries incurred in last week end's game, junior flanker Crist in McLemore (loft ankle) and sophomore quarterbai k Tonv Graziani (right ankle) are side lined indefinitely ufter being sent to the locker room in the first quarter against Washington State "We have work to do to just put our team hai k together Un ause of tIn* injuries we've sus tained, Brooks said The defense is the one part of the game that is still holding tough for die Dm ks this season Senior strong safety Chad Cota finished tfie Washington Statu game with to tin kies and helm'd limit tin* ( nug.tr passing nltai k to under a SO peri ent completion ratio Two others on the defense that are playing extremely well are senior free safety |eff Sher man and junior t omertwi k Alex Molden I he duo each ret orded seven tackles last weekend and Molden made a hit on tailback Frank Matin that made FSl’N's “Flays of the Week". With a Duck win. Oregon could possibly move into a tie for second place in the Pac-tO If Oregon posts another loss, all chant es for the Rose Bowl could be lost "We need to win a game this week try to win a game, so we still have an opportunity to do something.'' Brooks said Difficult weekend ahead for volleyball team rvris Henry Oregon D&ty Emetaki The Oregon volleyball team goes up against two powerful and nationally ranked teams in I.ns Angeles this weekend. Oregon faces 4th-ranked UCLA on Friday night and 15th-rankod USC on Saturdav night The Ducks are still looking for their first Pacif ic-10 Conference victory and also their first triumph in the City of Angels since 1990 when Oregon downed CSC "We expect to see two great teams in USC and i K !I.A." Oregon coach Gerry Gregory said. “But I think they both have some weakness es that we will try to get to. Overall, the team is ready to go ami is looking forward to this weekend." After opening the season quickly with a fi 1 mark, the Ducks have lost nine straight matches and are 6-10 overall with an 0-7 con ference record. Oregon has had some difficulty lately after suffering injuries to two of its season open ing starters in the past two weeks Sophomore swing hitter Amy Me Neel will be out at least four weeks and possibly the season with torn ligaments in her left ankle. Tin' injury was sustained in itu< thirti game against Oregon State on Oct 5. A two-year starter, M< Neel was one of tfm team leaders in kills, digs, aces and blot ks Freshman quick hitter Dani Cordova sprained her left ankle against California on Sept .10 She has sat out si me but could possibly return to prm - tice with the team in 1-2 weeks "We are a little thin right now without Cor dova and Mi Neel,” Gregory said, hut I feel somebody will step up in their place. "There are always adjustments in a season and their injuries created learning exjieriences we weren't anticipating. I think the adjust ments are going to start lining made " The Ducks looked confused on their assign ments in last Friday’s loss to Cal State North ridge. Trying to offset the loss of McNeet, Gregory shuffled the opening line-up and the new faces were not able to make adjustments Trailing by eight or more points in •»«< h game, Oregon consistently put itself in a hole ear ly against the Matadors and were unable to dig its way out. “We had some bright spots in our last two rnatr hes," Gregory said. "We just did not plnv well at the start of the match Our biggest issue is to start playing hauler earlier in tin* match 1 hat will lie the key to how well we perfonti (against UCLA ami UNC) t ( LA leads the rivalry w ith Oregon, 19-1, with the only Dtu k victory coming in 1087 nt Mi Arthur Court Oregon also falls short against 1 'S< IM, with the Trojans enjoy mg a seven match win streak Gregory is 1 !r> against UCLA end its conch Andy Bone chowski He is fi ll versus tJSC and 2-8 against Trojan coach Lisa Low. I he Bruins (14-2 overall. 5-1 in conference) dropped out of a first-place tie with a loss to Stanford last weekend at home. UCLA is led hy Annett Buckner, the conferem e leader in kills (5 18) and a 112 hitter, as well as Alyson Randick. who hits at a .371 dip Kim Krull has a 1 68 block mark, second in the league, while Randick adds 1.54. good for fourth in the league. use: (10-3. 4-2) is third in the league and is paced by four players with at least three kills per game They are Kelly Kuebler (3.0). I-ailfi 3 usl ( I fi), Meika Wagner (3 7) ami Ves na Drngicevit (3 7). Yust is hitting 378. 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