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Mat men rebound, split weekend meets Trevor Kearney t>»0On Defy frmtfina Thu Oregon wrestling leant rebounded front a li»< kluster loss to Oregon State on Fridas night by whipping Brigham Young 2fi 6 on Saturday. On Friday, the team was slug gish and dropped two of toe first three weight classes as the Beavers racked up a 29-tJ victo ry With Peter Stavner fat ing .1 possible season-ending bark, injury and Matt Sprague out with a shoulder injurs, the team lost to Oregon State, even though the Beaver's No 1 ranked 177-pound mainstay Les Gulches was out with an injury "1 think we just didn't vsres tle very good at all against (lo gon State," Oregon bead coach Ron Finley said. “They came out n-ally fired up. and they 1 a me out to get back into the winning streak, and we just didn't rise to the occasion " But the Ducks t ame alive on Saturday, winning the first five weight classes against Brigham Young and eight of the to total matches. And the Dili ks kept on win Turn to WRESTLING, Page 10 Oregon's heavyweight Nathan Sullivan overcame a 5-1 deficit against BYU's Sean Ponce as the Ducks coasted to a 26-6 victory Saturday Ducks cling to victory against home-weary Cal OAKLAND, Calif. (AIM - Orlando Williams st ored 23 points, including four 3-pointers in the set imd half, as No 22 Oregon defeated California 94-flfl Saturday, sending the Bears to a school record sixth straight home loss. Williams hit two 3-pointers as Oregon opened the second half with a 14-2 run. and hit two more later in the period as the Ducks (13-5. 5-4 Pat -10) built a lead of as many as 21 points The Bears (11-7, 3-6) went on a late 22-6 run to pull within five points with 1 4H left but could get no closer Guard Randy Due k (.ante off the bench to hit three 3-pointers for Cal during the rally Darryl Parker had IB points for Oregon. whi< h broke «i three game losing streak, and Jeff Potter added 17, Tremaine Fowlkes led Col with 21 points Mon ty Buckley scored 20 and Duck had 13. The Hoars have not won at homo since I Vs 2H Saturday's game was played at the Oakland Coli seum Arena, one of Cal's two home courts Oregon, leading by one point at halftime, si ornd the first five points of the st« ond half Bur klev hit a jumper for Cal to pull the Bears within 45-41, but the Ducks hit three straight tpomters. one by Madden and then two by Williams, to build the Oregon lead to 54-41 The Ducks ijuickty ini reused the margin to 17 points, taking a ti2 45 lead on another Williams t pointer, anil led 79-5H before Cal began its late ral ly Oregon had a 40*39 halftime lead, despite trail ing 21-9 early in the half Parker led the Ducks with nine punts, white Buckley had 11 points for the Bears in the first half STANDINGS Men's basketball COW OVERALL UCLA 12 14-? Arizona 7-2 17-4 Stanford 6-3 15-3 Arizona St 6-3 16-5 WSU 5-4 10-7 Oregon 5-4 13-5 California 3-6 11-7 J-6 Q-12 ' Washington 1-8 5-1 ? ■ Ut RAID UARY 0#*ASS* m»«« Renae Fegent led the Ducks back into defensive form col lecting 13 rebounds, four steals and three blocked shots while scoring 12 points and dishing out four assists In the Ducks victory over California. Oregon women stay in the thick of Pac-10 race with win over Cal Mark McTyre Oregon U&dy (- r+rnf m) The Oregon women's basketball team. knowing i! needed to win to stay in reach of the Pact He JO Conference's lop three teams, beat the visiting C la I i • fornia Golden Hears on Saturday 77 50. “We knew it was going to fie a tough game. Cal needs to win as badly as wo do, and we knew' it wasn't going to lie east, coming in," Oregon head coat h Jodv Range said. At the start of the game, Runge's hypothesis was true The Hears (7-10, 2-6 Pac-10) caught the Ducks (12-6, 5 4) off guard, pushing out to an early 10-4 lead in the first four minutes of play. "I just had this ill fueling before the game that we were going to come out flat because the monkey was on our back." Runge said Once the Ducks got back into the game, they quickly closed in on the Bears early lead At the 12:38 mark. Oregon's Arianne Boyer cot let ted her first of two blew ked shots and four assists when s(n» stole the bait from California's Patti Czepiet and mad*) a baseball pass to a streaking Sally Crown. Crow*) took the ball between two California defenders in tin* paint, and made her patented "from-the-hip" layup to i:ol the lead to 15-11. After connecting with Crowe. Boyer made three straight boskets to give the Dm ks their first lead of the game. 17-15 The Ducks returned to their great defensive play that had been missing in Oregon's last three losses The Ducks held the Bears to 34.ft percent from the field while collecting 44 rebounds, nine steals and four bio* ked shots. With 6:25 remaining in the first half ami the score at 2H-25, tin* Ducks began an 11 4 run to end (he half. 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JicitsofwNii 3 lursg Ikw*,?* Si 3 lourt*ti$3 V^nn^onSl 3 $«foft Ha* 2 Df«w*l 1. kjaho Si V Non Omfears 1 T&sas fcf Paso t Men’s tennis bounces back on road I he Oregon men's tennis team improved their njcord lo 9 4 with road wins against Ma?QuOttfcf and Wl&COf'Sin Green Bay on Saturday Alter losing to Wisconsin on Friday 7 4, Oregon bounced back over the weekend with victories at Marquette *»-2. and then cartio up only one set short o! sweeping Wisconsin Green Bay. 6 i. as Josh Prager lost n the third sot (4-6, h 4 l> I, • f> uwt ifi *, M -i> Htin Hans Forsberg led the Ducks as the No 1 seed, scoring straight set victories against both of his competi tors John DeVorss and Mike Goidsto-r also scored two wins apiece Forsberg teamed w>th Dougai Williams to notch their eighth and nmth doubles wms also
