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
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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
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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. Dur
ing the run the prettiest play of the
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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,
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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