Wrestlers salvage tie over weekend I
Trevor Kearney
dragon f mmati
The Orison wrestling team came bat k from o 2ft
ft loss to Arizona .Stan? Saturday night by tying Boiae
Slatti 19-lft Sunday afternoon to end their regular
season
The weekend matches brought the team's ret ord
to 4-7-1 overall and 2-5 In the Pacific-10Confer
ence.
"I think we probably wrest led better than I Sal
unlay night), hut not good enough for me," said
head roach Ron Finley.
The highlight of Sunday's meet was I2t> pound
I are my Entirud. who dominated the Bronco'* Luke
1 infer and eventually pinned him with 14 set ond*
to go in the first (teriod The win brought his ns ord
10 20-5
''Jeremy Knsrud got the only fall for us. Finley
•wild "He got the job done We need more pins like
Jammy's {pmJ. 1 excited when there ts a fail,'*
A controversial call in the overtime period of Sun
day's 1 1H pound match gave Boise State s Brett
Bingham a 2-1 win over Oregon's Kevin Rolierts
According to referm Gary Minegar, even though
Bingham didn't earn an escape. Roberts lost con
trol. giving Bingham the dec isive point. After a nar
row loss to Arizona State’s Danny Felix on Saturday,
Roberts' rtKord is 22-t
"That w as an important match,'' Finley said "It
made the difference in the meet and makes the dif
ference in the seeding for Kevin."
In Saturday 's meet, the Duc ks went into the final
weight class with only three points from an earli
rud win. lint heavyweight Nathan Su
c hnlked up six points by pinning the Sun Devils'
lason McCloud just 2 t s<-< onds into the match
BROOKS
Continued from Page 1A
Brooks turned the Oregon
football program around, com
piling a 67-4)0 rw ord in his Iasi
11 years, im.lorimg tour howl
appearances in the past six
years In his 1H years as head
■ oach. Brook* won and coached
more games than any other
coach in Oregon history ills
four.bowl appearances are also
more I him am i.t t:r i n.n ti .1!
Oregon has achieved. Brooks
nabbed both the national and
tiie Pacific-If)Conference coach
of the year awards in his 1004
05 Rom* Bowl campaign
"I am a little disappointed to
Ik* leaving a great university anti
an outstanding group of young
men," Brooks said, adding tlinl
he would keep lho Eugene
house he just built "The people
that mean the most to me are the
people who I've coached, who
have played for me. and the peo
ple I've worked with
"I'm disappointed he has to
go." interim athletic director
Dan Williams said "He is him
est and extremely competent
and has a lot of talent when it
comes to how football works,
IThe Kamsj are getting a fine
person end an outstanding
i oath."
Brooks had two previous
stmts in the NFl. before < oat h
ing the Ducks, the first as an
assistant coat h in i barge of spo
i ial teams for the Rams in 1971
and 1972 and the second as an
assistant with the San J-'rant is
CO -Piers in 1974 and 197.V The
rebuilding of the Rams, howev
er. proves to lx* the biggest chal
lenge of hi* career
"I think there is pressure to
win nt every level in coaching."
he said, “but the NFI is as tough
as it gets 1 believe this is a good
opportunity for me I think the
opportunity to turn this program
around is then* “
Ac i ording to Brooks, the Job
is an opportunity to put the final
touches on his already brim
ming resume! But he realize* it
won't lx* an easy task
"l think the pinna* l« would
b*- making it to that level and
truing successful at that level."
he said of the NFI, 'If 1 don't do
it, they will have someone else
there to do it so 1 think it is
important that ! get it done
quickly
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RAMS
Continued from Page 7 A
dal concerns to think about
O'Keefe wtid about thi* only
thing that poopie he ha* talked
to know about Brooks who
coached for 18 years at Ore
gon. is the meant success that
his Oregon Duck.* had and the
national i caching award* that
he received a* a result
But a* the city readies for
NFL football for the first time
since the Cardinal* left in the
mid 1980*. the fans of St
Louis seem ready to hack up
just about any head coach
"Everybody's just gone
Rams crazy here." O'Keefe
said. "St Louis is a sports
town I think Brooks will
rw eive a lot of support here "
Armi hair quarterbacks In
the city hope that Brooks will
he able to rebuild the team
much like he did with the
Ducks O Keefe said that jm*o
ple have come out in support
of Brooks, praising hint for
whnt he's done for Oregon,
especially considering the
recruiting advantages that oth
er Poc-10 teams like Wash
ington. I’OLA and USC hold
over the Oregon program.
“People realize that Oregon
is bnsicflllv fourth in the lad
der in the Pac 10," O’Keefe
said, "All we as fans cart do is
wait and see The only thing
we ask from our sports team
is give us decent talent and
May competitive."
Sunday night on the talk
radio stations, talk of the hir
ing was tlw main topic Randy
kerraker of KMOX radio Mid
the St. Louis fan* have had a
< ham e to learn about Brooks
and endorsements from
respected former coaches like
Dick Vermeil and BUI Walsh
have* opened up their eyes
"People here were skepti
cal on Friday and Saturday,"
kerraker said. "Hut Satur
day’s news conference
helped out, and a lot of
minds have been changed ”
Kerraker, who hosts a
sports call-in show, said over
the last two weeks. the con
sensus of the fans was that
the Rams more than likely
would hire a lesser-known
coach While Ditka's name
was mentioned and was an
overwhelming choice of the
fans in a St. Louis Post-Dis
pati h poll, fans expected the
Rams would go for a more
economically feasible college
coach to smooth things over
in the transitional year.
Kerrnker said Brooks is rel
atively unknown because
Pac-l(i games aren’t televised
or talked about very much in
the Midwest But the
endorsements that Brooks
has n*< eived since taking the
job have been impressive, to
sav the least
SCORERS
Continued from Page 9A
mg from their senior m oring due urn prove deadly lust
ns ft did on Saturday
The Ducks on!shot their in-slate rivals in the first half,
hitting 1H of 2H from the field, while the Beavers had
their fair share of problems omnei ting on only i t of 27
shots Hoff, who averages more than 19 points o game,
was held s< tireless in the opening half and was onlv able
to get four shots off Barry was held to four points and
was victimized for five turnovers in the firs! 20 minutes
of play
"I thought we did a good job of defense on Barry in the
first half and Hoff m th • second half." Oregon head
couch Jerry Green said
Although Barry finished the game with 17 j Runts and
Hofi with 10, the m unug duo's effet tivenevs was seven*
ty limited in the game with most of their points coming
m garbage time during the second half Despite surren
dering Hi> points, a stings Duck defense forced the
Heavers to utilize some of their other scorers
“The i>est way to not let Barry score is to not let him
torn li the hall." Oregon forward Darryl Barker said al>oul
defending Harry, who lit the Ducks up for 31 points in
their previous meeting “I was not going to let him have
that (31 points) in this game
Following the game. Oregon State head coach Jim
Anderson was not laving blame on his star forwards and
pointed to the uninspired play of the teom as u whole fur
the dei isive loss
I'he\ beat us every way possible." Anderson said of
the Dunks "We missed some easy 1 ay iris. Then, all of a
sudden — panic:."
Barry blamed a tail luster week of practice as being a
large contributor to Saturday s sub-par performance.
" I here was no intensity out there " Barry said "VVn
didn't have .my intensity during the long week of prac
tice either
You would think a Civil War week would he enough
lo get everyone intense and reads to go. but l guess that's
not the case.”
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