Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, October 20, 1995, Page 13A, Image 13

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    SPORTS WEEKENO
COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Oregon (12)
Washington St.
Oregon Si
California
Arizona
Washington (20)
Stanford (23)
UCLA
Notre Dame (17)
USC (5)
Florida Si (1)
Georgia Tech
Northwestern (11)
Wisconsin (24)
Nebraska (2)
Kansas St (8)
Ohio St (4)
Purdue
Iowa {18)
Penn St (19)
WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS
/ cud h\ \fnior Suae Roh (left), the Oregon
women s golf team competes at the Stan ford
Invitational this are fend in Palo Alto. Calif
The Oregon men's tennis team opens its
season at home this heekend against
Casern Washington on Satuniuy at I p m
at the 15th Street tennis courts
TODAY
the Oregon club sports
ho* key team takes to
the tee this weekend to
start its 1995 96 sea
son. The Ducks plus
Washington Shite
tonight til H. M) /> m at
l ane ( Hunts tee
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Outside hitter Shelby Edwards and the Oregon volleyball team look to defeat the Beavers
and Cowgirls this weekend Saturday and Sunday at McArthur Court.
Ducks host second match
of Civil War showdown
■ VOLLEYBALL: The Ducks take
on Oregon State and Wyoming at
McArthur Court this weekend
By Andrea DeYoung
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After capturing their first Pat tfit it)
Conference win of the season last week
end, the Ducks will be ready to go after
another one this weekend. The Heavers
are coming to Mt Arthur ( ourl tonight and
Oregon is fired up and ready to win
This intrastate rivalry will be a key
mats h for the Ducks, and tonight they 'll
tie seeking revenge The Hoovers have two
wins in the confereni e and ()regon looks
to get out of tfie Pat -10 i ellar f>v iHiating
Oregon State The Dm ks are i urrently I
H in the conference and 7-11 overall The
Heavers are ti-10 overall
The Ducks traveled to (iorvallis liei k on
Stipt 2 i and lost to them in three games
Head coach taithy Nelson said that Ore
gon did not play a very good match
"We did not execute our plays very
well.’ Nelson said "We're a hotter team
now and we know that we i an execute
(letter this time."
Oregon State was able to hold the
Ducks to t-t kills in tin- match while
racking up '>2 of their ovs n Oregon also
made 21 attack error*, the Heavers had
ir.
Sophomore outside hitter Heather
Lowe leads the Heavers with It)') kills
The team has a strong hitting squad; five
players have over 150 kills
The Dm ks, on the other hand, have
only two players with over 150 kills
Junior outside hitter Amy Mi Neel has
21) kills while sophomore outside hit
ter Shelby Edwards has tfW)
Nelson (relieves, however, that the
Ducks have the advantage this weekend.
"We have been playing well at home,"
Nelson said "It helps to have the team
get into the flow of going to school nnd
going to priu tn.e VVti have been traveling
a lot this year ami it helps to have two
weekends of homo gatnos
On Saturday night, Oregon will face
Wyoming, who the Dm ks lost to earlier
in the year The teams agreed to play
each Other twice this season, Nelson said
"We wanted to break up the Par-It)
season," Nelson said
l or Wyoming, junior middle bhx ker
Kristina D/elme is leading ill kills with
204 and also has H4 blocks
Oils weekend marks the halfway (Hunt
of the season Nelson at knowledge!) that
playing these teams a second time wasn't
net essarily on advantage
" I his is a pretty hard |i«rt of the sea
son," Nelson said
Although tfie Ducks have already
equaled their number of conference wins
from last season. Nelson said they
haven't accomplished ail of the goals that
they set lie fore the season
"We should have heat Dal and we
didn't play as well as we could have in
some of the matches," Nelson said "Hut
1 think we re real close to act omplishmg
what we wanted to accomplish
harbor in the year, Nelson had said
team morale would he important, and
she believes that things are going well so
far
"I think we're doing a pretty good job
of keeping hope and keeping faith, " Nel
son said,
Oregon is trying to set an all-time
attendance record tonight at 7 p in
against tin1 Beavers Mai tionrt needs to
Im* filled with 2.47‘i si reaming Dm k fans
in order to break the record
Although Saturday s game was origi
nally scheduled for 7 pm, it lias been
changed to a t p in, start because of the
fmidiall game Saturday night
Pride and tradition go hand in hand with Oregon distance runners
Trivia time.
Question: Which ath
letic program hero at
Oregon has finished in
the top ten in the nation 17
times since 1968, has racked
up four national titles and is
currently ranked 13th in the
nation?
Answer: The men's cross
country team.
With the recent success of
other programs such as football
and haskottial! there has Immio a
lot of jumping on the Ducks'
bandwagon.
If it's so nice and so easy to
back a winning program then
take a look at the most winning
program at Oregon and consid
er what many people have tak
en for granted — a team that is
consistently among the nation's
leaders.
Under the guidance of head
OPINION
coai h Bill
Dellinger for
the last 26
y«am. Oregon
cross country
has b««n
nothing but
spectacular
In
Dellinger's
first year in
1969, Oregon
finished third in the nation, the
next year they finished second
and in his third year as coach
in 1971 Dellinger won his first
national championship
The Ducks have won three
more national titles since then
— in 1973, 1974 and 1977
Winning the four national
championship* was an awfully
satisfying experience,"
Dellinger said.
During Dellinger's tenure the
Ducks have won 12 conference
championships, finished sec
ond nine times, finished third
four tunes and hail their worst
finish in 1984 coining in at
fourth place. Not bad consider
ing your worst season is still
better than half your confer
ence.
Dellinger has been a success
ful and instrumental part of the
program as a runner, a graduate
assistant and presently as head
coach.
"It's l»»on an awfully good
ride taring harw oi the universi
ty," Dellinger said "1 like the
style of living and I f««il
attached to the university I feel
lucky that I’m here — I think
this is the host place in the
world to live "
Dellinger gave much credit
for his success to the two Hills
that came l#>fore him. Hill Hay
ward and Bill Bowennnn.
"1 came to Oregon to run for
Bill Bowennnn,'' Dellinger
said "His contribution to track,
and field is immense — he has
been a huge influent o on my
life.”
Just as Dellinger named Bow
erman ns his reason for coming
to Oregon, some of tins year's
runners, such us senior Scott
Nu holes, named Dellinger us
one of their reasons for coining
here.
"I liked the facility and I
liked Dellinger,” Nicholas said
"Hu s a curing conch I can call
him up or just go into his office
and dint with him."
Oregon's cross country, track
and field programs have such a
long winning tradition that the
program is known nation wide
and sometimes seems to lie
appreciated more outside the
state than it is inside the state.
It's lough to make compar
isons between this year's run
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