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Emerald MONDAY October 30. 1995 SPORTS WEEKEND COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD Arizona Si Oregon (195 USC (14) Washington (15) UCLA {22) California Arizona Washington St Stanford Oregon St 35 24 21 21 33 16 24 14 24 3 Kansas St 19: Kansas (11) Alabama (16) North Texas Northwestern 6 Illinois Nebraska (1) Colorado (10) ONo St. (4) Iowa 41 7 1 ' 19 17 14 44 ?1 b6 $5 ■ WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS j Junior Kttrl Kt \ka I left) pithed first ill the " Pacific-It) ('onferem <■ t 'hampionships over the weekend. Both the men s and w omen’s tennis wan their respective conference titles 4 The Oregon volleyball team couldn't heat | top ranked ( V( or l'( l A this weekend NFL SCORES u anas Atlanta Philadelphia St Louis Indianapolis NY Jets Carolina New England Pittsburgh Jacksonville 28 13 20 9 17 10 20 17 24 7 Arizona State stuns Ducks with 35-24 upset victory ■ FOOTBALL: Or eg; ■ couldn't start its running game in Saturday s loss By Trevor Kearney After accomplishing what they weren't supposed to accomplish all year long, the Oregon football team lost a game they were supposed to win on Saturday and all but fell out of position to repeat as Pacific-10 Conference Cham pions. Oregon's t.r>-24 loss to Ari zona State dropped the Ducks to a fi-2 overall record and a I 2 conference record. Oregon also dropped from No. 10 to No. 18 in the Assoi itried Press Top 2r> poll and from No. 12 to No 18 in the CNN/UNA Todav poll. The Dio ks offense just couldn't put up enough points lo match that ol Arizona Stale, as the Sun Devils marched rill over the Oregon defense in the final quarter of the game. Ore gon could never run the bull consistently and never really mounted a threat on the ground, as the Ducks finished with only 61 rushing yards in 37 attempts We were inconsistent in terms of running the ball." head i oat h Mike Bellotti said "lu fact, at times we had too many negative plays running the foot hall. I think they plaved a ven good foothnll game m iybe tin1 N'st of their year .md we did not. and it was an unfortu nate combination of emurn statu ws " Offensive coordinator A! Borges agreed “(The running game| has been a strength up until two games ago. and all of a sudden it has turned into a weakness," he said. "I think we have to do some analyzing and find out exactly why we an* not hitting on all cylinders with the consistency we had earlier in the year ” On the Ducks first offensive play, Arizona State defensive tat kle Jason Reynolds sacked Oregon quarterback Tony Graziani. but the Dm ks pu ked themselves hat k up and drove to the Sun Devils' 15-vard line They had to settle for a field goal, however, after Arizona State defensive tai kle Shawn Swaydn sai ked Graziani for a loss of 10 yards. The score staved that way until early in the second quar ter, when Arizona State drove HO yards in til play s and junior quarterback Juke Plummer picked apart the Oregon sec ondary, i ompletillg three pass es including a 3*1-yard toss to true freshman wide receiver Kenny Mitchell. in less than a minute, Ari zona State drove 40 yards in Turn to FOOTBALL, Page 12 W*H> MC ' rl« 1 "«a.! Oregon senior comertoack Alex Molden (left) looks on as Arizona Suite's true freshman wide receiver Kenny Mitchell scores the Sun Devil s second touchdown ot the day Sun Devils scorch Oregon, hope to end on a hot streak ■ FOOTBALL: Ar ?0' a State gave the Ducks a run for their money Saturday By Chris Stewart Thu Arizona Statu football leant finally put it all together as it tame into Atitzen Stadium with 3 1 record and a 12-point underdog but walked out with a 35-24 upset of the 10th-ranked Oregon Ducks. Arizona State quarterback lake Plummer and wide receiver Keith Poole said that this game was very important for their team. "We feel we should win every game.” Poole said. “I think we have the confidence we need now and hopefully we can fin ish strong “ Plummer, who finished with 232 yards passing, agreed, say ing the Devils did what they needed to do to win the game on offense by playing a balanced game, "IThe win! is rust great for the morale of this team." Plummer said. "Wd Anally realized what this tea® i an do this tear " Surprisingly it was the Sun Devils' defense that provided some of the biggest plays, while their potent offense, which is also capable of making tug plass, put the game away. Arizona State roach Bruce Snyder said Ills team has been improv ing on defense and he was confident they were capable of beating the Ducks and beating other teams that are on their schedule "It's becoming difficult to run on us." Snyder said "People aren't fooling us on play action passes." Snyder was quick to give the Ducks credit for being a good team, but said he wasn't too sur prised to get the win. "We played a really good toot ball loam, a really well coat h*•<! team," Snyder said. “It doesn't totally surprise me that wu did this, because I could sou tins thing coming — I belioved we could twin!" Arizona State's second score helped solidify Snyder's beliefs True freshman wide rei elver Kennv Mitchell made an acrobatic leaping catch over Ales Molden and then kept his balance to trot into the end zone and extend the Devils lead to 14-3. Snyder said that Mitt.hell's touchdown ludpcd give the Dev ils i onfidetice early In the game When you t an go at a teams strength," Snyder said of Ore gon's strong defensive hat k, "and come out ahead, it's a dou ble-edge sword It hurts the other team's confidence and it helps votirs ” The Devils' defense got into the act in the third quarter after they hud lost the lead and the Out ks had the halt again Defen MU' end Mike l-iltlgridge stole the bail from Tom Graziani as Graziani cocked his arm to pass Langridge wultzod down the field and into tlie and zone. The pInv guve the Devils hack the lead 2117. "I |ust came around the cor ner. got a look, took the ball and started running." Langridge said. "1 got lucky." Snyder said he was pleased with his team on both sides of tin; fad I "I think our defense played really hard and our offense was effective when li needed to fie." Snyder said. An example of the Sun Devils' offense was after Oregon had taken the lead 2-4-21 One minute. 2fl seconds Inter Plum mer found tight end Steve Bush in the end zone to give Arizona State the lead fur good on a three-yard touchdown pass. ' I couldn't drill il because the defender had an ungle and could ><••1 to it.' Plummer said "So. 1 had to float it and (Bush) just made a great catch." Hush said the Devils we're capable of finishing strong and building on this win 'We've thrown awnv a few games we should have won." Hush said "There's no reason we should lose if we i orne out and plav like we did today." Plummer said the win over tile Ducks was one of the lies! of his career a! Arizona .State "'riiis is probably the sweetest Ivictoryl," Plummer said 1 hoc n- a tilth ranked team and we haven’t won on turf since I've lea'll here This victo ry right here makes us realize what we can do.” Arizona State improves to 2-.i in the conference and 4-4 over all as they go home in hopes of starting a winning streak against uc:i,a
