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fl 1 ' >r'-"S r. II a ■ ■ Emerald MONDAY Novomtxv 6. 199b SPORTS WEEKEND COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD Oregon (17) 24 Washington (23) 22 Arizona 14 Oregon St 9 Washington St 11 California 27 USC(tO) 31 Stanford 30 UCLA (24) 33 Arizona St. 37 Penn St (21) 10 Northwestern (5) 21 Kansas St (7) 49 Oklahoma 10 Wisconsin 27 Purdue 38 Nebraska (1) 73 Iowa St 14 Ohio St (2) 49 Minnesota 21 WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS Junior Dougal Williams (left) h(j\ one of sis members of the Oregon men's tennis team eliminated in the third round of the Rides S'orval Ins national tournament Sunday in San Jose. ( ahf \fter tying the Portland Junior Hueks > >n Stilurday. the Oregon club sfuirts hot key team (>ulletl out it w in on Sunday NFL SCORES Minnesota 27 Gwen Bay 2-t Kansas City 24 Washington 3 Houston 3 7 Cleveland 10 Oakland 20 Cincinnati 17 Atlanta 34 Detroit 22 Special teams come up big at Washington ■ FOOTBALL: Oreg< > holds on in northwest rivalry a! Seattle, winning the game 24-22 By Mark McTyre Assistant Sports f dttor SKATTI.I. - Kverybody knew ttiiit it would take something special for the Dtu ks to heat Washington at home Hiov were right It was Oregon's special team unit that made the differ ence in the Ducks' J-J 22 in lo ry over the Huskies on Saturday. A unit that has taken much criticism all year long as being "not good" or even "horrible." accounted for 16 of Oregon's points offensively while defen sively taking away seven points from the Huskies' kit king game — blocking one extra point and two field-goal attempts And besides the blot ked kirks, the unit put enough on Washington place kicker John Wales to force him to miss his other two field goal attempts, including the pos s i b te ga rne- w inner The special team unit wasted no time getting the score going as kit k returner Pat Johnson returned the opening kit koff 8ft yards for a touchdown. After receiving the ball on Oregon's 10-yard line. Johnson sprinted into a wall of blockers and dis appeared for a moment seem ing to signify the end of the play hut then he exploded out of the pack, running toward the right sideline for u galloping score I w.t-. inxions to try to i:i.iV..■ a big thing happen bet atise I haven't hardly made any plays this year,” Johnson said "When t caught it. I kind of slipped and I think that math* their coverage < heck up n little bit. and then I took it straight up the middle "When 1 got there, our wedge was closed off. but then one of their players grabbed me by the shoulder pads and pulled me. turning me to right, which was wide open." With the st ore being 7-0 after only 15 seconds had elapsed, the Washington offense came out looking to post some points on the boartl However, the Gang Green unit, with its emo tional leader back on the field — defensive lineman Troy Bai ley — held the Huskies to n three-and-out series On the ensuing Oregon pos session, the offense consumed 5,35 off the clock on a 13-play, 80-yard drive which led to the first of three field-goals by plat o kicker Joshua Smith The drive was highlighted by tailback Kevin Parker's t*t yards on three carries and flanker Christin McLemore's three ret eptions for Turn to FOOTBALL, Page 12 M . h Oregon inside linebacker Jeremy Asher and the rest of the defense were able to contain Huskies' quarter back Damon Huard much of the game In the Ducks 24-22 victory In Seattle Arizona, Arizona State send Ducks searching for offense ■ VOLLEYBALL: Oregon drops three straight games to Arizona State By Pete Schneider and Andrea DeYoung The Ducks continued their Pacific-10 Conference woes this weekend, losing to Arizona and Arizona State. Oregon (H-17. 1-13 Pac-10) could not get much going Saturday night, as the Ducks dropped three straight games to Arizona State The Sun Devils (8-5. 14 6 overall) were in control of the match throughout the first two games, winning 15-7 and IS 11. respectively Oregon looked as if it had liegun to solve Arizona State's potent offen sive attack before faltering late in the match. The Sun Devils totally dominated the defenseless Ducks in the third game, 15-2. "We pretty much fell apart in the third game." said Cathy Nelson. Oregon head coach "We had a really hard time getting into any kind of offensive rhythm tonight. When you're playing that poorly, it’s hard to play with much emotion and stay pos itivu " Oregon had trouble passing, blocking, and hit at a dismal (X> 1 clip for the mall h In the decisive third gaum, the Ducks recorded nine attack errors while con necting on only five kills At one point. Arizona rattled off five straight points without a Dm k side out. If it had not been for a hitting error by Sun Devil outside hitter Terri Cox and a block by Oregon outside hitter Amy McNWI. the Ducks would not have gotten on the score board at all Arizona State's fearsome front line was just too much for Oregon in the matt h Christum (iardner, Jennifer Snyder and Cox combined for 37 kills. The trio was par ticularly impressive in the Sun Devil s game three rout, rat king up ifi kills to smother the Ducks. One of the lone bright spots for Oregon in the matili was the play of freshman Alli son White The ft*foot middle blocker lead the Ducks with seven kills and recorded two blocks. Sophomore Darn Cordova also had a det ent night with six kills and a team loading four blocks Nelson was not impressed with Imr team’s performani o against An/.uim Stale "We didn't play very good volleyball at all." she said. "()ur biggest problem was our (tossing. ’When we play very poorly like we did tonight." the coach said, "our passing isn't crisp and we can't run our offense effi i iently. Anytime we don't pass well, we're probably not going to win." The Ducks got off to a good start Friday night against the Wildcats as they won the first game 15-13 But Oregon couldn't hold on as Arizona came hack to win the next three games 15-4, 15-11, t5-t> Oregon had to play the game without two key players os red shirt freshman middle blocker Madeline Krnst and sophomore middle blocker Tia Stewart were out with injuries Krnst is out for the season w ith torn ligaments in her ankle and Stewart injured her knee in the match versus Port land on Oct. 31. She was out this weekend and may not play again this season. The loss of these two players left the rest of the team the responsibility of stepping Monel up to compensate Cordova had 17 kills and a '1 i i nltw k (mrconlago Although the Dui ks’ outside hitters ond kill leaders Mi Neel and sophomore Shelby Ivd wards wore held to five and four kills respectively, sophomore outside hitter Alison l’e|>e and White < ame on strong with 10 kills each. Sophomore seller Casey Crisler had four of Oregon s seven service aces f’epe and McNeel troth had strong defensive nights as they collected 20 and 17 digs Head coach Cathy Nelson was impressed with Pope's efforts ! thought that she did just a great job tonight," Nelson said. She's probably our most aggressive player. With Tin going down, it changes our line-up, and All has Ireing doing a great joh in prm tii e and it carried over to tonight Pope said she fell confident in her nbil ity to step up and thought the team put out an overall good effort. We did some really gooil sluff, Pope said. Wo played a lot trotter than we have been playing And we really fought that whole way through and never gave up. ay Novembers 1996 O'ogon OreV i mm aid 9
