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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
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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.
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