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MONDAY November 13, 1995 SPORTS WEEKEND COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD Oregon (16) 17 Arizona 13 Southern Cal (11) 28 Oreqon St 10 Washington 38 UCLA 14 Anzona St 38 California 29 Stanford 36 Washington St. 24 Air Force 38 Army 20 Nebraska 41 Kansas 3 Rutgers 45 Tulane 40 Ohio State 41 Illinois 3 Northwestern 31 Iowa 20 WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS the (Ire gon w evhall team dropped a (Htir of games to Washington ami Washington Start’ this weekend ! Karl Kesko p%n ed the men’s cross (country team at the District VIII meet by placing first individually 12 14 j NFL SCORES San Francisco 38 Dallas Ni*w England Miami Cincinnati Houston Detroit Tampa Bay Seattle Jacksonville 30 Ducks’ dismantling of Desert Swarm leads to 17-13 win ■ FOOTBALL: Oregon's rushing attack gams 195 yards against the Pac-10's No 1 defense By Mark McTyre Assistant Sports Editor Thu Oregon football team moved one stop closer to finish ing the season with a 9-2 record — the liest I Kick Finish since 19-tH — with a 17-13 victory over the Arizona Wildcats Saturday. The Ducks dismantled Desert Swarm via the legs of tailbiu k Kicky Whittle as he racked up 11)7 yards on the ground and another 27 yards receiving leading to a touchdown Whittle raised his nil purpose yardage total to 1.M7 yds for the season, breaking Sean Bur well's record of t ,6 11 in 1990 At the start of the game, it didn't look like the Ducks' offense would be able to move the ball as Ari zona's defense kept quarterback Tony Craziani and company silent in the first quarter, giving the Wild i ate' offense good Held position The Wildcats' first scoring dri ve began at their own 45-yard line after an Oregon punt. After three plays that gained the Wildcats mint yards, quartarbm.k Dnn White cornier ted with tight end Milre I.uckv on a 40-yard pass on fourth down and one at the Oregon 4f4 yard line Four plays later Arizona scored on a Gary Taylor one-yard touchdown run The Arizona offense got the hall hack again prior to the end of the quarter off of an interception by its defense at the Wildcats' tt> yard line The drive ended on a 50-yanl field goal by kii kur Jon Prasuhn lu the s*s ond quarter, the Dm ks finally found a way to beat the defense that had shut them down throughout the opening quarter and that way was called Whittle On the eight-play touchdown dri vi«, Whittle had something to do with four of tht'in. In the drive, the tailback compiled six yards on thn ground and 18 through thn air Whittle scored thn touchdown on a one-yard carry. Oregon would scorn again before the t mi luaion of the half, tying the game on a 19-yard field goal by ku kar Joshua Smith In the third quarter, thn Wild cats strut k first, breaking thn to ll) tie with a 17-yard field goal after a 10 (day urge stalled On thn ensuing kn koff, the Ducks started at their own 17-ynrd lint- At tht! Imginningof the oight play. Bit yard touchdown drive, tho Oregon offense looked to its back Raid to things started Tho first play wont to Whittlo for throw yards and then on sin ond down Gra/iani hit fullback A | h'lks on nn night yard screen p iss for a first down The Dm ks wont Ink k to Whittlo on tho dri ve's next play ns ho rumbled for t't yards After using other members of tho offense to gain yardage, the game-winning sc:ore came on a five-yard pass to Jelkx Eugene beats Toreros in home opener ■ HOCKEY: Led by Darren Naylor’s hat trick, the Snowcats wm their franchise opener By Mark McTyre As;. i!itni Sports (Mot The Eugene Snowcats kicked off the North American Professional Hockey League's (NAL) inaugural season in winning and brawling fashion on 1 ri day with a &-6 vie torv over the visiting Mexico City Toreros at Lane County Ice Arena. Entering th« game, Eugene heed coach Dave Dupas said that his team was expecting a game filled with con frontations He was right In the first period, the saving "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out" Turn to HOCKEY, Page 13 HA T Ai l| K* *K f OQMt M < t **3 Friday night's game, the Eugene Snowcats franchise opener, was highlighted by a full line brawl near the end of the first period Eugene goalie Scott Humphrey and Toreros' defenseman Link Gaeli were both ejected following the fight. Eugene beat Mexico City 9-6. Ducks turn in a dominating performance at regional meet ■ CROSS COUNTRY: Oregon heads for the NCAA Championships in Iowa next weekend By Pete Schneider Sports R&porte* Tlit* Orttguu wuiiitn\ uun"» country i1* gviin§ full stiuirn abend to the National Championships after a dominating perfonnani e at the District VII Meet The fourth-ranked Ducks assured themselves an invi tation to the NCAA championships with perhaps the best team outing of the season. Oregon scored :i7 points, with four runners placing in the top 10. The Ducks, who prevailed at the Pacific-10 Conference meet by a slim margin two weeks ago, easily t ruised to .i'vk tori on Sat urday in the 20-team race. Stanford ended up H points behind the Ducks in second place, followed by Arizona (75). Washington (80). and UCLA! 1h:i). "We wanted to beat Stanford ami Arizona at region als so that we could go into nationals feeling confident," saiti senior Melody Fairchild, who finished fifth in indi viduals competition. "We )>eat them by such a huge mar gin that we proved to the Pac-10 that we are the best on the west const We're ready ti> go to nationals and con cern ourselves with doing well there." Oregon and Stanford received automate bids to the NCAA meet with their first and second place finishes Arizona and Washington are now on the hobble for selection to the big meet, but have to wait until Tues day for an at-large bid. In the individual competition on Saturday. Arizona's freshman phoneme Amy Skieresz rm ed to victory by six seconds over Oregon senior Jenna Carlson Junior Mile na Glusat. finished eighth, and freshman Marie Davis (ninth) joined Carlson and Fairchild m the top ten for the Ducks Several Oregon runners are hitting their stride at just the right time Glusac has been hampered with an assort ment of ailments this season, including a mysterious fatigue related illness She seems to be over her sick nesses and ready to return to her two-time All-American form. Davis, who had a break out performance at the Pac-10 meet, continued her improvement for her first top-ten finish of the year Junior Niamh Zwaggerman and sopho more Rosy Gardner also turntid Improved performances, finishing 15 and 20, reaper .lively. "I think wo ant running our host at tint und of tint soa son," Oregon head <oat h Tom Hoinonen said "Rosy. Niamh and Milena who all felt they < ould run Ixiltor than they did at the Pnc-10 meet did run hotter. We were clearly better at the regional* than at the Poc !0 meet We wanted to take another step forward at the dis trict meet and we did. We also wanted to go into the NCAA meet on a roll and we re doing that, too " The Ducks can only savor their victory last weekend for a moment, and then they must turn their attention to the National Championships next Saturday in Ames, Iowa Hoinonen believes that the team's performance last Saturday has established Oregon as one of the teams to treat next week in Iowa "I think we're up there with the biggest of the big guns — the teams that have been there the Inst couple of years." he said "We’re coming off two very good per formances. knowing that we are solid national champi onship contenders," Monda/,ffcjvtmbtr U t'MS Owajob£>*V Bmo/atd 11
