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Goaltender’s dive cages Cougars Baseball: Jones is youngest to homer ■ HOCKEY: Last-minute defensive heroics up-end Washington State 3-2 Saturday night By Alex Pond Freelance Sports Reporter With a boisterous crowd of 400 on its feet urging on the home team, the Oregon club hockey team killed a Washington State power play in the final three min utes Saturday night to hold on for a 3-2 victory, gaining a split of two-game weekend series with the Cougars. Washington State de feated the Ducks 7-3 Friday night at Lane County Ice. The Cougars struck first Satur day in what would turn out to be a physical and intense game. Sean Robinson managed to sneak the puck past Oregon goal tender Stuart Robinson for a pow er-play goal from in front of the net at 2 minutes, 15 seconds into the first period, giving Washing ton State a 1-0 lead. The Ducks came back, getting a goal from left wing Robert Was son at 6:47 and then capitalizing on a Washington State penalty with 2:03 remaining to score a power-play goal of their own — a slap shot from about 10 feet out by right wing Ezra Louthis. The score gave the Ducks a 2-1 lead heading into the first intermission. The second period featured great goaltending, with neither team surrendering a point for the first 13 minutes of action. That’s when Cougar Kristofer Winquist rebounded a missed shot and slapped it past Robinson at 13:13 in the second to tie the game at 2. The Ducks responded 13 sec onds later to score the go-ahead and eventual game-winning goal with 4:33 remaining. Sean Schoppe was the beneficiary of a Seth Prouser pass to score the goal. Oregon came out aggressively in the third period, controlling the puck for the majority of play and overwhelming the Cougars on the number of shots taken. (C Overall it was a good win. We had more desire tonight and an attitude to win. The guys were really pumped up and ready to play. — Nick Ham Oregon Hockey coach -55 None of the shots found the back of the net, however, forcing the Ducks to hold on at the end with a solid defensive effort. The game swung into Washing ton State’s favor in the final three minutes when a Duck penalty gave the Courgars an offensive ad vantage. The Cougars’ best chance to tie the game came from a shot made with 2:06 remaining on the clock. Just when it seemed Robinson was beat on the play, he made a spectacular dive for the save. Then fights broke out. When the fracas ended, two Cougars and three Ducks either received penal ties or were ejected. Robinson was among them, forcing Keith Barbato into the goal to save the game for the Ducks. Coach Nick Ham said he was pleased with the victory and the way the team responded after Fri day’s loss. “Overall it was a good win,” Ham said. “We had more desire tonight and an attitude to win. The guys were really pumped up and ready to play.” This attitude led to an aggres siveness that was missing Friday when the Ducks came out flat and fell behind 2-0 midway through the first period. After coming back to tie the game at three apiece during the second period, the Ducks gave up four unanswered goals in the final period and a half for the 7-3 loss. The Cougars’ final point came into an empty net as Oregon pulled the goalie in an effort to score quickly with the one-man offensive advantage. Coach Ham said he thought the second period was the turning point for the Ducks. “We just lost concentration in the second, and they took advan tage of it,” he said. Oregon, 1-1 on the season, re turns to the ice Friday and Satur day with a pair of games against Washington. Both games are at 8 p.m. at Lane County Ice. ■ Continued from Page 7 champions are just as potent in person — despite a one-day rain delay, a four-hour traffic jam and jeering Yankees fans. “The last time I saw pitching like that was when I watched them play the Cardinals,” Yan kees manager Joe Torre said. “To come back and score the way they did, they had a cou ple of days off, and they kept it right up.” Jones hit a two-run homer off Andy Pettitte in the second inning, then lined a three-run shot off Brian Boehringer in the third that made it 8-0. By then Yankees fans, who had waited 15 years for the Series, were already silent. “We’ve been on a roll,” Braves manager Bobby Cox said. “St. Louis caught us aw fully hot those last three games, and the Yankees caught us hot tonight.” Game 2 will be tonight. Greg Maddux, moved up a day be cause of the rain, will start for Atlanta against Jimmy Key. On a day when the Yankees hoped to recapture some of their glory with their first Se ries appearance since 1981, Jones stuck it to them. By the sixth inning, with Atlanta ahead 12-1 and a light rain falling, many of the 56,365 fans had left. "You can’t say enough about the offense,” Smoltz said “It means a lot when we can go out there and jump on them early.” The blowout matched the biggest ever in a Series opener, equaling an 11-0 romp in 1959 by the Chicago White Sox over Los Angeles. Jones, who began the season as a member of the Class A Durham Bulls, became the youngest player to homer in the Series. He was a year younger than Mickey Mantle, who would have turned 65 on Sunday. Smoltz, meanwhile, was holding the Yankees hitless until Wade Boggs’ RBI double with two outs in the fifth. After overcoming four walks in the first two innings, he retired nine straight batters. Smoltz improved to 4-0 in the postseason this year and 9 1 overall in 17 career starts in the postseason. The major league leader in wins and strikeouts this year, he left af ter six easy innings of two-hit ball. The Yankees had played 186 previous games in World Series, most in history, but had never lost by more than eight runs. Helped by the Hall of Famer, the Yankees have won a record 22 championships. But after Pettitte retired the Braves in order in the first in ning, nothing could help the AL win leader. 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A panel discussion of RU 486 4 p.m. - EMU Ben Linder Room Symposium W ovkshops Century F Century A Century B Lesbian Healthcare - Jolene Siemsen from UO Health Center 1 p.m. HIV Alliance, women with HIV prevention, safe sex 2 p.m. Body Image and Nutrition - Peer Health Educators 3 p.m. Best Sober Ideas 32 Students responded to our survey. Louis Nero and Christy and Mike Keeler won a gift certificate to the UO Bookstore for participating. Congrats! Here are a few ideas. Other ways to ^et hi$h: Volunteer and make a difference; climb the Butte; exercise; breathe fresh air. Other ways to fit In: Be yourself; join a club; join a crowd that doesn't need you to act stupid to fit in. Other ways to deal with hard times: Cry; talk about it; pray; meditate. What to do with the money you save: Buy a keg of root beer; invite friends and play Twister! Get a new tattoo or piercing. Favorite non>alcoholic activity: Earning a degree; dancing; watching movies. 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