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.
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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
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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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