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Emerald MONDAY October 21,1996 Athlete returns to court with new attitude For one player, Oregon’s 1996 pro duction of “Late Night with Jerry Green” was more than a night of glitz and glamor. For Henry Madden, it marked the end to more than a year of frustration. Finally he was able to once again step onto the floor of McArthur Court in an Oregon men’s bas ketball uniform instead of a pair of slacks and a dress shirt. hi May 1995 Madden was suspended from the team for failure to meet team acad emic standards. Unsure of what to do, he transferred to his hometown school, Fresno State, with the hopes of playing under the Bulldogs’ newly acquired head coach Jerry Tarkanian. HW Mark Mctyre During that summer, the to-be junior injured his anterior cruciate liga ment. The injury to his knee took away all hopes of playing for “The Shark,” as the school didn’t offer him an ath letic scholarship. Enter Jerry Green. When Green found out about Madden’s in jury, he gave his former player a call. “He went down there and blew his knee out,” Green said. “I called him at about the middle of the summer and said, ‘Hey, what are you going to do?’ He said ‘I don’t know.’ So I asked him, ‘why don’t you come on back and sit out this year, and if you can get your act straight and want to play, we’ll see what we can do.’” Since Madden has returned, he has hit the books hard trying to meet Green’s acad emic expectations. “I think he’s done a great deal from an academic standpoint as much as anything else,” Green said. However, Green is quick to tell anyone who asks that if Madden falls below his ex pectations there will be repercussions. “If he continues [his success], we’ll con tinue to have trust in him that he’s going to be a positive for us and a good student for us,” Green said. “If he doesn’t, then we both know the situation right now and the deal ings with each other. It’s something his fam ily knows, and I think the community knows it; it’s just time for Henry Madden to have a mature year with us. I think he has the capabilities, but if he does or doesn’t [have a mature year] it’s entirely up to him.” Turn to McTYRE, Page 9 Ducks claim victory over OSU ANDREW BRACKENSICK/ Emerald Michelle Christ (17) and the rest of the Oregon volleyball team celebrated their first win in the Pac-10 Conference after beating Oregon State on Friday night. ■ VOLLEYBALL: Oregon wins its first Pacific-10 Conference match of the season Friday night By Andrea De Young Assistant Sports Editor A win couldn’t have come at a better time for the Oregon volleyball team. The Ducks came into Friday night’s game winless in the Pacific-10 Conference and Oregon State on their doorstep with 3,716 fans watching. Oregon knew that this was the one to win. Although it took the Ducks (7-12 overall, 1-8 in the Pac-10) five games to put away the Beavers (14-5, 4-5), the vic tory belonged to Oregon. The team had been concen trating on defeating Oregon State all week, and the Ducks came out in the first game ready to prove it by win ning 15-9. But it was the sec ond game that showed how badly Oregon wanted to win. The Ducks CIVIL WAR MATCHUP NUMBERS ■ Oregon State Attack %: .220 Service Aces: 8 Service Errors: 19 Blocks: 15 ■ Oregon Attack %: .276 Service Aces: 2 Service Errors: 7 Blocks: 26 went down 3-11 early, thanks to six-straight Beaver points, including two service aces. Oregon rallied, however, scoring 13 points while holding Oregon State to three more. Michelle Christ was instrumental in the comeback as she served six-straight to end the game 16-14. After the break the two teams battled back and forth, but the Beavers came out on top 15-12. Only a few minutes into the fourth game, Oregon State scored six-straight points to take a 6-2 lead. The Ducks fought back with four-straight points on serves by Alison Pepe, but the Beavers countered with five-straight and ended the game with a service ace for the 15-11 win. This brought the match to a decisive Game 5 in which rally-scoring is used. Every serve is a point, so a sideout counts as one for the non-serving team. Although the Ducks had won two of their three five-game matches this season, they lost all three of their Pac-10 five-game matches last year, including a match at home against Oregon State. Oregon was seeking revenge and came out in the fifth game ready to take the win. After Oregon sided-out on the first serve, Casey Crisler hit three-straight serves, and the Ducks went up 4-0. Thanks to kills by Turn to VOLLEYBALL, Page 9 Braves’ brutalize Yankees to win ■ BASEBALL: Atlanta scored 12-1 against New York in Sunday night’s Game 1 By BEN WALKER The Asociated Press NEW YORK — The Atlanta Braves showed the New York Yankees that what they saw on TV was no fluke. Nineteen-year-old Andruw Jones homered twice and drove in five runs as John Smoltz and the Braves sent the Yankees to their worst World Series loss ever, 12-1 Sunday night in Game 1. The Braves brutalized New York the same way they humbled St. Louis in win ning the NL playoffs. The Yankees had a week off to watch Atlanta outscore the Cardinals 32-1 in the last three games. And now they know the defending Turn to BASEBALL, Page 12 Keska, Oregon men continue streak ■ X-COUNTRY: Men place five in top 15; women finish with three in top 10 By Andrew Millbrooke Freelance Sports Reporter The Oregon men’s cross country team continued their undefeated season with a convincing victory, and the women performed well to take second place at the Oregon Invi tational Sunday. The fifth-ranked Ducks scored a meet-low 26 points to outdistance No. 19 Boise State by 13 points. Oregon placed all five of its scor ing runners in the top 15 and should have a good chance of advancing in the national rankings this week. “We ran against a good team [Boise State] today and won,” Ore gon head coach Bill Dellinger said. “We’ve been running pretty well and winning, so I’m pleased with the re sults.” Senior Karl Keska repeated as in dividual winner, chalking up anoth er course record in the process. Keska’s time of 23 minutes, 48 sec onds was three seconds better than former national champion Shannon Butler’s old mark of 23:51, set in 1992. It was Keska’s second course record in as many meets. “I like the way Karl ran,” Dellinger said. “He continues to impress everyone. He’s running extremely well.”. “I felt great,” Keska said. “I was a little apprehensive going into the race. I haven’t been feeling quite like Turn to X-COUNTRY, Page 9 CHAD PATTESON/EmeraH Oregon’s Karl Keska won the Ore gon Invitational in record time.
