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.
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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CHAD PATTESON/EmeraH
Oregon’s Karl Keska won the Ore
gon Invitational in record time.