ON THE TUBE
Men’s College Basketball
Iowa State at Kansas
ESPN (34), 6:30p.m.
DAILY TRIVIA
Who did the New England Patriots
defeat in the 1986 AFC Championship?
See scoreboard for answer.
New England ousts Jaguars
■ AFC: The Patriots force three
turnovers in final four minutes to
knock Cinderella Jags out of playoffs
The Associated Press
FOXBORO, Mass. — Out of the fog, then
out of the dark, the New England Patriots are
in the Super Bowl.
Shrugging off an 11-minute power failure
at Foxboro Stadium, the Patriots won the
AFC Championship 20-6 Sunday night,
making the Jacksonville Jaguars look like the
second-year team they are.
New England did it with defense, coming
up with three turnovers in the final four
minutes to halt Jacksonville’s attempt at a
comeback.
Willie Clay intercepted a pass in the end
zone with 3:43 to go after the Jaguars finally
got moving, then Otis Smith grabbed a fum
ble and went 47 yards for the clinching
touchdown with 2:24 remaining. Tedy Br
uschi picked off another pass with 1:52 to
go
A week ago, the Patriots played through a
heavy fog to rout the Pittsburgh Steelers. In
two weeks, they get a chance to snap the
AFC’s 12-year losing streak in the Super
Bowl when they face the Green Bay Packers
in New Orleans.
“I’m just very excited for the opportuni
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■ MATCH-UP:
New England vs.
Green Bay
■ WHEN: Sunday, {
Jan. 26,3 p.m.
■ WHERE: New
Orleans, La., the j
Super Dome
■ TELEVISION: j
Fox (5), Pre-game
12 noon, Game
start 3 p.m.
Green Bay Packers
to return to big game
The Associated Press
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The challenge all
season was to return the franchise to the lus
ter of the Lombardi years.
And Sunday’s stage was perfect: a frozen
field at Lambeau, 60,216 Cheeseheads shout
ing their hearts out and a minus-17 wind
chill.
All that was missing was Vince himself,
huffing and puffing in the frosty air and
flashing his famous gap-toothed grin.
When it was over, Green Bay and tradition
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■ NFC: Green
Bay rides
quarterback
Brett Favre’s arm
to its first Super
Bowl since 1968
“Ice Bowl”
Oregon 67. Washington 60
Ducks-Dawgs, the same old rivalry
■ WUmtN: Oregon has Jour players
scoring in double-digits in its third
Pacific-10 Conference win
By Mark McTyre
Sports Editor
The likeliest of heroes hit the unlikeliest of
shots to put the Oregon women’s basketball
team ahead for good in its 67-60 win over
Women’s
Basketball
■ LEADING
SCORER:
UW, Redd 27;
UO, Fegent 21
■ LEADING
REBOUNDER:
UO, Boyer 13; UW,
Hall 11, Redd 11
■ ASSIST
LEADER:
UO, Bowyer 5;
UW, Redd 3
Washington at McArthur
Court Saturday.
Oregon center Renae
Fegent launched a three
point attempt with the
score tied at 57 and two
minutes, 20 seconds re
maining in the game.
Her shot from the top of
the key, only her third
three-point attempt of
the season, was good.
“There was no one
near me, so I thought 1
would shoot it,” said Fe
gent, who has hit some
clutch shots throughout
her career. “I shoot
around that area quite
often, and it was just a
little bit further out, so I
wasn’t really worried
about it that much.”
Oregon head coach
Jody Runge applauded Fegent’s shot after the
game.
“I think Renae has always had confidence in
her shooting, and I’m glad it went in,” Runge
said. “Around the league we kind of call that
[shot] chicken salad if it goes in, and we call it
something else if it doesn’t.”
Following the three-point score, Oregon
guard Cindie Edamura pushed the Ducks’ lead
to 62-57 with a steal of a Huskies’ pass attempt
to Jamie Redd, finishing the play at the other
end of the court with a layup.
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MATHEW STIFFLER/Emerald
Oregon center Jenny Mowe scored 13 points and collected six rebounds in 22 minutes
of play against the Washington Huskies Saturday at McArthur Court.
■ STANDOUT: The Ducks’ freshman
center scored 13 points and grabbed
six rebounds in 22 minutes of play
By Ryan Frank
Sports Reporter
Twelve games into the 1996-97 season, it
appears that Oregon’s 6-foot-5 freshman
center Jenny Mowe has arrived.
For the first time this season, the Ducks
were looking for Mowe to score in the low
post down the stretch of
the Ducks 67-60 win
over Washington at
McArthur Court Satur
day.
And for the first time,
the freshman looked
comfortable with being
the focus of Oregon’s of
fense.
In her first chapter of
MOWE
an eight-part series ot
the Oregon-Washington rivalry, Mowe
scored 13 points and grabbed six rebounds
in a career-high 22 minutes.
“She did a great job for us. We’ve been
looking for her all week inside,” Oregon
center Renae Fegent said. “When she got it
in there, she went up strong.”
Oregon forward Arianne Boyer was
equally impressed with Mowe’s perfor
mance.
"She is tough, and when she gets the ball
inside, she can turn around and shoot over
anybody,” Boyer said.
While this was the first time that fans
have seen Mowe as the dominant force of
the Ducks’ offense, it is nothing new to
Mowe.
“I’ve known I can play like this, and I’ve
been playing like this in practice,” Mowe
said. “I am starting to show more and more
that I can score, and I am starting to get
confident to where I can shoot over any
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YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
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DAILY TRIVIA ANSWER
The New England Patriots, a Wild Card team
that year, defeated the Miami Dolphins 31-14.
Oregon loses to Huskies on last-second basket
■ MEN’S LOSS: Oregon loses its
second game in a row and ends its
Washington road trip empty-handed
By Chris Hansen
Sports Reporter
Todd MacCulIoch made a shot off the
backboard with less than four seconds left
in the game to give the Washington Huskies
a 78-77 victory over the 17th-ranked Ducks
Saturday night in Seattle.
MacCulloch’s basket came immediately
after Oregon’s (10-2 overall, 1-2 Pacific-10
Conference) Jamal Lawrence drilled a three
pointer with 11 seconds remaining to put
the Ducks up by one.
Those final 11 seconds ended a back-and
forth second half that
saw Oregon eclipse an
11-point deficit in the
half to go up by seven.
Fourteen of Oregon’s
points during that peri
od were scored by
Lawrence, including a
BASKETBALL
three-pointer that put
the Ducks up 66-57. Lawrence led all scor
ers with 27 points, including six three
pointers.
But Washington (10-3,2-2) quickly tied it
back up, going inside to the seven-foot tall
MacCulloch for all seven points. It was dur
ing that stretch that both Kyle Milling and
Rob Ramaker fouled out for the Ducks with
in 1:02 of each other, leaving them with only
Mike Carson to guard the imposing MacCul
loch.
From that point it was anybody’s game.
Oregon’s Jamar Curry hit a three-pointer
to get the Ducks back on top 69-66. MacCul
loch made two free throws for Washington,
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