Women: Arizona stifles Oregon’s centers
■ Continued from Page 9
Both teams came out sluggish in
the first half as neither team shot
better than 37 percent from the
field.
But the Wildcats got 12 points
and nine rebounds from forward
Adia Barnes in the opening half to
go up 29-23 at the break.
Then Oregon (12-4, 5-2)
charged back to start the second
half.
Forward Arianne Boyer
brought the Ducks back early,
scoring 10 of her game-high 17
points in the first seven minutes of
the second half, helping to pull
Oregon within one point with 13
minutes, 44 seconds remaining.
“I thought Arianne Boyer really
played a good second half,” Bon
vicini said. “She really took the
game in her own hands.”
“I was just thinking we’ve got to
score, and I think in this game we
needed to score a lot more inside,
and we needed to drive to the hole
more,” Boyer said.
After Boyer’s heroics, Arizona
regained control of the game and
pushed their lead to 10 points
with a 10-2 run. Guard Lisa Grif
fith keyed the Wildcat run with
two three-pointers.
But Oregon fought back once
again.
Guard Natalie Hughes hit a
three-pointer to end Arizona’s
run. Boyer followed with a free
throw, and Cindie Edamura
scored a layup to make the score
53-49.
The two teams then traded bas
kets until the Ducks trailed by four
with less than 30 seconds remain
ing. Oregon center Renae Fegent,
who was 2-of-10 from the field,
nailed a three-pointer from the top
of the key to cut Arizona’s lead to
one.
Following an Oregon timeout,
Oregon guard Lisa Bowyer sent
Felecity Willis to the line with 29
seconds left. Willis hit both free
throws of the one-and-one situa
tion to make the score 60-57.
After another Oregon timeout,
the Ducks waited for the last shot,
but did not get the one they were
looking for. Hughes’s 15-footer fell
short with 3 seconds left, and Ari
zona had won its second game at
Mac Court in as many years. For
Oregon, it lost its first game at Mac
Court this season and only its
fourth in their last 26.
Coming into Saturday’s game,
Arizona had more than last sea
son’s postseason snub as motiva
tion. Just two nights before beating
Oregon, Arizona suffered an 85-76
loss at the hands of the sixth-place
Oregon State.
“We lost Thursday and were
out-hustled and out-played. It was
a must-win game here,” Bonvicini
said. “We put our backs against
the wall, but I like the way our
kids respond when our backs are
against the wall, and we have ad
versity.”
While Bonvicini was singing
the praises of her team, Runge was
not happy with her inside players.
“We couldn’t score inside, and
we got nothing off the bench from
the inside,” Runge said.
Oregon’s centers combined for
just 11 points and eight rebounds.
"We didn’t have any posts who
rebounded very well,” Runge
said. “That can’t happen. Some
body’s got to pull those re
bounds.”
Prized freshman center Jenny
Mowe added four points and three
rebounds to the inside game,
which wasn’t enough for Runge or
the Ducks.
“Jenny’s not boxing off, and she
is not pulling rebounds against a
team that is quicker than she is,”
Runge said. “We’ve got to get her
doing that so she can stay in the
game.”
While Fegent hit the three
pointer that brought Oregon with
in one with less than a minute re
maining, she was not happy with
her performance.
“I had a terrible offensive
night,” Fegent said. “The three
may have given us a chance, but it
was a lot too little to late. I had a
lot of open shots that I missed,
bricked basically.”
While Arizona heads home for
two games after salvaging a split of
the two Oregon schools, the Ducks
travel to Los Angeles to play
UCLA and USC this week, then to
Washington and Washington
State the following week.
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Wildcats’ team defense
stymies Oregon offense
■ DEFENSE: Arizona
holds Oregon to 57 points
and 39 percent shooting
By Ryan Halvorsen
Sports Reporter
The Oregon women’s basket
ball team can blame a lot of
things when it reviews what
went wrong Saturday night
against Arizona, but it was all
the result of one thing — a
tough Wildcats’ defense.
Arizona guards stymied Ore
gon’s outside game from the
onset. The big Wildcats under
neath pushed and shoved the
Ducks right out of their inside
game, holding Oregon centers
Renae Fegent and Jenny Mowe
to just seven and four points,
respectively, and a combined
eight rebounds for the game.
“It was a great defensive
game for both teams,” Oregon
head coach Jody Runge said.
“They did a good job of knock
ing us around. We couldn’t
score inside.”
The only Oregon player to
slip through Arizona’s defen
sive cracks was Arianne Boyer
as she chalked up 17 points, the
only Duck in double figures.
"We knew that we had to key
in on Renae’s high post shot
and Arianne’s fakes and post
moves,” Arizona forward Adia
Barnes said. Arizona’s rough
play didn’t go completely un
noticed as the Wildcats
chalked up a total of 19 fouls,
but they might have gotten
away with more than they
should have according to
Runge.
“Arizona had 37 fouls at Ore
gon State [Thursday] and 1
asked the refs to please call the
fouls, but they weren’t,” Runge
said.
The rest of the team was hav
ing a hard time getting up any
quality shots too, as Arizona
mixed up its defensive sets
from man-to-man to a 2-3 zone,
using a half-court trap at times
and pressing full court on occa
sion as well. The Ducks were
only able to make 8-of-24 shots
from the field in the first half,
and finished the game shooting
39 percent.
“When we were getting open
they would be right there so
you had to shoot it fast because
they were in your face and oth
er people couldn’t get open be
cause they were right there
with them," Oregon guard
Nicole Strange said.
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