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Duck women looking for third straight win
■ GAME PREVIEW: Cal has lost its last
six but is coming off a three-point loss to
second-place USC
By Ryan Frank
Sports Reporter
The quote of the day for the Oregon
women’s basketball team: One game at a time.
With No. 3 Stanford on their agenda for Sat
urday afternoon, the Ducks must first play
eighth-place California tonight at McArthur
Court at 7 p.m.
The Golden Bears (6-14 overall, 2-9 Pacific
10 Conference) come into tonight’s contest
having lost six in a row and eight of their last
nine, but their most recent loss was enough to
put a scare into the Ducks.
Against USC on Feb. 8, California was lead
ing by four points with one minute, 50 seconds
remaining. But the second-place Trojans
scored the final seven points of the game for
the 66-63 win.
“Cal’s improved a lot this season,” Oregon
center Renae Fegent said. “They had a great
game against USC last weekend, and they are
going to be tough.”
Earlier this season, the Ducks found out first
hand just how tough the Golden Bears could
be.
After Oregon led by as many as 14 points in
the first half, California fought back to tie the
game at 56 late in the second half. It was not
until guard Lisa Bowyer hit two free throws
with 7.1 seconds remaining that the game was
out of California’s reach. Bowyer’s free throws
gave the Ducks a 68-64 victory, their seventh
straight over the Golden Bears.
“They just hang in there,” Oregon head
coach Jody Runge said. “They shoot threes;
they’re playing with confidence and playing
well.”
California is led by Patrycja Czepiec, who is
scoring 17.2 points per game (good enough for
sixth in the Pac-10), and Tigard native Jennie
Leander, who is averaging 11.5 points and 8.8
rebounds per game.
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Cal’s improved a lot this season. They had
a great game against USC last weekend,
and they are going to be tough.
— Renae Fegent
UO Center
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Oregon (15-5, 8-3) is currently heading in
the opposite direction of California. The Ducks
have won two straight and three of their last
four, the only loss coming from second-place
USC.
“We picked up our defense in the last four
games, and I think if you play good defense
then your offense just comes,” guard Natalie
Hughes said.
If the Ducks are able to beat California and
pull off the upset over Stanford, they would be
in prime position for a their fourth straight bid
to the NCAA Tournament.
Boyer: Forward had 14 points off the bench aqainst ASU
■ Continued from Page 11
When Oregon returned from its
Bay Area road trip, Oregon head
coach Jody Runge decided it was
time to make some changes.
For the first time in 29 games,
and almost a year ago to the date,
Arianne Boyer would not be in
the Ducks’ starting line-up.
But the woman known by Duck
fans simply as “Red,” responded.
Boyer came off the bench to
have her best shooting perfor
mance since Dec. 19 while scor
ing 14 points and grabbing eight
rebounds.
“It has been a really hard strug
gle for [Boyer],” Runge said after
Oregon’s 74-62 win over the Sun
Devils. “In the California game
she had a hard time scoring in
side. [Not having Boyer start] is a
hard decision, but I think she han
dled it well.”
Not starting the Arizona State
game seemed to get Boyer back on
track toward the kind of season
Oregon fans had been accus
tomed to seeing.
In the Ducks’ next game, a BO
57 loss to Arizona, Boyer record
ed 17 points in Boyer-like fash
ion. The senior drove to the hoop
time and again, drawing foul after
foul, finishing 7-of-ll from the
free-throw line.
Following her 17-point outing
against the Wildcats, Boyer’s play
continued to pick up steam. The
Ducks faced a pivotal four-game
road swing with postseason im
plications — and again Boyer re
sponded.
Over that four-game stretch, she
averaged 19.5 points while shoot
ing 66 percent from the field, and
the Ducks went 3-1 with wins at
UCLA., Washington and Washing
ton State.
Boyer’s play during those four
games increased her season
shooting percentage from 47 per
cent to 51 percent, and her perfor
mance against Washington and
Washington State earned her Pac
10 Player of Week honors for the
first time in her career.
What caused Boyer’s drop in
performance?
“I really don’t know what to at
tribute that to,” Runge said. “We
tried to attribute that to some
thing, and 1 don’t think we ever
found an answer.”
However, Boyer said the zone
defense Oregon saw early this
season made things tough on Ore
gon’s inside players, including
herself.
“It is hard to get the ball inside
when there are other people in
there with you; and once you do
get the ball inside, you get double
teamed very quickly,” Boyer said.
Boyer also mentioned the
tougher Pac-10 defense as a prob
lem.
“I think that once Pac-10 play
starts, the [other teams] know
who all the players are on the
team,” Boyer said. “They can key
on certain players, and you get
more difficult defensive assign
ments on you.”
But like Runge, Boyer’s fellow
1996 first-team all-Pac-10 selec
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It is hard to get the ball inside
when there are other people in
there with you; and once you do
get the ball inside, you get
double-teamed very quickly.
—Arianne Boyer
UO Forward
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tion Renae Fegent is at a loss for
words as to what happened to
Boyer, calling it “one of them
things.”
Even if she doesn’t know what
the problem was, Range is happy
to have her leading scorer back in
preseason form.
“She just has worked it out, and
we’re glad to see she is back on
track,” Runge said.
If Boyer is in fact “back on
track,” the Ducks could be steam
rolling their way right into the
NCAA Tournament.
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