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Center Mike Carson stood tall in the Ducks’loss to Santa Clara
on Saturday. The senior had 15points.
Carson gains needed
confidence in loss
Oregon Center Mike
Carson led Oregon
with 7 5points and
seven rebounds
By Rob Moseley
Sports Reporter
If Santa Clara was the party
crasher Saturday afternoon, it
was Michael Carson’s party it
was crashing, as Carson put to
gether the best game of his Ore
gon career against the Broncos
despite the Ducks’ 67-58 loss.
The 7-foot senior from Chi
no, Calif., led Oregon with 15
points and seven rebounds,
both totals bettered only by his
19-point, nine-rebound effort
against Hawaii-Hilo two sea
sons ago, a game in which Car
son made 11 free throws.
Carson earned his points the
hard way Saturday, muscling
his way to the basket and dis
playing overwhelming confi
dence in his ability to make
shots and pull down rebounds.
“Coach kind of threatened
me and said I needed to get it
going or I wouldn't be getting
my minutes,” Carson said. "It
was something that motivated
me a little bit, and I just
dropped everything and decid
ed to play. I’ve been meaning
to do that for awhile.”
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senior’s second-half performance
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four short to mid-range jump
shots. She connected on four of
eight shots in the second half and
was four of six from the foul line,
including both ends of a one-and
one opportunity with 10 minutes,
34 seconds remaining in the game
that gave the Ducks the lead for
good, 47-45.
She also made the second of
two free throws with five seconds
remaining to give Oregon a four
point lead and sealed the victory.
"I told [Hughes] last night,
‘Why do I have to get all over you
to get you to play hard?’” Runge
said. “We did try and change her
out of the primary defensive posi
tion to hopefully free her up a lit
tle bit more offensively as far as
not burning so much energy stoD
ping the ball.”
What exactly was it Runge said
at halftime that got Hughes and
the Ducks so riled up?
“Coach Runge... motivated us
to play our hardest,” Hughes said
in a severely understating tone.
Runge was pleased with the fire
Hughes demonstrated in the sec
ond half.
“1 was very impressed,” she
said. "That’s Natalie. That's how
Natalie plays. She just hasn’t been
playing like that recently.”
Hughes seemed less impressed
by her second-half performance.
“I just took
the open
shots, that’s
all,” she said.
“I was open.
We all had to
step up in ar
eas, and 1
stepped up
my offensive
game and
HUliHco enaeo up
scoring. Jen
ny [Mowe] was setting good
screens for me so I could shoot it.”
In addition to the 16 points,
Hughes dished out five assists
and grabbed five rebounds while
playing 36 minutes.
Perhaps Hughes is just a sec
ond-half player.
In Friday’s first-round game
against the Portland Saints, Hugh
es scored nine of her 12 points on
four of six shooting from the field
after halftime as the Ducks held
on for the 76-60 victory.
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21-6 run late in first half
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Henry Madden, Oregon’s leading
scorer and rebounder averaging
17.5 points and 12 rebounds in
the season's first two games, made
only one basket — the game's first
— and grabbed three rebounds
while playing just 17 minutes,
only two in the second half. Kent
said Madden's second-half min
utes had to do with the flow of the
game and the production of Nel
son, Carson and forward Flo
Hartenstein.
Guard Terik Brown, averaging
15 points, missed all five of his
shots, including four three-point
ers and ended the game with one
point.
Also, Jamar Curry, still strug
gling to find his shooting touch,
made three of eight shots for sev
en points. The senior guard has
made only 30 percent of his shots
in the season’s first three games.
Santa Clara was led by Craig
Johnson’s 18 points, including
four three-pointers and Jones’ 12
points, half of which came in the
games final 1:49.
“I don't think either team is
overly impressed with how they
played today,” said Santa Clara
head coach Dick Davey. “I hope
this isn’t the finished product. I
hope we have room to grow.”
Oregon led 18-9 early in the
game behind the ability to get the
hall inside to its big men. But as
the case has been so far this sea
son, the Ducks hit a cold spell on
offense and defense and the Bron
cos went on a 21-6 run starting at
the 6:46 mark to end the first half
leading 30-24.
Oregon tied the score at 47 with
8:08 left in the game when Carson
was fouled on a jump shot. Car
son’s shot was good and he made
the free throw to complete the
three-point play.
The Ducks went up by one on
their following possession when
Hartenstein converted on one of
two free throws.
But Johnson put the Broncos
back up by five with a three
pointer two possessions later and
the Ducks would get no closer
than three points in the final five
minutes.
“We had a great start to this
ballgame and had them on the
run,” Kent said. “Then we had a
mental lapse and stopped block
ing out and stopped coming
through the screen, and we
stopped being there when they
caught the basketball and sure
enough, they made us pay.
“We did a very nice job of de
fending them early on and then
went away from some things and
went to sleep a little bit. Those are
correctable things that we can cer
tainly go back and work on. But
again, this team is learning on the
job as we go along.”
And even in a loss, Kent said
the team progressed Saturday, es
pecially with the play of Nelson,
Carson, Hartenstein and Mc
Shane.
“Ours is a system where we
need to develop players and get
them confidence," Kent said. “We
grew some today in that catego
ry.”
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