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TRIVA QUESTION
When was the last time the
Oregon volleyball team swept
the Arizona schools in Eugene?
MONDAY
Oct. 5,1998
NFL Week 5
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Buffalo 26
Miami 9
N.Y. Jets 20
Washington 10
Dallas 31
Detroit 27
Chicago 31
Carolina 23
Atlanta 51
New England 30
New Orleans 27
San Diego 12
Indianapolis 17
Oakland 23
Arizona 20
Philadelphia 16
Denver 41
N.Y. Giants 3
Tampa Bay 20
Seattle 6
Kansas City 17
MLB: Playoffs
Houston 1
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Associated
Press top 25
1. Ohio St. 4-0
2. Nebraska 5-0
3. UCLA 3-0
4. Tenn. 4-0
5. Kansas St 4-0
6. Florida 4-1
7. Georgia 4-0
8. Florida St. 4-1
9. Virginia 5-0
10. Arizona 5-0
11. LSU 3-1
12. Wisconsin 5-0
13. Penn. St 3-1
14. Colorado 5-0
15. Oregon 4-0
16. W. Virginia 3-1
17. Virg. Tech 4-0
18. Texas AM 4-1
19. USC 4-1
20. Arkansas 4-0
21. Missouri 3-1
22. N. Dame 3-1
23. N. Carol. St. 3-1
24. Syracuse 2-2
25. Tulane 4-0
Trivia answer
1986, when they
beat both the Wild
cats and Sun Devils
in five games.
Best Bet
NFL
Minnesota
at Green Bay
5:15p.m.,ABC
Frustrated Ducks find ties, not goals
t Nick Medley/Emerald
Oregon $ career scoring leader Erin Anderson slides past Portland State defenders during Saturday’s game at Pape Field.
Opinion
Joel
Hood
Fans stand by Ducks during rainy weekend
This is how it starts.
For all the athletic department heads out
there who want to learn how to build win
ning program quickly and efficiently,
check out what the Oregon women’s soc
cer team has accomplished in just two
and-one-quarter seasons.
It starts with tapping other winning pro
grams for coaching talent. Bill Steffen was
named Oregon’s head coach after spending
two seasons as an assistant coach at North
Carolina — a program that won back-to
back NCAA titles in 1993 and 1994 and
finished as the runner-up in 1995.
It starts with playing quality opponents.
The Ducks played four teams ranked in the
nation’s top 20 last season and will face at
least five nationally ranked teams this sea
son.
It starts with establishing home-state
dominance, something Oregon has been
able to do by sweeping its games with Ore
gon State and Portland State a year ago and
compiling a 3-1-1 overall record in the state.
It starts with a grass field so soft and so
well-kept that it looks like some kind of
strange green fur.
But most important, to build a winning
program you must have fans who hunger
for the sport. And that is something many
of Oregon’s varsity teams have not been
Turn to HOOD, Page 11
Two tic games resulted from
matches against San Francisco
and Portland State at home last
weekend at Pape Field
By Tim Pyle
Oregon Daily Emerald
There were no winners or losers at
Pape Field last weekend.
But there was frustration — lots of it
— for the Oregon women's soccer team
in consecutive 1-1 ties.
“Soccer is a really frustrating game,”
head coach Bill Steffen said. “You can
dominate, dominate, dominate, domi
nate, but if you don’t put away chances,
this is what happens.”
After enduring rain and wind to tie
San Francisco last Friday, the Ducks (3
3-2) faced similar conditions and wound
up with the same result against Portland
State on Saturday.
I he vikings 14-5-1J
were coming off three
straight shutouts and
looked primed to
record a fourth
throughout a scoreless
first half.
SOCCER
Portland State had
the advantage in possession during the
first 45 minutes, but it managed just five
shots. Meanwhile, most of Oregon’s of
fensive output came in the last 10 min
utes of the half, when it had two good
scoring opportunities denied by Viking
goalkeeper Kim Street.
After the 588 fans in attendance were
sent fleeing for cover by a halftime
downpour, the game livened up in the
second half.
Freshman forward Chalise Baysa, the
Ducks’ leading scorer with six goals and
12 points, began what would be a futile
second-half charge on the Viking goal
with a close misfire to Street’s left.
From there, Oregon continued to
threaten — forwards T.J. Johnson and
Allyssa White could not connect on two
golden chances inside the goalie box —
until finally scoring in the 68th minute.
That’s when fullback Jori Gangnes got
her first point of the season by lofting the
Ducks’ seventh corner kick of the game
to the far post, where Street deflected the
ball before midfielder Laurie Duhrkoop
slid to fire it into the back of the net. It
was her second goal of the season.
However, Oregon’s high did not last
long.
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Oregon’s fast start stymied by Arizona sweep
Losses to Arizona State on Friday
and Arizona on Sunday leave the
Ducks questioning their ability to
stay focused
By Allison Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
It was not the weekend the Oregon vol
leyball team had planned.
It was a weekend that posed more ques
tions about the ability of this young team
to stay focused and confident no matter
who the opponent is or what the score
board says.
Oregon, swept by Arizona State 15-6,
15-9,15-5 on Friday night, came into Sun
day’s match with a surprising amount of
confidence.
The Ducks, whose record fell to 6-9
overall and 1-4 in the Pacific-10 confer
ence, were in search of their second Pac
10 win when they host
ed No.19 Arizona on
Sunday in front of 897
fans at McArthur Court.
But it just didn’t turn out
that way.
The Ducks took Game
1 right out from under
the Wildcats 15-7 but dropped the next
three games 15-10,15-4,15-6.
“We really played great volleyball for a
lot of the time tonight,” head coach Cathy
Nelson said. “I feel like we really let one
slip away. We came out and jumped on
them in Game 1, which we knew we could,
VOLLEYBALL
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Matt Hanktns/Emerald
The Duck's Tanya
Minion makes a return
while Lindsay Mayer
scrambles tor a dig in
Sunday ’s game against
Arizona State.