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Beavers start heart of schedule with ’Cats After getting trounced by the Ducks, WSU faces the angry USC Trojans By Tim Pyle Oregon Daily Emerald No. 16 Arizona (5-1 overall, 2-1 Pa cific-10 Conference) at Oregon State (4-2,1-2) Beating Stanford last week was truly a streak-breaking perfor mance for the Beavers. The victo ry snapped a 14-game Pan-10 los ing skid and a 15-game road conference winless streak. As a reward, Oregon State gets the opportunity to play spoiler in its first home conference game of the season. A win on Saturday, or in any of their remaining five games, would give the Beavers their first five-win season since 1971. The problem is that Oregon State is now into the meat of its schedule, with its last five oppo nents all having winning records. In order to get that elusive fifth win, the Beavers will likely have to play their best game of the sea son at some point — and that still might not be enough. Tailback Ken Simonton’s ca reer-high 207 yards rushing against the Cardinal was the fifth best output in school history. He is averaging 106.8 yards per game and has six touchdowns. Quarterback Terrance Bryant set a new Pac-10 record for pass es attempted in a season without an interception at 170 last week before throwing an interception in the third quarter. Defensive end Inoke Breckter field leads the Beaver defense with five sacks, tied for second in the Pac-10. The Wild cats will be an gry coming off their fourth quarter col lapse at home last Saturday that led to UCLA’s 52-28 victory. They also know they cannot afford another loss if they have any hopes of playing in the Rose Bowl. Arizona head coach Dick Tomey does not think his team will have any problem getting motivated to play at Parker Stadi um in Corvallis. “All [the players] have to do is look at the tape of OSU,” Tomey said. “We understand that this is a huge challenge." Unlike past seasons, the Wild cats’ biggest strength is their ex plosive offense, which is ranked No. 3 in the Pac-10. The quarterback tandem of Kei th Smith and Ortege Jenkins has passed for a combined 1,596 Game of the week By Tim Pyle Oregon Daily Emerald California (4-1,2-0) at Washington (3-2,1-1) While the real matchup of the week in the Pac-10 and — judg ing by ESPN College Gameday’s coverage — the country is set tled at the Rose Bowl, the Gold en Bears and Huskies will try to solidify their respective chances at making a confer ence-title run in Seattle. Cal is the most improved team in the conference. It is doubtful that any of the Bears, including head coach Tom Hol moe, even dreamed of being tied for first place in the Pac-10 at this point in the season. In 1997, Cal went just 3-8 overall with one conference win. Probably the Bears’ biggest victory in Holmoe’s two sea sons came last week when Cal shocked Southern California at the Los Angeles Coliseum, 32 31, despite being down 31-10 in the third quarter. “We’ve got to give our guys credit for overcoming a 21 point deficit,” Holmoe said, “The key was we didn’t try to take it all at once.” There are three main reasons why the Bears have made such a drastic turnaround: wideout Dameane Douglas, multi-talent ed cornerback Deltha O’Neal and linebacker Sekou Sanyika. Douglas tied the single-game Cal record with 13 receptions against the Trojans and is aver aging eight catches for 104.2 yards. O'Neal is eighth in the conference with 127 all-pur pose yards per game, although he rarely plays on offense. Leading the Pac-10 with 13 tackles for losses, Sanyika had three sacks against USC. After losing two straight games to drop to .500, Washing ton got well in a hurry with a 53-12 drubbing of Utah State at Husky Stadium last weekend. Quarterback Marques Tuia sosopo started in place of in jured Brock Hoard and ac counted for three touchdowns, two with his feet and one through the air. In Washington’s new-look of fense, former walk-on Dane Looker has become the go-to re ceiver, averaging more than seven catches per game. Line backer Todd Johnson’s confer ence-leading six sacks have helped the Huskies’ pass de fense to the No. 4 ranking in the Pac-10. The bottom line for Washing ton is that if it hopes to earn its fourth straight bowl bid, it needs home wins against the Bears and Oregon State in the next two weeks. yards and 11 touchdowns. Wide outs Jeremy McDaniel and Dennis Northcutt average a combined 12 receptions. For the Beavers to pull off the upset, they will have to approach their average of almost three turnovers forced per game and find a way to impede Arizona’s offensive weapons. Southern California (4-2, 2-1) at Washington State (3-3,0-3) If the Trojans had not managed to blow a 21-point third quarter lead to lose to California last week, they would be sitting atop the Pac-10 with a 3-0 conference record. Instead, USC is faced with a must-win game in Pullman before it plays at Oregon and against Washington at home the two fol lowing weeks. The Trojan defense is led by linebacker Chris Claiborne, who has 53 tackles and four sacks. The Cougars are trying to pick up the pieces after consecutive blowout losses in which they gave up a combined 100 points. In trying to find a way to get his defending conference champions their first conference win of the season, head coach Mike Price has promoted quarterback Paul Mencke to the starting role in place of former starter Steve Bim baum. Tailback Keith Brown has emerged as Washington State's top offensive threat, averaging nearly 75 yards rushing per game. Pacific-10 Conference Player Team G Droughns ORE 4 Redmond ASU 6 Simonton OSU 6 Lewis, J UCLA 3 Morton, C USC 4 Efficiency Team G Alt Smith, A ORE 5 120 73 Smith, K ARIZ 6 86 58 McNown UCLA 4 113 61 Kealy, R ASU 6 143 78 Jenkins ARIZ 6 93 45 Total OH. Smith, A Husak,T McNown BryantJ Vedder Receiving Team G Northcutt ARIZ 6 39 163.0 108.2 106.8 90.0 87.5 Yds TD Ell 60.8 141815 196.3 67.4 855 7 170.8 54.0 1030 7 145.7 54.5 1061 8 125.5 48.4 741 4 125.5 PlaysTotal YPG 143 1485 297.0 280 1739 289.8 125 1043 260.8 275 1202 200.3 208 965 193.0 TD YPC YPG 653 4 16.7 108.8 AH Yds Avg TO YPG 87 652 7.5 8 128 649 5.1 7 136 641 4.7 6 53 270 5.1 8 76 350 4.6 4 Cm lot Pet 3 3 3 7 2 Team G Rush Pass ORE 5 67 1418 STAN 6 -33 1772 UCLA 4 13 1030 OSU 6 -48 1250 CAL 5 -28 993 Rec Yds Douglas CAL 5 Davis, D STAN 6 Griffin, D ORE 5 Pitts. D STAN 6 All Purpose Team G Redmond ASU 6 Northcutt ARIZ 6 Sowafd USC 5 Droughns ORE 4 Foster, D UCLA 4 Punt Ret. Team G Fletcher ORE 5 O'Neal, D CAL 5 Northcutt ARIZ 6 Redmond ASU 6 Jarzynka WASH 5 Kick Ret. Team G Moronkola WSU 6 Butler, T WASH 5 Alexander OSU 6 O’Neal, D CAL 5 40 521 40 604 22 499 46 572 Rush Rev 649 170 19 653 120 377 652 44 269 28 Ret Yds 21 304 16 198 21 243 15 165 20 157 Ret Yds 11 387 7 230 16 499 11 341 2 13.0 104.2 5 15.1 100.7 4 22.7 99.8 4 12.4 95.3 PR KR Yds YPG 165 235 1219 203.2 243 185 1100 183.3 178 230 905 181.0 0 0 696 174.0 57 189 543 135.8 TO AVG 14J5 12.4 11.6 11.0 0 7.8 TO AVG 2 35.2 1 32.9 1 31.2 0 31.0 Foster, D UCLA 4 Punting Team G Baker, S ASU 6 Sailer, C UCLA 4 Anderson WSU 6 Springston ARIZ 6 Fleming WASH 5 Field Goals Team G Villegas ORE 5 Cortez, J OSU 6 Undeit WSU 6 Abrams USC 6 Miller, K STAN 6 Scoring Team G Lewis, J UCLA 3 Droughns ORE 4 Villegas ORE 5 Soward USC 5 Brown, K UCLA 3 189 0 27.0 Yds AVG 1207 46.4 983 42.7 1537 40.4 1294 40.4 1190 39.7 FA Pet FG/G 10 100.02.00 15 66.7 1.67 11 72.7 1.33 11 72.7 1.33 8 75.0 1.00 XPT FG Pts PPG 0 0 48 16.0 0 0 60 15.0 31 10 61 12.2 0 0 42 8.4 0 0 24 8.0 7 Punt 26 23 38 32 30 FG 10 10 8 8 6 TO 8 10 0 7 4 (sRhythm (Reviews - every ^riday ♦ ALL SPORTS ALL THE TIME • ALL SPORTS ALL THE TIME • ALL SPORTS ♦ ALL SPORTS ALL THE TIME « ALL SPORTS ALL THE TIME • ALL SPORTS ALL THE TIME • ALL SPORTS ALL THE TIME • ALL SPORTS ALL THE TIME M= 375 E. 7th • Eugene • 484-7181 Get On the Ball! 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