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
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