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couldn’t play volleyball would I
still like this school, and with
Oregon it felt like home right
away.”
Not to mention Mount Bache
lor is pretty close. With the vol
leyball season flying by and win
ter approaching, Tobbagi says she
will finally have time to test her
snowboarding skills on the Ore
gon slopes. Not that she is eager
for the season to end.
"I can’t believe it’s almost
over,” she says. “I’m not ready for
it to end. I love every warm up
everytime. I love the feeling of
suiting up and the crowd and
everything. I just love it despite
the losses.”
Perhaps the most disappoint
ing loss came on Oct. 25 when
Oregon took No. 25 UCLA to five
games, only to lose the fifth game
hy three points. Tobbagi’s sister,
Amy, an English major and
lacrosse participant at UCLA,
was pulling for the Ducks.
“Even though she goes to
UCLA she wants us to win be
cause of me,” Tobbagi says.
If Tobbagi’s performance thus
far is any indication of what kind
of player she will be in Pacific-10
Conference play, then she will be
a force to be reckoned with.
Against No. 7 Stanford, she led
all attackers with 17 kills and had
an overall attack percentage of
.367. She recorded a career-high
(( I love the feeling of
suiting up and the
crowd and everything. I
just love it despite the
losses. ”
Monique Tobbagi
Oregon outside hitter
21 kills against Washington and
12 more against UCLA.
“Monique is the future of our
program," Nelson says. “She is
one of the best freshmen in the
conference, i think she will be a
leader for us next year, both on
and off the court.”
Nelson isn’t kidding when she
talks about Tobbagi’s athleticism.
Against UCLA Tobbagi flew into
the water cooler and nearly into
the stands as she kept the ball in
play.
“I have a bruise from that,” she
says. "But I didn’t even see it.
Even if I did I’m not going to stop
just because it’s there. One thing
we always say before every
match is to just go all out so
when it’s all over we can say we
played our best.”
If Tobbagi does represent Ore
gon’s future in volleyball, then
things can only get brighter. And
people had better know how to
spell her name.
I• _
Man I fonkitis/EmenaJd
Fellow Ducks congratulate Tobbagi following her performance against UCLA Oct. 25.
Pyle
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before motivational clips of glorious plays in
Oregon football history began to bellow from
Duck Vision.
Fidgety press row became silent. I could al
most see the electricity in the stadium as the
video scoreboard emitted superimposed im
ages of the Ducks’ mosh pit upon Saladin Mc
Cullough's touchdown run against Air Force
in last season’s Las Vegas Bowl.
Former Emerald sports reporter Chris
Hansen (now a freelancer for the Fighting
Ducks Review), Moseley and I were prepared
to tangle with USC ourselves. But, luckily, we
did not have to sacrifice ourselves in front of a
sold-out Homecoming crowd.
The real Oregon football team sprinted
onto the field, ready to dismantle the Trojans
itself.
As USC’s Adam Abrams booted the game’s
opening kickoff high into the late afternoon
sky, 1 found myself hoping that this would
be the first of many times I would witness
such a thing from the mecca of sports that is
the press box.
While the game progressed, I jotted down
notes even though all the play-by-play ac
counts and statistics were handed to me at
the end of each quarter.
When Akili Smith cut upfield and ran un
touched for the Ducks’ winning points in the
fourth quarter, I was barely able to restrain
myself from hollering.
Moseley, Hansen, the rest of the press
corps and I scurried down to the field to po
sition ourselves for postgaine interviews as
Oregon ran the final ticks off the clock.
I then walked amongst the players into the
Casanova Center and talked (mostly listened)
to the athletes who had just completed their
most recent battle.
As night fell and I finally ventured out of
Autzen Stadium with Moseley and Emerald
sports editor Joel Hood, I knew one thing for
certain: My first taste of covering college
football had left me starving for seconds.
Tim Pyle is a sports reporter for the Emerald. He
can be reached via e-mail at
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Team effort lifts Pittsburgh to victory
By Dave Goldberg
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo.— The
Kansas City Chiefs were ready for
Jerome Bettis and Kordell Stew
art. They didn't count on Lance
Brown, Fred McAfee, Hines Ward
and Josh Miller.
But that’s was they got as Bettis,
Stewart and their four unsung
teammates led the Pittsburgh
Steelers to a 20-13 victory over the
Chiefs on Monday night.
Bettis rumbled for 119 yards on
33 carries and Stewart threw a 5
yard TD pass to Charles Johnson
with 10:05 left in the game for the
winning score.
But it would have been futile
without contributions from the
others.
After Miller dropped a punt
dead on the Kansas City 1-yard
line, Brown blocked a first-quar
ter punt that McAfee fell on for a
touchdown.
McAfee added 36 yards rushing
on a late first-half drive that re
sulted in a field goal. And Ward,
a running back-wide receiver
quarterback in college at Georgia
acted like the new “Slash” the
Steelers hope he is by taking a
handoff from Stewart and throw
ing back to him for 17 yards on a
third-quarter drive that led to one
of Norm Johnson’s two field goals.
The win left Pittsburgh (5-2) in
a tie with Jacksonville for first
place in the AFC Central, while
Kansas City (4-3) fell three games
behind Denver and a game be
hind Oakland in the AFC West.
The Chiefs certainly didn’t help
themselves.
On their second possession,
fullback Tony Richardson, wide
open in the end zone, fell as Elvis
Grbac threw what appeared to be
a TD pass and the Chiefs had to
settle tor a 20
yard field goal
by Pete Stoy
anovich.
Then, on the
opening kickoff
of the second
half, Ted Pop
son was called
tor holding on what would have
been a 95-yard kickoff return for a
touchdown. And later, after the
Steelers had gone ahead 20-13,
what might have been a 43-yard
TD pass from Grbac to Andre Ri
son hit the receiver on the helmet
and bounced away.
The Chiefs got the ball back
with a minute left, but Grbac fum
bled on the first play when he was
sacked Jason Gildon.
Miller set up Pittsburgh’s early
touchdown, punting the ball 47
yards to the Chiefs’ 1 where it
rolled dead. The Chiefs gained
only one yard in three shots and
on fourth down, Louie Aguiar
was only able to go 12 yards deep
to punt.
Aguiar, who had never had a
punt blocked in 587 previous at
tempts as a pro, never had a
chance. Brown broke through and
blocked it and McAfee fell on it
among a swarm of Steelers that
gave Pittsburgh a 7-0 lead less
than five minutes into the game.
The Chiefs moved well be
tween the 20s on their next two
drives, but had to settle for field
goals of 20 and 28 yards by Stoy
anovich.
The Steelers added a 34-yarder
by Johnson to make it 10-6 at half
time after a 65-yard drive on
which McAfee ran three times for
36 yards. Johnson’s 22-yarder
with 5:30 left in the third quarter
made it 13-6.
But on the first play after the
kickoff, Grbac and Derrick
Alexander combined on a 65-yard
pass play that put the ball on the
Pittsburgh 13. Five plays later, Gr
bac found Rison front the 2 for the
TD that tied it at 13.
But the Steelers came right
back, going 60 yards in 14 plays
that included a key 10-yard third
down pass from Stewart to anoth
er unsung Steeler, David Dunn.
Sports briefs
Club soccer improves
its season record
The Oregon men’s club soc
cer team improved its season
record to 3-1-2 with two wins
and a tie in three games this
weekend.
The team started the week
end’s action with an 8-1 rout of
Umpqua Community College
Friday afternoon. B.J. Terrett
took the team to the win with
two goals. The Ducks then tied
the Beavers 1-1 Saturday,
playing a hard-fought contest
against their rivals from Cor
vallis. Team manager Chad
Wright said the Beavers are the
best team the Ducks have
played this year. A 4-3 victory
over Central Oregon Commu
nity College in Bend rounded
out the action Sunday.
Ultimate frisbee
In its first competition of the
season, the Oregon men’s club
ultimate frisbee team started
the year victoriously by beat
ing Oregon State 15-9 Sunday
at the South Bank field.
The win was a "good team
effort over a pretty good OSU
team,” team member Will
Birdsong said.