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FRIDAY
Oct. 30,1998
TRIVA QUESTION
Who holds the Oregon women's basketball
scoring record for a single game?
B1
NFL: Week 9
Denver vs.
Cincinnati
Miami vs.
Buffalo
Minnesota vs.
Tampa Bay
N. Y. Giants vs.
Washington
Jacksonville vs.
Baltimore
New England vs.
Indianpolis
NewOrteansvs.
Carolina
Tennessee vs.
Pittsburgh
Arizona vs.
Detroit
St. Louis vs.
Atlanta
N.Y.Jetsvs.
Kansas City
San Francisco vs.
Green Bay
Oakland vs.
Seattle
Associated
Press top 25
t Ohio State 7-0
2. UCLA 6-0
3. Kansas St. 7-0
4. Tennessee 6-0
5. Florida 6-1
6. Florida St. 7-1
7. Nebraska 7-1
8. Wisconsin 8-0
9. TexasA&M 7-1
10. Penn State 5-1
11. Georgia 6-1
12. Arkansas 6-0
13. Oregon 6-1
14. Virginia 6-1
15. Arizona 7-1
16. Notre Dame 5-1
17. Virginia T. 6-1
18. Tulane 6-0
19. Syracuse 4-2
20. W. Virginia 4-2
21. Missouri 5-2
22. Michigan 5-2
23. Air Force 6-1
24. Georgia T. 5-2
25. Colorado 6-2
Ttivia answer
Bev Smith scored
38 points against
Montana on Feb. 5,
1981
Best Bet
Tennis
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PAC-10 Championships
Oregon runners host Pac-10’s best
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Andrew Bliss, who led Oregon's second team at the Oregon Invitational two weeks ago, hopes to be among the Ducks' top finishers this
weekend at the Pac-1 Os.
Does cross country still matter at UO?
Opinion
Oregon cross country has reached the
crossroads.
It has been eight years since the Oregon
men have seriously competed for a nation
al title.
The Ducks finished third at the NCAA
Championships in 1996, finished fifth
overall in 1990 and have failed to crack the
top seven on four seperate occasions in the
1990s.
So on the eve of Bill Dellinger’s final
home meet in his 32-year head coaching
career, there are those who wonder if the
best days of men’s and women’s cross
country at Oregon have gone by. And prob
ably a lot more who could care less either
way.
On Wednesday, sitting on a stiff wooden
bench sandwiched between the Bowerman
Building and the East end of Hayward
Field, Dellinger was asked if the sport of
cross country still mattered to the Universi
ty of Oregon?
He gave a refreshingly honest answer.
“Cross country is the most successful
program in the history of this school,” he
said. “But we have never really been recog
nized for it in our own community. We’ve
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The Ducks arc coming
prepared to face the
competition in this years
championships
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
Call the Pacific-10 Championships the
beginning of the final chapter for the
Oregon men’s cross country team.
up where last season left off. The 1997
The story of this year's team picked
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at the national title
but fell short, fin
ishing eighth at the
NCAA Champi
onships in
Greenville, S. C.
But this season
has been a different
story.
The No. 3 Ducks
have the weapons
needed to win a ti
tle. Oregon is
stronger than ever
with three all
Americans, includ
ing Mathew Davis,
Oliver Wirz and
Steve Fein, who
transferred from
Women’s X
country
Marie Davis leads
the Ducks into the
Pac-1 Os this week
end
story on Page 19
w isuuiiMii earner
in the season.
Oregon also has an advantage that no
other team has; a team chemistry that is
magnified by the fact that this will be
head coach Bill Dellinger’s last year
coaching the Ducks.
On Saturday, the Ducks will run in
the Pac-10 Championships at Alton Bak
er Park. The meet will be Oregon’s first
major stepping stone toward the NCAA
Championships, which will be held
Nov. 23. The men’s race will begin at
11:30 a.m..
However, every good story has an an
tagonist. No. 1 Stanford dominated Ore
gon with a score of 80-103 at the Pre
NCAA Invitational in Lawrence, Kan.,
and they would not mind repeating that
performance.
Turn to CROSS COUNTRY, Page 18A
Struggling Ducks aim to break scoring slump
Oregon looks to end a five-game
losing streak by putting away
both Arizona and Arizona State
By Tim Pyle
Oregon Daily Emerald
According to forward T.J. Johnson, going
backward is not an option.
With that in mind, the Oregon women’s
soccer team is determined to break a five
game losing streak by defeating Arizona foi
the second straight season in a Pacific-lC
Conference game that kicks off at 2 p.m. to
day at Pape Field. Oregon will close out its
home season at 3 p.m. on Sunday by trying
to take a step forward against Arizona State
which it lost to, 2-0, in 1997.
“Our focus has been showing the teams
that beat us badly last year that we’re totally
different,” Johnson said. “So this weekend
it’s not redeeming ourselves with [Arizona],
it’s showing them that we deserved it last
year. With ASU, we are redeeming our
selves because we had a great game on Fri
day night against Arizona last year, and
then, by the time Sunday came, we were a
totally different team.”
After beating Oregon State, 3-0, on Oct. 9
to start the Pac-10 season off on a winning
note, the Ducks (4-8-2 overall, 1-4 Pac-10)
have been shut out in four of the five games
that make up their losing
streak, including three
straight conference
games.
Head coach Bill Steffen
said the scoring drought
has weighed heavily
upon his attacking play
ers.
“It almost becomes a self-fulfilling
prophecy,” Steffen said. “When you don’t
score, people realize you’re not scoring, and
then you feel like, ‘I’m scared of trying to
score because I don’t want to mess up.’ We
have to have individuals step up and say,
‘I’m going to be the person who scores. I’m
going to be the one who does it.’”
Forwards Chalise Baysa, Erin Anderson
SOCCER
Turn to SOCCER, Page 24A
Nick MedleyftimeraLi
Leading scorer Chalise Baysa, a freshman forward who has tallied seven goals for 14
points, will play a big role in Oregon's attempt to end a long scoring drought.