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TUESDAY
November 3,1998
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Women’s Basketball
Oregon aims for victory at Mac Court
The UO women play their first
game tonight against
a Swedish-based team
By Joel Hood
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon women’s basketball
team begins its quest for a record sixth
consecutive trip to the NCAA Tourna
ment tonight with a exhibition match
against Alvik at 7 p.m. at McArthur
Court.
The Swedish-based team’s game
against the Ducks will be its third in a
nine-game road swing along the West
Coast. Alvik played Idaho on Sunday
and Washington on Monday.
Tonight’s game will be the first for the
Ducks, who hope to have a healthier
line-up on the floor than what they end
ed with last season.
Addressing the media for the first
time on Oct. 15, 6-foot-5 center Jenny
Mowe said she is still hampered by the
tendinitis in her right knee that forced
her to miss all but four games last sea
son. In 1996, Mowe averaged 6.9 points
and 14.5 minutes a game and was voted
to the Pac-10 all-freshman team.
Another question mark surrounds the
left knee of sophomore forward Brianne
Meharry, who filled Mowe’s shoes at
the center position last season before
tearing her anterior cruciate ligament in
a game against Arizona State.
With only three first-year players on
the current roster, Oregon has experi
ence and proven depth at nearly every
position. However, the Ducks are thin at
the point guard position where only
sophomore Karen Piers returns from last
year’s team.
Oregon, which finished 17-10 last
season en route to its fifth straight
NCAA Tournament, continues its pre
season schedule on Nov. 13 with a Pre
season WNIT first round match against
Nevada at Mac Court. The Ducks’ first
conference game is against Cal on Jan. 2.
Nick Medley/V.meraki
Natasha O’Brien, who adds depth for Oregon off the bench, drives for a lay-in against Oregon State last
season.
Ducks need
answers before
this weekend
Oregon failed to play tough
against Arizona last Saturday,
head coach Mike Bellotti says
By Rob Moseley
Oregon Daily Emerald
Coming into this season, a little bit of
foresight could tell you that Oregon stood a
decent chance of starting 5-0, then faced
just as decent a chance
of dropping the next
five games.
After the Ducks’ 38-3
loss to Arizona on Sat
urday, Oregon is just
one game above that
prediction at 6-2. FOOttSall NOtBS
The Ducks’ season
opening win over Michigan State was the
only true surprise of the first half of the sea
son, and then only because of the margin of
victory. With wins over two nonconference
patsies and two of the Pacific-10 Confer
ence’s worst teams, players and fans alike
were nonchalantly discussing national
championship possibilities as though the
Ducks were a perennial power.
Now that UCLA, Southern California and
Arizona have provided a true test of the
Ducks’ talent, reality has set in. For the
fourth straight game, Oregon will have to
answer some serious questions in the week
prior to kickoff.
“There was after the UCLA game, but I
thought we regained a great measure of
emotional pride and intensity with our USC
win," Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti
said. “We knew we had to come and play
tough [at Arizona] and we didn’t.”
Arizona was obviously the more fired-up
team on Saturday. Linebacker Daniel Greer
spent nearly the entirety of the warm-up pe
riod barking and growling at the Ducks as
Oregon’s players languidly stretched on
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