FRIDAY
Nov. 6,1998
NFL: Week 10
N.Y. Giants vs.
Dallas
Detroit vs.
Philadelphia
Atlanta vs.
New England
Indianapolis vs.
Miami
Cincinnati vs.
Jacksonville
Oakland vs.
Baltimore
St. Louis vs.
Chicago
New Orleans vs.
Minnesota
Carolina vs.
San Francisco
San Diego vs.
Denver
Buffalo vs.
N.Y. Jets
Kansas City vs.
Seattle
Tennessee vs.
Tampa Bay
USA
Today/ESPN
Top 25 poll
College
Basketball
1. Duke
2. Stanford
3. Connecticut
4. Michigan St.
5. Maryland
6. Kentucky
7. Temple
8. Kansas
9. Tennessee
10. Xavier
11. N. Carolina
12. Utah
13. UCLA
14. Washington
15. Cincinnati
16. Purdue
17. Indiana
18. Oklahoma St.
19. Arkansas
20. Arizona
21. New Mexico
22. Syracuse
23. UMass
24. TCU
25. Rhode Island
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Ducks look to add to best season ever
With wins in its final two games
of the season at Californ ia
and Stanford, the team would
secure its first .500 overall mark
By Tim Pyle
Oregon Daily Emerald
If head coach Bill Steffen and the
Oregon women’s soccer team had been
given the opportunity before the season
began to head into their final weekend of
play with a chance to earn a winning
Pacific-10 Conference record and a .500
overall mark, they would have taken it
without even blinking.
As the Ducks (6-8-2 overall, 3-4 Pac
10) fly south to the Bay Area to battle
California on Friday and Stanford on
Sunday, they possess exactly that
possibility.
“This is the spot where we want to
be,” Steffen said.
“Considering the
demands of the
schedule we’ve got, this
is very good for a third
year program.”
Oregon has already
gone where it had never
SOCCER
ventured before. The six
overall wins and three conference
victories both establish new program
bests.
Following their first Pac-10 sweep last
weekend at Pape Field against the
Arizona schools, the Ducks will try for
their first wins against both the Golden
Bears (11-7, 5-2) and the Cardinal (9-G-2,
3-4) in their first appearances in Berkeley
and Palo Alto, Calif.
“I think what we need to do is two
things,” Steffen said. "One is maintain
consistency. When we play well, we can
play with anybody, but we need to play
well for 90 minutes. And we need to
finish our chances. We’ll get chances —
we need to put some in and put pressure
on the other team by scoring on them.”
Until last weekend, Oregon had been
having an extremely hard time scoring.
But against the Wildcats last Friday, the
Ducks posted their highest goal total of
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STEFFEN
Oregon Volleyball
Matt Hankins/Emerald
Senior Alii White, who makes her final appearance at Mac Court this weekend, dumps the ball over the net against USC on Oct. 22.
Oregon hopes to serve up wins
After a win over Arizona last
week, the Ducks are riding high
into this weekends matches
By Allison Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon volleyball team concludes
its home schedule when it hosts Washing
ton State tonight and Washington on Sun
day at McArthur Court.
The Ducks (7-17 overall, 2-11 Pacific-10
Conference) enter this week’s competition
on a high note after upsetting No. 16 Ari
zona in five games last weekend. Not only
did the Ducks upset Arizona, but they
won their second Pac-10 match for the first
time in head coach Cathy Nelson’s career.
Oregon’s record 18 service aces were the
key in the win, and the Ducks will look to
serve tough again this week.
Washington State (9-9, 6-6) split match
es last weekend by sweeping California on
Friday, before being swept themselves by
No. 5 Stanford on Sunday. The Cougars
have won 15 consecutive matches against
the Ducks, including a sweep on Oct. 11 at
Friel Court in Pullman.
However, the Cougars are not the same
team. Senior middle blocker Jennifer Stin
son dislocated her left ankle in practice on
Oct. 22. Stinson leads the team in kills and
is seventh in the Pac-10, averaging 4.22
kills per game. Stinson’s 16 kills against
UCLA on Oct. 18 put her over the 1,000
mark for her career, making her the sev
enth player in school history to accom
plish such a feat.
Fortunately for the Cougars, senior
Wendy Rouse has filled Stinson’s role
quite successfully. Rouse is second on the
team, averaging 3.35 kills per game and
third in digs, averaging 2.38 per game.
Oregon seniors Alii White and Ernst
lead Oregon in kills this season, but Nel
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On Tap
WHO:
Oregon
women’s
volleyball
WHAT:
Oregon vs.
Washington
State
WHERE:
McArthur Court
WHEN:
7:30 pm
UO runners
prepare for
Regionals
Both teams feel that they can
provide a good showing at the
West Regional Championships
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
In just over a week, the Oregon men's and
women's cross country teams will embark
on their toughest race this season: the West
Regional Championships.
The Regionals will be held on Saturday,
Nov. 14 in Fresno, Calif. This competition
decides which teams travel to the NCAA
Championships in Lawrence, Kan.
The men proved they are serious con
tenders for the national title by placing sec
ond at the Pacific-10 Conference Champi
onships last Saturday at Alton Baker Park.
"We want to keep our momentum going
and keep everyone healthy,” Dellinger said.
We have to go through
the regionals and the
NCAA Championships,
and we want to be peaking
at the NCAA [Champi
onships]. That is our goal.
Being healthy will be the
COUNTRY
key.
One team member who may help the
Ducks by the time of the NCAA Champi
onships is Oliver Wirz. An all-American,
Wirz is on the rebound from being ill.
“We are preparing him,” Dellinger said.
“He is still getting fit, but he is not to the
point where competition will help him.”
The women’s cross country team is also
training hard for the regional competition.
It was disappointed with its fifth-place fin
ish at the Pac-10 Championships and need
to do well at the regionals to proceed to the
NCAA Championships.
“I don’t think that people on the team feel
much pressure of what’s yet to come as they
do dissatisfaction of our Pac-10 perfor
mance,” women’s head coach Tom
Heinonen said. “We have put that behind
us. Now, we are eager to get to the regionals
and do well.”
Heinonen said he expects Marie Davis to
run well at the regionals. The rolling, paved
surfaces of the course are more compatible
with her running style, Heinonen said.
Dellinger cannot place enough value on
the time that a team uses for preparation.
Preparation, he said, will account for 90
percent of the team’s performance.
What about the remaining 10 percent?
“Luck,” Dellinger said. “There is always
luck involved.”