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FRIDAY
November 13,1998
TRIVIA QUESTION
Oregon had two women earn Pac-10 all-freshman
team honors in basketball last season.
Who were they?
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Trivia answer
Forward Angelina
Wolvert was hon
ored after leading
Oregon with 133 to
tal rebounds and
forward Brianne
Meharry was hon
ored after averaging
13.1 points per
game
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UO men send Australians down under
Junior college transfer Alex Scales
scored 20 points to lead the Ducks to a
103-53 win on Thursday night
By Rob Moseley
Oregon Daily Emerald
The future of Oregon men’s basketball is here,
and it appears to have come in the form of Alex
Scales and Frederick Jones.
Scales scored a game-high 20 points and added
seven rebounds, and Jones gave a dazzling display
of his athleticism to the 6,478 fans at McArthur
Court for the Ducks’ 103-53 season-opening exhibi
tion victory over a touring squad from Australia on
Thursday night.
“I thought it was a great start to our season, even
though it was an exhibition game,” Oregon head
coach Ernie Kent said. “We needed to play in front
of people and have an opportunity to get the ner
vousness out.”
Scales, a junior college transfer, shot 60 percent
from the field and tallied five assists in his Oregon
debut.
“I was a little nervous, but when you get out there
it’s same-old, same-old,” the 6-foot-4 junior said.
Senior Terik Brown hit the
Ducks' first basket, a three-pointer,
just 17 seconds into the game, and
Oregon followed with a barrage of
shots from behind the arc. The
Ducks hit 10 of their 22 three
pointers, led by Yasir Rosemond’s
four-of-six performance.
But the true excitement of the
night was generated by the above-the-rim activity of
Scales and Jones, the two-time state player of the
year from Barlow High School in Gresham.
“Coming from high school, it’s just a whole other
level,” said Jones, who scored seven points on three
of-seven shooting. “It’s a higher level intensity-wise
and player-wise, so I really have to step it up.”
Jones and Scales woke a relatively dormant Mac
Court crowd midway through the second half. Jones
hit a spinning lay-up from underneath the basket
with 11 minutes, 53 seconds remaining in the game.
Scales followed a minute later with a thunderous
dunk created by one of his five steals.
Rosemond said the Ducks’ athleticism was a
marked improvement from last season.
“It took a real big step,” said Rosemond, who
shared time at point guard last season but played
mostly shooting guard on Thursday. “We have more
scorers this year. We had Jamar [Curry] last year, he
was very athletic, but he didn’t score the ball very
well. He didn’t score the ball as well as Freddie and
Alex.”
Jones, Scales and company begin their regular
season Sunday afternoon at 3:05 p.m. against Cop
pin State. The Eagles return just one starter from
last season’s Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
championship team. Coppin State has won six
straight conference titles.
Oregon Basketball
Ducks look to start off strong
Oregon is hoping for a good
first impression in their
opening game against Nevada
By Joel Hood
Oiegon Daily Emerald
It’s only the first game of the season, but
there are those on the Oregon women’s
basketball team who are taking it mighty
seriously.
“We already feel some pressure,” fresh
man point guard Shaquala Williams said
about Oregon hosting its first-round Pre
season National Invitational Tournament
game against Nevada at McArthur Court
tonight at 7 p.m.
So much for easing
into the regular season.
Not happy with the
Ducks’ defensive perfor
mance in their 99-65
victory against Alvik of
Sweden on Nov. 3, head
coach Jody Runge said
she worked her players
extra hard in practice during the last two
weeks to shore up those weaknesses.
“We just picked up the intensity, ran a
lot more scrimmages, a lot more defensive
schemes,” Runge said. “We had several
breakdowns defensively [against Alvik],
We expect Nevada to run more presses
and pick up the pace on offense. We have
to be ready for that. ”
The 16-team field, which features five
teams that competed in last year’s NCAA
Tournament, will run through the month
of November with the tournament’s cham
pionship game scheduled for Nov. 20 at a
yet-to-be-determined site.
“We expect to go undefeated and win
the whole thing,” Williams said. “You
have to set huge goals if you want to be
come a good team. ”
Oregon is already a good team.
Picked to finished no lower than third
in the Pacific-10 Conference by Pac-10
coaches and much of the media, the Ducks
return four starters and 10 letterwinners
from last season’s 17-10 team that quali
fied for a fifth straight NCAA Tournament
appearance under Runge.
“This tournament really is an opportu
nity for us to show people what we can
do,” Runge said. “It’s designed for top-25
bubble teams to answer a lot of questions
about where their at.”
Oregon’s most pressing questions sur
round the health of center Jenny Mowe
Kmerakl
Brianne Meharry will return to the lineup after tearing her ACL last season.
and forward Brianne Meharry, who are
both still nursing season-ending injuries
from last year.
However, Runge said both will be ready
to against Nevada.
Although regular-season tickets are free,
students will have to purchase tickets for
each round of the WNTT for $5. Runge said
she expects that to have a negative effect
on Oregon’s attendance, which could force
the Ducks’ to loose their host-school status
in further rounds.
“It’s disappointing, but there wasn’t
anything we could do about it,” Runge
said. “We usually have a lot of walk-up
sales at the gate. I hope this doesn’t keep
new students away.”
On lap
WHO:
Oregon women’s
basketball
WHAT:
Oregon vs.
Nevada
WHEN:
7 p.m.
WHERE:
McArthur Court
Oregon ready
for pivotal
competition
The Ducks must perform well
at Regionals to qualify for
the NCAA Championships
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
Nearing the end of their season, the Ore
gon men’s and women’s cross country
teams say they can almost taste the NCAA
Championships in two weeks.
But first, the teams must compete at the
West Regional Championships tomorrow in
Fresno, Calif. The regional competition is
the qualifying event for the national cham
pionship meet in Lawrence, Kan., on Nov.
23.
Ihe West will feature I
the NCAA’s race-qualify- [
ing format. Instead of the f
standard numb of 22
teams competing, 31
teams will be running the
race.
The key matchup in the men’s event will
feature the No. 3 Ducks against No. 2 Stan
ford, which beat Oregon by just two points
in Eugene at the Pacific-10 Conference
Championships on Oct. 31. Men's head
coach Bill Dellinger said Stanford is still
“the team to beat.”
“We know that this is the qualifying
meet, so we must finish first or second to
qualify,” Dellinger said. “There has not
been a long history [between us and Stan
ford], but for the past five or six years, Stan
ford has been strong.”
All-Americans Matthew Davis and Steve
Fein are expected to lead the Ducks in to
morrow’s competition. At the Pac-10 Cham
pionships, Davis and Fein were Oregon’s
top finishers, placing third and seventh, re
spectively.
Dellinger is also expecting strong perfor
mances from Rob Aubrey and Micah Davis.
Adam Bergquist rotated into the seven
man roster that will travel to California, tak
ing the place of Greg James, who is still re
covering from the Pac-10 Championships.
Lincoln Nehring will run again, as will
Andrew Bliss who won a spot on the roster
by finishing as the team’s first runner at the
Oregon Invitational at Alton Baker Park on
Oct. 17.
“The guys are running well,” Dellinger
said. “This team gives James an opportunity
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