Ducks get easy victory over Nevada
Thanks to Friday's
attendance, Oregon
will host its game ■
against Colorado State
By Joel Hood
Oregon Daily Emerald
It wasn’t overly impressive,
but Jody Range got exactly what
she wanted from the Oregon
women’s basketball team Friday
night — an easy 81-54 victory
against Nevada in the first round
of the women’s National Invita
tion Tournament, a tighter defen
sive performance than its exhibi
tion win over Alvik last week,
and an invite to host round two
tonight against Colorado State at
7 p.m. at McArthur Court.
“I think we still have a lot of
work to do defensively,” Runge
said after the game. “We didn’t
handle their aggressiveness very
well. If we expect to have a
chance to win this tournament,
we’re going to have to play a lot
better.”
Ahead just 33-20 at halftime,
the Ducks broke free of the Wolf
pack early in the second half
when center Angelina Wolvert
hit a 17-foot jump shot and guard
Lisa Bowyer connected from
three-point range to increase Ore
gon’s lead to 40-24.
Seconds later, forward Brianne
Meharry scored inside following
a steal and pass from Bowyer to
increase the Ducks’ lead to 20
points.
“We managed to get a few
more steals after halftime by
pushing them outside the paint,”
said Bowyer, who had a team
high six steals and five assists.
r
“The defense has to bring along
the offense if we’re going to con
tinue winning.”
Oregon next hosts Colorado
State, which beat Valparaiso 94
71 in its first-round game on Fri
day. The Rams tied a school
record for three pointers made
in their victory over the Cru
saders with 12. Four Rams
scored in double digits, led by
Jacque John
son s game
high 23 points.
Guard Becky
Hammon, a
preseason all
American for
Colorado State,
added 20
three assists. Col
24-6 last
points and
orado State finished
season and tied for first in the
Western Athletic Conference
with an 11-3 record.
Runge said she knows Oregon
will have to play with more con
trol on offense to have a shot to
knock off Colorado State tonight.
“I'm happy with our effort,”
Runge said, “but I feel like we’re
going to have to play better
against Colorado State.”
Sonja Curtis, who sat out the
Ducks' exhibition game against
Alvik of Sweden on Nov. 3 while
recovering from a broken nose
sustained during practice, led
Oregon with 20 points in 24 min
utes on Friday. Meharry was sec
ond on the team with 17 points
and collected a team-high eight
rebounds.
Center Jenny Mowe, who
Runge said is still slightly ham
pered by the season-ending knee
injury she sustained last year,
I think we still have a
lot of work to do
defensively. We didn’t
handle their
aggressiveness very well.
If we expect to have a
chance to win this
tournament, we’re going
to have to play a lot
better. ^
Jody Runge
UO head coach
didn’t start and played just 17
minutes.
Mowe, a Pacific-10 All-Fresh
man team honoree in 1996,
scored just two points and had
two blocks and five rebounds.
“Jenny is OK, but she’s not the
same player that toured with the
junior national team after her
freshman year," Runge said. “But
her knee doesn’t allow her a lot
of reps defensively. She played
OK, but she seemed to be out of
position a lot."
McArthur Court's attendance
of 3,942 on Friday enabled the
Ducks to host their second-round
game against Colorado State.
The schools with the highest
attendance figures will likely
host the tournament's semi-final
round on Thursday and the final
round on Friday.
Although regular-season tick
ets are free, students will have
to purchase tickets for each
round of the WNIT the Ducks’
host for $5.
Matt Hankins'Emerald
Ducks' center Jenny Mowe breaks through the Wolfpack's guard Jessica Larsen and
forward Kate Graham to score in Friday's win of 81 to 54 at McArthur Court.
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