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MONDAY
November. 23,1998
Best Bet
Monday Night Football
Miami at New England
5:20 p.m„ ABC
Beavers upend Ducks after hard-fought battle
Matt Hankins/Emerak
Wide receiver Damon Griffin pulls in one of his game high 10 catches during the Saturday civil war game at Oregon State's Parker Stadium.
Oregon State
bangs on and
conies away
with its fifth
win of the
season after a
tough
matchup with
Oregon
By Rob Moseley
Oregon Daily Emerald
CORVALLIS — It was chaos in Corvallis
on Saturday night.
Two in-state rivals, two overtime periods
and even two instances of Oregon State stu
dents rushing the field, and in the end, two
Parker Stadium goal posts being torn down.
OREGON
FOOTBALL
rushing touchdown of the
evening, a 16-yard run on
the Beavers' second play
of the second overtime
period, capped a wild
game that gave Oregon
State a 44-41 win and its
first tive-win season since 1971, and virtu
ally assured the Ducks of spending Christ
inas in Hawaii.
After three-straight heartbreaking losses,
by a total of nine points, Oregon State again
took its opposition to the brink, this time
prevailing on a cold, windy night in Corval
lis.
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Oregon State celebrates
victory, renewed rivalry
Opinion
Joel
Hood
CORVALLIS — Let's call it celebra
tion...the sequel.
It lasted for nearly an hour after Oregon
State’s wildly entertaining 44-41 Civil War
victory against Oregon, and fans didn’t
know it was over until Parker Stadium’s
south- end goal posts came crashing to the
turf.
The only difference from this one and
the evening’s first bleacher-clearing malay:
These fans were allowed to stay until the
end.
But this deliriously happy ending almost
never happened for Beaver fans. Their first
celebration was cut short by a pass interfer
ence penalty on Oregon State cornerback
Andrae Holland, who appeared to illegally
haul down Oregon receiver Tony Hartley
just seconds before a sea of orange and
black covered the field.
Trailing 38-31 in the first overtime peri
od, Oregon faced fourth down and 12 from
the Oregon State 27 yard line. The entire
outcome of the game hinged on this one
play and it would take nearly 30 minutes to
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Oregon dismantles the Vandals on its way to victory
The Ducks rely
heavily on
Jenny Mowe
and Angelina
Wolvert on
their way to a
sound beating
of Idaho
By Joel Hood
Oregon Daily Emerald
Angelina Wolvert’s spinning lay-in with
10 minutes, 45 seconds to go in the second
half capped a 20-2 Oregon run and pro
pelled the Ducks to a rousing 76-58 victory
against Idaho on Sunday afternoon in front
of 3,222 fans at McArthur Court.
Wolvert scored a game-high 16 points
and sparked a furious second-half rally by
Oregon that turned a 40-32 halftime lead
into 62-40 blowout midway through the
period.
Playing for the first time since the heart
breaking 72-70 loss to Colorado State in the
second round of the Women’s National In
vitational Tournament at Mac Court a week
ago, the Ducks (2-1) jumped out to an early
5-2 lead on a Natasha O’Brien three-point
bucket two minutes into the game.
Led by Jenny Mowe’s eight first-half
points, Oregon was able to keep in front of
the streaking Vandals, who sliced the
Ducks’ lead to just one point five minutes
before halftime. Oregon converted 11 of 12
free-throw attempts down the stretch to ex
tend it lead at the half.
Idaho (2-2) cut the Ducks’ lead to just 42
38 with back-to-back three pointers by
guards Rikki Jackson and Susan Woolf just
minutes after the break.
But Oregon responded
with a 15-foot jump shot
by Mowe and a fast
break pass from O’Brien
to guard Lisa Bowyer
who slid past two Van
dal defenders to the
hoop. The Ducks blew
the game wide open by
scoring the next eight points in a row.
“I’m very much pleased with our effort
in the second half," Oregon head coach
Jody Runge said. “We played a lot harder,
and we showed much more intensity run
ning the fast break and setting up our of
fense in the second half.
“We talked at halftime about how our
guards needed to step up and run the of
fense. They weren’t listening in the first
half, so we ran a lot of broken plays and
had a lot of missed opportunities.”
Oregon shot a season-low 28 percent
from the floor in the first half, but out-re
bounded the Vandals 26 to 14. The Ducks
continued their domination on the boards
in the second half, posting a 25-18 advan
tage.
“We were a lot closer to where we want
to be defensively this week than we were
last week,” said Mowe, who played 18
minutes and finished with 14 points and
10 rebounds. “Our timing is still a little off,
but were getting better. We’re still trying
some different things on both offense and
defense.”
A big key, Runge said, was free throw
shooting. The Ducks hit 30 of 39 in the
game and six of nine down the stretch in
the second half to seal the victory.
Idaho was in foul trouble throughout
much of the first half, tallying 17 personal
fouls in just the first 20 minutes of plav.
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JA
WOLVERT