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Oregon loses to nation’s best By Scott Pesznecker Oregon Daily Emerald If the Oregon wrestling team’s opponents battled like they were the best in the country, there was good reason for it — they were. The Ducks were blown out twice in two nights, losing to No. 5 Oklahoma, 38-6, on Friday night, then to No. 1 Oklahoma State on Saturday, 36-6. The two dual-meets mark the end of the Ducks’ season away from McArthur Court. Chael Sonnen recorded all of Oregon’s six points against Okla homa when he pinned the Soon er’s 197-pound Waymon May. For Sonnen, who is currently No. 9 in the nation in his weight class, it was his seventh pin of the year and his 30th as a Duck. Unfortunately for the Ducks, one pin does not win a dual meet. Oregon's Jesse Culp wrestled at 174 in place of Shawn O'Rourke, who had been injured before the trip. Culp was pinned by Michael Barger, and in the following match, Doug Lee was edged, 8-6, by Tom Grossman at 184 pounds. Sonnen’s pin pulled the Ducks closer at 9-6, but the Sooners never looked back. Oklahoma’s heavyweight John Henry Ward, ranked No. 5 in the nation, scored a 12-1 major decision over Kevin Keeney, followed by an other major decision by Okla homa’s Shane Valdez at 125 pounds over Kenny Cox. Oregon then had to forfeit again at 133 pounds, extending Okla homa’s lead to 24-6, and the Ducks’ lost two more matches to major decisions; one by Mark Castle at 149 pounds and the oth er by Jay McGuffin at 141 pounds. WRESTLING The closest outcomes of the competition came in the final two matches of the evening. Daryl Christian lost the 157-pound match in the final 34 seconds when No. 15 David Kjeldgaard scored a take down to win, 4-2. Sean Morgan, who had gone through the dual meet season undefeated, finally lost to No. 4 Rodney Jones, 6-4, af ter tying the score in the final round. The Ducks had more luck against the Cowboys on Satur day, winning two matches in stead of one, but the Ducks were again forced to forfeit at 133 and 125 pounds. Cox, who had wres tled the night before, sat out against Oklahoma State. Morgan gave the Ducks an ear ly lead, beating Ty Wilcox, 11-4, at 165 pounds. However, Oregon would never see the lead again. Oklahoma’s Mark Smith, No. 1 at 174 pounds, won by technical fall over Culp. Lee lost another heart breaker, falling, 4-3, to No. 6 Mark Munoz. Oklahoma State rolled, stretch ing its dual-meet winning streak to 63. Sonnen was the only Duck to win both of his matches on the two-day road trip. He beat Josh Cruzan, 4-2, in what would be Oregon’s final points of the evening. The Cowboys scored 18 points in the following three matches when Keeney was pinned at heavyweight, followed by forfeits at 125 and 133 pounds. Oregon’s David Watson hung on at 141 pounds, but couldn’t pull off the win against Charles Walker, losing, 4-2. Castle was beat by the nation’s No. 3 149 pounder Reggie Wright, 13-3, and Jimmy Arias escaped Ore gon’s Christian 9-7. The midwest road-trip dropped the Ducks’ dual-meet record to 4-6. UO goiters open spring season By Scott Pesznecker Oregon Daily Emerald Opening its spring season today, the Oregon men’s golf team said it is serious about competing after earning the No. 13 ranking by Golf Week Magazine last fall. The Ducks’ first test will come today when they compete in the first two rounds of the Ping Arizona Classic in Tucson, Ariz. The three-round invitational will conclude tomorrow. “We would like to have a high finish,” head coach Steve Nosier said. “We want to play well, just like we didin the fall.” Several top teams from around the country will be at the invitational. Included in the field are host Ari zona, Arizona State, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Fresno State, Houston, Oregon State, Stanford, and Washington. Nosier did not single out any one team he wants the Ducks to beat; instead, he said the team’s goal is to beat everyone in the tournament. “There is no particular team we’re going after,” Nosier said. “We just want to go down there and per form as well as we possibly can.” Oregon’s lineup will likely be Ben Crane, Ryan Lavoie, Andrew Tredway, Derek Croskrey and Jeff Barney. Entering the tournament, Lavoie leads the team with a low-stroke average of 72.3 per round. Adrian Burtner, who held the Ducks’ low-stroke average in the fall at 71.9, missed the team’s qualifier by a couple of strokes and will not compete in Tuc son. The Ducks finished their fall season by tying for third at the Pacific Invitational in Copperopolis, Calif. Nosier said his team has put in many hours of prac tice to prepare for the team's spring season opening, but pointed out that the weather has made it diffi cult to gauge how well the team is golfing at this point. “The weather has been miserable,” Nosier said. “The courses have been wet, and we play longer be cause we don’t get any rolls. But we’ve put up some good numbers. “We’re going down to Arizona and hopefully we’ll have our game faces on so we can continue the suc cess we had in the four tournaments we played in last fall.” Indiana beats Penn State at buzzer By David Kinney The Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — No one thought A.J. Guyton’s last-sec ond 3-pointer was anywhere close — not Guyton himself and most definitely not Indiana coach Bob Knight. But Guyton’s shot fell with five seconds left in the second over time, capping a career day for the junior guard, who had 33 points as No. 20 Indiana rallied from 16 points down to beat Penn State 98 95 Sunday. “I just wanted to get a shot off. I threw it as high as I could and hoped it would make it to the rim,” said Guyton, who scored 11 points in two back-and-forth over time periods. “I was as surprised as everybody else. A fall-away 3 at the buzzer is a tough shot, but it went in. I was lucky today.” Added Knight: “I thought Guy ton’s shot had no chance of going in. I think it got caught in a wind current.” Guyton, whose previous high was 27 points, also scored all eight of Indiana’s points in the first overtime — including another long 3-pointer to force the second overtime. “He’s an NBA player,” Penn State coach Jerry Dunn said. “The guy’s a big-time player and he made some big-time shots. ” Luke Recker, coming off the worst two-game stretch of his ca reer, added 20 points and 11 re bounds for the Hoosiers (17-7,4-5 Big Ten). Indiana had lost its last two games, 90-83 to Minnesota Tues day and 73-59 to Michigan State on Jan. 24. “We needed this game bad," Guyton said. “We needed to get ourselves out of the hole.” Recker hit a layup with less than a second left to send the game into overtime, halting Penn State’s pre mature celebration. Dan Earl led Penn State (10-9,2 7) with a career-high 28 points, while Calvin Booth had 23 points, 12 rebounds and eight blocked shots. Penn State was 2-6 in Janu ary. 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