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.
Joe Crispin added 21 points, but
for the third time against a Top-25
team this year, his last-ditch 3
went awry.
Depth hurt the Nittany Lions,
who had only four players with
significant time.
“They’re deeper and they’re
deeper on the perimeter,” Dunn
said. “At the end they were play
ing five guards. I don’t know what
else we could’ve done. Basically, I
thought the game was over in reg
ulation, but it wasn ’t. ”
Indiana, trailing 80-78 with 33
seconds left in regulation, mis
fired on two 3-pointers in the final
10 seconds. But Recker rebound
ed the second shot and put it back
with less than a second left, send
ing the Hoosiers into overtime for
the second straight game.
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