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Oregon women move one step closer to first title Angelina wolvert s double double led the first-place Oregon women’s basketball team By Joel Hood Oregon Daily Emerald CORVALLIS — Angelina Wolvert capped a spectacular game Friday night with a sim ple spin move to the hoop that ended Ore gon State’s upset bid and may someday be known as the pirouette that gave the Oregon women’s basketball team the Pacific-10 Conference title. Leading by just six points with less than a minute to play, Oregon senior Lisa Bowyer inbounded the ball from the base line to Wolvert a few feet away. With her back to the basket, and as the shot clock clicked toward zero, Wolvert shook one Oregon State defender with a move to her left, then another as she moved back to her right and scooped the ball with her left hand toward the bas ket. As the Oregon fans — who made up more than 80 percent of the 5,034 in atten dance — leapt to their feet, the ball fell through the hoop to give the Ducks an in surmountable 60-52 lead with just 34 sec onds to play. What Duck fans didn’t know then was that Wolvert’s layin, which sunk the Beavers and gave the No. 18 Oregon a bruising 60-52 victory at Gill Coliseum, was made even more significant Satur day when Washington beat UCLA to give the Ducks a full one-game lead in the Pac-10 title hunt with just two games to play. Seeking its first conference title in school history, Oregon (23-4 overall, 14-2 in the Pac-10) still needs to sweep its final two games, Thursday at Stanford and Sat urday at California, to capture the cham pionship outright and to host the first round of the NCAA Tournament on March 12. But a split in the remaining two games guarantees the Ducks at least a share of the title. Turn to WOMEN, Page 10 “A person has very few opportunities to win a championship in a lifetime. This team hasn’t done it yet, but we’ve worked very hard this season and have had a lot of luck. ” Jody Runge Oregon head coach Nick Mediey/Emerald Lisa Bowyer goes up for two of her 13 points against Oregon State Friday. UO overcomes late deficit to beat OSU Oregon got 14 second-half points from Alex Scales in the 311th Civil War By Rob Moseley Oregon Daily Emerald It was truly the best and worst of times for the Oregon men’s basketball team on Saturday. On one hand, the Ducks evened the score in the Civil War, avenging their only loss to Oregon State in five seasons and giving the Beavers a perfect 0-9 " ' record on the road in .68 the Pacific-10 Confer 70 ence. --- On the other hand, it was one more in a seemingly endless stretch of nail-biters, the Ducks’ 12 of 16 conference games decided by five or less points or in overtime. Oregon (15-10 overall, 7-9 Pac-10) has now won three straight such games, and five of six overall, including a 73-68 win over the Beavers in front of 9,087 at McArthur Court on Saturday. “We’ve been through so many of these close games, that I think we’re re ally poised coming down the stretch, so I wasn’t really worried,” Oregon center Mike Carson said. Carson’s confidence came despite a harrowing eight-minute span of the sec ond half in which the Beavers came from down nine, 46-37, to put the fourth sellout crowd of the season on the edges of their seats once again. Josh Steinthal kept Oregon State (12 13, 6-10) in the game with five three pointers, none bigger than the one that osu. Oregon. Turn to MEN, Page 12 Nick Medley/Emerald Mike Carson gets over Oregon State's Jason Heide for the rebound attempt in the second half of the Ducks’ win against the Beavers Saturday. Carson had nine rebounds on the night. Scales lifts UO to win By Tim Pyle Oregon Daily Emerald When the Oregon men's basketball team needed it most Saturday night at McArthur Court, Alex Scales piggy backed the Ducks to victory. After Oregon State used a 17-3 run to grab its first lead at 48-46 with 10 min utes, 28 seconds to play in the second half, the Ducks looked like they were in trouble — both in theCivil War and with their postseason dreams. The easy baskets via the fast break and free-flowingoffensehad suddenly disap peared as Oregon repeatedly launched deep jumpers that found anything but the bottom of the net. A.D. Smith managed to pull the Ducks even with two free throws, but then Sasa Petrovic nailed a three-pointer to put the Beavers up 51-48 with 9:36 to play. At that point, Scales, who leads Ore gon in scoring with more than 14 points pergame, had just five points. But there was a suitable explanation for his struggles. For the first time since he arrived in Eu gene, Scales, a native of Racine, Wis., who joined the Ducks as a junior-college transfer this season, was playing in front ofhis parents. “The big thing we talked about when he was not playing, as well the first half, is his folks are here,” head coach Ernie Kent said. “We talked about it all last night and today — settle down. As you know, he’s a guy with a lot of energy al Turn to SCALES, Page 12 OREGON (73) Min FG FT - R A P Smith 31 1-4 5-6 6 2 7 Scales 31 4-9 7-9 4 1 16 Carson 26 5-9 3-3 9 0 13 Wright 40 4-10 2-4 3 7 12 Brown 32 4-9 3-4 5 1 15 Harker 4 0-1 0-0 3 0 0 Rosamond 8 3-3 0-0 1 1 8 Jones 14 0-0 2-2 1 2 2 ChrisTseii 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Hartenstein 12 0-1 0-0 0 6 0 Totals 200 21-46 22-28 33*14 73 Shooting: 45.7 3-point: 9-18 (Smith 0-1, Scales 1 -5, Wright 2-4, Brown 4-6, Rosemond 2-2) ‘includes one team rebound 51 ITII CIVIL WAR Player of the Game | Alex Scales had a team-high 16points, including a crucial three-pointer that broke a 56-56 tie and gave Oregon the lead for good. Quote of the Game "It’s personal, because for the guys that have been through it, they know what it takes. I’m a part of this team, and it’s like a disease, so it affects me, too. ” — Alex Scales, on playing OSU OREGON STATE (68) Min FG FT RAP Jones 16 1-4 1-2 2 1 3 Helde 30 5-7 3-4 3 0 13 Tanner 40 6-24 7-9 2 7 21 Steinthal 36 7-11 0-0 3 0 19 Petraitis 19 0-2 1-3 4 1 1 Petrovic 18 2-4 0-0 1 2 6 Lake 24 0-1 0-0 2 2 0 Masten 3 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Walker 5» 1-2 1-3 0 0 3 V.Backstrm 9 1-1 0-0 3 0 2 Totals 200 23-56 13-21 26’ 13 68 Shooting: 41.1 3-point: 9-20 (Jones 0-1, Tanner 2-9, Steinthal 5-6, Petrovic 2-4) * includes five team rebounds