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diate record to chase. Heading
into Saturday’s game at California,
Howry needs eight catches to tie
Pat Johnson’s record for recep
tions by a freshman with 30.
And Hartley’s not done either.
- He needs 19 catches and two touch
down receptions to equal Cristin
McLemore’s all-time Duck marks.
“I just need a couple nice
games, and that should be it,”
Hartley said. “There’s a very good
chance of that happening.”
Defense gets dominant
Disregarding the 72-10 drub
bing of Nevada on Sept. 18, the
Oregon defense has held oppo
nents to their two lowest scoring
outputs in consecutive weeks.
Before the 20-17 win over Ari
zona State on Oct. 30, the Ducks
had been giving up more than 29
points per game. But in beating
the Sun Devils and then Washing
ton State on Saturday, Oregon (6-3
overall, 4-2 Pacific-10 Conference)
surrendered just 15 points and
335 yards per game.
It seems the Duck defense that
was expected to be one of the
team’s biggest strengths before the
season began has become just that
in time to solidify Oregon’s spot
near the top of the Pac-10.
Senior outside linebacker Diet
rich Moore was particularly dev
astating in the rout of the Cougars,
recording a team-high-tying eight
tackles, including two of the
Ducks’ three sacks.
And more than a few of Moore’s
tackles were of the loud, slam-a
Cougar variety.
“I watch a lot of WWF
wrestling,” Moore said, “so I get
moves off there... Nah. ”
Redmond’s return
heroic for Devils
By Mel Reisner
The Associated Press
TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State
coach Bruce Snyder has had play
ers spend more time on the field
than J.R. Redmond. He’s just nev
er seen anyone as productive.
Redmond, who passed up the
NFL draft last spring to play one
more season for Snyder, earned
the Pac-lO’s offensive player of
the week designation Monday af
ter running for 148 yards and
three touchdowns in the Sun Dev
ils’ 26-16 victory over Southern
California on Saturday.
Redmond also had four tackles
after starting at free safety and re
turned seven punts. The defen
sive start was his first since high
school.
“I’ve had players play more
snaps,” Snyder said at his weekly
news conference. “I don’t think
I’ve had a player play more of an
integral part on both sides of the
ball.”
Redmond was in for more than
90 plays. Snyder, in his eighth
year with the Sun Devils (5-4,4-2
Pac-10), once had a roster so de
pleted when he was coaching Cal
ifornia that he played most of the
squad both ways against Miami,
with some participating in more
than 110 plays.
“We were one-deep,” he said.
“It was awful. It was September,
and we were down there in the
heat. It took us three weeks to get
over that.”
But he said Redmond took a
worse pounding.
‘‘When you carry the ball 34
times, catch three passes and have
seven punt returns, that’s a feat,”
Snyder said. ‘‘On every single
one, you’re getting hit. It’s much
different than any other position
with the velocity (of the tacklers).
The ball draws a crowd. So from
that standpoint — the volume of
work that he put in — I don’t
think I’ve had anyone do that.”
Redmond, who was anxious to
play after a one-game suspension
imposed by the NCAA for taking
illegal benefits from an ASU ath
letic department secretary he lat
er married, paid the price, too.
Snyder said Redmond had three
different thigh bruises and
skipped conditioning runs with
the staffs approval.
Some other starters — tight end
Todd Heap, who caught seven
balls for 100 yards, linebacker
Adam Archuleta, wide receiver
Tariq McDonald, cornerback Ka
reem Clark and offensive linemen
Marvel Smith and Victor Leyva —
were banged-up against USC.
Still, Snyder expects to have
everyone but wideout Brian Forth
(shoulder) available for a crucial
home game this week against
Stanford (5-3, 5-1). Both teams are
Rose Bowl contenders, and the
winner will become bowl-eligi
ble.
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