Rugby crushes Huskies 62-7
■ Early-morning practices
pay off for the ranger
challenge team at regionals
By Shigenari Matsumoto and Inge
McMillen
for the Emerald
The Oregon Club Sports men’s
rugby team started what it called
a “promising season” Saturday
by defeating Washington 62-7.
Oregon coach Bob Snyder said
before the game that he was con
cerned about the team’s lack of
game experience.
“I had no expectation of how
the team would play,” Snyder
said. “The Huskies had played a
lot more games and played
against good quality teams.”
Despite the Snyder’s concern,
the Ducks came out strong from
the beginning. Oregon recovered
an early Huskies’ turnover and
went on to score a try on the first
play.
Senior wing Matt McLaughlin
scored three tries for the Ducks.
Bill Terrill also had three tries.
McLaughlin was excited about
the team’s performance.
“We had a lot of continuity go
ing on,” McLaughlin said. “The
backs were doing a really good
job and the forwards were mak
ing the tackles.”
Snyder said emotion is impor
tant for winning and he was wor
ried about the team’s emotions
because last season it “played not
to lose” at times instead of “play
ing to win. ”
Snyder said he was happy
about the team’s performance.
“The key was that in the first
five minutes
we came out
and made
them look
silly,” Sny
der said.
“And they
could never recover.”
Duck eight man Jacob Hays
said if Oregon can continue to
play like it did Saturday, it has a
good chance at earning a bid for
the NCAA Tournament in Col
orado.
Two seasons ago the Ducks
went to the nationals as a Divi
sion-II team. Since then, Oregon
has moved up to Division I.
The Ducks have to win all their
league games to get to nationals
in April. The next league game is
this Saturday against Western
Washington at the intramural
grass field adjacent to Hayward
Field at 1 p.m.
Rangers challenge at
regionals, finish fourth
Weeks of practicing at 6:45
a.m. yielded fourth place for the
Oregon Club Sports ranger chal
lenge team at regionals at West
ern Oregon on Saturday.
“The competition was definite
ly better this year,” said Shawn
Dodge, senior cadet and team
captain. “We did better [than last
year], and everybody else did bet
ter.”
Team camaraderie encouraged
strong individual performances,
sophomore cadet Don Bryant
said.
The teams collect points in five
different events. Oregon’s best
single discipline was Physical
Training.
The Ducks finished second in
the event, which combines sit
ups, push-ups and a two-mile
run for 100 points each.
“Five people maxed the PT test
with a perfect 300, including
both out- females,” Dodge said.
Portland won the regionals and
will represent the Northwest at
nationals.
Galloway ends holdout,
returnstoSeahawks
By Jim Cour
The Associated Press
KIRKLAND, Wash.—Joey Gal
loway says he finally decided to
end his season-long holdout and
return to the Seattle Seahawks be
cause he missed playing in the
NFL.
“I realized that playing football
is what I wanted to do,” the star
wide receiver said after reporting
to the Seahawks and passing his
physical examination Tuesday.
He came to Seattle two weeks
ago to check out his house and see
some friends before returning to
his home in Dublin, Ohio.
“I had a chance to hang out
with some teammates and I got
closer to the situation,” Galloway
said. “It bothered me when I got
on the plane to go back to Ohio. It
bothered me that I wasn’t joining
the team.”
His holdout began when he
missed the start of training camp
in Cheney on Aug. 1. It cost him
$1,047 million: $837,117 in lost
salary and $210,000 in fines. Dur
ing the holdout, the Seahawks
took their $35 million, seven-year
contract offer off the table, includ
mg a $7 million signing bonus.
Without Galloway, new coach
general manager Mike Holmgren
has the Seahawks off to a 6-2 start
and in first place in the AFC
West. They won at Green Bay on
Monday Night Football and beat
Cincinnati at home last week.
The Seahawks will play Den
ver in the Kingdome next Sunday
night.
Galloway said he was ready to
start helping his team right away,
but wasn’t sure when Holmgren
plans to start using him. On Mon
day, Holmgren said it would be
difficult for Galloway to begin
playing right away. Holmgren did
not talk to reporters on Tuesday.
Holmgren can choose to use a
two-week roster exemption for
Galloway.
When the player and coach
met Tuesday, Holmgren handed
him a thick playbook. Galloway
took part in Holmgren’s mini
camps.
The Seahawks players had
Tuesday as their day off. They re
turn to practice on Wednesday.
“I’m going to give it everything
I have,” Galloway said.
Sports brief
Last standing Duck falls
Leslie Eisenga’s run through
the consolation bracket in the ITA
Regionals at Washington ended
one step short of the final.
The Oregon men’s tennis
team’s Netherlands native lost 8
1 to Matt Cox of Santa Clara in the
semifinals Tuesday after defeat
ing seventh-seeded David Martin
of Stanford 8-5 earlier in the day.
The Ducks’ other remaining
competitor, Joaquin Hamdan, lost
to Cox 9-8 in the consolation
quarterfinals.
“During the tournament...we
were able to get some good expe
rienc,” Oregon head coach Chris
Russell said.
The Ducks look for more of the
same starting Friday at the Salem
Shootout in Salem.
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