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Men’s hoops continued from page 7 game of the season, but the key thing was that we played smart. Stanford’s going to be a real tough, physical team. But we’re excited about facing them.” Oregon controlled the tempo throughout the contest and with the win, improved to 2-0 in league play for the first time in four years. It marks its best start since an 11-2 opening to the 1994-95 season, which coincidentally, was the last time Oregon reached the NCAA Tournament. “I thought it was a really good win for us considering that it was n’t as smooth as a game as we would have liked,” Oregon head coach Ernie Kent said. “We had some chances to increase our lead to double digits, but they would always seem to come back and we had to weather their storm. ” More specifically, the storm of Cal’s one-headed monster is jun ior forward Sean Lamply, who had a game-high 29 points on 11 of-19 shooting in 36 minutes. “Lamply really came to play tonight,” Smith said. “He’s a real ly tough player and sometimes it’s more difficult to play against a team with just one star player be cause they keep going back to him time after time.” Oregon controlled the game with a balanced attack, as five players reached double digits. Leading the way with 20 points was sophomore guard Freddie Jones, who electrified the crowd in the second half with a thunderous one-handed jam as well as some silky smooth driving lay-ins. “Freddie put two halves togeth 0007307 COtP\ tfelTtodaV. She'll jwt you a "JI Open (or Breakfast 1a.m. tgUp* H lotta food 'or a little money. luuch er and that was my challenge to him at halftime,” Kent said. “With that said, he still hasn’t come close to putting together his best basketball game.” Seniors Alex Scales and Darius Wright each contributed 15 and 14 points, respectively, and forward Bryan Bracey’s 12 points off the bench played a huge part in the win. The tempo of the game was dic tated in the first seven minutes as the Ducks rattled home four three pointers during that span, taking the early 22-16 lead. “Our ball movement was just fabulous in the first eight-to-ten minutes,” Kent said. “We were able to get some transition baskets and really played smart. That’s the sign of a team that is really coming together.” Oregon pushed the lead up to 40-27, before a Lampley-led Cal team went on a 8-2 run to head into halftime only down by seven. But three minutes into the sec ond half, Jones ignited a 10-2 run with the aforementioned dunk and followed up a Scales three pointer with a trey of his own. The run was capped by a , Bracey dunk that gave the Dudes a 56-42 lead with 15:44. But Cal wouldn’t let up. It dosed within 10 points with 3:30, the seventh time in the half that it reached that point. But after a Bracey jumper and five free-throws by Wright, and the Ducks had the win wrapped up. “Oregon played with poise and knocked down the key shots when they had to,” said California head coach Ben Braun, who remains one win shy of400 for his career. Oregon continued from page 7 lineup. Lamply’s scoring display was overshadowed by the lack of of fensive punch from his young counterparts. While Lamply scored 29 points against the Ducks, the Golden Bears’ other starters managed only 26 points combined. “Sean is in a difficult situa tion because they are real young and inexperienced, and they weren’t used to the big crowd,” said Oregon forward A.D. Smith, whose 12-point perform ance left him just two points shy of 1,000 for his career. “He’s a very talented player on a very young team.” Lamply said after the game that if anything, the crowd had more of a positive effect on his game than a negative one. “I like the rowdy crowds. They don’t affect me,” said Lam ply, who has six double-doubles on the year but was held to just five rebounds against the Ducks. “I feel like the only one who can take me out of my game is me.” If Lamply wasn’t rattled at the Pit, his young teammates certain ly were. Lamply said his team needs to look at the big picture after three consecutive Pacific-10 Conference losses. “I told them we can’t harp on one game,” Lamply said. “0-3 is a bad way to start off the confer ence games, but we can get out of this hole.” Especially disappointing for the Bears was the play of point guard Shantay Legans. Legans — who averaged 4.3 assists per game coming into Thursday night’s contest — couldn’t get his teammates involved and end ed up with no assists, despite the fact that Lamply was on fire for most of the game. “It’s a rare day that Shantay gets zero assists, but these things happen,” said California coach Ben Braun. “This game was frus trating because we were in a po sition to make plays, but we did n’t finish.” Oregon head coach Ernie Kent said he discussed with his play ers the importance of not letting one of California’s younger play ers get hot from the perimeter. “We knew someone was going to have a big game. We were just hoping it wasn’t one of their young guys,” Kent said. “If Lam ply has a big game, he is good enough to do that. But we felt good about how we did against everyone else.” And does the Ducks’ coach an ticipate a different California team when they meet Feb. 12 at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley? “They are a younger team, but they are going to get so much better as they go through this first part of the Pac-10,” Kent said. “They’re going to be so tough during the second half, because they’re logging a lot of minutes right now, and they have one of the premier players in the conference in Lamply.” 008233 montage southern bistro 959 pearl street - 343.4361 dinner: every night! 5:00 pm - 3:00 am lunch: mon - fri 11:30 am - 2:00 pm open now! 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