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UO faces pair of Pac-10 Powers The Oregon women’s tennis team meets the No. 1 and No. 4 teams in the nation. PAGE 8 Scoreboard OREGON (65) Min Wolvert 25 Mowe 17 Williams 38 Craighead 20 Strange 37 Piers Shreve Edwards Dion 1 5 2 17 Fredrick 11 Moore Unaka Meharry 24 FG 3-6 2-3 5-17 0-7 2- 9 0-1 0-1 0-1 3- 7 2- 3 0-0 0-0 3- 8 FT 1- 3 0-0 7-7 0-0 2- 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 2-2 7-7 P 7 4 20 0 6 0 0 0 8 5 0 2 13 Totals 200 20-63 20-2343*15 65 Shooting: 33.3% 3-point: 5-23 (Williams 3 11, Craighead 0-7, Shreve 0-1, Dion 2-4) in cludes three team rebounds Washington (51) Erickson Sheets Gray Franza Payne Duncan Autrey O’Neill Pimley Reichmann FG FT 3-7 0-0 3- 8 0-0 0-3 4-4 6-15 1-2 4- 16 2-3 0- 4 2-2 2-3 0-0 1- 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 RAP 2 0 6 4 1 7 3 5 4 0 2 15 4 2 10 1 0 2 3 0 4 12 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 Min 17 27 31 27 37 16 12 22 9 2 Totals 200 19-61 9-11 39*10 51 Shooting: 38.2% 3-point: 4-18 (Sheets 1-1, Gray 0-2, Franza 2-4, Payne 0-7, Duncan 0-1, O’Neill 1-3) includes eight team rebounds includes one team rebound Player of the Game Junior forwa rd Brianne Meharry played a solid game, finishing with 13 points, six rebounds, two assists, two steals and a block. Quote of the Game “We did what we were supposed to do. We kept nudging them out, and they’d get a run, and then we’d come back. ” Angelina Wolvert Oregon forward Best Bet NBA Atlanta vs. Miami 5 p.m., TNT &%:■■■_MI MEHARRY Friday January 21,2000 Volume 101, Issue 80 Emerald Oregon's ‘D’ muzzles the Dawgs Scott Barnett Emerald Alyssa Fredrick goes up for two of her five points against Washington. ■ The Ducks take care of business down the stretch and beat Washington for their 23rd straight win over Northwest conference opponents By Scott Pesznecker Oregon Daily Emerald Such a beautiful sight be fore tipoff. The Oregon women’s bas ketball team stood side by side on the court, with 5,334 fans cheering from the stands of McArthur Court. All eyes were fixed upon the Pacific-10 Conference banner, the symbol of victo ry that was unveiled above the north basket, while play ers and spectators alike took a moment to revel in the suc cess of last season. And then, one minute lat er, Jenny Mowe' won the Ducks’ tipoff of the Ducks’ first home game in more than a month-and-a-half. The basketball-starved crowd roared. And then things got ugly. Oregon (12-4 overall, 3-1 Pac-10) shot a dismal 33.3 percent and couldn’t ever pull away from Northwest rival Washington (5-12,1-4). But even though the Ducks’ opponent shot 38.2 percent, they held their lead in the waning minutes of the game and downed the Huskies 65 51. The win was Oregon head coach Jody Runge’s 23rd straight over Northwest schools. And when the Ducks face last-place Wash ington State on Saturday, Runge hopes to extend her streak to 24. “It’s helpful,” Runge said. “I’d like to win 23 against the southern schools too, that would be really help ful.” Williams shot a subpar 5 Turn to Women, page 9 Oregon leaders Scoring: Williams 20 Meharry 13 Dion 8 Rebounds: Strange 9 Mowe 7 Wolvert 6 Meharry 6 Assists: Craighead 5 Strange 4 Bracey’s perfect night sparks UO to win Bryan Bracey and the Ducks bounce back from a sloppy first half to beat its Northwest foe in overtime By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald Oregon’s play as a team was anything but perfect Thursday night in Seattle, but the junior forward Bryan Bracey game was ex actly that. Without Bracey, Oregon’s dramatic 76-74 overtime win over the Washington Huskies in front of 8,102 fans at Key Arena would have been hard to come by. The junior finished with a game-high 23 points off a dazzling display of leaning jumpers and spinning lay ins, as he went a perfect 10 for-10 from the field. He also contributed seven re bounds and went 3 of 5 from the foul line in addi tion to being the team’s consistent go-to guy. “I don’t feel pressure be cause this is the way I want it,” Bracey said on KUGN after taking over the bulk of the playing time because of Julius Hicks’ mononucleo sis and sore back and Flo Hartenstein’s ailing knees. “I like this situation where the team counts on me to make big plays.” Both the Huskies (6-11 overall, 1-4 in Pac-10) and the Ducks (12-3, 3-1) ex pected a close game. And they were right. Forty minutes of play wasn’t enough time to de cide the outcome. With the score dead locked at 66 at the start of overtime, Oregon senior forward Alex Scales’ made the big play. As the closing seconds ticked down with the Ducks leading 74-72, Scales — who scored six of his 17 points in overtime — drib bled the ball around the top of the key and read the de fense perfectly. He saw an opening and drove inside the paint for a leaning six footer with 14 seconds left. It was the winning basket. But the Huskies an swered back quickly as point guard Senque Carey made a leaning jumper himself, cutting the margin to two with 6.4 seconds left. After a time-out, Oregon inbounded the ball to Dar ius Wright, who avoided the potential foul by the Huskies and dished to Scales. Scales saw two on coming Huskies, and clev erly zipped the ball to a wide-open A.D. Smith who simply dribbled out the re maining three seconds on the clock out for a the Pac 10 road win. Turn to Men’s hoops, page 12 Oregon leaders Scoring: Bracey 23 Jones 19 Scales 17 Rebounding: Bracey 7 Hartenstein 5 Three tied with 4
