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
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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