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with another jumper from near
the top of the key.
And so it went.
Strange hit again. Williams
buried a 3-pointer. Sophomore
forward/ guard Jamie Craighead
canned a shot. Then Strange hit
again.
Less than three minutes into
the half, Oregon was up 41-35,
much to the delight of the 5,367
in the house — who got loud
during the run and then louder
when assistant coach Fred
Litzenberger surprisingly leaped
out of his seat and vividly be
sought the fans to crank up the
volume.
“That’s when the crowd helps
you, when you make a few good
plays,” Litzenberger said. “That’s
when they gotta get on their feet
and start screaming and go crazy
so the other team can’t get going
again. That’s why I was trying to
get them going."
The sudden burst of energy by
the Ducks and their crowd was
too much for Washington State.
Jen Kerns, the Cougars second
leading scorer coming in, scored
12 points but fouled out with
11:57 to go.
Alke Dietl led
Washington
State with 20.
Meanwhile,
all of Strange’s
10 points came
in the second
half. As did 14
of Williams’ 20.
And Washington State could
n’t contend with Oregon’s 6-foot
3 forward Angelina Wolvert, who
had a “heyday” all game, finish
ing with 19 points on eight-of-11
shooting.
After pulling adequately away,
Runge took the chance to exercise
her team’s depth. Several reserves
got playing time, and, Runge
hoped, valuable experience.
“We said we were going to try
and get them in there in a game sit
uation,” she said. “Once they set
tled down they did a better job. We
have to get them in those situa
tions more so they can have confi
dence.”
Alyssa Fredrick played nine
minutes and had a block and
three rebounds. Alissa Edwards,
Ndidi Unaka, Kourtney Shreve
and Courtney Moore all played
significant minutes as well.
Their play could be of espe
cially important from now on,
because regular starting guard/
forward Lindsey Dion may have
suffered her second concussion
in as many weeks in collision
with a Cougar player after chas
ing down a loose ball.
“I don't know if she’ll be out,
but if she is, then our depth is go
ing to have to step up,” Runge
said.
Concussion
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flared things up a little,” Shep
herd said. “Now we’re back
where we were a few days after
the [California] game.”
Dion won’t play against South
ern California on Thursday, and
her status for Saturday’s game
against UCLA is unknown.
If it had been another concus
sion, head coach Jody Runge said
a third would have ended Dion’s
junior season.
“I’m like, ‘Lindsey, don’t dive
in there with your head first,”’
Runge said. “But she doesn’t ha ve
any control over that. That’s just
how she plays. She just went in
• -
there headlong, and you’re not go
ing to change that about her.”
On Thursday Dion played 17
minutes against Washington. But
when she wasn’t running the
court it was obvious that some
thing was wrong. She appeared
unsteady standing on the sideline
or on the bench. And when Dion
took a hard fall to the floor during
the first half, she was visibly shak
en.
After the win over the Huskies,
Dion admitted to experiencing
some discomfort.
“Through the most part I think I
was all right,” she said. “There
were moments out there where I,
for lack of a better word, had a
lack of focus. [I was] a little loopy,
I guess.”
Point guard Shaquala Williams
said she thought Dion’s condition
was OK before Saturday’s game.
“Lindsey is one of those peo
ple where if she’s hurt, she’s not
gonna tell anybody,” Williams
said. “She’s just gonna try to play
through it. She wants to play bas
ketball that bad.”
Shepherd is confident that, af
ter Saturday, Dion will be honest
with the Ducks about her condi
tion.
“The two of us had a big dis
cussion about that,” Shepherd
said. “How you’re only hurting
yourself by holding the truth. If
anything, [Saturday’s game]
woke her up a little bit to just
how serious this kind of a thing
can be.”
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