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1__1 Oregon pins win Oregon wrestlers have a five meet winning streak after com pleting a full weekend of dual matches. PAGE 8 Scoreboard OREGON (77) Min Wolvert 30 Mowe 14 Williams 35 Craighead 21 Strange 33 Piers Shreve Edwards Dion Fredrick Moore Unaka FG 8-11 1-1 0-0 6-15 6-7 FT R A 3-4 10 0 6 4 3 4 5 4 13 9 5 6 3-3 0-0 5-10 0-0 3 1-2 0-0 0 Meharry 21 0-1 0-2 1- 4 0-1 0-1 0-0 2- 6 3-4 1 0-0 0 0-0 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 7-9 3 P 19 2 20 8 10 2 3 0 2 0 0 0 11 Totals 200 27-57 19-244* 15 77 Shooting: 47.4% 3-point: 4-10 (Williams 2 5, Craighead 2-2, Piers 0-1, Shreve 0-1, Ed wards 0-1) includes four team rebounds Washington State (65) Flarrod Volkman Dietel Nyseth Kerns Collins Smith . McNeely Berglund Min 17 31 34 35 27 3 10 27 12 De Anda 4 FG 0- 4 1- 5 7-13 1-1 4-10 0-0 1-3 4-10 3-4 1-1 FT 0-0 1- 4 6-7 0-0 2- 4 0-0 1-2 5-6 1-2 P 0 3 20 2 12 0 4 13 7 2-2- 0 0 Totals 200 22-51 18-2726*14 65 Shooting: 43.1% 3-point: 3-9 (Dietel 0-2, Kerns 2-4, Smith 1-2, McNeely 0-1) ‘includes three team rebounds Player of the Game Angelina Wolvert had a hey day, scor ing the Ducks’ first six points en route to 19-points, 10 rebounds and three blocks in her third double-double this season. Quote of the Game “We talked at halftime, there’s nothing broken here on offense. You’ve got to step up and shoot the ball. I’m excited about our kids’ courage to step up. ” Jody Runge, Ducks head coach Best Bet NBA Portland vs. New Jersey 7 pim., Fox Sports Northwest Monday January 24,2000 Volume 101, Issue 81 Kmerukl Courage, persistence pay off Michael Crisp Emerald Kourtney Shreve is one of several reserves who helped hold down Oregon’s 77-65 victory. ■ Oregon comes out in the second half, shutting down the Cougars, 77-65 By Mirjam Swanson Oregon Daily Emerald The shots weren’t falling. They hadn’t been, in fact, since the first half of the loss to Stanford a week ear lier. But the Oregon women’s basketball team (13-4 over all, 4-1 Pacific-10 Confer ence) remained cool and found the courage to keep taking shots' in their 77-65 win against Washington State (3-13, 0-6) on Satur day. “The key is to keep shoot ing,” said guard/ forward Nicole Strange. “The first half we couldn’t hit any thing. Everyone kept saying, ‘keep shooting, keep shoot ing, you’ll shoot yourself out' of it.’ And finally, we started hitting.” After connecting on less than 36 percent of their shots in the first half against the Cougars, and after having shot 33 percent against Wash ington on Thursday and 35 percent in the second half against the Cardinal, the Ducks’ offense needed a kick start. And they got it in the sec ond half, storming back from a 33-28 halftime deficit. Strange, the only senior on Oregon’s roster, initiated the run by hitting, for her, a deeper-than-usual jumper. Sophomore point guard Shaquala Williams followed Turn to Women, page 12A Duck Leaders Scoring Williams 20 Wolvert 19 Meharry 11 Strange 10 Rebounds Wolvert 10 Mowe 6 Williams, Meharry 4 Assists Williams 7 Strange 5 Oregon’s soldier takes another hit Lindsey Dion escapes a concussion and gives the crowd — and her team — quite a scare By Scott Pesznecker Oregon Daily Emerald An old sports cliche says to “take one for the team.” Oregon forward Lindsey Dion surely knows that motto, but for her, just tak ing one is not enough. The junior suffered a blow to the head — sus pected at first to be her sec ond concussion in less than two weeks — from the el bow of a Washington State opponent, as both players crashed to the floor while chasing a loose ball down court. Dion did not return to the game, and she left McArthur Court without comment. Team athletic trainer Al lison Shepherd, said Sun day that Dion does not have a concussion, but that she has “post concussion syn drome,” which aggravated the original concussion. “Hitting her head again [Saturday], it’s kind of Turn to Concussion page 12A UO survives scare, needs OT again for win Alex Scales scores a career high 27 points and leads the Ducks to a second-straight overtime win By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald The basketball bounced around in the key during the final four seconds of overtime. All eyes were fixed on it which seemed to stay loose for an eternity. The players on the court lunged after it with passion and tenacity, knowing how crucial possession would be. Washington State’s Jan Michael Thomas briefly controlled it, but had it knocked away. Fitting, that on the eve of the Sunday where football teams battle it out for the chance to go to the Super Bowl, the Oregon men’s bas ketball team’s hopes of get ting its first road sweep since 1994 depended on whether they could come up with a loose ball amid a football-esque fumble. Emerging from the pile up, clutching the ball as if it was his most-prized posses sion, was Oregon forward Bryan Bracey. The hom sounded and Bracey and the Ducks (13-3 overall, 4-1 Pacific-10 Con ference) escaped Friel Court in Pullman, Wash., with a gut-wrenching, not-so pret ty 81-80 overtime win over the Washington State Cougars (5-10, 0-6) in front of a dormant Cougar crowd of 3,216. With the win, Oregon climbed to 4-1 in Pac-10 play for the first time since 1995. The Ducks are 3-0 on the road in league play for Turn to Basketball, page 10A
