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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