Football Signees
Junior College:
Maurice Morris, TB
Chester, S.C., (fresno City College/
Chester)
*Two-timeJCGrid-Wire All-Ameri
can, eclipsed national JC career
records with 3,708 yards rushing,
593 carries and 4,487 all-purpose
yards
Gary McGraw, CB
Hayward, Calif. (Chabot College/J.F.
Kennedy)
*first -team JC Grid-Wire All-Ameri
can, led the country with 12 inter
ceptions in 1999
High School:
Keith Allen, WR
Torrance, Calif. (West Torrance)
Stephen Clayton, S
Portland (Westview)
Sam Cunningham, DB
Los Angeles, Calif. (Westchester)
Mike De La Grange, OL
Grants Pass (Grants Pass)
Charles Favroth, CB
Antioch, Calif. (De La Salle)
Josh Herrera, TB
La Habra, Calif. (La Habra)
Ryan Jackson, OL
San Jose, Calif. (Valley Christian)
Robin Knebel, OL
Roseburg(Roseburg)
Keith Lewis, TB/S
Sacramento, Calif. (Valley)
Chris Lombardo, QB
Newbury Park, Calif. (Newbury
Park)
Mario McDowell, TB
Rialto, Calif. (Eisenhower)
Igor Olshansky, DE
San Francisco, Calif. (St. Ignatious
Prep)
Ryan Shaw, TB
Carlsbad, Calif. (La Costa Canyon)
Jared Siegel, PK
Carmichel, Calif. (Jesuit)
Eddie Smith, CB
Berkeley, Calif. (St. Mary’s)
Adam Snyder, OG
Whittier, Calif. (La Serna)
Nicholas Steitz, OL
Los Banos, Calif. (Los Banos)
Marley Tucker, S
Long Beach, Calif. (Poly)
Scott Vossmeyer, QB
La Crescenta, Calif. (Crescenta Valley)
Willie Walden, TE
Vancouver, Wash. (Evergreen)
Paris Warren, WR
Sacramento, Calif. (Grant)
Kenny Washington, TB
Brea Olinda, Calif. (H.S. not avail
able)
Dee White, FB
Thornton, Colo. (Thornton)
Best Bet
Men’s college hoops
Oregon vs. Arizona
5:30 p.m„ Oregon
Sports Net
Thursday
February 3,2000
Volume 101, Issue 89
Emerald
Sophomore Alyssa Fredrick, a transfer from San Diego State, has come on strong for the
Ducks.
■ Transfer Alyssa
Fredrick hopes to keep
making the most of
her increasing minutes
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
When Alyssa Fredrick
came to Oregon last season
to play basketball for the
Ducks, she had to do some
thing she had never done in
her long basketball career.
She sat.
The 6-3 forward, who was
the go-to player at San Diego
State as a freshman, kept the
bench warm through the
1998-99 season as she ful
filled the NCAA transfer re
quirement.
The same player, who
scored 30 points and
grabbed 23 rebounds in a
high school championship
game, sat and watched,
learning Oregon’s offensive
and defensive schemes.
And when the beginning
of this season arrived and
the Ducks appeared to be
rolling without Fredrick in
the lineup, she kept sitting,
seeing just brief moments of
playing time.
Then, against the most un
likely of opponents,
Fredrick took a stand.
She entered the Ducks’
Pacific-10 Conference
grudge match against co-ti
tleholder UCLA with her
team trailing early in the first
half. She hardly turned the
head of commentator and
hall-of-famer Ann Meyers.
Turn to Fredrick, page 9A
U I
never
thought it
would be
this hard
to play,
and then
when I got
a chance I
was like,
'oh my
gosh, this is
scary.’ Now
ifskindof
comfort
ing.
Alyssa
Fredrick
forward
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Ducks feeling bold as big game approaches
The Ducks
travel to
Tuscon, Ariz.
— to a site
they haven’t
won at in 15
years — to take
on fellow Pac
10 leader
Arizona
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
Big. Huge. Important.
Those are just a few of
the adjectives being tossed
around this week in regard
to tonight’s matchup be
tween No. 23 Oregon (15-3
overall, 6-1 Pacific-10 Con
ference) and No. 9 Arizona
(17-4,6-1).
But no matter how you
phrase it, one thing is clear:
Both teams will meet at the
McKale Center in Tucson,
Ariz., at 5:35 p.m., and
when the night is over, one
of them will not be in first
place.
Oregon has to go back to
the year 1954 to find a time
when it was tied or had sole
possession of first place this
late in the year. But after
sweeping the L.A. schools
at McArthur Court last
weekend, the Ducks face a
daunting four-game road
trip that takes them through
Arizona and then onto the
Bay Area the following
week.
“We’ve got a big road
trip,” said senior point
guard Darius Wright, who
had 17 points and nine as
sists against UCLA. “And
this weekend it’s going to
be two more tough games.
[We’re] going into these
games with a lot of confi
dence, [and that’s] good for
us.”
Confidence may be a
problem for Arizona, who
is coming off an embarrass
ing 86-60 nonconference
loss to Louisiana State. The
26-point loss marked the
worst Wildcat defeat under
head coach Lute Olson.
Despite the loss and a
drop in the national rank
ings, Olson takes solace in
the fact that the game did
not affect his team’s Pac-10
standing.
Turn to Basketball, page 9A
Emerald
Darius Wright directs the Ducks into the desert.