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Overstake
continued from page 5A
“Because I have to go so hard to
win matches, it hurts my
wrestling until I am able to take
those mistakes out.”
Kearney said another key to
Overstake’s success as a wrestler
is his intelligence. According to
him, Overstake is able to make ad
justments as he needs to.
“When he is wrestling someone
who is extremely fast, he has to
make the adjustments,” Kearney
said. “He has to realize that fa
tigue makes cowards out of most
men. What he has to do is take
kind of a Prefontaine-type ap
proach to wrestling and as long as
the match takes, just keep going
the whole time,”
According to assistant coach Je
remy Ensrud, Overstake always
stays after practice or arrives ear
ly to spar with him or other assis
tant Rick Stewart.
“When I look for a workout
partner, I always look for him,”
Ensrud said. “He stays late and
comes early, all the stuff he needs
to do to win.”
The quality of coaching and
players at Oregon were two of the„
major factors that brought the
Medford native to Eugene.
“Working out with Stewart
and Ensrud has helped me,”
Overstake said. “Also having
great partners to go against on a
daily basis really elevates your
ability.”
Kearney agrees with Over
stake’s assessment of what it
takes to be successful. In the be
ginning of the season, Overstake
was pushing senior Mark Castle
for the starting spot al 141
pounds. Then, when Castle went
down with an injury, Overstake
stepped in and didn’t miss a
beat.
“As a coaching staff, we un
derstand that the ingredients to
a successful wrestler are a work
ethic and tremendous desire,”
Kearney said. “If a kid’s got a
good work ethic and desire, then
we can teach him how to wres
tle.”
But, Kearney and his coaching
staff saw more than just a good
work ethic and desire in Over
stake when they recruited him.
They saw a great wrestler.
Pac-10
continued from page 5A
he has played only a total of 30
minutes — less than two minutes
per outing.
The losses dropped UCLA’s
conference record to 3-6, which
means the Bruins must win six of
its last nine games just to reach
.500 and avoid its first losing con
ference record since 1948.
“It’s still possible,” forward/cen
ter Jerome Moiso told the Associ
ated Press. “But are we going to
keep messing around? That’s the
question.”
And part of the answer should
come tonight when the Bruins
host cross-town rival USC, a team
it lost to less than a month ago.
Lose again to the Trojans — a
team that was a’so swept by the
Bay Area tandem — and Farn
ham’s speech will have proven to
have the same type of effect that
his own play has on the team.
“There’s definitely no room for
error^. Watson said. “The excuses
are getting old.”
Put up or shut up time, indeed.
Braving adversity
No women’s player besides
Felecity Willis was as deserving
for Pacific-10 Conference player
of the week honors.
Arizona’s senior guard shot the
lights out at McArthur Court in
the Wildcats’ win against the
Ducks last Friday, pointing up
wards and tipping her head back
each time she racked up another
point.
No, Willis was not trying to
taunt the Pit.
She was instead saluting her
high school softball coach, who
had been on life support after suf
fering a heart attack Monday.
Willis found out that her coach
was dead after the game — in
which she contributed a 19-point,
eight-assist effort that would’ve
made any coach proud.
Against Oregon State a day lat
er, Willis dished out a game-high
seven assists.
The former two-sport athlete has
decided not to play softball this sea
son. A decision based on her desire
to improve her game and someday
have a career in die WNBA.
What’s up, Beavs?
The Oregon State women seem
on track to finish better than the
polls projected.
Both media and coaches polls
chose the Beavers to .finish eighth
in conference play. But after beat
ing Arizona State and losing to
Arizona in Gill Coliseum last
weekend, the state’s lovable losers
are lodged — for the time being —
at fifth in th<5 conference with a
record of 5-4.
The last time Oregon State had
five Pac-10 wins was in the 1996
97 season, when it finished the
season 5-13.
A key influence to the Beavers’
success has been Sissel Pierce,
who almost single-handedly
pulled her team from a 17-7 first
half deficit to beat Arizona State
last Friday.
Pierce’s eight blocks against
the Sun Devils broke the old
school record of seven (held by
Pierce), and her new career to
tal of 149 swats shattered the
career record of 143, held by
All-American Carol Menken
Schauclt.
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