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way both times,” said Wright,
whose game-winning shot goes
down as one of the greatest in the
Ducks’ historj. “The big guys
helped, and the guards did a
good job switching. Everyone did
a great job on him. I don’t know
if he was tired or what.”
Oregon head coach Ernie Kent
said he noticed the Ducks’ sti
fling defense wearing on House
and effecting his play.
“He worked so hard, his shots
were short at times,” said Kent,
as he savored the Ducks’ first 20
win season in 55 years. “We
played him well because of our
ability to defend by committee.
“But as a team, they’ve gotten
so much better. They don’t have
to rely on him to score as much
any more.”
In the first half, it looked like
the game could come down to an
old-fashioned duel between two
of the nation’s best. Scales had 11
points at intermission and House
tied the game at 18-18, 20-20 and
finally 35-35 right before the half
with a big three-pointer.
If Scales thought he had a
point to prove, the message was
clear in the second half. Trailing
45-41, Scales made his first big
trey with 14:20 left.
Just moments later, with the
Ducks behind 51-49, Scales re
captured the lead, 52-51. He then
added two more jump shots to
give Oregon a 56-53 advantage.
But no shot was bigger than his
final three-pointer.
After House iced the Ducks
from the line, giving the Sun
Devils a 74-70 lead, Scales re
ceived a baseball pass from
southpaw Ben Lindquist and hit
a huge three that set up Wright’s
improbable game winner.
Scales said he was surprised
with the play Kent opted for at
that point in the game.
“I was looking at coach like,
‘Why are we doing this?’” Scales
said. “We had nine seconds left,
and we could have brought the
ball up, and had someone run off
the curl. But he called the play
for us, and it worked. I was fortu
nate I knocked down the shot.”
It was another vintage per
formance by the Ducks’ guard.
Scales has been on a tear as of
late, including a 30-point romp
in a key win at Southern Califor
nia last Saturday.
Scales said his teammates are
the major reason his confidence
is sky-high right now.
“As long as my teammates
have confidence in myself, I’m
going to have confidence in my
self,” Scales said. “It’s just a mat
ter of stepping up. I give credit to
my teammates.”
Brett Williams is a sports reporter for
the Emerald. He can be reached via e
mail at bwilliam@gladstone.
uoregon.edu.
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Similar production from
Moore wouldn’t hurt Saturday,
when the Ducks play what is, for
now, their biggest game of the
season at 1 p.m. against No. 20
Arizona (22-5, 11-4). The Wild
cats are currently 1/2 game be
hind the Ducks. The contest will
be televised on Fox Sports Net.
“Lindsey may well have given
us everything she can give us for
the weekend,” Runge said. “We
played her way too long, but we
just really needed a spark.
“It’ll be hard for her to come
back against Arizona, she’s really
limping. But if she can she will;
she’s a tough, tough kid.”
On the inside, Oregon was
again solid — and too much for
Arizona State (13-12, 6-9).
Collectively, the Ducks’ post
combined for 26 points, led by
Angelina Wolvert’s 12 points on
3-of-6 shooting, including a first
half three-pointer.
Obviously, Oregon also needs
more of that against the Arizona’s
Angela Lackey and Tatum
Brown.
“Our post players have a tough
job in front of them,” Dion said.
“They’ve got two very athletic
post players who can jump and
score with street-ball skills, they
can do the turnaround jumper
and the fadeaway jumper and all
that stuff, so everyone’s gotta
bring their ‘A’ game.”
It took overtime for the Wild
cats to shake overachieving Ore
gon State Thursday, 79-77. And
Runge was happy to hear it —
knowing that the extra period
won’t benefit Arizona’s stamina.
“They aren’t going to be able to
put as much pressure on as they
were able to put on last time [in
their 77-63 win at McArthur
Court],” Runge said. “Now the
big game, it’s a chance to beat a
ranked team going into the tour
nament.”
The Ducks made 16 of its 19
free throw attempts with 15 of
their attempts coming in the sec
ond half. Oregon also hit 65 per
cent of its shots and scored 38 of
its points in the latter half of the
contest, while holding the Sun
Devils to 24 on 30 percent sec
ond-half shooting.
The difference?
“It was just us coming together
and saying, ‘We’re not letting go
here, we’re gonna go for the jugu
lar,”’ Dion said. “We pulled it to
gether.
“If we keep that kind of mental
ity and we play with that kind of
intensity we’re going to be fine. ”
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