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SEPTEMBER29,2000 VOLUME 102, ISSUE 23
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Chalise Baysa (2) and Beth Bowler (24), above, along with Ailyssa White, right, will try to lead the
Ducks past Florida State at home this weekend.
■The Ducks will play their fourth home game of the season on Sunday
against No. 21 Florida State
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon soccer team
knows what it’s like to com
pete against premier teams.
The Ducks have taken on
North Carolina, Duke and
Santa Clara — all Top-25
teams— in the past few
weeks.
The question that Oregon
head coach Bill Steffen is
asking is this: Will the Ducks
need more than experience
to beat No. 21 Florida State
at 1 p.m. Sunday on Pape
Field?
“We know the level,” Stef
fen said. “But we’re home.
We love to play at home. It’s
more comfortable for the
kids.”
So yes, the Ducks will
need more than experience.
They’ll need the Pape Field
advantage.
Pape Field doesn’t have
the fabled win streak of
Autzen Stadium, the rock
and-roll atmosphere of
McArthur Court or the hal
lowed tradition of Hayward
Field, but it’s home all the
same.
In fact, the Ducks have
won two of their three
games at home this season,
and have a 5-6 record in Eu
gene over the past two sea
sons. But perhaps the most
important win in Oregon
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(( We love
to play at
home. It’s
more com
fortable for
the kids.
Bill Steffen
Head soccer
coach yy
A miracle? Volleyball hopes for
upsets in LA.
■ In its first Pac-10 road trip,
Oregon must tackle two
nationally ranked heavyweights
in No. 4 USCand No. 5 UCLA
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
In search of its first Pacific-10 Confer
ence win of the year, the Oregon
women’s volleyball team is hoping for
an early Christmas.
This weekend, the Ducks (7-4 overall,
0-3 Pacific-10) head south to battle two
of the country’s elite teams — No. 4
USC and No. 5 UCLA.
“This is definitely our most difficult
road trip of the season,” head coach
Carl Ferreira said.
Friday’s contest features a Bruin team
that is undefeated in conference play (4
0) and 9-3 overall. UCLA holds a 31-3
series advantage over the Ducks, with
Oregon’s last victory coming way back
in 1987.
“When you play better teams, they
know how to put pressure on both sides
of the ball,” Ferrieira said. “They make
scoring points harder. But the good
news is that we have a lot of confidence
in understanding that we can play at
this level.”
UCLA’s Kristee Porter leads the con
ference in kills average with 5.37 per
■ • game, ami-is a'Candidate for the honor
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Kevin Calame and Dan Brunell Emerald
Senior outside hitter Amy Banducci (left), it second orv the team, with three .aces this season.
Defensively, the Ducks — (left to right) Monique Tobbagi, Banducci, Amanda Porter and Sydney
Chute — are averaging 2.3 blocks per game.