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Friday Best Bet MLB Playoffs: Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, Game 3 NBC, 5:08 p.m. SPORTS EDITOR: JEFF SMITH Smittside@aol.com UO soccer opens Pac-10 play this weekend ■ i ne Ducks will try to get ott on the right toot against the Arizona schools this weekend at Oregon’s Pape Field (( We’re trying to be better on the mental details. We need a good physical ef fort and a good men tal effort as well. Bill Steffen Oregon head coach yy By Peter Hockaday Oregon Daily Emerald For the Oregon soccer team, there is no preseason or postseason right now. There’s only pre-October and post-Oc tober. This month, the Ducks have already stood up to No. 21 Florida State and lost in their last preseason game, but now they start a second season of sorts. The Pacific-10 Conference season. Oregon opens up Pac-10 play this weekend at Pape Field against Arizona State and Arizona, two Pac-10 foes that stymied the Ducks last year. Arizona State beat the Ducks 2-1 last year in Tuc son, while the Wildcats played Oregon to a tie in double overtime. “It’s important for us to get off to a good start,” Oregon head coach Bill Stef fen said. The Ducks will start the season against Arizona State on Friday, and the Sun Devils should make that good start Steffen speaks of more difficult than he hopes. Arizona State has scored 32 goals and given up seven goals in 10 games this year, which has led to its impressive 9-1-0 record. Many of the Sun Devils’ goals have come from All-American candidate Stacey Tullock, last year’s Pac-10 Player of the Year. Tullock has 10 goals this year, making her the eighth most effec tive goal-scorer in the country with 1.11 goals per game. Turn to Soccer, page 8 Dan Brunell Emerald Sophomore Kristin Ferris and the Ducks hope to serve up some tough competition in a wild environment at McArthur Court against Arizona State tonight. UO volleyball hoping to find fate against Arizona schools Volleyball team wants its fans to create an ‘electric atmosphere’ for an advantage at Mac Court By Adam Jude Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon women’s volleyball team will be on the lookout this weekend for a rare sighting in McArthur Court: fate. As of late, the Ducks (7-6 overall, 0-5 Pacific-10) have not heard from the mysterious spiritual leader. But now would be a good time for it to make an appearance. If fate does make its way into McArthur Court for the two-game home stand against Arizona State and Arizona, it will likelv not bring Oregon its first Pacific-10 Conference win easily. In tonight’s matchup, Arizona State (11-4, 3-2) brings its unde feated road winning streak to Eu gene with some momentum. Last week, the Sun Devils defeated No. 21 Stanford for the first time since 1993. Senior Amanda Burbridge recorded 24 kills, 18 digs and four service aces in the Sun Devils’ win and will look to make her pres ence known against the Ducks. And that, on paper, is as easy as Turn to Volleyball, page 8 Dan Brunell Emerald Junior sweeper Starr Johnson and the rest of the Ducks’ defense will concentrate on Arizona State’s All-American forward, Stacey Tullock. Pac-10 football heats up with important contests ■The Pacific-10 Conference football season continues as teams try to position themselves in the middle of the Rose Bowl race By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald The ninth-ranked Oregon Ducks may not be on the gridiron this Saturday, but that doesn’t mean there is n’t Pacific-10 Conference football taking place. This is the point in the season where the con tenders begin to separate themselves from the pre tenders. Granted, the month of Oc tober just began, but if teams don’t begin to assert them selves now, it may just be too late to do so later on. Arizona (3-1,1-0) at USC (3-1,0-1) You can be sure that Ore gon head coach Mike Bel lotti and his team will have their eyes fixed on ABC at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. The Ducks get the luxu ry of checking out their next opponent from the comforts of their own homes in Eugene. While Oregon will be fo cusing its attention on No. 18 USC, the Trojans have much more pertinent prob lems to worry about. The Trojans are coming off a 31-21 defeat at the hands of Oregon State — the first time in 33 years that the Beavers had beat en USC. Now the Trojans must find a way to score against an Arizona defense that ranks fourth in the na tion in rushing defense, ninth in scoring defense and 20th in total defense. “This week, we play the best team that we have played so far this year,” USC head coach Paul Hackett said. “This is about the time of the year that we knew we had to pick up our game.” Arizona, on the other hand, is beginning to be lieve that it is a legitimate Rose Bowl contender. Last week’s 27-3 shellacking over the defending Pac-10 Champion, the Stanford Cardinal, has only bol stered such thoughts. “We have improved our selves markedly from a year ago,” said Arizona head coach Dick Tomey, in regard to last season’s 4-7 record. “USC is a team with pride and ability and I know we will probably face the best USC team that anyone has faced this sea son.” USC’s Sultan McCul lough missed some of the Oregon State game with a bruised knee but is expect ed to play. If he does, and the Trojan defense con tains Arizona freshman running back Clarence Farmer, then USC will win the game. But it will be close. California (1-3,0-1) at Arizona State (3-1, 0-1) The bad news for Ari zona State is that quarter back Ryan Kealy injured his knee in last week’s loss to UCLA and could be done for the year. The even worse news is that Kealy’s back-up, Jeff Krohn, is out with mononucleosis. But the good news is that third-string quarterback Griffen Goodman gets to pass against a California secondary that was eaten up by a so-so Washington State aerial attack. Should the Sun Devil re ceivers begin to click with Goodman, it mean a long day for California. But the Golden Bears’ defensive Turn to Pac-10, page 8
