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No upsets: UO blown out by Pac-IO’s elite ■ The Oregon soccer team gave up 52 shots and 11 goals in losses to No. 7 UCLA and No. 13 USC By Peter Hockaday Oregon Daily Emerald It has become an all-too-familiar scenario for the Oregon soccer team: It takes on a top-25 team on the road, plays tough, but loses be cause of an inability to score. That formula described Friday’s match, but on Sunday, the Ducks simply got blown out of the water. Oregon lost 3-0 to No. 13 South ern California Fri day, with all three goals coming in a 13-minute stretch in the second half. Then the Ducks faced No. 7 UCLA Sunday, and the Bruins showed no mercy, scoring eight goals on 35 shots and embar rassing the Ducks 8-0 at Drake Stadi um in Los Angeles. The losses dropped Oregon ffom fourth to seventh in the Pacific-10 Conference standings. The Ducks are now 1-3-0 in the Pac-10 and 4 11-0 overall. Friday’s match with the Trojans was almost what Oregon had ex pected from the road trip. “We played at a very high level in the first half, but we couldn't con vert any of our chances,” Ducks head coach Bill Steffen said. “We kind of kept them in it.” Oregon played with USC in that first half, taking five shots to the Tro jans’ eight. But in the second half, the Ducks’ defense faltered, and USC rattled off nine shots while TV 1 T“T Oregon could muster only one. “In the second half, we tended to play to their style, which was to their benefit,” said Steffen. “After they scored the first goal, we lost our composure.” In Sunday’s match, style and composure were thrown out the window, as UCLA dominated Ore gon in every facet of the game. The Ducks had 12 shots in the game, but only four of those were on goal. Oregon let UCLA have 35 shots, and 22 of those were on goal. The Ducks gave up 10 corner-kicks and took only two, and even had one more foul than the Bruins. Not surprisingly, UCLA broke a few records in the process of obliter ating Oregon Sunday. The Bruins’ eight goals were the most against a Division I opponent in school his tory, and their 35 shots were also a school record. UCLA scored 11 goals on 49 shots in a match in 1993, but those marks came against Southern California College, a Na tional Association of Intercollegiate Athletics school. The loss was the worst in Ore gon’s four-year history. The Ducks have given up six goals on three sep arate occasions this year, and five times in their history, but have nev er given up seven or eight goals. In 1997, UCLA beat Oregon 6-0 in Eu gene, which was the Ducks’ second worse loss ever, at the time. Three seasons later, the Bruins dealt Oregon a loss that may stick in the record books longer than the first. The Ducks will take on Oregon State next Friday at Pape Field. Ore gon is 4-0 against the Beavers in four meetings, outscoring Oregon State' 12-2 in those games. The game starts at 3 p.m. Sarah Peters (1) and fellow goalkeeper Jeanine Norstad faced 52 shots in this weekend’s matchups with UCLA and USC. pWTVTWTVTmTmmTwyTTTTTmvvFFfmfffr Make a Pit Stop with Your Health Center See if your cholesterol is too rewed up! ^ University Health Center, Every Tuesday 9:30-11:30 Free Cholesterol Screening. 43 Carson Hall, this Thursday 11:30- 1:30pm Free Cholesterol Screening. Learn the nuts and bolts of your diet! & Student Rec Center, this Wednesday 3-5pm. Enter what you eat, the computer tells you what it’s worth. Ride the Information Superhighway with us! http://healthed.uoregon.edu/ 346-4456 i % Health Ed Program, University Health Center
