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
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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.
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