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Monday Best Bet Baseball Playoffs: St. Louis at New York 5:18 p.m., FOX ——- - SPORTS EDITOR: JEFF SMITH Smittside@aol.com Ducks buck history in USC road victory Courtesy of The Daily Trojan Junior offensive guard Jim Adams (71), senior center Jeff Austin (62) and the rest of the seventh-ranked Oregon Ducks can stare down USC’s Lonnie Ford (25) and the Trojans in the Pacific-10 Conference standings. Oregon won at USC for the first time since 1994 — its Rose Bowl season. A walk with the winning team flSSfe afi8?f '•& HAKUNA ^MAIAIA JEFF SMITH LOS ANGELES — Come with me, folks. Let’s walk down the steps of legendary Los Angeles Memor ial Coliseum and step onto the side lines. Look up at the scoreboard. There’s only 2:14 to play in the fourth quarter and Oregon is hanging onto its precar ious 21-17 lead. The Ducks did have a somewhat commanding 21-7 lead at the beginning of the third quarter, but the USC Trojans have battled back and made it a ballgame that the Ducks are going to have to earn. So in these closing moments, Ore gon has to step it up and make a stop to prevent a potential blow to its Rose Bowl hopes. There’s Trojan quarterback Carson Palmer faced with a daunting fourth and-13 from the USC 25-yard line. The look on his face shows a young man who knows that for his team to have any hope at all to salvage this season, he is going to have to some how complete this first down. Now, look right there on the Oregon sideline. It’s Duck quarterback Joey Harrington, who can’t stand not hav ing control of what is about to happen next. He’s nervously pacing the side lines behind most of his teammates who are watching the play. Harrington’s pants are covered in red from the Trojans logo on the 50 yard line, but it may as well be blood after the beautiful battle he has waged throughout the game. Didn’t he re mind you of Mel Gibson’s character in the movie, “Braveheart?” The way he sliced through defenders with ease and how he always found his target. Back on the field, there’s Palmer dropping back, finding a receiver 20 Turn to Smith, page 9 ■Oregon quarterback Joey Harrington blasts the Trojans for 386 yards en route to another Pac-10 victory and another step toward the Rose Bowl By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald LOS ANGELES — Steve Greatwood smiled, mused on the question for a bit and said: “The tide has been reversed.” The Oregon defensive line coach, who coached the offensive line at USC in 1998-99, has been on both sidelines of historic Los Angeles Memorial Colise-. um. “This win is very satisfying,” said Greatwood, who began his coaching career as Oregon’s offensive line coach from 1982-94. “The Ducks used to have to beat the Trojans to salvage their season, and then today, it was the other way around. Today put us in a great position.” It certainly did, as Saturday’s 28-17 victory over the battered and belea guered Trojans kept the Ducks perched atop the Pacific-10 Conference with a perfect league record of 3-0 (5-1 over all). The win moved the Ducks up to the No. 7 spot in the Associated Press poll and the No. 11 spot in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll. The victory also marks the first time since 1970 that Oregon has swept the L.A. schools and its first win in the Coliseum since its Rose Bowl year of 1994. Meanwhile, USC (3-3, 0-3) lost to both Oregon schools for the first time since 1957. The team, which was picked by many to be Rose Bowl bound, finds itself in dead last after losing three straight games to Oregon State, Arizona and Oregon. Three teams that, it turns out, are much more dangerous to play consecu tively than say, UCLA, Washington and USC. “This was a terribly disappointing loss,” said Trojan head coach Paul Hackett, whose job is in serious jeop ardy. “I think the whole team feels aw ful.'” The Trojans started the game well af ter tailback Sultan McCullough — brother of former Duck, Saladin — took off on a 59-yard touchdown sprint to give USC the early 7-0 lead just two Turn to USC win, page 12 ii The Ducks used to have to beat the Trojans to salvage their season, and then today, it was the other way around. Today put us in a great position. Steve Greatwood Oregon defensive line coach Ducks come away from Iowa with mixed results ■The Oregon men put forth a solid effort at Iowa State while the women’s postseason future is uncertain By Robbie McCallum Oregon Daily Emerald In a sneak preview of things to come, the Oregon cross country teams achieved mixed results. The Ducks traveled to Iowa State for the pre-NCAA meet Saturday to look at the NCAA championship course, to scout out the competition and, more importantly, to have a chance to beat top-25 ranked teams. The men did just that, and in the process have almost assured themselves of an NCAA at-large bid, should they not automati cally qualify. Martin Smith’s squad finished eighth out of 53 teams at Iowa State with 382 points. The No. 18 Ducks beat seven other top 25 teams and should climb in the national polls, which are re leased every Tuesday. The Ducks were also third among Pacific-10 conference schools, behind top-ranked Stanford and No. 9 Arizona. Sophomore Jason Hartmann led the Ducks with a 30th-place finish, seven places better than his NCAA meet finish a year ago. His time was 31 minutes, 35 seconds over the 10,000-meter course. Senior Michael Kasahun was not far behind, finishing 36th in 31:41 seconds. The time equals Kasahun’s 10,000-meter person al best in cross country, which he also ran at the Western Re gional last season. Junior Adam Bergquist put in another solid performance at Oregon’s No. 3 spot. Bergquist, who is coming off of a redshirt season, placed 80th in a time of 32:14. Redshirt freshman John Lucas led a pack of the next three Ducks. Lucas placed 122nd in 32:33. Freshmen Brett Holts (32:36) and Noel Paulson (32:41) followed in 133rd and 145th, re Turn to Crosscountry, page 11 Emerald Sophomore Jason Hartmann finishes 30th out of 360 participants at the Pre NCAA meet.
