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Best Bet NCAA Football: BYU at Colorado State 5 p.m., ESPN SPORTS EDITOR: JEFF SMITH Smittside®aol.com Oregon game to be shown live at Mac Court Oregon officials make sure that the Eugene community hasan opportunity to view Saturday’s football game as it happens By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald Fear not, Oregon football fans, there will be a way to watch a live telecast of Saturday’s 2 p.m. game against Washington State. And the only place in the entire state to view the game live is right here on campus. As part of an arrangement with Fox Sports Net Northwest in Bellevue, Wash., there will be a closed-circuit feed of the game beamed directly to five 9-by-14 foot projection screens in McArthur Court. Tickets must be purchased, however, in order to attend the football party. These tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. this morning and there will only be about 4,500 tickets available. Admission to the event will cost $3 for students and $5 for adults, and tickets can only be purchased at the Casanova Center ticket office near Autzen Stadi um. The office will not accept phone orders. As an added bonus, those liv ing in the University residence halls will receive the live game for free through their cable hook ups. The game will be tape-delayed and broadcast Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. on Fox Sports Net. Racking them up Week after week, Oregon just keeps finding a way to win. The Ducks win the defensive struggles, such as its 14-10 victo ry against Arizona Oct. 21. They outlast their opponents in the of fensive showdowns, as in last week’s 56-55 double overtime win against Arizona State. And where there are consecu tive wins, there are winning streaks. Oregon (7-1 overall, 5-0 Pacif ic-10 Conference) has won six games in a row in the season and 10 straight league games dating back to last year. A “W” this Sat urday in Pull man, Wash., against the pesky Washington State Cougars would mark the first time since 1948 that Oregon has won seven in a row. In fact, its six-game winning streak is tied for the fifth-longest in the country. TCU holds the longest win streak at 11. But don’t expect Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti to get too : caught up in all the numbers. He’s much more concerned with the final three Pac-10 games remaining on the sched ule. “If we don’t play well and be prepared to play, we know we can get beat,” Bellotti said. “This conference has great football teams.” Basketball to hold free scrimmage Hoops season is just around the corner, and today at 12:30 p.m., the men’s basketball team will hold a free intrasquad scrimmage that will be open to the public. The scrimmage will take place at Mac Court and will be the team’s final preparation before its exhi bition opener Monday. Student tickets to Monday’s game are cur rently available. ii If we don't play well and be prepared to play, we know we can get beat Mike Bellotti head coach Oregon football yy Oregon cross country cracks top-10 in national poll me uuck Harriers crack the nation’s top-10 for the second time this season By Robbie McCallum Oregon Daily Emerald First they like them, then they don’t. Now, the Oregon men’s cross country team is back on the good side of the na tional pollsters. The Ducks climbed back into the top 10 of the Mondo coaches’ polls. After being ranked No. 9 in the pre season polls, the Ducks plummeted to the No. 18 spot in the middle of the sea son. Two impressive finishes at the Pre NCAA meet on Oct. 14 and the Pacific 10 Conference Championships last weekend vaulted Oregon into the No. 10 spot. The Ducks leap-frogged Pac-10 rival Arizona in both the national polls and in the Western region polls. Arizona fell to 12th after finishing third at the Pac 10 Championships. Oregon is ranked No. 2 for the Western regional meet in Fresno, Calif., on Nov. 11. Colorado remained No. 1 in the men’s poll with 11 first-place votes. The women's team remained un ranked for the third straight week after beginning the season ranked No. 12. Brigham Young was a unanimous choice for the top women’s team for the third straight week. PR Watch After poor results in its first two 6,000-meter races, the Oregon women’s cross country team recorded six person al bests at last week end’s Pac-10 Cham pionships in Seattle. Senior Katie Crabb saw the biggest time drop. Crabb improved her 6k time from 21 minutes, 59 seconds to 21:25, good enough for 20th place. Sophomore Erinn Gulbrandsen and Turn to Crosscountry, page 8A Erinn Gulbrandsen (left), Laura Harmon (middle right) and Eri MacDonald (far right) were three Ducks who recorded personal records last weekend. Soccer squad underdog once more in final matches Dan Brunei! Emerald Senior A!lyssa White (6) will play in her last games as a Duck this weekend in California. ■The Oregon soccer team will take on ranked foes No. 8 California and No. 15 Stanford in its last two games this season. By Peter Hockaday Oregon Daily Emerald When the Oregon soccer team takes the field for the final game of its sea son Sunday, thoughts will be about 2001. The team the Ducks will play, eighth-ranked California, will be look ing ahead to the NCAA Tournament. So will Oregon’s Friday opponent, 15th-ranked Stanford. That underdog mentality may be one of the few advantages that the Ducks will have in this weekend’s games. Oregon will take on No. 15 Stanford at 7 p.m. Friday and No. 8 California at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Spank the rankings? Playing top-flight teams is old hat for the Ducks. They’ve taken on No. 2 Washington, No. 5 UCLA, No. 6 North Carolina, No. 11 Portland, No. 16 Florida State, No. 21 San Diego and No. 25 Southern California this season. *;.* - But Oregon hasn't beaten any of those teams, and has been outclassed in those matches to the tune of 33 goals. The Ducks have scored only twice on those teams. Oregon’s schedule, however, has prepared it for games exactly like this weekend’s. “We’re used to accommodating that level of play,” Oregon head coach Bill Steffen said. “If you’re used to playing [top ranked teams] there isn’t as much pressure.” This weekend’s games will mark the third time this season that the Ducks will face ranked foes in consec utive games, and the first time this sea son they will play three top-25 teams in a row. Breaking the trend The Ducks will try to break a five game winless streak this weekend in the Bay Area. Oregon only has two wins since opening the season 2-0 against San Jose State and Idaho. Yet somehow the Ducks have stayed Turn to Soccer, page 8A
