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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
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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
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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
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