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Friday Best Bet Women’s Volleyball: USCat UCLA 7:30 p.m., FoxSports Net SPORTS EDITOR: JEFF SMITH Smittside@aol.com Ready or not, women play first hoops today i ne women s basketball team takes on RTU Clondica in its first exhibition game By Scott Pesznecker Oregon Daily Emerald By late tonight, some pretty impor tant questions surrounding the Oregon women’s basketball team may finally be answered. Can the Ducks win without Shaquala Williams? Which player will emerge as the new leading scor er? Can inexperienced point guards feed the post effectively? And how will the Ducks manage their depth at the guard spot? Oregon faces RTU Clondica, a nation al team from Riga, Latvia, at 7 p.m. at McArthur Court in the defending Pacif ic-10 Conference champion’s first exhi bition game of the season. The matchup provides the Ducks’ first chance to flap their,reconstructed wings in a game time atmosphere. “In practice we can read each other and know what we’re thinking, so we’re just excited to get out there and start playing,” starting point guard Kourtney Shreve said. “We’re getting a lot more confident Turn to Basketball, page 10A Oregon women’s basketball head coach Jody Runge was skeptical when a Pacific 10 Conference postseason tournament was established, but at least her Ducks will have an advantage when it finally arrives. The University of Oregon will host the first ever Pac-10 postseason women’s basket ball tournament, Pac-10 Commissioner Tom Hansen announced today. The 10-team, four-day event begins in March 2002 and will be staged annually on the campus of a Pac-10 institution. “Oregon is an excellent choice for the first tournament because of its history and in terest in women’s basketball,” Hansen said. “It should assure excellent atten dance and an exciting atmosphere for our tournament games.” The Ducks averaged a school-record 5,852 fans at McArthur Court in 1999-2000, the 12th-best mark nationwide. The Pac-10 Chief Executive Officers ap proved the men’s and women’s postsea son tournaments Oct. 23. The winner of the tournament earns the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Another losing night for slumping volleyball team Emerald Freshman Lindsay Murphy and the Ducks couldn't muster a victory in Tempe, Ariz. as the Sun Devils swept them 15-8,15-4,15-7. ■ Oregon hits just .097 from the floor as the Sun Devils celebrate a historic night with a 3-0 victory By Adam Jude o Oregon Daily Emerald The bus to Success, U.S.A., just took a wrong turn, and the Oregon volley ball team is now lost in the desert. What could have been a momentous victory for the Ducks (9-13 overall, 1 12 Pacific-10 Conference) turned into a historic event for the home team Thursday in Tempe, Ariz. With a 15-8, 15-4, 15-7 sweep against Oregon, the Arizona State Sun Devils (16-8, 8-6) increased their chances of making the NCAA tourna ment for the second straight year and hit the record books at the same time. Arizona State head coach Patti Sny der-Park, in her 12th year with the Devils, recorded her 100th career Pac 10 victory. She is only the fourth coach in conference history to achieve that mark. “To get the 100 wins is a nice achievement, but getting 101 tomor row night against Oregon State will be even sweeter,” Snyder-Park said after the match. “We played great defense and just took control of the match from the beginning. If we can pick up a win tomorrow night it puts us in good po sition for the NCAA tournament.” Senior Amanda Burbridge, who has recorded double-digit kills in each match this season, led Arizona State Turn to Volleyball, page 9A VOLLEYBALL a We played great defense and just took control of the match from the beginning. Patti Snyder-Park Arizona State head coach _V Women’s soccer trying to buck history in season’sfinal games i ne Oregon soccer team will face two ranked foes this weekend in games they have traditionally lost By Peter Hockaaay Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon soccer team takes its show on the road, but it’s hoping to change the channel. This weekend the Ducks (4-13-1, 1-5-1 Pacific-10 Conference) will try to avoid the worst record of their five year history when they take on No. 15 Stanford (11-5-0, 4-3-0) at 7 p.m. today in Palo Alto, Calif., and No. 8 Cali fornia (15-2-0, 5-2-0) at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in Berkeley, Calif. Oregon has had problems against Stanford and Califor nia in the pas, and is a com bined 0-6 against the two teams. But the Ducks have never been blown out in those games. In three losses to Cal ifornia, Oregon has been edged by one goal each time. The Ducks dropped one-goal games to each team last year in Eugene. Oregon head coach Bill Steffen thinks his team can win this weekend’s games but will need to play with intensity for a full match to do so. “We’re going to continue our process of trying to de velop,” said Steffen. “We look forward to being com petitive in these matches.” The Ducks will have a few factors in their favor this weekend. One of those factors is a , \ Turn to Soccer, page 9A Junior midfielder Annie Murphy (14) and the Ducks will try to avoid losses in California this weekend. Dan Brunell Emerald
