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Football continued from page 7 would probably result in higher ticket sales. Virginia Tech has sold out its allotment of tickets each year in seven straight bowl appear ances. Victories by Miami and Okla homa (the Sooners scraped by Ok lahoma State, 12-7) narrowed the race for the national championship, virtually eliminating Washington from Orange Bowl contention. So, most likely, the Huskies are Rose Bowl bound and Oregon State is headed to the Holiday Bowl. Which leaves Oregon... going where? Nobody will know until Dec. 3, when the BCS bowl bids are deter mined. The co-Pac-10 Champion Ducks may end up in one of the two. Hawaii Bowls. Last week, the Sun Bowl refused to choose Oregon for one of its two spots because the Ducks played in El Paso, Texas, last season. All Pac-10 bowls except for the Rose Bowl have the right to turn away teams that played there the previous season. The Insight.com Bowl in Arizona is not out of the picture, either. One possibility has the Sun Bowl trad ing its rights to Oregon to the In sight.com Bowl for a Big 12 team, sending the Ducks to Phoenix to face the No. 3 Big East winner, probably Syracuse. Or there’s Hawaii. Could it be that unranked UCLA or Arizona State plays in a better bowl than the Ducks? One week from now, Oregon will finally know its fate. Wrestling continued from page 7 “That threesome has put some fear in opponents and coaches,” Oregon head coach Chuck Kear ney said. “There’s no place to hide in the top weights.” Four other Ducks remained un defeated this season. Junior Eu We're excited about dominating today. Chuck Kearney Oregon head coach T j gene Harris tossed around the Car dinal’s Shawn Harmon for an 18-6 major decision while improving to 4-0 on the year. Sophomores Brian Watson and Tony Overstake both earned come from-behind victories at 133 and 149 pounds, respectively. Watson earned a two-point takedown at the buzzer to edge Justin Walker, 4 3. Overstake pulled away from Stanford’s Isiah Camp after a back and-forth battle for a 17-10 deci Men’s continued from page 7 practices last week after giving up 90 points in their road victory against Denver last Tuesday. The hard work paid dividends in the first half, as Portland State scored just 22 points. However, the Ducks could only muster 31 points in the opening half themselves due to the tight PSU zone defense, which forced 18 Oregon three-point at tempts in the first 20 minutes. Kent said he was surprised the Vikings played so much zone, but he helped his team make the right adjustments at the break. The Ducks struck quickly in the second half on a Bryan Bracey jumper and a Luke Ridnour trey. It would be the start of a 23-3 run that was capped by a Flo Hartenstein layin at the 9:55 mark to extend the Ore gon margin to 54-25. The Ducks took their largest lead of the game with 4:46 remain ing, after Jackson drained back-to back three-pointers to give his team the 71-38 lead. Jackson scored all 13 of his points in the second half. The Vikings would rally in the closing minutes and close within 15 at one point, while outscoring the Ducks 28-13 in the final 4:30. “In the end, we turned up the pressure a little bit, but I think by then they may have relaxed,” Port land State head coach Joel Sobotka said. “Oregon is talented and they’re going to be a better team in January and February than they are right now. They have new faces to feel their wav around and sion. Overstake is now 6-0 on the season. Stanford threatened to score at 165 pounds when the Cardinal’s John Garfinkel led Oregon’s Leif Williams 5-2 with only 44 seconds remaining. Williams then reversed Garfinkel for two points, then earned two near-fall points with 38 seconds remaining to win. “What [Williams] did tonight was a real positive sign,” Kearney said. “To snag victory from the jaws of defeat will help him turn that psychological corner. It’s just a matter of him discovering that he is a good wrestler.” Junior Shaun Williams closed out the match with a 10-8 decision against the Cardinal’s Nathan Pe terson. “We're excited about dominat ing today,” Kearney said. “But we need to work on opening up the match stronger. We've got to in crease our opportunity to score and work on being the aggressor.” The Ducks are now 2-0 in the conference heading into next week’s Civil War matchup with Oregon State. Stanford fell to 2-3 on the season, 0-3 in the Pac-10. those two Lukes are going to get better.” Freshman point guard Ridnour recorded career highs in points (12) and assists (9), while fellow freshman guard James Davis fin ished with 10 points. Freshman center Jay Anderson had four points, three rebounds and a block in 16 solid minutes of play. Oregon shot 46.8 percent from the field after a dismal nine-for-28 showing in the first half (32.1 per cent). The Ducks drilled 13 of 31 from beyond the arc, falling two shy of tying the team record for most threes in a game. Oregon didn’t score its first two point bucket until the 5:12 mark of the first half when Ridnour threw an alley-oop pass to guard Freddie Jones, who slammed home two of his 12 points. The Ducks didn’t seem too con cerned afterward about their spo radic offensive and defensive laps es throughout the game. “The important thing is that we keep getting better,” senior center Julius Hicks said. “As long as we win, I could care less. The offense will take care of itself.” Oregon gets right back at it Tues day night at McArthur Court when it finishes off the Portland combo with a visit from the Portland Pi lots. “There’s going to be nights [where] we’re going to be up and look great, and there’s going to be nights that we’re going to look down,” Kent said. “But that’s OK, because we have so much growth potential in this team.” 55 Is this "2 a good Qg day to ^ make a h decision? o < find out in the ODE Classifieds, every day! Eugene's Specialty Snowboard Shop 245 Blair Blvd. 349-0087 10% OFF with this ad! .snowtraders.com ODE ifcoriei ore archived on-line at www.daiiyemerald.com Ducks are going to the ?/? bowl! against Watch the Ducks play 7 on 7 ♦ in 7,^7 So do we. Get all the bowl news while it’s hot. Read Emerald sports coverage daily and pick up the Bowl Preview on Monday December 4th. 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