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.”
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