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Best Bet NCAA Men: Portland St. at Eastern Washington 7:30 p.m., Fox Sports Net SPORTS EDITOR: JEFF SMITH Smittside@aol.com Duck women ready to rumble with Stanford Oregon senior center Jenny Mowe tunes up for Stanford’s —--BE.__I Adam Amato Emerald 6-foot-6 Carolyn Moos against Cal. ■Stanford is next on deck for Oregon, which rolled over California Thursday night By Scott Pesznecker Oregon Daily Emerald Enough middle-of-the-road teams. No more California, no more Oregon State. The Ducks want Stanford. And come 7 p.m. Saturday night, they shall have it. “I’m very excited to play Stan ford,” for ward Angeli na Wolvert said. “I’m very excited because we were ranked second. I stat ed that at the beginning of the year when I found out we were ranked second in the [Pacific 10 Conference] behind them. It matters a great deal to me. “I’m very upset about it and I want to go out and kick their butt.” Oregon (9-3 overall, 2-0 Pac 10) showed it was ready to host the No. 24 Cardinal (7-6, 1-2) by walloping California, 86-56, in front of 4,180 at McArthur Court Thursday night. Guard Jamie Craighead led the Ducks to a 46-26 first-half lead by draining 4 of 5 three pointers. Amidst a second-half display of so-so execution and overzealous officiating, the Golden Bears (4-9, 0-3) never recovered. The loss was California’s worst since an 86-54 setback to UCLA in 1998. “We intended to go inside early because we wanted to get their post in foul trouble,” said Craighead, who finished with 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting. “They weren’t really guarding us outside, and when we start ed hitting some they weren’t finding us. “We’re trying to take every game one at a time. Cal was the next team on the schedule; we knew they were going to be a good team, so we tried to stop them early and make it apparent that we were going to beat them.” While Oregon was busy romping the Bears, Stanford — now the next team on the list — fell on its face in Corvallis, losing to Oregon State 81-65. Another Duck win on Satur day would knock the Cardinal down to 1-3 in conference play; not a promising start if Stanford plans on living up to its preseason billing. “Their loss at Oregon State is just going to be fire under their butt,” Wolvert said. “They’re going to want to come out and win. You don’t go on a road trip and be ranked first or second in the Pac-10 and lose one of them. “They’re definitely going to come in here and look to beat us. Especially because we’re ranked second in the Pac-10.” Oregon must rebound better if it is to get the best of Stan ford. California outrebounded the Ducks 32-26 overall, 16-9 on the offensive glass. However, Turn to Women’s win, page 9 Women can t miss from outside ■Junior guard Jamie Craighead, the top three-point shooter in the Pac-10, leads the Ducks with a hot first half By Adam Jude Oregon Daily Emerald Three ball, corner pocket. Swish. Roar. Now repeat... seven times. Heading into Thursday night’s Pacific-10 Conference women’s basketball matchup, first year California head coach Caren Horstmeyer stressed to her team that if Oregon was going to win, it would have to do it from behind the arc. Whoops. Wrong strategy, coach. The No. 20 Ducks (9-3 overall, 2-0 Pac-10) opened the game early with the long ball, and did not look back en route to a 86-56 victory that certainly pleased the 4,180 fans at McArthur Court. In the span of five minutes in the first half, the Ducks sank four three-pointers, three of which came at the hands of junior Jamie Craig head, who torched the Bears for 14 points on 5 of-6 shooting in the opening session. The Ducks drained a season-high seven threes overall. “We said that if they were going to beat us, they’d have to do it from the three-point line, but Jamie Craighead is not going to shoot threes,” Horstmeyer said. “She had five [attempts] in the first half. So we did not stay with our game plan whatsoever.” Although Craighead does not consider herself one of Oregon’s primary offensive weapons, she has proved to be just that so far this season. She is the Pac-lO’s top three-point shooter at nearly 46 percent, and has already surpassed her total from last year (32 this season compared to 30 last year.) “I’m not saying that I’m not someone we can go to,” said Craighead, who had 14 points. “There’s just going to be nights when different players step up and do that.” It seems, though, that Craighead has earned re spect around the league. “Craighead is a very, very good three-point Turn to Women’s, page 9 Ducks never find shooting touch, fall to Cal in Bay Area The Oregon men’s basketball team shoots 32 percent from the field and suffers a 78-62 By Peter Hockaday Oregon Daily Emerald In its first road game of the Pa cific-10 Conference season Thurs day night at California, the Ore gon men’s basketball team kept looking for Haas Pavilion’s hoop. The Ducks never found it. Oregon (10-2 overall, 1-1 Pac 10) made only 20 of 62 shots from the floor in its 78-62 blowout loss at the hands of the Golden Bears (10-4, 2-1). “This team took us apart tonight,’’ Oregon head coach Ernie Kenttold KUGN. “We lost our composure.” The Ducks started losing that all-so important composure with more than three minutes to play in the first half. That’s when Cal’s big men, sophomore center Nick Vander Laan and junior forward Solomon Hughes, started beating Oregon in the post. With 3:22 on the clock in the first half, the Ducks’ Chris Christoffersen threw a pass away for Oregon’s ninth turnover of the game. On the next possession, Vander Laan floated a shot over the outstretched arms of Christof fersen to slice Oregon’s lead— which had been as large as five— to one point. “We shouldn’t have let Vander Laan and Hughes go off on us like that,” Kent said. After Golden Bears guard Den nis Gates hit a three-pointer and forward Sean Lampley scored on back-to-back possessions, guard Shantay Legans hit an off-balance jumper to beat the halftime buzzer and give Cal a 38-33 half time lead. “We gave them too much mo mentum,” Kent said. “Even though they were only leading by five at halftime, we never really regained our composure.” Oregon scored only four points in the first 9:30 of the second half, as Cal went on an 18-4 run that would put the game away for good. The Ducks made only one field goal during that stretch, and missed 11. Vander Laan and Hughes com bined for 20 points, as Oregon’s big men committed foul upon foul while trying to stop them. Duck centers Julius Hicks and Flo Hartenstein both fouled out of the game, and forward Bryan Bracey played the final 10 minutes of the game with four fouls but never committed his fifth. “Chris and Flo could have done some more out there,” Kent said. “[Cal] dominated in the paint.” Kent will take some positives into Saturday’s matchup with No. 1 Stanford, which will be tele Turn to Men’s, page 12 We gave them too much momen tum. Ernie Kent Men’s head coach t)
