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UO wrestling drops close one
■ Overtime matches are key
as Boise State beats the Ducks
at their own game
By Robbie McCallum
Oregon Daily Emerald
When two squads are evenly
matched in almost every aspect, the
little things deter
mine a winner.
The Boise State
wrestling team’s
poise in the final
seconds proved to
be the difference
against a similar Oregon squad.
No. 11 Boise State and No. 12
Oregon were so evenly matched
that each bout went down to a de
cision by less than four points. The
outcome of every match was in
doubt until the third period or over
time, which is where the Broncos
edged the Ducks.
“They have a style that took us
out of ours,” Oregon head coach
Chuck Kearney said. “But the bot
tom line is in the matches we lost
we got out-toughed. At some point
you've got to dig down and find a
way to win.”
Of the six matches won by Boise
State, three were overtime battles,
four more were tied going into the
final period.
The heart of Oregon’s lineup
from 184 pounds to 133 pounds,
which was a combined 104-29
coming into the match, was dealt a
major blow by Boise State. After six
matches, Boise State led 15-6 with
the Ducks’ best wrestlers behind
them.
“We got pushed around,” Kear
ney said. “We didn’t stand up and
hold our ground. We let down a lit
tle bit and we can’t allow that to
happen.”
No. 7 Senior Doug Lee earned his
second straight win over No. 8 rival
Cash Edwards this season, winning
10-6.
“I wasn’t feeling too good coming
into the match,” Lee said. “But it’s
( ( They have a style that
took us out of ours.
Chuck Kearney
Oregon head coach
a big confidence builder to not feel
good and still pull out the win.”
Sophomore Eric Webb continued
his strong play this season, knock
ing off yet another ranked oppo
nent in No. 19 Bart Johnson. Webb
broke open a close match with two
slamming takedowns and a two
point nearfall to win 7-3.
“That’s the first time I’ve beaten
[Johnson],” Webb said. “I know he’s
not aggressive on his feet. It was
just a matter of confidence.”
The remainder of Oregon’s
ranked wrestlers all lost close
matches. Senior Chael Sonnen, jun
iors Shaun Williams, Eugene Harris
and sophomore Brian Watson all
dropped close decisions by less
than two points.
Boise State’s aggressiveness was
evident in the three sudden-death
overtime matches, where the first
wrestler to score points wins. The
Broncos’ Rusty Cook disposed of
Sonnen in five seconds at 197
pounds. Charlie Griggs scored a
winning takedown against Watson
in 32 seconds at 133 pounds. Boise
State’s Gabe Vigil earned defeated
sophomore Casey Hunt in 50 sec
onds with a takedown.
Sophomore Tony Overstake’s es
cape with less than a minute left
was just enough to edge the Bron
co’s Colin Robertson at 149 pounds
for three of Oregon’s 12 points.
Junior Leif Williams earned a vic
tory after Boise State had already
clinched the dual victory. Williams
evened his season record at 165
pounds with an 8-5 decision over
Casey Eager.
With the 18-12 loss, Oregon falls
to 7-4, 3-1 in Pacific-10 Conference
play. Boise State (2-2, 1-1 Pac-10)
now moves into the Conference
drivers seat.
“We’re still a work in progress,”
Kearney said. “When you haven’t
quite arrived as a premiere team,
part of the process is a little bit of
a choke. I’m hoping this is the
choke in our developmental
process. Physically, we’re in great
shape. Mentally, we’ve got to get
tougher.”
Up next for the Ducks is a road
trip to California for Pac-10 dual
matches with Fresno State and Cal
Poly-San Luis Obispo.
Women s track opens indoor strong
■ Freshman Ann Sullivan and
junior Endia Abrante post
strong marks for Oregon
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon women’s track team
opened up its 2001 indoor season
in dramatic fash
ion Saturday, fly
ing around the
Lane County Fair
grounds to earn
six wins in 12
events at the Eu
gene Indoor.
Among the most notable Duck
marks Saturday were freshman
Ann Sullivan’s personal best long
jump — at 18 feet, 5 1/2 inches —
and victory in the 60-meter hur
dles. Oregon athletes took victories
in the 50-meter dash, the weight
throw, the shot put and the pole
vault.
“A couple of our newcomers
stepped right in at the top,” Ore
gon coach Tom Heinonen said.
“We got a good start from several
of our returning athletes.”
Heinonen was particularly im
pressed with returnees Endia
Abrante, Maureen Morrison and
Niki Reed, who won the 50 meters,
the weight throw and the pole
vault, respectively.
Abrante, a junior, added a sec
ond-place finish in the 300 meters
to her previous victory in the 50
meters.
Heinonen said he was also im
pressed with newcomers Sullivan
and Rachel Kriz. Sullivan was the
only Duck to win two events,
while Kriz came within two inch
es of winning the high jump.
Oregon piled up seven second
place finishes as a team in Satur
day’s meet. On top of Abrante and
Kriz’s second-place showings,
Ducks were runners-up in the 600
meters, the pole vault, the triple
jump, the shot put and the weight
throw.
All told, Oregon had a first or
second place finisher in every
event in which it competed.
Oregon will compete next at the
UNI Invitational in Cedar Falls,
Iowa, Friday and Saturday.
Houston Texans hire first head coach
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* *nflwr***
By Michael A. Lutz
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — It’s not easy to get
the kind of experience that Dom
Capers has on his resume: success
fully building an
NFL franchise from
the ground up.
That was a big rea
son the expansion
Houston Texans
made him their
first head coach.
Capers, who took the Carolina
Panthers from nothing to the play
offs in two years, officially signed
a six-year contract with the Texans
on Sunday.
“We’ve visited with a number of
qualified coaches that we think the
world of and any one of those
coaches could have coached this
team and done a wonderful job,”
owner Bob McNair said. “But the
only one that had the kind of back
ground we were looking for was
Dom and that made him stand out.
“He’s been through the process
before with Carolina and putting a
staff together and starting an ex
pansion team is different from
stepping into an existing club.
There’s no way you can know how
much extra work goes into a start
up unless you’ve been there.”
Capers, who has been defensive
coordinator of the Jacksonville
Jaguars the past two seasons, will
have plenty of time to put his ex
perience to work. The Texans
don’t begin play until 2002.
“When you have a second op
portunity, the experience of the
first one you take and use that to
your advantage,” Capers said.
“Hopefully, you’re much better
prepared for the pitfalls you faced
through your first experience.”
Capers will earn $300,000 this
year, then begins a five-year con
tract worth $9.5 million.
Capers, 50, led the Panthers to
the NFL title game in their second
year in 1996 and earned NFL
Coach of the Year honors. In Car
olina’s first year, his team won sev
en games, the most ever for an ex
pansion team.
He was fired after the 1998 sea
son when the Panthers slipped to
4-12. Coach Tom Coughlin of Jack
sonville, also an expansion team,
then hired him.
“This has been a positive experi
ence for me to be in Jacksonville
and to study both franchises,” Ca
pers said. “Obviously, the first four
years, Tom and I were compared
almost every day. You come in and
it becomes a competitive thing.
“I think a lot of people were sur
prised when I came here as the de
fensive coordinator but I had a
tremendous amount of respect for
Tom and the Jaguars. You know
what you have to go through.”
Capers agreed in principle to
coach the Texans late Friday but fi
nal details of the contract delayed
his signing until Sunday.
Capers began his coaching ca
reer in 1972 at Kent State, where
he was a graduate assistant for
three seasons. He then had assis
tant coaching jobs at Washington,
Hawaii, San Jose State, California,
Tennessee and Ohio State.
In 1984, he joined Jim Mora’s
staff with Philadelphia and Balti
more of the USFL. In 1986, he fol
lowed Mora to the NFL with New
Orleans. In 1992, Capers went to
the Steelers as defensive coordina
tor, then to Carolina in 1995.