CLUB SP0RT5 BRIEF
The Oregon Club Sports hockey team
is going on the road this weekend to
face off with Bay Area schools Palmer
State and San Jose State.
“They’re ranked 5th and 6th in the
league. That’s just above USC, so
they’ll be pretty tough games,” said
defenseman Rob Starkey, drawing on
last weekend’s tough losses to the
Trojans.
The road games mark Oregon’s final
chance to hone its systems before the
Ducks host rival Washington at home
on Feb. 2 and 3.
In other action
The men’s club rugby team’s season
kicks into high gear with a trip down
to Stanford for games on jan. 26-28,
while the women’s volleyball team
travels up north to Beaverton for a
match on Sunday
Senior forward Brianne Meharry will start in place of Angelina Wolvert today.
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penetration at the same time,
which is a very difficult challenge
with how athletic they are.”
The up-and-down Trojans beat
Arizona 81-67 last Thursday, then
lost to Arizona State, 66-59, two
days later.
Guard Aisha Hollans leads USC
in scoring with 12.6 points per
game, followed closely by Ebony
Hoffman, who scores 11.5 points
per game.
On the season, some of the Tro
jans’ team statistics have been im
pressive. They have committed 31
fewer turnovers than opponents,
blocked 39 more shots and dished
out 63 more assists.
But USC shoots just 39.4 percent
from the field and 22.8 percent from
behind the arc. And, of course, the
Trojans more often than not come
up short on the one stat that matters
most — the final score.
Oregon found itself on the wrong
side of the scoreboard after losing to
unranked Washington State with
Wolvert and Dion out of the lineup.
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Center Jenny Mowe said that what
happened in Pullman., Wash., is in
the past.
“I could tell against Washington
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player, it's always a chal
lenge to get over that
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back is definitely a plus for
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State that something just wasn’t
clicking,” Mowe said. “Anytime
you lose one player, it’s always a
challenge to get over that. When
you lose two, it’s even more diffi
cult. So getting one of our starters
back is definitely a plus for us.”
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where they run the baseline and
throw all the lob dunks to him,”
Kent said. “We can’t just focus on
Clancy because they are a team
that tries to expose mismatches.
They pester you to death and the
key thing for us is not to lose our
composure.
“It’s going to be an absolute
war.”
Kent didn’t start Jones and
Bracey in Oregon’s win against
Washington State last Saturday,
and he didn’t rule out making oth
er changes on this trip.
“I just felt like I needed to ener
gize my team a little bit,” Kent
said. “I don’t have any problem
bringing those two off the bench,
or even someone else.”
A big part of Oregon’s prepara
tions this week have centered
around going back on the road af
ter dropping both games in its first
Pac-10 road trip. If the Ducks want
to keep alive any hope of a return
trip to the NCAA Tournament,
they must start winning games
away from the friendly confines of
McArthur Court.
“If we can steal two games on
the road, that’d be awesome for us,
for our conference record, for
everything,” Oregon freshman
point guard Luke Ridnour said.
“We’ve just got to go down there
and take care of business.”
Note: Tonight’s game is not tele
vised, but Saturday’s matchup
with UCLA will be broadcast na
tionwide at 5 p.m. on Fox Sports
Net.
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Laura Smit Emerald
Oregon senior Flo Hartenstein will play an important role against USC’s big men tonight.
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