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Little Caesars'
Weekend Special!
Saturday & Sunday
Pac-10
Wrestling Championships
Hosted by the University of Oregon
At Mac Court
Tickets on Sale NOW
Students:
$7,00 per session
$21.00 for all four sessions
Adults:
$7.00 per session
$25.00 for ail four sessions
Call the Duck Ticket Office
at 346-4461
Tournament Schedule
Sunday, February 25
Session I: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Session II: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
(Semifinals, Round 1 Consolation)
Monday, February 26
Session III: 11:00am - 3:00pm
(Consolation Semis and Finals)
Session IV: 6:00pm - Finals
Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
Junior Eugene Harris lost just three matches at 133 pounds this season and could qualify for the NCAA’s at the Pac-10 meet.
Wrestling
continued from page 7
Sun Devil coach Lee Roy Smith
held No. 10 Kellan Fluckinger out
of the match in order to gain the top
seeding at the conference tourna
ment. Webb is 27-4 and has not lost
since Jan. 4.
The Ducks’ pair of 2000 NCAA
qualifiers, junior Eugene Harris and
sophomore Brian WatSDn, are also
predicted to be in the NCAA hunt.
Watson lost three Pac-10 matches
in overtime at 133 pounds, while
Harris lost three matches by a com
bined four points at 157 pounds.
Other Oregon entrants include
sophomore Casey Hunt (10-12) at
141 pounds, freshman Luke Larwin
(6-8) at 165 pounds and junior Leif
Williams (7-16) at 174 pounds.
Arizona State is the favorite com
ing into the match. The No. 11
ranked Sun Devils won the regular
season title and have three top
seeded wrestlers. The Ducks nar
rowly lost to Arizona State 22-19 on
Feb. 2.
Boise State, the defending con
ference champion, and Oregon
State are also in the running for the
team title. The Ducks split the sea
son series with the Beavers and lost
to Boise State 18-12 on Jan. 19.
The two-day tournament will be
divided into four rounds. First
round matches will take place from
12:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday, followed
by first-round consolation matches
later in the day from 6 to 9 p.m.
On Monday, consolation semi-fi
nals and finals will go from 11 a. m.
to 3 p.m. The lights will come
down for the championship finals
from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Ticket packages are available for
$25, or $7 per round.
Basketball
continued from page 7
shot long ball after long ball, and
that was when Kent’s proverbial lid
covered the hoop. Oregon went 3
17 from three-point land after end
ing the 18-5 run, and UCLA hit its
free throws down the stretch to win
by 15.
“We got a lot of open looks,” Kent
said about the Oregon drought in
the last six minutes. “It was just one
of those times that the ball didn’t go
down.”
Bruin forward Matt Barnes was
UCLA’s catalyst Thursday night,
just as he was when the Ducks trav
eled to Los Angeles earlier this sea
son. Barnes scored 21 points and
grabbed eight rebounds, almost
matching his 26-point, seven-re
bound performance against the
Ducks Jan. 27.
“He causes a lot of problems for
us,” Kent said.
UCLA forward Jason Kapono also
had a good night, scoring a double
double with 20 points and 13 re
bounds.
Kapono’s most important shots
came in the first half, when UCLA
cracked open a big lead on Oregon.
The game’s momentum had shift
ed toward Oregon when Lavin was
whistled for a technical foul after ar
guing an out-of-bounds call. Bryan
Bracey hit one of the ensuing pair of
free throws, and the Ducks were un
able to convert the next possession,
but Mac Court was rocking all the
same.
“I thought we came out a little too
worked up,” Kent said.
The crowd and the Ducks settled
down, however, as UCLA’s full
court trap forced the Ducks into
sloppy play and turnovers. At the
same time, the Bruins and Kapono
started to get hot on offense.
With 10:21 left in the first half and
the score 17-15 UCLA, Kapono hit a
three-pointer and scored four more
points in the next minute-and-a
half to put the Bruins ahead for
good, 26-19.
For the Ducks, Bracey scored a
double-double with 21 points and
10 rebounds. Anthony Norwood
pulled out of a recent slump to score
12 points and was the only other
Oregon player in double figures.
The loss puts the Ducks a step
back in their postseason hopes, but
the players are still optimistic about
making it to the NIT.
“Tonight hurts, but there’s no quit
in anybody on this team,” freshman
Luke Jackson said.
Oregon will take on Southern
California in the Ducks’ last home
game of the regular season Saturday
at 6 p.m. on Mac Court.
Men
continued from page 7
Barnes, who ended all scoring with
a monstrous windmill dunk.
The Bruins jumped out to an early
11-point lead, most of which came
from layins from offensive rebounds.
“Not all of our shots were falling,
but we had all those second-chance
points,” Gadzuric said. “I just think
we had a lot of great offensive re
bounding opportunities.”
Six minutes into the second quar
ter, the Bruins had their largest lead
of the game at 19 points. UCLA
thought it had finally broken the
Mac Court hex.
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Lavin said. “No lead is too big at
Mac Court. You know [Oregon] is
going to make a run. You just hope
to be able to withstand it. ”
That’s when Oregon started a run
that looked like so many other game
winning runs against UCLA teams in
the past. The Bruins’ corps of big men
who had been so effective in the first
quarter went scoreless for more than
six minutes of play.
Unfortunately, the run ran out of
gas.
“Their press fatigued our legs and
didn’t allow us to make those shots
we needed,” Oregon head coach
Ernie Kent said. “And that’s credit
to their big guys and their style of
play. Barnes and Kapono-made a
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“We ran around so much and
kept throwing bodies at them,”
Barnes said. “We’d be controlling
the ball for like 30 seconds. It takes a
lot out of a team.”
After starting the game strongly
and dropping off in the middle,
Barnes, Kapono and Gadzuric all fin
ished the game strongly, hitting key
free throws. Kapono went eight-for
nine from the free-throw line to put a
dagger in Oregon’s comeback hopes.
Barnes finished the game with 21
points, eight rebounds and three
steals, his highest output since
UCLA’s 98-88 win over the Ducks
on Jan. 27.
The win is-only UCLA’s^ third in
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