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Mowe sat down next to Cook.
“It was a little scary at first, when she
walked down the aisle and everybody was
like, ‘I’ll bet you five dollars she’s sitting by
Ericka,’ and I’m like, ‘Shut up!”’ Cook said.
“And she comes and sits right by me, and
coach [Judy Spoelstra] goes, ‘Be civil to each
other now.’”
At first, neither player knew what to do.
First attempts at conversation were turbulent
at best, and mostly limited to asking each oth
er, “How long is this flight?”
Then, Mowe and Cook started joking
around. Then, they actually started talking.
Now, they are friends.
“We started asking questions, and answer
ing, and figuring out that we have a lot in
common,” Cook said.
“It took awhile to kind of break the ice,”
Mowe said. “But after awhile we were like,
‘No way, oh my gosh!’ So it should be fun.”
Thus, the most hostile one-on-one rivalry
between the Ducks and Beavers effectively
* came to an end.
But for all you women’s basketball fans
who were hoping to see some fireworks at
Saturday’s 1 p.m. Civil War at McArthur
Court, cheer up — there’s still plenty of rival
ry left between the intrastate schools.
Oregon forward Lindsey Dion has taken'
her share of blows in Civil War action. She’s
also dealt her share of maybe-accidental hits.
Just before halftime in this season’s first
Civil War in Corvallis, Dion and Beaver guard
Felicia Ragland raced from opposite direc
tions to recover a loose ball. The result was a
spectacular collision that landed Ragland on
the floor.
To say the least, Ragland was furious. She
jumped up, got in Dion’s face and gave her a
quick shove. Teammates separated Dion and
Ragland before the conflict could escalate.
Both players received technical fouls, but
Oregon won the War, 71-67.
“Words were exchanged, shoves were ex
changed, and that was it, our teammates
came,” Dion said. “It wasn’t going to be any
thing more than that, either. But it was defi
nitely a lapse of sportsmanship on my part,
and like I said, I don’t anticipate that happen
ing again.
“I’m not going to let someone take advan
tage of me either, so never say never.”
Since that game, Ragland has become the
Pacific-10 Conference’s leading scorer with
19.8 points per game, and she is a strong con
sideration for Pac-10 Player of the Year —
and she has her sights set on Oregon.
“It’s still fresh in my mind,” said Ragland,
referring to her run-in with Dion. “But we’ve
got to deal with it on the court, you know.”
Also in January’s Civil War, Oregon for
ward Brianne Meharry bumped Cook as the
two ran down the floor. Both players tripped
and fell, and Cook was whistled for allegedly
kicking Meharry. Needless to say, Beaver fans
were furious.
And who can forget the Civil War at the be
ginning of last season? Before that game,
Cook flipped Dion the bird as they crossed
paths in a hallway. Oregon players respond
ed with an inspired 68-51 victory.'
However, not all antics of recent Civil Wars
involved players.
In last season’s final Civil War, Oregon
seemed to, get some lucky breaks in the final
minutes as it tried to secure its first outright
Pac-10 title in history.
But the moment of controversy came when
Oregon State’s Reda Petraitis sank a three
pointer to cut the Ducks’ lead to 57-56 with
about 30 seconds left. An official waved off
the basket, ruling that the Beavers called for a
time-out first, and Oregon held on for the 60
53 win.
After the game, Spoelstra was furious
when she found out that official was an Ore
gon alum. The Pac-10 later reprimanded
Spoelstra for comments she made to the me
dia about the officiating.
“That was a very close-fought basketball
game,” Spoelstra said. “We felt like we did
n’t get any breaks down the stretch there, and
we hit that three-point shot to pull to within
one — that was taken away. You know, a lot
of weird things were going on.
“It’s not anything that we really talk about
or dwell on, we’re pretty much more talking
about Oregon State, what we need to improve
on.”
Not dwelling on something, though, does
n’t mean it’s forgotten.
Times have changed since last season.
Back then, Oregon was hoping to host the
first round of the NCAA Tournament. Now,
Oregon simply hopes to get invited.
But don’t think the stakes aren’t as high —
in fact, they could be higher than ever. The
Ducks have won four of their last five games,
while the Beavers are victors of five straight.
A win on Saturday could propel either
team to the Big Dance.
“It’s a guessing game when it comes to the
NCAA Tournament,” said first-year OSU as
sistant coach Stephanie Norman, who was
released from her assistant coaching job at
Oregon in May 1999. “They have so many
formulas to decide who it is who gets to go
and who doesn’t. We have not used it as a
distraction, we’ve just talked about postsea
son play as our goal, whether it’s the NCAA
orWNIT.”
No matter what the NCAA selection com
mittee decides, everyone knows that pride is
on the line when Oregon and Oregon State
rumble.
And perhaps it is that sense of pride that
has drawn light-hearted criticism from some
of Mowe’s teammates.
“Jenny is friends with Oregon State players
now,” forward Angelina Wolvert said. “We’re
all a little upset about this. It’s her prerogative,
but we want to go out and beat them.”
Emerald
OSU’s Felicia Ragland hasn’t forgotten about her
January run-in with Oregon's Lindsey Dion, either.
Mowe says she still looks forward to play
ing the Beavers,. “But not for the reasons that I
used to look forward to playing them,” she
said.
“We clicked,” Cook said about her bond
with Mowe. “I thought she was really cool.
She’s a great athlete, and I really respect her
now because I know where she’s coming
from.
“With her personality, she would fit great
with our team.”
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