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Joey Harrington dives into the end zone for one of his three touchdown runs in Oregon’s 63-28 rout of Arizona on Saturday in Tucson, The senior
quarterback, who is now 19-2 as a starter, finished the game 15-of-24 for 279 yards with three touchdowns passes.
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Hakuna Matata
Squinting through the first four games and
into the fifth, the eyes kept looking for signs
that would help explain that single-digit
number that always precedes Oregon’s
name in newspapers and on television.
While the Floridas, Miamis and Nebraskas of the
college football world consistently put up scores
expected from a top-10 bunch, the Ducks kept do
ing it the Ducks’ way. Which is fine, of course, as
long as they continue to drench themselves with
anti-inflammatory liquid before they start playing
with the type of fire they’ve grown accustomed to.
One expected nothing different on a cool Satur
day night in Tucson, Ariz., where the Wildcat fans
and players entered Arizona Stadium brimming
with confidence and smelling a potential upset.
But there was something different about this
game from the get-go. It was raining. In Arizona.
Soon, the Ducks would be reigning, too. Reigning
as in 63-28, but more on that later.
The eyes first began to un-squint just a tad in the
first quarter when Oregon quarterback Joey Har
rington connected with tight end George Wrighster
for a touchdown. Then, after a gutsy completion to
Samie Parker on a third-and-17, Harrington lined
up for a third-and-goal at the one-yard line. He took
the snap, rolled right, faked an option pitch and
then dove like a duck in a pond into the end zone.
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Too hot: Ducks
cage Wildcats
■The Oregon offense finally lives up to the preseason
hype, racking up 607 total yards in Arizona
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
A statement has been made.
Considering that the Ducks struggled to beat a still-win
less Utah State squad last week, its surprising — and re
lieving to many — that the record books were brought into
play in Oregon’s 63-28 route of the Wildcats in Tucson,
Ariz., Saturday.
At 5-0 overall, the Ducks (2-0 Pacific-10 Conference)
have matched their best start in 37 years. With Texas (pre
viously No. 5) and Tennessee (No. 6) losing Saturday, Ore
gon moved into the No. 5 spot in the Associated Press poll
released Sunday.
Oregon’s 63 points also tied a school record for most
points in a Pac-10 game and the most Arizona (3-2, 0-2) has
ever allowed in a conference match. In 1998, the Ducks de
feated Stanford 63-28.
“A lot of people have been talking about us; a lot of peo
ple have been saying negative things, that we don’t de
serve to be where we are,” senior quarterback Joey Har
rington told the Oregonian after the game. “We wanted to
make it a point tonight to come out and put some points
on the board early.”
Offensively, the stars were everywhere Saturday.
Despite an interception in the Ducks’ first possession,
Harrington helped his Heisman Trophy status with six
touchdowns, three on the ground and three through the air,
in leading the offense to 607 total yards.
Maurice Morris and Onterrio Smith became the first tan
dem at Oregon since 1994 to both rush for 100 yards in the
same game. Morris finished with 110 yards on 21 carries
and one touchdown. Smith had 131 yards on 15 carries and
two touchdowns.
Redshirt freshman Sarnie Parker, starting in place of
Keenan Howry (who played sparingly with sore ribs), led
the Ducks with a career-high six catches, including a 38
yard touchdown catch in the second quarter.
“Embarrassing,” Arizona receiver Bobby Wade told the
Associated Press. “We expected to give Oregon a way better
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Oregon shines with Starr power to blow out Portland State, 4-2
■ Starr Johnson nets two goals for
the Ducks, who improve their best
ever starting record to 6-2-1
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
A Starr was born on Pape Field on
Sunday afternoon.
Senior Starr Johnson, the Oregon
soccer team’s long-time defender/mid
fielder, scored the first and second
goals of her career in the same game to
lift the Ducks over Portland State, 4-2.
Chalise Baysa scored her fifth goal of
the season, tying her for the most on the
team, and Beth Bowler added another
for Oregon, which extended its best
ever starting record to 6-2-1. The Pilots
fell to 0-9-2 on the season.
“I was tremendously happy for her,”
Oregon head coach Bill Steffen said of
Johnson’s pair of goals. “She’s a good
person, and you like to see good people
rewarded like that.”
Johnson’s first goal came midway
through the first half. In the 16th
minute, freshman forward Nicole
Garbin streaked down the sideline and
dished to Baysa near the goal mouth.
When Portland State goalie Gretchen
Pietras lunged for Baysa, the senior ca
sually flipped the ball to Johnson, who
netted the goal easily.
“I got my goal,” Johnson said. “I
wanted to get one, because I’m a senior,
and I haven’t put one in yet.”
Four minutes after Johnson’s goal,
Bowler put the Ducks up 2-0 with her
fourth goal of the season, a rocket of a
shot from 20 yards that slipped in the
bottom left corner of the net.
In the second half, Johnson again
wasted little time in scoring her second
goal. Six minutes into the second frame,
Johnson dribbled the ball at the top of
the 18-yard box, turned in traffic and
fired a shot into the lower left corner
past Pietras.
Baysa added a goal three minutes lat
er on a bizarre play, when her shot off a
corner kick was saved by Pietras — but
on the wrong side of the endline. The
referee called a goal on the play.
Johnson had a chance to score a hat
trick before leaving the game for good.
With 35 minutes left in the game, John
son took a shot that from 10 feet that
beat Pietras, but hit the cross bar.
When Steffen yanked his starters short
ly after Baysa’s goal, Portland State domi
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Starr Johnson (12, in white) scored the first two goals of her four-year Oregon career Sunday against Portland State.