Sports Editor:
Adam Jude
adamjude@dailyemerakl.com
Assistant Sports Editor:
Jeff Smith
jeffsmith@dailyemerald.com
Monday, October 22,2001
Oregon Daily Emerald
STANFORD OREGON
49 w- 42
Best Bet
Monday Night Football:
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6 p.m., ABC
Now s not
the time to
lose faith
£ / "W.1 wenty years from now, you
m will be more disappointed
m by the things that you
didn’t do than by the
ones you did do. ” ~ Mark Twain
Before Saturday’s game, he might as
well have been Superman.
In the first quarter of Saturday’s
game, he was nearly flawless.
As his desperation heave fell to the
ground to end Saturday’s game, he
proved fallible.
What do you say
when you have the
weight of a team, a
school, a city, a state
resting on your
right arm ... and
you fail? What can
you say when you
lose a game you
know you should
navt; wun, in yuui
own backyard?
Joey Harrington
satin front of a me
dia horde, an ice
pack taped around
his golden gun, and said little after a 49
42 loss to Stanford. Quiet and sullen, the
senior quarterback’s hoarse voice
seemed to barely reach the microphones
sitting just inches in front of him.
“We lost,” he said. “It doesn’t matter
how or why or who, we lost. ”
His mood characterized the end of a
dream season. A season that had the
Ducks playing for the national champi
onship and Harrington heading to New
York to receive the Heisman Trophy,
given to the country’s best collegiate
football player.
With Saturday went those hopes,
those dreams. No more Rose Bowl. No
more Heisman. No more streaks.
From here on out, though, the Ducks
must do the only thing they can: forget
Saturday.
Forget the consecutive fourth-quar
ter blocked punts. Forget the intercep
tions. Forget Stanford. Forget the
streak.
Of all the things Harrington didn’t
say after the loss Saturday, it was the
few mumbled words he did speak that
said a lot about him and the Oregon
football team.
Is the team’s confidence shaken?
“No.”
Where do you go from here?
“I’d like to think we can look this
week like we’ve got something to
prove.”
In a disappointed and frustrated
state, Harrington found, if only a tingle,
hope. He still has to prove the Ducks
can win consecutive Pacific-10 Confer
ence titles. Prove fourth-quarter mira
cles are still possible. Prove a No. 5
ranking was no fluke.
And it starts now.
Harrington celebrated his 23rd birth
day Sunday. Let’s call it 23 wishes for
the 23-game home winning streak, now
evaporated. Now make a new wish,
reach for the stars.
In the season of all seasons, now is
not the time to bow down or to lose con
fidence, no matter how shaken that
confidence may be. Now is the time
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Adam
Jude
Out in left field
Junior Keenan Howry returns a punt 69 yards for a touchdown in Oregon’s 49-42 loss to Stanford. On five punt returns, Howry set a Pac-10 record with 186 return yards.
Ducks deal with end of streak, tide hones
■ Oregon players react with shock
to witnessing their home-win streak
and hopes for a national title come
to an end at Autzen on Saturday
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
Maurice Morris had only participat
ed in nine of Oregon’s nation-leading 23
straight victories at Autzen Stadium.
But winning at home was all he was
used to. So, along with the 46,021 fans
who slowly marched home in silence,
Morris didn’t quite know how to feel af
ter the Ducks lost a wild, back-and-forth
contest to Stanford, 49-42.
“It was a lot different,” Morris said.
“This is my second year here and every
game I walk out of Autzen smiling and
happy that we won, but today I had that
feeling of walking out after a loss. It’s
tough, especially with it being in the
day and having all that time to lay
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Adam Amato Emerald
Stanford
running back
Brian Allen
(34) fumbles
the ball after
a hit by
Oregon’s
David Moretti.
Murphy’s two goals lift Ducks past Arizona, 3-2
■The Ducks beat Arizona State
in a dramatic fashion to earn a
split with the Arizona schools
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon soccer team had its
back to the wall Sunday after
noon in Tempe, Ariz. The chips
were down. There was no tomor
row.
Not until Annie Murphy
showed up, anyway.
Murphy, the Ducks’ senior
midfielder, scored her first and
second goals of the season — the
second in overtime — as Oregon
toppled Arizona State 3-2 in the
extra period. Murphy’s timely
goal earned the Ducks a weekend
split with the Arizona schools
and helped keep Oregon’s NCAA
Tournament hopes alive.
“It was a great test of character
for our kids,” Oregon head coach
Bill Steffen said.
The Ducks, who suffered a
comeback loss at the hands of
Arizona Friday night, almost
saw Arizona State come back on
them Sunday. Murphy scored
the first goal of the match at the
five-minute mark, when she
took a pass from senior forward
Chalise Baysa, dribbled through
traffic and beat Sun Devil goalie
Kristin Slater.
The teams played the next 60
minutes without a goal, before
Arizona State sophomore Patrice
Feulner scored her team-leading
10th goal with 25 minutes left in
the second half. Oregon senior
Beth Bowler made sure the lead
didn’t last, as she netted her fifth
goal of the season two minutes af
ter Feulner’s goal. Arizona State
knotted the game at 2-2 with only
seven minutes left, on Andrea
Waite’s point-blank goal.
The teams battled back and
forth in overtime, but Murphy’s
shot was the first to find the back
of the net. Twelve minutes into
the extra period, Baysa passed the
ball to Murphy, who slipped
around Slater and scored before
the Sun Devil defense could
reach her. Murphy was injured on
the play, and her status for next
weekend’s games is uncertain, ac
cording to Steffen.
“Annie had the best game of
her career,” Steffen said.
The ducks were denied an
Arizona sweep before they even
faced Arizona State Sunday. Un
der the lights of a rare night
game in Tucson on Friday, Ari
zona came from behind to stun
Oregon, 2-1. The Wildcats had
not beaten the Ducks in four pre
vious tries.
“Unfortunately, we came up on
the short end tonight,” Steffen
said Friday. “Arizona battled and
that’s the strength of their game.”
Oregon had the lead for a short
period in Friday’s contest. Baysa
scored her team-leading seventh
goal of the season in the 16th
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