Water polo team finishes fourth in tournament
■The men’s water polo team
defeated Washington State
but lost to Western Washington
By Walker Hanlon
for the Emerald
Trailing by one point with 4.7
seconds left and a chance to tie,
the Oregon Club
Sports men’s
water polo team
couldn’t find a
way to score
and ended up
fourth place in
its division championship tourna
ment in Eugene.
The close loss came to Western
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Washington in the third-place
match. Oregon beat Washington
State and lost to Oregon State on
Saturday in route to its fourth
place finish.
The team kicked off the tourna
ment by facing Washington State on
Saturday. The Cougars dominated
early and led the Ducks 7-5 going
into the fourth quarter. But the
Ducks weren’t ready to give up and
came storming back to a 9-7 victory.
In Oregon’s second match Satur
day, Oregon State proved to be a
better team by taking advantage of
opportunities.
“We fought hard, but our shots
were just not going in,” team coor
dinator Anthony Tran said.
After going 1-1 on Saturday, the
Ducks faced Western Washington
on Sunday in the consolation
game. In the first quarter, neither
team could get a solid lead, but the
Vikings pulled away to lead 10-5
entering the fourth quarter. But
again, the Oregon men weren’t
ready to give up.
“We knew we could play better
than this, and we all decided to get
our heads into this game,” Tran said.
The Ducks shut down the West
ern Washington offense for the rest
of the game giving their offense a
chance to come back. The Oregon
offense scored four more goals dur
ing the quarter to make the score
10-9 near the end. The Ducks got
their final chance to win when
they forced a turnover with only
4.7 seconds left. Oregon took a
time out and then ran a last-second
play to Jeff Lee with the game on
the line, but to no avail as his shot
sailed over the crossbar.
“I was proud of my team to be
able to stay cool and not fall apart in
the closing minutes,” Tran said. “If
we had had that intensity the entire
game, it would have been a win.”
Oregon’s success was made pos
sible with help from the tough
play of Matt Baumann and Lee, as
well as goalie Aaron Hilsen. Fresh
men Sam Bilbro, Aaron Goldman
and Josh Leitner also performed
well during the tournament, Tran
said. The three freshmen should be
an important part of men’s water
polo success in the future.
Women’s ultimate
downs competition
The Club Sports women’s ultimate
team also hosted a tournament at
home last weekend and came away
on top of the visiting competition.
Competition included Western
Washington, Oregon State, the
Washington Huskies and Pacific
Lutheran University. The Beavers
were the only team that challenged
the Ducks, but Oregon managed
hold on to win.
Jordan full of air as Wizards fall to Knicks in season opener
By Frank Isola
New York Daily News
NEW YORK (KRT) — Michael
Jordan didn’t drop 55 on the
Knicks last night, although at
times he may have looked 55.
Especially when it mattered
most.
“I guess the biggest difference is
that I’m a little bit older than I was
the last time I shot the ball,” he
said.
Jordan ushered in Part 3 of-his
brilliant career by being upstaged
by Latrell Sprewell and Allan
Houston and suffering what fig
ures to be the first of many losses
along the way.
In his first game back in nearly
three years, Jordan was very un
Iordan-like in the Knicks’ 93-91
victory over the Wizards at Madi
son Square Garden. He scored 19
points on 7-for-21 shooting, com
pared to 28 for Sprewell and
Houston’s 22.
And Jordan was particularly av
erage in the final minutes with the
game on the line. At a time when
Jordan usually seizes control, he
was more clumsy than clutch.
In the last 3:25, Jordan missed
three of his final four shots, in
cluding a potential game-tying
three pointer with 18 seconds
left. He also committed two
turnovers and barely resembled
the player who led Chicago to six
titles in the ’90s.
“It’s just the first game of the sea
son,” Sprewell said after the
Knicks opened with a victory. “I’m
sure as we get along here and he
gets in better condition and gets a
better feel for the game, those shots
will go down.”
Jordan, 38, admitted that his knee
was bothering him in the days lead
ing up to his grand entrance, but re
fused to use it as an excuse for hav
ing as many turnovers as field goals
in the fourth quarter.
Jordan played 37 minutes and
was frustrated by the Knicks’
swarming defense. Sprewell
guarded him for most of the night
but tried to force the ball out of Jor
7 could never really find a
rhythm. I had good shots.”
Michael Jordan
Washington Wizards
dan’s hands with a double-team
and make his new Wizards team
mates beat the Knicks.
When you take into account the
months of hype, the national tele
vision audience, the demand for
tickets plus the celebrities and dig
nitaries in attendance, Jordan’s re
turn failed to match the buildup.
Jordan will need a few more
months to get his legs back and
will be a more dominant player in
March and April. The Knicks
should consider themselves lucky
that they’ll face Jordan again on
Dec. 14.
He showed glimpses of the play
er who is one of the greatest ever to
play the game. But he also had
more air balls (one) than dunks.
Instead, the best player on the
floor was Sprewell, who arrived
one hour before tipoff but was
timely in the fourth quarter, scor
ing seven points in the last 4:28.
“I didn’t steal the show,”
Sprewell said.
Houston, playing his first game
since signing a $100 million con
tract in July, had a strong start,
making 8-of-16 shots and grabbing
six rebounds. Kurt Thomas added
14 points and six rebounds and
Othella Harrington, a major disap
pointment in last year’s playoffs,
had 9 points and 12 rebounds off
the bench.
Washington’s best moments
came when Jordan was on the
bench. After leading by 11 in the
first half, the Wizards trailed by
six entering the fourth but scored
eight straight to open the quarter.
Washington was leading 79-75
before Mark Jackson set up Thomas
for a pair of layups. Sprewell’s
three-pointer gave the Knicks an 82
81 lead with 4:28 left.
Sprewell hit another jumper af
ter Tyrone Nesby had given Wash
ington the lead.
But on Washington’s next two
possessions, Jordan committed a
turnover and misfired on a jumper.
Jordan finally responded with a
15-footer with 1:38 remaining that
cut the Knicks’ lead to 89-88. But
when Jordan had a chance to tie it
with 1:11 left, his 20-footer wasn’t
even close.
“I could never really find a
Michael Jordan, guarded by New Jersey’s Richard Jefferson in an Oct. 22 preseason game,
scored 19 points as the Wizards fell 93-91 to New York in the season opener Tuesday.
rhythm,” Jordan said. “I had good
shots.”
Thomas then rebounded
Sprewell’s miss, which led to Har
rington’s two free throws with 34.7
seconds left that gave the Knicks a
91-88 lead.
Jordan threw the ball away with
30 seconds left, but Washington
got another chance when Thomas
foolishly dribbled into traffic and
lost the ball. Jordan went for the
kill but he could not convert a
three-pointer from the wing that
was Washington’s last chance.
“I think we are all surprised, I
know I was when that three went
up,” said Knicks head coach Jeff
Van Gundy. “I thought it was in.”
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