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keep working together.”
The team’s pack running strate
gy and the runners’ compatible
personalities aid in the success in
the team, Holts said.
“We benefit from each other
and learn from each other,” he
said. “Chasing down everyone to
gether — it’s more of an adrena
line rush.”
The group is steadily preparing
for the Western Regional Champi
onships on Nov. 10. Smith’s prac
tice routine is the same as it has
been since the first day of prac
tice, and Lucas described the
workouts as “business as usual.”
Running with a mission
Bergquist, a fifth-year senior
and the captain of the Oregon
team, has scored in only one oth
er race, a “B” squad race, this sea
son for the men’s cross country
team. Last weekend at the confer
ence championships he finished
11th overall and second on the
Ducks’ squad.
In his last year of eligibility,
Bergquist has yet to make it to the
NCAA Championships. Many
people thought last year’s squad
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great confidence.”
Holding the Cougars to 17 points
also moved the Ducks scoring de
fense up a spot in the statistical
rankings to No. 3 in the Pac-10, al
lowing 22.8 points per game. UCLA
is No. 1 at 16.4 points per game.
In allowing Onterrio Smith to rush
for a Oregon-record 285 yards and giv
ing up 446 total yards on the ground,
the Cougar defense moved from No. 1
against the run to No. 6. Prior to the
Ducks’ visit to the Palouse, Washing
ton State had allowed just 93 yards per
game on the ground.
The statistics, however, would be
irrelevant if the Ducks had not pre
vented a potential second-straight
fourth-quarter comeback. Down
two touchdowns to start the fourth,
the Cougars rolled up two scores in
the final 10 minutes.
“We had some breakdowns de
fensively in the second half that
were unfortunate, but we kept bat
tling back and kept them out of the
end zone,” head coach Mike Bel
lotti said.
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And with 1:36 left on the clock,
Oregon punted the ball back to
Washington State inside the Cougar
20-yard-line. Quarterback Jason
Gesser drove the Cougs to the Ore
gon eight-yard-line to set up a po
tential overtime thriller.
But with two seconds remaining
in the game, Oregon linebacker
Wesly Mallard, covering Washing
ton State’s 6-foot-6 receiver Mike
Bush, broke up a fade-pass into the
comer of the end zone, securing the
Oregon victory.
“I give a lot of credit to Wes Mal
lard,” Bellotti said. “He did a great
job.
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should have received an invita
tion, but the Ducks were withheld
from the race much to the disap
pointment of the runners.
“We benefit from
each other and leam
from each other.”
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crosscountry runner
“Adam’s whole career here he
hasn’t been able to make it to the
show, or nationals, and last year
we were denied, so he is on a mis
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the Oregon defense? Try Arizona
State, statistically the fourth-best of
fense in the conference. Not to men
tion Jeff Krohn, who has taken over
Gesser’s former title as the most effi
cient passer in the Pac-10.
Mallard, however, said the Ducks
are more concerned about Sun Dev
il tailback Delvon Flowers, who is
averaging 87 yards per game this
season.
“We have the same game plan,
which is to stop the run,” Mallard
said. “I think we showed (against
Washington State) that we have
the potential to be a good defen
sive team. We feel we can do that
every week.”
sion to get there because it’s his
last chance,” Holts said.
Waiting for Regionals
After a performance at the Pac
10 Championships that the
women’s team would like forget
about, the Western Regional meet
on Nov. 10 will provide the Ducks
an opportunity to place a positive
punctuation mark on the season.
Laura Harmon is off the antibi
otics that she was taking for a kid
ney infection, which adversely af
fected her performance in the last
two races. Everyone else, other
than Tara Struyk, who has been
out the entire season, is healthy.
With Regionals still more than
a week away, the harriers have
plenty of time to think about the
Pac-10 race. Junior and top run
ner on the team Carrie Zografos
had what head coach Tom
Heinonen described as “an off
day” and said that she knows that
she can run a better race.
“It would be easy to blame our
performance on the temperature,”
said Heinonen, adding that he
knows Washington State, whose
runners also train in colder tem
peratures and weren’t used to the
heat of the Arizona desert, beat
the Oregon runners by a margin of
55 points.
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With UCLA falling in the na
tional polls, Stanford jumped to
No. 2 in the NSCAA poll and to
No. 4 in the Soccer America poll.
Stanford will need to get past
UCLA to win the conference
crown, though, as the two teams
square off in the final game of the
season in Palo Alto.
Fouling, Shooting, Saving
Oregon may be tied for last
place in the Pac-10, but the Ducks
lead the conference in a few ar
eas.
For one, Oregon sure can foul.
The Ducks pace the Pac-10 in yel
low cards, with 16. The team
ranks fifth in the conference in
fouls per game, as they average
12.27 fouls per game.
Oregon sure can shoot, too. The
Ducks average 19.67 shots per
game, which ranks just behind
UCLA (21.6 per game) for the
conference lead.
Finally, Oregon sure can save
legitimate scoring opportunities.
The team ranks second in the
conference with 5.2 saves per
game. Junior goalkeeper Sarah
Peters ranks third in the Pac-10 in
saves and saves per game, and
ranks eighth in the Pac-10 in
shutouts.
Believe in Baysa
With three assists and a goal
against the Arizona schools two
weekends ago, Oregon senior for
ward Chalise Baysa moved into a
virtual lock to be the team’s points
leader this season.
If she hangs on, Baysa will be
the first Oregon player ever to lead
the team in points in all of her four
seasons in a Ducks uniform.
When Baysa was introduced
over the loudspeaker at a ceremo
ny honoring Oregon’s seniors Sun
day, the announcer said she was
“perhaps the best Oregon player of
all time.”
Among Baysa’s notable achieve
ments: She is the school’s all-time
goals and points leader, she is the
career leader in shots, she is the
career leader in game-winning
goals and she has missed only one
start in four years.