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Wednesday, October 31 2001
UO defense surprises all in shut-down of WSU
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Adam Amato Emerald
Sophomore safety Keith Lewis, seen here against Utah on Sept. 8, and the Oregon defense surprised the top-ranked Washington State offense Saturday
in a 24-17 victory in Pullman, Wash. The Ducks held the Cougars to a season-low 322 yards of total offense.
■ By allowing the Cougars a season-low 322 total yards,
the Oregon defense proved its worth in Pullman
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
The scene at Martin Stadium was bleak, at best — and it
wasn’t because of the cold, dreary rain.
Most the 34,150 fans in Pullman, Wash., Saturday expected
the undefeated Cougars and the 6-1 Ducks to run up the score
board in a classic shootout.
But nothing turned out as expected Saturday, especially the
play of the Oregon defense.
Rashad Bauman joked with reporters after Oregon’s 24-17
upset victory after he was asked about his team’s defensive ef
fort.
“How many’d you think they’d score?”
jIOrP Sen*°r ^e^ens^ve asked with a grin.
C3H jimSUSm The so-called experts had to admit their
Of the responses to Bauman’s query, no
body predicted that the potent Cougar offense—ranked No. 1
in the Pacific-10 Conference prior to the showdown — would
only score 17 points against the Oregon defense, which was
ranked ninth in the conference.
“You would never have known (that Washington State was
the top-ranked offense) by the way we came prepared,” soph
omore safety Keith Lewis said at Tuesday’s practice.
Even more impressive for the Ducks (7-1 overall, 4-1 Pac-10)
was the lone field goal Washington State scored through three
quarters, and the 322 total yards the Cougs accumulated, their
lowest output of the season.
The result: Washington State’s (7-1 overall, 4-1 Pac-10) first
loss of the season and a logjam of five teams atop the confer
ence leaderboard.
“We came in knowing what we had to do — we had to beat
them,” junior defensive end Darrell Wright said. “This gives us
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Hamers
emphasize
running
as a team
■Jason Hartmann is not the only
reason the Ducks walked away from
the Pac-1 Os with a third-place finish
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
All-American Jason Hartmann has
been steady at his No. 1 position for the
Ducks, and redshirt senior Adam
Bergquist jumped up to finish second
for the Ducks at Saturday’s Pacific-10
Conference Championships, but three
other members of the Oregon squad
have been running
steady all season.
Sophomores John
Lucas and Brett Holts
and redshirt freshman
Ryan Andrus finished
out third, fourth and
fifth place, respectively, for the Ducks,
and the three have been consistent scor
ers for head coach Martin Smith this
season.
“We feed off each other, and every
race, somebody from the pack has had
a great race,” Holts said. “One day it
was John; one day it was Adam; and
one day it could be me or Ryan. You
never know. But somebody is going to
have a good day and the rest of us just
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Soccer still searching for elusive eighth victory
! Oregon freshman forward Nicole Garbin (in white) goes for a header against Portland on Oct. 3.
! The Ducks’ physical play this season has led to 16yellow cards, the most in the Pac-10.
■The Ducks are tied for last in the Pac-10, but lead
the conference in several important categories
By PeterHockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
So close, and yet so far.
The Oregon soccer team came oh-so-close to picking up
its eighth win of the season last weekend against Southern
California and No. 3 UCLA, but couldn’t notch a victory
against either team.
Eight wins is not insignificant to the
Ducks (7-7-1 overall, 1-5 Pacific-10 Confer
ence). Eight wins would set the team
record, and mark the official arrival, of
sorts, of a new era in Oregon soccer.
But the eight wins kept slipping just out
of the Ducks’ grasp last weekend, as chance
after scoring chance missed the Pape Field
nets for Oregon. The Ducks lost 2-0 to UCLA and 1-0 to USC.
Oregon will try for win number eight against Oregon State
in Corvallis on Sunday.
Beaver beat down
When UCLA escaped Pape Field with a closer-than-ex
pected 2-0 win over Oregon, the Bruins thought they could
handle everything offered by the state of Oregon.
Not so.
The Bruins headed to Corvallis Sunday, and what they got
was a rude awakening from the Oregon State Beavers. Ore
gon State — previously winless in the Pac-10 — handed
UCLA a 2-1 loss. The loss was only the second of the year for
the Bruins, who fell into a three-way tie for second in the
conference.
Oregon State’s victory had ramifications for UCLA in the
national polls. The Bruins dropped from third to sixth in the
Soccer America weekly poll, and plummeted from third to
fifth in the NSCAA poll.
Seeing red
One team in the Pac-10 was happy to see UCLA lose to
Oregon State. The Stanford Cardinal, undefeated in the Pac
10, took over sole possession of the top spot with the Bruin
loss. Stanford is 5-0 in the Pac-10, and 12-1-1 overall.
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