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Monday, November 5,2001
OREGON
42
ASU
24
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Ducks use
passing game
to rout
Sun Devils
■ Harrington to Howry, times
four, provides Oregon offensive
punch against Arizona State
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
It must have been a rough Saturday
night for Keenan Howry.
After Oregon’s 42-24 victory over
Arizona State in front of 46,064 fans
j at Autzen Stadium, Howry moped
into the media room at the Casanova
Center with a look of disgust.
“I’ve never dropped two passes in
a game before, especially two touch
downs,” the junior wide receiver
said. “I’m pretty bummed out.”
Nevermind the nine passes Howry
did catch. Or the 126 total receiving
yards. Or the school-record four
touchdown receptions, which also
tied a Pacific-10 Conference record.
“I’m my biggest critic,” Howry
said, admitting that he was eventual
ly able to “laugh it off. ”
Such are the expectations of the
Oregon football team (8-1 overall, 5-1
Pacific-10 Conference), now in the.
driver’s seat in the Pac-10.
“It’s interesting because Keenan’s
probably dropped more passes in this
game than I’ve ever seen him drop in
his career,” head coach Mike Bellotti
said. “But he also had four touchdown
catches that tied a Pac-10 record. ”
The catches, of course, had their
source.
After throwing for a season-low 119
yards against Washington State last
! week—because the running game tal
| lied a school-record 446 total yards —
senior quarterback Joey Harrington
was able to let loose against Arizona
State, completing 19-of-32 passes for
319 yards. His six touchdowns tied a
school record (which he also tied
against the Sim Devils last year) and
his 72 career touchdowns (54 passing,
Turn to Passing, page 6A
Adam Jones Emerald
A Duck defender
tackles an
Arizona State
opponent as
another Oregon
player fights his
way into the play
in Oregon’s
victory over the
Sun Devils.
UO steps into driver’s seat with win
■ A week after they won with
the run, the Ducks air it out
against the Sun Devils and
now control their own destiny
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
The window of opportunity
was exposed earlier in the after
noon Saturday, and by the time
the evening rolled around, Ore
gon had flung it wide open.
Knowing that Washington had
defeated Stanford, Oregon took
the field at Autzen Stadium and
emphatically secured the inside
track to the Fiesta Bowl, beating
Arizona State 42-24 in front of
46,064 appreciative fans.
“We always want to control our
own destiny, ” cornerback Rashad
Bauman said. “We don’t like to
put our destiny in anybody else’s
hands.”
Entering the day, five Pacific-10
Conference teams had one loss,
including Stanford, which would
have had the advantage over Ore
gon in a tiebreaker.
After the day’s events were done,
though, the now-seventh-ranked
Ducks were tied with only the two
Washington schools at 5-1 in the
conference — and Oregon holds
the tiebreaker edge over both teams.
Should Oregon beat UCLA this
Saturday and Oregon State on Dec.
1, the Ducks would be guaranteed
at least a Bowl Championship Se
ries berth in the Jan. 1 Fiesta Bowl.
“There’s no slips. Can’t slip,”
Bauman said. “We fell once and
can’t let it happen again. Let it
happen again, and every dream
that we had will be gone. And I
don’t think this team is ready to
give up that dream. ”
The Ducks sure played like a
determined team Saturday.
Senior quarterback Joey Har
rington was throwing often and
setting records. Junior receiver
Keenan Howry was catching often
and setting records. And sopho
more tailback Onterrio Smith was
carrying often, and well, helping
sustain Oregon’s one-loss record.
In all, Harrington threw for six
touchdown passes, setting a new
Autzen Stadium record and tying
the Oregon record he set in last sea
son’s 56-55 win at Arizona State.
Howry caught four of those
scoring strikes Saturday, tying a
Pac-10 record and setting the Ore
gon and Autzen records for most
touchdowns caught in a game.
And Smith, starting in place of
the hobbled Maurice Morris, was
n’t as explosive as he was against
Washington State but still rushed
for 152 yards on 36 carries in a
workmanlike performance that
helped move the chains.
“Sure, let them try and stop the
run and well pass the ball, let
them try and stop the pass and
well run the ball,” said Harring
ton, who threw for 319 yards on
19-of-32 passing. “I have such a
fun time running this offense. ”
Don’t forget the Oregon defense.
After surrendering a Del von Flow- i
ers 54-yard scamper into the end
zone in the first quarter to start be
hind 7-0, the Ducks buckled down.
Harrington hooked up with
Howry for a 14-yard score and
four minutes later, dumped it off
to Smith, who raced in to com
plete a 22-yard touchdown pass
that gave Oregon the 14-7 lead at
the end of the first quarter.
It was then the Ducks defense’s
turn to make a statement. In the Sun
Devils’ first complete series of the
second quarter, they drove down
field and had a first-and-goal at the
one-yard line. But three unsuccess
ful attempts later, Arizona State was
forced to settle for a short field goal.
“Any time you get a first and
goal and you hold them to a field
goal, that’s a huge momentum
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Oregon’s NCAA Tournament hopes ended by Beem’s hat trick
■The Oregon soccer team can’t
win its eighth game and falls
to Oregon State 4-1 in Corvallis
on Sunday afternoon
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon soccer team was
picked to finish la$.t in the Pacific
10 Conference by the Pac-10 coach
es before the season started.
On Sunday in Corvallis, Oregon
State’s Lindsey Beem all but en
sured that the Ducks will end the
season in the conference cellar.
Beem scored a hat trick in Ore
gon State’s 4-1 victory over Oregon
on Sunday afternoon. It was the
Beavers’ first-ever victory in the se
ries between the two teams. The
victory kept Oregon State’s hopes
alive for the NCAA Tournament,
while effectively ending Oregon’s
chances.
Beem scored her first goal in the
match’s 11th minute. After an Ore
gon foul, Beem took a free kick and
drilled it into the upper right-hand
corner of the goal, past Oregon
goalie Sarah Peters.
Oregon senior midfielder Beth
Bowler answered with a free kick
goal of her own 12 minutes later.
She also placed her direct kick into
the goal’s upper right comer.
Oregon State scored its second
goal with only three seconds left in
the first half. The Beavers’ leading
scorer, Katie Henderson, sent a ball
through the Oregon defense to
freshman Jillian Nicks, who redi
rected it past Peters for her sixth
goal of the year.
“When you get a goal right before
halftime, I think that’s the best time
for you to score,
and the hardest
time for your op
ponent,” Oregon
State head coach
Steve Fennah
said.
The goal actual
ly sparked the
Ducks’ offense in the second half.
Oregon took only eight shots in the
first frame, but outshot Oregon
State 13-12 in the second period.
Despite the Ducks’ shooting
SOCCER
spree, the Beavers’ Beem continued
to dominate the scoreboard, sealing
Oregon State’s win with two goals
in the second half. Beem’s second
goal of the game came six minutes
into the second frame, as she head
ed in a cross from Emily Hughes.
Beem’s final goal came after Peters
saved a shot but gave up the re
bound, which Beem easily put
away for the game’s final goal.
“It was a tremendous team per
formance, and Lindsey Beem was
the icing on the cake,” Fennah said.
With the win, Oregon State
moved to 10-7-1 overall, and 2-5
in the Pac-10. The Beavers could
earn a trip to the NCAA Tourna
ment with a victory against either
Washington State or Washington
next weekend.
“I’d like to think if we won both
(of the next two games) we would
be one (of the teams selected for
the tournament),” Fennah said.
Oregon moved to 7-8-1 overall,
and 1-6 in Pac-10 play. Even if
the Ducks could earn a school
record eighth victory in
Washington next weekend, it
would not be enough to send
them to the NCAA Tournament.
Oregon will travel to
Washington on Friday and
Washington State on Sunday in
its final games of the season.
Peter Hockaday is a sports reporter for the
Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.