Women harriers end season quietly at regionals
■The end of the road has come
for the women’s cross country
team with a 12th-place finish
at the Western Regionals
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
It’s all over.
After finishing 12th at the West
ern Regional Championships in
Tucson, Ariz., the Oregon women’s
cross country team will not ad
vance to the NCAA Champi
onships later this season.
If the Ducks had finished in the
top two they would have automati
cally received an invitation, but
the competition was fierce and in
cluded five top-25 teams in the 23
team race.
No. 1 Stanford won the regionals
with 39 points and was followed
by No. 8 Arizona (second, 81
points), No. 11 Arizona State
(third, 85), No. 24 Washington
(fourth, 118) and No. 17 UCLA
(fifth, 164).
Redshirt junior Carrie Zografos,
who was sick most of last week,
could not find the energy to lead
the team as she had done in every
race in which she had entered be
fore Saturday. Zografos finished
fourth on the squad and 97th over
all in a time of 24:25.8 over the
6,000-meter course.
Leading the way for the Ducks
was sophomore Laura Harmon,
who finished
45th overall
with a time of
23:07.1. The race
marked the first
time Harmon
had paced on
the Oregon squad, and she made
it clear that she was over the ill
nesses that had plagued her over
the past month.
“It felt good to finally get over
the health problems from the past
few meets: a kidney infection at
Furman (pre-nationals) and over
hydration and lack of electrolytes
at Pac-lOs,” Harmon said. “I felt
so much better at the end, it actu
ally surprised me how much I
had left.”
Junior Erinn Gulbrandsen pro
duced her best finish of the sea
son, placing second on the team
and 75th overall with a time of
23:59.5. Gulbrandsen said the ex
perience of three years on the
squad is starting to help her, and
that she was more comfortable
during the race Saturday.
“I got into the flow and started to
pick off runners all the way to the
finish,” she said.
The other Oregon finishers were
Magdalena Sandoval, who was
hampered by a quadriceps injury,
(78th, 24:03.7), Annette Mosey
(81st, 24:07.2) and Alicia Snyder
Carlson (125th, 25:07.5).
Head coach Tom Heinonen said
that his team competed well, but
that the race showed that teams
must be healthy in order to win
championships.
With an early end to the season,
the women have time to recuper
ate and get back to 100 percent be
fore the track season in spring.
Chris Cabot is a sports reporter for the
Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
Ducks still winless in Pac-10 after ‘senior night’ Civil War loss
■Athree-game sweep at
Mac Court gives Oregon State
the season series over the Ducks
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
Oregon volleyball had it all Fri
day at McArthur Court.
Oregon State was in town for the
second installment of this season’s
Civil War, it was “senior night” for
Oregon’s Julie Gerlach and
Monique Tobbagi, and 1,325 fans
showed up to cheer for the Ducks
against the rival Beavers.
At the end of the night, the only
tiling Oregon lacked was a win.
With a three-game sweep of the
Ducks (31-29, 30-22, 30-27), the
Beavers (16-7 overall, 9-5 Pacific-10
Conference) took the season series
from their in-state rivals for the first
time since 1997.
“This hurts even more because of
it being the Civil War and Senior
Night,” Tobbagi said after posting a
team-high 20 kills and earning her
26th career double-double. “We
thought we were going to get it
tonight. OSU played well and we
just didn’t step up.”
The Ducks (9-17,0-14) were in po
sition to take the first game from Ore
gon State, but couldn’t win the open
er. With four-point and five-point
runs, Oregon was dominant early,
jumping out to a seven-point lead.
But the Beavers were able to claw
their way back and eventually tied
the game at 27. A block by OSU jun
ior Michele Solomon and a kill by
junior Megan McMillan helped put
the Beavers in the driver’s seat. An
other block by Solomon and a serv
ice ace by senior Lori Daedelow
gave the Beavers a two-point win.
What could have been an impor
tant win for Oregon quickly turned
into a momentum-draining loss for
the Ducks. Oregon State’s seven
point run at the start of game two put
the Ducks away for good en route to
the Beavers’ eight-point win.
“Emotionally, it was a letdown to
lose game one and then see how
game two starts,” Oregon head
coach Carl Ferreira said.
Oregon began game three looking
like a top-25 team, as it jumped out
to another big lead over the Beavers.
At 10-5, the Ducks were in control,
but again saw the diligent Beavers
come back.
With the game tied at 16, two
Beaver attacks gave Oregon State a
lead they would not relinquish. Fer
reira’s squad could get no closer
than 28-26 before bowing out on an
Oregon attack error and a kill by
OSU senior Gina Schmidt.
“They executed better than we
did.” junior Stephanie Martin said.
“They were more prepared for us.
They wanted it more than we did. ”
A key to the Beavers’ win was
their ability to maintain two highly
successful runs on the Ducks. Early
in the first game, a four-point run al
lowed them to gain momentum.
Their seven-point run at the begin
ning of game two put the Ducks
away before Oregon could even
score a point.
“The repercussions of one play
three plays later has such an emo
tionally steamrolling effect unless
you have the mental ability to stop
it,” Ferreira said. “We talk all the
time about not letting your oppo
nent beat you twice. ”
Hank Hager is a sports reporter for the
Oregon DailyFmeraid. He can be reached
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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continued from page 9
then turns around and jogs toward
the locker room, but not before
dishing a little dirt on the remain
ing UCLA fans, who stand still in
shock that their Bruins didn’t
win.
"You see our crowd?" Bauman
said later. "Our crowd out there
was louder than their crowd!"
Click.
In the basement of the Rose
Bowl, just outside the Oregon
locker room, fullback Josh Line
emerges with a beaming grin and
a head shaking in disbelief. The
reality of having caught the win
ning touchdown pass to beat the
Bruins on the road and keep the
Ducks in control of winning
their wild league is beginning to
sink in.
"It doesn’t get any better than
this," said Line, who broke loose
from the line of scrimmage and
rolled to the right side of the end
zone on a critical fourth-and-goal
from the one and caught the go
ahead score. "I felt like the ball
wasn’t going to get to me."
Line then stops his racing
thoughts on the victory and hopes
his wife is doing OK back home.
After all, his wife is pregnant with
their child and, well, "Some peo
ple say that stress causes births
and I’m pretty sure she was
stressed," Line said. "My wife was
probably watching at home and
going crazy, and I hope she didn’t
have my baby.
"I hope I don’t come home and
I’ve got a baby in intensive care."
Click.
A few feet away from Line, over
in the corner and away from the
media spotlight, sits Oregon de
fensive coordinator Nick Aliotti,
whose defense held the Bruins on
that last drive on a critical third
and-five to force the 50-yard field
goal try.
You can forgive him if he never
wants to leave this position where
he’s smiling, chatting with friends
and just soaking up every bit of
the Ducks’ victory over the Bruins
in Pasadena.
After all, it wasn’t that long
ago, 1998 in fact, when Aliotti
was in the other locker room at
the Rose Bowl for the one season
that he was UCLA’s defensive co
ordinator before leaving under
not-so-friendly circumstances
with Bruins head coach Bob
Toledo.
Bill Moos enters the room,
takes off his coat, loosens his tie
and heads right toward Aliotti
and offers his hand. Aliotti
shakes it and gets up and gives
the Oregon athletic director a
hug. He then sits back down, his
face still one of elation, while
Nike CEO Phil Knight is heard in
the distance, exhaling, and say
ing, "Oh my!"
Click.
And then there’s Colleen Bel
lotti, wife of Mike, who watches
from the stands with mixed emo
tions as the last-second field goal
for the Bruins misses. She cele
brates with those around her
and, later, walks off the field
with her husband, whom she
says was “more fired up than
usual.”
But still, she felt Griffith’s pain
when he walked off the field after
booting the ball too short and too
right. She knows all about kickers.
Her son, Luke, is a junior place
kicker for Sheldon High, and just
over a week ago, he had knocked
through a field goal with 16 sec
onds left to give the Irish a 31-28
win and the Midwestern League
championship.
“You feel bad for him,” Colleen
said of Griffith. “So my heart goes
out to him because you’re either
the hero or the loneliest guy on
the team.”
She says these words at the
same time that her husband tells a
group of journalists just an
earshot away, “If he makes it, then
that’s an awesome kick. I can ac
cept that.”
Click.
The roll of film is almost up,
and you have to make sure to save
some pictures for the remaining
two “bowl games” of the season,
as Bellotti calls them.
First, there’s the Dec. 1 Civil
War. Then, there could be the Jan.
1 Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. Or,
as doubtful as it seems, things
could fall neatly into place and
the Ducks could be returning to
this rosy town on Jan. 3 to play for
it all.
One last snapshot:
It’s of Harrington. He’s gushing
over his first victory in the stadi
um he’s longed to play in. A re
porter asks what it was like to
play in the Rose Bowl for the final
time. He gives him one of those
Oregon Duck looks, one of those
don’t-underestimate-us looks.
“You keep saying that, and I’m
not buying it,” Harrington said.
“There’s a lot of playing left.
“Stranger things have hap
pened.”
Click.
Jeff Smith is the assistant sports editor for
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at jeffsmith@dailyemerald.com.
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