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in the final drive of the game, and
on third-and-five with 0:43 left, Akil
Harris tried to get to the comer and
out of bounds, only to meet up with
Oregon linebacker Wesly Mallard,
who stopped Harris and kept the
clock mnning. Even with two time
outs remaining, UCLA head coach
Bob Toledo opted to let the clock
run down and give the game to Grif
fith, whose career-long field goal is a
49-yard kick.
“If he makes it, they deserve to
win,” Oregon head coach Mike Bel
lotti said after Oregon’s first win at
the Rose Bowl since 1995. “(But)
forcing them to kick a 50-yard field
goal, I felt good about our opportu
nities in that situation. Any field
goal over about 42 yards, in my
mind, is questionable.”
After UCLA quarterback Cory
Paus threw an interception to Ore
gon’s Steve Smith to end UCLA’s
^ previous drive, Toledo said he did
n’t want to risk turning the ball over
again to end the game.
“I wanted to kick a field goal,”
Toledo said. “It would have been a
great ending. (Griffith) has done it
before (in practice). He just hit it a
little fat.”
Paus finished the game with a
season-high 321 yards passing, de
spite two interceptions, including
one by Bauman.
“I expected them to go deep at
least once,” Bauman said of UCLA’s
decision to run the clock down.
“But I’m glad they didn’t.”
After leading 14-10 at the half,
the Ducks found themselves down
20-14 after UCLA’s Manuel White
scored a touchdown early in the
fourth quarter.
Acting as if he already had eight
fourth-quarter comebacks in his ca
reer, Joey Harrington led the Ducks
on a 70-yard drive to give them the
one-point lead at the 9:56 mark. The
big play of the drive was a Harring
ton pass to tight end Justin Peelle,
who stepped out of bounds at the
UCLA four-yard-line for a 34-yard
gain.
Three running plays later, the
Ducks were only three yards closer
to the end zone. But on the ensuing
fourth-and-goal, with the Bruins
defense stuffing the box, Harring
ton found senior fullback Josh Line
open for the game-winning touch
down pass.
“It was kind of a lob pass,” Line
said of his first touchdown of the
season. “It felt like it took forever to
get to me. I was just thinking,
‘Catch the ball, catch the ball, catch
the ball.’”
The score was Oregon’s first
since early in the second quarter,
when senior tailback Maurice Mor
ris scored on a one-yard rim to give
the Ducks a 14-7 lead. After sitting
out last week’s win against Arizona
State, Morris finished Saturday
with a game-high 129 yards on 14
carries for an average of 9.2 yards
per rush.
Harrington got Oregon on the
scoreboard in the first quarter on a
gutsy, six-yard option run. After
three Bruin defenders appeared to
have Harrington wrapped up on
the play, the senior quarterback
somehow ducked under the tackle
and dove into the end zone.
“Against an outstanding offen
sive football team, I thought we
played well enough to win,” Tole
do said.
In his first — and possibly final
— playing appearance in the his
toric Rose Bowl, Harrington said it
was an emotional win for him.
“It’s nice to end on a winning
note her6, even if it is the end of
our chances here,” Harrington
said. “It’s a great feeling to beat a
quality team, iri front of a nation
al audience. We know we have
some doubters, and a lot of people
jumped off ouf bandwagon when
we lost (to Stanford), but we’re
just trying to show people we
have the courage and the charac
ter to play.
“We’re still a top team.”
A top team that knows when to
relax and when to play.
Adam Jude is the sports editor of the
Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
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almost held off the Huskies for
what would have been the biggest
upset in Oregon’s short history.
But Washington, which stood
third in the Pac-10 before Friday’s
match, scored in the game’s 88th
minute to send it into overtime.
The Huskies’ goal came off a cor
ner kick from Melissa Bennett.
Vanessa Pierce headed the corner
to Nicole Martinez, who deflected
the ball into the net for her first
collegiate goal.
Oregon and Washington com
bined for 15 shots in two 15
minute, sudden-death overtime
periods, but neither team could
convert its chances.
“Washington is a good team, a
legitimate top-20 team,” Steffen
said on Friday night. “We've
proven again that we can compete
well with those types of teams.”
On Sunday, Oregon won for the
second time in three years in Pull
man, Washington. The win was
the second conference win for the
Ducks.
Westermark opened the scoring
in the 28th minute with a blast
from the top of the Cougars’ 18
yard box. The sophomore added
another goal 13 minutes into the
second half, when she put away a
rebound on a shot by midfielder
Sarah Denner. That goal sparked a
barrage of Duck scores, as senior
Chalise Baysa and junior Julie
McLellan both scored within the
next eight minutes. Freshman
Nicole Garbin assisted on Baysa’s
goal and senior Crystal David as
sisted McLellan.
“We're extremely pleased for our
seniors as well as the outstanding
weekend Ann had,” Steffen said
on Sunday. “We had very few laps
es today. Our kids played well and
our defense was the most integrat
ed it's been this season.”
The Ducks will now await their
postseason fate. Oregon would
most likely need to finish as high
as seventh in the conference to
earn a spot in the NCAA Tourna
ment. Oregon State ended with the
same conference record as Oregon,
but beat highly-ranked UCLA and
also toppled the Ducks for its two
conference wins.
If Oregon fails to make the post
season, Sunday’s match with
Washington State would be the last
in the careers of six Oregon sen
iors. Baysa, David, Beth Bowler,
Starr Johnson, Angela Romero and
Annie Murphy will have all
played their final seasons in Ore
gon uniforms.
Peter Hockaday is a sports reporter for the
Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com
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to be in the lead pack and be ready
to cover any breaks, and hopefully
be with the leaders at the end.”
Redshirt senior Adam Bergquist
continued his late-season charge
and finished in 11th place, as he
did in the Pac-lO’s two weeks ago.
In Saturday’s race, which featured
an even stronger field, he ran to a
time of 31:30.8.
“I felt good at the end, and tried
to pass as many people heading
onto the finishing stretch as I
could,” Bergquist said. “I knew the
score would be close point-wise, so
I made sure I ran smart and saved
some energy to move up late.”
All five scorers for Oregon fin
ished in the top-50, as did its sixth
runner, Noel Paulson, who finished
in 49th with a time of 32:52.7.
Following Bergquist was redshirt
freshman Ryan Andrus, in 27th
overall with a time of 30:06.2. The
other Oregon finishers were Brett
Holts (31st, 32:12.7), Eric Logsdon
(42nd, 32:40.1) and John Lucas
(55th, 33:06.5).
Lucas, who has been consistently
finishing with Andrus and Holts,
had a disappointing day for the
Ducks, but Logsdon was ready to
fill the void.
“I think the trademark of any
good team is when someone has an
off day, another person is right
there ready to step up, and Eric
Logsdon did that,” head coach Mar
tin Smith said.
The Ducks await today’s an
nouncement of the 13 at-large team
spots, when they should receive an
invitation to the national champi
onships.
Chris Cabot is a sports reporter for the
Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
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