Sports Editor:
Adam Jude
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Assistant Sports Editor:
Jeff Smith
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Monday, November 12,2001
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Snapshots from
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PASADENA, Calif. — Click.
In this stadium with these teams on this No
vember afternoon, images worth savoring flowed
together as one, as if they were time-elapsed in
the ever-expanding list of unforgettable Oregon games.
Which is why the use of a scrapbook for all these
mental pictures proves crucial.
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Hakuna Matata
Joey Harrington, next to friends
and teammates Ryan Schmid and
Justin Pee lie on the sideline, has his
back turned to the field.
He can’t bear to witness UCLA
kicker Chris Griffith attempt a 50
yard field goal with two seconds left
that would give the Bruins a two
point win and send the Ducks home
with glum uncertainty about their
bowl future.
“I’m tired of watching those
things,” Harrington said.
He does sneak a peek at the end,
just in time to see the kick sail wide
right and deliver Oregon a did-you-ex
pect-anything-elser 21-20 victory at
the Rose Bowl that keeps the Ducks on top of the Pacific
10 Conference and in control of their own destiny.
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Seth McEwan, the gritty, hard-nosed junior defensive
end for the Ducks, watches the field goal bounce off the
ground and subsequently drops to his knees. With a face
red from pure exhaustion, he gazes skyward while lift
ing arms to the air and lets out a scream.
He then props himself up and hugs a distraught and
teary-eyed Mike Saffer, the Bruins’ 6-foot-5, 304
pound offensive lineman, who pounded into McEwan
and the Oregon defensive line during the 60-minute
trenches battle.
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Rashad Bauman joins about 20 of his teammates at the
game’s conclusion and sprints toward the end zone op
posite of where their locker room is located to thank and
celebrate with the thousands of Ducks’ fans who made
their presence felt among the 78,330 in attendance.
Bauman waves up at them. Steve Smith yells at them.
And Onterrio Smith slaps some fives with them. Bau
man, after around 10 minutes with the Oregon faithful,
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Oregon’s Josh Line (47) and Kevin Mack (90) celebrate after UCLA’s Chris Griffith missed the potential game-winning field goal for the Bruins. Line
caught the game-winning touchdown in the fourth quarter for the Ducks, who hung on for the victory in front of a crowd of 78,330 at the Rose Bowl.
Oregon wins one for the roses
■The Ducks keep hope alive for a
national title with a 21 -20 victory
over UCLA on Saturday at the Rose
Bowl in Pasadena
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
PASADENA, Calif. —“Never any
doubt,” Rashad Bauman said. “Wide
right all the way.”
Chris Griffith’s last-second, 50-yard
field goal couldn’t find the uprights in
front of 78,330 fans at the Rose Bowl on
Saturday, perhaps — even if it is a long
shot — setting up another Oregon trip
to Pasadena on Jan. 3 for the National
Championship.
“You’ll probably call me a bar, but the
whole time, we were saying ‘wide right,
it was going to go wide right,’” said Bau
man, a senior defensive back, after Ore
gon’s 21-20 victory over UCLA. “We
were so relaxed and so calm.
“And I was sitting in the huddle, and
I was like, ‘What the hell’s going on?
Why’s everyone so relaxed?’ As we
came up we were just laughing, and we
knew it would go wide right. ”
The Bruins — playing without star
DeShaun Foster, the nation’s third-best
rusher who was suspended for receiv
ing “extra benefits” — weren’t laugh
ing after their third straight loss
dropped them from a national champi
onship contender into the bottom half
of the Pacific-10 Conference.
The No. 7 Ducks (9-1 overall, 6-1 Pac
10), celebrating the 500th victory in
program history, now have three weeks
to prepare for the Dec. 1 Civil War
against Oregon State. A win in the final
game of the regular season would
clinch at least a berth to the Fiesta Bowl
for the Ducks.
Oregon vaulted to fourth in the Bowl
Championship Series standings after the
win. But there would be no talk of Ore
gon in the BCS now if Griffith, UCLA’s
junior placekicker, had made his first ca
reer 50-yard field goal attempt with two
ticks remaining on the clock.
UCLA got to the Oregon 33-yard line
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Harriers run to third at West Regionals
■Jason Hartmann finishes third overall at the Western
Regionals in Tucson, Ariz., and leads the Ducks
to a probable berth in the national meet
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
With a third-place finish at the Western Regionals on Sat
urday, the Oregon men’s cross country team will most likely
be heading to South Carolina for the NCAA Championships.
Only No. 2 Stanford, which finished with 37 points, and
No. 8 Portland (91 points) finished higher than the No. 18
Ducks, whose 112 points on the 10,000 meter Dell Urich Golf
Course in Tucson, Ariz., could spell NCAA.
Four ranked teams fell to the Ducks, including No. 14 Ari
zona State (fourth, 116), No. 13 Santa Barbara (fifth, 124), No.
20 Arizona (sixth, 135) and No. 28 Washington (seventh,
140).
Oregon’s All-American junior Jason Hartmann made a run
at the regional title and finished in third place overall with a
time of 30:57.6. Two Stanford runners led the field: Donald
Sage finished with a time of 30:43.4 and Grant Robison came
in seven seconds later.
Last year at the same meet, Hartmann finished as the run
ner-up. This year he was excited to turn in a sound perform
ance after a fall in the Pacific-10 Championship race that fea
tured many of the same runners.
“I thought it was a good race,” Hartmann said. “Strategy
wise, I wasn’t keying off anybody in particular. I just wanted
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Oregon’s Jason Hartmann placed third at the NCAA West Regionals.
Ducks topple WSU,
nearly take out UW
■Ann Westermark scores three goals in a victory over
Washington State and a tie with Washington
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
In the final two regular-season games for the seniors of the
Oregon soccer team, a weekend in Washington belonged to a
sophomore.
Ducks sophomore forward Ann Westermark scored three
goals as Oregon tied No. 13 Washington 1-1 on Friday, then
creamed Washington State 4-0 on Sunday.
With the win Sunday, Oregon achieved
its school-record eighth win, and kept alive
an outside chance for a berth in the NCAA
Tournament. The Ducks finished the regu
lar season with an 8-8-2 record, 2-6-1 in the
Pacific-10 Conference.
“We finished up on a good note,” Oregon
head coach Bill Steffen said. “We'll see if it
has an impact on the (NCAA Tournament) selection commit
tee.”
The Ducks had a chance to beat both Washington
schools over the weekend, but that chance was dashed
with three minutes to play in Friday night’s contest. After
Westermark scored in the 78th minute in Seattle, Oregon
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