Wrestlers open season 2-0
■The Ducks defeat Stanford
and Cal-Davis on Saturday
to begin the year on a high note
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon wrestling squad has
started its season on the right track.
After soundly beating Stanford
on Saturday afternoon, the Ducks
faced Califomia-Davis in the night
cap and came away with win No. 2
of the season.
Head coach Chuck Kearney said
there was some nervousness head
ing into the first match against
Stanford.
“We still dominated and still did
a good job but were a little bit flat
in that first competition,” Kearney
said.
The team bounced back, though,
for the evening meet against Cal
Davis, allowing only three take
downs in all 10 weight classes.
Against Stanford, the Ducks were
taken down 10 times, while
recording 27 of their own.
“We wrestled with real good in
tensity and dominated in all areas:
on our feet, on top and on the bot
tom,” Kearney said.
Freshman Elias Soto at 184
pounds was the only Oregon
wrestler to lose his individual
match against Stanford. In all the
other weight classes, Oregon came
away with wins to bring the final
score to 29-4.
In the second meet against Cal
Davis, a 31-9 win, the Ducks lost
two matches.
Branson Phillips
was pinned by
Cal-Davis’s Jerim
iah Jarvis in the
157-pound
match, and Eu
gene Harris lost a
double overtime decision 2-1 to
Burt Pierson at 165 pounds.
Harris, a senior who wrestled at
157 pounds the last two seasons,
came out strong in his first compe
tition at 165 pounds. He led the
way for the Ducks with the biggest
margin of victory in the Stanford
match, an 18-9 major decision over
John Garfinkel.
Freshman Shane Webster came
away from the trip to Stanford
with his first two collegiate wins,
24-17 over Stanford and 18-12
over Cal-Davis. The other starting
freshman for Kearney’s squad,
Soto, rebounded from his loss
against Stanford to defeat Cal
Davis’s Bret Hallenbeck, 9-2.
“(Soto) made some freshman
mistakes in his first match that
cost him, and a lot of times when
you are young it is easy to let that
snowball into the second match,”
Kearney said. “He did a real good
job of coming back and competing
after a defeat, and had a nice win
against Cal-Davis.”
Jason Harless and Jake Leair,
both of whom redshirted last sea
son after competing as true fresh
men, won their matches. Harless,
wrestling at 133 pounds, record
ed a major decision (13-3) against
Urijah Faber of Cal-Davis and
beat Justin Walker of Stanford 5
3. Both Faber and Walker are near
the top wrestlers in the confer
ence in the 133-pound weight
class.
Other Oregon wrestlers who
won both their matches were
Shaun Williams at 125, with a ma
jor decision against Cal-Davis; Bri
an Watson at 141; Tony Overstake
at 149; and Eric Webb at the heavy
weight level.
Chris Cabot is a sports reporter for the
Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
Hockey sweeps UCLA
in consecutive routs
■ Mike Tornabene scores
four goals in Saturday’s
10-3 win over the Bruins
By Mindi Rice
for the Emerald
With the help of two hat
tricks and improving defensive
play, the Oregon Club Sports
hockey team swept UCLA last
weekend at Lane County Ice
Arena.
Following a
disappointing
road trip the
previous
^SPQteTSp y weekend, the
Ducks came
out looking for two conference
wins at home. Oregon scored
first on Friday night and took a
3-0 lead.
UCLA scored on a power play
in the second period, but didn’t
score again as the Ducks
stymied the Bruins offense. Ore
gon scored three during the
third period and won 6-1.
Doug Washburn scored one
goal in the first period and two
in the third to lead the Ducks in
scoring. Mike Tornabene had
four assists.
Saturday night was a different
story for the Bruins — at least
for the first few minutes.
UCLA gave Oregon and its
fans a scare when the Bruins
took a 3-1 lead in the first peri
od, but the Ducks came back to
tie the game at three with two
seconds left in the first.
Toward the end of the second
period, Oregon scored three
goals within two minutes to
take the 6-3 lead. The Ducks
went on to score four goals in
the third while keeping UCLA’s
offense in check. Oregon won
10-3.
Tornabene led scoring with
four goals and Nathan Vogel had
three assists.
Tornabene and Washburn
both had four goals on the
weekend. Oregon over-powered
the favored UCLA team in both
games. UCLA was shut down by
goalie Joe Fagliano and the
Ducks defense with four goals
Turn to Hockey, page 12
BCS
continued from page 9
Should Washington State lose to
Washington on Saturday in the Ap
ple Cup, the Ducks could lose to
the Beavers and still he guaranteed
at least a berth in the Fiesta Bowl in
Tempe, Ariz., on New Year’s Day.
Should the Cougars win, though,
Oregon would continue to reap the
benefits, from its win in Pullman,
Wash., and gain those bonus BCS
points.
“I don’t worry about that,” Ore
gon head coach Mike Bellotti said
Monday. “I don’t root for anybody
other than the Ducks. We need to
do the best we can to try and get a
victory in the Civil War.
“There are still a lot of what-ifs.”
Anything is possible in the re
maining weeks of the season, but
good teams need to lose to give Ore
gon a chance at sneaking up even
more.
“I don’t know how it all works
exactly but a couple of teams still
have some big games left,” quarter
back Joey Harrington said.
Florida is the team on the rise
with remaining computer-friendly
games against No. 21 Florida State
and No. 6 Tennessee. Miami has
reached the meat of its schedule
and after surviving a Boston Col
lege scare, now must tread through
No. 14 Syracuse, No. 16 Washing
ton and No. 18 Virginia Tech.
And then there’s the Big 12
teams in Nebraska and Oklahoma.
The Sooners have only Texas Tech
and Oklahoma State left, but then
must win in the league champi
onship game on Dec. 1. Okla
homa’s opponent in that game
will be decided on Nov. 24 when
second-ranked Nebraska visits
No. 15 Colorado.
As for Texas, it needs a Sooner
loss and a victory against Texas
A&M to play in the Big 12 title
game and keep its Rose Bowl hopes -
alive.
A good scenario for the Ducks
would be if they beat the Beavers,
and Miami (8-0), Florida (8-1) and
Oklahoma (9-1) all lost once, leav
ing Oregon possibly in a date with
Nebraska (11-0) on Jan. 3.
“We can’t really think about or
dwell on those games because it’s
not in our hands,” Bauman said.
“We let that slip away when we lost
to Stanford. If it’s two undefeated
teams left at the end, than they de
serve to play, without a doubt. If it’s
not, who knows.
“I’m definitely ready to go to the
Rose Bowl if they call, but whatever
one we get into will be the game
that wre deserve.”
Added Bellotti: “We know we’re
going to be in a bowl game, we just
don’t know which one, and obvi
ously we’re hoping to get to the
very best bowl game possible.”
Jeff Smith is the assistant sports editor
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be
reached at jeffsmith@dailyemerald.com.
Adam Amato Emerald
Senior tight end Justin Peelle, seen here against Utah on Sept. 8, said he thought the BCS had written the Ducks off for the national title
hunt. In the latest BCS poll released Monday, Oregon was ranked No. 4, just ahead of Florida.
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