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Best Bet
College hoops: Cincinnati
at Oklahoma State,
6 p.m., ESPN
mday, November 16,2001
Senior Freddie
Jones scored his
1,000th career point
in Oregon’s
season-opening
92-52 victory over
Alabama State
Thursday night at
McArthur Court.
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Jones slams way into record book
■Senior guard Freddie Jones becomes
the 22nd Duck to score 1,000 points
in his career and he does so in style
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
Ernie Kent and Luke Ridnour weren’t surprised
to see Freddie Jones’ 1,000th career point as a Duck
come on a thundering dunk.
In fact, they both had similar feelings regarding
Jones’ high-wire theatrics for the record books.
“That’s Freddie,” Ridnour said.
Five minutes later...
“That’s Freddie,” Kent said.
Yes, that’s Freddie all right, as the senior became
the 22nd Oregon player to reach four digits in
points — and he still has nearly an entire season
games left to pad those numbers even more.
Jones finished with a modest nine points in Oregon’s
season-opening 92-52 rout over Alabama State on
Thursday night at McArthur Court, but he played as
pivotal a role as any in setting the tone from the get-go.
He gave the 7,315 fans packed in The Pit their first
excuse to cut loose when he received a perfectly
placed alley-oop pass from Ridnour and slammed it
down on the reverse jam to put Oregon up, 12-0.
Jones then followed that up with a three-pointer
that finished off the Ducks’ 16-0 run to start the
game, which also essentially ended any suspense
as to who would win.
But there was just one play that generated
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Ducks sting Hornets
with opening blowout
■The Oregon men take care
of business with a sloppy but
convincing 92-52 win at Mac Court
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
It was played by Americans. At times
it looked like youth ball. And it was
hardly classic.
The Oregon men’s basketball team
routed Alabama State,
92-52, Thursday night
in the Ducks’ season
opener, the second
game of the America’s
Youth Classic at
McArthur Court.
The Ducks used ac
curate shooting at the
outset and a barrage of three-pointers at
the conclusion to spoil the Hornets’
evening.
“I loved the way our intensity was
there for the entire game,” Oregon head
coach Ernie Kent said. “I just loved our
team spirit.”
Oregon had 15 points on the score
board before Alabama State got its first
basket, a three-pointer by sophomore
Malcolm Campbell eight minutes into
the contest. The Ducks increased their
lead to 29-7 at the 7:46 mark of the
first frame.
Minutes later, with the clock showing
2:55, Oregon sophomore guard Luke
Ridnour connected with senior Freddie
Jones on a long alley-oop pass that got
the crowd on their feet for more reasons
than one. The spectacular play also
pushed Jones over the 1,000-point mark
for his Oregon career, making him the
22nd player in Duck history to achieve
that feat.
Oregon entered the half with a 40-22
lead, but it was the Alabama State play
ers who came out of the break fired up.
Each time the Hornets scored, though,
the Ducks answered back, and kept the
gap at 20 points or more.
Midway through the second frame,
the Oregon sharpshooters took over. Af
ter Ridnour and senior guard Anthony
Lever missed back-to-back treys, the
two players went back-to-back-to-back
on successful threes. With 8:43 left in
the game, sophomore guard James
Davis started his own long-ball show,
and made two consecutive treys.
Davis led all scorers with 18 points,
on 6-for-8 shooting from beyond the arc.
Davis never attempted a two-pointer in
18 minutes of floor time.
“I just got in a groove,” Davis said. “I
got a lot of opportunities today.”
“He just played a terrific game,” Kent
said of Davis.
Overall, Oregon shot 53.6 percent
from the floor and 50 percent from
three-point land.
On defense, the Ducks held the Hor
nets to 35 percent shooting. Oregon
ended with five blocked shots, while
Alabama State could not swat any of the
Ducks’ chances. Oregon forced a re
markable 22 turnovers.
Despite the statistics, Duck forward
Robert Johnson said the Ducks will need
to improve their defense as the season
continues. Johnson was a star of Thurs
day night’s game, as he netted 14 points
and grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds.
“Right now I’m still developing my
role on the team,” Johnson said. “I’m
just doing whatever it takes to win.”
Oregon’s game was the second of a
doubleheader Thursday night. In the
evening’s first contest, Long Beach State
defeated Western Michigan, 71-64. The
Ducks will take on the Broncos of WMU
tonight at 8:15 p.m., while the Hornets
will play the 49ers of Long Beach State
at 6 p.m. On Saturday, Alabama State
wall face Western Michigan at 6 p.m.,
and Oregon will square off with Long
Beach State in the nightcap.
Peter Hockaday is a sports reporter for the
Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com
Finishing Strong
■Battling back from a foot injury earlier this year,
senior Adam Bergquist is poised to lead the Ducks
into Monday’s NCAA Championships
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
When offered the responsibility of captain of the Oregon
men’s cross country team, Adam Bergquist was hesitant, but
now he has taken on the role with enthusiasm, and his run
ning is coming back to him as if by divine inspiration.
The senior from Boulder, Colo., has been running in green
and yellow for almost five years, and it seems as though he
has saved his best for the end.
In the last two races for the Ducks, Bergquist, the only senior
on the team, has finished second on the squad behind All
American junior Jason Hartmann. He took 11th overall at both
the Pacific-10 Conference Championships and the Western Re
gional Championships, and is now leading the Ducks into the
NCAA Championships on Monday in Greenville, S.C.
Early in the season, though, Bergquist was struggling to
regain his strength after suffering an injury to his foot Jan. 1
that almost kept him from returning.
“I knew that I would eventually be able to run again,”
Bergquist said. “But it was an injury severe enough that I did
n’t think I would be able to compete for the University of
Oregon again.”
Bergquist suffered a partially tom tendon in his foot, and
after two weeks in a cast and five months of rest, he finally
began the slow process of getting back into running shape. It
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was not until August that he was able to begin training for the
cross country season.
“There was a while in the spring that I wasn’t sure that I
was going to come back this fall and do it again,” he said.
Bergquist, a Pac-10 cross country All-Academic first team
selection in 2000 with a near-perfect grade point average,
could have graduated with an exercise and movement sci
ence degree. However, when he realized through his rehabil
itation that he could possibly make an impact on the team, he
decided to tack on general science major, too.
“What I was most excited about coming back for when I
figured I could run was being with the team,” he said.
Although many may think that cross country is an individ
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Ducks grounded in L.A.,
lose to Bruins in three sets
■A three-game loss leaves the Ducks winless in
Pac-10 play with only three matches left
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
The weather outside Pauley Pavilion read a moderate 61
degrees Thursday, but inside it was downright chilly for the
Oregon volleyball team.
In their first match of the season against Pacific-10 Confer
ence rival UCLA, the Ducks (9-18 overall, 0-15 Pac-10) could
not hold off the Bruins’ powerful offense and lost in three
straight games (30-23,30-18, 30-22).
UCLA began game one strong, taking an
8-1 lead before Oregon could score again. A
service ace by sophomore Lindsay Murphy
pulled the Ducks within striking range at 9-6.
But that’s as close as Oregon would get,
with the Bruins taking control en route to a
seven-point win.
Game one was a mismatch from the get-go, as I TO .A hit for 14
kills and a .379 hitting percentage, while the Ducks could barely
stay afloat with nine kills and a dismal .083 attack percentage.
The Ducks stood strong in game two, 8-6, after junior Lind
say Closs recorded her 23rd service ace of the season. Howev
er, the Bruins came back and took the lead from the Oregon
women, and stood at 12-9 after three straight kills from Ashley
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