Pilots land on Ducks’ parade
■Too little too late: Despite
final-minute surge, Oregon
falls to Portland for just the
second time in 18 meetings
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
This is not the kind of start any
one had envisioned.
After a 77-73 loss to Portland on
Tuesday, head coach Bev Smith
and the Oregon women’s basket
ball team have now lost two of
their first three
games of the sea
son.
In 17 previous
meetings between
the regional foes,
the Pilots (2-0
overall) had won
just one game
against the Ducks prior to Tues
day’s triumph at the Chiles Center
in Portland.
“We struggled tonight,” first
year coach Smith said. “We have
to have five people ready to play.
There comes a time in the season
where you have to make changes
and find a starting five.”
Oregon trailed 66-56 with 3:30
to play, but a three-pointer by sen
ior point guard Edniesha Curry
with 20 seconds left brought the
Ducks within one at 74-73.
But Hanna Seltzer hit two free
throws on the Pilots’ next posses
sion, and a steal by junior guard
Ashlee Giles with 13 seconds left
sealed the victory for Portland.
Curry, who had a game-high 20
points, scored seven points in the
final minute and the Ducks were
4-for-6 on three-pointers in the fi
nal four minutes. For the game,
though, Oregon was a dismal 3-of
22 on threes and shot just 37 per
cent from the floor.
“We’re just not gelling yet,”
said Curry, who also had six re
bounds and five assists. “We did
n’t have that cohesiveness for the
whole for minutes. We have to
come out ready to play.”
Junior guard Shaquala
Williams, Oregon’s leading scorer
in the first two games, had 14
points, while sophomore Cathrine
Kraayeveld added 10 rebounds.
Portland had five players
score in double figures, led by
Giles, who scored 18 points.
Oregon won the battle of the
boards, 42-41.
Jammin’ with TCU
In the fourth annual Pape Jam
this Saturday at the Rose Garden
in Portland, the Ducks will battle
the Texas Christian Lady Frogs,
who enter the game 2-0 overall.
Oregon is 3-0 in the Jam, in
cluding a 62-54 victory over San
ta Clara last year.
Saturday will be the first time
the Ducks and Lady Frogs meet.
Texas Christian cruised past Air
Force, 71-48, last weekend to con
tinue its perfect start.
In its Nov. 16 season-opener
against Sam Houston State, 6-foot
4 high school All-American San
dora Irvin led Texas Christian
with 22 points and 18 rebounds
in a 117-50 win.
Six players scored in double
figures for Lady Frogs, including
junior forward Grace Gantt, who
had a game-high 25 points.
Tipoff is at 5 p.m.
Adam Jude is the sports editor for
the Oregon Emerald. He can be reached
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
Cathrine Kraayeveld had 10 rebounds Tuesday in Oregon’s 77-73 loss to Portland.
Volleyball
continued from page 5
Ringel led the squad with five kills and
an .833 hitting percentage.
In the game. Oregon hit a .417 per
centage, but were only able to record
12 kills in 24 chances. Their two attack
errors were virtually nil, compared to
their nine each in games three and four.
“It still comes down to scoring more
points than your opponent and mini
mizing unforced errors,” Ferreira said.
“When we disrupt their offense, we
score more points. ”
However, the Ducks were not able to
keep UCLA off the scoreboard enough,
as they recorded 20 kills and a .586 per
centage.
Game three would be much of the
same, with UCLA giving the Ducks no
breathing room. Tied at 11, UCLA won
the next nine out of 10 points to put them
in a commanding position, and held the
Ducks to only five points the rest of the
way. A 30-16 win would be the result.
hi the game, the Ducks looked tired and
overmatched. They hit for a minus-.029
percentage compared to UCLA’s .361.
Oregon’s strongest match of the Pac
10 season ultimately proved to be the
one that got away, but not before they
put up a fight. Martin’s 11 kills were
second to Tobbagi’s 16, and redshirt
sophomore Heather Gilmore, seeing
increased playing time, chipped in
with nine.
“Heather had one of her better Pac
10 matches this year,” Ferreira said.
“Her contribution tonight is a huge
contributing factor to a much more bal
anced offense.”
The Ducks end their season tonight
against USC. First serve is slated for 7
p.m. at McArthur Court.
Hank Hager is a sports reporterfor
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
Hockaday
continued from page 5
some snacks that his mother sent
down with him. We love Adidas.
2:30 p.m.: We’re notified that
the ticket office won’t close until
everyone in line gets their stubs.
We laugh. We cry. We cheer.
We’re getting tickets. At this
point, there is no turning around.
We know that tickets will be
available Tuesday, but we’re now
on a mission. Someone in front of
us leaves the line. He must be a
Beaver fan.
4 p.m.: The rain starts.
4:30 p.m.: The rain gets harder.
5 p.m.: Torrential downpour.
5:15 p.m.: We enter “the pit,” a
mass of people near the ticket
booth windows. We’ve heard it
could take an hour or more from
this point. This is also where it
starts to get cozy. The six of us —
my party of three, Adidas and
two other newfound friends —
enter as a group and promptly
split up, headed for different
windows.
5:30 p.m.: It’s getting dark, but
we now get our first glimpse of
the ticket windows. They shim
mer with white light, and we can
see that inside it is warm. And
they have tickets. Warmth and
tickets are the only two things we
care about at this point.
6 pm: We’re inching toward heav
en.
6:12 p.m.: Bingo. I get to the tick
et counter and slap down my ID
with a huge, goofy, loopy grin on
my face. The ticket-counter lady
doesn’t even notice. It takes four
minutes to process my request.
She hands back my ID and the
beautiful ticket. I stand there and
stare at it with the same goofy grin
until the guy behind me tells me to
move or get killed.
6:16 p.m.: It’s official. We’ve
waited in line for more than six
hours to see a game that could be
three hours long. But at least we
did it: We battled the elements
and the clock.
The irony of the whole thing is
that at 10:50 a.m. Tuesday morn
ing, the wait for tickets at the EMU
was 16 minutes.
But hey, I think that I’ll enjoy
the game more than someone who
waited in that line. After all, I al
ready have six hours of time in
vested in the Civil War. What do I
have to show for it?
A piece of paper.
Peter Hockaday is a sports reporter
forthe Oregon Daily Emerald.
He can be reached at
peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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