ASU ends Ducks’ win streak
■The Ducks get 31 points
by Shaquala Williams, but
still see their three-game
win streak come to an end
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
When it rains, it pours.
After allowing 53 points to Ari
zona on Friday, the Oregon women
surrendered 49 points in the first
half to Arizona
State on Sunday
en route to an 86
72 loss at
McArthur Court.
“We just got
flat-out beat, par
ticularly in the
first half,” first
year Oregon coach Bev Smith said.
“They came out with incredible fo
cus, incredible discipline and in
credible aggressiveness.”
The Ducks (9-6 overall, 4-2 Pacif
ic-10 Conference) jumped out to a
quick 11-5 lead, but would relin
quish it only minutes later when a
jumper by Sun' Devils’ freshman
Alexis Tate tied it at 13. From that
point, on, it was all Arizona State
(12-4, 3-2).
Junior Shaquala Williams led the
Ducks with 31 points on the
strength of four three-pointers. But
Oregon shot only 39 percent from
the field — compared to Arizona
State’s 57 percent — and saw two of
its starters kept off the scoreboard.
“You can look at the stat sheet,
crumple it up and throw it away,”
Williams said. “We were out
worked and out-played.”
An 11-3 run late in the first half
propelled the Sun Devils to a 49-30
lead going into halftime, the first
time the Ducks have trailed at the
break since their 83-73 loss to USC
on Dec. 22. Junior Amanda Levens
led Arizona State with 12 points at
the half, and paced the team with
22 on the night. The Sun Devils are
now 11-2 on the season when Lev
ens leads them in scoring.
As a team, Arizona State shot 57
percent from the field, and was 17
of-19 from the line. Levens iced the
Ducks with six free made throws in
the last minute of the game, keep
ing it out of reach.
“We really have some good
shooters on this team,” said Ari
zona State guard Betsy Boardman,
a Portland native.
After the game, the biggest con
cern was not on the Ducks’ play,
but on the team’s effort.
“It doesn’t matter who you play,”
Williams said. “You have to give
the same effort and for some reason
we didn’t do it today.”
Said Smith: “This is a team that
needs to fight and needs to get used
to fighting. We have to do that from
the outset.”
After missing the previous three
games and playing only partial
minutes against USC because of a
ruptured plantar facitis in her left
foot, senior Edniesha Curry came
off the bench late in the first half,
and contributed seven points in
10 minutes. Curry’s up-tempo
play kept the 4,804 fans in the
game, and more importantly, her
team. But it was not enough as
Oregon was iced late in the game
by the Sun Devils’ sharp-shooters
and tough defense.
“It’s absolutely huge,” Boardman
said when asked about the impor
tance of winning at Mac Court. “It’s
nice to win at home but it’s even
nicer to win on the road.”
Oregon opened its two-game
homestand in impressive fashion
with a 72-53 smoking of Arizona
on Friday. Behind sophomore
Cathrine Kraayeveld’s 18 points
and 11 rebounds, both career
highs, the Ducks jumped out to a
34-20 lead at halftime and never
looked back.
Kraayeveld teamed with fresh
man Andrea Bills to produce an in
side presence the Wildcats could
not combat. Bills finished with 10
points as the Ducks dominated the
inside game, scoring 24 points in
the paint to Arizona’s 10.
Contact sports reporter Hank Hager at
hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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