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Assistant Sports Editor:
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Tuesday, January 22,2002
Beavers celebrate rare win at McArthur Court
■ Oregon State defeats
the Ducks, 61 -53, for its first win
at Mac Court in nine years
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
The champagne was replaced by
sparkling cider, but everything else felt
like a genuine championship celebration.
And it might as well have been the
ultimate win for Oregon State, which
won its first game Saturday at
McArthur Court
since 1993.
“Look at me,”
said Oregon State
senior Ericka Cook,
weeping as she sat
down for the post
game press confer
ence. “We waited
for this for years. This was a very emo
tional game. It feels so good.”
With the 61-53 win, Oregon State
(10-9 overall, 6-3 Pacific-10 Confer
ence) snapped an 11-game losing
streak to the Ducks and gave head
coach Judy Spoelstra her first win at
the Pit.
“All week we’ve been talking
about not beating the Ducks since
we’ve been here — and we finally
did it,” said Oregon State senior
guard Felicia Ragland, who scored a
game-high 16 points. “We’re going
to party all night.”
In front of a season-high 6,193
fans at Mac Court, the Ducks (10-8,
5-4) managed to hit just 21 percent
of its shots in the second half, when
they were outscored 31-23.
Senior guard Jamie Craighead
nailed a three-pointer to open the sec
ond half, but Oregon did not score
again until the 11:50 mark. In that
stretch, the teams combined to com
mit 12 fouls while scoring just 10 to
tal points.Overall, the teams commit
ted 40 turnovers and had 40 fouls.
“It was not a very pretty game,”
Spoelstra said. “(But) it was a big
win for our players.”
Trailing by five, Oregon sopho
more Cathrine Kraayeveld hit a
three-pointer with 6:19 to play to cut
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Adam Amato Emerald
Oregon senior Alyssa Fredrick tries to drive past Oregon State’s Brina Chaney (42) and Leilani Estavan in the Beavers’ 61-53 victory
Saturday. The win was Oregon State’s first at Mac Court since Feb. 5,1993.
UO women
full of bricks
in loss to OSU
■ Oregon’s woeful shooting drops
it into a three-way tie for fifth place
in the Pac-10 Conference
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
In a game that left the Ducks battered
and bruised, flustered and frustrated,
one number stood out.
Twenty-six. Twenty-six percent of the
shots Oregon (10-8 overall, 5-4 Pacific
10 Conference) took against Oregon
State on Saturday went in the basket.
For you math wizards out there, that’s
16-of-60 from the field.
In fact, Oregon made more shots from
the foul line (18) and committed more
fouls (18) than made field goals.
To make matters worse, the Ducks
shot just 3-of-18 from beyond the three
point arc in the 61-53 loss, their lowest
scoring output of the season. Sopho
more Cathrine Kraayeveld, taking only
her sixth and seventh shots of the sea
son from downtown, sank one with a
little more than six minutes left in the
game and pulled the Ducks within two
at 44-42.
But that was the end of that.
“Our emphasis was on defense and
getting out to their three-point shoot
ers,” Oregon State guard Felicia
Ragland said. “They’re good shooters,
but our defense made them think twice
about shooting outside.”
Oregon’s “big three” — guards Jamie
Craighead, Edniesha Curry and
Shaquala Williams — went a com
bined 2-for-15 from beyond the arc,
but still contributed 27 of the Duck’s
53 overall points.
“We have to make shots, and I
think that’s the reason we didn’t win
this game,” Curry said. “We had
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UO leaves Corvallis with Civil War win and first-place status
Oregon forward
Robert Johnson
leaps up and
swats away a shot
attempt by
Oregon State’s
Brandon Payton.
Johnson recorded
all three of
Oregon’s blocks
in the Ducks’12
polntwin.
Thomas Patterson Emerald
■ The Ducks beat the Beavers
for the sixth straight time to remain
tied-for-first in the Pac-10
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
CORVALLIS — In the darkness of
night, inside a bus driving in the right
lane of southbound Interstate-5, the tele
vision sets all flickered the same motions.
Play.
Stop.
Rewind.
Play.
It was 10:30 p.m. Saturday, and the
bus was filled with the Oregon men’s
basketball team, which was traveling
the 47 miles from Corvallis to Eugene.
Oregon had just beat Oregon State, 63
51, but instead of rejoicing over its Civil
War triumph, Ernie Kent wasted no time
in going over the game film with his
team to show them what they did right
and what needed improvement.
Oregon’s win Saturday, its fourth
straight, kept the Ducks (14-4) atop the
Pacific-10 Conference standings, tied
with Southern California at 6-1 in
league play. The Ducks equaled their
win total from 2001 and topped their
five league victories from last year.
And Monday, the team climbed four
spots to No. 19 in the Associated Press poll.
But for this year’s
Ducks , what they do
next matters most.
The next game is al
ways “a big game,”
and putting the past
behind them has
helped the Ducks re
bound from the con
secutive December defeats to Massa
chusetts, Portland and Minnesota.
“Those three losses toughened us up
as a basketball team,” Kent said.
When Oregon ended its season in Gill
Coliseum last March, it hoped for an NIT
berth that would never come. After their
latest visit to their in-state rivals, the Ducks
spoke not of the NIT, but of the NCAA
Tournament. Their voices were filled with
confidence instead of just hope.
“We’re in control of our own destiny
now,” senior Freddie Jones said. “I want
to take this thing as far we can take it.
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