Sports brief
Club hockey
hosts Washington
Looking to extend a nine-game
home-winning streak, the Club
Sports hockey team begins its final
home stand of the season tonight
against Washington at the Lane
County Ice Arena.
Oregon (10-10 overall) is 9-1 at
home this season, with its only loss
coming against California in the
season opener on Oct. 12.
The Huskies, however, come to
Eugene with a 2-0 record against the
Ducks this season and possession of
the 1-5 Cup. Each year the Ducks and
Huskies battle for the cup during
their regular season games. In No
vember, Washington won both games
— 4-1 and 5-3—to take the cup.
Seniors Andy Walder and Brett
Ledder will play in their last home
games this weekend with an eye on
the Pacific-8 Conference Champi
onship tournament, to be played at
Stanford beginning Feb. 16. The
Ducks and Huskies face off tonight
and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Lane County Ice Arena. Admission
is $2 with a student ID card. Half of
the proceeds with go to the philan
thropy of the Greek house with the
most members attending.
Last week, Oregon started off
well by pulling out its first road
win of the season. Unfortunately,
the rest of the weekend swung in
favor of the Ducks’ opponents.
Oregon traveled down to Stan
ford on Jan. 17 and faced off in the
first of two games against the Cardi
nal. Nathan King pulled out two
goals for the Ducks as they won 7
5, extending their winning streak to
five games.
Last Friday at San Jose State,
ranked No. 6 in the west region, the
Ducks were flattened in the first pe
riod. Oregon was able to control the
rest of the game, bringing the score
to within one goal twice, but the
Spartans pulled out a win 7-6.
Returning to Stanford on Satur
day, the Ducks and the Cardinal
battled in a high scoring game. De
spite more possession time and op
portunities, Oregon lost 7-6.
— Mindi Rice for the Emerald
Men’s
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first advantage since scoring the first points of
the game.
In the final three minutes, the Huskies took the
lead and kept it for good after making 11 of their
final 12 free throws to seal the five-point win.
“They were a better team than us tonight and
that shouldn’t happen,” Kent said. “They hit
some big clutch free throws in the end and that
all goes back to the confidence they got in the
beginning. We certainly didn’t come out with
gunsa’blazin’.”
True, while Oregon failed down the stretch, it
was given a wake-up call in the opening min
utes of the game when the Huskies came out
with more energy, more focus and more desire
than the Ducks.
The Ducks missed layups, including one
wide-open one by Luke Jackson on a fast break.
They had baskets called back because of offen
sive goaltending. And they basically just had a
lot of shots clang off the rim as Oregon connect
ed on just five of its first 15 shot attempts.
Washington capitalized and used a 16-5 run
to take an early 27-16 lead that set the tone for
the rest of the game.
Oregon eventually found its offensive rhythm
and received some impressive performances.
Freddie Jones led the Ducks with 27 points in
39 minutes of floor time, while Luke Ridnour re
turned to his home state and tied his career-high
with 23 points and seven assists with many fam
ily and friends among the 7,009 in attendance.
Jackson contributed 18 and Brian Helquist
chipped in 10 as he filled in nicely for foul
plagued Chris Christoffersen, who only played
13 minutes.
So the offense was there. It was particularly
the defense on Washington forward Doug
Wrenn that was missing. Wrenn, a transfer from
Connecticut, poured in a career-high 32 points
that included emphatic two-handed dunks,
fadeaway jumpers, clutch late game free throws,
rebound putbacks and even a three-pointer.
“I don’t want to take anything away from
Washington because they played their best game
of the year, but that team only averages 66 points
a game and we gave up 97 points,” Kent said.
“That’s not a very good defensive effort. The en
ergy level they played at was so superior to our
energy level.”
Kent and the still-first place Ducks hope to
change that at 3 p.m. Saturday when they take
on last-place Washington State.
“We need to get a split on this trip,” Kent said.
E-mail assistant sports editor Jeff Smith
at jeffsmith@dailyemerald.com.
Women’s
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presence known from the perimeter.
Junior Shaquala Williams, who played
six minutes in the first half due to foul
trouble, made the Ducks’ only three
pointers in the second half. However,
Oregon was able to penetrate the USC de
fense, scoring 22 points in the paint.
“Once you get past that first initial de
fender, you’ve got a pretty good chance at
the basket,” Williams said.
The first half opened up well for the
Ducks, as they pulled out to a 17-6 lead in
the first eight minutes. Curry, who played
sparingly in the first game of the season
against USC, finished the half with 12
points, but more importantly, was strong
on the defensive side of the ball.
Her three steals led to numerous layups
for the Ducks, and helped them to a 39-28
lead at the half.
“Our team relies on energy,” Williams
said. “Eddy is the best energizer on this
team. She is a presence out there. ”
USC, which outrebounded the Ducks
by 18 in their first encounter, was not able
to dominate the inside game, especially
early on. While Oregon had a high level
of energy in the in the first half, USC
floundered and seemed flat from the start.
“We were not ready to play,” USC head
coach Chris Gobrecht said. “We were out
of it in the first half. We let Oregon feel
way too good about itself. ”
Down 70-62 with two minutes left in
the game, Hoffman’s versatility showed
through as she hit a three-pointer from the
corner and hushed the Mac Court crowd.
However, a layup by Curry and made
free throws from senior Alyssa Fredrick
and freshman Kedzie Gunderson pulled
the Ducks ahead for good.
After two consecutive losses, the Ducks
are beginning to gain confidence at a cru
cial point in the season.
“This is where we have to determine
where our resolve is to be a good team,”
Smith said. “The expectations for us is
that we bring the same hard work and ef
fort (every game). It was 40 minutes of ef
fort tonight.”
The Ducks have a chance to improve to
7-4 in conference play when UCLA (5-13,
2-8) visits the Pit at 7 p.m. Saturday. Ore
gon slipped by the Bruins, 76-67, in their
first encounter.
E-mail sports reporter Hank Hager
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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