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Alyssa Fredrick (31) battles for a rebound in Oregon’s 76-54 win over UCLA.
Ducks make noise in second
■The Oregon women
overcome first-half miscues
to torch the Bruins for
50 points in the second half
By Adam Jude
Orpgon Daily Emerald
The scoreboard keeper tried to
record Cathrine Kraayeveld’s
layin with 10:07 to play, which
gave Oregon a 49-45 lead over
UCLA on Saturday at McArthur
Court, but the scoreboard didn’t
quite respond. It flashed, moaned
with an obnoxious buzz, flashed
again, then buzzed some more.
While referees and technicians
tried to fix the malfunction, the
Bruins gathered around head
coach Kathy Olivier for a free
timeout. The five Oregon players
stayed on the north side of
McArthur Court, talking, giggling
and getting harassed by the Ore
gon mascot.
Finally, after about five min
utes, the scoreboard’s yellow let
tering reappeared and the buzz
subsided. UCLA was accidentally
given 150 points, but by the time
the Bruins put the ball back in
play, everything seemed to work
properly, and the score read 49
45, with 10:05 remaining in the
game.
The Duck mascot must have
said something to ignite the Duck
players during the delay as Ore
gon (12-8 overall, 7-4 Pacific-10
Conference) rattled off nine unan
swered points, including five
from senior sharpshooter Jamie
Craighead, to awaken the 5,142
fans at Mac Court.
“We weren’t really going as
hard as we could (in the first
half). We were just going
through the motions.”
Cathrine Kraayeveld
Oregon forward
After a timeout with 7:41 to
play, UCLA installed a full-court
press, which nearly won the
game for the Bruins in the teams’
first meeting in Los Angeles on
Dec. 20, but the Ducks were driv
en on Saturday. From the score
board incident on, Oregon
outscored the Bruins 26-9 en
route to a 76-54 victory.
This came after the Ducks shot
a horrid 25 percent from the floor
in the first half and trailed 27-26
at the break against the Bruins (5
14, 2-9).
“We weren’t really going as
hard as we could (in the first
half). We were just going through
the motions,” said Kraayeveld,
who finished the game with 16
points and 14 rebounds. “But we
played really well as a team in
the second half.”
Junior guard Shaquala
Williams could hardly miss in
the second half, scoring 16 points
on 6-for-7 shooting with no
turnovers. In the first 20 minutes,
she was 3-for-10 with seven
points and four turnovers.
“It’s about the team,” Oregon
head coach Bev Smith said of
Williams’s play. “It’s our shot,
not Shaquala’s shot. But I
thought she made some very
good decisions.”
What wouldn’t fall in the first
half, fell for the Ducks in the sec
ond. They made the extra pass,
balanced their scoring and didn’t
panic. “We made the adjustments
in the second half,” Smith said.
“We started reversing the ball,
getting inside and getting better
shots,” Williams said. “We were
able to get over our early woes. In
the past, we may have sulked.”
Senior guard Edniesha Curry,
who scored 22 points against
UCLA in December — all in the
first half — brought the crowd to
its feet with 1:15 to play after she
hit a long three-pointer as the
shot-clock expired.
The horn sounded as the score
board hit quadruple zero, the
score flashing 76-54, Oregon. It
was a noise worth hearing for
Duck fans.
E-mail sports editor Adam Jude
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
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But that still wasn’t enough for
the Ducks to maintain a sizeable
lead, with UCLA virtually matching
the Ducks point-for-point until mid
way through the second half.
Then the wheels fell off.
“With 10 minutes left, that’s kind
of been our problem all year,” UCLA
head coach Kathy Olivier said about
the Bruins’ inability to remain com
petitive to the end. “We have a good
basketball team for 20 minutes,
we’re an average basketball team for
30 minutes, then things start going a
little bit for our opponents and we
get a little down.”
After going 3-for-10 from the
field in the first half, Williams
sprung out in the second, nailing
6-of-7 from the field and 2-of-3
from beyond the 3-point arc. Her
23 points paced the Ducks.
Up by four, 49-45, with 10 min
utes left in the second, the Ducks
went on an 11-4 run, finally separat
ing themselves from the Bruins.
Minutes later, Oregon would take
another run against the Bruins, and
this time, one that was good enough
to put the game away for good. The
last five minutes of the game would
be all Oregon, with the Ducks post
ing 16 points to the Bruins’ four.
After making the 5,142 fans at
McArthur Court gasp for air in the first
30 minutes, the Ducks put on a show
at the end, showing what they can do
when all cylinders are in motion.
Prior to this weekend, the Ducks
had dropped two straight to Oregon
State and Stanford. But wins over
USC and UCLA now have the
Ducks back on the winning road.
“We just take it one game at a time,"
sophomore Cathrine Kraayeveld
said. “I think we really needed to get
these wins (against USC, UCLA) to
stay in the Pac-10 race. ”
Kxaayeveld, for the third time this
season, recorded a double-double,
grabbing 14 boards and scoring 16
points. Her 63 rebounds in the last
five games is the most any Oregon
player has had since Alison Lang
had 63 toward the end of the 1983
84 season.
“Rebounding is one of the things
I try to do every game,” Kraayeveld
said. “But I don’t look at individ
ual statistics.”
After being punished on the
boards against teams early in the
season, the Ducks again led the Bru
ins in rebounds, 42-34. While it is
not the key to their success, the
Ducks have fared well when domi
nating the glass.
The Ducks also regained their
perimeter shooting prowess against
the Bruins, knocking down 9-of-21
from downtown.
“I think that we need an inside
outside presence,” Smith said. “We
have to have that balance. Certainly,
for our team to beat a team like Ari
zona State, we need to have that bal
anced scoring.”
Speaking of Arizona State, the
Ducks visit the Sun Devils in Tuc
son, Ariz., on Thursday.
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at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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