Rival guards have mutual respect for each other
■ Duck Shaquala Williams
and Beaver Felicia Ragland lead
their respective teams in scoring
this year, with different styles
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
CORVALLIS— With 43 seconds
remaining in regulation, Oregon
State’s Felicia Ragland hit two free
throws to tie the score at 74. That
was all the senior guard could
muster for the rest of the contest,
allowing Oregon to escape Gill
Coliseum with a Civil War win,
thanks to a heroic shot off the glass
by Oregon’s Edniesha Curry.
As she has done throughout the
season, junior pcrint guard
Shaquala Williams led the way in
scoring for the Ducks in the 84-83
overtime win. Williams finished
with 20 points and four assists,
while Ragland, the Beavers’ star
guard, netted 23 points to go along
with a career-high 17 rebounds
and seven assists.
In what could be her final Civil
War meeting (the two teams may
meet in the Pacific-10 Conference
Tournament), Ragland earned her
17th career double-double and
fourth consecutive against Oregon.
Because it was her last contest
against Oregon in Corvallis,
Ragland said that the pain of the
loss is more than usual.
“It hurts a lot,” she said. “This
being my last home game here —
it’s our rival game, too — and it
just hurts a lot to lose by one point.
I thought we fought hard to the
end but came up a little short.”
Though Williams sat out all of
last season because of a knee in
jury, the rivalry between two of the
Pac-lO’s top scorers has been
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Curry batted down the Beavers’
inbounds pass to seal the Oregon
win.
“It was really sweet because they
beat us on our home court, so we
wanted to pay them back and beat
fierce. Despite their intense com
petitiveness, the two guards have
maintained a strong respect for
each other.
“She shot better than I did and
was more aggressive I think,”
Ragland said. “I think we’re pretty
equal, but she is a little better at cer
tain things than I am as far as shoot
ing and ball handling. I thought she
played a good game today.”
“We are different in that
she is more of a slasher, a
rebounder. And me, I’m
kind of a shooter, penetrator.
Even through we can both
putthe ball up and score
a lot of points, we kind
of do it in different ways.
Shaquala Williams
junior point guard
Williams had nothing but praise
for Ragland’s game, too.
“Felicia Ragland showed every
body what she can do on every
end of the court tonight,” Williams
said. “Twenty three points, 17 re
bounds and seven assists — she
played great in every facet of the
game. She is the kind of player that
if it comes down to it, she is going
to show up, and she did that for
her team.”
Because Williams is a point
guard for the Ducks and Ragland a
shooting guard for the Beavers,
they did not guard each other dur
ing most of the game. Their differ
ent positions le^d to different roles
on the team, but both have the
ability to influence the outcome of
a game.
“We are different in that she is
more of a slasher, a rebounder,”
Williams said. “And me, I’m kind
of a shooter, penetrator. Even
though we can both put the ball up
and score a lot of points, we kind
of do it in different ways.”
Williams and Ragland also both
know how to utilize their team
mates and realize that they can de
pend on them.
Ragland began the game passing
to her teammates, saying after the
game that she wanted everyone to
get involved in the offense. One of
those recipients of her passes was
Hollye Chapman. Coming off the
bench for Oregon State head coach
Judy Spoelstra’s squad, Chapman
netted 24 points to go along with
10 rebounds.
Oregon’s offense was more even
-fy distributed than its in-state ri
val’s, as every Duck player to put
npL.a shot scored at least one point.
Along with Williams’s 20 points,
spphomore forward Cathrine
Kraayeveld scored 16 and senior
center Alyssa Fredrick dropped
13. Williams unselfishness was no
more evident than in the final pos
session of the game.
With the score 83-82 in favor of
Oregon State and time winding
down, Williams passed up a po
tential shot to kick the ball across
the court to Curry, who was able to
head-fake Ragland out of position
to clear a lane for her game-win
ning bank shot.
“My teammates having confi
dence in me, especially Shaquala
giving up a shot to kick it over to
me for me to hit the game-winner
— I think it really shows a lot
about the character of this team
them here, especially on senior
night,” Williams said.
The Ducks took a 74-65 lead on
a Kraayeveld layin with 4:50 to
play in regulation. But it turned
out the be Oregon’s last bucket be
fore overtime.
Oregon State’s Hollye Chapman
scored seven straight points, in
eluding a three-pointer, in a two
minute stretch to bring the Beavers
within two. Ragland, who had 23
points, 17 rebounds and seven as
sists in the game, sank two free
throws with 43 seconds left on the
clock to tie the game at 74.
“It seemed like the team to make
the fewest mistakes would win the
Oregon’s Shaquala Williams drives into Oregon State’s Felicia Ragland at McArthur Court
on Jan. 19. This was the Beavers’ first win against the Ducks at Mac Court in nine years.
and how much we’ve grown and
how much we trust in each and
every individual on this team to
take those big shots when the game
is on the line,” Curry said.
A senior, Curry said that her
winning shot over the Beavers was
the biggest of her career and she
has appreciated competing against
Ragland and Oregon State over the
years.
“I really enjoy playing against
Oregon State, especially the com
petitiveness in Felicia Ragland,”
Curry said. “We have friendly
sportsmanship words on the court.
She congratulates me saying ‘good
job’ and ‘way to work hard’ and I
tell her the same. I really appreci
ate playing against people like
that. It really shows a lot for her
character.”
E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
game,” Oregon State head coach
Judy Spoelstra said. “We just didn’t
quite make our last possession
count, and they converted.”
The Ducks shot 50 percent in
the game, including a 56 percent
clip in the second half and over
time. Oregon shot a season-worst
23 percent from the field against
Oregon State on Jan. 19.
“We needed (to win) because
we’re in a sticky spot in the Pac-10
and we want to improve our seed
ing for the Pac-10 Tournament,”
Williams said.
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