Cross Country
runs over OSU
Beaver Classic
Nicole Feest leads the cross
country squads with a first
place finish in Saturday^ meet
Cross country
Mindi Rice
Freelance Sports Reporter
Before the Oregon football team
took the field Saturday, the Ducks al
ready had two wins under their belt.
The Oregon men’s and women’s
cross country teams both took first
place Saturday morning as they en
tered “B” teams in Oregon State’s
Beaver Classic.
Freshman Nicole Feest won the
overall race for the women, finish
ing the 4,000-meter course in 14
minutes, 11 seconds.
Eleanor Gordon, a recent addi
tion to the Oregon squad, took sec
ond in the meet. The freshman ran
the course in 14:16. Redshirt soph
omore Taylor Bryant came in short
ly behind her teammates, complet
ing the race in 14:34 and earning a
third-place finish overall.
The Oregon women won the
small meet, earning 23 points. The
Portland squad finished second
with 42 points.
Freshman Krissy Sonniksen
(14:44) finished fourth for the
Ducks and seventh overall, while
redshirt freshman Haripurkh Khal
sa (15:02) took 15th overall and
fifth for Oregon. Also running were
freshman Chelsea Manesh (15:35),
who finished 21st overall and soph
omore Beth Jackson (16:34) who
took 33rd overall.
The men’s race featured eight
Oregon freshmen running the
5,000-meter race.
Shane Ahlers led the Oregon
men with a seventh-place finish
and a time of 18:39. Collin Stark
Benz (18:47) finished ninth overall
and second for the Ducks, while Jan
Olszowy (18:53) was third for Ore
gon and 13th overall.
“They did a real nice job,” men’s
head coach Martin Smith said.
Ryan Flaherty (19:16) finished
19th overall and fourth for the
Ducks. Ricky Scott (20:34) came in
fourth for Oregon and 36th overall,
and Kyle Sutherland (22:01) finished
44th overall and fifth for the Ducks.
Tomas Finol (22:02) finished 45th
overall and Adam Bailey (22:53)
closed out the Oregon squad, finish
ing the race in 49th place.
“It was an opportunity for some
of our young freshmen to com
pete,” Smith said.
Oregon won the meet with 32
points. Willamette came in second
with 44.
Saturday, both Duck squads trav
el to Pasadena, Calif, to take on the
rest of the Pacific-10 Conference in
its championship meet.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Palmer picks apart UO
secondary in ‘easy’ win
The USC quarterback throws
for448yards as Oregon^
secondary gets beaten again
Adam Jude
Senior Sports Reporter
For the second straight week, Ore
gon’s defensive secondary was
burned for big yards, big plays and
big scores.
Accordingly, the Ducks lost con
secutive games at Autzen Stadium
for the first time since 1997.
This week, Carson Palmer and the
Trojans’ talented receiving corps
burned the Ducks in a 44-33 victory.
In his fourth trip to Autzen,
Palmer picked up his first win over the
Ducks by passing for a school-record
448 yards and five touchdowns.
“Offensively, everything was
easy,” Palmer said. “We knew they
couldn’t stop us offensively, and they
couldn’t stop us offensively.”
It’s a trend lately. Last week, Ore
gon gave up a Pacific-10 Conference
record 536 passing yards to Arizona
State’s Andrew Walter in a 45-42 loss.
Despite the shortcomings, Oregon
head coach Mike Bellotti said he will
not change his defensive scheme.
“That’s not an option,” he said.
“We’ll continue to tinker with what
we do. But we are playing some
people that need to mature and get
better. They’re young, and they will
get better.
“But there’s not much we can do.”
Oregon true freshman Marques
Binns started at one comerback po
sition in place of freshman Aaron
Gipson, who had started the seven
previous games this season. Binns,
listed at 5-foot-10, lined up against
USG true freshman Mike Williams,
listed at 6-foot-5.
Williams finished the game with
13 catches for 226 yards — both
USG freshman records — and two
touchdowns.
USG senior receiver Kareem Kelly
— who set the Pac-10 record Satur
day with Oregon’s Keenan Howry for
catching a pass in 43 straight games
— made it clear that the Trojans’
“Triple Threat” receivers were bet
ter than Oregon’s three receivers
who were depicted on a billboard in
USG territory.
“We wanted to win this game
since the first day of camp and the
first day we saw the billboard,” Kel
ly said. “We took the billboard as an
insult. So we wanted to come out
here and put on a good show.”
And they did, particularly in the
third quarter.
The Ducks took a 19-14 lead into
halftime, but the Trojans came out of
the locker room on fire, as they
scored on a 31-yard Kelly reception
in their first possession of the third
quarter. USG added two more touch
downs before the end of the quarter,
and another on the second play of
the fourth to put the game out of
reach at 41-19.
“We didn’t play a very good third
quarter, which is obviously an under
statement because that was a turning
point in the game,” Bellotti said.
Like Oregon’s Los Angeles-based
billboard, the Trojans left the sign of
a big insult in Eugene.
“If we don’t get better, (losing) is
something we’re going to have to get
used to,” Oregon linebacker David
Moretti said.
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Jude
continued from page 8A
Bowl? Don’t even think about it.
The fourth-place Ducks are a long
shot to get to El Paso, Texas, for the
Sun Bowl, given to the conference’s
third-place team. The best bet is that
the Ducks will spend Christmas in
Las Vegas for the aptly named Las
Vegas Bowl, bestowed upon the Pac
10’s fifth-place team, or maybe even
the Insight Bowl in Phoenix for fin
ishing fourth.
The bowl season, however, is far
from the forefront for the Ducks.
“We work very hard ... and I be
lieve my kids deserve to win, and
we’ll make sure that happens,” Bel
lotti said.
It starts with a winning attitude,
which is hard to grasp when you’re
losing. The Ducks are missing their
once-resounding swagger, and must
find it if they hope to find another win.
“This is definitely the lowest point
in my career, and for many other guys
on this team,” Oregon defensive tack
le Igor Olshansky said. “It’s going to
sink in in the next couple of days.”
If Oregon doesn’t get its Ducks in
order, it’s going to sink in for a lot
longer than that.
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Football
continued from page 8A
jans went on a 30-0 run in the sec
ond half to put the game away.
“There’s nothing better than com
ing in here and beating these guys,”
Palmer said. “Their fans are out of
control, and to shut them up and
watch them walk up the stands —
just the lack of class those guys have
every time they beat us, the fans and
the players. For us to be classy about
our win and walk out and shake their
hands and tell them ‘good game’ and
‘good luck’—it just felt good. ”
Oregon’s secondary, which gave up
a Pacific-10 Conference-record 536
passing yards in the Ducks’ loss to Ari
zona State last week, gave up another
448 to Palmer and the Trojans, a USC
record for passing yards.
“It was close in the first half, but
we’ll have to look at what happened
in that third quarter,” Oregon head
coach Mike Bellotti said.
At the half, the game had all the
earmarks of the thrilling USC-Ore
gon contests of recent years. Oregon
kicker Jared Siegel knocked in four
field goals, including a 48-yarder, as
the Ducks overcame Palmer touch
downs of eight and 35 yards. Ore
gon’s only touchdown came on a
bomb from Jason Fife to Keenan
Howry, a 54-yard pass that put Ore
gon ahead 10-7.
The Ducks were also making big
defensive plays, blocking a field goal
attempt, notching two sacks and
coming up with a momentum-shift
ing interception in the endzone.
But after halftime, the tables
turned. Drastically.
“In the third quarter, they made
all the plays, and we didn’t make
any,” linebacker David Moretti said.
Palmer opened up the second-half
scoring with a 31-yard touchdown
pass to Kareem Kelly, but the extra
point was blocked to make the score
20-19 with 11:36 remaining in the
period. Less than five minutes later,
Fargas ran in from 15 yards, and
Palmer hit Mike Williams on a 15
yard slant with 3:01 left to make the
score 34-19.
By the time Palmer hit Malaefou
MacKenzie for an eight-yard score
early in the fourth quarter, many fans
were already heading for the exits.
Oregon’s offense sputtered in the
second half, which didn’t help the
defensive effort. Smith was held to
79 yards rushing, his lowest total of
the year and the first time in eight
games that he was held under 100
yards. Fife also struggled, complet
ing only 20 of his 45 pass attempts.
“We didn’t find our rhythm right
off, and that’s what killed us,” Fife
said of the offense.
Smith went over the 1,000-yard
mark for the season midway through
the third quarter. He now has 1,031
rushing yards this season. Howry set
a Pac-10 record with his 43rd
Jeremy Forrest Emerald
Oregon comerback Marques Binns (13) started in place of Aaron Gipson on Saturday.
straight game with a catch, and
USG’s Kelly tied that record.
The Ducks will be at home again
next week to take on the Stanford
Cardinal, the only team to beat Ore
gon last year.
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