Sports Editor.
Peter Hockaday
peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com
Tuesday, November 5,2002
—-Oregon Daily Emerald
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UO volleyball
looks for more
after overdue
Pac-10 victory
The Ducks are still hungry for another
Pac-10 victory after defeating Oregon State
Volleyball notes
Hank Hager
Sports Reporter
The Oregon volleyball team’s 3-1 victory' over Oregon
State on Friday night in Corvallis not only supplied the
Ducks with their first Pacific-10 Conference victory' of
the 2002 season, it also provided a shot of confidence.
Not to say the Ducks don’t have confidence yvhen they
enter each match, but only-wins can truly provide re
demption on a regular basis, the Ducks say.
“I can’t imagine a sweeter victory' and I can’t imagine it
coming at a better time,” sophomore Lauren Westendorf
said. “We’ve been working so hard for so long and its
been frustrating, but we bounced back and pushed every
day and this is awesome. This really is amazing.”
The win also afforded Oregon its first 11-win season
since the 1996 campaign, when former head coach
Cathy Nelson was in her second season at the helm.
Add another victory to the table this season and the
Ducks will have won at least 12 matches for the first time
since 1991, when they were 14-16 under Gerry' Gregory.
The win is also sweet for current head coach Carl Fer
reira. It is the most yvins in a single season for the former
Idaho head coach since coming to Oregon in 2000, and is
win No. 30 in his short tenure yvith the Ducks.
Now comes the time to focus on the final six matches
of the season, Ferreira said.
“We’ve got a legitimate chance of winning five of our
last six matches,’.’ Ferreira said. “USC is the one that is
the trump card in the process, because they’re so phe
nomenal, but we yve’re in there with every other team
and I think we have a chance to beat all of them.
“There’s nothing that your philosophy and motiva
tional tactics can do that yvinning doesn’t solve. With
that being said, that’s yvhere I’m just so proud of hoyv
they’ve alloyved themselves to stay mentally tough
week in and week out and believe in the things we’ve been
talking about.”
Tu rn to Volleyball, page 10
Emerald
Members of the Club Sports Tae Kwon Do team, seen here practicing last year, compete throughout Oregon against other clubs.
Fight club
The Oregon Tae Kwon Do team
is quickly converting believers
in the martial arts
Scott Archer
Freelance Sports Reporter
Watching people dressed in robes at
the Rec Center can he amusing.
But don’t laugh too
hard, lhey are mem
bers of the Oregon
Club Tae Kwon Do
team, and they can
turn that snicker
around faster than you
can say Bruce Lee.
Of course, not
many people are
laughing. The Tae Kvvon Do team is
growing so much in popularity that
the idea has been proposed to have
tryouts to represent Oregon in com
petitive tournaments.
One can learn, practice and craft abil
ities in tae kwon do within the club
team, but competition is reserved for
those with the right qualifications.
“You can come work out with no
previous experience,” first-year coor
dinator Samantha Cowan said. “No
real experience is
necessary to come
out to learn and
practice. A lot of
people really
like that.”
Some members of
the team never com
pete. It may seem
smart, because tae kwon do appears to
be dangerous, but Cowan said that’s just
a common misconception people have.
“Injuries rarely happen,” Cowan said.
“The worst in jury I have ever seen was
a few bruises on someone’s arm. We
wear protective gear on the chest,
head and shins.
“I probably had more injuries playing
high school soccer and track.”
Cowan said the team is starting com
petition soon.
“The first event of the year is the
29th-annual Northwest Open Martial
Arts Championships, being held at Mt.
Hood Community College in Gresham
on Nov. 9,” Cowan said.
Down the road, the team hopes to
bring a competition to Oregon, and a
tentative seminar is scheduled for
March <S at McArthur Court.
In the meantime, the team is prepar
ing to confirm competitions outside
Turn to Tae kwon do, page 10
Club
Sports
Tuesday
UW stumbles to 1- 4 in Pac,
could fall to losing record
The Huskies are struggling and have an
8-9 record in the past 1 7 games
Pac-10 notes
Peter Hockaday
Sports Editor
The waters of Lake Washington are frigid
these days.
There is no joy in Seattle, for the mighty Huskies
could finish with a losing record.
Washington, with a 4-5 overall record this sea
son, needs to take two of three from its Northwest
rivals — Oregon State, Oregon and Washington
State, who the Huskies will face in that order to fin
ish the season — to avoid its first losing campaign
in 26 years.
Not since 1976 have the Huskies finished under
.500. They finished the 1998 season with a 6-6
overall record, but then Rick Neuheisel took over
and turned the program around, going 7-5 in 1999
and 11-1 in 2000.
Since then, Washington has struggled. In their
past 17 games, the Huskies are 8-9 overall.
“We just have not made the plays that we’ve
made over the years in the times when we need to
make them,” Neuheisel told the Seattle Times. “It’s
a difficult pill to swallow.”
Washington’s 1-4 Pacific-10 Conference record
this season isn’t a fault of its passing game. Junior
quarterback Cody Pickett is fourth in the nation
in passing and, with 398 more yards this season,
he will pass former Washington State quarterback
Ryan Leaf for the conference single-season pass
ing-yards record.
But perhaps Pickett is the problem, indirectly.
The Huskies passed 60 times against UCLA last
week, and passed 65 times in a game against USC
earlier this season. Washington had almost as many
passing attempts against the Bruins as they had
rushing yards — 69.
The one-dimensional attack is caused, in part, by
the rushing woes of junior tailback Rich Alexis.
Alexis was a nice complement to starter Willie
Hurst in 2001, but as the starter this season he has
rushed for only 64 yards per game.
Alexis is back from a rib injury this week, but
Neuheisel told the Times he will start Chris Single
ton instead against Oregon State.
The Huskies play the Beavers in Seattle on Sat
Turn to Pac-10, page 10
Steve Ringman Seattle Times (KRT)
Omar Lowe and the Huskies are chasing the rest of the Pac-10, as Washington is 8-9 in its last 17
games and could finish with a losing record for the first time in 26 seasons.