Football
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To the Ducks’ credit, they had
just two possessions in the third
quarter against Stanford (after the
Cardinal put together a 10-minute
touchdown drive), though both of
those drives ended with punts.
In the decisive third quarter
against USC two weeks ago, Ore
gon managed just nine total yards
on four possessions, including an
interception, while the Trojans
scored three touchdowns.
“The third quarter is definitely
an area we need to improve in.
We can’t trade touchdowns for
field goals,” Oregon safety Keith
Lewis said. “If we played four
straight quarters, we could beat a
lot of teams.”
But Lewis said the Ducks start
to feel their aches and pains dur
ing halftime and begin to lose
adrenaline.
“It’s just a matter of finding a
solution,” Lewis said.
Easier said than done.
Onterrio’s
“85 percent” healthy
O-man, Onterrio’s back.
Washington State must be shak
ing. And it’s not because of snow.
Onterrio Smith, the Pac-10
rushing leader with 126.9 yards
per game, wore a brace during
practices on Monday and Tuesday
after sitting out Oregon’s win
over Stanford with a minor left
knee injury.
Smith said he will play Satur
day against the No. 5 Cougars (8
1, 5-0), a team he torched for 342
all-purpose yards and 285 rushing
yards, both school records, in
Oregon’s win in Pullman last year.
“Right now, I’m about 85 per
cent,” Smith said Monday. “The
percentage should rise as the
week progresses. Hopefully, by
Saturday I’ll be 100 percent.”
Although he did not practice
last week, Smith was cleared to
play against Stanford. But Bellotti
held him out as a precaution.
“I feel like he’ll be ready, and
the trainers feel like he’ll be ready
(for WSU),” Bellotti said.
And considering the dreary
weather conditions in Pullman,
Smith could be set for another
big game.
"You can call it ugly,
you can call it
whatever you want to.
I don't care. We won,
we won, we won,
we won. That's a win
in the record; that's
a step in the right
direction, that showed
the kind of guts this
team has."
Joey Harrington
Detroit Lions quarterback
“I heard it’s going to rain, so
that calls for the running game,”
Smith said.
In Smith’s place, freshman Ter
rence Whitehead rushed for 132
yards on 29 carries against Stan
ford. Bellotti said Whitehead will
give Smith some relief in Pullman.
The sensation
continues
Oregon sophomore Jared Siegel
was named a semifinalist for the Lou
Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award,
given to the nation’s top kicker.
Siegel, the Pac-10 special teams
Player of the Week, has converted
18-of-19 field goals this season;
his only miss was blocked in the
first game of the season against
Mississippi State. He has since
converted a school-record 15 con
secutive field goals.
Gal’s Mark Jensen is the only
other Pac-10 semifinalist for the
award. The list will be narrowed
to three on Nov. 18.
Ducks in the NFL
Vicious.
That’s the only way to describe
former Oregon cornerback Rashad
Bauman’s greeting of former Ore
gon teammate Maurice Morris at
Seahawks Stadium on Sunday.
Bauman, who plays for the
NFL’s Washington team, made a
brutal clothesline tackle of Morris,
a return specialist for the Seattle
Seahawks, during a kickoff in a
14-3 Washington victory.
In Detroit, Mr. Oregon, er, Joey
Harrington improved his record to
3-3 as the starting quarterback for
the Lions, although it wasn’t pret
ty. Harrington was 14-for-33 for
104 yards as the Lions won 9-6 on
three field goals.
But a win’s a win, right Joey?
“You can call it ugly, you can
call it whatever you want to. I
don’t care,” Harrington said after
the game. “We won, we won, we
won, we won. That’s a win in the
record; that’s a step in the right
direction, that showed the kind of
guts this team has.”
Also of the 2001 graduating
class, tight end Justin Peelle has
seen action for the San Diego
Chargers as a starter and on spe
cial teams. Former Oregon line
backer Peter Sirmon (1996-99),
now a starter for the Tennessee
Titans, recorded his first NFL in
terception Sunday.
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conference play and six losses each.
The Beavers enter their final
weekend after a rough stint in
L.A. with consecutive losses to
UCLA and USG. Oregon State has
found glory only once in the Pac
10, but has won seven times in
non-conference play.
The Beavers and the Ducks will
each look for one last win in the rival
matchup at Papg Field Friday night.
Washington State is running
strong at 4-1-2 in Pac-10 with two
recent wins over the desert
schools. Junior forward Shelby
Brownfield helped WSU move
from sixth to fourth in Pac-10
standings with the game winner
against ASU and another goal
at Arizona.
The Washington Huskies sit at
.500 after losses at Arizona and Ari
zona State. Both losses were upsets
as Washington has never lost to the
Wildcats in seven previous match
ups, and it was their first loss to the
Sun Devils in six meetings.
Arizona is highlighted by fresh
man forward Kelly Nelson as she
has been named the Pac-10 Play
er of the Week. Nelson scored the
game-winner against Washington
and snapped a six-game losing
streak for the Wildcats.
But for Arizona, postseason
play is not an option as they are
1-6 in Pac-10 play and sit in a tie
for ninth in the standings.
Arizona State could be looking at
playing in the NCAA Tournament
as they are 4-3 in conference and
with the win over the Huskies,
snapped a three-game losing streak
at Sun Devil soccer field.
Gal rounds out the Pac-10
squad and took a tough loss to
Stanford last week in dropping to
seventh in conference at 2-5. Se
nior forward Laura Schott scored
just the fourth goal against Stan
ford this season and the first in
Pac-10 play. Schott’s goal brought
an end to Stanford’s string of sev
en consecutive shutouts.
For postseason play, if Stanford
can win one more, it will receive
the league’s automatic NCAA
Tournament berth. Other teams
can look forward to tournament
play as well, but it depends on
Monday’s selections.
Last year UCLA, Stanford,
Washington, USG and Gal partici
pated in the tournament.
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Sports brief
Freshman leads golf
team to 10th place
The Oregon men’s golf team sent
all of its upperclassmen to La Quin
ta, Calif., but in the end, it was a
freshman who led the way.
True freshman Gregg LaVoie fin
ished in a career-best 15th-place
tie as the Ducks finished tied for
10th at the two-day Prestige,
which concluded Tuesday. LaVoie,
who Oregon head coach Steve
Nosier said would be an immediate
impact player before the season
started, fired a 2-over par 218,
helping the Ducks improve six
places over the second day.
“It wasn’t planned to have all our
upperclassmen going,” Nosier said.
“But it just worked out that way in
qualifying.”
The Ducks carded a 30-over 894,
41 strokes behind tournament win
ner Texas Christian’s 853. The
Homed Frogs were the only team to
finish under par, including rounds of
284, 287 and 282. California Irvine
finished second with a 4-over 868,
followed by Pepperdine at 873 and
UCLA at 877. Vanderbilt rounded
out the top five with an 880.
“Our goal coming in was to win
the tournament, and after a slow
start in the first round, our guys
played great,” TCU head coach Bill
Montigel said. “We played exception
ally well over the last two rounds and
I am really proud of the guys.”
Individual honors went to Kansas
senior Chris Marshall, who fired an
11-under 207. TCU senior Adam
Rubinson finished second, one
stroke off the pace, followed by Van
derbilt’s Brandt Snedeker at 211,
Stanford’s Jim Seki at 212 and Cali
fomia-Irvine’s Jay Choe at 213.
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