Nerves come out in first
Duck scrimmage Friday
Oregon^ shooting Friday at its
first scrimmage was not on the
mark, but the Ducks aren’t
concerned
Women’s basketball
Hank Hager
Sports Reporter
It has been almost eight months
since the Oregon women’s basket
ball team stepped on the court for
theWNIT.
Saturday’s exhibition game —
set to start at 5 p.m. at McArthur
Court — represents the first test
for the Ducks, but each player had
an examination of her own on Fri
day. The squad’s first public scrim
mage drew a large crowd — ap
proximately 300 people — but not
high-percentage shooting.
As a team, the Ducks attempted
35 3-pointers, but connected on just
eight. Overall, Oregon shot 35 per
cent (39-for-lll) from the field.
“I think that we executed well,
and therefore produced a lot of open
shots, and I think perhaps some
nerves about the crowd we had,
which was large for a scrimmage, af
"We're so used to
playing in practice
against each other,
we're beginning to get
a little tired of it"
Kedzie Gunderson
sophomore
fects them and how they play,” head
coach Bev Smith said. “We don’t
want to be perfect right now with
that offensive shooting. It would be
nice if it was up there but I think
what we’re focusing on right now is
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defensive intensity, playing hard and
playing together.”
Sophomore Andrea Bills led the
team with 16 points on 5-of-13 shoot
ing, while junior Cathrine Kraayeveld
pitched in with 15 points. Newcomer
Carolyn Ganes had 12 points and five
rebounds, while sophomore Brandi
Davis—who missed last season due to
academic reasons — scored eight
points.
“We’re so used to playing in prac
tice against each other, we’re begin
ning to get a little tired of it,” sopho
more Kedzie Gunderson said.
“Overall, we moved well and worked
well as a team.”
Getting exclusive
Senior Shaquala Williams earned
national recognition this week when
ESPN.com named her one of the top
five point guards in the nation.
According to analyst Nancy
Lieberman, Williams is “very dy
namic and hard to guard. She can
handle the ball and score, and has
stretched her game.”
“It’s a great compliment, especially
coming from somebody like Nancy
Lieberman, who is considered one of
the all-time greats, but it’s just a hum
bling thing,” Williams said. “I’m just
happy they recognized me, but I think
right now I’d rather have them recog
nizing our team, saying that we’re one
of the better teams in the country.”
Last season, Williams averaged
16.3 points and 3.9 assists per game
as Oregon’s shooting guard. This sea
son, she has moved to the point —
her natural position — after vacating
it because of Edniesha Gurry’s pres
ence last season.
Stanford’s Susan King made the
“also considered” list as the only
other player from the Pacific-10
Conference mentioned.
Top of the heap
Oregon’s non-conference sched
ule was ranked sixth-toughest in the
nation Wednesday by the Women’s
Basketball Coaches Association and
Richie Summerville, a producer for
ESPN Radio in Virginia Beach, Va.
The Ducks’ nine non-conference
opponents combined to go 179-91
(.663) last season. Six of those teams
made the NCAA Tournament.
Oregon’s overall strength of sched
ule, which includes Pae-10 games, is
ranked 47th.
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Robi Thayer file
Born: Robi Anngene Thayer on Feb* 10,1980, in Des Moines,
Wash.
High School: Lettered four times in soccer at Auburn High ...
was selected MVP and Best Defensive Player her final three years
... member of the ! 998 Washington State club champions, the FC
Royals.
Oregon: Transferred to Oregon in 2001 and had an immediate
impact on defense. Has been a co-captain for the Ducks this
season and will play her final game in an Oregon uniform
tomorrow night against Oregon State.
Thayer
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choice for Thayer since she was five
years old. She was told she was too
big to be a ballerina and the team as
pect of the game is what drives her
to play, as individual sports are not
her style.
Thayer has learned a lot in 17
years of playing soccer. And her days
in El Paso have helped to shape her
into the defender she is today for
Oregon. The aggressive, in-your-face,
I’ll-take-you-out-if-I-get-the-chance
style has made her who she is.
“She is a very intelligent player
and uses her abilities really well,”
Steffen said. “She doesn’t get
caught in difficult situations be
cause she is smart enough to pre
vent them beforehand.”
Soccer has brought Thayer
through her entire adolescence, and
she is now figuring out where she
will go from here. Thayer is a fifth
year senior and plans to continue
her schooling to earn a double ma
jor in sociology and business.
The soccer mom will be gone
soon enough, and when she is,
hopefully her troops can find a way
to fill in the gap, as Thayer had a
large impact on her little Ducks.
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Blowout
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for 50 points, and Ridnour chipped
in with 13 assists.
Ridnour hit the ground hard on
one play in the second half, a block
on a fast break. Ridnour elevated
for the block, but fell on his rear
next to the hoop as the crowd went
silent. But he got up a short while
later, and said he will be sore for a
few days.
Almost everybody on the team got
playing time Wednesday night.
Kent’s son, Jordan, and Adam Zahn
sat out the game for possible redshirt
reasons, but Kent played everybody
else on the team — in the first half.
The only player on the squad who
didn’t score in the first period was
Brandon Lincoln, but Lincoln got his
first points on a three-pointer with
9:18 left in the second. He ended the
game with six points.
The Ducks’ next exhibition game
is set for next Thursday at 7 p.m.,
when the Ducks will take on the EA
Sports Allstars at McArthur Court.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com
Speed
continued from page 9
transfer Andre Joseph, and red
shirt freshman center Ian Gross
white, playing against his former
mates from Australia, combined to
hit 10-of-ll three-pointers in the
first half. Overall, the Ducks con
nected on 15-of-24 (.625) shots
from beyond the arc.
“It has not been a surprise to me
for us to shoot that well,” Kent said.
Celebrating his 21s: birthday
Wednesday, Jackson said the win
was especially pleasing. But he said
that he didn’t have any wild plans
for a birthday celebration.
“I’m just going to go the family’s
house (in Creswell), eat a little cake
and call it a night,” Jackson said.
Indeed, a slow start for a 21er —
about the only slow aspect of Ore
gon’s start to the 2002-03 season.
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