Women ready for final preseason test
After a 5 7-point win, the Ducks
look to dominate again tonight
against Southern Oregon
Women’s basketball
Jesse Thomas
Sports Reporter
The Oregon women’s basketball
team hosts Southern Oregon at
McArthur court in its final exhibition
game at 7 p.m.
The Ducks are off to a great start
after gliding through their first exhi
bition game, 100-43, over Horsholm
BBC last weekend.
Oregon held nothing back and
jumped to a 20-0 lead to start the first
half. Horsholm’s first basket didn’t
come until the 14:37 mark, but by
that time it was too late.
Junior forward Cathrine Kraayeveld
picked up a double-double with 14
points and 12 rebounds on the night,
and senior All-America guard
Shaquala Williams went 7-of-12 from
the field for a team-high 20 points.
Oregon will look to have the same
dominance again, but overall, the
Ducks are just enjoying the opportu
nity to compete.
“Anytime we can play another
team with another uniform, regard
less of who it is, they are excited, be
cause it is a measuring stick to see
where we’re at,” Oregon head coach
Bev Smith said. “Southern Oregon is
going to be a good opponent for us.
They play an up-tempo game. They
press, they trap and they look to run,
and that’s what we’re trying to do, so
it will be a good game for us. ”
Even in an exhibition game, Ore
gon takes nothing lightly.
“You have to go into every game
knowing you have to play hard and
not worry about the other team,”
Kraayeveldsaid.
All 12 Oregon players saw time last
weekend and the Ducks say they are
liking the way they look as a team
right now.
It is early in the season for Oregon,
but not too early for the Ducks to be
dreaming of the postseason. Oregon
dominated in winning the WNIT tour
nament last season but want to see the
NCAA tournament this time around.
“The important part of the season
right now is what we improve every
day,” Williams said. “We are learning
from our mistakes the day before,
and our exhibition game is a tremen
dous opportunity for us to be able to
show that to people.”
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Ducks get ready tor desert trip
Oregon looks for just its
second Pac-10 win in the
final road trip of the season
Volleyball
Hank Hager
Sports Reporter
The Oregon volleyball team is look
ing to get over the hump, looking for that
one last quality that will propel it to vic
tory No. 2 in Pacific-10 Conference play.
Matches against No. 16 Arizona and
Arizona State couldn’t have come at a
better time.
The Ducks travel to the desert for
their final road trip of the season, tak
ing on the Wildcats in Tucson on Fri
day, with a start time of 6 p.m. On Sat
urday, they travel to Tempe and duel
with the Sun Devils.
Oregon, which has been playing
some of its best volleyball all season
last week in losses to USC and UCLA,
was one game away from defeating Ari
zona State earlier this season. The
Ducks (11-17 overall, 1-13 Pac-10)
were no match for Arizona (13-9,8-6)
the night before, but look to avenge
their poor showing.
“I think our offense and defense
are in a lot more sync right now,”
sophomore Lauren Westendorf said.
“We’re getting a lot of digs, which
we’re transitioning into points, and
our passing is great.”
Against the Sim Devils, the Ducks
used timely scoring and a stingy de
fense to force Arizona State (10-9, 6
8) to five games. Oregon eventually
lost what was a heartbreaking match.
The difference for Oregon this time
is that the Ducks have been more con
sistent on a match-to-match basis re
cently. Before their previous match
against the Sun Devils, the Ducks had
played well just once in Pac-10 play, in
a five-game loss to California.
Since losing to Arizona State, the
Ducks have again taken California to
the limit, defeated Oregon State for
their first Pae-10 win of the season, and
despite bowing out early against USC,
played consistently against one of the
best teams in the nation.
“I don’t want to get satisfied with
out success,” head coach Carl Fer
reira said. “I don’t want anyone on
our team to get used to just being sat
isfied with playing very well. We actu
ally want to beat a top-20 team, and
we think we’re getting very close to
being able to get to that level. The
great thing about this Pac-10 volley
ball conference is nobody is going to
open the door for us.”
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be happier,” Oregon head coach
Ernie Kent said. “That was another
very impressive game offensively.
We challenged ourselves to run for
40 minutes, and we did.”
The EA Sports team is six days
away from completing a grueling 15
game, 20-day schedule, which has it
competing against some of the top
teams in the nation, including No. 1
Arizona and No. 4 Texas.
By comparison, Arizona defeated
the EA Sports squad 117-95 on Tues
day, while Texas handed the travel
ers a 102-88 loss.
Six EA Sports players scored in dou
ble figures against the Ducks, led by
former Wyoming guard Brett McFalTs
18 points on 5-of-10 three-pointers.
Oregon was 13-for-31 from beyond
the arc, with Ridnour and Davis each
hitting 4-of-7 attempts. Seven Ducks
scored in double figures.
“We wanted to get out and run,
and that’s what we did for the whole
game,” Ridnour said. “We have so
many weapons, it’s going to be hard
to stop us.”
Early on, the Ducks weren’t all that
hard to stop. The EA Sports team took
a 31-20 lead with 8:45 to play in the
first half, but Davis hit two three
pointers to lead the Ducks on a 23-9
run. After former Kansas forward Nick
Bradford was called for a technical
foul, Jackson and Ian Crosswhite sank
four consecutive free-throws.
Bradford and a referee later told
Kent that they were impressed by
the Ducks’ play.
“One of the officials said they
would need to bring in two sets of of
ficials to the games” because the
Ducks run so much, Kent said.
“Bradford said he’d never seen a
team like this that is so skilled and
plays so unselfishly.
“That was music to my ears.”
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“Nick told me to fake up top and
get back-door,” Arnold said.
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back-door for the easy lay-in. He ex
changed high-fives and monster
grins with his All-Star teammates.
“We drew it up, and it worked,”
Arnold said. “They set it up. There
are some great guys on that team.”
And in the high-five line after the
game, Arnold got another big grin,
from star point guard Luke Ridnour.
Then Ridnour, who scored 31 points
and notched 10 assists in the con
test, patted him on the back.
The grin on Arnold’s face lasted all
the way to the locker room, all the way
to the post-locker room speech. Heck,
that grin might last until Easter.
But that’s what happens when
you step on the court with the Ore
gon Ducks.
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