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jury. Smith will have surgery today
to repair torn cartilage in his left
knee.
Fife, who started the game by
completing six of his first seven
passes, went 4-for-22 over the rest
of the contest.
“I was thinking about it in the
locker room, and I couldn’t pin
point a reason,” Fife said of his ane
mic performance.
Washington quarterback Cody
Pickett went 6-for-7 passing on the
Huskies’ second drive, and Rich Alex
is ran in a five-yard score to bring the.
Huskies within a touchdown.
On the next Washington posses
sion, Pickett hit a wide-open Reggie
Williams — who ended the game
with 14 catches for 198 yards and
three touchdowns — across the
middle for a 23-yard touchdown
that evened the score with 7:44 re
maining in the first half.
“I’m really proud of the ability of
the team not to blink, not to worry,
just to keep coming back, making
plays and getting it tied 14-14 before
"We got into a rhythm
with our passing game,
and the o-line opened
everything forks''
Reggie Williams
Washington wide receiver
the half was a big lift,” Washington
head coach Rick Neuheisel said.
The teams remained deadlocked
coming out of the locker room, and
with Fife struggling, Bellotti put in
redshirt freshman quarterback
Kellen Clemens on Oregon’s first of
fensive possession. Clemens threw
an interception on his first play.
“I was pretty nervous out there,”
Clemens said. “It was a rookie mis
take. The comerback baited me up.”
That interception came deep in
Oregon territory and set up Wash
ington’s go-ahead score, a Pickett
option toss to Alexis on the left side
that went for a 13-yard touchdown.
Clemens led a seven-play drive
on the ensuing Oregon possession,
but the drive ended in a 39-yard
missed field goal, Siegel’s second
straight miss after a streak of 15
made field goals.
Pickett finished the game with
316 yards on 26-of-37 passing and
four touchdowns. He broke the
Pac-10 record for passing yards in a
season late in the second quarter,
and also broke the Pac-10 record
for season completions and the
Washington record for touchdowns
in a season.
Williams also broke or tied sever
al records, including the Autzen
Stadium mark for catches in a
game and Washington’s record for
career receiving yards.
“We got into a rhythm with our
passing game, and the o-line
opened everything for us,”
Williams said.
Pickett, who was the recipient of
comments about his playing ability
from Oregon free safety Keith
Lewis, said, “During the game, I
asked him a question or two, but he
didn’t have much to say.”
Oregon will take on Oregon State
on Saturday in a Civil War matchup
that will determine bowl fates for
both teams. Washington will head
east to Pullman for the Apple Cup,
and the Huskies will likely need a
win to solidify a spot in a bowl.
Contact the sports editor
at peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Adam Amato Emerald
A pass intended for Oregon's Keenan Howry (15) is picked off by Husky
cornerback Derrick Johnson, who finished with two interceptions.
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ed for a bowl game. The Huskies
technically are bowl-eligible with
six wins, but the Pac-10 has a con
tract that allows just six teams to
play in the postseason.
The Huskies could guarantee
bowl bid with a win at No.
Oj to
Washington State this week.
The Ducks also travel to their
in-state rival, Oregon State, this
week, looking to end the season
on a positive note.
“I think we’ll be able to bounce
back from this and shoot right at
the heart of the Beavers,” Fife said.
Contact the senior sports reporter
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
Cross country
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ly, earning an automatic berth at the
NCAA Championship meet.
The women finished fifth as a team, be
hind the same teams they finished fifth
to at the Pacific-10 Conference Champi
onships on Nov. 2. The squad may earn a
spot at the national meet when the at
large teams are announced today.
“Today may get us to nationals, it
may not, but they certainly showed
they can run well when it counts, with
virtually the same team that was 12th
here last year,” said women’s head
coach Tom Heinonen.
Zografos had her best regional finish,
running the 6,000-meter course in 21:26.
“Mentally, I wasn’t nervous, because
other than my hip I had felt good and
comfortable coming in, and Pac-lOs
gave me confidence,” Zografos said. “I
know if I looked at today as potentially
the last race of my career, that would
put more pressure on me.”
Zografos had a hip muscle strain that
flared up in practice Tuesday, and was un
sure how it would affect her performance.
Three other women harriers joined
Zografos in the top-30. Junior Laura
Harmon placed 24th, running the race
in 22:15 and improving on last year’s
45th-place finish. Redshirt junior Eri
Macdonald finished 26th overall.
Freshman Nicole Feest finished sixth
for the Ducks and 67th overall in her
first regional championship meet.
“We only lost to Washington by nine
points, and this was the best race we
could have looked for at the end of the
season,” Heinonen said.
The women’s squad finds out today if
they earned one of 13 at-large berths for
the NCAA Championship meet on Nov.
25. The men have one week to train be
fore traveling to Terre Haute, Ind., to
take on 30 teams and 248 runners in
the national field.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer for the
Emerald.
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