Wrestling
continued from page 9
with Larwin coming away with the
4-3 victory.
“It was a big win for Luke,” Kear
ney said. “(Arbogast) is ranked third
in the conference. This is the kind of
guy Luke’s going to have to beat to
make it to nationals and to win the
Pae-10 tournament.”
No. 11 Shane Webster began with
a takedown in the first five seconds
of the 174 match, and didn’t let up
the pace. With five takedowns in the
first period and three each during
the second and third periods, Web
ster controlled the flow of the
match. The sophomore earned a
point for riding time and held his op
ponent to 10 escapes, winning a
four-point major decision, 23-11.
Webster’s win put Oregon ahead
of the Vikings, 20-0.
“It was a good win for Shane,”
Kearney said.
Freshman Tony Rolen at 184 and
sophomore Elias Soto at 197 both
earned victories by forfeit from their
Portland State opponents.
Neil Phillips, wrestling the heavy
weight match, earned his first colle
giate four-point major decision.
Phillips scored a takedown in the
first period, and a reversal and four
more takedowns in the third period
on his way to the 13-5 victory.
“That’s his thing,” Kearney said.
“He took some risks.”
The dual rolled back around to
125 with the Ducks leading 36-0
and sophomore Martin Mitchell on
the mat. Mitchell scored two take
downs, a reversal and a near fall for
a 9-4 victory.
To wrap up the meet for the
Ducks, redshirt freshman Jacob
Boyles fought for a 5-3 decision. The
win was Boyles’ second in the Pac
10 in three attempts.
“We did some things real good
tonight,” Kearney said.
Oregon finished the dual season
with an 8-11 overall record, going 6
4 in the Pac-10.
The Ducks now have 10 days to
prepare for the Pac-10 tournament,
hosted by Boise State. The tourna
ment begins March 2.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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Oregon coach Chuck Kearney (center) discusses a match with Shane Webster (left). The Ducks beat PSU on Wednesday.
Men's
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“A smart coach or a smart team, you don’t look at
Washington State or Washington’s record,” Oregon
head coach Ernie Kent said. “They’ve played every
body tough as of late. They’re both very, very tough on
their home floors.”
First up are the Cougars at 7 p.m. (the game will not
be televised). Washington State hasn’t won since a Dec.
23 victory over Fresno State. Only two of their 13
straight losses have been by less than 10 points.
But the Ducks talked about that very failure as being
the Cougars’ biggest tool against them. Oregon will play
in front of a Friel Court crowd that has averaged 2,259
fans in six Pac-10 games this season, 1,827 fans if you
discount the record-setting game against Arizona, which
4,419 fans attended.
“Pullman, not that many fans and everything, we’ve
just got to go up there and play within ourselves,” Ore
gon guard James Davis said. “I’ve got much respect for
Washington State, they played us tough down here.”
Ahh, the infamous 76-66 “tough” game that the Ducks
and Cougars played in Eugene on Jan. 25. The Oregon
players agreed that if they had played better in that
game, it wouldn’t have been nearly so tough.
“We need to go up there and give them our best effort
because I don’t think we gave them that when they came
down here,” Kent said.
On Saturday, Oregon heads to Seattle to continue the
blooming rivalry that sometimes tastes like onion to the
Oregon team (the game will be televised at 4 p.m. on Fox
Sports). The Ducks blew out the Huskies by 25 points in
January at Mac Court, but the teams have split the last
12 games in the rivalry in half, six apiece. Oregon lost a
close one in Seattle last year, 97-92.
“Definitely it’s a rivalry,” Davis said. “They’re athletic,
talented always. We’re going to expect their best game.”
As Doug Wrenn goes, so go the Huskies against the
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Ian Crosswhite and the big men will be key in Washington.
Ducks. The talented forward scored only 10 points
against Oregon in Eugene, but scored 32 points in 36
minutes of Washington’s win last year.
When the Huskies played in Eugene, Wrenn was the
focus of many of the Pit Crew’s chants, including “U
Conn re-ject,” a reference to Wrenn getting kicked off
the Connecticut team two years ago.
You can bet that when the Ducks play at Washing
ton on Saturday, the home crowd won’t be cheering
against Wrenn.
But they won’t be cheering against Luke Ridnour ei
ther. And that may be just what the Ducks need to go
two-for-Washington.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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Smith said. “It does drain you of
energy, and I think you’re not real
ly conscious of that.”
In her sec
ond season
coaching at
Oregon,
Smith dealt
with more
than some do
in five years.
The suspen
sion of senior
S h a q u a 1 a
Williams is one
of the most
controversial
issues Smith faced. It still remains a
mystery and a topic Smith was not
willing to elaborate on.
“I don’t really have anything to
add to what has already been said.
What I said when the situation
came up is what I stand by. ”
A grocery list of injuries and the
loss of sophomore Amy Parrish
are among Smith’s struggles. With
blow after blow from every angle,
the team kept rebounding but was
still shaken.
“When you get rocked a little
bit at the beginning of the year, it
kind of shakes your foundation,”
Smith said.
Oregon has put its horrific past
behind it. The Ducks will now try
to turn the corner toward the end
Smith
of this season and continue the
streak of consecutive postseason
tournament appearances.
Oregon has to look to the 2003
04 season and wonder if it will be
a repeat. But Smith sees her
team’s immediate future as being
bright, with three new recruits
coming to Oregon for next year.
“She wants to have a smart
team that can really know the
game instead of having to run set
play after set play, but build com
plete plays and understand the
game,” Ganes said.
Through her time here, Smith
has become part of a program that
is full of surprises. Even with her
extended resume of experience,
some things can never be prepared
for. Her coaching has proved that
the coaching staff and team can
weather any storm.
“You can’t foresee adversity,
you can’t predict what’s going to
happen — you just have to deal
with it,” Smith said. “We just have
to absolutely get better, there is
no doubt about it.”
Smith’s coaching career has just
begun at Oregon. The halls of The
Pit had her name engraved long be
fore she decided to coach.
Now she is on the path to leave
her imprint once again, but this
time in a suit, as her uniform days
have already placed her in the Ore
gon Hall of Fame.
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