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-Oregon Daily Emerald
GAME DAY
Friday, September 5, 2003
Sports Editor: Hank Hager
Adam Amato Emerald
Linebacker Kevin Mitchell recorded two unassisted tackles and five assisted tackles against the Bulldogs in Oregon’s opening win.
Ngata-less Ducks welcome
Wolf Pack in home opener
Nevada invades Autzen Stadium
for Oregon’s second game of season
By Hank Hager
Sports Editor
The 42-34 win over Mississippi
State last week was a case of Oregon's
best and worst.
The good: A 28-0 lead after one
quarter and more than 500 yards of
offense. The team's two quarterbacks
— sophomore Kellen Clemens and
senior Jason Fife — combined to pass
for more than 300 yards. And to top it
off, the Oregon running game barely
missed 200 yards rushing.
The bad: The Bulldogs came with
in eight points of tying the game in
the waning moments of the contest,
and Mississippi State had more than
400 yards of total offense.
"We made some plays and the of
fense put some points on the board,"
seniorlinebacker Kevin Mitchell said.
"On defense we had a lot of three
and-outs, but there were times where
we had them third-and-10, third-and
15. We ended up blowing a 28-point
lead. If you want to be successful, you
can't do that."
Lessons have been learned: The
Ducks now square off Saturday at 12:30
p.m. against Nevada (1-0) in the first
game of the season at Autzen Stadium.
While the Ducks are sitting at 1-0
this season, a symbolic 1-1 sits in their
minds. Sophomore Haloti Ngata will
miss at least the first month of the sea
son after suffering damage to his an
terior cruciate and medial collateral
ligaments in last week's game.
And the 345-pound defensive line
man will be sorely missed.
"We've talked about it all along
where somebody gets hurt, we'd like
to look at it as an opportunity instead
of a loss," head coach Mike Bellotti
said. "For us, Haloti obviously is a big
part of our plan and I feel very badly
for him."
Senior Junior Siavii and junior Rob
by Valenzuela are now expected to
step into Ngata's shoes.
'They're all solid defensive linemen,"
junior Igor Olshansky said. "Losing
Haloti kills our depth at defensive line,
but Robby and Junior are more than ca
pable of picking up the slack."
Olshansky, who played defensive
tackle last season, opened the Missis
sippi State game at defensive end.
However, by the second half, he had
moved back to tackle.
Olshansky said he expects Nevada to
have the same type of game plan that
the Bulldogs brought to the table With
the Wolf Pack throwing into the fire an
inexperienced sophomore quarterback,
Jeff Rowe the Nevada running game is
expected to take full opportunity of
Oregon's depleted line
That means Chance Kretschmer,
who ran for 170 yards in the Wolf
Pack's 24-23 victory over Southern
Utah to start the season, will get a
large portion of the team's carries. He
had 26 last week.
"Basically, we've got to do our own
jobs within the defense and as long as
everyone does their own job, we
should be okay," Mitchell said.
Turn to PREVIEW, page 9
Duck comers could leam well
from Bauman's Oregon days
Let's take a look back into the Ore
gon time capsule.
Rashad Bauman, Oregon corner
back, steps in front of a Jonathan
Smith pass, cementing the Ducks' vic
tory in the Civil War in December
2001. It ends Oregon's regular season
at 10-1, giving the Ducks a shot at
Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl.
Why, you ask, would that play stick
out any more than a Joey Harrington
i touchdown pass or a Maurice Morris
run that season?
The answer, of course, being Bau
man himself. The 5-foot-9 corner
back, who now plays for Washington
in the NFL, was everything Oregon
needed and wanted in his five years
in Eugene.
He left last season, and for the first
time in a long time the Ducks had
Hank Hager
Behind the dish
question marks in their defensive
backfield. Those question marks
swelled as the season wore on and
Steven Moore, Aaron Gipson and
company, couldn't cut the mustard.
Knowing that, head coach Mike
Bellotti recruited junior college and
high school players — Rodney Woods
and Ryan Gilliam, respectively —
who bring to the table credentials and
more question marks alike.
Woods, of course, came close to
never stepping foot on the Oregon
campus until a felony charge was re
duced to a misdemeanor.
Gilliam is a true freshman —
question mark No. 1. Secondly, he
stands only 5-foot-9, very short for a
West Coast comerback. Bauman was
able to overcome that, but it has yet
to be seen how Gilliam will do
against the Pacific-10 Conference's
bigger receivers.
The Ducks will need one of these
two — or someone else — to be the
next Bauman. They need the brash,
aggressive attitude that Bauman
brought to the field.
Turn to HAGER, page 5