VOLLEYBALL
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Cira Wright combined for three con
secutive kills to give UCLA the win.
"I'm extremely optimistic for this
team, but at the same time I'm disap
pointed because we had game three,"
Ferreira said. "Winning gives them
such reinforcement, but what they've
walked away with tonight is knowing
what they can accomplish. In the
third game we wanted UCLA and the
fans to wonder why Oregon kept
fighting and didn't give up.
"We were extremely resilient."
lones led the Ducks with 16 points,
while Mason added 14, including 12
kills, one block and two block assists.
It was Mason's fifth consecutive
match with 10 or more kills.
Sophomore middle blocker Kelly
Russell added 11 points. Bell had a team
high 32 assists, while junior libero Katie
O'Neil had a team high 16 digs.
Freshman setter Heather Madison, a
first-team All-American during her sen
ior year of high school at Gresham, fin
ished with six assists and six digs.
The Bruins had three players who
finished with at least 15 points.
Wright led the way with 20, middle
blocker Brynn Murphy had 15.5 and
Cullen added 15. The trio combined
for 44 of the Bruins' 58 kills.
Oregon has now lost nine of its last
10 matches after starting 2-1. The
Ducks lost their Pac-10 openers to
California and Stanford Sept. 18-19.
The Ducks' next match is the first in
stallment of the Civil War on Thursday
at Oregon State The Ducks' only Pac-10
win last season came at the hands of the
Beavers in Corvallis. Oregon State (9-6,
0-4) will host Portland on Triesday.
After its trip to Corvallis, Oregon
will play five of its next seven matches
at home, including rematches with
the Bruins and Trojans, Oct. 23-24.
Contact the sports reporter
at jonroetman@dailyemerald.com.
SOCCER
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For the Titans, senior Laura Janke
took care of business, recording two
saves while playing the full 90 minutes.
Janke, who was recently honored as the
Big West Conference's Co-Player of the
Week, tops the career list for the Titans
after recording her 11 th shutout.
Oregon, which won two games ear
lier in the month in California, returns
to the confines of Pape Field this week,
but must face defending national
champion Portland on Friday at 7 p.m.
The Ducks then take on Weber State on
Sunday in a day match before heading
out again on the road for Pac-10 play.
"It was a frustrating weekend, but
we need to bounce back because
Portland won't be any easier this
weekend," Steffen said.
Contact the sports reporter
at jessethomas@dailyemerald.com.
JINX
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defeated 55-16 on Saturday by then
No. 21 Washington State quieting the
buzz about the Ducks that started just
days before.
"Everybody is going to say 'SI jinx,' or
whatever," quarterback Kellen Clemens
said after the game. "I don't think it got
to our heads, at least not to the players 1
talked to. We just got outplayed."
The Sept. 29 issue focused on Ore
gon's extravagant spending, and per
haps could have silenced those who
have criticized the program for its pro
motion of the team.
Ihe Ducks spent $250,000 to put a
Joey Harrington billboard in New York
City in 2001. After that came billboards
of various players in California.
I his year, Oregon has taken to using
advertisements in USA Today to pro
mote the team. Also, new uniforms
and a state-of-the-art locker room have
drawn criticism.
"Well, 1 don't worry about the crit
ics," Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti
said last week. "We've gotten more
publicity — much more than we
would have ever thought — by the ads
in New York, and by our uniforms.
That was three weeks worth of talk
shows all across the nation.
"We made Sports Illustrated not on
the merit of anything but our victories.
That to me is more important to the
players. We can talk about facilities and
billboards and all those things, but the
reality is, if you win football games,
that is a solid type of representation."
University President Dave Frohn
mayer said the recognition gives new
er students a sense of where they be
long nationally.
"It's exciting to give students a
sense that they have a profile and that
it really is national," Frohnmayer
said. "While we say that, and while
it's in our literature, and it's true,
sometimes the visible proof of it is
the extra frosting on the cake."
I le stopped short of saying the cov
er would necessarily attract more stu
dents — at least on that merit alone
— but said it emphasizes the "clean
and ethical" program run by Bellotti
and Athletics Director Bill Moos.
I he cover marks the third time a cur
rent Oregon player or team has been
highlighted by the magazine. Harring
ton appeared on the cover in the maga
zine's college football preview issue in
2001, and legendary Oregon runner
Steve Prefontaine graced it in 1970.
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