Sports Editor
Hank Hager
hankhager@dailyemerald.com
Monday, November 3,2003
Oregon Daily Emerald
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SLOPPY IN SEATTLE
Adam Amato Photo Editor
Kenny James (8) had 18 carries for 104 yards on Saturday against the Ducks. His long rush on the night was a 56-yard play that took Washington to the 8-yard line and set up a touchdown.
Husky kind’ of day
Oregon falls for the second straight
year to Washington after allowing
42 unanswered points in Seattle
By Hank Hager
Sports Editor
SEATTLE — Last year, Washington got the
chance to dance on the Oregon "O" after defeat
ing the Ducks in Autzen Stadium.
_This year, the opportunity
1T% n m wfr to dance on the Washington
UP 11% "W" came at Husky Stadi
FOOTBALL um And again, the Huskies
- took full advantage of it.
Washington hung 42
unanswered points on the board, including 35 in
the second half, en route to a 42-10 victory over
Oregon in front of 72,450 on Saturday.
"We played very poorly," Oregon head coach
Mike Bellotti said. "We turned the ball over, we
gave them the big plays, we broke ourselves down.
It was very horrible."
Washington didn't have Rich Alexis. They didn't
have Cody Pickett in the second half. They didn't
have wide receiver Charles Frederick fully healthy.
And it didn't matter.
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Adam Amato Photo Editor
Rodney Woods (under jacket) and teammates watch the video screen at Husky Stadium as
Washington scored its final touchdown of the night on Saturday, capping a 35-point second half.
Backup Casey Paus took control
of Washington in the second half,
making the difference for UW
By Mindi Rice
Senior Sports Reporter
SEATTLE — Falling snow wasn't the only
Seattle oddity at I lusky Stadium on Saturday.
Washington's starting quarterback Cody
Pickett— the team's one constant this season
— left the game at halftime with an unspeci
fied "serious head injury" and didn't come
back out on the field.
He didn't need to.
Ilie Huskies were down 10-7 when backup
quarterback Casey Paus took over at the begin
ning of the third quarter.
Paus threw eight pass attempts in the second
half, doubling his season total. It was the first time
since high school that he played at least a quarter.
"Once 1 got that first throw in me and
watched Kenny (James) break that run, every
thing went away, and I just focused on the
game," Paus said.
In his first series of the game, Paus completed
his only pass attempt and had four handoffs.
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Holts paces Oregon harriers as Ducks take second
Martin Smith’s runners
take second in Pullman
for the second year in a
row and third in five years
By Scott Archer
Freelance Reporter
If things weren't going the way the
men's cross country team expected at
_ this point in
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CROSSCOUNTRY on Saturday
-No. 18 Ore
gon entered the 2003 Pacific-10 Con
ference Championship at Pullman,
Wash., with the goal of coming in sec
ond behind Stanford.
The Ducks did just that.
Behind a strong performance from
senior Brett Holts — who finished the
race sixth overall — Oregon was able
to outpace its nearest competitor, No.
27 Washington, by two points. Stan
ford, the defending Pac-10 and Na
tional Champion, handily won the
race with 23 points.
It was the second time in as many
years the Oregon squad finished sec
ond at the Pac-10 Championship, and
the third time in head coach Martin
Smith's five-year tenure that the team
finished second overall.
Holts' career-best finish earned him
a spot in the first-team All Pac-10,
while teammates Eric Logsdon —
eighth at 25:09 — and Ryan Andrus
— 11th at 25:18 — helped bolster a
strong finish. The Ducks needed every
point they could get, and the trio of
All-Americans were on the same page
for the first time this season.
Oregon was able to outpace Arizona
and Arizona State, two teams that re
cently surpassed Oregon in the rank
ings. It was a pair of Oregon natives that
stole the show Saturday as Ian Dobson
and Grant Robison of Stanford finished
first and second overall, with times of
24:34 and 24:36, respectively.
The women also duplicated their
2002 Pac-10 Conference Champi
onship finish of a year ago.
Senior Magdalena Sandoval led Ore
gon with a fifth overall finish at a time
of 21:46. Eri Macdonald and her 16th
place 22:20 finish followed Sandoval.
"I was really happy with my race,"
Sandoval said. "Coming in I thought
top 10 was realistic. I was really pleased
that 1 was able to race hard the whole
way and still finish well. The Pac-10 is
a great conference, and it was fun to do
well against a challenging field."
No. 1 Stanford won it's eighth
straight Pac-10 title No. 4 Arizona State
finished second overall, followed by No.
15IJCLA, Washington and the Ducks.
The Stanford trio of sophomores
Sara Bei, Alicia Craig and Arianna
Lambie took the top three spots.
Saturday's finish by Sandoval and
Macdonald was easily their best finish
at a conference championship meet.
"Coming in fifth was our goal as a
team," head coach Mamie Mason said.
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