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Kendall Chevrolet 2020 Franklin Blvd., Eugene » 465-3588 • Open Mon-Fri 7:30-5:30 Oregon Daily Emerald GAME DAY Friday, November 14, 2003 Sports Editor: Hank Hager Mark McCambridge Photographer Duck Jason Fife (12) hops over a California player while Golden Bear Ryan Foltz (26) looks on during Oregon’s 21-17 win. Part III: Ducks head south in search of seventh win Oregon returns to the Rose Bowl where the Ducks and Bruins have battled to one point games in two years By Hank Hager Sports Editor Kevin Mitchell said he expects to have a lot of friends and family at Sat urday's game. It's a return home for freshman Kyle Weatherspoon, who said the first thing he wants to do is "see my mom." Mitchell, Weatherspoon and a handful of other Ducks will get a chance to go home to Southern Cali fornia when Oregon takes on UCLA Saturday at 12:30 p.m. It is the third straight season in which the Ducks will play at the Rose Bowl, yet another scheduling quirk in the Pacific-10 Conference. "I don't like the three-times-in-a row thing," Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti said. "But I understand the reasons to allow the geographic rival ries to continue. 1 was in favor of that. I don't understand why in all our in finite wisdom it has seemingly gone on for a long time." Oregon has just three players that actually hail from Los Angeles — cor nerbacks Marques Binns and Steven Moore and defensive end Darius Sanders — but there are myriad play ers who came to Oregon from the re gion. That includes quarterback Jason Fife, a native of Lake Elsinore; offen sive lineman Adam Snyder, who hails from Whittier, which is approximate ly 20 miles outside of Los Angeles; and Long Beach's Sarnie Parker. With temperatures expected to be at a high of roughly 70 degrees, it will be a true homecoming for these players. "It's exciting to get to go home and see family and friends," Mitchell said. "It's exciting, and you really couldn't ask for any better of a situation." The Ducks, though, will be all busi ness when they step onto the Rose Bowl turf. Oregon and UCLA have seen their last two games decided by a combined total of two points, both of which were Duck wins. Last season, it was a missed field goal by UCLA kicker Chris Griffith that gave the Ducks the 31-30 win. The year before was strikingly similar, with Griffith again missing a field goal in the waning minutes of the game. This one was a 50-yarder — 2002's was a 46-yarder — and the Ducks completed a fourth-quarter ral ly for the 21-20 win. Only once since the 1989 season has either team defeated the other by more than 10 points. That happened in 2000 when Oregon won, 29-10, at Autzen Stadium. Turn to PREVIEW, page 8B Ducks hope to feed off emotion against Bruins in pivotal contest Momentum will be key for Oregon after the Ducks defeated California in the last minutes of last week's game By Jesse Thomas Sports Reporter It was at the 10:07 mark in the fourth quarter of Saturday's game when Oregon head coach Mike Bel lotti realized something was different on the sideline. That was the time when Cal scored its final touchdown and took a 17-7 lead. That was the point when Ore gon's mindset made a drastic change. "At that point, our team woke up and said, 'enough is enough,'" Bel lotti said. "For us at that point, I don't know any one thing that hap pened other than the accumulation of frustration. Each player individu ally and collectively said, 'enough is enough.' Maybe they reached down a little bit deeper." Free safety Justin Phinisee remem bers what it was. "We talked about having 'emo' on the field with us, that emotion out there, we had that last week," Phinisee said. It was emotion that fueled Oregon to score 14 points in the fourth quar ter for its first fourth-quarter come back in 17 games. It was emotion that helped the Ducks become eligible for a bowl game. It was emotion that helped the Ducks remember why they like football. "In the beginning of the season, the first four or five games, (we were) coming out and playing hard, playing fast and having fun, and I think we kind of got away from that a little bit" Phinisee said. "1 think those were fad ing away like I said last week, and I think we're back." Emotion helped get the Ducks to this point. Oregon players believe that the momentum from the win will be a key component in the final two games against UCLA and Oregon State. "(We have) quite a bit of momen tum, but we can't get overconfident and overlook anybody," quarterback Kellen Clemens said. "UCLA is a very good team. They've struggled as of late, but so had we. We can't get over confident going into this game by any Turn to MOMENTUM, page 8B
