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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
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