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Visit the University Health Center or call 346-4456 for an appointment. ■ Pick up a free Quit Kit in the peer health education room on the 1st floor. ■ Ask about free nicotine gum/patches or Mint Snuff® chew. ■ Speak with a peer educator and create a quit plan. Call the Quit Line: 1-877-612-1585 ■ Speak with a tobacco cessation specialist and create a personal quit plan. ■ Determine if patches and gum are right for you. Oregon wrestling gets first victory, overcomes Army The Ducks fell in the first two matches of the tournament in Redmond, but win in their final against the Black Knights Scott Archer Freelance Reporter Oregon finally got what it was hoping for Friday: a win. Oregon defeated Army, arguably its toughest opponent of the day, 23-21. But it was also the third team the Ducks faced in the Oregon Wrestling Classic, an 11 team tourna DUCK ment held an WRESTLING ZZoS. The other two matches didn't yield the same results for the Ducks. The Ducks began Friday's tourna ment with a loss to Pacific-10 Con ference counterpart Cal State-Fuller ton, 34-15. The box score didn't come close to explaining what tran spired, as the theme for the season has been. To say it was a tough team battle may not be appropriate. It was three Oregon wrestlers — senior Jason Harless, junior Luke Larwin and freshman Cody Parker — that scored all 15 points for the Ducks. "We wrestled flat today and did not show the emotion we have in the past," Oregon head coach Chuck Kearney said. "Cal State-Fullerton was fired up to wrestle us and they came out hard." Oregon then took on San Francis co State, a late addition to the tour nament after Air Force was scratched from the classic. The Ducks lost 20-12, earning points from Larwin, sophomores Skyler Woods and Chet McBee and senior Jake Leair. "San Francisco State was the same way," Kearney said. "They came out ready for us and we did not rebound from the first loss." It was the win against Army that had the most significance on the day for the Ducks. And it wasn't solely because they earned their first victory of the year. It provided the Ducks with an opportunity to wres tle under conditions they hadn't all season long. Oregon lost the first five of nine matches and was trailing Army 21 19 heading into the final match be tween Army's James Hollis and Ore gon's Cody Parker in the heavyweight division. The match was over from the get-go as Parker earned a 18-4 victory giving the Ducks four team points and the team victory, 23-21. The Ducks also received strong performances from McBee and Har less, who both pinned their oppo nents for important team points to ward the victory. 'Army was the best of three teams we competed against, and we wres tled hard," Kearney said. "The things we have been working on in practice showed up on the mat." The win comes at an important time for the Ducks. Oregon is in the midst of its schedule that features six different opponents in the next two weeks. Although the victory is n't a milestone for the Ducks, it does provide some confidence for a team that has already faced No. 1 Oklahoma State and No. 5 Nebras ka this season. "As a group we need to continue to stay on course and keep working hard at practice," Kearney said. "Continue to battle and compete in the practice room and eventually the things we work on will show up in competition." That was the case this Friday, at least in part, but a more serious cor relation between the practice room and the matches can be made if Ore gon continues to work on its weak nesses and starts putting together a string of victories. It won't be long before Oregon finds out as the Ducks travel to Stan ford on Thursday. The trip south be gins another round of CQmpetition. This time it comes against three teams in three days. Oregon faces UC Davis the night after Stanford, followed by the Aggie Open in Davis, Calif. Scott Archer is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. SPORTS BRIEF Women's basketball: No. 1 Duke subdues 13th-ranked North Carolina DURHAM, N.C. — It appeared it would be the perfect comeback — but only for a few seconds. Down by 11 at halftime, No. 13 North Carolina battled back to tie top-ranked Duke three times in the second half in front of a sold-out , crowd of 9,314 at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday. Then the Tar Heels fell apart and the Cameron Crazies came to a deafening roar in the closing min utes. The Blue Devils (13-1, 4-0) went on a 16-0 run and outscored I-: North Carolina 25-3 in the final six minutes, 38 seconds to win 79-57 in Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball. The win kept Duke's 47-game ACC winning streak alive and was its lOth-straight victory against its biggest rival. The win was also the 500th in program history and came in front of the program's third home sellout and second straight sellout against UNC. "This was a great game and a great atmosphere," Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said. "I thought the crowd really made a difference for us. Carolina made some runs and our crowd really got into the game and Turn to BRIEF, page 10 STUDENT GROUPS Advertise itt the Emerald. Call 346-3712 to speak with a rep. We have great University rates.
