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The defense of Kedzie Gunderson (left) and Kayla Steen helped limit Stanford to a 39 percent shooting clip Thursday.
STANFORD
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Oregon head coach Bev Smith
didn't forget about the start, at
least her squad's start. The Ducks
worked the 4,167 in attendance
into a frenzy early, taking a 15-5
lead four minutes into the game.
Even after Oregon gave a little
ground and entered the locker
room tied at 33 at halftime, Smith
had confidence in her team. The
Ducks are now 4-0 when tied at
halftime.
"We've struggled with (the starts)
all year," Smith said. "That was our
focus this week in terms of trying to
do things that need to be done at the
beginning of the game, to build our
confidence to feel good about what
we're doing."
Freshman forward Eleanor Haring
scored a career-high 18 points and
led the Ducks with seven rebounds.
Mizusawa added nine assists to her
13 points, giving her 170 assists this
season to put her one behind the
No. 2 spot on Oregon's all-time, sin
gle-season assists list. Mizusawa
played her first game without a
brace on her left knee after partially
tearing the lateral meniscus in her
knee Feb. 12.
Guard Chelsea Wagner, who has
made the second-most three-point
shots for Oregon this season, didn't
play Thursday. She suffered the same
injury as Mizusawa on Jan. 15 and
had played with a brace on her knee.
Smith said Wagner's knee was the rea
son she didn't play.
"We haven't had the season we
wanted to (due to injuries and loss
es)," Mizusawa said. "Coming out
and beating the No. 10 team in Amer
ica and just getting a rhythm to get to
the Pac-10 tournament, and (now
we'll) see how we do in the Pac-10
tournament."
Smith wants her players to carry
the momentum of the upset into
Saturday's 1 p.m. game against Cali
fornia and beyond. The Ducks and
Golden Bears will play for a third
time this season March 5 in the
opening round of the Pac-10 Tour
nament, but Saturday's game is the
final tipoff at Mac Court.
" Tonight's game gave us a big, huge
flame that we can now go with," said
Steen, the team's backup point guard
and lone graduating senior. "Not just
for Saturday's game, but into the Pac
10 tournament."
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points off driving lay-ins. Gunderson
quickly turned the heat back up and
didn't allow the Cardinal's leading
scorer another point.
Near the end of the game, Powell
looked rattled by Gunderson's pres
sure as the National Player of the
Year candidate started complaining
to officials.
"She was getting frustrated," Gun
derson said. "I was pushing on her
and trying to get her frustrated, and by
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the end I think she was. She was com
plaining to the refs and it got into her
head a bit."
Powell was visibly upset and
fought back tears during postgame
interviews.
"They did a good job," Powell said
of Oregon's defense. "They try to stay
in front of you."
Oregon head coach Bev Smith said
she was happy that Gunderson got
the chance to redeem herself after last
year's loss to Stanford.
"Kedzie took a little bit of a
breather before we walked (to the
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locker room) after the game," Smith
said. "I think a young woman like
that, who was in the mix of it last
year, she'll sleep a little bit better for
the next year knowing that (she got
her payback)."
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