“I forgot who started. ”
New York Yankee Derek Jeter after Game 5 of the ALCS where the
Red Sox and Yankees combined to use 14 pitchers
Practice old style with new
Volleyball coach Carl Ferreira
keeps practice innovative by
joining his players on the court
BY STEPHEN MILLER
SPORTS REPORTER
Practice is not just rehearsing plays or run
ning laps. Practice is not just dressing
down and breaking a sweat. It serves the
purpose of building experience, and the Oregon
volleyball coaching staff knows how vital it is
to its program.
Head coach Carl Ferreira tries to implement a
variety of activities to make each session seem
less repetitive. However, there are always con
stants in each meeting. Before each practice, the
team lines up shoulder-to-shoulder along the
sideline and breaks in unison with a clap. The
same ritual is repeated at the end of practice.
A brief warm-up, consisting of practice serves
or a bump, set and spike drill between partners
preludes the main workout. Once heart rates
have increased, the drills begin.
At times, Ferreira has become more involved
in the drills or workouts than an outsider would
expect. Such was the case Wednesday. For the
team’s final practice before a homestand against
No. 12 UCLA and No. 6 USC, Ferreira jumped
into the rotation and played several games among
his pupils.
“He did it a lot last year,” middle blocker Kris
ten Bitter said after practice. “I think it just de
pends on the personnel we’ve got on a given day.
We’re the same hitters, so we get used to each
other, and I think that can get us into a little bit of
a rut.”
Senior libero Katie O’Neil agrees that this is a
fairly common occurrence when the team is cop
ing with injuries or illness. She said that it pro
vides the team with a new perspective when Fer
reira participates.
“It’s fun when he comes in because he’s got
this charge about him,” O’Neil said. “He’s been
a hitter his whole life so he comes in and throws
in the shots that he knows the girls are going to
be playing.”
Ferreira believes that there are upsides and
downsides to crossing over the player-coach
boundary, but under the circumstances, he feels
that it is appropriate and effective.
“It’s amazing what five feet on the court
means compared to being five feet off the court,”
Ferreira said, “and when you’re on the court with
Oregon head coach Carl Ferreira elevates for a block attempt against freshman Justine Petry during a practice drill
on Wednesday at McArthur Court.
them, between the sidelines, you get a whole
different feeling - as a teammate. Even as a coach
on the sidelines, you don’t get that. It’s fun to
have the opportunity...to be embraced for a brief
moment as part of the internal team.
“I don’t like to do it myself because when you
play, it takes a little bit away from coaching, but
we were down a few players at the outside hitting
position so that is all I was doing; I was substitut
ing for the position,” he said.
The Ducks give less respect to their coach
when he is inside the lines. If he is guilty of a
miss-hit, or positions himself wrong, then he
hears about it from players on both sides of
the net.
“It’s kind of fun to have them hold me ac
countable to the things that we hold them ac
countable to,” Ferreira said, “and then when
you’re not doing what you ask of them, they let
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■ Women's soccer
Women's soccer seeks first Pac-10 win
Erik R. Bishoff | Photographer
Oregon forward Mele French will sit out Friday's game
against Washington State due to a red card last week.
Oregon has never won more than three games in Pac-10 play,
and so far this is not shaping up to be the turn-around season
BY BRIAN SMITH
SPORTS REPORTER
Three weeks in, and the women’s soccer Pacif
ic-10 Conference season has produced an unlike
ly first-place team, five nationally ranked clubs
and a sorting out of the contenders and pre
tenders in the conference.
Top forward to sit out against WSU
Oregon came into the season with expectations
of exceeding its school-record number of Pac-10
wins, set last year at three. A number of key in
juries, including the loss of Oregon’s biggest of
fensive weapon, junior Nicole Garbin, during the
spring, have hurt the Ducks. The Ducks have
been held scoreless in their first three conference
matches and rank ninth in shots (140) and last in
the Pac-10 in goals (10).
The Ducks’ anemic offense took another hit
last Friday when junior forward Mele French
was issued a red card against Oregon State.
French leads the team in points (5), is tied for
the team lead in goals (2) and is third on the
team in shots (17).
She will sit out Friday against Washington
State, leaving scoring duties to freshman Kami
Kapaku and sophomore Andrea Valadez, who
have two and one goals, respectively.
Hultin wins second Pac-10 honor
Washington State’s junior goalkeeper Katie
Hultin was named Pac-10 women’s soccer Player
of the Week for Oct. 12-18.
Hultin also received the honor earlier this
year, for Sept. 14-20, making her the only
Cougar soccer player to earn the award twice
in the same season.
The native of Denver, Colo., recorded her fifth
and sixth shutout of the season in the Cougar’s
upsets last week against No. 8 UCLA and No. 22
USC. Hultin recorded 14 saves in both victories —
including nine in the 1-0 defeat over the Bruins.
The victories marked the first time the
Cougars have defeated both USC and UCLA in
the same season.
Hultin has allowed 13 goals in 13 games this
season, giving her a 1.00 goals against average.
Her six shutouts this year ties her for fourth on
the Cougars single-season list.
SOCCER, page 14
Yankees
choke,
Red Sox
win series
Boston comes back from a 0-3
deficit in a seven-game series for
the first time in MLB history
BY RONALD BLUM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Boston blew away decades
of defeat with four sweet swings.
Believe it, New England, the Red Sox are
in the World Series. And they got there with
the most unbelievable comeback of all,
shaming the New York Yankees, the evil em
pire to the south.
David Ortiz, Johnny Damon and Derek
Lowe made sure of that.
Just three outs from getting swept out of the
AL championship series three nights earlier,
the Red Sox finally humbled the dreaded Yan
kees, winning Game 7 in a 10-3 shocker
Wednesday night to become the first major
league team to overcome a 3-0 postseason se
ries deficit.
Cursed for 86 years, these Red Sox just
might be charmed.
There is no torture this time, no hour of hu
miliation. Better yet, to Boston fans, it’s the
Yankees turn to suffer the memory of a his
toric collapse.
Boston didn't need any of the late-inning
dramatics that marked the last three games,
leading 6-0 after two innings.
Ortiz, the series MVP, started it with a two
run homer in the first off broken-down Kevin
Brown, and Damon quieted Yankee Stadium
in the second inning with a grand slam on
Javier Vazquez’s first pitch.
After Derek Jeter sparked hope of a come
back with a run-scoring single in the third, Da
mon put a two-run homer into the upper deck
for an 8-1 lead in the fourth.
Lowe, pitching on just two days' rest, si
lenced the Yankees’ bats and their boasting
fans, who just last weekend assumed New
York’s seventh pennant in nine years was all
but a lock. He allowed one hit in six innings
then Pedro Martinez started the seventh, his
first relief appearance in five years, sparking
chants of “Who’s your daddy?”
Three hits and two runs got the crowd go
ing, but the rally stopped there, and Mark
Bellhorn added a solo homer in the eighth
for a 9-3 Boston lead.
Cheering of Red Sox fans could be heard in
the ninth, and when pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra
grounded to second baseman Pokey Reese for
the final out, Boston players ran on the field
and jumped together in a mass huddle to the
first-base side of the mound.
Yankees players slowly walked off, elimi
nated on their home field for the second
straight season.
On a cool, crisp night in the Bronx, the his
torical pattern was broken, and the World Se
ries will start at Fenway Park on Saturday
night against St. Louis or Houston.
Now that the Babe’s team has been beaten,
Boston can try to reverse The Curse, win the
Series for the first time since 1918 and bring
happiness to the Hub which can scarcely be
lieve the tumultuous turn of events.
From Fenway Park to Faneuil Hall, from
Boston Common to Beacon Hill, the 11th pen
nant for the Red Sox, the first since 1986, will
perhaps be remembered as the sweetest.
Just because they won it over New York, in
Yankee Stadium, site of the Game 7 meltdown
when the Red Sox were five outs from win
ning last year.
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