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Oregon point guard Aaron Brooks, center with back turned, is consoled by Jordan Kent
after the Ducks' two-point loss to Stanford Saturday.
Men: Aaron Brooks commits
27 turnovers in four games
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games, turning the ball over 27 times
while dishing out 18 assists.
Hairston was the only other Duck
to score in double figures, finishing
with 12 points. But the shots the
freshman didn’t hit had a bigger im
pact on Saturday’s outcome. Along
with missing the game’s final two
field-goal attempts, Hairston missed
a pair of costly free throws down
the stretch. With less than four min
utes remaining and Oregon leading
56-54, Hairston twice missed the
front end of a one-and-one, allow
ing Stanford to tie the game at 56 on
a pair of free throws by Jason Haas
with 1:11 remaining.
Hairston is shooting 48 percent
from the foul line this season, con
necting on only 39 of 81 free throws.
“I take full responsibility for the
free throws,” Hairston said. “It’s just
a learning experience for me. It’s kind
of been my Achilles’ heel all season.”
Kent said Hairston’s free-throw
shooting will improve with experience.
“His form is great,” Kent said.
“He makes them in practice on a
regular basis. But the intensity of a
ball game, with the money on the
line (makes it tough). The fatigue
factor is huge — mentally and phys
ically. For freshmen, it just takes
them time for their body and minds
to handle that.”
Haryasz had another big game
against Oregon. After dropping 20
points and grabbing 20 rebounds
against the Ducks at Maples Pavil
ion in late January, the 6-foot-ll
junior scored 18 points on 6 of 9
shooting and grabbed 10 rebounds.
Hernandez was held in check, hit
ting only 2 of 13 field goal attempts,
but still scored 16 points by going 10
of 10 from the foul line.
Oregon needs some help if it is to
qualify for a berth in the Pac-10 Tour
nament. The Ducks are tied for
eighth place with California, but the
Golden Bears hold the tiebreaker over
Oregon. Cal plays Washington and
Washington State — which is a game
ahead of Oregon — at home next
week, while the Ducks travel to face
Southern California and UCLA to
close the regular season.
The top eight teams in the confer
ence qualify for the tournament.
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Women: Freshman Forristall
notches 12 points, eight boards
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assists. The senior forward added
three steals and two blocks, both
game-highs.
“Cathrine is more than a go-to
nlaver.” Smith
Senior center Andrea Bills played
in her 119th game and is tied for
third all-time at Oregon.
Corrie Mizusawa passed out
nine assists in 38 minutes for the
Ducks, even after dislocating the
player, Smith
said. “She's an
offensive threat
for us inside
and outside.”
Freshman
Kristen For
ristall also had
an impressive
same for Ore
“We talked all along that this
year we have set ourselves up
to always have our destiny in
our own hands. ”
Bev Smith | Oregon head coach
middle fin
ger of her
right hand in
practice the
previous
day.
“She just
said, ‘I’m
playing,”’
gon as she contributed 12 points
and a career-best eight rebounds.
Reserve senior post Khadijah
Coakley recorded a double-double
for Cal with a team-high 11 points
and a game-high 12 rebounds. No
other player reached double figures
in scoring for the Bears, and their
bench provided half of the team's
scoring with 25 points.
“Khadijah Coakley played one of
the best games I think I've ever seen
(her play),” Horstmeyer said.
smith said. She was a true warrior
and played very solid for us.”
The senior point guard, who is a
native of the nearby Lafayette,
Calif., moved into sixth place for ca
reer assists with 363 at Oregon,
which is only six assists behind
Shaquala Williams in fifth place.
Mizusawa needs seven assists to tie
Jacquie Semeniuk for the program’s
single-season assists record.
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Jones: Hernandez needs to know
that the mud slings both ways
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But Kent did bring up some in
teresting examples of what those
classy geniuses at Stanford have
come up with in the past.
“You can’t call the Pit Crew out
of line,” Kent said. “I’ve been
down there and picked up one of
their sheets, and they talked about
(former Oregon guard) Freddie
Jones smoking the wacky tobacky
and Ian (Crosswhite), calling him
a big, dumb goof.”
Wacky tobacky? A big, dumb
goof? I’m glad to see that such a
prestigious school has really blos
somed creatively.
But getting away from the sar
castic cracks that spawn from my
pure jealousy of Stanford, I do
think Cardinal players were a little
sensitive to the comments.
While I wasn’t close enough to
hear the Pit Crew’s remarks, its job
is to get in the opposition’s heads
and get them out of their game.
And Hernandez: If it weren’t for
some questionable "foul” calls re
sulting in you sinking all 10 of
your free-throw attempts, it would
have been an ugly 2 of 13 perform
ance for six points.
But I do respect your game.
You work hard and are a very
physical point guard. You’re the
type of player that everybody hates
when they play you, but would love
to have on their own team.
And Kent had some wise words
that you can hopefully take into
consideration.
“Their (crowd) is no different
than ours,” Kent said. “I didn’t
think (Oregon players were) out of
line down at their place, and we
heard some stuff out of those
stands too.
“That’s a part of the game, to
me, that you have to live with.”
And I hope you realize that be
fore you descend upon McArthur
Court and the Pit Crew next season.
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