IN BRIEF
Midnight Madness arrives
at McArthur Court
Midnight Madness, the hoopla
surrounding the official start of col
lege basketball practice, will return to
ESPN after an eight-year absence.
The national cable network an
nounced Thursday that ESPNU will
televise five hours of Midnight Mad
ness coverage on Friday, Oct. 14. Fol
lowing a one-hour season preview
show at 7 p.m. EDT., five live, one
hour events will be shown from
Memphis, Kansas, Kentucky, Michi
gan State and Oregon.
The Ducks will start at 9 p.m. and
admission will be free. The event will
also coincide with the distribution of
the official Pit Crew T-shirts to Uni
versity students.
The Michigan State event will also
feature the women’s team, which
lost to Baylor in the national champi
onship game in April.
Skipper leaves football,
sticks with track
Oregon pole vaulter Tommy Skip
per has decided to end his week-long
endeavor into college football.
Skipper, who last played football
at Sandy High School in 2002, had
been working with the football team
since Sept. 22. He focused
as a punter, cornerback and
wide receiver.
Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti
said that Skipper had offered his
services if he could help immediate
ly, but acknowledged that it would
be better to concentrate on only
one sport.
The decision came so that Skipper
could focus solely on track, where he
has starred at Oregon since he ar
rived on campus.
He captured the NCAA pole vault
titles in 2004 for his outdoor perform
ance and the indoor title in 2005.
Skipper missed most of the 2005 out
door track season while recovering
from a knee injury.
As a freshman, Skipper won the
pole vault and decathlon titles. He
also set the school record in the pole
vault at 18 feet 10 1/4 inches during
that year.
Skipper is a favorite to regain both
the indoor and outdoor title in the
upcoming seasons.
— From Staff and Associated
Press reports
Andrews: Crowd is a factor
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we’re frightening,” Moore said. “We
can be very, very scary, and we have
to play that way to be successful. ”
Mac Court can be a scary place as
well. It was obvious during the
weekend that the Oregon
players fed off the energy of their
boisterous fans.
“(The Ducks) got a good thing
going. They play really hard,” Cal
coach Rich Feller said. “They have
a great crowd. It’s wonderful. The
students switching sides is pretty
annoying, but they’re always pretty
good, clean and fun, and never fail
to congratulate our team following
the match.
“(Mac Court) is a great place to
play. College athletics should be like
this. I love this place.”
Coach, I couldn’t agree more.
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Soccer: Ducks power toward Pac-10 play
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made low-scoring games easier to
watch for first-year head coach
Tara Erickson.
“Jessie came up with two huge
game-winning saves for us,” Erick
son said. “It was a tough day on the
defense with a lot of wind and diffi
cult bounces because it’s a very hard
playing surface, but I was impressed
with how well we adapted to
the conditions.”
Gamble and Chatfield were both
honored alongside their senior team
mates Nicole Garbin and Cristan
Higa on the all-tournament team.
Chatfield has earned a career’s worth
of accolades this season already. Last
Tliesday she was honored as the Pa
cific-10 Conference Women’s Sdccer
Player of the Week and was named
the MVP of the season-opening
Oregon Classic.
On Friday, Garbin scored her sixth
game-winning goal of the season to
push the Ducks past Nevada.
Garbin’s goal came at the 36:34
mark and gave Oregon a comfort
able 2-0 lead, but the Wolfpack an
swered. Nevada closed the gap to 2
1 in the 81st minute with a goal by
Miranda Montejo, ending Chatfield’s
scoreless minutes streak of 355:47.
Garbin’s goal would prove to be the
clincher for Erickson’s squad who
prevented a game-tying rally.
"It’s too bad to lose the scoreless
streak,” Erickson said. “But I give
Nevada’s players credit for battling
hard and making a game of it.”
Nevada head coach Terri Patraw
was pleased that her team refused
to go scoreless, but would like to
have seen more from them.
“We didn’t bring our ‘A’ game to
day, but we were still the more dan
Senior fielder Nicole Garbin recorded her sixth game-winning goal of the season Friday as
the Ducks defeated Nevada 2-1 in Laramie, Wyo. The goal helped lead the Ducks to a win
at the Brown and Gold Tournament.
gerous team out there,” Patraw said.
“We had several scoring opportuni
ties that we didn’t put away. We
battled hard today but just didn’t
get the results we wanted.”
Senior Andrea Valadez got Oregon
ahead first in the game with a first
half goal scored in the 29th minute.
Freshman defender Allison Newton
set up the goal with a cross that
found the head of Valadez. It was the
first goal of the season for Valadez,
ending a drought extending almost
one year back. Erickson felt that the
goal was a testament to her team’s
persistence in the first half.
“I thought we were composed, es
pecially in the first 30 minutes,” Er
ickson said. “It was good to see An
drea score from the midfield position
on a really nice goal and a good ball
from Ally Newton. ”
With the non-conference schedule
now in their wake, it’s full-steam
ahead for the Ducks toward confer
ence play, which opens this weekend
on the road against No. 24 Arizona
(5-3-2) and Arizona State (5-4-2),
who both suffered losses last week.
The Ducks have an unscathed record
aside from a 7-0 loss to No. 2 Port
land and a 1-1 tie to Gonzaga and
are currently second in the
Pac-10 standings.
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Buchanan, Sara Schaaf, Emily Math
is, Heather Fitz-Gustafson, Meriel
Hartling and Liisa Heinonen finished
strong as a team.
“The women ran tough today and
to come within a couple of points
against a very good Washington team
proves that they ran well,” Vin
Lananna, Oregon director of cross
country and track and field, said. “In
dividually, I was happy with every
one, and Katie Leary in particular
showed well today. ”
The men’s team finished the day
with a fourth-place finish behind first
place Portland State, second place
Washington and third place
Air Force.
Notable for the men’s team was
the performance of freshman Galen
Rupp, finishing sixth with an 8,000
meter time of 23:58. Saturday
marked Rupp’s collegiate cross coun
try debut. He averaged a 4:49 pace on
the fast Bush Park course.
“I felt pretty good considering it’s
my first race of the season,” Rupp
American
Red Cross
said. “This was a good opportunity
for the team to begin to gauge where
we’re at and against some good
teams. Personally, I know I have a
ways to go. The pace felt pretty com
fortable early, and I tried to hang
with guys on the team the first few
miles and just run the race. Mark
(Mandi of Washington, who won
first place) deserves credit. He
surged a lot in the middle and at the
end and deserved the win.”
Rupp wasn’t bothered by the
wet course.
“Considering the rain the course got
yesterday, the conditions were pretty
good,” Rupp said. “It was mix of grass,
trails and concrete, I wore some small
spikes that helped a little although it
was a little soft in spots.”
Just shy of their team goal, the
Ducks top seven had a 58-second
gap between them, but the front
five had a mere 36-second gap. The
men averaged 4:49 and 4:56
per mile.
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jillo and Vertin Alvarez helped boost
the Ducks to the top five finish.
“The men have been training re
ally hard the past month and basi
cally placed where I expected them
to,” Lananna said. “I’m glad we had
a meet with this level of competi
tion early so we could identify what
we need to work on. Galen had a
good opener and has had a hard
training cycle. We flagged him to
back off the last mile to be a little
cautious since it’s his first race.”
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