IN BRIEF
Djuric named to
All-Freshman Team
Oregon’s outside hitter Mira
Djuric earned a spot on the 2005
Pacific-10 Conference All-Fresh
man Team, commissioner Tom
Hansen announced Monday.
The 6-foot-2 Djuric led the Pac
10 in service aces this season with
59 as she tied for fourth all-time on
Oregon’s single-season aces list.
Djuric had the most kills (448) and
kills per game (4.19) this season
for Oregon (12-18 overall, 1-17
Pacific-10 Conference).
“I am pleased that she got it,”
Oregon coach Jim Moore said. “I
know she deserved it.”
Djuric’s play helped Oregon
push elite volleyball programs USC
and UCLA to four and five games,
respectively. Errors could have cost
Djuric a spot on the All-Pac-10
team, which Moore attributed to
freshman mistakes.
“I think she showed that she can
cut those errors down,” Moore
said. “She is going to be a domi
nant player in the conference.”
Freshman starting libero Katie
Swoboda earned honorable mention
on the All-Freshman Team. She fin
ished with 448 digs, second in Ore
gon single-season history. She accom
plished the high dig count despite
missing three matches with a concus
sion sustained in a home match
against Washington on Oct. 21.
— Jeffrey Dransfeldt
Ngata honored by Pac-10
for outstanding defense
Oregon junior defensive tackle
Haloti Ngata has been named the
Co-Defensive Player of the Year in
the Pacific-10 Conference, officials
announced Monday. Ngata, who is
also one of five finalists for the
Bronko Nagurski Trophy, awarded
to the top defensive player in the
country, shares this year’s Pac-10
award with Arizona State’s Dale
Robinson. He is the first Duck ever
to receive the award since its
inception in 1975.
Ngata is also one of three finalists
for the Outland Trophy, which is pre
sented to the nation’s top interior
lineman. In addition, he was voted
Oregon’s Most Outstanding Player by
his teammates after finishing with 59
tackles, nine for loss, three sacks and
five pass breakups to help the Ducks
finish the regular season 10-1. He was
the first defensive lineman in 18 years
to claim the team’s MVP honor.
Though only a junior, Ngata will
most likely declare himself eligible for
the NFL draft at season’s end.
Ngata highlighted a host of other
Ducks named to All-Pac-10 Confer
ence teams. Wide receiver
Demetrius Williams and center
Enoka Lucas were named to the
second-team offense, while Ngata
and cornerback Justin Phinisee
garnered first-team defensive hon
ors. Linebacker Anthony Trucks,
cornerback Aaron Gipson and safe
ty J.D. Nelson were named to the
second-team defense.
Rover Patrick Chung, quarter
back Kellen Clemens, tight end
Tim Day, wide receiver James
Finley, defensive end Devan Long,
offensive tackle Max Unger and
tailback Terrence Whitehead
rounded out Oregon’s honorable
mention recipients.
USC’s Reggie Bush, a Heisman
Ttophy candidate, garnered Offen
sive Player of the Year honors. He
is the first non-quarterback to win
the award in back-to-back years
since the 1984-85 season. Bush
was also the only player this year
to be unanimously voted to the
first team by all 10 of the confer
ence’s coaches.
Each of the 11 USC starters on of
fense received All-Pac-10 mention.
USC had the most players on the
first team with eight. Oregon State,
whose offensive guard Jeremy Perry
shared Freshman of the Year honors
with Arizona wideout Michael
Thomas, was next with five.
Pete Carroll of USC and Karl
Dorrell of UCLA were tabbed
Co-Coaches of the Year.
— Luke Andrews
Recap: Bulldogs miss 17 three-pointers
Continued from page 9
Drake’s offense hectic for coach
Amy Stephens.
“It’s hard to prepare for a team
like that because they have so many
weapons offensively,” Stephens
said. “Personally, 1 think they get
better as they sub. They get quicker
and more athletic and the offense is
more dynamic.”
Stephens marveled at Oregon’s of
fense after the game but had no sym
pathy for her team’s output. The loss
drops Drake’s record to 2-2.
“I’m very disappointed in our
performance, but Oregon’s a good
basketball team, and they made
us do a lot of things tonight,”
Stephens said. “They exploited
our weaknesses and did some
good things and you have to give
them credit.”
“ When 1 make shots I get
pumped, and I like to get
my teammates into it so
they can start hitting shots.
I just like to have fun. ”
Cicely Oaks | Oregon guard
Leading the Bulldogs in points
were Jill Martin and Jane Horkey
who both had eight. Martin also
grabbed four rebounds playing in all
but 11 minutes of the game. As ac
curate as Drake was at free throws,
making 12 of 13, the Bulldogs were
just as off-target from beyond the
arc. The Bulldogs made only two of
their 19 three-point shots — for
ward Lindsay Whorton accounted
for both.
The Ducks (5-1) have 12 days un
til they face against Prairie View
A&M Dec. 10 at the Pape Jam in
Portland. Oregon has five more road
games before returning home to
start Pacific-10 Conference play. The
Ducks host California and Stanford
Jan. 5 and 7.
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Mariucd fired by
4-7 Lions after
Thanksgiving loss
BY LARRY LAGE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Detroit Lions fired coach
Steve Mariucci on Monday and
promoted defensive coordinator
Dick Jauron to succeed him on an
interim basis.
Mariucci’s record with the Lions
was 15-28. His 2003 hiring was
hailed by fans and media alike, but
he was not able to turn around a
team that has won one playoff game
since 1957.
“It’s hard for me to stand up here
in this position because Steve is a
friend,” said Jauron, who had a
35-46 record as head coach of the
Bears from 1999-2003.
After Detroit lost 27-7 to the Atlanta
Falcons on Thanksgiving to fall to
4-7, reports swirled that the team was
considering firing Mariucci. When
Mariucci was not let go during the
weekend, some thought his job was
safe for the final five games of the
regular season.
“We started off this season with
high expectations. I believed this was
a roster that was capable of making
a playoff run,” team president Matt
Millen said. “We have not lived up to
our expectations. We have under
achieved as a football team.”
The Lions have lost four of five
games since a solid start put them
atop the NFC North with the Chicago
Bears. The team has collapsed on
and off the field with players failing
to produce and some bickering with
one another and questioning the
coaches’ game plans.
Offensive tackle Jeff Backus said
players had not been notified of
the move.
“Something had to give, I guess,”
Backus told The Associated Press.
“It’s not my job to judge whether
Mariucci did a good job or bad job,
but we’re in a bottom-line business
and our bottom line hasn’t been
very good.”
Mariucci has more than two years
remaining on the $25 million con
tract he signed in 2003. The Michi
gan native came to the Lions from
San Francisco, where he was 60-43
over six seasons.
Mariucci was cut some slack in
the past because the team he inher
ited was crafted by Millen, but ex
pectations were high heading into
his third season.
“1 think we need to (make the
playoffs). We want to, and we’re go
ing to make it happen,” Mariucci
said before the season. “If we win
10 or 11 ballgames and make the
playoffs, it would make us happy
and make the fans happy.”
Millen hired both Mariucci and
his predecessor, Marty Mornhin
weg, and drafted or signed most of
the players currently on the Lions —
and Detroit is an NFL-worst 20-55
since 2001. Millen, a former NFL
linebacker and TV analyst, was
given a five-year extension before
this season.
Jauron, Detroit’s defensive coor
dinator the past two seasons, was
fired in 2003 after four losing sea
sons in five years with the Bears. He
was selected as NFL Coach of the
Year during his lone winning season
in Chicago.
“We need to take these next five
weeks, and we need to play ... and
see what we can get out of it,” Jauron
said. “I don’t have plans other than
the next game.”
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