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OREGON STATE TOPS CALIFORNIA
the departing players - seniors Barry',
Mustapha Hoff, Stephane Brown and
graduating junior M ark W'einesee a
pre-game standing ovation.
Then after the introductions o f
the four, it got a little emotional
when former coaches Paul Valenti
and Ralph M iller and Helen Gill,
wife ofform er coach Slats Gill, joined
O.S.U president John Byrne in pre
senting Anderson and his wife with
two airline tickets - destination any
where in the world.
One could even hear the emo
tion in the public announcer's voice
as he described the cerem ony. Ander
son preparing for his last home game
during his 37 years with the school's
program pretty much kept his com
posure.
"It got a little touchy up on the
floor, seeing the past coaches and
Helen Gill’’, Anderson said, "because
that does bring back many, many
memories very quickly.
I spent 19 years with Ralph and
almost every day with Paul in some
capacity'.”
Then it was time to play ball, and
for O.S.U. to get down to business.
The Beavers record now stands at (8-
17, 5-11).
Oregon state took control in the
first half when it ran off 12 consecu
tive points on Cal in one 1:49 run. to
take the lead 32-15 Barry accounted
for 10 points in the surge. Twice mak
ing shots for 3 point range, and adding
two thunderous dunks. O.S.U. full
court zone press paid huge dividends
early, with H off playing the point on
the press and the Beavers reap the
benefits o f the 6'7" forwards intensi
BRIEFS
TRACK
Records Call Out
Mobil Indoor:
A number o f indoor records
fell at Saturday's U S .A . - Mobil
Indoor Championship in Atlanta.
Starting with Micheál Johnson
who knocked 0.34 seconds offhis
previous record posting a 44.63
seconds in the 400 meter dash.
Then Lance Deal turned in a
record breaking toss in the 35-
poind weight throw as he eclipsed
the old mark by nearly three feet at
84 feet 10 1 4 inches. The record
in the w om en's triple-jump fell as
well. As Sheila Hudson-Strudick
broke her own record for the sec
ond time in a week leaping 48 1 4,
andCarletteGuidry- White record
ed the womens best in the 200
meter dash. Breaking the record
prev iously set by the absent Gwen
Torrence clocking 22.73.
BASKETBALL
U.P. Looks For
Berth
The University o f Portland
remains in the hunt for a berth to
the NCAA Tournament.
The U o f P beat both Pepper-
dine and Loyola Mary-mount in
the West Coast Conference Tour
nament and made it into the finals.
They will play Gonzago Mon
day for the championship, and an
automatic berth to the N.C.A.A.
tournament.
Oregon Destiny In
Own Hands
Hope bum s eternal as O re
gon swept Cal and Stanford in
Their pursuit o f a N.C.A.A. invi
tation and their first appearance
there in 34 years.
The Ducks beat Cal 95-82
Friday and then d isp o sed o f
Stanford 89-80 Saturday. They
havetwo remaininggames.U.S.C.
and U C L A . this week.
U.P. Women
stumble
The U o f P Women put in
their worst performance o f the
year and paid dearly.
In a game for W.C.C. cham
pionship the Pilots fell short 66-
50. To the San Francisco Dons.
Amy Claboe the Conferenc
es player o f the year produced
only four points her season low.
GOLF
Jacobsen Close
But No Cigar
Peter Jacobsen came in a close
second tied 14 under par with
Greg Norman, but first eluded him
by one shot and w inner Nick Faldo,
at Doral-Ryder Open at Miami.
Jocobsen is the leading mon
ey winner on the P.G.A circuit by
virtue o f two wins earl ier this year.
I nterested
Brent Barry scores for the victorious OSU Beavers.
ty-
by
D awy Bu t
It has been a long and winding
road for Jim Anderson Oregon State
head coach, who has been affiliated
with Oregon State U niversity's bas
ketball program for nearly four de
DUCK HEADED TO BIG DANCE
by
E ric N oox
March madness is here and the
Oregon Ducks find themselves in the
running for their first berth in the
NCAA tournament in 34 years. The
Ducks just might have clinched berth
with two big wins over the week-end.
Just like the O regon's Rose bowl
football team the Ducks are in con
trol o f their own destiny. Oregon
improved to 18-7 overall and 10-6 in
the Pac-10, which gave them sole
possession o f forth place with two
games remaining. The NCAA well
probably send four and may be five
teams from the conference with O re
gon guaranteed a spot with a split
with this weekend with a win over
UCLA or USC.
The Ducks came up this Thurs
day and Saturday with wins over Cal
ifornia and Stanford with their leading
scorer and former Benson tech stand
out Orlando Williams leading the
charge with 25 points against Stanford
in front of 10.086 fans Saturday night.
The 89-80 victory was the biggest
game at Mac Court in many years and
the Ducks haven't won this many
games since the Dick Harter days,
back in the late 70's.
Stanford, which nearly rallied
from 18 points down, fell to 17-8 and
8-8 in the Pac -10 and finds them
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selves in sole possession o f sixth-
place in the conference after losing
to the Beavers on Thursday also. It
was a back and forth deadlock until
Oregon put on a 14-0 run in the first
half to put them up 40-28 on their
biggest offensive run o f the season.
T he D ucks flo o r leader K enya
W ilkins came up strong against the
Cardinals with 21 points nine boards
and eight assists, as the Ducks fought
hard in a very emotional win that
almost got out o f hand phy sically as
a lot o f trash-talking and push-and-
shove tactics were becoming the fo
cus o f the game.
This was a very strong perfor
mance, in a game were the w inner is
most likely the only team o f the two
to move on the Big Dance, the final
64. and one o f the biggest sport hap
penings o f the year. The Ducks have
play ed w ell all year and haven't gave
up and won the big games when they
had to. The Ducks don't have as
much talent as other teams in the
conference like UCLA. Arizona and
Stanford, but they have hearts bigger
than some o f those teams and a sys
tem under Jerry Green, that the play
ers believe in. T here's definitely a
feeling o f winning going on there in
Eugene and G reen' s squad j ust might
surprise some teams with their never
say die in your face style.
the PAC 10 in two years.
“that was great’’ said Barry “ev
erybody on the team wanted to do
that for the coach. I'm glad we were
able to send him out on a winning
note, at least here at Gill.
The raucous crowd o f6,788 gave
T he h ig h ly re g a rd e d g irls
team from Je ffe rso n w as rated
n u m ber 3 in sta te , u n fo rtu n ately
they had to play O reg o n City r a t
ed nu m ber I both in the sta te and
in the nation in CN N USA T oday
p o lls Then for the fourth place
b erth they had to play G len co e
ran k ed num ber 2 in the state w ith
a 25-1 record
in the fo u rth q u a rte r
G le n c o e h it 10 o f 13
fre e th ro w s in the fourth q u a rte r
o u tsc o rin g Je ffe rso n 26-7.
The D em o crats 23-3 found
a way to stay in the gam e inspite
o f the fact that th e ir big gun
E rica M ashia w as 0-8 in the first
half. M a sh ia d id n 't sc o re her
first b a sk e t until the 2 m inutes
had e lap se from in the third q u a r
ter.
Glencoe ended winning their
confrontation 70-50 pulling away
She did however finish with
10 points on 4 for 18 shooting
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D anny B ell
“ He seemed to give us an energy
flow with his hustle and trapping,”
Anderson said o f Hoff. O ur style is
pretty much w hatever chief does up
front. Sometime he traps sometimes
he doesn’t. W e just let him use his
judgem ent.”
OREGON HIGHSCHOOL STATE TOURNAMENT
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cades. In his final home game Brent
Barry gave a glow ing good-bye by
turning in a career high 34 point
performance, as the Beavers beat Cal
83-67. The w in coupled with Thurs
day's win over Stanford gave O.S.U.
its first connective win weekend in
The press was effective in two
w ays it disrupted the offense o f Cal
and allowed Barry to get into the
open court with the ball.
Barry commented that it made
the court look smaller than it is, forc
ing young point guards like Julani
Gardner to make some hard deci
sions, which more than not causes
errors. If they haven’t worked or
practiced against the press maybe we
can get to them and get some easy
baskets.
The Bears (13-12,5-11) made a
game o f it at the end o f the first half
40-32, but Gardner C al’s freshman,
had five turnovers at the break, Barry
had 21 points. O.S.U. got o ff to a
good start with two freethrow ’s from
Brown and a dunk from Vladimir
Heredia put the Beavers up 44-32.
Cal did make the game interest
ing with 11:40 left when Monty
Buckley hit short jum per to make it
48-47.
"The coaching staff was getting
a little worried“ said Barry, who in
sisted he w asn’t concerned. “ When
the lead gets to single digits it opens
your eyes,” he said. “ But we were
able to mount a come back o f our
own and build the lead back-up."
It was nice to execute in that
situation.
Heredia led the charge by taking
a pass inside from J.D. Vetter and
scoring on a 3 point play. Vetter then
squared up just inside the 3-point
line and converted a jum per, conse
quently in the next 8 1 2 minutes the
Beavers outshot the bears 25-10.
“We made a run then we just
quit" Cal coach Todd Bozeman said.
I'm really disappointed in our per
formance.
Barry left the gam e w ith 37.5
seco n d s on the clock w ith H o ff
on the line fo r tw o. A fter H o ff
co n v erted he also left the gam e
both to a sta n d in g o v a tio n and a
jo b w ell done.
F o rw ard Ikeya H illm an led
Jefferso n w ith 14 po in ts and eight
re b o u n d s.
G l e n c o e 's
6 '3 "
c e n te r
S te p h a n ie B lock paced the C rim
son T id e w ith 23 p o in ts. I I re
b o u n d s and three block shots.
G u ard Ju lie T ucker cam e o f f the
bench to co n n ect for 10 o f I 3 and
20 p o in ts.
As w ith Oregon City Glencoe
was able to shut Mashia down
and simultaneously shoot well
themselves
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