A6 — BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
SPORTS
Ducks rally to top Fresno
sidelines and returned before
the end of the fi rst half. He
came out of the break in street
EUGENE — Anthony
clothes and wearing a boot.
Brown Jr. was blunt about No.
“I know it’s a sprain, which
11 Oregon’s offensive strug-
we’re very optimistic that it’s
gles against Fresno State.
nothing too serious,” Oregon
“It wasn’t clean enough,”
coach Mario Cristobal said.
he said.
Montano kicked a pair of
Brown scored on a 30-yard
fi eld goals, from 33 and 39
quarterback keeper with 2:57
yards, before Brown found
left and the Ducks overcame a
Johnny Johnson III in the end
wobbly season opener with a
zone with a 32-yard pass to
31-24 victory over the Bulldogs
make it 21-6. Jalen Cropper
on Saturday night, Sept. 4.
Oregon jumped to a 21-6
Sean Meagher/The Oregonian caught a 17-yard touchdown
lead, but Fresno State scored Oregon defensive tackle Brandon Dorlus sacks Fresno pass from Haener to close the
gap for Fresno State to 21-13
two unanswered touchdowns State quarterback Jake Haener as the No. 11 Ducks
just before halftime.
to tie the game midway
face the Bulldogs in a college football game at Autzen
Haener scored from two
through the third quarter,
Stadium in Eugene on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021.
yards out on a keeper and the
then took the lead early in the
conversion tied the game at 21
wildfi res in the region. Air
fourth on Abraham Montano’s
The Ducks were hurt
before Montano’s 22-yard fi eld
quality was deemed un-
fi eld goal.
by the loss of defensive end
Kayvon Thibodeaux, who left healthy in the Eugene region goal with 13:03 left gave the
Camden Lewis kicks a
by the U.S. Air Quality Index. Bulldogs a 24-21 lead.
the game at halftime with a
25-yard game-tying fi eld
Cristobal wasn’t sure what
Fresno State quarterback
goal before Brown’s go-ahead left ankle injury.
caused Oregon’s offensive
Jake Haener threw for 285
Oregon had not played a
touchdown.
lapses.
yards and a touchdown. The
game at Autzen Stadium for
The performance was
“It’s hard to put your fi nger
644 days and the game came Bulldogs (1-1) already started
somewhat concerning given
the season with a 45-0 victory on it, because the energy was
amid a surge in coronavirus
the Ducks face No. 4 Ohio
real good, preparation was
over Connecticut.
cases in the state.
State next weekend.
“We talk about weathering real good. We thought our
Oregon and Oregon State
“In order for us to go where
the storm, especially when you physicality and pregame was
were among the fi rst schools
we need to go, we have to be
go into a hostile environment well, also,” he said. “I know
they have some good players.
and the storm hit is pretty
They did what we thought
hard in the fi rst quarter, and
we weathered it,” Fresno State they would do, we did what we
thought we would do.”
coach Kalen DeBower said.
“You just get so far behind
that it’s catching up, and when THE TAKEAWAY
you fi nally take a lead, you
Fresno State: Fresno
have to make a lot of plays to State hadn’t played a ranked
get to that point.”
opponent since 2018. ... The
After Thibodeaux sacked
Bulldogs are celebrating their
Haener and caused him to
100th year of football this
fumble for a turnover, CJ
season.
Verdell ran for a 2-yard touch-
Oregon: Senior linebacker
down to give the Ducks the
Dru Mathis left the game in
the fi rst half with what ap-
\Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard early lead.
Another Fresno State
peared to be a left knee injury.
Oregon quarterback Anthony Brown breaks through
the Fresno State defense for the game-winning 30-yard fumble led to a 4-yard scoring ... Oregon leads the series
touchdown run in the fourth quarter of the Ducks’ 31-24 run from Travis Dye to make against Fresno State 7-2. The
it 14-0. The duo of Verdell and Bulldogs haven’t downed the
victory at Autzen Stadium.
Dye went into the game with Ducks since 1982.
to require proof of vaccination a combined 4,363 rushing
fi ring on all cylinders, which
or a negative virus test to at- yards, most of any returning
we weren’t today. And that
UP NEXT
tend football games. Gov. Kate pair at the FBS level.
was obvious,” Brown said.
Fresno State hosts Cal Poly
Thibodeaux, widely con-
Brown also imposed a mask
“We’re going to see it on the
next Saturday.
sidered a possible Heisman
mandate, even at outdoor
tape, fi x what we need to fi x
Oregon travels to No. 4
Trophy contender this season, Ohio State on Saturday.
events.
and move on and progress
The game was also marred appeared to injure his left
from it.”
ankle but had it taped on the
by smoky conditions from
Brown threw for 172
yards and a touchdown while
running for 62 yards and the
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Strong’s 2 TD
passes lead
Nevada past Cal
Elijah Cooks for a happy
homecoming to Northern
California.
BERKELEY, Calif. —
Nevada’s whirlwind month
Strong grew up about an
as vagabonds ended with a hour away from Memorial
very satisfying win.
Stadium, attending Cal
Carson Strong threw for games and camps. But after
312 yards and two touch-
a knee injury his senior
downs to lead the Wolf Pack year in high school in Vacav-
to a 22-17 victory over Cali- ille the Bears didn’t recruit
fornia on Saturday night,
him and he has turned into
Sept. 4 in the season opener a star at Nevada.
for both teams.
“I always want to win
Nevada has been forced no matter what but this
to adapt because of smoke
one is pretty sweet,” Strong
from wildfi res that made
said. “This is probably my
it impossible to practice
favorite one.”
outdoors on campus. That
Cal scored TDs on its
forced the Wolf Pack to
fi rst two drives but then
travel nearly 2,000 miles
stalled, going three-and-
and practice on basketball out on the next four drives.
courts, conventions centers While the Bears couldn’t
and even a hotel parking
move the ball, Nevada
garage.
scored 22 straight points.
“What we’ve had to go
The Wolf Pack cut the
through this last month
defi cit to 14-13 at the half
just to prepare to play was on a pair of fi eld goals
something — seven differ-
from Brandon Talton and
ent fi elds we practiced on,
Strong’s 43-yard TD pass to
we traveled 1,953 miles to
Dobbs.
be exact to different places
Strong then put together
to practice,” coach Jay Nor- an impressive drive to open
vell said. “We never cheated the second half to give the
the kids on their prepara-
Wolf Pack the lead for good.
tion. We did everything we He completed a 17-yard
needed to do to get ready
pass to Cole Turner on third
for this game. We didn’t cut and 17, a 46-yarder to Tory
any corners. Boy did they
Horton on third-and-9 and
respond.”
then a 16-yard TD to Cooks
Strong connected on
on the next play to make it
TDs to Romeo Doubs and
19-14.
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Associated Press
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