Bears storm back for win.Byline: JOHN CONRAD Conrad, Latin king of Jerusalem Conrad, d. 1192, Latin king of Jerusalem (1192), marquis of Montferrat, a leading figure in the Third Crusade (see Crusades). He saved Tyre from the Saracens and became (1187) its lord. Register-Guard Sports Editor Noun 1. sports editor - the newspaper editor responsible for sports news newspaper editor - the editor of a newspaper BERKELEY, Calif. - An Oregon basketball team has never crammed cram v. crammed, cram·ming, crams v.tr. 1. To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff. 2. To fill too tightly. 3. a. To gorge with food. so much heartache into a 48-hour period. If one shot doesn't fall for Stanford at the end of regulation, if Frederick Jones
Frederick Jones converts on a drive to the basket at the end of regulation against California, the Ducks would be reflecting on a glorious week and begin thinking about wrapping up a Pac-10 Conference men's basketball title at McArthur Court McArthur Court is a basketball arena located on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene. Also known as "The Pit," it is known as one of the toughest arenas in the country for opposing players to play in. The arena is named for Clifton N. over the next two weeks. Instead, their fate is no longer in their control after Cal came back from a 19-point first-half deficit to defeat the 13th-ranked Ducks 107-103 in double overtime before a crowd of 12,000 at the Haas Pavilion The Walter A. Haas, Jr. Pavilion is the home of the University of California, Berkeley's basketball and volleyball teams. The arena was originally built in 1933 as Harmon Gym. It was heavily renovated from 1997 to 1999 after a generous donation from Walter A. Haas, Jr. on Saturday. Oregon dropped to 17-7 on the year and 9-4 in conference, a half-game behind Arizona and a half-game ahead of UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , Southern Cal, Stanford and California. "Everybody who played in that game will be thinking about just one play they could have made that would have made the difference," Jones said. "Just one play could have turned this game around, just like at Stanford." With that, Jones listed a myriad Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10 000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity. The term myriad is a progression in the commonly used system of describing numbers using tens and hundreds. of plays he could have made even though he'd scored 23 points, grabbed seven rebounds and dished dished adj. 1. Concave. 2. Slanting toward one another at the bottom. Used of a pair of wheels. Adj. 1. dished - shaped like a dish or pan dish-shaped, patelliform concave - curving inward out eight assists. The one Jones will remember most came after he rebounded a missed shot by Cal's Shantay Legans in the final seconds of regulation with the score tied 82-all, drove the length of the court and then missed on a twisting drive to the basket. "I should have made that shot," Jones said. "I thought I could get all the way to the basket, then their guy stepped out at the last minute and I kind of had to twist around to avoid an offensive foul. I probably should have used the glass instead of trying to roll it over the rim." Jones also hit just one of two foul shots with the Ducks down one near the end of the first overtime, then couldn't make a last-second three-point shot following a Cal turnover and a long pass from Luke Jackson. He also took the blame for allowing Cal's Amit Tamir Amit Yosef Tamir (born February 2, 1979) is an Israeli professional basketball player. He is 6' 10". Basketball career Tamir started to play on Hapoel Jerusalem's youth team in 1997, and got the chance to play in the professional team from 1998 until 2001. to get loose for a rebound rebound (rē´bownd), n/v 1. a recovery from illness. n 2. an outbreak of fresh reflex activity after withdrawal of a stimulus rebound adjective basket and then a three-pointer at the start of the second overtime, giving the Bears a 94-89 lead they never lost. But no one else will be putting anything on Jones after his performance. "He was fabulous," UO coach Ernie Kent Ernie Kent (Born January 22, 1955 in Rockford, Illinois) is the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Oregon. He has been the Ducks' coach since he replaced Jerry Green after Green left for University of Tennessee after the 1996-97 season. said. So was Jackson, who came back into the game after spraining an ankle in the second half. He finished with a career-high 29 points on 10-of-14 from the field and refused to give up on the Ducks somehow winning the conference title, even though now they'll have to win a game or maybe two in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. for that to happen. With this loss the Ducks are now 3-7 on the road, and their seven losses are by an average of 3.9 points. "We still believe we can win the title," Jackson said. "But we've got to turn around our defense so we can stop people again. We can't rely on our offense to win games, especially on the road." Tamir and Legans brought down the Ducks after they'd built up a 19-point halftime lead with just under three minutes "Three Minutes" is the 46th episode of Lost. It is the twenty-second episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It first aired on May 17, 2006 on ABC. to play in the first half. Tamir had a career-high 39 points, hitting 14-of-19 shots including 5-of-6 from beyond the arc, and his previous high was just 19 against Oregon in Eugene. Legans did nothing in the first half, but recorded 22 points after that as Cal shot 57.1 percent for the game and hit 6-of-10 three-pointers in the second half and 4-of-4 in the overtimes. "Tamir certainly had another good game against us," Kent said of the 6-foot-10 native of Jerusalem. "They call him a freshman, but remember he's a 22-year-old freshman, he's played in a lot of big games, and he knows how to play in tough situations." A tough situation was what Cal found itself in late in the first half with the Ducks leading 45-26 and playing with tremendous rhythm and confidence. But then momentum changed completely and Tamir was right in the middle of it, scoring the last six points of the half for Cal as a 9-3 spurt spurt Vox populi A surge or abrupt ↑ in the size or speed of a thing. See Fat spurt, Growth spurt. left the Bears down only 48-35 at the half. Tamir had seven points early in the second half as the Bears caught up and went ahead 58-56 on Ryan Forehan-Kelly's three-pointer, then he scored the last seven points of regulation and the all-important first five to start the second overtime. "We got off to a great start," Kent said. "I'll have to go back and look at tape, but then for some reason the whistles started blowing all over the place and the pace of the game changed and our rhythm totally changed." The Ducks were hit hard by fouls inside. Robert Johnson Robert Johnson may refer to:
"That threw off our rotation completely," Kent said. Still, the Ducks weathered Cal's rally and led 80-75 after a three-pointer by Anthony Lever lever, simple machine consisting of a bar supported at some stationary point along its length and used to overcome resistance at a second point by application of force at a third point. The stationary point of a lever is known as its fulcrum. and two free throws and a basket by Jackson. But Tamir hit a trey and two free throws to tie it, and it was Tamir who answered another Jackson basket with one of his own to make it 82-all with 59 seconds left. Oregon led 88-86 late in the first overtime, but Forehan-Kelly hit a trey to make it 89-88 for Cal before Jones hit one of two foul shots to tie it again at 89-all with 23 seconds left. The Ducks then got a turnover with two seconds left, but Jones couldn't deliver a game-winner after catching a long pass from Jackson. "These were two winnable games," Kent said of Stanford and Cal. "We just needed a play or two in each game, but we didn't get them. We're heartbroken heart·bro·ken adj. Suffering from or exhibiting overwhelming sorrow, grief, or disappointment. heart , but we've got three straight at home now and we'll just take a couple of days off to get our legs back and then go to work again." There is still a lot the Ducks can accomplish down the stretch, but they'll probaby need a couple of days just to get past thinking about what might have been in the Bay Area. Oregon Basketball Game Report NOTES ... This was Oregon's first multiple-overtime game since a three-overtime victory at Washington State in 1999 and the first time the Ducks have lost successive games in overtime. ... The Ducks led by 19 with 2:41 left in the first half. KEY STAT ... Amit Tamir scored 25 of his 39 points and Shantay Legans all of his 22 after halftime, during which the Bears hit 10-of-14 three-pointers. NEXT ... Oregon State at McArthur Court on Saturday at 7:05 p.m. California 107, Oregon 103 OREGON (103) Mp Fg Ft R F A To S Tp Johnson ... 23 2-2 0-0 6 5 0 3 0 4 Jackson ... 49 10-14 6-8 4 2 5 1 2 29 Christoffersn ... 27 3-4 1-2 9 4 1 4 0 7 Ridnour ... 45 5-11 2-3 2 4 6 6 2 15 Jones ... 49 6-13 9-10 7 3 8 5 1 23 Davis ... 12 2-5 0-0 1 3 1 0 0 6 Lever ... 31 4-9 2-2 1 3 0 2 0 14 Helquist ... 13 2-3 1-2 2 4 1 0 0 5 Michaelis ... 1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals ... 250 34-61 21-27 33 28 22 21 5 103 Shooting: Field goals 55.7%, 3-point baskets - 14-29 (Lever 4-8, Jackson 3-3, Ridnour 3-6, Davis 2-5, Jones 2-7). CALIFORNIA (107) Mp Fg Ft R F A To S Tp Sampson ... 39 1-5 2-7 5 0 5 1 0 4 Shipp ... 34 4-8 4-4 3 4 3 4 3 13 Hughes ... 11 1-3 1-2 1 0 1 1 0 3 Legans ... 42 6-11 7-7 3 4 6 3 1 22 Wethers ... 26 4-8 1-2 4 4 1 4 0 9 Diggs ... 26 1-3 3-6 2 4 4 0 1 5 Tamir ... 38 14-19 6-8 5 3 0 1 1 39 Famulener ... 3 1-1 0-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 Forehan-Kelly ... 31 4-5 0-0 1 2 2 1 1 10 Totals ... 250 36-63 24-38 27 21 22 16 7 107 Shooting: Field goals 57.1%, 3-point baskets - 11-17 (Tamir 5-6, Legans 3-6, Forehan-Kelly 2-2, Shipp 1-1, Wethers 0-1, Diggs 0-1). Rebound total includes 3 team rebounds. Turnover total includes one team turnover. Oregon ... 48 34 7 14 - 103 California ... 35 47 7 18 - 107 Officials - Charlie Range, Jim Giron, Scott Grimm. Attendance - 12,000. UO BASKETBALL Pac-10 Men's Basketball W L Pct GB Overall Arizona ... 10 3 .769 - 17 6 Oregon ... 9 4 .692 1 17 7 California ... 8 4 .667 1 1/2 17 5 Stanford ... 8 4 .667 1 1/2 15 6 UCLA ... 8 4 .667 1 1/2 16 7 USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. ... 8 4 .667 1 1/2 16 6 Arizona State ... 6 7 .462 4 13 9 Oregon State ... 3 10 .231 7 10 13 Washington ... 2 11 .154 8 8 15 WSU WSU Washington State University WSU Wayne State University WSU Wichita State University WSU Wright State University WSU Weber State University WSU Western State University College of Law WSU Winona State University WSU Walter Sisulu University ... 1 12 .077 9 5 16 SATURDAY'S RESULTS California 107, Oregon 103 (2OT) Stanford 77, Oregon St. 55 Arizona 85, Washington St. 68 Arizona State 86, Washington 74 Villanova 58, UCLA 57 THURSDAY'S GAMES Arizona at UCLA Arizona State at USC California at Washington State Stanford at Washington NEXT SATURDAY'S GAMES Arizona at USC Arizona State at UCLA California at Washington Oregon State at Oregon Stanford at Washington State Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. CAPTION(S): Chris Christoffersen can't watch Cal's comeback Comeback Australian breed of wool sheep, bred by crossing Merino with Corriedale, Polwarth or Zenith sheep; wool is 21 to 25 microns. It is a registered breed, but the term is more commonly used in the sense of a type of sheep produced by crossbreeding a crossbred Merino back to Merino. . |
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