Oregon falls hard to OSU in season's home finale.

Byline: Chris Hansen The Register-Guard

Shane Webster wanted his last match at McArthur Court to be memorable. As did Joey Bracamonte.

Unfortunately for Oregon, those two seniors provided the only moments worth remembering in the Ducks' 32-7 loss to Oregon State on Friday night in a Civil War wrestling dual meet - the last home meet of the season for Oregon.

Before a crowd of 804, Webster and Bracamonte gave the Ducks (6-7, 4-6 Pac-10) their only two wins of the meet, as Oregon lost to the Beavers (13-2-1, 8-1) for the seventh straight time. The margin of victory was the most for Oregon State in the Civil War since a 41-9 win in 1985.

"That's the best Oregon State team I've seen from top to bottom since the early (1990s),' Oregon coach Chuck Kearney said. "They wrestle hard, they wrestle physical and they're very well-balanced. There wasn't a weak link."

Bracamonte (18-1), who is ranked 10th nationally at 165 pounds, gave the Ducks their first win of the night with a 9-3 decision against Anthony Weber to make it 21-3 in favor of the Beavers six matches into the meet.

"I was definitely anticipating a pin," Bracamonte said. "But he wrestled like he didn't want to get majored. He wouldn't do anything to me. He just tried to stay away from me. I was disappointed."

Two matches later, Webster (31-1) dominated Kyle Bressler at 184, winning 26-10 for his team-leading seventh victory by technical fall this season.

"I wrestled pretty tough, I thought," said Webster, who is ranked fifth nationally. "I usually don't pat myself on the back, but I felt real good in that match."

The win was quintessential Webster, as he scored 24 points off 12 takedowns.

"Shane Webster showed tonight what made him special when he was here," Kearney said. "When you take down a good, solid college wrestler 12 times in a match they have to stop early, that's pretty impressive."

Early on it was all Beavers. They won the first five matches and got pins by Bobby Pfennings at 133 and Tony Hook at 157.

Through the first four matches, Oregon State had been awarded more points (4) on stalls called against Oregon, than the Ducks had scored on takedowns (2).

Pfennings' fall came 2:49 into the first period against Beau Malia, a fill-in for Oregon regular Justin Pearch, who was out with a knee injury.

Hook, who is ranked 16th, pinned Jeremy McLaughlin at the 2:07 mark of the first period. McLaughlin was a late sub for Cyle Hartzell, who had been sidelined with a lung infection. He made weight for Friday's match but was still held out when Kearney wasn't convinced that he was ready to wrestle.

"You can't have some of your horses out of your lineup and hold the guys who step in to replace them to the same level," Kearney said.

And that was the difference between losing by two points, which the Ducks did with a 20-18 loss to the Beavers back in December, and looking completely overmatched.

"With the lineup tonight, and with the way they wrestled at 133 and 157 with the two pins, that's point inflation and it's going to blow the score out of reach," Kearney said.

It did, though Oregon never even made it close.

"We just wrestled bad," Webster said. "It was real frustrating for the entire team."

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Oregon's Joey Bracamonte (right) scores on a reversal during his 9-3 win over Anthony Weber in the 165-pound match.