Turnovers cause for Beavers' concern.Byline: Bob Clark For the 19th century baseball player, see Bob Clark (baseball) Benjamin "Bob" Clark (August 5 1939[] – April 4 2007) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the The Register-Guard Where to start? Before Oregon State can turn its attention to Saturday's visit by 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 - and who in recent seasons has been more of a nemesis than the Bruins? - the Beavers have issues in almost every aspect of their own game to resolve. The offense is committing way too many turnovers. The defense looked susceptible to big plays in the loss to Arizona State. Even the special teams that have been a staple of success for the Beavers (2-2 overall, 0-1 in the Pac-10) in recent seasons are in question. That doesn't sound like a team ready for the challenge of UCLA (3-1, 2-0 in the Pac-10). Recall, too, that it was the Bruins who provided OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. its one defeat in the last nine games of the 2006 season, and by 25-7. `There's a lot for us to prepare for,' OSU coach Mike Riley
That's the most points scored by OSU in a Pac-10 defeat since a 43-35 loss to - yes - UCLA in 2002. The 514 yards of total offense for the Beavers at ASU ASU Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) ASU Appalachian State University ASU Arkansas State University ASU Angelo State University ASU Alabama State University ASU Australian Services Union was more than they had in any Pac-10 game last season. Yet, it wasn't enough because of five interceptions thrown by Sean Canfield and a fumbled punt by Sammie Stroughter. Those six turnovers against ASU have left the Beavers tied for the most turnovers in the country with 16 and the worst turnover ratio, with eight more than OSU's four opponents. More revealing is this: The Beavers have committed 13 of their 16 turnovers in their two defeats, including 11 intercepted passes. `We've got to turn that around,' Riley said of the turnover ratio. `The two games we've lost, it hits you right between the eyes how important that part of the game is.' The Beavers gave up 395 yards to ASU, the highest total against the OSU defense this season. But 229 of those yards came on five plays, all of 33 yards or longer, including Sun Devil scoring plays of 64, 43, 48 and 41 yards. ASU's other 67 plays averaged 2.5 yards. `There is still plenty to work on,' Riley said. `I think we can be a very good defensive team, but we're not perfect. We can't give up big plays like that.' On special teams, Riley is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. some big plays in the form of returns, either on kickoffs or punts. Against ASU, the Beavers had neither. Riley said the Beavers should be getting out to the 30-yard line on kickoff returns, but against ASU they did that only once, to the 31, as Gerard Lawson averaged 21.7 yards on nine kickoff returns. `I was disappointed,' Riley said. `We did not do a good job executing in the blocking part of it.' On punts, Stroughter made a fair catch of a punt at the 7-yard line when returners are told not to field anything inside the 10. He also muffed a punt, the second time this season an opponent has been set up for a score that way. `We've made some major blunders in the punt return In American and Canadian football a punt return is one of the punt receiving team's options to respond to a punt. A player (usually a second or third string wide receiver or running back) positioned many yards from the line of scrimmage will attempt to catch or pick up the ball game that have killed us,' Riley said. The Beavers also netted an average of only 30 yards on their six punts, largely because of a punt by Alexis Serna Alexis Serna (born February 8, 1985 in Upland, California) is the starting placekicker and punter for the Oregon State University football team, the Oregon State Beavers. He won the 2005 Lou Groza Award which recognized him as the best placekicker in the nation. in the fourth quarter that went out of bounds six yards beyond the line of scrimmage line of scrimmage n. pl. lines of scrimmage Football Either of two imaginary lines extending across the field parallel to the goal line at the ends of the ball as it rests prior to being snapped and at which each team lines up for . `It was too bad he shanked that one,' Riley said. `I thought he had a good day punting before that. We'll get better and better, more consistent with our punting.' The Beavers came out of the ASU defeat with only one injury of concern, a hip pointer A hip pointer is a contusion (bruise) on the pelvis caused by a direct blow to an iliac crest. Contact sports are a frequent cause of this type of injury. A hip pointer bruise usually causes bleeding into the hip abductor muscles, which move legs sideways, away from the suffered by slot receiver Brandon Powers. Riley said: `I think he'll be OK (for the UCLA game). It'll take a couple of days to get the soreness out.' OREGON STATE VS. UCLA 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Reser Stadium. TV: FSN (Full-Service Network) A communications network that provides shopping, movies on demand and access to databases and a variety of interactive services. . Radio: KKNX-AM (840). More OSU football coverage at www.registerguard.com/blogs |
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