Ranked No. 23 and No. 20, Oregon (12-5) and Utah (14-5) had similar resumes entering a matchup in Salt Lake City on Friday.

So, it was no surprise that the match had to be settled in five sets as Oregon snapped its two-game losing streak with a 3-2 win to remain undefeated on the road.

It was a hard-fought ordeal, with both teams putting down a massive number of kills. Oregon finished with 71 kills, while Utah finished with 73. Seven players, three Ducks and four Utes, tallied kills in the double digits.

For Oregon, the leader was outside hitter Lindsey Vander Weide with 20 kills, followed by middle blocker Ronika Stone with 15. As if Vander Weide’s kill count wasn’t impressive enough, it is coupled with a .500 hitting percentage.

Coming into the fifth set, Utah was hitting .220 in the match, which could have been an ominous sign for the Ducks, as they are 0-5 when opponents hit above .200.

Oregon’s ability to string points together gave them an early 10-6 lead. Though Utah tried to fight back, Vander Weide’s last kill gave Oregon a 14-11 lead and set up match point for the Ducks, forcing Utah to take a panicked timeout.

The Ducks’ block came up strong in the set, tallying five of the 15 points, including the-game winner. They finished the game with 12 blocks. This is surprising seeing as Oregon looked a little sluggish in the first set, particularly their block. The team failed to tally a single block in the set, while Utah had three.

It was a similar story in the third set, when Utah tallied their second win. The Ducks looked tired and a bit sloppy. After compiling 18 and 17 kills in the first and second sets, Oregon only managed to put down 13 with six errors. Utah went on the win the set 25-22, after three errors gave the Utes a 24-20 lead late in the set.

With the win, the Ducks gained a little bit of breathing room in the Pac-12 standings. Oregon is 6-3 conference play and sits in a tie for third with USC and UCLA. The Ducks will face Colorado in Boulder on Saturday.

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The Oregon men’s team thought it had placed third behind Arkansas and Colorado, after the women’s team had achieved second place earlier that morning at the Pre-National Cross Country Invitational in Terra Haute, Indiana.

However, after further review, it was discovered that Sam Prakel’s name was accidentally left off of the results. His 36th place finish propelled Oregon to their first Pre-Nationals victory since 2009 with 85 points.

Senior Edward Cheserek, who won the race in 2014, continued his dominance by crossing the line in 23 minutes, 34.65 seconds to capture his 15th win in his last 17 races. Early in the race, Cheserek took off with a pack of runners. However, about halfway through the race, Cheserek began to break away, even turning around to wave at his fellow competitors to try to get them to match his pace.

None did. Arkansas senior Frankline Tonui tried to narrow the gap in the final straightaway, but Cheserek was too far ahead. He finished in second with a time of 23:56.1, giving Arkansas a second-place finish with 110 points. He was followed by Campbell senior Amon Terer in third place in 23:58.5.

Despite the fact it had only one finisher in the top 20 — a 15th-place finish by sophomore Ryan Forsyth — Colorado finished in third with 124 points. This is because four more of Colorado’s runners finished in the top 30.

Oregon sophomores Matthew Maton and Tanner Anderson both finished in the top 20. Maton placed fourth in 24:07.7, while Anderson finished in 18th with a time of 24:22.9. After a disappointing freshman season, Maton, the Oregon High School State Cross Country record holder, has redeemed himself by finishing fourth in both of his races this year after an excellent debut at the Washington Invitational.

Freshman Levi Thomet and junior Bryan Fernandez also raced for the Ducks. Thomet finished in 26th in 24:29.5 and Fernandez finished in 148th in 25:38.8.

As for the women’s race, Michigan senior Erin Finn dominated the field, effortlessly winning in 19:44.7 and helping Michigan to a third-place finish with 179.4 points. Colorado was the winner with a 93 points and Oregon followed with 154.3.

Five minutes into the race, Finn pulled out in front, distancing herself from the rest of the field. She maintained her position for the entirety of the race. She came into the final stretch a commanding 20 seconds before Cal Poly freshman Peyton Bilo, who would eventually finish third with a time of 20:11.47 after being outraced by Colorado senior Erin Clark, who crossed the line in 20:08.4.

Two Oregon runners placed in the top 15. Freshman Katie Rainsberger was the top finisher in sixth place with a time of 20.19.04 and redshirt senior Samantha Nadel finished 13th in 20:28.66. Rainsberger was coming off of her first collegiate race at the Washington Invitational, where she placed second.

Oregon sophomore Jessica Hull ran in 20:50.6, good enough for 34th. She was followed by Alli Cash in 48th, Maggie Schmaedick in 53rd, Emma Abrahamson in 67th and Ashley Maton in 98th.

On Oct. 28, the Ducks will start the championship portion of the season with the Pac-12 Cross Country Championships.

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The last time Oregon dropped two matches in a row, it was the beginning of the season against Texas and Florida, and the team took the losses as a learning experience.

After that, for a while, the Ducks looked undefeatable, going on a 11 match win streak. They have a 12-4 record, yet after losing 3-2 to No. 20-ranked UCLA on Wednesday and to USC on Friday by 3-1, the Ducks are now 5-2 in Pac-12 play.

The Ducks looked like a tired team, unfocused and often sluggish. Their offense struggled, while their defense kept them in the game. They finished with 72 digs, 26 of which supplied by libero Amanda Benson, while USC finished with 66. Both teams also finished with 22 blocks; middle blocker Ronika Stone led the Ducks with six, one of them solo. She, along with Taylor Agost, also led the team with 12 kills.

However, all those blocks couldn’t stop Trojans outside hitter Khalia Lanier, who finished the game with 23 kills.

“(Lanier) had a great match,” said Oregon head coach Jim Moore. “They’re setting her every ball; she’s a good player.”

However, as Moore was quick to point out, she also had a .262 hitting percentage from 61 total attacks, not stellar by any means.

Many Oregon players also struggled with hitting percentage. Three of the Ducks’ best hitters, including Sumeet Gill, Willow Johnson and Lindsey Vander Weide finished below .100.

“We have been the best team in the conference, and maybe in the country at not getting blocked,” Moore said. “And all of a sudden, we just start hitting balls that anyone could block.”

Tied 24-24 in the first set, the Ducks needed two more points for the win. USC, however, was the first to strike with a block by right side hitter Brittany Abercrombie, who led her team with eight blocks. Oregon quickly answered when middle blocker Kacy Nady put down her first kill of the night. The Trojans and the Ducks traded points back and forth until a kill by outside hitter Lindsey Vander Weide started a three-point run, giving the Ducks the win with a score of 30-28.

The second set was as tightly contested as the last, neither team allowing the other to take more than a two point lead until a four-point run brought USC to a 20-16 lead. However, Oregon was able to answer with a run of their own, yielding five points, four from kills and one from an ace from middle blocker Ronika Stone, Oregon’s fifth of the match.

Oregon and USC found themselves tied at 22-22 at the end of the match. To get the win, USC scored three unanswered points to finish with a score of 25-22.

Things got worse from there. Late in the third set, USC established a 22-18 lead before Oregon took a timeout. USC would go on to win the set 25-20, winning off of two kills, one from Abercrombie and one from Lanier.

“We’re not grinding it out,” Moore said. “We’re not getting tough.”

Oregon struggled in the final set, only tallying 12 kills. Tied at 20 apiece, USC scored four unanswered points, all from kills, to give them a dangerous lead late in the set. Two blocks won the game for the Trojans, finishing the final set with a score of 25-21.

The Ducks will attempt to end their scoring slump against Utah next Friday during their second road trip of conference play.

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From the late Steve Prefontaine to current Duck Edward Cheserek, Oregon has a long history of producing elite distance runners.

So it came as no surprise for anyone two years ago when the Ducks signed two of the top prep runners in the nation, Tanner Anderson and Matthew Maton.

Before coming to Oregon, Anderson and Maton had a friendly rivalry, fueled by the desire to one-up each other. They both spent their prep careers in the northwest and matched up against each other throughout high school; Anderson ran for North Central High School in Spokane, Washington, and Maton for Summit High School in Bend, Oregon. They both were two-time state cross country champions, and their arrivals in Eugene came with high expectations.

Maton had already caused a buzz at Oregon before graduating high school. As an Oregon commit, he placed third in a race of collegiate runners at the Oregon Twilight in May of his senior year. He became the sixth prep runner to break the four-minute mile mark, and his time of 3 minutes, 59.38 seconds was the third-fastest time ever by a high schooler at the time.

Despite the lofty expectations, neither Maton nor Anderson had the stellar freshman year they had been hoping for.

“We don’t put too much emphasis or pressure on our freshman,” Oregon associate head coach Andy Powell said. “We tell them it’s the one time where they can take a backseat.”

Maton started his debut cross country season well, placing eighth overall at the Washington Invitational. But later in the fall, he didn’t perform as well in the championship races. He placed 17th at the Pac-12 Championship and fared worse during the NCAA Championships, finishing 85th as Oregon’s fifth runner.

Such finishes may be expected of normal collegiate freshman, but not Maton, who won the Oregon state title while obliterating Olympic silver medalist and former Duck Galen Rupp’s 11 year-old Oregon High School State Cross Country record by 10 seconds.

Anderson, on the other hand, fared slightly worse during his freshman season. His best finish was his debut at the Washington Invitational, in which he finished 12th overall. After that, he consistently finished as Oregon’s fourth runner, placing 42nd at the Pac-12 Championships and 56th at the NCAA Championships.

“I feel like I did pretty well with just being a freshman and being a newcomer,” Anderson said. “It’s a whole new learning curve when you just get here, and I feel like now that I have that year underneath me, I race a little bit smarter.”

Despite the fact he was healthy during last year’s track and field season, Anderson was redshirted. Powell said it because Oregon had so much depth.

“He still ran 14 minutes in the 5k,” Powell said. “I think he progressed quite well on the track.”

Maton was not redshirted, and the decision paid off as he transitioned into a track season that ended in strong fashion.

For the first half of the outdoor track and field season, Maton competed unattached, meaning he raced independent of his team. But he was unable to get a time that would be considered fast in Oregon’s deep 1,500-meter field. The Ducks have produced athletes such as Olympians Andrew Wheating and Matthew Centrowitz in the event, and returned standouts Blake Haney and Sam Prakel last season.

At the Oregon Twilight, Maton raced in an Oregon singlet for the first time and won the 1,500-meter with a time of 3:42.68.

“The season started really rocky,” Maton told reporters after the race. “I was full of confidence from last year, and I lost a little of that for some reason.”

The win propelled him to a second-place finish in the 1,500 at the Pac-12 Championships with a season best time of 3:39.97. Because of that, even though he didn’t meet the qualifying time, Maton was accepted as an entry in the 1,500 for the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials.

Maton advanced past the first round easily with the ninth-best time of 3:42.51, but failed to make it to the finals despite the fact he had the 11th-best time in a semifinal in which 12 advanced.

Now, as sophomores, Maton and Anderson have the opportunity to make more of an impact on the team.

“I think they’ll keep moving up,” Powell said. “I think they’ll be a little better this year and then a little better next year.”

Anderson began his season at the Bill Dellinger Invitational, in which he crossed the finish line alongside Prakel for second place with a time of 24:36.8.

“This year I feel a lot more confident than I did last year,” Anderson said.

Maton didn’t race until two weeks ago at the Washington Invitational. Although Cheserek won the race and Prakel placed third, Maton and Anderson finished in fourth and sixth, respectively, propelling the Oregon men’s team to a resounding victory.

“Personally, I’m definitely racing a lot better,” Maton said. “I run a whole lot more miles so I’m stronger.”

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Coming into the weekend, the Ducks volleyball team was understandably nervous as they were slated to face No. 11 Washington on Friday and No. 9 Washington State.

After losing in three sets to Washington on Saturday, snapping their undefeated streak at 11, Oregon redeemed themselves by defeating Washington State 3-0 Sunday at Matthew Knight Arena.

“You can’t change the results; so you have to learn from it, grow from it,” Oregon junior Taylor Agost. “So we came out this game and did the best we could, and it went really well for us.”

Though undefeated Washington State looked more dangerous than Washington coming into the game, Oregon made easy work of the Huskies. The Cougars finished the game with 21 errors and a .056 hitting percentage. Though Washington’s defense was predictably strong, with 16 total blocks, Oregon’s offense was too much for them. The Ducks finished with 45 kills and a .386 hitting percentage. Taylor Agost and Jolie Rasmussen led the team with nine kills each.

“We have to learn to be a top team. We have to stop wanting to be the underdog,” Oregon Coach Jim Moore said. “We got to start accepting that we’re good, and people expect us to win.”

Oregon certainly looked like a top team. Oregon and Washington State began the first set neck and neck, fending each other off with strong defensive play and four blocks each. Halfway through the set, Oregon was able to pull ahead by going on a three-point streak, two of which were scored on attack errors by Washington State. The Cougars looked slightly discombobulated as they took their first timeout with Oregon leading by 18-15.

After the timeout, Oregon looked poised to run away with the set. Lindsey Vander Weide gave Oregon their fourth point in a row with her first kill of the match.

“We came out really aggressive; we were all over them,” Agost said. “We just really wanted this win.”

Washington State, however, made it difficult for Oregon to finish the set. Oregon held a 24-17 lead before the Cougars went on a four-point streak to stay in the game. But a service error by Tani Stephens gave Oregon the 25-21 win.

The Ducks continued their dominate play in the second set, establishing an early 9-4 lead after a three-point streak that sent Washington State to a timeout.

That lead increased to a commanding 20-7, with Washington State falling apart at the seams. They finished the set with eight errors and only seven kills, while Oregon had 13 kills and only two errors. To help Oregon win the set by a score of 25-10, August Raskie served two aces that were too hot for the Cougars to handle. She and Vander Weide finished the game with a team-leading two aces.

Oregon’s dominance couldn’t be stopped in the third set. A nine-point streak gave them a 15-9 lead halfway through the set. Four kills, two from Rasmussen and one from each Lauren Page and Taylor Agost, finished the streak.

At the end of the set, Oregon had a 23-14 lead. To win the game, they went on a three-point kill streak, with Johnson, Vander Weide, and Agost putting down kills.

Oregon will get visits from both No. 18 UCLA and USC next week, facing off against UCLA on Wednesday and USC on Friday.

“They’re UCLA; They’re going to be scrappy,” said Moore. “They’re going to make you beat them.”

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On Friday, during the first game of Pac-8 play and the first game of the I-5 Cup, the Ducks club hockey team dropped an aggressive, hard-hitting game against Washington by a score of 6-3.

The Huskies struck first and early, scoring five minutes and 16 seconds into the first period. Senior Jaymes White scored the goal off a feed to the front of the net by sophomore Christian Cinderella, beating Ducks goalie Jackson Howery.

Later in the period, White scored again with less than two minutes remaining. Cinderella tallied his second assist of the night by feeding the puck to White around the back of the net. Basically undefended, White walked to the side of the net and scored easily despite the sharp angle, forcing the Ducks to an early two goal deficit.

Oregon started off the second period on the penalty kill after a late period penalty on Cavin McClare. Although they tried to fight it off, with 17 seconds remaining in the penalty, Washington freshman Thomas Krivak made an unassisted goal 1:23 into the second period.

Play began to get chippy after that. With 12:16 to go in the period, the Ducks went shorthanded again after a cross checking penalty on Shott. They defended the Huskie’s power play in much of the same way they had been, with an aggressive forecheck, this time supplied by senior Patrick Taylor, to keep Washington in their own zone as long as possible.

But, right after the Ducks successfully fended off the Huskie’s power play, a high sticking penalty was called on senior Zach Foss. A shorthanded goal from the point by senior defensemen Jesse Leonard raised the Ducks’ hopes. The shot hit the crossbar and ricocheted behind Jarvis, bringing the score to 3-1.

With 31 seconds left in the second period, both the Ducks and the Huskies were called on penalties, forcing the teams to play 4-on-4 to start the third period. Less than 30 seconds into the third period, the Huskies took advantage of it by scoring their fourth goal. Krivak scored his second goal of the night from the point after a pass from senior Troy Gasser.

Cinderella would pick up his first goal of the game to bring the Huskies to a commanding 5-1 lead. However, the Ducks quickly answered with a goal of their own a few seconds later when Sam Rosenburg scored off an assist from freshman Matthew Stone. A couple minutes later, the Ducks scored again, cutting the lead to two points.

With about 10 minutes to go in the game, the Ducks began playing with a newfound urgency and aggression, driving relentlessly at Jarvis. But, the Huskies crushed the Ducks hopes by scoring their sixth goal of the night. Cinderella tallied another assist after sending a touch pass in front of the net to Krivak, who squeezed it past Howery.

The Ducks hope to redeem themselves tomorrow as they will get a rematch against Washington.

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In order to redeem themselves after both the women’s and men’s teams placed second in the NCAA Track and Field Championships last year, Oregon recently added nine more sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers to their already deep 2017 track and field roster.

Four transfer students were added to the men’s roster, including U.S. Olympic trials finalist Damarcus Simpson and All-American Kyree King. Two redshirt junior transfers from other Oregon schools, hurdler Joshua Rambert, and sprinter Julius Shellmire, round out the new recruits.

Last summer, Simpson placed eighth in the long jump at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, recording a personal record of 26 feet, 7 3/4 inches in the process. Before that, he was a two-time NCAA Division II national champion in 2015 and 2016 and a four-time Rocky Mountain Conference champion at Chadron State in Nebraska. While attending Lafayette High School, located in Lafayette, Georgia, he was a Georgia state champion.

While attending Western Kentucky, Kyree King was a member of their 4×100 meter relay team that finished fifth at the NCAA Championships last year. He was also an All-American in the 200 meters and the 2016 Conference USA champion in the 100 meters. The versatile sprinter is coming to Oregon as a senior after Western Kentucky dropped their men’s track and field program last year.

Joshua Rambert is one of two Lane Community College transfers who Oregon recently added to the team. Rambert formerly competed in sprinting events, before switching to the 400-meter hurdles last year. He won the NWAC Southern Region Championship in the event and was runner-up at the conference championship with a personal-best time of 54.03 seconds.

Julius Shellmire, a redshirt junior from Southern Oregon University, qualified for the 2016 NAIA Indoor Championships in the 60 and 200 meter events. He was part of the 4×100 meter team that captured the 2016 Cascade Conference championship. As a senior at Grant High School in Portland, he was the Oregon 6A state champion in the 200 meter, and the Oregon 6A state runner-up in the 100 meters.

In addition to the transfer students, Oregon added two freshman hurdlers to the men’s team. Jonathan Harvey from De La Salle High School in Tracy, California and Braxton Canady from Paxton High School in Jacksonville, Florida.

Canady was the 2016 Florida 3A state champion in the 300 meter hurdles and the runner-up in the 110 meter hurdles. In 2015, he was the Florida 2A state runner-up in both hurdles events.

Harvey took eighth place at the 2016 CIF state championships in the 110 hurdles. Though he also advanced to the California state meet in 300 hurdles, he failed to place in 2016.

The women’s team added three talented transfer students, including senior sprinter Elexis Guster, sophomore jumper ChaQuinn Cook and sophomore sprinter Rubie Cordey.

After spending her first three years of college at Iowa University, Guster decided to compete at Oregon for her senior year. She is a six-time NCAA all-American and three-time Big Ten champion. She qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials in both the 200 meter and the 400 meter events last summer. She won the Big 10 400 meter title for the outdoor season in 2014 and 2015 and indoors in 2016.

Cook spent her freshman year at Portland State, where she was the 2016 Big Sky triple jump champion during both the indoor and outdoor season — becoming just the second Viking to do so. She went on to place third at the USATF Junior Outdoor Championships, recording a personal-best of 42 feet, 3/4 inch.

Cordey was last year’s NWAC 400 meter champion and 200 meter runner-up while competing for Lane Community College.

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The last time Oregon volleyball played a top 10 team, they lost 3-1 to No. 10 Florida one day after they falling to No. 2 Texas by the same score.

“I thought we were incredibly ready; I was incredibly confident going in against Texas,” Oregon head Coach Jim Moore said. “We just were so inexperienced in that situation, we didn’t handle it well.”

Both of those losses came in August. Since then, Oregon has gone on an 11 match winning streak, completely dominating their opponents while doing so. Before dropping a set to Arizona State last weekend, they had won 19 sets in a row.

“It was a wake-up call,” Ronika Stone, who was just named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week, said. “Ever since then, I think we’ve been pushing and are able to compete with teams at that high of a level.”

Now, the Ducks are more prepared to host No. 11 Washington and No. 9 Washington State this weekend, starting with Washington on Friday.

The Huskies started off their season undefeated, winning 11 matches in a row before finally losing to Washington State during their first conference match. Since then, Washington dropped another game to bring their Pac-12 record to 2-2, this time to Stanford, who is the top-ranked team in the Pac-12 at No. 5.

Despite that, Washington is still a formidable opponent, and Oregon has their work cut out for them.

“They’re a lot bigger than us,” Stone said. “With that, they are pretty good at blocking, so it’s going to be a challenge for us to try to get through their block.”

Washington’s block is significantly stronger than Oregon’s. Their top five blockers all have more blocks than any Oregon player, with the exception of Stone, who leads the team with 50 blocks. The Huskies are led by freshman Kara Bajema, who has 67 blocks, and junior Crissy Jones with 51.

As for their offense, junior Courtney Schwan and Jones lead the Huskies with 188 and 180 kills, respectively. Juniors Lindsay Vander Weide and Taylor Agost have 145 and 101 kills for the Ducks. Despite the fact their leaders have more kills, Oregon has more kills as a team than Washington does, not to mention a higher hitting percentage at .313.

“We know the rivalry,” said Stone. “We know how good they are.”

Though Oregon’s rivalry with Washington is arguably more intense than theirs with Washington State, the Cougars could potentially be a more dangerous team.

“In these situations, everyone’s energy is going to be up,” Moore said. “Is Washington a big deal to us? Yes, but it’s Washington State that’s 4-0.”

Overall, WSU is 14-2, dropping games to Baylor and No. 17 Purdue earlier in the season. Recently, the Cougars have been playing better than the Huskies, though they are 3-2 for away matches.

“Both teams serve and block really well, and that’s where getting all their momentum, all their energy,” Moore said. “So we’re going to have to pass really well, and we got to make sure that we do the things offensively, so we just don’t let them get easy points both in serving and blocking.”

For the Cougars, blocking is led by sophomores Taylor Mims and Claire Martin. They have 86 and 76 total blocks, respectively. On the offensive side, the team is led by senior Kyra Holt. She has significantly more kills than anyone else on the team with 218, while the closest person to her, sophomore McKenna Woodford, has 154.

Though it will be the Ducks’ first time playing against a top ten team since losing against Texas and Florida, they are more prepared this time around. The Washington game takes place on Friday, and Washington State is on Sunday.

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— Washington football head coach Chris Petersen isn’t making players available for interviews this week and shying away from conversations around the Ducks. That didn’t stop offensive line coach Steve Greatwood from declaring after Monday’s practice that Oregon’s winning streak against Washington will continue. “The streak’s not going to end,” Greatwood said.

— Oregon football on Monday learned that starting linebacker Johnny Ragin will miss the remainder of the season with a leg injury sustained last Saturday. Ragin was leading the team in tackles in the four games he had played in so far.

— Oregon volleyball’s Ronika Stone earned Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors on Monday, the conference announced. She led the No. 21-ranked Ducks with five blocks in games against Arizona and Arizona State over the weekend. The honor is the first of its kind for Stone, who led the team with 13 kills and a .625 hitting percentage against the Wildcats.

— The women’s soccer team also dropped its third straight Pac-12 game over the weekend, a 3-2 decision versus UCLA. The Ducks remain winless in Pac-12 play.

— Cross country’s Edward Cheserek and Katie Rainsberger both had impressive debuts at the Washington Invitational, which took place Saturday. Cheserek came home first and Rainsberger finished second. Overall, the men’s cross country team placed first and the women’s team placed second.

— Oregon football announced that it will wear a “Webfoots” uniform for its upcoming game against Washington. The uniforms are based on the same idea debuted during the spring game.

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— Former Oregon quarterback Joey Harrington will open a restaurant in Portland’s Pearl District, the Oregonian reported Monday. The restaurant, which will be called Pearl Tavern, will focus on food rather than sports memorabilia. The establishment is set to open in November.

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Oregon’s first Pac-12 road trip was a success with a win 3-1 win over Arizona on Saturday, after they defeated Arizona State the day before.

Right off the bat, the Ducks dominated play, posting a 7-3 lead early in the first set with kills by junior Taylor Agost and freshmen Jolie Rasmussen and Willow Johnson. After Arizona scored a point off a kill from Penina Snuka, Oregon went on a four-point run, all of them kills. Freshman Willow Johnson started off the streak by putting down two kills in a row. Lindsey Vander Weide and Ronika Stone followed with kills of their own, but Arizona answered by going on a four-point run of their own, narrowing the score to 12-8.

Later in the set, Agost went on a run of her own, scoring three kills in a row and bringing Oregon up to a 17-11 lead. Arizona responded with a three kill streak, with each kill coming from a different player.

Arizona attempted to catch up, but their deficit was too large. Oregon won the set 25-19 after Agost scored her sixth kill of the set. Johnson had the second-most kills with four.

Though the teams began the second set by trading off points, Arizona slowly started to pull away. The score was 11-9 when Arizona began dominating play by scoring four unanswered points. Oregon couldn’t narrow the gap after that as they were unable to go on a streak that yielded more than two points.

Arizona took a commanding 24-17 lead at the end of the match. Oregon finally went on their first significant point streak of the set, scoring four kills. Vander Weide and Stone each scored one, while Agost scored two in a row. But, it wasn’t enough, and Arizona won the set 25-21.

The third set started out in a similar way with both teams trading points to keep the score tied, but this time, it was the Ducks that slowly took the lead by going on the all-important point streak. They scored four points and senior Kacey Nady put down two kills.

Though Arizona was able to break the streak with a block, Oregon went on another four-point run. Ronika Stone scored her eighth kill of the match. Through the first and second sets, she was able to maintain a perfect 1.000 hitting percentage. Stone got her ninth kill later in the set when Oregon scored three more unanswered points, bringing their lead up to 15-7.

Arizona couldn’t narrow the gap after Oregon extended their lead to a comfortable 22-13 after two kills from Vander Weide and Johnson. Ronika Stone put down a kill, her tenth, to win the match with a score of 25-17.

The Ducks kept their momentum up through the beginning of fourth set, doubling up on Arizona with a 10-5 lead. After a kill from Vander Weide, Arizona would tie the game up at 11-11 after a six-point run, three of them scored off attack errors.

After that, the rest of the set was played neck and neck with neither team able to maintain more than a three point lead. With the score tied at 24-24, kills by Vander Weide and Stone allowed Oregon to take the victory with a score of 26-24. Stone led the Ducks with 13 kills and five blocks.

The win extended the Ducks’ win streak to 11. They hope to continue that when they return home to play No. 7 Washington next Friday.

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