Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 9

Roy Gault OSU gets a road win at home The reason for arzone A a it wit obvious in the last mlnutet why Stanford had ton- ed Oregon SUte to the firsts minutes. Man for man, the Beavers are in a different league than the Cardinals. The- Beaver were leading only 42-34 and most of the 10.109-fans were asleep when Stanford decided with 12H minutes It would have to come after the ball if it hoped to beat OSU. So the Cardinals came out and the Beavers swooped in, and alt minutes tater the score was 6040 and Gill Coliseum sounded like-Mae Court 'Stanford had sneaked along with its rone, keeping the game close and committing almost no fouls, until a couple of tur novers enabled Oregon State to build its lead to eight sent Ortfonjtitt to the free throw line only one time. But as long as SUnfoaJ was content to sit back In Its zone the Beavers were becoming content to.

sit on the ball, and Coach Dick DiBiaso knew he couldn't make a run at Oregon State If he didn't get his hands on the ball. So he switched to man-to-man and Oregon State ran lay-up fm-H -N ,1 set. 1 1 TA -v vsc i nt'i OREGON ST 1 4 I Wrtimfnalttie I I jm 1 Aruont 4 jot Waahmitai .49 I 4 43 Stanford ..,..1 I J7 I r--Oregon I 4 .141 4 rmuy'i lUwit Onm Slaw IS, Staafari 4f r. hinjto SUM USC Cililaraui Ortgoa Suw Artmw ArUDni SUM Sunort Orefoo WliinVm UCLA Maaiiy'i Cirw CU(oniw ill Octf Tw4jr'i Cam -r', Wuhingtoti M-USC 1 By. Roy Gault 1 Sports Editor 1' The Beavers pretended they were on' Die road Friday night.

They kept fighting and scrapping and battling; down to the last minute just as though they were involved In a one-point game on the road and the result was another record-breaking Oregon State basketball victory at Gill -Coliseum. The Beavers throttled SUnford, 73-41 This time OSU didn't break the school scoring record, -as they had when they scored Its points against Texas Wesleyan and 116 against Arizona. Instead they set a school record for patience, taking only layups and shooting .833 (15-for-18) In the second half. They shot .711 (32-for-45) for the game, also a school record. "I coached this game as If we were on the toad." said OSU Coach Ralph Miller, who Is more concerned about his team's road trip to Arizona next month than he is about home games tonight against California and next weekend against UCLA and Southern Cat.

"I'm tired of losing on the road," said Miller. "I told my players to run the offense and defense exactly the way I want them to do and If they didn't, they could come. Join me on the bench. We have to be a more heartless team, on the road. We have to develop an offen- Continued on page 18) I 1 ji Jh i v.

I drills. The respectable thing Changing defenses was the respectable thing to do. Getting run out of th gym doesn't count as more of a loss than sitting back and watching the clock run down, and besides, it made the fans feel as though they'd gotten their mony's worth. "We finally got so far ahead hejftad to rrtake the change," said OSU Coach Ralph Miller. "We weren't overly interested in how much we were winning by.

he was going to Just sit in that tone, we were going to Just sit on the ball. And if he was going to come out and get the ball, we were fortunate enough to have enough quickness to make it very tough on them." While Stanford had put OSU on the free throw line only once in the first 27 minutes, the Beavers went to the line il times' In the last 12V4 minutes. "You accept some basic premises," said Miller. "If they've i il j. it era got ma ten our quicsness ana speea, uiey can i go u.

iaey really have only one player (Wolfe Perry) who can come close to matching speed with our guards, and on the inside they don't have anyone except maybe Klmberly Belton. He can match quickness with our post people, tut not with Dwayne Allen. If, Dwayne is a. forward. We should be able to exploit this advaih.

tage, and tonight we did a nice job." The Beavers did a nice enough job to shoot a school record .133 (15 foM8) in the second.half, OSU shot a school record .711 (32-for-45) for the game. 1 In the second half the Beavers didn't shoot a single shot from farther than four feet away. Beaver box STANFORD 14) to Ip 0 0 -4 1-7 0 5 13 0 0 1 11 0 0 36 4-19 Tt 1M) Wrirh IWian rd. 'Ptiry Gkivtcrhtni Morgan Ulli Barws CMDtklll Him Toulu I i I 0 0 0 8 '0. 8 I 9 .1 i .1 A t' 4 frl W) .7 1 0-0 1 I 3 0 I 10 14-33 i) .10 14 I It 48 $nv Johnton -Tired of soaes ORKGON STATE I7JI mp fg It 1 i to Ip r.

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shot 9-for i from the floor and scored a season-high 26 points. "Our bread-and-butter Is the back door our inslde-butslde power, and against a zone It's kind of hard to take advantage of When they went to a'man-to-'man they couldn't cover us slzewise or in quickness. Theyjust couldn't match with us." DiBiaso concurred "Success comes when you take advantage of what your strengths are," he said. "They have speed, quickness, agility and ball-handing, and those strengths are what basketball is all about. It enables them to be quick both offensively and defensively." for to victory ggle 9 parts Changed game plan, DIBIaso didn't find out how quirk the Beavers are until Tate in the game because he didn't stick with hlTfeame plan.

"Actually, we had hoped to play, a lot of man-to-man." he said, "But when our zone was effective early in the game, we. stayed with It. We had planned to alternate our defenses. In the second half, when we did go to a man-to-man, they pushed it down our throats to Johnson, and we couldn't stop him. They Just Jammed it down there and either came out with a shot or a foul or a score." It was obvious early-on that this wasn't going to be one of the nights when the Beavers were to.score 100 points.

4, After three minutes the Beavers and Cardinals had each turn-ed the ball over four times and neither team had scored. OSU had taken only' one shotv That's why DIBIaso stuck with the But zones are for teams that stay ahead. The Cardinals didn't, and when they came out of their they REALLY didn't. 3W 4 4 1 1 "But even after his team had registered its second Valley League win week, Doherty couldn't help dwell on the problems that continue to undermine the Spartans. One factor which puzzles.

Doherty fs the lack.of -scoring he is receiving from senior forwards Dfck Oldfieltf and Jim Solberg. Old-field and Solberg combined for just 10 points in the game, hitting two of 10 shots from the floor. Solberg scored six points and Oldfield VALLEY LEAGUE pet. 5outhSlem 0 1.000 I CRESCENT VALLEY I I Ltbanon i 4" 'McNary i 4 555 South Albany S' .333 Sprngue 3 .333 North Salem I 1 .222 Wet Albany 1 .222 Friday'! Reiulta. Cnrvallii 4D, Lebanon SS South Salem 43, Snraftut 2t- MoNary 71, Wit Albany SS North Salem 75.

South Albany 52' By Randy Hammerlcksen Of The Caiette Times scored tour points. "I have a problem in that I have two two-year Jettermen on the floor that are shying away from taking their shots," said Doherty, "I can be blamed, I guess, for-hurting their confidence by getting on them. "But these are established players. They should be pumping in 15 to 20 points a game. The game of basketball should be easy forv them.

The thing I hayeo establish to them is the talent they have, "The-payoff in our offense is talcing the OSU crews to open said Doherty. "It was as fine an all-around effort; as I've evef seen from a player." Reynolds was the key man in Corvallis' eight-point explosion in a period of one i minute and 20 seconds midway through the third quarter. Corvallis turned the game around during the spurt, rallying from a 29-26 deficit to a 34-29 lead to take a 34-29 lead with 2:42 left in the third Jim Solberg's fast-break iayup got the streak started for Corvallis. Reynolds followed with a 19-foot jump shot from the baseline and then stole a pass in ba'ckcourt and fed Mickey Riley of the Spartans for a la-up. -Riley finished off the Spartan surge by hitting a 17-foot jump shot? Corvallis never trailed the rest qt the way, although the Spartans- were a stumbling-fumbling act at times.

But Lebanon's cold shooting kept the Warriors at the disadvantage down the stretch and Corvallis con- verted nine of 10 free throws during the final 1:54 of the game to wrap up the victory. Riley led Corvallis with .16 points and Reynolds added 14. '1 Center Mark Neustel -r Lebanon's leading scorer and rebounder. hit just one of seven shots from the floor in the second half, He scored just five points In the final 16 minutes. Neustel was the game's leading scorer with 19 points, hitting seven of 19 shots from the floor and five of six free throws.

Forward Roger. Hutley added 10 points for" the Warriors. t- Corvallis shot ,380 (19-for-SO) from the ficld and Lebanon shot .341 (15-for-44)i The Spartans outrebounded the Warriors 37-26 as 6-7 Dan Shadoln of Corvallis led the way with 11 i championship But the way they are' playing. and more Importantly the way the front-' running South Salem is playing Corvallis will likely fail in its bid at winning another ti- tie this season. South Salem nailed down its ninth straight Valley League win and 15th.

consecutive victory of the season Friday night, defeating Sprague, 43-26. Corvallis took over sole possession second place in the standings. with a 6-3 record and Lebanon slipped into fourth place at 5-4. Crescent Villey which had a bye Friday night is In third place at 5-3. There were positive and negative aspects involved in Corvallis' victory over Lebanon.

-On the positive side, the Spartans finished off the night in "second place in the Valley League standings, And if past history means anything, the Spartans need to win just two or possibly three of their final seven league games to qualify, for the four-team Valley Leagu tournament, which' matches the se- cond through fifth-place teams for the right to the league's No. 2 spot in the state'tourna-' ment. But the.Spartans still feel they can win the Valley League championship and go to the state tournament as the league's No. 1 team. "We're still shooting for No.

1," said senior guard Harold Reynolds of Corvallls. "If it doesnt come, then we will concentrate on winning the Valley League tournament "If we can get our game together, I don't think there's any way we can be stopped." Reynolds' play was the other positive factor for the Spartans In the win over Lebanon, The 5-10 senior guard scored 14 points, pulled down nine rebounds and quick-handed away seven steals. "I thought Harold's effort was outstan- Oregon State University's crews will begin spring practice Monday on the Willamette River. Jheavywelght In the Paclflc-8 championships last year and won the national championship In four without coxswain, r' At the basketball game's outset, the Spartans were about as passive as the smattering of Corvallls High School students that left their1 section of seats half empty. Corvallls captured Its second Valley League win of the week, capitalizing on Lebanon's 4-for-20 shooting In the second hair to down the Warriors, 49-38, Friday night In the Spartan gym.

But It wasn't, pretty. And II certainly-wasn't And any Spartan fan naive enough to think Corvallls' win contained either of the aforementioned qualities needed only to look at the wrinkled, frustrated face of Corvallls Coach Mike Doherty to find out differently. 1 ,1 "We aren't playing the way I want us to," said Doherty gazing at the locker room wall as If he was looking for an answer. The Spartans went Into the 1978-79 season' with optimistic expectations of winning their seventh straight Valley League basketball OSUCoach Karl Drlica expects a turnout of 39 men and, 33 women. The Beavers will open their-season In March with two regatta in British Columbia, Drlica said he will have four men's crews a heavyweight olnht turn lltftitumlDht iilohlt OSU's women placed second In open' weight and third In lightweight In.

the Northwest championships Inst year. The OSU. crews have, been off the Willamette River have been on weight training-programs since mid- Novvmbcr, gooa snoi, uonerty continued, it our Dest shooters aren't willing to look to the basket, then we don't have an offense. "Then we end up with a couple of guys putting the ball up too much td make up for it. It puts me in a position where I have to demand that players shoot the ball." The Spartans were again plagued by handling errors that resulted in numerous turnovers.

"Some of our turnovers were the result of carelessness," said think it was the result of trying to force -things." The Spartans will play at South Albany next (Continued on page .10) and a freshman eight. John Bahibe and Atwood will be the heavyweight strokes, OSU placed second in lightweight and third in II work out at dav and the The women 30 m. each men will work out ut 4 m..