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that added pressure and he handled it so that’s very big for us. “ The first half featured nothing but sloppy basketball, turnovers and bad shots by both teams. The two teams combined to shoot a mere 31.5% for the half and had a combined 19 turnovers. Somewhere, the Washington Generals were smiling. “We weren’t playing well in that first half scratch-
ere we go again.” If you were a fan of the team that’d lost 13 straight conference road games, that’s exactly what you were thinking at the 13:15 mark of Sunday’s Civil War. That’s when Devoe Joseph hit back-to-back treys to give the Ducks a 6-point lead and send the nearly sold-out crowd at Matthew Knight Arena into a frenzy. How could you not be thinking that? The game was staying true to script. In true away-from-Gill form, the Beavers came out of the gate slow (10 points in the game’s first 14 minutes and 10 seconds), battled back then hung around. But in the past – in Seattle, in Pullman, in Tucson and Tempe – it was the home team that seized momentum late and made the gamechanging plays down the stretch. So when Joseph got hot – seemingly seconds after OSU had tied it for the first time since early in the game – the outcome seemed inevitable. But Sunday, OSU flipped the script. In a very big way. From the 13:15 point forward, OSU played its best basketball of the season. The Beavers answered Joseph’s back-to-backs with an 11-0 run, and the Beaver lead never dipped below three after that. The final 13:15 was not flawless – this was probably a game the Beavers would have won by 10 had it not been for a few crucial, late-game turnovers that let the home team
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Jared Cunningham and the Beavers celebrate their 76-71 win over the Ducks in Eugene Sunday. Cunningham scored 24 of his game-high 27 points in the second half.
Beavers, losers of 13 straight conference road games, go down to Eugene and silence the Ducks
By the end of the second half, Jared Cunningham showed them who daddy was. Arguably the best player in the conference, Cunningham scored 24 of his 27 points in the second half to lead Oregon State to a 76-71 victory By Alex Crawford over the Ducks. The Daily Barometer “I told Jared early in the week, and this put a lot During a timeout midway through the first of pressure on him, ‘your best players help you half of Sunday’s Civil War basketball game, the win games on the road,’” coach Craig Robinson University of Oregon student section broke into a said. “So not only did he have his own pressure because he wanted to help the team win but I put “little brother” chant. n
Women’s hoops beats Oregon 67-60 at Gill Coliseum Saturday n
Gibson scores 23 as OSU pulls away late in a back-and-forth 3-point battle with Oregon By Jacob Shannon The Daily Barometer
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Leslie Mak competing on the beam in Friday’s win at Gill. The Beavers struggled on the beam in their second meet of the year, at Arizona.
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Blalock, vault team get night started on right note, Beavers cruise from there By Warner Strausbaugh The Daily Barometer
Right away, it was readily apparent that the Beavers had put last week’s underwhelming win over the University of Arizona in the rearview mirror.
No. 10 Oregon State defeated No. 12 Stanford University Friday night 196.800-194.525. The overall team score was the Beavers’ best so far this season, slightly better than their score in their opening-night upset over Oklahoma. Junior Kelsi Blalock’s career-high 9.950 on vault, the first event of the night for OSU, was just the beginSee GYMNASTICS | page 7
This year’s Civil War would be the classic melodrama college basketball is familiar with, as 3,719 attended Gill Coliseum to witness the Oregon State (13-7, 4-5 Pac-12) women’s basketball team outshoot its rival down the stretch in a 67-60 win Saturday night. As both teams struggled to find rhythm offensively, each team would take its turn trading turnovers for shot attempts, watching the lead flip-flop until Oregon State would execute the improbable. Late in the game, sophomore Alyssa Martin would command the momentum in the Beavers favor as her 3-pointer — one of three in the last four minutes for the Beavers — would take the lead once and for all. This would inspire the squad to follow up with a clutch defensive stand, forcing the Ducks (11-10, 3-6 Pac-12) into a shot clock violation, and having to count on luck from there. Freshman Ali Gibson would win the lead with another 3-pointer. Gibson went 4-7 from the behind the 3-point
line second half, all part of her careerhigh 23 points on the night. “If it’s open, take it. We went through a few sets, and worked the plays in practice, but it was open so we took it. Coach always has confidence in us as shooters,” Gibson said. Gibson’s success would help make her identity within the program public. “That’s who she is, a phenomenal player. She’s the best player on our floor every day,” said coach Scott Rueck. “She’s a winner, and makes every play you need. Tonight she made the shots we needed, that’s who she is.” Junior forward Patricia Bright was the Beavers’ noticeable presence inside, finishing with her second career double-double on the evening with 11 points and 12 rebounds. Most of the game would be back and fourth, themed defensively in the statistics with 23 total turnovers, and below average shooting percentages from the field. Defending the 3-pointline decided the game. “It was a battle of a game, more of defensive game than anyone expected. Then it turned into a 3-point shooting contest, and I didn’t know if we could win that against Oregon, but we did,” Rueck said. The Beavers found themselves down See WOMEN’S HOOPS | page 7