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Oregon drops sixth straight game
Ducks suffer second straight blowout to a Bay Area school
by Jeffrey Dransfeldt | Senior Sports Reporter
All Kaela Chapdelaine could do was sit there and watch.
She picked up her fifth foul in the last two minutes scrambling for a loose ball. Her pained expression told a lot about another frustrating afternoon for the Oregon women's basketball playing without the urgency of a team striving for postseason play.
In losing 53-34 Saturday afternoon to visiting California, it likely eliminated any hopes Oregon had of earning a spot in the Women's National Invitational Tournament.
"You can see that we're drained," coach Bev Smith said.
Oregon slipped to 10-14 overall and 4-9 in the Pacific-10 Conference with five games left to play. California, in first in the Pac-10, improved to 21-3 and 12-1.
The final score hid what was a close game through the first 20 minutes. Cal led by four, 23-19, at halftime, but much like the way Oregon opened the Stanford game, they emerged from halftime lacking energy and Cal broke the game open.
Read more in the Daily Emerald on Monday.
She picked up her fifth foul in the last two minutes scrambling for a loose ball. Her pained expression told a lot about another frustrating afternoon for the Oregon women's basketball playing without the urgency of a team striving for postseason play.
In losing 53-34 Saturday afternoon to visiting California, it likely eliminated any hopes Oregon had of earning a spot in the Women's National Invitational Tournament.
"You can see that we're drained," coach Bev Smith said.
Oregon slipped to 10-14 overall and 4-9 in the Pacific-10 Conference with five games left to play. California, in first in the Pac-10, improved to 21-3 and 12-1.
The final score hid what was a close game through the first 20 minutes. Cal led by four, 23-19, at halftime, but much like the way Oregon opened the Stanford game, they emerged from halftime lacking energy and Cal broke the game open.
Read more in the Daily Emerald on Monday.
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