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Salem-News.com Sports (November 19, 2006 18:52)Jimmie Johnson Wins First NEXTEL Cup Title Salem-News.com SPORTSVancouver, Washington native Greg Biffle won the Ford 400.
(HOMESTEAD, Fla.) -  Jimmie Johnson did what he needed to do Sunday to clinch his first NEXTEL Cup title.
Johnson scored a ninth-place finish in the season-ending Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, notching another top-10 finish to earn the 2006 title.
Johnson wound up with a 56 advantage over Matt Kenseth in the final standings with Denny Hamlin third, followed by Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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Salem-News.com Sports (November 19, 2006 18:28)Cross Country: Willamette's Zerzan Wins National Title at NCAA Division III Championships Salem-News.com SPORTSZerzan received All-America honors for the second consecutive season. (WEST CHESTER, Ohio) -  Willamette University cross country runner Sarah Zerzan battled a wet and muddy course to win the women’s individual title at the NCAA Division III Cross Country National Championships, held at Voice of America Park in West Chester, Ohio, on Saturday.
Zerzan was the first of 279 runners to cross the finish line, as she became Willamette’s first national champion in cross country. She completed the 6-kilometer course in 22:31 to win by 20 seconds over the second place finisher, Caitlin Bradley of Dickinson College.
“I’m excited,” Zerzan said. “It was difficult and very challenging, but everyone else was running in the same mud. You can’t let it defeat you.”
Zerzan got out to a solid start and was behind two runners at the mile mark. With about two miles to go, she move in front and began to increase her lead. She eventually won by nearly 100 meters.
“She just kept pulling away,” Willamette Head Coach Matt McGuirk said. “She ran a great race. I think she would have been there at the front even if it was dry. The course was extremely difficult.”
According to Zerzan and McGuirk nearly the entire course was muddy and several areas included sizable puddles of water. The sky was clear on Saturday, but the course received about five inches of rain in the middle of the week.
The water and mud challenged all of the runners, with even some of the top competitors struggling to fight the conditions.
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Salem-News.com Sports (November 19, 2006 18:15)Men's Basketball: Corban Downs Whitman, 85-71 Salem-News.com SPORTSCorban secures its first win of the young season to move its record to 1-4 overall. (SALEM) -  Eight different players hit at least one trifecta, as Corban's men's basketball team lit up the nets with a season-high 13 made buckets behind the 3-point line and put its first "W" in the win column thanks to an 85-71 victory over NCAA Division III member Whitman on Saturday.
Sophomore Garrett Kauffman led the barrage from beyond the arc with a 3-for-5 performance en route to scoring 13 points off the bench.
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Salem-News.com Sports (November 19, 2006 18:10)Men's Basketball: Bearcats Nip Eastern Oregon, 84-81 Salem-News.com SPORTSWillamette’s top scorer was freshman Dan Nugent, who scored 20 points on 5 of 7 field goals and 9 of 13 free throws. He also contributed five rebounds, four assists, four blocked shots and one steal. (CALDWELL, Idaho) -  Willamette University shot 59.6% for the game and placed four starters in double figures, as the Bearcats defeated Eastern Oregon University, 84-81, on the second day of the 20th Annual Duane Wolfe Golden Rule Shoot-Out, Saturday, at Albertson College.
Willamette became the first team to defeat Eastern Oregon this season, as the Mountaineers, who compete in the NAIA, fell to 7-1. The Bearcats, who compete in NCAA Division III, evened their record at 1-1.
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Salem-News.com Sports (November 17, 2006 13:18)Women's Volleyball: Third-Ranked Cardinal Defeat Ducks, 3-0 Salem-News.com SPORTSOregon bettered the Cardinal with 52 kills, but also accounted for 30 errors. (EUGENE) -  Oregon freshman Sonja Newcombe led all players with 16 kills and sophomore Mira Djuric had 14, but the Ducks faced a tough challenge in the third-ranked Stanford Cardinal Thursday evening.
Behind 15 total blocks, the Cardinal defeated Oregon 30-26, 36-34, 30-22 in front of 1,203 fans at McArthur Court.
The loss – Oregon’s fourth straight – dropped the Ducks to 17-8 overall, 7-8 in the Pacific-10 Conference, while Stanford improves to 22-3, 13-2.
Oregon will look to get back on the winning track when it faces No. 15 California tomorrow evening at 5:00 PM.
It will be a rematch of perhaps Oregon’s best win of the season, when they beat the Bears 3-1 in Berkeley Oct. 19th.
It snapped a 15-match winning streak by California.
It is also part of a doubleheader with the Oregon men’s basketball team, which will play at 8:00 PM.
On Thursday, the Ducks ran into an athletic Stanford team that committed just 14 errors in the match and had 50 kills.
Stanford also dominated the serving game (eight aces) and outblocked Oregon, 15-4.
“They served better than any team all year and we handled it really well,” Oregon head coach Jim Moore said. “I was happy with our serving and our passing even though they also served well.”
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Salem-News.com Sports (November 17, 2006 13:13)Cross Country: Lananna Named West Regional Men's XC Coach of The Year Salem-News.com SPORTSThe second-year associate athletic director was honored after his men’s team scored its first pair of team wins in the Pac-10 and NCAA West Regional Championships since 1989. (EUGENE) -  The U.S, Track and Field / Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced Friday that University of Oregon men’s director of track and field and cross country Vin Lananna was named the 2006 Men’s West Regional Coach of the Year.
The Pac-10 title stood as Oregon’s 14th and first since 1995, while their regional crown was its first since 1989 and fifth since the event was held separately from the league finale beginning in 1982.
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Salem-News.com Sports (November 16, 2006 13:10)Women's Basketball: Oregon State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff Game Canceled Salem-News.com SPORTSFollow the Oregon State Beavers on Salem-News.com SPORTS. (CORVALLIS) -  Oregon State University has been informed by the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff that the UAPB women’s basketball staff has overscheduled the maximum number of contests for this season.
As a result, the Wednesday, Nov. 22nd game between the Beavers and Golden Lions has been canceled and UAPB has agreed to abide by all contractual penalties
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Salem-News.com Sports (November 16, 2006 13:03)Oregon State Ballpark To Host Summer Baseball Salem-News.com SPORTSThe Knights play a 54-game schedule, including 42 league contests, and their first game at OSU will be June 14th against the Bend Elks. (CORVALLIS) -  Starting this summer, Oregon State’s Goss Stadium at Coleman Field will be the home of the Corvallis Knights of the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League.
The team – formerly based in the Portland area as the Aloha Knights – will play 26 games on the home diamond of the OSU Beavers, the 2006 NCAA national champions.
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Salem-News.com Sports (November 16, 2006 12:50)Oregon State Signs Four Players With USA Baseball Junior National Team Ties Salem-News.com SPORTSThe 2006 USA Baseball Junior National Team earned a silver medal at the IABF World Championships in Cuba. (CORVALLIS) -  Four players involved with the 2006 USA Baseball Junior National Team signed letters of intent with Oregon State this past week during the 2006 early signing period.
Making this year’s Junior National Team were righthanded pitchers Tim Alderson (Phoenix, Ariz./Horizon HS) and Greg Peavey (Vancouver, Wash./Hudson’s Bay HS); earning places at the team tryouts held by USA Baseball were shortstop Garrett Nash (Draper, Utah/Jordan HS) and lefthanded pitcher Tanner Robles (Murray, Utah/Cottonwood HS).
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