Beavers trip, fall to Washington

To say tensions were high was to call a stoner worthless. Unnecessary.

Both coaches have probably never seen anything like it before. Fans are probably in the same boat. Either way, Washington took out Oregon State 97-59 Saturday night. This after an alleged confrontation between the two teams after the Huskies practice on Friday.

The Seattle Post Intelligencer ran a relatively biased “report” of the incident (you can find a link to it in this story). The report stated that the Beaver players started a confirontation with a few Huskies after their practice.

Kevin Mouton, head coach for the Beavers, said it was blown out of proportion. It might have been, though, emotions were high on the court. Officials did their job to keep the pre-game action from spilling onto the floor. It did come close though, when early in the second half Oregon State’s Omari Johnson was called for an intentional foul and Beaver forward Sean Carter was whistled for a technical foul.

For the Huskies it’s another big win, mentally. Ryan Appleby had a career-high 32 points, including nine 3-pointers, Justin Dentmon had 17 points and Jon Brockman added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Huskies (14-12, 5-8 Pac-10). Washington dished out the Beavers 15th straight loss, longest losing streak in team history (the previous longest losing streak belonged to the 1995-96 team).

The Huskies shot 54 percent. Washington had lost four straight before upsetting No. 5 UCLA last weekend and then lost 71-58 at Oregon Thursday. The bounced back Saturday ngiht.

For the Beavers (6-19, 0-13), Lathen Wallace had 16 points and Omari Johnson had 11 and the team shot 32.2 percent from the floor. Oregon State, the worst shooting team in the Pac-10, was just 7-for-28 in the first half, after the 6-for-27 shooting fiasco in the first half against Washington State Thursday.

The Beavers went into halftime looking at its most lopsided half of the season after the Huskies shot 57.6 percent in the first half and went to the locker room with a 48-24 lead.

Appleby, a senior, broke his own team record of seven 3-pointers and Quincy Pondexter and Matt Bryan-Amaning had 12 points a piece for Washington. The last lopsided game between these teams was in 2005 when Washington beat Oregon State 108-68.