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Posted on Sat, Oct. 12, 2002
No. 7 Oregon Edges UCLA 31-30

AP Sports Writer

Oregon and UCLA played yet another game that wasn't decided until the fourth quarter.

Jason Fife threw two touchdowns, including the winning one on the first play of the fourth quarter, as the seventh-ranked Ducks rallied to beat the Bruins 31-30 Saturday and remain undefeated at 6-0.

Trailing 31-30, UCLA's Chris Griffith attempted a 46-yard field goal that sailed wide left with 1:54 remaining. Last season, Griffith's 50-yard attempt was short and wide in the final quarter and cost the Bruins a 21-20 defeat.

The Ducks (2-0 Pac-10) have beaten UCLA (4-2, 1-1 Pac-10) the last three times, and four of the last five games have been decided by five points or less.

The teams put on an offensive show in front of 68,882 at the Rose Bowl, with the Bruins racking up 477 total yards to Oregon's 383.

UCLA quarterback Cory Paus was 17-of-31 for 316 yards and three touchdowns, but also threw three interceptions. Sophomore Craig Bragg scored three touchdowns and had nine catches for 230 yards.

Bruin freshman Tyler Ebell gained 119 yards on 26 carries in his first start. Last week, Ebell ran for 203 yards in three quarters and a touchdown against Oregon State.

The Bruins tied the game at 24 on a 37-yard field goal by Griffith nine seconds into the third quarter. On the previous play, Paus was sacked and fumbled, but the Bruins recovered.

Paus and Bragg connected to give UCLA a 30-24 lead with 7:28 remaining in the third. Bragg made a spectacular one-handed catch at the line of scrimmage and ran 46 yards for the touchdown. But Griffith's extra-point attempt was blocked.

The Bruins had fourth-and-15 at the Oregon 28-yard line, with Griffith lined up for a 45-yard field goal. But UCLA faked it and holder Garrett Lepisto's pass to Marcedes Lewis was short of the first down.

Oregon tied the game at 30 with 14:46 remaining in the fourth. Scrambling to get off a pass, Fife hit Keenan Howry, who ran 74 yards for the score. Jared Siegel's extra-point attempt proved the difference, giving the Ducks a 31-30 lead that held up.

Siegel kicked a school-record 59-yard field goal as time expired to give Oregon a 24-21 halftime lead, making him 12-of-13 on the season. The kick also tied a Pac-10 record set by Stanford's Rod Garcia against Southern California in 1973.

The previous longest in Oregon history was a 57-yarder by Roy Geiger against Washington State in 1977.

UCLA led 14-7 after the first quarter on Paus' 55-yard TD pass to Tab Perry and Bragg's 53-yard TD catch on the goal line from Jon Dubravac. Fife found a wide-open George Wrighster near the goal line with a 17-yard pass for Oregon's first score.

Oregon tied the game at 14 on Terrence Whitehead's 37-yard run in the second quarter.

The Ducks took their first lead, 21-14, on Howry's 79-yard punt return in the second quarter.

The Bruins answered right back, with Paus finding Bragg near the sideline for a 71-yard TD pass that tied the game at 21. Oregon's Rasuli Webster, who sacked Paus on the previous play, fell and couldn't get close to Bragg to stop him before Siegel's field goal put Oregon ahead at halftime.

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