Oregon Ducks News: Soccer blanks Wildcats, Knights stomp out cancer, fall camp video

Oregon Women's soccer starts fall sports season with 4-0 win over Weber State

Senior Taylor Bryan scored a pair of goals on her birthday to lead the Oregon women to a shutout win at Pape Field in the season opener. Goalies Caeley Goldstein and Gia Kiesling, turned away seven shots on goal, 7-7 on save opportunities.

New head coach Tracy Joyner, 85-62-20 at UC Davis, said after the match to Oregon video, "It's great. It's hard to win games and it's hard to score goals. Four goals is awesome, and four really nice goals, different types, scoring from outside, scoring off a cross header, some really, really nice finishes.

Joyner is gunning for excellence. She told KEZI9 Sports anchor Brett Austin Taylor, "Oregon's got historically a championship level team in every other sport. It is Oregon soccer's time."

Knight Foundation contributes $2 billion to cancer research

Oregon distance runner and Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny announced a $2 billion donation to the Oregon Health and Science University Thursday for cancer research and cures.

According to a report from Oregon Public Broadcasting,
"OHSU officials say it’s the largest single donation given to a college in the country, exceeding the $1.8 billion given by Michael Bloomberg to Johns Hopkins in 2018."

Two highlights from 'Under Construction' reveal the intensity in Oregon fall camp

Scott Anderson and the Oregon video team released episode two of the fall camp documentary series Thursday night, entitled "Building."

In the first highlight 6-2, 208 sophomore safety Peyton Woodyard crashes down on a running play and smacks ball carrier Dierre Hill, who has a big run in an 11-on-11 period earlier in the video.

In the second quarterback Dante Moore layers a throw to tight end Kenyon Sadiq in the corner of the end zone, trusting his big tight end to go up and get it.

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