The balloons and bouquets of senior day lasted 30 minutes or so before wilting under a withering second half barrage by the UCLA Bruins Saturday, the Ducks falling 91-76 in the final women's Pac-10 game at McArthur Court.

Eyes weren't completely dried after the pregame ceremonies for Taylor Lilley, Micaela Cocks and Lindsay Saffold when Cocks hit her opening two shots to give the Ducks a quick 5-0 start.

Eighteen of her team leading 24 points came in the opening half as she connected on seven for eight and four of five from long distance. Backcourt mate Lilley added 17 points while Amanda Johnson and Nia Jackson each pitched in 13.

UCLA took a four point lead seven minutes into the contest, but Johnson and Lilley hit for back-to-back treys to regain the advantage and Oregon pushed their margin to seven before ending the half in front 50-46.

For the opening six minutes of the second half, it appeared the Ducks were going to run away with the game, ripping off a 16-4 run to lead 66-50.

Rebounding has been a frequent Achilles heal for the Ducks this season and the Bruins - particularly Jasmin Dixon - began to pound Oregon on the glass at both ends of the gym.

Dixon's 31 points and 20 rebounds the way as the Bruins built a 50-23 margin on the boards - including 24 on the offensive end. Translating into 25 second chance points and 52 in the paint the Ducks had no answer and UCLA scorched Oregon with 41-9 run the rest of the way to ruin the festivities.

"Two different games," said Paul Westhead. "First half, second half, I don't have a lot of explanations about why things changed so violently from playing very good to kind of getting cut up."

Asked if perhaps his high octane style played better into UCLA's hands down the stretch, Westhead said "It didn't look that apparent - like it just happened. It wasn't like the pace was going up and down, up and down and we just ran out, we just had a point in the game where we stopped scoring . We were up and we had some looks and we missed and we had some looks and we missed . Had we kept being able to continue to score I don't think it would have resulted like it did."

"In that spell I think we changed defenses like four times. We went from our normal 3-2 to a 2-3 to switching man to straight man-to-man. We ran four different defenses and it didn't look like we had changed anything."

"They got four or five lay-ups on us, easy looks, then we had some tough turnovers which led to scores for them and then the rebounding," said Cocks. "All those things, one after the other - game changing moment for UCLA and they really took advantage."

The Ducks travel to Washington and Washington State to wrap up the conference schedule before concluding the season with the Pac-10 tournament in Los Angeles. Now 16-12 on the season and 7-9 in conference a sweep could place Oregon as high as fifth in the standings and lacking a tournament title, a probable WNIT bid. So perhaps another Mac Court appearance remains for Oregon's two senior guards and with it a chance to script a more fitting final memory.