Oregon State gets a kick out of this victory

CORVALLIS, ORE. —  Alexis Serna kicked a 40-yard field goal with 1:12 left, Ben Siegert blocked Oregon’s potential game-winning kick less than a minute later, and the Beavers held off the Ducks, 30-28, Friday in the 110th edition of the Civil War.

Oregon’s Matt Evensen attempted a 44-yard field goal with 20 seconds left, but Siegert knocked it down and the home team won the in-state rivalry for the 10th consecutive season.

Oregon Coach Mike Bellotti started quarterback Brady Leaf after a week of speculation on whether he would stick with Dennis Dixon, who had struggled of late.

Leaf led a fourth-quarter drive, capped by a 26-yard scoring pass to Jordan Kent and a keeper for a two-point conversion, that gave the Ducks, 7-5 overall, 4-5 Pacific 10, their first lead, 28-27.

Oregon State (8-4, 5-3) took the ball down to the Ducks’ 22 and settled for Serna’s game-winning kick in a driving rain. It proved to be enough.

Matt Moore completed 16 of 22 passes for 255 yards and one touchdown for the Beavers, who have won six of their last seven games.

Leaf completed 25 of 42 passes for 274 yards and a touchdown. He was intercepted once.

Oregon’s last win at Reser Stadium was in 1996, when the Ducks won, 49-13. Oregon holds the overall lead in the series, 55-45-10.