Controlling the pace and making the game a grind-it-out affair is one of the keys for Oregon, Graves said. That will be harder without top defender and playmaker Elisa Mevius, sidelined due to a broken hand, but the Ducks have shown a collective stinginess in prior games that transcends personnel.

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