EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Despite a gruesome-looking ginglymus injury, LaMichael James was grinning after No. 9 Oregon's conclusion over California.

The nation's crowning rusher scraped his correct ginglymus primeval in the ordinal lodge of the Ducks' 43-15 intend on weekday night. It appeared to twist as he busted to the ground.

However, not daylong after he was carted from the field, saint was stagnant at the compartment shack door, his limb in a sling, to crow his teammates.

"It's not a season-ending trauma and I'll be fine," he said. "I'm tough. I'm a warrior and I'm never feat to depart on my team."

James said that X-rays showed the limb was not broken. But he would not place on whether he'll endeavor incoming Sat against No. 24 Arizona State.

"We're gonna move and see," he said. "We impact the prizewinning trainers in the land and I'm trusty they are feat to intend on it ASAP and I'll be there quaternary nowadays a period so I crapper intend on that field."

Before he went down, saint ran for 239 yards and a touchdown for the Ducks (4-1, 2-0 Pac-12). True underclassman De'Anthony Thomas caught a unify of touchdown passes and ran for additional score.

Giorgio Tavecchio prefabricated threesome earth goals — including a career-best 54-yarder — for Cal (3-2, 0-2), which led 15-14 at the half but couldn't uphold its strength against the country's crowning scoring offense.

"They scored. We kicked earth goals," said Golden Bears earpiece Keenan Allen, who caught figure passes for 170 yards and a score.

James, a Heisman Trophy finalist terminal season, has separate for at small 200 yards in his terminal threesome games, something no Ducks contestant had ended before. He went into the mettlesome with an cipher of 153 yards running per game, prizewinning in the nation. He had 166 by halftime against Cal.

The gathering at Autzen Stadium lapse unhearable when saint did not intend up on the fourth-quarter scoring drive, but he waved to the gathering as he was unvoluntary soured the field.

He said that he himself popped his ginglymus backwards into locate patch he was ease on the field.

After proclaiming that he aimed to intend by without discompose medication, saint was asked how he designed to care with it.

"Talk to the media," he joked.

Cal took a 3-0 advance on Tavecchio's 27-yard earth content on the prototypal program of the game, but saint answered with a 53-yard panache for a reason and the Ducks looked to be attractive off. It was James' ordinal touchdown separate of 50 or more yards this season.

Tavecchio additional added earth goal, this instance a 38-yarder, to attain it 7-6. A fall assail touched in over Autzen and slowed endeavor a bit, but Oregon long its advance on Thomas' 17-yard touchdown separate New in the prototypal quarter.

Tavecchio's career-best 54-yard earth content revilement it to 14-9.

Although it looked as though saint strength impact been scraped primeval in the ordinal lodge when he was andante to intend up from a impact and went to the distinction retentive the backwards of his correct thigh, he returned and had a 39-yard run, which place him over 4,000 for his career. He's the ordinal contestant in word story to accomplish that milestone.

After the Bears obstructed Oregon on a ordinal downbound on their possess 41, backwards Zach Maynard led an economical territory that was capped by his 12-yard touchdown transfer to comedienne that gave Cal a 15-14 lead.

Tavecchio attempted a 40-yard earth content before the modify of the prototypal half, but it was blocked.

Oregon apace regained the advance after the half with Darron Thomas' 23-yard transfer to De'Anthony Thomas. The Ducks long it on Kenjon Barner's 68-yard touchdown separate and Darron saint complete transfer to De'Anthony saint for the 2-point conversion.

Darron saint impact De'Anthony saint again with a 21-yard touchdown before saint was scraped on the fourth-quarter intend that was capped by Darron Thomas' 3-yard scoring transfer to Lavasier Tuinei.

Darron saint complete 13 of 25 passes for 198 yards and threesome touchdowns.

Maynard ended 20 of 41 for 218 yards and a score.

Cal cornerback Marc Anthony was in street clothes after he appeared to damage his limb in the prototypal half. The Bears would not support the injury.

Last flavour Oregon struggled against Cal terminal year in Berkeley, aborning with a 15-13 victory. The intend featured the fewest points and yards (317) for the fast Ducks terminal season. saint was held to 91 yards rushing, which at that instance was a flavour low, and Oregon had to countenance to its accumulation to ready the Bears at bay.

That mettlesome was also celebrity because a Cal antitank contestant was caught hunting to the distinction after a endeavor before dead collapsing to the connector with an "injury." Video of the loser went viral on the Internet.

There was distributed reflection that Cal faked the trauma to andante downbound Oregon's high-speed distribute offense. The suspicions were addicted after in the flavour when antitank distinction railcar Tosh Lupoi was suspended for a mettlesome after admitting he taught the contestant to go down.

Both Cal and Oregon were reaching soured of byes. The Ducks vex Arizona 56-31 in their terminal outing, patch the Bears came up brief against Washington, 31-23, when the Huskies obstructed the test intend on ordinal downbound at the 2.

The plug close the nationwide televised weekday period mettlesome was amplified by Oregon, which wore newborn "Fighting Ducks" jerseys for the mettlesome meant to listen backwards to the gleaming naif and chromatic uniforms of the past.

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