Dream Kick Lifts UCLA : College football: Perez realizes fantasy about winning field goal, then dances after beating Oregon, 9-6.

UCLA kicker Louis Perez has always fantasized about making a game-winning, last-second field goal.

Perez kicked a 40-yard field goal as time expired to lift UCLA to a 9-6 victory over Oregon on Saturday before 33,771 at Autzen Stadium.

“I felt good when I went out there,” said Perez, who lifted the Bruins, 5-5 overall and 2-5 in the Pacific 10 Conference, to their second consecutive victory. “The only thing going through my head was, ‘What am I going to do after I make it?’ I did a little dance afterward, and I ended up getting smashed (by his teammates).”

After the Ducks blocked Perez’s 38-yard field goal attempt during the first half and his fourth-quarter extra point, UCLA Coach Terry Donahue changed the snap count and moved Perez one yard deeper.

“They were coming right at the snap because our center (6-foot-1, 215-pound Paul Pernecky) is small,” Perez said. “But we changed the snap count so they couldn’t get a running start, and we changed the blocking after they blocked the PAT, and it worked.”

Oregon used a timeout with two seconds to play to try to make Perez nervous. Duck fans taunted him as he kicked into a practice net behind the UCLA bench, but Perez wasn’t fazed.

Tommy Thompson, the Pac-10 scoring leader, blew a chance to give Oregon a 9-6 lead when he missed a 19-yard field-goal attempt with 3:17 to play.

With the score tied, 6-6, after Bruin wide receiver J.J. Stokes and quarterback John Barnes combined on a 28-yard touchdown pass play with 10:03 to play, Thompson, a bare-footed kicker, shanked the shortest attempt of his college career to the left to set the stage for UCLA’s comeback.

Thompson, who kicked field goals of 47 and 30 yards to give Oregon a 6-0 lead in the first half, accepted the blame for the loss, which knocked the Ducks (5-5, 3-4) out of contention for a bowl bid. Oregon was being considered for the Independence and Copper bowls.

“I don’t care what they say, it came down to me making a 19-yard field goal,” Thompson said. “It’s my job to put it in. Everything was fine. The snap was good and the hold was good. The kick was just bad.”

Stokes, who caught 10 passes for 143 yards, caught three for 34 yards as UCLA drove 58 yards in 10 plays to the Oregon 22. After running the clock down to two seconds, UCLA used its last timeout before Perez lined up for his game-winning field goal.

Starting in place of injured wide receiver Sean LaChapelle, Stokes jump-started the Bruins’ comeback by catching his second touchdown pass of the season.

Stokes, who was supposed to run a hook pattern, made a hand signal to Barnes to change the pass route when he realized that Oregon wasn’t going to double-cover him. Barnes, who completed 11 of 21 passes for 156 yards after replacing starter Rob Walker on UCLA’s fourth series, made a hand gesture to acknowledge Stokes and lofted a perfect pass to him on a streak pattern.

“I wanted to start Rob Walker for a lot of reasons,” Donahue said. “Rob Walker was the starter when he got hurt, and unless a starter is just clearly beaten out when he returns, he gets to be the starter again. But Rob was very jittery.”

Barnes said Oregon might have overlooked UCLA, which had lost its first five Pac-10 games before beating Oregon State last week.

“Coach Donahue was talking to their coaches, and they said they were more concerned about a bowl bid and not being able to take everybody to a bowl game because of a budget cut,” Barnes said. “I think they overlooked us. That was kind of an incentive.”

Bruin tailback Kevin Williams, who had sat out four of UCLA’s last five games because of a hamstring injury, helped set up Stokes’ touchdown by running for 47 yards in two carries as UCLA drove 80 yards in eight plays. Williams gained 25 yards on a draw play on third and 14 at the Bruin 16 to keep the drive alive. Two plays later, Williams bounced outside for a 22-yard gain to give UCLA a first down at the Duck 27.

Williams ran for 95 yards in 17 carries, including 85 yards in the second half, to revitalize UCLA’s ground game, which was held to minus-four yards in the first quarter. Chris Alexander, who rushed for 227 yards and a touchdown last week against Oregon State, was held to 15 yards in 11 carries.

“Kevin Williams has been gone for a long, long time, and he got stronger as the game went on,” Donahue said. “He got it done, God bless him.”

And Perez got it done, too.

Bruin Notes

UCLA tight end Rick Daly was ejected after he threw a punch at Oregon cornerback Herman O’Berry. O’Berry had recovered Bruin kicker Louis Perez’s 38-yard field-goal attempt that was blocked by defensive end Romeo Bandison with 7:10 to play in the first half. . . . UCLA Coach Terry Donahue said he hasn’t decided whether he will start quarterback John Barnes or Rob Walker in next week’s regular-season finale against USC.