Singles championship battle
highlights tennis tournament
By STEVE JETT
Of the Emerald
Roger McKee successfully
defended his men's singles
championship with a 6-2, 4-6,
6-4 wtn over fellow Duck Gerry
Farmer Sunday to highlight the
Oregon Spring Tennis Cham
pionships at the 15th Street
courts
The win was McKee s third
straight Oregon singles cham
pionship However, McKee ad
mitted he wasn’t in top form for
the final match
“I haven't played that many
tournaments recently,” said
McKee, “and I have not been
real aggressive ” This lack of
aggressiveness showed in the
second set against Farmer,
when McKee lost six straight
games after leading 4-0
"I just lost my concentra
tion." said McKee, "so I wanted
to get off to a quick start in the
third set.” McKee broke
Farmer's serve early in the final
set and eventually clinched the
win with an ace
McKee reached the final by
stopping Oregon's Tom Greider
7-5. 6-4 in the semifinals.
Farmer beat Duck teammate
Thor Carlson 6-3, 6-1 in the
other semifinal
Carlson pulled off the biggest
upset of the tournament Satur
day when he outlasted second
seed Dick McLaughlin in the
first round 7-6, 3-6. 6-4 "I was
serving really well.'* said Carl
son. ' He (McLaughlin) is really
a tough player But I guess he
made the most mistakes ”
The women s open final fea
tured two players from
Oregon's tennis team. Patti
McKenna defeated doubles
partner Lynn Haeckler 6-2. 6-4
for the title
"I just played okay.” said
McKenna, who stayed on the
baseline during most of the
match "I just tried to be con
sistent because I knew she
(Haeckler) wanted me to come
to the net,”
The men’s and women s
doubles both featured all
Oregon finalists Farmer and
Larry Vollum defeated Greider
and Russ Childers 6-3, 6-3,
while the women's match was
won by McKenna and Haeckler
over Tina Mickelson and Patti
Marihart 6-1, 6-3 The men’s A’
singles was won by Oregon's
Mark Evans 6-1, 6-3 over Chuck
Goodin
The tournament included 141
participants "It is probably the
biggest draw we've had,” said
tournament director •’Buzz”
Summers "I expected it to be at
least as big as last year We had
some good, hard fought
matches ”
Nearly all survive Torture Ridge
Six miles is a long way to run
Six miles through mud.
through bushes, up hills, down
hills and up more hills is a long
way to even walk
About 175 "runners'*
struggled through the six-mile
Torture Ridge III course Sun
day. and most ot them survived
the poison oak. the snakes, the
hot sun and the passing mo
torists
One man became delirious
from heat prostration and
passed out 100 yards from the
finish line When he regained
his senses on the way to the
hospital, he told race officials
he dtdn t remember anything
past the halfway point
The finishers, including
winner Chris Mulholland, dis
covered the meaning of torture
There's no other race like
this anywhere around." said
race official Randy Tjaden "It
was too bad most of the mud
dried out on us — it was
something special we would
have liked to have had for our
race.” he added with a sadistic
gnn.
Apparently most of the 750
who last year ran the race
deckled to trade the mud and
brush for more conventional
races this year
But Tjaden said Torture
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