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Open 11-7 Mon-Sat 12-6 Sun With a no-frills budget and a cast of relatively unknown players, the men's and women’s tennis teams at Oregon head into another season of play. Following an 18-8 season, men’s tennis coach Emory Summers hopes for an even better season this year The men open their regular season March 14 at home against Whitworth College The season will not be an easy one, Summers says. The team’s number-one seed, newcomer Dave Wallock, has never played a varsity tennis match at the college level. And Bill Whistler, the number-two player, competed from the number-seven spot most of last season. The emergence of Wallock, a junior, as the top player was a "pleasant surprise. I didn’t even know he was on campus this year,” Summers says. Wallock started from the bot tom, first surviving the tryout camp where 200 players fought for the three vacant positions. Now, with less than a month before the season opener, Wallock has the top spot “pretty much anchored,” Summers says. Meanwhile, the Ducks are faced with one of their heaviest schedules ever. “We’ll either toughen up or come apart at the seams,” says Summers. But besides the schedule, there is another battle the men's team has to fight - its budget. The tennis budget is almost nonexistent, Summers says. It includes Summers' salary plus a van for transportation — nothing more. “We’ve been surviving on fund-raisers for four years now,” Summers says. The 1977 cuts eliminated the team’s small travel and scholarship budgets. The team now tours the local tennis clubs playing for dona tions in addition to hosting three tournaments. The money is used for shoes, strings and balls — no one receives a scholar ship. The lack of funding from the University hasn’t bothered the players, says team captain Steve Bolstad “I would con sider scholarship money a lux ury. But since it’s not there, I can live without it." Photo courtesy of the Oregon athletic department Susan Hunt will be the third-ranked player for Oregon's tennis team this year. Participating in the fund raisers are "sacrifices" the team makes to keep the program afloat, Whistler says. In the women's program, new faces dominate nearly every area of the team. With Nancy Osborne, the Ducks have their second coach in as many years. Osborne, from the Eugene area, succeeds Pat Moran, who led the team through an 11-5 season last year. The women’s number-one player, Lindsay Bartlett, a freshman, is the "veteran" of the team, says Osborne "She has been playing since she was nine," says Osborne. “Last summer she played in 12 tournaments in California, which puts her heads and tails above the other players on the team as far as match experie nce.” Other strong players include senior Lynn Haeckler and jun ior Susan Hunt, the second and third seeds on the squad. Besides Haeckler and Hunt, Cathy Rudolph is the only other returnee from last year. The women’s regular season started Feb. 14 with 5-4 win over Montana. "There is a lot of room for improvement,” Osborne says. "Several of the players have a lot of potential, but they just haven’t had much coaching in the past." Finishing in the top two at the regional playoffs is a realistic goal for Oregon, Osborne says. Financially, the women’s team is in a better situation than the men’s. In addition to the coach’s salary, the women receive about $12,000 in fund ing, with $4,000 allocated to scholarships. "We are really happy here,” says Hunt. “It couldn’t be better. No other college in the Northwest has 12 covered courts.” "I could have joined a stronger team but I heard this team was growing and I wanted to be part of it,” Bartlett says.” The women's tennis team will begin a six game California road trip March 12 with a match at the University of Nevada-Reno. By Bob Leung THINKING of BEING AN R.A. ? (RESIDENT ASSISTANT) INVESTIGATE FURTHER... 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