Oregon advances in tournament
■ MEN: The Ducks face host,
Boise State, today in the
semifinals
The Associated press
BOISE, Idaho — Oregon men’s
tennis defeated Drake 4-3 in the
first round of the Boise State Air
Touch Cellular Tennis Classic
Thursday.
The Ducks are 4-6 on the sea
son and advance to meet No. 4
ranked Boise State in the champi
onship semifinals at 1:30 p.m. to
day.
Oregon won three of the six
singles match
es, highlighted
by Joaquin
Hamdan’s 1-6,
6-0, 6-1 win
over Marco Vi
cente and
Miguel Arria
ga’s 6-1, 6-2 win over Stephen
Doig. Carlos Navarro defeated
Rene Novotny 7-6 after the match
was retired in the second set.
In doubles play, Dougal
Williams and Navarro teamed up
to beat Novotny and Rodney
Leserve 8-4, while Mike Gold
stein and John DeVorss downed
Doig and Mat Coyle 8-6.
Southern Mississippi and Vir
ginia Tech meet in the other
championship semifinal Friday.
Northern Arizona plays Drake
and Wichita State meets Indiana
State in the consolation semifi
nals Friday morning.
UO tennis continues long road trip
■ WOMEN: The Ducks face North Carolina
State today in Las Vegas
i By Joel Hood
Freelance Sports Reporter
The Oregon women’s tennis team had exactly one
week to celebrate its move into the national rankings’
spotlight. This weekend will be business as usual for
the No. 61-ranked Ducks as they continue on a mur
derous 13-match road trip.
Oregon will battle non-conference foe North Car
olina State today in Las Vegas, Nev., the first of three
matches this weekend for the Ducks, who have
dropped three-consecutive Pacific-10 Conference
matches.
The Ducks face off against Oklahoma St. Saturday
and finish with No. 23-ranked UNLV Sunday.
Oregon head coach Jack Griffin realizes the impor
tance of this weekend’s matches.
“We play a tough schedule, and it has definitely
been a learning experience,” Griffin said. “I think we
know that we’re getting better as a team.”
Oregon (3-4 overall, 1-3 in Pac-10) began Pac-10
play just five weeks ago with an
emotional upset of rival Washing
ton State. Since that time the Ducks
have dropped three in a row and
have fallen three games behind
front-runner Stanford in the Pac-10
standings.
Despite the losing Pac-10 record,
the Ducks have quality wins over No. 50 Washington
State, Ohio State and UC Santa Barbara.
Strength of schedule has also helped the Ducks
move ahead in the national rankings. Already this
season Oregon has had road matches at No. 2 Stan
ford, No. 5 Arizona, No. 11 Arizona State and No. 36
New Mexico.
NCAA: Iowa State, Kansas also advance
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and 15 rebounds, while Jason
Lawson added 21 points, 12 re
bounds and seven blocks.
Charles Jones, the nation’s lead
ing scorer, had 37 to lead No. 13
seed LIU, which made just 14-of
42 3-point attempts and shot 33.7
percent from the field.
Southeast Kansas 78,
Jackson State 64
Scot Pollard, coming back
from a broken foot, grabbed a ca
reer-high 19 rebounds to go with
six blocks and 12 points in top
ranked Kansas’ victory over Jack
son State.
Pollard, All-American Raef
LaFrentz and Paul Pierce over
whelmed 16th-seeded Jackson
State. LaFrentz had 18 points, 14
rebounds and three blocks, and
Pierce had 19 points, 13 re
bounds and four blocks as
Kansas (33-1) had a 61-27 re
bounding advantage — Purdue
83, Rhode Island 76, OT
Brad Miller had a career-high
31 points and eight rebounds and
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in overtime.
Freshman Brian Cardinal,
whose 3-pointer with 16 seconds
left in regulation forced OT, hit
the first basket in the extra peri
od, and Purdue (18-11) never
trailed again.
The Rams (20-9) had their
chances to win in regulation.
However, Tyson Wheeler’s lean
er bounced off, and Michael An
dersen missed the follow before
the buzzer.
Midwest Cincinnati 86,
Butler 69
Darnell Burton carried the
Bearcats until All-American Dan
ny Fortson got untracked. Burton
scored 19 points, including five
3-pointers, and Cincinnati used a
22-5 first-half run to beat Butler.
Fortson led the third-seeded
Bearcats (26-7) with 24 points —
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After leading 39-17 at the in
termission, Cincinnati built its
margin as high as 25 in the sec
ond half. Butler cut the lead to
78-67 in the waning seconds, but
it was far too late by then.
Iowa State 69, Illinois State 57
Kelvin Cato scored a career
high 29 points, had 12 rebounds
and broke a Midwest Regional
record with eight blocks, leading
Iowa State past Illinois State.
Dedric Willoughby added 21
points for the sixth-seeded Cy
clones (21-8).
Rico Hill led Illinois State (24
6) with 14 points, and Dan
Muller added 12.
West Boston College 73,
Valparaiso 66
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bench to score 11 of his 16 points
in the second half as BC over
came a long-range shooting bar
rage by Bryce Drew. Danya
Abrams also scored 16 points
and grabbed 12 rebounds for the
fifth-seeded Eagles.
Drew, the sharpshooting son of
coach Homer Drew, scored 27
points, including 8-of-12 3-point
ers. But he was shut down by a
smothering box-and-one defense
through most of the second half,
when he was held to eight
points.
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