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Oregon looking to upset Trojans The Ducks enter today’s match against No. 21 USC with a nine-match losing streak By Tim Pyle Sports Reporter Respect and individual postsea son hopes will be on the line when the Oregon women’s tennis team attempts to stop a nine-match los ing streak against Southern Cali fornia in Los Angeles today. After losing 5-1 to No. 16 UCLA in Los Angeles on Sunday, the Ducks (3-15,0-7 Pacific-10 Confer ence) are looking to avoid finish ing winless in conference play by upsetting the No. 21 Trojans. To do so, Oregon would have to record its first victory since Feb. 22 against Pacific. In the first season of the re aligned Pac-10, the Ducks have been ravaged by injuries that have left them unable to fill their line up in more than half of their dual matches. The Pac-10 consisted of Northern and Southern divisions until this season. Oregon’s postseason hopes may have drowned, but the Ducks’ No. 1 singles player, Alina Wygonowska, is still afloat in her bid to earn a berth in the NCAA individual rhamm’nnehine TENNIS which take place in South Bend, Ind., beginning May 20. Wygonows ka, who is ranked No. 74 in tneKolex Collegiate I enms Rank ings, registered her second consec utive win over a top-30 conference opponent Sunday. She defeated the Bruins’ Annica Cooper, who is ranked No. 14, a week after beat ing No. 27 Kristina Kraszewski of Washington. Wygonowska (16-15) was lead ing Cooper 6-4, 3-0 when Cooper retired because of soreness in her leg. Wygonowska’s victory was the only one for the Ducks, as none of her teammates were able to win a single set against their UCLA op ponents. In No. 2 singles, Oregon’s An drea Petrovic (11-18) pulled out of her match against the Bruin’s Cristina Popescu, who is ranked No. 36, after losing the first set 6-0 because of continually sore feet. Allison Sosnow (7-11), Shanelle Kaneshiro (8-18), Jaime Martin (5 17) and Milena Glusac (0-3) all lost their singles matches in straight sets at the No. 3-6 spots. Head coaches Jack Griffin of Oregon and Stella Sampras of UCLA agreed to cancel the three scheduled doubles matches be cause they each have multiple ail ing players. Today, the Ducks will try to build on a loss to USC last season that Griffin called one of his team’s best performances. Griffin is expected to play the same singles lineup against USC that he did against the Bruins. In doubles, Sosnow-Kaneshiro, Petro vic-Wygonowska and Glusac-Mar tin may represent the Ducks. Heuser leads women to third-place finish By Tim Pyle Sports Reporter While the Oregon men’s golf team enters today’s final round of its tournament at Stanford in 12th place, the Oregon women’s golf team enjoyed a successful finish to its regular season in another tour nament near the Cardinal campus. The Ducks’ Anika Heuser be came the first player to win an in dividual title for the women’s team this season at the 36-hole Peg Barnard California Collegiate. Heuser’s combined 147 led Ore gon, which is ranked No. 9 in the MasterCard Collegiate Golf Rank ings, to a third-place team finish. Tied for third after Saturday’s first round with 74, Heuser claimed the championship by shooting a final-round 73. South ern California teammates Danjelle La Voie and Jennifer Rosales fin ished tied for second, one stroke behind Heuser at 148. All five of the other Ducks com peting finished in the top 23. Jeri lyn White tied for fourth at 150, Paula Patterson tied for 16th at 155, and Karen Bristow, Pam Sow den and Kylie Wilson all shot a combined 158 to tie for 23rd. GOLF nenina La Voie and Ros ales, the Trojans won the team championship with a 601 total. San Jose State finished second at biz, and Oregon shot a com bined 613 to claim third. The tournament marked Ore gon’s second third-place and fifth top-three finish. The Ducks begin play at the Pacific-10 Champion ships in Los Angeles on April 20. The men’s golf team is 14 strokes behind first-place UCLA after 36 holes of the 54-hole U.S. Intercollegiate. The Ducks shot a 299 in Satur day’s first round to put them in 10th place, but they dropped two spots with Sunday’s 302 that gives them a combined 601 through two rounds. “We had come down here with high expectations and we’ve dug ourselves a pretty deep hole,” Ore gon head coach Steve Nosier said. Ben Crane, who is ranked No. 56, leads the Ducks with a com bined 147 that has him in a tie for 17th place, four strokes behind co leaders Herbert Forster of Pacific and B.J. Schlagenhauf of UCLA. Crane shot a second-round 75 Sun day after his opening-round 72. "Ben didn’t have a good round [Sunday],” Nosier said. “He had a double bogey down the stretch to ward the finish and that bounced [his score] up a bit.” Chris Cone shot a 72 Sunday for Oregon to put him in a tie for 31st at a combined 149. 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On the men’s side, the Ducks pulled out a second-place team finish despite the fact head coach Bill Dellinger said before the meet that individual per formances, not team scoring, would be the team’s focus in Berkeley. The Ducks even took a re duced squad to the Bay Area, most notably leaving behind Pi otr Buciarski and Micah Davis, who were resting up in prepa ration for Saturday’s Pepsi In vitational at Hayward Field. Nonetheless, Oregon used two first-place finishes and 12 top-four performances to end the meet with 119 points, 11 behind host California and well in front of third-place Southern California, which finished with 85 points. For the second week in a row, Oregon’s Gregg Bleakney won the triple jump, this time leaping 50-11 1/2 to edge out Cal State Bakersfield’s Jamaal Chase (50-6 3/4). It was also the second meet in a row that Bleakney went over the 50-foot mark. Oregon’s other victory came from junior Konrad Knutsen, who ran away from the field in the 5,000 meters, winning in a time of 14:20.12, a personal best by 17 seconds. Another impressive perfor mance in the distance events came from sophomore Tom Newman, who made his 1,500 meters season debut with a sec ond-place finish in a time of 3:50.63, just .06 seconds be hind Stanford’s Jake Maas. Oregon’s next-highest finish came from senior Will Dries sen, who finished second in the 400-meter hurdles with a sea son-best time of 52.74 seconds. In the throwing events, Ryan Cole continued his impressive early season, placing fourth in the discus (177-10) and sev enth in the shotput (51-7). 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