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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with a throw of 159-3, with
Pearmine second in 152-8.
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). Ore
gon also gained quite a few
points from Ben Mitchell (200
1) and Shawn Rasmor (193-3),
who finished second and third,
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