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Best Bet NFL Green Bay at Detroit 5:15 p.m., ESPN Oregon Basketball Chtui Patteson /Emerald Senior off guard Terik Brown (14) and junior point guard Mike McShane (24) join six newcomers on the Oregon men's basketball team. Kent looks ahead to a new season Oregon’s head coach was optimistic about the team’s talent as he introduced six new players to the media By Rob Moseley Oregon Daily Emerald With the attention of Oregon fans fo cused intently on Los Angeles, where the No. 11 Duck football team takes on No. 2 UCLA on Saturday, men’s basketball head coach Ernie Kent unassumingly met the media on Wednesday. Foremost on Kent’s agenda was intro ducing the team’s newcomers, who num ber one fewer than those players returning from last season. “My staff and I are anxiously awaiting the start of the season because we feel like, in a short period of time, we have upgrad ed the talent on this roster,” Kent said. Gone from last year’s 13-18 squad are Henry Madden and Jamar Curry, who led the Ducks to a 8-10 record and fifth-place finish in the Pacific-10 Conference. In their place is a group of six newcom ers that includes guards Darius Wright, Alex Scales and Freddie Tones; forwards David Jackson and Skou . son Harker; and center Chris Christoffersen. Jones and Christoffersen are freshmen, and the other four are transfers with two years of eligibil ity remaining. “Of the five guys who will play, we feel like all will make an immediate impact in this program,” said Kent, who for one year will be without the services of Jackson, the lone transfer from a major college. “They are all talented enough, mature enough and strong enough to make an im pact.” Joining the newcomers are returnees BASKETBAII Mike McShane, Yasir Rosemond and Terik Brown at guard; forwards A.D. Smith and Donte Quinine; and centers Mike Carson and Flo Hartenstein. As the only two seniors, Carson and Brown will have to fill the void created by the departures of Madden and Curry. “If it happens, it happens,” Brown said of assuming a leadership role. "I’m going to let leadership come to me as the year goes on.” Kent said the players were finding lead ership in an unlikely source: Jackson. “He's a leader because the ldds are look ing up to him,” Kent said. “I think they’re looking up to him because I doubt they’ve seen a player who works as hard as David Jackson.” Jackson played with former Oregon re cruit Tyron Manlove at Portland’s Wilson High School before playing in 32 of 34 games as a freshman at Utah last season. Turn to BASKETBALL, Page 16A Portland game provides no moral victory Bill Steffen and the Oregon women’s soccer team are not into moral victories. They do not even feel inclined to pat each other on the back or embrace in a group hug after holding unbeaten Portland to a scoreless tie at its own Merlo Field for more than 84 minutes before losing 1-0 Tuesday. No, the Ducks did not walk off the field smiling from ear to ear, according to head coach Steffen. Instead, they marched to the sidelines, angry because they had lost. "I think one of the best things is that our kids were upset they lost,” Steffen said. "As opposed 10 jumping around and saying, 'We only lost 1 0,’ they said, 'We didn’t want any moral victory, we just wanted the victory.’ "I think that probably says agood deal about the charac ter our kids have got.” Last season, the No. 7 Pilots had advanced to three straight OPINION Tim Pyle inl.aa i oumament I1 inal Fours before being upset in the first round by UCLA. This season, they own a perfect record at Merlo Field and are considered one of tlie premier programs in the country. But Oregon, still a toddler in just its third season, was not satisfied with holding its own against the Northwest’s most elite pro gram. The Ducks wanted more. That bold, unaccepting attitude bodes ex tremely well for the future of Steffen’s young program. And that bright future could arrive as ear ly as next season, when Oregon loses only frdlback/midfielder Melissa Sherman from its entire junior-laden roster. Just two seasons removed from a 5-11 -2 initial campaign that included just one Pacif ic-10 Conference win, and one season after posting a 5-14-1 record with two conference wins, the Ducks (4-4-2 overall, 1-0 Pac-10) own a .500 mark 10 games into the season. “It’s like when you watch a kid grow,” Steffen said. "You never really notice be cause you just see it every day. But when you step back and look, you can see the de velopment that's gone on. “Our first year, we never would have been 1-0 with [Portland].” The program’s evolution off the field mir Turn to PYLE, Page14A French players find tennis easy, acclimating to Eugene difficult Lyon native Adeline Arnaud joins Sarah Colistro as the tennis team s French connection oy mir|am awansun lor the Emerald She had waited 18 years for the day to come, so she intended to celebrate. Sarah Colistro wanted to go out and be festive on her 18th birthday — she wanted to go to clubbing. “It was so bad,” she says. “I turned 18 here, so I was, like, cool, I’m gonna go out. And then for the first time in my life, I couldn’t enter a night club.” Colistro is a native of Paris, France, where the legal clubbing age is 16. Colistro, along with Lyon, France, native Adeline Arnaud, represents the future of Oregon tennis in what head coach Jack Griffin hopes will be a long line of junior French stars to come west. They’re here because in France, they couldn’t play tennis and attend college at the same time. “In France, if you want to [continue to] study after high school you have to choose either between tennis or study,” Colistro says. “There’s no way you can no ootn. So they chose to come to America to study busi ness and plav tennis, even if it means they’ll be de nied entrance to clubs un til their 21st birthdays. In January, in one of her first tournaments as a Duck, Colistro beat California’s third-ranked player and Arizona’s No. 3 and No. 4 players to win the singles consolation title at the Pacif ic-10 Conference Indoor Championships in Seattle. Turn to TENNIS, Page 16A Katherine KendallEjnerul, Adeline Amaudsays her experiences at Oregon have helped her improve as a tennis player and grow as a person.
