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The Ducks Monique Tobaggi sends one over the net to make a kill against the Cardinal Sunday.
Loss to Cardinal drops Ducks to 6-14
Errors prevent Oregon
from winning a single
game in Sunday’s match
By Allison Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
Even the band did its part. It
cheered, it taunted, doing its best
to sidetrack the Stanford volleyball
team. But it just wasn’t enough.
The Cardinal increased its con
ference win streak to 34 on Sun
day when it dropped the Ducks
15-11, 15-1, 16-14 in front of 924
fans at McArthur Court.
But it wasn’t as if the Ducks,
losers of nine straight, rolled over
for the No. 7 Cardinal. They took
an early lead in Game 1, forcing
Stanford to fight for every point it
tallied. Oregon was able to control
its side of the net, and when Stan
ford went up by five, the Ducks
were able to rally back within on
before the Cardinal took the win.
“I told the team, we need to stop
thinking about the scoreboard and
start thinking about Oregon," Ore
gon head coach Cathy Nelson said.
“The rest will take care of itself.”
Oregon had one of its highest
hitting percentages of the season
in that game (.364), proving that it
can compete with any team, re
gardless of rank or record.
Game 2 was a different story as
Oregon went down 5-0, before scor
ing its one and only point. The
Ducks had six kills and six errors for
an overall hitting percentage of .000.
“This match was about charac
ter and showing what kind of ath
letes we are,” Nelson said. “I think
two out of three games we showed
we can come back, but we need to
be more consistent. ”
Stanford had zero errors in
Game 2 and needed just 10 kills to
take the win. It recorded a match
high .588 hitting percentage.
“We had a brain lapse,” Oregon
outside hitter Monique Tobaggi
said. “Wegot mentally weak.”
The Ducks were able to compose
themselves in Game 3, and it was
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best game of the
season. Despite
going down 1-6
early on, Oregon
rallied back and
never allowed
Stanford to go up
by more than lour. Tobaggi led the
Ducks with nine kills in the game
and one service ace.
“She definitely got hot and
proved that she has the talent to be
a top player in this conference,”
Nelson said.
With Stanford up 14-11, Oregon
held on, scoring three straight
points to tie the game at 14, before
Stanford put it away.
“A team like Stanford makes us
want to play harder to show that
we can compete,” Tobaggi said.
“Every time we play like we did in
Game 3, it shows us that we can
compete with anyone. ”
Few expected Oregon to defeat a
team of Stanford’s caliber. Still, the
Ducks outkilled (54-51) and outdug
the Cardinal (33-28) for the match.
But it was errors that prevented
the Ducks from winning a single
game. Oregon had 23 errors to
Stanford’s 6, leaving it with a .261
overall attack percentage to the
Cardinal’s.479.
“It is tough when you’re expell
ed to win every match,” Stanford
head coach Don Shaw said. “It’s
tough to maintain that level of play,
and we made a lot of mental errors
in the third game. We let [Oregon’s]
left side go crazy, which isn’t some
thing that is typical of us.”
Stanford improves its record io
13-2 overall, 9-0 in the Pacific-10
Conference, while Oregon’s
record slipped to 6-14,1-8.
On Friday, it was the Ducks
who were not able to maintain a
high level of play. Oregon came
out in a blaze by taking Games 1
and 2 against California, but re
turned after halftime unprepared
for the Bears, who were looking
for their first Pac-10 win.
The Bears battled back from the
two-game deficit by winning three
straight games to clinch the match
8-15, 7-15,15-4,15-8,15-9 in front
of 888 sullen Duck fans.
The Bears’ comeback was led by
Brook Coulter who recorded 16
kills and nine service aces, a Cali
fornia record for service aces in
one match.
Madeline Ernst led all attackers
with 27 kills and recorded a stellar
.452 hitting percentage. But again,
the Ducks’ chances of winning
were derailed by their 55 errors.
“I’d have to say that this loss
strikes up there as devastating,”
Nelson said.
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