No. 18 UW serves UO a loss
Oregon stayed dose to
the Huskies individually,
but still fell, 9-0
By Mirjam Swanson
lor the Emerald
None of the Oregon men’s ten
nis team's opponents are going to
take the Ducks lightly this season,
regardless of their 3-7 record.
No. 18 raked Washington
proved that Saturday at the Wil
low Creek Tennis Courts. The
Huskies (5-3) fought off several
early Oregon leads to earn a 9-0
sweep.
“Other teams are saying ‘Hey,
they played this team close, and
they played that team close,’ so
they’re prepared when they come
in,” head coach Chris Russell said.
The match was closer than the
score indicated, as the Ducks suf
fered their third close defeat of the
season to a team ranked in the na
tion'stop 30.
Playing without its No. 2 play
er, Guillermo Carter, who was ill,
Oregon wasn’t able to sustain its
highest level of play through the
entire match.
“It came down to details,” ju
nior Joaquin Hamdan said.
They're a mentally tough team;
they worked harder for every
point. But we fought hard.”
Thomas Schneiter's match with
the Huskies’ No. 1 player, Eric
Drew, typified the day for the
Ducks.
Schneiter got
offtoafast start,
winning the
first point of the
match with a
beautiful drop
shot and cap
turing the first
set, 6-4.
He was ahead 1-0 in the second
set when Drew claimed four straight
games, swinging the momentum in
his favor. In the end, Drew survived
Schneiter’s early run, winning the
match in three sets.
“I wasn’t aggressive enough,”
said Schneiter, a freshman. “He re
ally played good, and I didn’t fight
back. He was more constant, and
I’m not used to playing at such a
high level for two or three sets. ”
Because of Carter’s absence, the
rest of the Ducks moved up one
space in the line-up, so freshman
Bertrand Devillers played No. 2,
where he lost in two tight sets.
Senior team captain Carlos
Navarro lost to Andy Posavac in
straight sets. Joaquin Hamdan, a
junior, played a close first set, but
lost his match in straight sets.
For the first time this season, se
nior Miguel Arriaga played ahead
of his regular No. 6 spot, where he
lost just his second match.
Junior David Becker played his
first singles match of the season,
and lost in three sets.
The Ducks also narrowly lost
the second of three doubles
matches by a couple of points, so
Washington claimed the doubles
point to complete the sweep.
Arriaga and Hamdan recorded
Oregon’s only win of the day,
when they teamed up in doubles
and beat Christoph Kull and Mark
Woolley, 8-5.
“Hopefully, we can use this as a
stepping stone," Russell said.
“Hopefully, this is one of those
matches the guys use to say ‘We
can compete at this level.’ We
played some really good tennis,
we competed all the way through.
I’m proud of the guys because
they played with more purpose
than they have been.”
Ducks cool off in sunny San Diego
San Diego State ended
the women’s tennis
team’s winning streak
By Mirjam Swanson
by the Emerald
After winning five-straight dual
matches, the Oregon women’s
tennis team saw its streak broken
Saturday at San Diego State.
Only two Ducks (5-3 overall)
recorded victories against the
Aztecs, and Oregon lost the
match, 7-2.
Freshman Adeline Arnuad
continued her impressive play
with a three-set victory. She held
on to beat San Diego State’s No. 2
player, Maggie Cole.
Also victorious was team cap
tain Shanelle Kaneshiro. She de
feated Lisa Papi in straight sets.
Junior Alina Wygonowska, the
Ducks’ No. 1 player, lost to Sarah
Domovan in straight sets.
Redshirt freshman Sarah Col
istro was defeated by Dorata
Wovnika, 6-4, 6-1.
Another Duck freshman, Janice
Nyland, won her first set, but she
couldn’t hang on. She lost in three
sets to Whitney Wells.
Meanwhile, junior Andrea
Petrovic was defeated in straight
sets.
Oregon was then shut out in
doubles play, an area of the
Ducks’ game that head coach Jack
Griffin has been working to im
prove.
The tandem of Wygonowska
and Nyland came up short against
Domovan and Cole, 8-1.
Arnaud and Colistro fell, 8-3,
while Kaneshiro and Petrovic
lost, 8-2.
On Friday, the Ducks were
more successful in their match
with Loyola Marymount.
In its first outdoor match of the
season, Oregon recorded a 6-0
sweep for its fifth win of the year.
Maggert pulls off dramatic victory
By Doug Ferguson
The Assooiated Press
CARLSBAD, Calif. —The chip
in for birdie was the kind of shot
)eff Maggert had been looking for
all day.
The result was something he
had been chasing for more than
five years.
No longer the player who could
never close the deal on Sunday,
Maggert earned a new reputation
Sunday that was worth far more
to him than $1 million.
With the grit of a proven win
ner and a chip-in that brought the
Match Play Championship to a
stunning conclusion, Maggert
beat Andrew Magee on the 38th
hole to win the richest prize in
tour history against the toughest
field ever assembled.
A hard-luck runner-up 13 times
since 1993, Maggert is the come
back champion of match play.
"You don’t have to ask me what
it feels like to finish second this
week,” he said.
With such a dramatic finish,
the absence of Tiger Woods,
David Duval or any other of the
big names in golf was soon forgot
ten.
From the first cut of rough be
hind the par-3 11th, Maggert left
the pin out and sent the ball on its
way. It rammed into the back of
the cup and disappeared, and
Maggert showed more emotion
than he has all week, hopping
across the green and thrusting his
arms into the air.
“I’ve been around this game a
long time, and I’ve seen a lot of
things good and bad happen,”
Maggert said. “I knew if I could
hang in there long enough, some
thing good could happen. And
something did.”
It was the first time Maggert
had the lead since the fourth hole,
a fitting tribute to a player who
had to come from behind in five
of his six matches this week at La
Costa Resort.
Maggert is now 7-1 in match
play as a professional, and the $1
million is more than he has ever
earned in any of his eight previ
ous seasons on the PGA Tour.
Magee, a four-time winner but
not since 1994, earned $500,000
for the biggest check in his career.
Still, it was a bitter ending for the
36-year-old full of quips. He took
the lead on the fifth hole in the
morning round of 18 and had
three birdie chances to keep the
match from going extra holes.
This meant more than money
to Maggert, who was clearly frus
trated by five years of coming in
second. He was the runner-up in
Houston last year when Duval
shot a 64 on the last day to win,
and he blew a chance to win the
U.S. Open at Congressional in
1997 with a bogey and double bo
gey down the stretch.
He has either had the lead or
been within five strokes of it 37
times in his career, but managed
to squeeze out only one victory.
And even that one — the Disney
Classic in 1993 — carries a pecu
liar note. They had to set up
floodlights to beat the darkness,
making Maggert the only player to
win a tournament at night.
“I knew in my heart I would
win another tournament,” Mag
gert said. “Hopefully, I'll win a lot
more.”
The match looked like it might
go on forever until Maggert’s deft
touch on the 20-foot chip.
“That chip at No. 11 was some
thing I needed, the one shot I was
looking for to get me going,” he
said. “Thank God it came on the
last hole.”
He had the pin removed to help
him concentrate on the speed.
Having struggled with 5-footers
all day, the last thing he wanted
was another one.
“Lo and behold, I hit it too
hard,” he said. “I figured if it hit
the hole, it would slow it down
enough to give me a short par
putt. Even when it hit the hole, I
didn’t think it was going down.
I’ve been waiting 5 1/2 years for
something like that.”
The victory moves Maggert past
Duval atop the money list, earned
him his first trip to the winners
only Mercedes Championship
since 1994 and gives him a three
year exemption on the PGA Tour.
In the consolation match, John
Huston was 6-under through 14
holes for a 5 and 4 victory over
Steve Pate.
The $400,000 for Huston is the
largest paycheck in his career,
surpassing the $360,000 he earn
from winning the Disney Classic
in October. Ditto for Pate — he got
$300,000 topping the $270,000 he
got for winning the CVS Charity
Classic last year.
Oregon golfers look for
better results this week
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
In its first two meets of the
season, the Oregon men’s golf
team has not played like the No,
13 Ducks of last fall.
Oregon hopes the third time
will be the charm.
Oregon tees off today in round
one of the Southwestern Inter
collegiate Invitational in Los An
geles.
The invitational, hosted by
Southern California, will play
host to 13 teams, including six
Pacific-10 Conference teams.
Those teams include Arizona
State, UCLA, Washington and
Stanford.
Brandon Hamden will make
his first appearance for Oregon
this season. Also making the
trip for the Ducks were Ben
Crane, Andrew Tredway, Derek
Croskrey and Ryan Lavoie.
Crane has led Oregon in its
first two invitationals this sea
son. At the Ping Arizona Inter
collegiate Tournament, Crane
tied for 35th with a score of 218,
and he finished with a score of
230 two weeks later in Kona,
Hawaii.
Lavoie has struggled in the
early going of the season. In Ari
zona, Lavoie sank to a 92nd
place finish with a score of 229,
and he shot a
1239 in
Hawaii. Last
fall, Lavoie
held the
Ducks sec
on d - b e s t
stroke aver
age at 72.3 per round.
Tredway and Croskrey have
also played in Oregon’s first
two invitationals this season.
Tredway has collected finishes
of 220 and 239, while Croskrey
has had scores of 226 and 242.
Oregon finished in 14th over
all in its winter season debut
against Arizona. The Ducks had
been in 19th, but a strong sec
ond-round score of 286 assured
Oregon of a better finish.
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