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Tennis squads meet UA, ASU
The Oregon women go north to battle
the Arizona schools in Washington
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Unfortunately for him, the first thing on coach Jack
Griffin’s mind is not the possibility that — for the first
time — his Oregon women’s tennis team has a very
legitimate shot at beating a Pacific-10 Conference foe
from the south.
Nor is he especially concerned with the Ducks’ top
30 ranking as he prepares his team for Arizona today
and Arizona State on Saturday in Pullman, Wash.
Instead, Griffin finds himself preoccupied — yet
again — with the failing health of one of his players.
“We definitely lost Sarah for this weekend,” he
said of Oregon No. 3 singles player Sarah Colistro.
Colistro found out that her degenerative knee prob
lem was worse than previously thought after she un
derwent an MRI early in the week.
“She’s on a week-long rest," Griffin said. “We’re
kind of in a wait-and-see mode.
“There’s separation with her bone from her carti
lage. And there’s not really any treatment that she can
do but rest and hope it gets better. If not, she’s going to
have to have surgery and they’re going to have to put
some pins in there. So she’ll be staying home this
weekend.”
And the Ducks will have to take on both of the Ari
zona schools and then Boise State on Sunday with
out the contributions of Colistro, a redshirt freshman
who sat out last season with a tom hamstring.
The good news for Oregon is that it can still put
seven players on the court. Last season the Ducks en
dured a several-week span when they had to forfeit
two or three points per match because of injuries.
This weekend Oregon’s healthy players will have
to step up to make up for Colistro’s absence, Griffin
said.
“We’ve got good players at seven and eight,” he
said about Jaime Martin and Valerie Young. “Hope
fully Jaime and Valerie can step up and shoulder
some of the load.”
It won’t be a light load.
Arizona, perennially a top-10 team, has slipped
this year to No. 45, but has been playing well of late.
The Oregon men go south to meet
Arizona and Arizona State at home
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Going into this weekend’s matches with Ari
zona and No. 12 Arizona State, the Oregon men’s
tennis team (7-9 overall, 0-3 Pacific-10 Confer
ence) is playing very well.
But the Ducks could be playing better.
“We’re playing better than we ever have,”
head coach Chris Russell said. “Now we need
the concentration to go to a new level. To go
from being a good team to being a great team, the
great teams do that detail.”
Oregon, currently ranked No. 59 in the nation,
wasn’t particularly pleased with its 1-2 showing
at the Gaucho Classic Tournament during spring
break. Russell said he thought his players should
have performed better although Oregon’s losses
came against respected Oklahoma State and
BYU teams and were both close.
“If anything, it pointed out that we didn’t do
enough detail,” Russell said. “So if the guys are
not OK with that, they can turn that concentra
tion up to a higher level.
“It's up to them, it’s what they choose.”
Oregon will look to crank its play up a notch
against two quality Pac-10 teams this weekend,
starting with the Wildcats today.
Arizona is coming off a 4-3 loss to California
last weekend. Russell’s squad lost to the Golden
Bears by the same score in January.
“They’re ranked behind us for maybe the first
time ever,” Russell said. “But they’ve had better
results than we have recently.”
The Ducks will face Arizona State on Saturday
in a match that will surely require Oregon’s com
plete focus.
The No. 12 Sun Devils also lost by a 4-3 score
last weekend, but did so against defending na
tional champion No. 4 Stanford.
"They’re a very good team,” Russell said of
Arizona State. “We’ve had some individual suc
cess against them. It [depends on] just if, collec
tively, the guys can put it together.”
Track
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meters.
In the sprints, freshman Alexis
Yeater will compete in the 100
and 200 meters as the Ducks will
be without Abrante. Yeater was
No. 16 among preps in the 200
meters last year.
Tish Henes and Aisha Wallace
will compete in the 200 and 400
meters. Henes will also compete in
the 400 hurdles, along with Melis
sa Abramson and Mariah Bowden.
Injuries have not weakened
Oregon’s pole vaulters, who have
found consistent success this sea
son. All-American Karina El
strom will make the trip to Pull
man, along with
NCAA-provisional qualifiers
Holly Speight and Niki Reed.
Michele Dick will have to step
up in the throws due to the ab
sence of Fisk, and Tasha Cooper
and Wendy Olson will be throw
ing the javelin.
Between injuries and harsh
weather conditions in Washington,
Heinonen does not expect the
Ducks to put up their best results of
the season. Still, he wants Oregon
to perform well against the Cougars.
“The chances of getting really
good marks is slim, given the weath
er we’ll face in Pullman,” Heinonen
said. “It will be a very good competi
tion, because Washington State is a
very good team, but good marks will
depend on the weather.”
Heinonen added that Idaho
should struggle against the Ducks
and Cougars.
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