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Senior Shanelle Kaneshiro won her last home match as a Duck defeating Southern Cali
fornia’s Veronika Safarova 6-4,6-2.
Technical difficulties
continue for Lakers
By Beth Harris
The Associated Press
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Dennis
Rodman had another technical
foul, but the one that hurt the Los
Angeles Lakers most was against
coach Kurt Rambis.
Rambis was called for a techni
cal after protesting a jump ball
with the game tied for the last time
in the fourth quarter, and the Lak
ers went on to lose 113-109 to the
Seattle SuperSonics on Sunday.
“I was mad at the time. It was
clearly a wrong call,” Rambis
said. ‘‘Shaq should’ve had it. He
was sitting on the ball. (The call)
came unbelievably late.”
With the game tied at 88, offi
cials called the jump ball between
7-foot Olden Polynice and 6-foot
rookie Tyronn Lue. Polynice
tipped the ball to Hersey
Hawkins, who hit a 3-pointer and
a free throw after being fouled to
put Seattle ahead for good, 92-88,
with 6:15 left.
“That was the right call,”
Polynice said. “Shaq and Dennis
didn’t know where the ball was.
They were laying on the ground
and the ball was between
Shaquille’s legs, and Tyronn and I
had our hands on the ball.”
Gary Payton scored 33 points
and Vin Baker added 27 as the
Sonics snapped a four-game road
losing streak. Within the last four
days, Seattle has beaten Pacific
Division-leading Portland and the
Lakers, but lost to the lowly Van
couver Grizzlies.
"We’re like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr,
Hyde team,” Payton said.
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Kaneshiro wins own match,
but Ducks stumble at home
In its last home match of
the season, Oregon lost to
No. 14 USC, 5-1
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
On a warm, gorgeous day,
Shanelle Kaneshiro — the back
bone of the Oregon women’s ten
nis team — cooked up a beautiful
win in her final home match as a
Duck on Sunday.
Oregon’s team captain record
ed the Ducks’ only win of the day
with a straight-set victory over
No. 14 Southern California’s
Veronika Safarova, 6-4, 6-2. In
doing so, Kaneshiro completed a
remarkable season-sweep of the
Los Angeles schools.
“I’m very happy with
Shanelle’s effort this week,” head
coach Jack Griffin said. “It’s awe
some to have a senior beat two
players from two top-10 level
teams in a week. And it’s nice to
see it from a person who has
worked so hard.”
After earning the Ducks’ sole
point in their 5-1 loss to No. 4
UCLA on Thursday, Kaneshiro
was again the only Oregon play
er who could hold a lead against
USC (15-7). She played a well
paced match, and methodically
put Safarova away.
“It felt good,” kaneshiro said.
“I just wanted to go out and play
as well as I could. It was like
r
everything I’ve worked for all
came together today. I’m pretty
excited and hopefully I can keep
it going for the rest of the sea
son.”
Kaneshiro will need her team
mates to join her in getting things
going if the Ducks (10-10, 0-6)
want to make another appear
ance at the NCAA regional cham
pions in two weeks, Griffin said.
Just as it had
against UCLA,
Oregon jumped
out to early
leads in all of its
matches except
one. And, again,
the Ducks fal
tered, eventual
ly finding themselves battling
back in matches that they had
controlled early on.
“We get scared in close sets,”
Griffin said. “We’re in a pattern
of doubting ourselves. We’ve got
to do better with that. It’s like
we’re the doubters and they’re
the doers.”
Junior Alina Wygonowska,
Oregon’s No. 1 player, began her
match playing very well, and tak
ing a 4-1 lead. But at that point
her recent frustrations reap
peared, and she wound up losing
the first set in a tiebreaker, 7-6,
before dropping the match in the
next, 6-1.
Meanwhile, the Ducks’ other
two departing seniors didn’t fare
nearly as well as Kaneshiro.
Andrea Petrovic played a
tough match, but she couldn’t
find a way to win, as she said she
should have.
“There’s no way I should have
lost,” she said. “I thought we
could beat them. We had them —
but they did the right things at the
right moments and we didn’t.”
Jaime Martin also played a
close match, one that outlasted
all of the others Sunday. So with
her teammates and the crowd fo
cused on her contest, Martin
made a valiant, but unsuccessful
effort to stay alive, before losing,
7-6, 6-2.
“I didn’t play as well as I had
hoped,” said Martin, who had
didn’t play earlier last week be
cause of the flu. “It’s a little bit
sad. I played well in the first set,
but then I tried for way too much
in the second. It was a tough last
match.”
Two of Oregon’s promising
freshmen, Janice Nyland and Ade
line Amaud, also lost. Nyland did
produce her usual array of exciting
winners in the 6-4, 6-3 loss to
USC’s No. 2 player, Jacqui Boyd.
In the end it was Kaneshiro —
who, according to her apprecia
tive teammates, is the best cook
on her team — who saved the
Ducks from being swept in their
home finale.
UO overmatched in California
Oregon gets only a
doubles win over UCLA
during its two losses
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Before the Oregon men’s ten
nis team embarked on its trip to
Los Angeles last Thursday, the
Ducks said they intended to
pack some extra confidence
along with their rackets for their
battle against No. 1 UCLA and
No. 11 Southern California.
They said they didn’t want to
give the top-ranked Bruins too
much respect because they
were confident they could com
pete with such high-quality
teams.
But if Oregon harbored any
extra confidence last weekend
it wasn’t overly apparent by the
final scores of either of the
weekend’s matches. The Tro
jans shut out the Ducks 7-0 on
Saturday, and UCLA dropped
them 6-1 on Friday.
Despite the
bleakness of
the losses,
there where
certainly some
bright spots for
the Ducks.
Oregon's
best moment came in the dou
bles competition against UCLA.
The Ducks have been strug
gling with doubles play lately,
having lost several one-point
dual matches this season be
cause they would split the sin
gles points, 3-3, but were not
able to pick up the deciding
doubles point.
UCLA might be hard-pressed
to believe that though, because
Oregon not only claimed the
doubles point against the Bru
ins, but did so by beating
UCLA’s No. 10 tandem of Jason
Cook and Brandon Kramer.
Junior Guillermo Carter and
freshman Bertrand Devillers
teamed up for the 9-7 upset
over Cook and Kramer, while
seniors Miguel Arriaga and Car
los Navarro secured the elusive
doubles win with their 8-6 vic
tory over Marcin Rozpedski
and Chris Sands.
“That was huge,” Arriaga
said of the doubles win. “Those
guys, they don’t give you any
thing. We really concentrated
the whole match.”
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