Oregon daily emerald., April 22, 1999, Page 8A, Image 8

Tennis teams travel to Pac-lOs
The Ducks begin play at
the championships
today in Ojai, Calif.
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Unless the Oregon men’s and
women’s tennis teams receive in
vitations to the NCAA Tourna
ment, this week’s Pacific-10 Con
ference Championships will be
the final event of their season.
And if it is this season’s last go
round, it should be a fun — but
very challenging — tournament to
end with.
Both the men (8-14 overall, 0-7
Pac-10) and the women (11-11,0
7) begin play today in Ojai, Calif.
The Ducks will be facing many of
the best players in the country on
an individual basis, as opposed to
the team-style of competition that
they have been immersed in dur
ing the past four months.
“It’s the elite tournament in the
whole nation,” said Joaquin Ham
den, who has an 11-11 singles
record. “I’m very excited.”
Most of Oregon’s players will
face ranked opponents in the first
round, as seniors Carlos Navarro
and Miguel Arriaga will likely fin
ish their careers there against the
stiff competiti on.
Navarro will be up against Stan
ford’s Jeff Abrams, No. 42 in the na
tion, while Arriaga matches up
with David Tzou
of California.
“I’m looking
for our seniors to
go out on a high
note,” head
coach Chris Rus
sell said. “It’s a
big event—a chance for them to try
and put a few tilings together. ”
The Oregon men will be looking
to show they are more talented than
their team record indicates. They
lost five matches against ranked
teams by a single point.
“This is a tournament where
you can gain respect,” team cap
tain Navarro said. “That’s some
thing that this program needs.”
The women had one of their most
successful seasons ever. But they
cooled off toward the end, in part
because they lost team No. 3 singles
player Sarah Colistro to injuiy.
The No. 50 Ducks still have a le
gitimate shot at making the NCAA
field, and they are hoping that this
tournament will serve as a warmup.
“It’s definitely a nice, presti
gious tournament,” head coach
Jack Griffin said. “It’s a nice atmos
phere, [with] a lot of people out
and good weather, so we hope this
will be good preparation for us. ”
The Pac-10 Championships will
also give several Oregon players
who have struggled lately a chance
for some late-season redemption.
Junior Alina Wygonowska,
ranked No. 100 in the nation, will
try to take advantage of her losing
record by possibly surprising op
ponents this week.
“Alina has been a little bit of a
slump, so she’s in a position
where she has nothing to lose,”
Griffin said. “If someone looks at
her record and thinks she won’t
have that difficult of a match, then
she can certainly surprise some
people.”
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Club Sports
Baseball prays change
goes beyond uniforms
Superstition and the game of
baseball are often synonymous,
especially where winning is in
volved.
The Oregon Club Sports base
ball team is no exception.
Last weekend, the Ducks played
four games in two days and came
away with three victories to raise
their season record to 5-11.
Throughout the season, the
team has worn black uniforms,
and Oregon wore the black jerseys
again Saturday. Although the
Ducks beat Western Washington
6-5, they were humiliated 18-7 by
Southern Oregon in the afternoon.
Utility player and team comedi
an Tony Bastinelli then suggested
a change to player-coach Ryan
Williams.
“We had been wearing those
saftie black jerseys all year long
and not getting many wins,”
Bastinelli said. “So I convinced
Ryan to let us all wear these green
jerseys that we had never tried out
before. I pretty much guaranteed
that we would win both of our
games if we were in green, and
that’s exactly what we did.”
At first, Williams needed some
convincing to agree to the change.
“I was a little skeptical at first to
go through with it,” Williams
said. “But Tony did a good job of
getting me to go along with it.
With baseball being such a super
stitious sport, and us winning
both games, you can be sure that
we will be sporting the green uni
forms this weekend. ”
The Ducks are traveling south
to Areata, Calif., this weekend,
where they will take on Cal State
Humboldt three times. Saturday,
Oregon will play a doubleheader
beginning at noon. Sunday, the
Ducks will finish their trip with a
10 a.m. game.
With the May 8-9 league play
offs right around the comer, the
players are all keeping their fin
gers crossed in hopes the uniform
change may have a trigger effect
and get this hard-luck team to
greener pastures.
Dedicated crew team
keeps rowing along
Nine months.
That’s how long the crew sea
son lasts, with hours of early
morning practice and weekend re
gattas filling up most of the time.
With April winding down, the
team is finally beginning to see the
end of the road, which culminates
May 15-16 in Sacramento, Calif.,
at the Pacific Coast Regional
Championships.
But before then, some intense
preparatory regattas will be held,
including this weekend when the
Oregon Club Sports varsity and
novice crew teams compete in the
Cascade Sprints in Tacoma,
Wash., on American Lake.
The teams hosted the Dexter
Regatta on April 17, competing
against Willamette, Seattle Pacific
and Seattle. Oregon placed first
and sec
ond in
many
races and
looks to
carry that
momen
tum into
this weekend, when the Ducks
will be battling more than 15
schools.
“I’m really excited to see how
we do this weekend,” novice
coach Scott Jones said. “Coming
off our strong performance last '
weekend, I think our teams are
ready to go up to Tacoma and put
on a good showing.”
Women’s soccer gets
into the kick of things
The forecast for this weekend
includes lots of sunshine.
The Oregon Club Sports
women’s soccer team hopes the
good weather has a direct correla
tion to its play against Southern
Oregon.
Because the team had so many
women try out, two teams were
formed, called “A” and “B.” Both
teams are part of a Eugene adult
soccer league and also compete
against other Northwest schools.
The season kicked off April 10
when the Ducks played hard but
were shut out by Oregon State, 1
0. Last weekend, the tough luck
continued as Oregon held Lane
Community College scoreless but
didn’t manage any goals itself and
tied 0-0.
In the Eugene city league, the
“B” team was impressive in a 4-1
victory Monday against Taco Loco.
“I feel that our teams are right
up there in terms of skill level and
competitiveness with everyone
else,” junior goalkeeper Jen Vaz
zana said. “Although we always
like to win, our main focus is to
have a good time and provide peo
ple with the most playing time
possible.”
The man responsible forgetting
everybody in the game is head
coach Brian Bates, who takes his
“A” team to Southern Oregon on
Saturday for a 1 p.m. game.
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