Junior forward Aly Hill and the Ducks hope to build on their winning ways against the Arizona schools this weekend.
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UO heads to desert on a roll
■ After the biggest win in
program history last Sunday,
the women’s soccer team
takes its game to Arizona
By Brett Williams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Oregon reached absolute eu
phoria with its 2-1 win over No. 20
UCLA in the seniors’ last game at
Pap6 Field.
After a week to reflect, the Ore
gon women’s soccer team hits the
road for its final two games of the
season against Arizona State today
and at Arizona on Sunday.
The Ducks (3-4 Pacific-10 Con
ference, 7-10 overall) are 3-1 all
time against the desert schools, in
cluding having swept them last
season at Pape Field.
Oregon head coach Bill Steffen
sees a lot of similarities in the
three programs. Arizona’s pro
gram surfaced in ’94 and Arizona
State joined the Pac-10 with Ore
gon in ’96.
“We all have young programs
and they’re similar to us in a lot of
ways,” said Steffen, who is near
ing the end of his fourth season as
Ducks’ coach. “We’re all really
young programs.”
Oregon travels to Arizona with a
large amount of momentum stem
ming from its win against UCLA,
which was the biggest win in the
history of the program.
Midfielder Melissa Parker got
major props for her performance
against the Bruins. The junior
from Tacoma, Wash., was named
to Soccer America magazine’s
Women’s Team of the Week for
her game-winning goal against
UCLA.
Steffen said Oregon’s all-around
play against the Bruins has given
his team a large amount of confi
dence.
“The fact that we went the full
distance and won is tremendous,”
Steffen said. “We let UCLA back
in it and we gathered ourselves
back up to score the game-win
ning goal.”
Oregon midfielder Sierra Marsh
said Arizona State should be the
more difficult of the two games.
“They’re doing well in the Pac
10 right now, and we need to go
out and play hard,” said Marsh.
In order to slow the Sun Devils’
offensive attack, the Ducks will
need to put tight clamps on mid
fielder Stacey Tullock. The sopho
more, who was last season’s Pac
10 freshman of the year and an
All-American, has burned oppo
nents this season for a Pac-10-best
16 goals and 39 points.
“She’s one of the best in the con
ference, and we need to be able to
contain her,” Steffen said.
„ Arizona has never beaten the
Ducks, and Oregon would like to
keep it that way. The Wildcats’
Chrissy Sanford is Arizona’s
biggest weapon. She has 10 goals
and five assists this year. Her 25
points rank fifth in the Pac-10.
According to Steffen, Oregon
will take the same defensive ap
proach against Sanford that they’ll
take against Arizona State’s top
player.
“She’s done well, and its the
same thing as Tullock. Hopefully
we can contain her,” Steffen said.
Marsh said the Ducks need to
ensure that they don’t beat them
selves when playing the Wildcats.
“We’ve played well against them
in the past, and we have to not play
down to their level or it will be dif
ficult,” said Marsh, who is tied for
third on the team in goals. “We
can’t get too confident just because
we’ve beaten them before. ”
This weekend should be emo
tional for Oregon. The 13 seniors
who started the program in 1996
play their final games for the
Ducks.
“It’s always tough to see the
transition,” Steffen said. “At one
point, we’re proud of them, but at
another point, we’ll miss them,
too. They’ve added a lot of charac
ter to the team.”
Ducks in great shape for tourney
■ Oregon plans on
improved execution and
endurance helping them at
the ITA Regional Tournament
By Matt O’Neill
lor the Emerald
After an extended period of in
activity, the Oregon men’s tennis
team returns to action this week
end for the ITA Regional Tourna
ment in Seattle.
The Ducks’ second tournament
of the fall takes place Nov. 6-9 and
will feature a individual 64-per
son draw as well as a 32-team dou
bles draw.
Seven players on the Ducks’ ros
ter will make the trip north. Oded
Teig, Leslie Esinga, Joaquin Ham
dan, Jason Menke, David Becker,
Cedric Vanhaver and T.J.
Cameron will all be making the
van ride with head coach Chris
Russell.
Russell is excited for his team to
return action from a month lay-off
after a tournament in Fresno, Calif.
“The guys have done a lot of
conditioning,” Russell said.
“We’ll be in much better shape
than we were in Fresno. ”
One Duck
whose lack of
conditioning
was evident at
the Bulldog
Classic was the
freshman Teig.
The native of Is
rael played well in the tournament
until he was overtaken by fatigue
and cramping.
“Oded is in a lot better shape,
he’s had some more condition
ing,” Russell said. “He should be
ranked in the top 16 seeds.”
Russell is also looking for pro
duction from Esinga this weekend.
“Leslie is ready to make a big
impact,” Russell said. “The more
competition he and Oded get, the
better they’ll be.”
Russell is looking for the whole
team to show improvement from
the intense conditioning.
“We feel like there is no com
parison between us now, and at
Fresno,” Russell said. “I would
like to see everyone set up to an
other level this weekend.”
He is also looking for less un
forced errors than at the Bulldog
classic.
“We need to start making the
other guys beat us,” Russell said.
“If we start to cut down on the free
points, then I feel that we should
be a little more deserving to win
and be successful.”
The Ducks will have six dou
bles teams entered in the tourna
ment. Esinga will team up with
Becker, a junior. Senior Vanhaver
will play with Teig, and freshman
Jason Menke will join Hamdan, a
senior.
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