Ducks in action at tourneys
■ The men head up 1-5 for
the Salem Shootout, while
the women travel south to
Palo Alto, Calif.
Both the men’s and women’s
tennis teams play in tournaments
this weekend.
The men travel to Salem to com
pete in the Salem Shootout, while
the women head to Palo Alto,
Calif., for the Rolex Invitational.
The men’s team continues its
road show, with this trip just two
days after it returned from a tour
nament in Seattle. Head coach
Chris Russell hopes to use this to
his advantage.
“This is good for us,” Russell
said. “The more matches we play
back-to-back, the better off we’ll
be. As the old saying goes, if you
fall off the horse, it’s best to jump
right back on — although I don’t
think we fell off, per say.”
Two Ducks looking to build on
last week’s success are Joaquin
Hamdan and Leslie Esinga.
The Salem Shootout features
Washington, Minnesota, Portland
and the Ducks in eight flights of
singles and four flights of doubles.
For the women, the Rolex Invi
tational is the first chance to play
in nearly a month. Head coach
Jack Griffin is eager for his squad
to get back on the court.
“The lay-off helped us because
it gave our newcomers a chance to
grow and mature,” Griffin said.
“But I think we’re ready to play
someone else for a change. ”
The tournament features a 128
player singles draw and a 14-team
doubles draw.
Matt O'Neill
Men
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ranked in the top-20. Beside Ore
gon, Pac-10 rivals No. 4 Arizona,
No. 5 Stanford and No. 15 Arizona
State will be competing, as well as
No. 18 Portland, the meet host.
“At the Pac-10 meet we were
able to beat a really good Arizona
State team that had beaten us at
the Pre-NCAAs and we’d like to
do the same,” Fein said. “The fo
cus for us is really on trying to
place in the top three at districts
Women
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The field of teams is also as
deep as ever with No. 1 Stanford,
No. 9 Arizona State, No. 10 Wash
ington, No. 14 UCLA, No. 24 Ari
zona and.No. 25 Oregon leading
the way.
“It’s a very strong field and we
know this is pretty serious stuff,”
Heinonen said. “The first champi
onship meet [the Pacific-10 Con
ference Championships on Oct.
30] was an experiment and with
because obviously Stanford and
Arizona are really great teams. ”
Oregon hopes to have an edge
over its competitors because the
race will be only a short Interstate
5 drive north, as opposed to pre
vious races in Minnesota and In
diana.
“Hopefully it will be a tremen
dous advantage,” Smith said. “It
will be a lot less wear-and-tear on
us from a traveling perspective.
And with it being close to Eugene,
there should be a lot of people and
fans giving us support.”
A difference the regional race
that under our belts, we feel we
can do a whole lot better. ”
A big factor in the Ducks 6th
place finish at Pac-lO’s was the
sweltering near-90 degree heat
that plagued many of Oregon’s
runners. With Saturday’s race be
ing in Portland, the Ducks expect a
much stronger all-around perfor
mance.
“Our team is really ready for a
great team effort,” freshman Amy
Nickerson said. “We were all
ready to have a great race at Pac
lO’s, but the heat factor didn’t let
that happen. We’ve put a lot into
poses from the others is that it will
be a 1 OK race instead of the usual
8K.
“We do prepare for the differ
ence in length and we’re ready for
it,” Smith said. “It’s definitely a
factor considering that it adds on
an additional six minutes and
thirty seconds of running. ”
Should Fein win his fourth
straight individual title, and se
nior Andrew Bliss continue his ef
fective fall performance, then the
Ducks will step right in where
they belong — the national cham
pionship.
our training these past couple of
weeks and as long as we keep the
right mindset at regionals, we’ll do
a lot better.”
Should the Ducks falter this
weekend, the season could still go
on for Nickerson, freshman Tara
Struyk and junior Rhiannon
Glenn, who would seem to be on
track to qualify as individuals for
nationals with a top-25 placing
this weekend.
But with Crabb back in the mix,
the Ducks seem to be in the right
position to secure an at-large
berth.
Sports briefs
Oregon men’s tennis sign big-time recruit
In one of the biggest signings in the last five years,
Oregon men’s tennis head coach Chris Russell an
nounced Thursday that Paul “Buck” Mink will join
the Ducks next season.
Mink is ranked No. 45 nationally coming out of
high school in Carollton, Texas.
Russell said Mink chose Oregon ahead of Baylor,
Texas and Illinois — all programs ranked in the top
10.
Wrestling also announces signing
Luke Larwin is the first recruit of the fall signing
period to commi* to joining Chuck Kearney’s
wrestling team next season, the head coach an
nounced Thursday.
Larwin finished third in the state 4A wrestling
championships last season for Mountain View High
School in Bend. He’s also a three-time Oregon Na
tional Team member and has won the state Freestyle
Championship.
Additional signings are expected early next week.
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