Road-warrior Ducks a step closer to home
■ Oregon’s long road trip
has provided the young
team with early experience
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
CORVALLIS — With a single
Pacific-10 Conference game un
der their belts, a long road awaits
the co-champion Ducks.
That may be a hard thing for
Oregon to stomach, considering
it hasn’t played in the comforts
of home since early December.
It could be hard to imagine a
road being any longer. Following
a 90-58 rout of Colorado at
McArthur Court on Dec. 4,
which earned Oregon a ranking
as the No. 9 team in the nation,
the Ducks saw their ranking —
and chances of an undefeated
preseason — slip away in a one
point, heartbreaker loss to South
west Missouri State at the
Women’s Sports Foundation Col
lege Basketball Classic in Spring
field, Mo.
Two days later, a fatigued and
injured Oregon team was. rolled
over 74-61 by UC Santa Barbara.
The loss marked the first time
since December 1997 that the
Ducks have dropped consecutive
games.
Before it’s Pac-10 debut in Cor
vallis, Oregon lost its third road
game 66-60 to unranked San
Francisco.
With the exception of a 79-69
win over Kansas State and beat
ing Portland State 79-42 in Port
land, the Ducks’ victories have
even been shaky. Oregon edged
DePaul 86-82 for the win but
nearly lost the contest after blow
ing a 24-point second-half lead.
Was that the same Oregon
team that walked onto Ralph
Miller Court
on Saturday?
The same
Oregon squad
that held off a
f i r e d - u p ,
physical Ore
gon State at
tack? The
same Ducks
who continu
ally pumped
up the vol
ume in an al
ready intense game?
According to Oregon head
coach Jody Runge, no.
“We’ve had to learn to be pa
tient in order to figure out what
we’re dealing with, and how to
correct the answer, keep playing
hard and not get frustrated,”
Runge said.
“I think we’ve gotten used to it.
Maybe earlier in the season, we
got frustrated with that and it
took us out of our game plan.
“When we played [Southwest
Missouri State] and Santa Bar
MEHARRY
bara, we'were tired and we didn’t
get any breaks. We didn’t get any
breaks tonight, but we handled it
better, and that’s the value of
what we’ve seen on the road.”
Coaches and teammates attrib
uted a portion of their successful
road win to the fans who filled
the upper decks of Gill Coliseum.
“It’s tough to keep that intensi
ty every day,” center Jenny
Mowe said.
“It gets to be tough, but then
you get back in front of your fans
and it’s like ‘Yeah,’ this is what
we’re doing it for.”
Unfortunately for Oregon, two
more road matches separate the
Ducks from playing at home. Un
like Corvallis, neither of those
games will be within 45 minutes
of driving.
Meharry said that for the
Ducks to be successful in the up
coming Pac-10 games, the team
must play with more attitude on
the floor — a concept Oregon has
been trying to learn since the
start of the season.
“Sometimes we don’t come
out with that killer mentality,
when we’re just going to domi
nate a team,” Meharry said.
“Instead, we come out and
think ‘We can’t lose this game,’
instead of ‘We’re going to come
out and win this game.’ That’s
slowly been changing, and hope
fully it will change by next
game.”
UO finds silver lining on day 3
■ Oregon has mixed results
in its Pac-10 opener, as
Adeline Arnaud wins the
flight-four championship
By Matt O’Neill
for the Emerald
For the Oregon women's tennis
program, the first two days of this
year’s Pacific-10 Conference in
door tournament will be better
off forgotten.
But, when the third and final
day was finished, there was one
shining spot for the Ducks.
Sophomore Adeline Arnaud won
the flight-four championship.
Oregon began the first day of
the Pac-lOs with mixed results,
as its top-seeded player, Monika
Gieczys lost to Kristina
Kraszewski of Washington in
straight sets, 6-0, 6-3.
Freshman Amy Juppenlatz en
joyed a little more success in the
second flight of singles when she
defeated Washington State’s
Kathleen Pienaar (7-5, 7-5). But
Juppenlatz’s early success was all
she would experience. She was
then ousted in the second round
by Abigail Spears of UCLA by a
score of 6-2, 6-2.
Oregon’s other entry in the sec
ond flight was newcomer
Jeanette Mattson. Mattson, who
recently joined the team, got a
rude welcome to Pac-10 play
when she was given a quick exit
by Melissa Pine from Washing
ton State in
. straight sets,
^ 6-4, 6-3.
Neither of
Oregon’s play
ers in the
third flight
made it into
the second
round of the main draw, as Janice
Nyland lost to UCLA’s Catherina
Ha wley by a score of 6-1, 6-1. S
arah Colistro beat Emeka
Mayes of California in the first set
before losing the next two.
In the fourth flight all three of
the Ducks advanced to the main
draw. Sophomore Valerie Young
beat Kathy Yi of Washington in
straight sets before falling to
eventual runner-up, Brooke Tay
lor of Arizona, 6-3, 6-2.
Walk on Lisa Cummings ad
vanced to the semi-finals by de
feating Amy Allen of Washing
ton, 6-3, 6-0. She then fell to
fellow Duck and eventual cham
pion, Amaud, in straight sets.
After beating Cummings in the
semi-finals, Arnaud took on the
second-seeded Taylor on Sun
day for the championship. It
took her only two sets to win the
match.
Only one of Oregon’s doubles
teams recorded an opening
round win.
The tandem of Juppenlatz and
Nyland beat an Arizona duo by
the score of 8-3 to advance to the
main draw. They were then oust
ed by a Husky team by the same
8-3 score.
In the second flight, the team
of Gieczys and Mattson also lost
to a Washington duo, and the
combination of Arnaud and
Young were set packing by yet
another Husky team, 8-4.
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