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Custer knocked in her 13th run
when she singled in Robinson to
give the Ducks a 1-0 lead.
The Rams answered with two
runs in the top of the second.
But the Ducks would make that
lead brief. In the bottom of the
third, Oregon exploded for four
runs to take the lead for good.
Then in the bottom of the fifth,
Oregon tacked on one more run to
make the final score to 6-2. Fresh
man Andrea Vidlund picked up
the win, pushing her record to 6-2.
In the second game of the day,
the rain got the best of the Ducks
as they took on the No. 12 Cal
State Fullerton.
The Ducks took a 1-0 lead on
Holly Ray’s home run before for
the game was called for the day
due to the weather.
The two teams took up their
battle the next day and fought for
ten long innings. The game was
stopped the day before in the bot
tom of the fourth, with the bases
loaded with Fullerton at bat.
Connie McMurren (3-6) got a
line-out to end the inning with
Oregon’s lead still intact.
Oregon would extend its lead to
2-0 in the top of the fifth when
sophomore catcher Missy Coe
earned a two-out bases-loaded
walk.
The Titans cut the lead back to
one in the bottom of the inning.
That score
would hold until
the bottom of the
seventh, when
McMurren gave
up a game-tying
four bagger to
Jessica Maloney.
The game then went to extra in
nings tied 2-2. After two scoreless
innings, the Ducks took the lead
on a two-out single by Robinson
to drive home Andrea Gustafson
in the top of the 10th.
The Titans, not to be out
matched, answered in the bottom
of the inning when Gina Oaks
smashed a two-run homer to get
the win for Fullerton.
In the afternoon game, Oregon
bounced back to beat San Diego
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Washington “is a very strong
team,” Griffin said. “They should
end up in the top-15 by the end of
the year.”
Oregon was in a similar situa
tion against then-No. 21 Arizona
on Feb. 27. The Ducks held off the
Wildcats, 5-4, losing two of the
three doubles matches. Doubles
were also the downfall of the
Ducks on Feb. 9 when they were
unable to complete an upset of
No. 8 UCLA. Oregon lost by the
familiar score of 5-4.
Freshman Monika Gieczys pro
vided a bright spot for the Ducks
with two singles’ wins. Gieczys
added No. 88 Zuzana Stunova of
Washington to her upset list, win
ning 6-3, 6-1. Down 3-5 in her first
set against Washington State vet
eran Melissa Pine, Gieczys
stormed back to win, 7-6,6-1.
Senior Alina Wygonowska,
ranked No. 67, received a tough
draw in the last home games of
her Oregon career. The Ducks’
captain fought hard but fell to the
No. 2 Kristina Kraszewski of
Washington, 6-0. 7-5. Wygonows
ka rebounded with a convincing
6-3, 6-2 win over the Cougars’
Parycja Gajdzik.
Sophomores Adeline Arnaud
and Sarah Colistro also earned
wins against Washington State.
Oregon’s lone doubles win of
the weekend came when
Wygonowska and walk-on fresh
man Jeanette Mattsson beat the
Huskies’ Colleen Gray and Peggy
Wu, 8-4.
Oregon has a two week break
from competition for finals.
“[The break] will give us a
chance to work on doubles, rest a
couple of people who have been
sick and focus on school,” Griffin
said.
The Ducks will have a chance
to halt their two-game losing
streak on March 19, when they
take on No. 61 Tulsa and No. 68
UNLV in Las Vegas.
Women’s basketball briefs
No. 25 Stanford 66,
Southern Cal 64
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Milena
Flores scored 18 points to lead
No. 25 Stanford to a 66-64 win
over Southern Cal on Sunday.
Stanford (19-7, 12-4 Pac-10)
came back from nine down in the
second half to tie the game with
5:20 left. From there on, free
throws made the difference.
Flores and Bethany Donaphin,
who finished with 13 points and
a game-leading nine rebounds,
combined to go 10-for-10 from the
line down the stretch.
Tiffany Elmore led Southern
Cal (13-13,8-8) with 11 points.
No. 2 Tennessee 70,
No. 17 Mississippi St. 67
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP)
— With yet another Southeastern
Conference tournament title on
the line, the Tennessee Lady Vols
found a way to win.
No. 2 Tennessee won its 10th
SEC tournament title Sunday,
overcoming a 12-point deficit
midway through the second half
to beat No. 17 Mississippi State
70-67 on Sunday.
“We’re down by 12, we have
every opportunity to just basical
ly quit,” Tennessee coach Pat
Summitt said. “That’s when I
called a timeout. We had a little, I
guess you call, prayer meeting on
the sideline. I told this team they
didn’t want to lose the way they
were playing.”
Just more than a minute later,
the Lady Vols went on a 12-2 run,
and Kyra Elzy completed the
comeback with two free throws
with 55.2 seconds left that put
Tennessee (28-3) ahead to stay.
Sharon Fanning knew a Ten
nessee run was coming, and the
Mississippi State coach couldn’t
do anything to stop it. She tried to
stop it with a couple of timeouts
to let her Lady Bulldogs (23-7) re
group, but it wasn’t enough with
a Tennessee crowd of 10,687
cheering every basket.
Tennessee has won four of the
last five tournament titles, but it
looked like the Lady Bulldogs
would add a third straight upset
victim in their first appearance in
the championship game.
State, 7-4.
The Ducks were led by a duo of
home runs. Custer continued to
flex her muscles at the plate,
crushing her fourth home run of
the year. While Gustafson showed
her power, blasting a grand slam
in the bottom of the second for her
first homer of the year to give the
Ducks the lead for good.
Vidlund picked up her second
win of the tournament and sev
enth of the year by going the dis
tance for the Ducks.
The weather again got the best
of Oregon as the team’s final three
games were rained out. The
Ducks would have played two
Big-12 Conference teams in Bay
lor and Missouri and finish up the
weekend against the University of
the Pacific (Calif.).
The team will have break in its
schedule next weekend before
they head to Sacramento to com
pete in the Capital Classic Tourna
ment on March 16.
The Ducks face the Middle Ten
nessee State and Texas A&M on
the first day of the three-day tour
nament.
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