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Oregon women victorious in season finale ■ The women’s tennis team triumphs in its finale, while the men lose against Los Angeles schools By Robbie McCallum for the Emerald Desperately needing a win after a four-match losing streak, the Oregon women’s tennis team bounced back in a big way. The Ducks dominated Long Beach State in their season finale, 8-1. Losers of nine of their previous 10 matches, they ended the regu lar season on a high note with two key wins over California-Irvine and Long Beach State. On Friday, Oregon played its ninth-straight road game in Irvine, Calif., facing the No. 42 Anteaters. The Ducks jumped out to an early lead with four convincing straight-set wins. Senior Alina Wygonowska up set No. 50 freshman Maureen Diaz 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 1 singles position. No. 62 freshman Monika Gieczys followed with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Jonni Seymour at the No. 2 position. Sophomore Va lerie Young disposed of UC Irvine’s Liz Yim. Janice Nyland, also a sopho more, continued her recent tear, defeating Darian Chappell, 7-6,6 2. Sophomore Adeline Arnaud and freshman Jeanette Mattsson clinched the match for the Ducks. After falling in singles play, the duo returned in doubles with a dominating 8-2 win over Natalie Exon and Nickole Kabe. Nyland and Young put the fin ishing touches on the win, defeat ing Diaz and Yim 8-5. “This was a huge match for us,” head coach Jack Griffin said in a released statement. “For us to win one through three singles match es was great.” There was never any doubt during the match as Oregon clinched victory early. All six sin gles players won in straight sets. Nyland has won six of her last seven matches. Wygonowska pushed her overall record to a team-leading 21-13. The lone 49er win came in doubles play. Sophie Han and Lara Spica narrowly defeated Wygonowska and freshman Lisa Cum mings, 9-7. The Ducks won the re maining dou bles matches. The men, however, saw their recent win streak snapped this weekend. Riding high from last weekend’s upsets over the Arizona schools, the Ducks lost two tough matches to No. 2 UCLA and No. 19 South ern California. Wins were hard to come by against the Bruins on Friday. Al though Oregon won several first sets, only one Duck triumphed in a 6-1 loss. Senior Guillermo Carter battled the Bruins’ No. 26 Jong-Min Lee over three sets for his fourth upset win of the season. Senior Joaquin Hamdan, soph omore Thomas Schneiter and freshman Jason Menke all picked up wins in their first sets, but the Ducks were unable to capitalize as UCLA won all of the remaining singles matches. Schneiter and freshman Oded Teig battled the Bruins’ Jean-Noel Grinda and Jean-Julien Rojer in doubles but fell, 9-7. “I thought we played some good tennis,” head coach Chris Russell said. “[UCLA] was tough and definitely ready to play against us. They will make you earn it and won’t roll over.” On Saturday, Oregon had to put the loss behind them to take on USC at the Willow Creek Racquet Club. Oregon earned another setback though, getting swept by the Tro jans, 7-0. The lone Duck victory came in doubles play with Carter and freshman Leslie Eisinga’s 8-4 over Ryan Moore and ( (/ thought we played some good tennis. [UCLA] was tough and definitely ready to play against us. They will make you earn it and won }t roll over. Chris Russell head coach Nicholas Rainey. In singles play, both Carter and Schneiter managed to get into the third set, but they were unable to earn wins against the Trojans. The losses put Oregon’s overall record at 11-8, 2-5 in the Pac-10. The Ducks have one more shot for a third Pac-10 victory. Oregon hosts No. 28 Washington next Saturday to finish their confer ence schedule. The Ducks will have a chance to avenge an earlier 4-3 loss to the Huskies on April 2. 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Oregon will again travel to Tempe for the Pac-10 Champi onships next week and before turning its attention to the U.S. In tercollegiate, the NCAA West Re gionals and the NCAA Champi onships, all in May. The Ducks finished their season without a tournament win, but they have been consistently good all year long. The Ducks have steadily improved in this new millennium, finishing 14th, ninth, third, second, fifth and fifth — in that order — at tournaments in 2000. The ASU Thunderbird Invita tional was just the latest in a line of small victories for Oregon. Af ter they beat all Pac-10 chal lengers last week at the Western Intercollegiate, the Ducks finished behind only No. 4 Arizona State and No. 12 Arizona at the Thun derbird. The Arizona schools dominated at the Tempe tourna ment by claiming six of the top nine individual finishers. “This was a great preview for next week,” Oregon head coach Steve Nosier said about his team’s performance a week before the conference championships. Nosier hopes this lineup can re peat its performance one more time next week — when it counts. Senior co-captain Andrew Tredway paced the Ducks, shoot ing five-under par during his last two rounds to finish in a three way tie for 17th. Senior co-captain Ryan Lavoie (even par, 23rd), redshirt fresh man Chris Carnahan and junior Matt Genovese, who both wound up three-over and in 31st, factored into the Ducks’ score. In a rare poor performance, Lavoie shot consecutively higher scores at the Thunderbird. After a two-under par 70 in the first round, the Pasco, Wash., native shot a two-over 146 over the final two rounds. Lavoie, who had an impressive postseason last year, will need to lead the Ducks at the NCAAs again this season. Arizona State’s Paul Casey took first at the Thunderbird with a birdie on the last hole to edge Ari zona’s Derek Gillespie by one stroke. Casey, ranked fifth in the na tion and first in the west, and Gille spie, No. 26, are among a handful of top-ranked players in the Pac-10. The Pac-10 Championships will be played April 24 through 26 at the Karsten Golf Course.
