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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Ducks survive ‘Zona,
eying the postseason
■ Oregon golfers have a
strong showing against Pac
10 foes for the second
straight tournament
by Peter Hockaday
tor the Emerald
In the crazy world of men’s col
lege golf, the Ducks are just getting
warmed up.
Oregon wrapped up the regular
season on a high note Sunday, fin
ishing fifth overall and third
among Pacific-10 Conference
teams at the Arizona State Thun
derbird Invitational in Tempe,
Arizona.
Now come the real tests.
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.