This time dominates Ducks’ scrimmage
■After the offense shines in
the team’s first scrimmage,
the defense limits Oregon’s
quarterbacks Friday
By jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
In the Oregon football team’s
first major scrimmage of the
spring on April 15, Jermaine
Hanspard rushed for only two
yards on six carries as the starting
tailback.
On Friday, in the Ducks second
scrimmage, Hanspard busted
loose for a 36-yard dash that drew
plenty of “oohs” and “ahhs” from
the couple hundred fans on hand
at the Kilkenny Practice Field out
side of Autzen Stadium.
The fans weren’t cheering an
offensive play though. Hanspard,
who was moved to his more com
fortable position as cornerback
earlier in the week, intercepted
Orlando Evans’ pass near the five
yard line.
The 5-foot-ll, 190-pound cor
nerback proceeded to wow the
crowd as he zig-zagged left to
right and right to left, eluding of
fensive wannabe tacklers. He was
only credited 36 yards for his ver
tical gain, but his horizontal
length was much farther.
"Jermaine obviously has some
skills on the run with the ball in
his hands,” head coach Mike Bel
lotti said. “He adds a certain
toughness [to the secondary] and
has some real intensity.”
Hanspard’s interception helped
the Ducks’ defense gain the upper
hand over the offense as Oregon
completed its third week of spring
practice with the 90-minute con
trolled scrimmage.
A week after Oregon’s quarter
backs combined for 385 yards, the
quartet of arms were limited to
just 213 yards on 19 of 35 passes.
The most impressive offensive
showing of the afternoon was
Oregon’s 13-play, 95-yard scoring
drive that was anchored by No. 2
QB, A.J. Feeley.
Feeley accounted for the of
fense’s only
passing touch
down when he
threw a tight
spiral down the
middle of the
field to wide re
ceiver Marshaun Tucker, who
leapt, snared the ball and darted
into the end zone to complete the
23-yard touchdown pass.
“Yeah, that drive felt pretty
good,” said Feeley, who completed
seven of 10 passes for 68 yards. “Of
fensively, we did some things fun
damentally sound. I just try to go
out there and make things happen.”
“A.J. put together a nice drive,”
Bellotti said. “He’s such a great
competitor, and I thought he did a
nice job of leadership during that
drive. I was very pleased.”
Bellotti was also happy to see
his inexperienced backfield show
some development. Redshirt
freshman tailback Joe Broder, who
is a walk-on, led all runners with
48 yards on nine carries. Derek
Earls, a redshirt freshman from
Portland, also impressed with 33
yards on eight carries.
Josh Line and Mike Zeck, both
fullbacks, each muscled home a
one-yard rushing touchdown.
Line showed tremendous grit in
his three rushing attempts and 11
yard catch.
“I think I’m getting more com
fortable with the offense,” said
Line, who hails from Springfield.
“But it was nice to see the defense
improve. They came out fired up.”
The defense made the offense
work for everything it got. Along
with Feeley’s TD pass, Harring
ton’s 22-yard dart to tight end
Enyi Nwamuo was the only other
play that went beyond 20 yards.
“I saw some good things on
both sides of the ball,” Bellotti
said. “But I thought our defense
had the advantage.”
Afterwards, Hanspard, who is
not at full speed due to a hip
pointer, was still thinking about
his interception.
“I was trying to get into that end
zone,” said Hanspard, who also
ran track Saturday. “I wanted to
take it to the house. That’s all I
was focusing on.”
The Ducks turn their focus to
next Saturday when they culmi
nate their spring with the in
trasquad Spring Game at 1 p.m. at
Autzen.
Huskies pin 5-2 loss Oregon, tournament bid unlikely
■The men’s tennis team’s
chances at an NCAA bid are
hu rt with a 5-2 loss against
Washington
By Robbie McCallum
for the Emerald
They put up a fight, hut in the
end, the they were unable to come
through.
The Oregon men’s tennis team
faced No. 28 Washington in its
last Pacific-10 conference match,
needing a win to qualify a spot in
the NCAA tournament. It was the
fourth meeting between the two
teams this season, with the
Huskies prevailing twice before in
Seattle.
The Ducks started out well in
doubles play, but then the out
door match was suspended by
rain. When the match had been
moved indoors to the Willow
Creek Racquet Club, the momen
tum switched to the Huskies.
Washington went on to take the
doubles portion of the contest by
winning two of the three matches.
Washington’s Nick Quatrochi and
Ari Strasberg defeated the 39th
ranked team of senior Guillermo
Carter and freshman Leslie Eisin
ga fell 8-6. Matt Hanlin and Mark
Woolley put away senior Joaquin
Hamdan and junior David Becker,
8-3.
“They were more ready in dou
bles, and they came out more
fired up, with more intensity,”
head coach Chris Russell said.
“They just out-played us.”
Freshman Oded Teig and soph
omore Thomas Schneiter won an
inspired 9-7 doubles matches
against Jeremy Berman and Andy
Posavac.
The misfortune in doubles
meant the Ducks would
need to take four of the six
singles matches to win. BF-_
Oregon seemed well on g
its way after Hamdan and lH
leig dominated their op
ponents in straight sets to
give Oregon a 2-1 lead.
I hree other Ducks won
or were leading in their opening
sets, but were unable to prevail as
the Huskies regained the lead, 3
2. Oregon’s top two players,
Carter and Schneiter both lost
tough matches against No. 89
Hanlin and Posavac, respectively.
The pressure then fell on fresh
man Jason Menke and Eisinga to
win their matches. As the more
experienced Husky opponents
wore down the Oregon freshmen,
hope for a victory slipped
away. Junior Marius
Lunde put away Eisinga
in three sets, securing the
Washington victory.
Woolley, a senior, put the
icing on the win by de
feating Menke, 6-3, 6-4.
The Ducks fell to 2-5 in
the Pac-10, tied with California
and Arizona for fifth place. Ore
gon will now focus on a April 26
non-conference match at UC-San
ta Barbara before the Pac-10 Indi
vidual Championships in Ojai,
Calif.
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significant advantage" Baumgart
ner said. “We feel very comfort
able on that golf course. ’’
The men’s team will not experi
ence that kind of advantage in
Tempe, but it will feel nearly as
comfortable at Karsten as the
women do in Eugene. The Ducks
played in Tempe last weekend at
the Arizona State/Thunderbird
Invitational and finished third
among Pac-10 teams.
“It’s a good golf course for us,”
head coach Steve Nosier said.
“We’re relatively long, and the
golf course is relatively long.”
Nosier will rely once again on
senior co-captains Ryan Lavoie
and Andrew Tredway to be
“lopg" and lead his team. Lavoie
has been the Ducks’ leader on the
golf course all season, with a
fourth, third, second and first
place this year.
Nosier also thinks the format of
the Pac-10 championships will fa
vor his Ducks. The team has
played a format all year in which
the team fields five players with
the four lowest scores counting
towards the team’s score. In
Tempe, the men will field six
players, with five scores counting,
and Nosier
thinks his team
has the depth
to compete
with the Pac-10
powers.
The Pac-lOs
are not the end
of the postsea
son for either
team.
The West Re
gional, in
Tempe for the
women, and in
Fresno, Calif.,
for the men, de
t e r m i n e
whether or not the teams will go
to the NCAA Championships.
Both teams are assured of berths
in the Regionals by virtue of the
competition they have faced all
year, but that one tournament will
make or break both seasons.
The women play at the Eugene
Country Club starting today, with
the first Oregon tee time at 10:06.
Admission is free.
On tap
What:
Women’s gotf
Pac-10 Cham
pionships
Who:
Pac-10 golfers
When:
10:06 today
through
Wednesday
Where:
Eugene Coun
try Club
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