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frustrated.”
“They are wearing her down in
the passing game and her attacking
game is affected,” Ferreira said of
Tobbagi’s struggles against ASU.
As a team, Oregon hit just .087
percent from the floor on Friday.
Seniors Amy Banducci and Halie
Mazza, normally two of the most
reliable competitors on the squad,
tallied a combined seven kills and
hit .100 and .167, respectively.
“It was an ugly match,” Ferreira
said. “For the first time this year
our core chemistry struggled. All
four [of the upperclassmen] had a
bad night. And how they go, we
go-”
The weekend also featured sever
al shifts in Oregon’s lineup. Coming
off of a career match against ASU,
freshman Alisha Stevens replaced
junior setter Julie Gerlach in the
Ducks’ starting lineup Saturday.
The move marked the first time that
Oregon went away from its two-set
ter offensive system.
“Julie’s been struggling,” Ferreira
said. “Her set to kill ratio hasn’t
been effective. She’s been under a
lot of pressure lately.”
In the last two weekend series,
Ferreira said his team has done a
good job of preparing for the second
game, but has not come out in the
opening game with enough intensi
ty.
“Two of our last four games have
been sluggish, and that’s not what
you want to see at the mid-point of
the season,” said Ferreira, also re
ferring to his team’s 3-0 loss at
UCLA Sept. 29.
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losing streaks. On a couple occa
sions, red, puffy eyes betrayed the
coach.
I remember sitting on press row
in Corvallis, watching the Ducks
lose the first Civil War match to the
Beavers. You would never know
they were losing from the way they
were joking around with each oth
er, despite the scoreboard.
A reporter sitting near me said
something about KidSports. Point
well taken.
So there I sat on Friday, hoping
to see a dramatic turnaround. I
knew the Ducks’ season results al
most mirrored those of last sea
son. I watched Oregon fight for a
2-0 lead over Oregon State on
Sept. 19, only to have the wheels
fall off again and lose in five
games.
I tried telling myself as I
watched them play Friday that
they commit fewer errors this sea
son than they did last season. But
the weekend’s results showed 20
attack errors against Arizona State
and 22 against Arizona, just a cou
ple down from the averages of a
year ago.
Is there anything different
about this team? Anything posi
tive at all?
Yes, there is.
No more light-heartedness. The
Ducks have discipline. They re
spect themselves, even when they
are down. For the first time in a
long time, Oregon has an attitude.
While this newfound attitude
hasn’t won the Ducks many
matches, it has made them tough.
After a successful preseason, they
took Stanford and California to
five games each. Oregon also beat
Portland, which it failed to do at
home last October when the Pilots
hadn’t won a single game.
Sophomore setter Sydney Chute and the rest of the Oregon volleyball team fell hard to Arizona
lied seven kills and three service aces.
Kevin Calame Emerald
State on Friday. In the loss, Chute tal
The difference between last sea
son and this season eludes the
scorecards, but can be seen on set
ter Sydney Chute’s face as she
gives direction to her teammates
between volleys.
And the origin of this potential
ly program-saving improvement
stands calntly on the sideline dur
ing the matches, clad in a busi
ness suit and clutching a clip
board.
A new head coach can only do
so much with a new team, let
alone a team that spent the last
nine years in the Pacific-10 Con
ference cellar. But Carl Ferreira
has done ail he can under that sit
uation, giving his team a more
sturdy foundation than anything
it had last time around.
It is impossible to ask Ferreira to
transform these Ducks into one of
the best teams of the conference so
soon — it’s another thing entirely
for them to become one of the
hardest-working teams around.
Last season, Nelson said it was
hard to go on without the rewards
of winning.
I see a single positive change:
Somehow, Ferreira has found a
way to do just that.
Scott Pesznecker is the assistant sports ed
itor of the Emerald. He can be reached at
JFIak1@aol.com.
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