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SPORTS Monday Best Bet NFL: Tampa Bay at Minnesota ABC, 6 p.m. SPORTS EDITOR: JEFF SMITH Smittside@aol.com Baysa sets record as Ducks top Arizona The Oregon soccer team split its Pac-10 openers against the Arizona schools, thanks to Chalise Baysa’s record breaking three goals on the weekend By Peter Hockaday Oregon Daily Emerald This weekend belonged to Chalise Baysa. Oregon soccer’s new all-time scoring leader put up a goal against Arizona State on Friday and a pair against Ari zona on Sunday, as the Ducks split their first two Pacific-10 Conference matchups. Baysa scored her first goal of the weekend 73 seconds into Friday’s match against Arizona State. That score held up for more than 80 minutes, until Arizona State’s Haley van Blommestein scored her first goal of the year with eight minutes left in the game. Six min utes later, the Sun Devils’ Antionette Marjanovic rocketed a shot past Oregon goalkeeper Sarah Peters to put her team ahead for good. “That game could have gone either way,” Baysa said. “It would have been better if we had swept this weekend, but we’re happy with a split.” On Sunday, it took Baysa only 29 minutes to score as she took advantage of an Arizona mistake to put an Ann Westermarkcross into the back of the net. Mary Cascio also played a roll in foiling a defender as she tipped Wester mark’s cross to Baysa. Baysa scored the game-winning goal with only 16 sec onds left after eluding three Arizona de fenders in the 18-yard box and slipping the ball past Arizona goalkeeper Shan non Monti. The shutout was the Ducks’ first of the year. “We got rewarded for our efforts to day,” Oregon coach Bill Steffen said on Sunday. “We got a little unlucky Friday, Turn to Soccer, page 8 Erin Swanson-Davies Emerald Chalise Baysa (2) throws her arm in the air after scoring her record-setting goal Sunday. Another disappointing weekend for 0-7 Ducks *• & Kevin Calame Emerald Arizona State’s Amanda Burbridge spikes one of her 17 kills over Oregon’s Sydney Chute (21) and Halie Mazza (17). The Sun Devils outkilled the Ducks 49-29 in their 3-0 win. Ducks rebuild on new attitude ^ PEZ SEZ SCOTT PESZNECKER Another three games, another match, another loss. It’s an all-too-familiar story for the Oregon volleyball team, one that I seemed to echo in near ly all of my stories when I covered the team a year ago. With the exception of a single win to ward the end of last season — which, by the way, came against a suddenly short handed Oregon State team — each match, game and moment was the same. The D ucks would start off hot on good nights, but generally cooled down fast. Once the wheels turned off, they never came back on. Oregon lost 16 matches in a row last season, including a stretch of seven straight sweeps. That’s 21 games with out a single win. The losses blurred together after a while. Then-head coach Cathy Nelson would call for a time-out to save the Ducks from getting buried, and she would confer with her assistant coach es away from the bench while the play ers tried to keep hopes alive. Then she would go back to them, talk strategy and the players would walk back on the court to play — and get pounded. The scene after those lost matches changed slightly as the season went on. Everyone, players and coaches, seemed more and more desperate. Repeatedly, Nelson said she didn’t think about the Tu rn to Pez Sez, page 12 ■ No. 7 Arizona and Arizona State leave Mac Court with easy wins over the Oregon volleyball team By Adam Jude Oregon Daily Emerald McArthur Court has seen better days. A combined 1,304 Oregon volleyball fans watched with little excitement on Friday and Saturday as the Ducks were swept by both Arizona State and Ari zona. Oregon is now 0-7 in Pacific-10 Con ference and 7-8 overall. “It’s going to take a lot to discourage me,” head coach Carl Ferreira said. “I don’t mind the things we’re doing.” Yet, in the standings, the Ducks aren’t satisfied either. “Nobody feels good about what’s transpired in conference play,” the first year Oregon coach said. “Am I happy to be 0-7? No, it stinks. But we will win and our players are competitively pissed off that we haven’t.” In the second match of the weekend, No. 7 Arizona (7-0, 14-1) proved its dominance with the 15-6, 15-5, 15-10 win, which was the Wildcats’ 14th con secutive victory. Despite being swept for the fourth consecutive match on Saturday, the Ducks played wdth much more flair than they did the previous night. Junior outside hitter Monique lobba gi’s 12 kills and .421 attack percentage led the Ducks. Sophomore setter Syd ney Chute finished the match with 32 assists, a .417 attack percentage and was the only Oregon starter who did not commit an error. “The level at which we competed [against Arizona] — we cannot go be low that,” Tobbagi said. “We cannot slide any more.” To put it bluntly, Friday’s match against the Sun Devils (12-5, 4-3) was frustrating and altogether embarrassing for an Oregon team that knows it can compete with more intensity. “We missed out on some opportuni ties to win, especially against Arizona State,” Tobbagi said. “We came out flat and didn’t compete to our ability. In this conference, you can’t do that.” For Tobbagi, it was a night to forget. While committing 10 errors and tally ing just five kills, the Ducks’ best attack er was held to a minus .167 hitting per centage. “It has been tough,” said Tobbagi, who had four of the team’s eight sendee errors against the Sun Devils. “They are using me as a target and trying to get me Turn to Volleyball, page 12 ((It was an ugly match. For the first time this year our core chem istry strug gled. All four of the upperclass men had a bad night. And how they go, we go■ Carl Ferriera Oregon head coach
