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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,
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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
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■ 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
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((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