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Sophomore Sydney Chute serves up one of her 19 assists to senior Halie Mazza, who tallied 10 kills in the Ducks’ loss to UCLA Saturday.
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Ducks struggling
to keep spirits up
■Oregon is still ‘passionately
competing’ after dropping
consecutive matches to No. 4
USC and No. 8 UCLA
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
The momentum has changed.
The confidence is fading.
But not completely.
After being swept by both No. 4
USC and No. 8 UCLA this weekend
in McArthur Court, the Oregon vol
leyball team (9-12
overall, 1-11 Pacif
ic-10) is still hun
gry for more.
Which is some
thing that the
Ducks aren’t used
to.
“This doesn’t
damper our spirits,’’ head coach
Carl Ferreira said. “We’re still fight
ing for some of our goals. In the
past, this team may have lost their
confidence already, so this is defi
nitely a good sign.”
A few years ago the struggling
Oregon program would most likely
be thinking about the next season, in
hopes of more success. This team,
however, is only getting better.
“It’s almost November, and to be as
passionate as we are right now says a
lot about this team,” Ferreira said.
Junior outside hitter Monique
Tobbagi said by this time last year,
the program had all but called it
quits. This time around, though,
the Ducks’ mentality remains
strong as the season comes down to
the final stretch.
“I honestly feel that we can beat
a top-25 team,” Tobbagi said. “We
just need to work on consistently
executing our game plan and sus
taining a high level of play.”
The consistency that the Ducks
needed this weekend was nowhere
to be found.
On Friday night, Pac-10 leader
Southern California (19-1, 12-1)
rolled into Eugene and quickly
rolled out with a victory.
Oregon did not go down easily,
however.
“Against the number four team
in the country, you have to give
yourself an opportunity to win,”
Ferreira said. “And heading into
this match, I think our emotional
confidence was tremendous.”
But the talent level was obvious
ly heavy on the visitor’s bench.
In a match that lasted just 90
minutes, the Trojans’ Jennifer Pahl
led her team with 12 kills and a
.529 attack percentage en route to a
15-8,15-9,15-4 sweep.
“Good teams have the ability to
wear you down. If they push on
your shoulders long enough, you’re
eventually going to sit down,” Fer
reira said.
In the crucial game two, Oregon
took a 5-2 lead, but USC quickly
came back to tie and take the lead
after four service errors by the
Ducks.
“We were up in game two, but
good teams make it hard for you to
execute,” Ferreira said. “We played
well, but we needed to squeeze out
a little more in order to win.”
Tobbagi and senior blocker Halie
Mazza each had 10 kills, but as a
team, the Ducks were held to a .071
clip.
“You have to pass very crisply to
beat the fourth ranked to in the
country,” Ferreira said. “We need
ed to play at about an eight-plus or
nine tonight, and I think we were at
about a six-plus or seven, which is
still good volleyball, but not good
enough.”
While Saturday’s contest was a
match between the Ducks and
UCLA (16-5, 11-2), it should have
been subtitled “The Kristee Porter
Show.”
While tallying 22 kills (13 in
game one), three blocks and three
aces, the Bruins’ junior hitter made
the Ducks look like falling targets in
her team’s 15-9,15-10,15-7 win.
“She is a pretty special kid,” Fer
reira said. “Sometimes you just
wonder ‘how can she get that?”’
For Oregon, setter Sydney Chute
posted a .526 attack percentage on 10
kills, 19 assists and eight digs. Mazza
committed just one error on 15 total
attacks, while senior Amy Banducci
had six kills and five digs.
“I like the way we’re executing
game plans, but at some point we’re
going to have to make some big
plays,” Ferreira said. “Against these
top teams, you are able to find out
where you’re at. It’s good for us to
measure ourselves against these top
teams. The fact that you have to
play high level matches gives you
the opportunity to have high level
confidence.”
The results were the same, but
the Ducks said they performed
much better this time around than
when they faced the two teams in
Los Angeles.
“We showed what we could do,
and that’s nothing to be ashamed
about,” Banducci said.
In hopes of brighter outcomes,
the Ducks head to Arizona later this
week to take on No. 5 Arizona and
Arizona State.