Men’s tennis team
honors new court
■ Men's tennis is happy in its
new home while the women
have mixed results at Rolex
Regionals
By Robbie McCallum
Oregon Daily Emerald
Home sweet home.
That’s where the Oregon men’s
tennis team is right now—home in
doors, out of the cold, rain and wind.
The Ducks’ first competition in
the new Student Tennis Center was
a successful one.
“It feels good to be able to play on
your home court,” men’s tennis
coach Chris Russell said. “Having [a
home court] has affected the quality
of our practices and our matches. ”
The Duck Classic was a three-day,
round-robin tournament involving
Pacific-10 Conference rivals Wash
ington and Portland. .
Sophomore Oded Teig had the
best outing for the Ducks, as he won
three of four singles matches and
went 2-1 in doubles matches with
freshman Buck Mink. Teig upset the
No. 84-ranked Jeremy Berman from
Washington, 6-2, 6-3. Teig was un
successful in his second upset bid
against the Huskies’ No. 50-ranked
MattHanlin.
“Oded played good for most of
the weekend, going three-for-four,”
Russell said. “He’s seeing what he
needs to do to get to the next level
of play.”
A doubles tandem of David Beck
er and Jason Menke provided ex
citement during the weekend. Beck
er and Menke upset Washington’s
top doubles team of Hanlin and
Berman, 8-5, Friday and earned an
8-5 come-from-behind victory
against Portland’s Jeff Nunnenkamp
and Quinn Brochard Sunday.
“Hopefully, we can take stuff
from this weekend and make ad
justments,” Russell said. “This was
a really good barometer to where we
need to be. And it gives us a good
measurement for what we need to
work on.”
The Oregon women will have to
wait until next year for their home
opener. Instead, the Ducks traveled
to Palo Alto, Calif., for the ITA Rolex
Regional Tournament.
After a strong start Thursday,
weather and injuries put a damper
on the Ducks’ spirits.
Sophomore Jeanette Mattsson de
feated Portland’s Samantha Kluger
6-2, 6-1 to advance to the round of
32, as did sophomore Monika Ge
iczys with a first round bye. Ore
gon’s four other entrants lost in the
first round of play.
Mattsson then swept Washing
ton’s Amy Allen, 6-0, 6-0. Geiczys,
the No. 14 seed, defeated Pacific’s
Melinda Kocsis, 6-4,6-3.
Freshman Courtney Nagle and
junior Vickie Gunnarson rebounded
with 8-1 wins in consolation play.
Rain postponed Friday’s second
round action and forced the cancel
lation of the consolation and dou
bles play for the tournament.
Geiczys beat Fresno State’s Si
mone Jardin 1-6,6-3,6-0 to advance
to the quarterfinals but was forced
to withdraw from the tournament
with an aggravated wrist.
The doubles team of Geiczys and
Nagle had advanced to the quarter
final round, but they were forced to
withdraw because of the injury.
“Monika has a strained muscle in
her wrist, and it just got too painful
to continue placing,” women’s head
coach Jack Griffin said.
Geiczys and the Oregon team will
have two months to recover. Their
next competition is Jan. 12 in the
Pac-10 Indoor Championships.
Smith
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watched the Beavers trounce Ari
zona on the road Saturday night,
33-9, knows that next week’s game
will be just that—hard.
But in a way, you knew it all
would come down to this. It would
have been too simple to just beat
California and have Oregon State
lose. It wouldn’t have had the nec
essary drama for the 2000 Ducks if
they were to take the field in Cor
vallis knowing that they were al
ready going to the Rose Bowl.
It would have made it much too
easy on the fans, who have grown
accustomed to holding their
breaths, clutching their hearts and
squinting their eyes as their Ducks
come from behind to win—as was
the case again against Cal.
And you know what else? It
wouldn’t have made next Satur
day’s game as much fun. Yeah,
that’s right. I said that this Civil
War will be fun.
Two teams from the state of Ore
gon battling it out with the rights to
the Rose Bowl on the line? Amaz
ing. The national media will be eat
ing this game up. The storylines are
just too good.
There’s Oregon State head coach
Dennis Erickson’s unbelievable
turnaround of a football program in
only his second year on the job.
There’s the pathetic history of
this game, including a forgettable
0-0 tie in 1983 that has been
dubbed the “Toilet Bowl.”
And there’s the national rank
ings of both schools, with Oregon
being No. 5 and Oregon State sit
ting at No. 8. (When Oregon athlet
it-director Bill Moos heard of the
recent rankings of both schools
Sunday afternoon, he let out two
words: “That’s amazing.”)
But it’s clear that some people still
need to do their research on the
teams. During halftime of Oregon
State’s game against Arizona, Fox
Sports Net analyst Kellen Winslow
—a former San Diego Charger
whom I have great respect for—ana
lyzed the Civil War game with his
hosts. While he got all of the players’
names right, he mistakenly referred
to Oregon State being located in
Beaverton, instead ofCorvallis.
Which is just another reason why
this Civil War is so important. Re
gardless of the outcome, for one Sat
urday afternoon, the nation’s eyes
will be focused on two teams from a
state commonly forgotten about.
“It’s obviously great for the North
west,” Moos said. “My hat’s off to
Oregon State. And for Oregon, you
always want to settle it on the field. I
could sense in the locker room after
wards that our team was saving the
celebration for next week.”
As is Civil War week tradition,
Moos will embark on a six-city tour
that takes him through Bend, Kla
math Falls, Medford, Roseburg,
Salem and Portland. He will be
joined by radio announcer Jerry
Allen, who will help him hype Sat
urday’s game to legions of Duck fans
who seem to dread a make-or-break
game taking place in Corvallis.
And just think, this could have
been a column about Oregon secur
ing its fifth Rose Bowl berth in
school history, and its first in seven
years.
But as you and I both know, it
couldn’t have been that easy.
Jeff Smith is the sports editor of the Emer
ald. He can be reached at
Smittstde@aol.com.
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