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Tennis makes progress against ranked foes ■ Freshman Davina Mendibru picks up Oregon’s only win in a tough Pac-10 match By Robbie McCallum Oregon Daily Emerald A 6-1 match may not sound close, but the Oregon women’s tennis team’s effort Sun day against No. 5 California was one of its best against a ranked opponent in re cent years. The Ducks were trailing Cal 3-1 when junior Vickie Gunnarson and sophomore Jeanette Mattsson pushed their op ponents into the third set of their matches in singles play. That was after Oregon came with in two points of capturing the dou bles point prior to singles play. “The score sometimes doesn’t in dicate how close the match was,” Oregon head coach Jack Griffin said. “We were extremely competi tive today.” While the Oregon men’s tennis team picked up it’s first win of the season on Saturday in Blooming ton, Minn., the women gave the Golden Bears everything they had. But tennis doesn’t give points for second place. Although Oregon pushed Cal’s top two singles play ers to the third set and top doubles teams into overtime, the Ducks only managed one win. Freshman Davina Mendibru, who joined the team early in Janu ary, routed the Golden Bears’ Lisa Swierniak, 6-2,6-4. “Davina’s adapted really well to our program,” Griffin said. “ She brings in a lot of experience having played tournaments in France.” Mattsson faced a challenge play ing at the No. 1 spot against No. 38 Raquel Kops-Jones. Mattsson dropped the first set 6-1, but battled back in the second and third sets be fore finally falling. “Jeanette has probably shown the most improvement of anyone on the team,” Griffin said. “We’re real ly pleased with what we’ve seen in her.” Gunnarsson pushed Sekita Grant to the brink, but was unable to pull out the win. Fusano won by a score of6-2,4-6,6-0. In doubles play, the team of soph omore Monika Geiczys and fresh man Courtney Nagle came within a point of beating Cal’s No. 17 Nicole Havlicek and Jieun Jacobs, 9-8. Junior Janice Nyland and Mendibru played well against Christina Fusano and Catherine Lynch, but came up short, 9-7. “Cal won’t give you anything,” Griffin said. “But we are starting to push these teams.” Meanwhile, the Duck men de feated North Carolina State 5-2 in the consolation game of the Foster Klima Ice Volleys. “We competed well today,” Ore gon men’s coach Chris Russell said. “We played hard and made some progress from yesterday’s matches. We’re just trying to get a little better each day.” Oregon got off to a good start with superior doubles play against the Wolfpack. The team of sophomore Oded Teig and freshman Greg Dubourdieu led the way with a rout of John Davis and Reinaldo Valor, 8 2. Freshmen Buck Mink and Martin Pawlowski came up with big wins in singles play. Mink defeated North Carolina State’s Michael Car ducci, 6-2, 6-2 while Pawlowksi earned a three-set win over Valor. Veteran David Becker disposed of Ryan Boward 7-6, 6-4 to clinch the win for Oregon. Sophomore Jason Menke iced the win with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Brad Kilgore. Oregon evened its season record after dropping Friday’s first round match against Indiana State. The Ducks return home next weekend for Pacific-10 Conference matches against Stanford and California. Lakers’ struggles continue with home loss to Heat By John Nadel The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant says the Los Angeles Lakers aren’t presently in the proper physical condition to play the kind of de fense they should be playing. In Ron Harper’s opinion, the de fending NBA champions just aren’t very good right now. Eddie Jones had 26 points and eight rebounds against his former team, and Anthony Mason scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half as the Miami Heat beat the Lakers 103-92 on Sunday. Miami entered the game ranked 27th in the NBA in offense, averag ing 87.4 points. The Lakers, sixth in defense en route to their first cham f pionship in 12 years last June, are 25th this season, and took a step backward against the Heat. Bryant believes conditioning is the problem. “Miami is a team that’s in shape, they kept coming at us in waves,” said Bryant, who had 34 points and eight rebounds before fouling out with 1:04 to play and the outcome decided. “We run out of gas, that’s what our problem is. I think it’s a matter of conditioning, I really do. I don’t see any reason we can’t play defense for 48 minutes, we did last year. “I’m sure (Lakers coach) Phil (Jackson) is going to find the right way to get us in condition. ” Shaquille O’Neal had 31 points and eight rebounds for the Lakers, who played without starting for ward Horace Grant, sidelined due to back spasms. Tim Hardaway had 22 points and eight assists and Brian Grant added 14 points for the Heat, who entered the game last in the NBA in rebounding but won the battle of the boards 44-39. “We stink. If this team comes out to score 100 points on us, we’ve got to stink,” Harper said. “They came out early, hit shots, and their guys played harder. They deserved to win the game.” The Lakers got within four points twice, but Grant responded each time with jumpers from just outside the foul line, the second making it 90-84. Mason then scored Miami’s next six points to make it 96-86 with 1:44 to go. “This feels damn good,” said Jones, traded by the Lakers to Char lotte in the Glen Rice deal nearly two years ago and playing his first season for the Heat. “I think we just wanted it a little more. We knew what we had in front of us, we had to play as hard as possible to win to day, and that’s what we did.” Miami coach Pat Riley said his team wanted to prove something to itself in the wake of an 85-74 loss at Portland on Thursday night. “We came committed as a team,” he said. “The Lakers are tough to beat here. It was just a great win for us. We had all four of our great players and the guys we depend upon play well.” Riley was referring to Jones, Ma son, Hardaway and Grant. Mason, who also had seven re bounds and six assists, scored five straight points to give Miami a 68 63 lead midway through the third quarter, and after the Lakers drew within one point, 3-pointers by Hardaway and Jones and a layup by Mason gave the Heat a 76-71 lead entering the fourth period. Jackson pointed to Mason as the key player in the game. “We had a problem (with him),’ the Lakers coach said. “Offensive ly, we went really stale in the sec ond half after shooting very well in the first half. 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