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. They scored on every
possession at one point in the criti
cal part of the game.”
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