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Ducks tennis teams get mixed results
■The Oregon women roll
through opponents while the
men lost two matches
By Robbie McCallum
Oregon Daily Emerald
At last, home is starting to feel
like home.
The Oregon tennis teams settled
into the five-month-old Student
Tennis Center with four matches in
three days.
The Duck women swept their
competition, giving up only one
match in two dominating wins. The
men weren’t as fortunate, losing both
of their matches.
“I was
pleased with
our play today
and I couldn’t
imagine rolling
through singles
like we did,”
women’s head
coach Jack Griffin said. “I was hap
py for them and the results show.”
On Saturday, Oregon disposed of
UC-Santa Barbara 7-0, followed by a
6-0 sweep of Boise State on Sunday.
Freshman Davina Mendiburu
won her third straight singles
match with wins over Boise State’s
Jemima Hayward and UC-Santa
Barbara’s Shiho Fukishima.
Mendiburu is 3-1 since joining the
Ducks earlier this month.
Sophomore ace Monika Geiczys
won her team-leading seventh sin
gles victory of the season with wins
over Boise State’s Helen Lawson and
UC-Santa Barbara’s Cindy Amman.
Geiczys is now 7-7 on the year.
Freshman Courtney Nagle made
her dual match singles debut a suc
cessful one by defeating UC-Santa
Barbara’s Annie Lippman, 6-0,6-0.
“We work on fitness and confi
dence out there,” Griffin said. “We
see that we’re the ones getting the
free points now, if we’re willing to
hang in with the competition and
execute more wins.”
Oregon is now 2-2 on the year.
Portland visits the Student Tennis
Center on Sunday at 5 p.m.
Although the men’s team was
dealt two losses by ranked oppo
nents, there were several bright
spots.
In a 6-1 loss to top-ranked Stan
ford on Friday, sophomore Jason
Menke recorded a straight-set upset
over No. 46 Scott Lipsky. The win
was Menke’s first over a ranked op
ponent in an Oregon uniform.
The doubles team of senior
David Becker and freshman Martin
Pawlowski nearly pulled off an up
set over the Cardinal’s Alex Kim
and KJ. Hippensteel but fell two
points short, 8-6.
Pawlowski came back to scare
Hippensteel in singles, but again
came up short in the final set, 6-4,
3-6,6-3.
“It was a good effort,” men’s
coach Chris Russell said. “Playing
at home makes a big difference. If
our guys continue to play this hard,
we are sure to get better results.”
On Saturday, No. 24 California
dealt Oregon a 5-2 setback.
Again, Menke picked up the
Ducks’ lone singles win. The Ore
gon native swept the Golden Bears’
Ben Miles 7-6, 6-2.
“I thought Jason Menke played
very focussed from start to finish and
the rest of the guys need to learn to
focus like that.” Russell said.
Yet doubles play was clearly Ore
gon’s best showing all weekend.
The Ducks captured the doubles
point against Cal for the first time
since the current doubles rules
were instituted.
Becker and Pawlowski contin
ued strong play by upsetting Erik
Dmytruk and Scott Kintz, 9-8.
Sophomore Oded Teig and fresh
man Greg Dubourdieu earned a
narrow 9-8 win over Miles and Hiro
Nakamura to complete the point.
Freshman Buck Mink and
Menke kept their doubles match
close, but ultimately lost to Cal’s
Adrian Barnes and John Paul Frut
tero, 9-7.
Mink battled Dmytruk to three
sets, but lost 2-6, 7-5, 6-1.
“We played hard,” Russell said.
“Across the board, we didn’t play as
tough as we did against Stanford. All
in all, I think we played competitive
ly. We’re a type of team that will have
to earn everything we get.”
Oregon falls to 1-3 overall, 0-2 in
the Pac-10. The Ducks host Boise
State on Saturday and Northwest
ern on Sunday at the Student Ten
nis Center.
Volleyball, rugby teams get weekend wins
■Women’s volleyball finishes
third this weekend, with the
Men’s rugby team surprising
Stanford with a 32-10 win
By Jesse Thomas
for the Emerald
The Oregon Women’s Club Vol
leyball team finished tied for third
in the United States Volleyball As
sociation Tournament through the
weekend in Lake Oswego, missing
I finals play by just a few points.
The Ducks began the tournament
1 by winning their pool, 3-1, which
placed them third entering bracket
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play. In the quarter finals they played
the Kung Pao Chicks and were quick
to move on, winning 2-1, by scores of
25-21,20-25 and 15-11.
Next were the semi-finals against
EFG where the women started
strong, conquering the first game
25-18. But Oregon came to the end
of the road
by falling in
the next
two, 22-25
and 15-9,
keeping
them from
advancing
to the finals.
“We played some very good vol
leyball and some very bad volley
ball, but overall it went well.”
coach Cody Banner said.
This was the first tournament for
the team this year, and they were
left to play without two of their
starters. It was a smaller tourna
ment, consisting of 11 teams from
all over, including Southern Ore
gon and Pacific.
In the next tournament on Feb.
18 the women will play again in
Lake Oswego against many open
teams.
“We’re definitely looking for
ward to the rest of the season,” Ban
ner said. “This team has a lot of po
tential along with some really good
players.”
Men's Rugby
The Oregon men’s club rugby
team finished off the second of
their back-to-back road games in
the Bay Area, easily defeating Stan
ford 32-10.
The Ducks finished the trip at 1-1
after losing to Sacramento State last
weekend, leaving them at .500 for
the winter season.
The men made their point clear
from the beginning by tackling,
running the ball hard and scoring
within the first five minutes. Stan
ford was only able to score once in
the first half, due to the strong de
fense and team effort.
“We totally dominated the game
with some quality team effort,”
coach Bob Snyder said. “I thought
Stanford would have been more of
a challenge.”
The team was able to compete
with every player being healthy,
and, according to Snyder, had pos
session of the ball 80% of the time.
The Oregon men’s second team
also played Stanford last weekend,
winning 20-17.
“Our guys gained a lot of confi
dence from this game, which was
badly needed,” Snyder said.
The men hope to improve to 2-1
when they play Brigham Young in
Eugene Feb. 10.
Davis departs Miami
for post in Cleveland
■ Butch Davis leaves Miami
after nearly leading the
‘Canes to a national title
By Tom Withers
The Associated Press
BEREA, Ohio — Butch Davis,
who returned the University of Mi
ami to national title contention, re
signed Monday to coach the Cleve
land Browns.
Davis, who led the Hurricanes to a
No. 2 ranking last season, will be in
troduced at news conference Tues
day at the Browns’ training facility,
team president Carmen Policy said.
“The Browns organization is ex
tremely pleased to have Butch
Davis as our next coach,” Policy
said in a statement.
His agent, Marvin Demoff, said af
ter arriving in Cleveland that Davis
had not yet signed a contract with
the Browns but the sides were “in se
rious discussions. It’s pretty close.”
For weeks, Davis has been deny
ing he would leave Miami, where he
had been working on a contract ex
tension with the university. The
Browns also denied that they had a
,
secret meeting with Davis in Florida.
Davis told the Hurricanes’ players
of his decision Monday morning and
was headed to Cleveland. His depar
ture came one week before the end of
the college signing period.
“I’m disappointed,” Miami athlet
ic director Paul Dee said. “I think
coach Davis had a lot to give UM and
I’m pleased at the success we had.”
Dee said offensive coordinator
Larry Coker has been named Mia
mi’s interim head coach.
Davis, 49, was in the fourth year
of a seven-year contract at Miami
and had nearly agreed to a five-year
extension at the university. Davis
met with Dee last weekend and
said the sides only had to work out
a few details on the contract.
Davis has coached the Hurri
canes since 1995. He turned
around Miami’s troubled program
after it was hit with numerous
NCAA violations.
This season, he led the Hurri
canes to an 11-1 record and 37-20
rout of Florida in the Sugar Bowl
on Jan. 2.
Davis will have his work cut out
for him with the Browns, who are
Peter Hockaday’s
Weekly Sports Poll
question and results:
This week’s question:
What was your favorite Super
Bowl commercial?
1) Bud Light “Spray”
2) Budweiser "What are YOU
doing?”
3) E*Trade “monkey on a horse”
4) ETD “running of the squirrels”
5) Doritos “tennis” or
6) Pepsi “Bob Dole”
Last week’s results:
Peter asked readers what they
we re more excited to see —-the
Super Bowl or the new Survivor
series. Well, it was close, but
Survivor won with 53 percent
of the vote.
Find Peter’s poll on the Emerald
Web site at www.dailyemerald.com.
coming off a 3-13 season and have
gone 5-27 in their first two years
back in the league.
The Browns ranked near the bot
tom of the league in most statistical
categories in 1999 and 2000. They
were shut out four times last season
in losing 12 of their last 13 games.
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