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New players making impact on tennis teams ■ Rookie members of both the men's and women's teams are improving as the season progresses By Robbie McCallum Oregon Daily Emerald Replacing a franchise player, such as Alina Wygonowska, for the Oregon women’s tennis team can be a difficult thing. The Gyd nia, Poland, na tive was the Ducks’ ace dur ing her four years at Oregon before graduating last spring. Fortunately for the Ducks, two blue-chip recruits have landed in Eugene and are making an imme diate impact. Courtney Nagle and Davina Mendiburu have given the Ducks a big boost this season, which was evident in Sunday’s 6-1 win over visiting Portland. Both freshmen picked up wins to highlight the Oregon efforts. Nagle swept the Pilots’ Lisa Bessman, 6-0 and 6-0, for her sev enth win of the season in addition to an 8-2 doubles win along with sophomore Monika Geiczys. “Courtney had a great day,” head coach Jack Griffin said. “She showed today she has the poten tial to play high level tennis and dominate the court.” Mendiburu picked up her fourth straight win with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Samantha Kluger. The Men ton, France, native also teamed with junior Janice Nyland for an 8 3 doubles win over Courtney Perkins and Erin Smith. Nagle and Mendiburu are a com bined 11-2 in singles play. Junior Valerie Young made a successful debut this season in de feating Portland’s Jana Jusupovic, 6-2, 7-6. Arnaud and Nyland also picked up two-set singles wins. “We covered the basics well and did the right things,” Griffin said. “We didn’t make a lot of mistakes and played to win.” Arnaud and junior Vickie Gun narson capped doubles play with an 8-6 win over Kluger and Smith. The men’s team also has a strong corps of freshmen. Oregon has five first-year players (62 per cent of the Duck roster) who play significant roles in doubles and singles play. The freshmen “are doing OK,” men’s coach Chris Russell said. “They’re progressing, but they’re also experiencing some growing pains.” Unfortunately, Oregon’s fresh men went 0-6 this weekend in two losses against Boise State and Northwestern. “They’ve got to be responding quickly for us to be successful,” Russell said. “Which is a big chal lenge being so new to the team.” Two of the few veteran Ducks who will be helping the freshmen this season are sophomore Oded Teig and senior David Becker, who were Oregon’s only victors this weekend. Teig knocked off Boise State ace Guillaume Bouvier, 7-6, 6-4, while Becker disposed of Jonny Biork man, 6-1, 7-5. In doubles, sophomore Jason Menke and freshman Buck Mink picked up a double win against Bouvier and Rio Kuharski, 8-3. Those proved to be Oregon’s only wins against the No. 33 Bron co’s as the Ducks fell by a score of 5-2. On Sunday, the Ducks were shut out by No. 37 Northwestern, 7-0. “We’re having some close matches but it’s hard to see that with a 7-0 on the scoreboard,” Rus sell said. “But we’re going to have a lot of situations like that if we don’t get disciplined.” Twice, Menke came within a point of defeating Northwestern’s Ryan Edlefsen. The Beaverton na tive fell in three sets, 1-6, 6-5, 6 5. Both Oregon teams hit the road this weekend after a long homes tand. The women face the Arizona schools while the men travel to Idaho. McCallum continued from page 7 es of Mile High Stadium and Wrigley Field. While these loyal fans can fight corporations with letter writing, businesses fight back with money. Things don’t look so good for the underdogs. The ’90s also saw the birth of stupid team names like the Wiz ards, the Titans and the Devil Rays. Major League Soccer and the WNBA are even worse. The Tampa Bay Mutiny, the Miami Fu sion and the Detroit Shock are some of the worst of the bunch. Aren’t these all adjectives? If the XFL is any indication, it’s just go ing to get worse too (Memphis Maniacs, N.Y-N.J. Hitmen). More power to women’s basketball and soccer, but c’mon, these names stink! Global warming may be a prob lem for the rest of us, but not in Phoenix, Dallas and Fort Laud erdale, home of three new profes sional hockey franchises. It may be 110 degrees outside, but it’s nice and cool inside Phoenix’s America West Arena. I’m sure there could be even more kids playing hockey in the streets in Texas than in Minnesota, former home of the Dallas Stars. Maybe one of the three teams will have to move once the weath er gets too hot. Just like how the Houston Oilers and both Los An geles football teams moved north when things got too hot. I don’t think fans in L.A. and Houston were too upset when they saw their former teams in the Su per Bowl last year. Nah, of course not. At least fans in Cleveland have a team to root for after Art Modell and his franchise left for Baltimore. I mean, are the Ravens really that much better than the Cleveland Browns: Part II? So, as we enter the 21st century, be weary when you jump on a bandwagon, buy a jersey with a player’s name on it and/or buy season tickets. Because in professional sports, nothing is certain and money gets the last laugh. Robbie McCallum is a sports reporter for the Emerald. He can be reached at coach_robbie@lycos.com. Recycle. R ed u c e / Reuse. Recycle. Reduce. Reuse. U Call (541) 346 4343 or stop by Room 300 Erb Memorial Union to place your ad today. P.0. Box 3159 Eugene, OR 97403 E-mail: classads@oregon.uoregon.edu On-line edition: www.dailyemerald.com campus coffee break daily grind > knight library hearth cafe > lawrence hall \ cyber cafe > grayson hall atrium cafe > Willamette-hall HorOSCOpC by Linda C. Black TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 6) Ask for the perfect job this year and get it. 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