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
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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
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sion and the Detroit Shock are
some of the worst of the bunch.
Aren’t these all adjectives? If the
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ing to get worse too (Memphis
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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
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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.
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