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Ducks look to next season
■The Oregon club hockey
team will lose most of its
defensive line, but looks to
its rookies to fill the gap
By Inge Scheve
for the Emerald
After a season with a less-than
ideal record and a championship
tournament on home ice that left
Oregon in the dust, the Oregon
club hockey team hopes to find
some positives to carry over to
next season.
“The team has been through a
season where two-thirds of the
team were rookies,” said head
coach Garreth MacDonald, who
finished his second year with the
Ducks. “This season turned out to
be more of a rebuilding season
than what we hoped.
“The feedback I’ve gotten from
teams that have beat us is that we
have an impressive bunch of
young players who have the po
tential to dominate the league in a
few years.”
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Defenseman Jesse Cohen, who
leaves the Ducks this spring,
agreed: “We are a lot better team
than the stats say.”
Although the majority of the de
fensive line is graduating, more
than 60 percent of the team mem
bers are rookies, and a large group
of players plans on returning.
MacDonald will use the off-sea
son to reflect on what this season
was supposed to be and wasn’t, he
said. From there, he will try to find
the elements that were missing.
( i We’re not quite back to
square one. We’ll be on
square two next season.
Garreth MacDonald
head coach,
club hockey
Switching lines and systems all
the time until the last half of the
season certainly did not work, he
said. But with a fresh team, this
was unavoidable in testing where
the chemistry between players and
systems mixed.
“We're not quite back to square
one,” MacDonald said. “We’ll be
on square two next season.”
The off-season is also a time
when the players can work on
their basic fitness and condition
ing.
“We lost the game on Friday be
cause we died after two periods,”
Cohen said.
MacDonald agrees: “We meet
when school starts in September,
and then we’ve got two weeks to
get ready.”
The coach will encourage his
players to work on their skills dur
ing the summer and go to the gym
regularly to get the physical train
ing they need to be ready for ac
tion once school starts again.
Graduating captain Tyler Shaffar
estimates that the Ducks will need
at least two good seasons of re
cruiting to make up for the gradu
ating class.
“It will be rough for them to
make up,” Shaffar said, referring to
the six defensemen who are leav
ing, in addition to himself and the
main goalie, Josh Hardin. Shaffar
thinks some of the biggest shoes to
fill are those of Hardin.
“Joe [Fagliano] will have to get
up to Josh's level real quick to raise
the game to another notch,” Shaf
far said.
Each month, MacDonald re
ceives between six and 10 e-mails
from prospective students with
questions about the hockey pro
gram. These are mainly students
who have seen the Web site, he
said.
Additionally, MacDonald has
been in contact with several ama
teur league coaches. Amateur
coaches know and coach players
who would like to stay in Oregon
and are excited about an opportu
nity to play competitive hockey
while pursuing an education, he
said. No other Oregon university
has a hockey program.
Finally, MacDonald is looking
forward to more assistant coaching
help next season. Defenseman Lar
ry Platzke, who is leaving the team
as a player, has indicated he would
coach defense.
“I’ll have some help on the
bench, which is what I need,”
MacDonald said.
Tennis teams ready
for crucial weekend
■The Oregon tennis teams
continue their respective
home and road stretches
against competitive teams
By Robbie McCallum
Oregon Daily Emerald
As the Oregon tennis teams near
the midway point of their seasons,
the low-caliber matches become
less frequent, and teams begin
their runs to the NCAA tourna
ment.
Both the men and women face
some of the biggest matches of
their seasons this weekend at the
Student Tennis Center and in Los
Angeles.
The No. 68-ranked Duck men
are riding a three-match winning
streak and hope to make it five
against UC-Santa Barbara and Pa
cific-10 Conference foe Washing
ton.
In wins against ranked foes New
Mexico State and Pacific, Oregon
received good output from its top
three singles players in Oded Teig,
Martin Pawlowski and Buck
Mink.
“Oded and Buck really stepped
it up last weekend, and Martin is
really starting to come along in the
No. 2 position,” Oregon men’s
coach Chris Russell said. “We’ll
need continued output from them
this weekend too.”
UC-Santa Barbara visits the Stu
dent Tennis Center tonight at 5
p.m. The Guachos are 2-5 on the
season but have faced a schedule
similar to Oregon’s in toughness.
“UCSB is very competitive and
has had some tough losses,” Rus
sell said. “They’re very young, but
if you let them get close they’ll bat
tle with you.”
Russell is a former coach and
player for the Guachos.
On Sunday, No. 6 Washington
will visit the Student Tennis Cen
ter, becoming only the second top
10 team to enter the Ducks’ new
home. The Huskies are 5-4 on the
season but have wins over No. 3
Duke and No. 8 Florida. Washing
ton lost only two players from a
team that placed third in the con
ference last season.
“Washington is as tough as you
get,” Russell said. “We match up
well with them, but we’ve got our
work cut out for us. If we do the
things we did last weekend, we’ll
be fine.”
The No. 52 Oregon women con
tinue a vicious Pac-10 Conference
road schedule against the Los An
geles schools.
No. 11 Southern California (6-3)
hosts the Ducks today at 1:30 p.m.
The Trojans are led by No. 31 Jew
el Peterson and Anita Loyola.
UCLA, ranked No. 18, has lost
four straight matches since ace
Sarah Walker went down with an
injury. The Ducks and Bruins tan
gle at 11 a.m. Saturday at the L.A.
Tennis Center.
The men’s game is free to the
public. Free pizza will be served
between doubles and singles
matches.