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UO women’s golf to ‘test’ waters in talented field ■After three weeks off, the Ducks hit the links against a potent field in Arizona By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald It may only be the first week of the term, but for the Oregon women’s golf team the tests are al ready here. With the Pacific-10 Conference Championships looming in less than three weeks, the Ducks un derstand the importance of this weekend’s stacked Ping/ASU Invi tational in Tempe, Ariz. “It’s another test; another midterm for us,” Oregon head coach Shannon Rouillard said. Oregon has not competed since March 13 and must shake off any rust it has in a hurry, as it will face a 15-team field that boasts 12 teams ranked in the top 50 of the latest Mastercard Collegiate Golf poll. Among the ranked Pac-10 teams in Tempe will be No. 2 Ari zona, No. 4 Southern California and No. 5 Stanford. “It is one of the toughest fields we will play in this year, but we need to be playing in tournaments where we are forced to play well against these teams,” Rouillard said. Beginning today, the tournament will last through Sunday and will be played on the same 6,090-yard Karsten Golf Course that the Pac 10 Championships will use on April 23-25. The probable starters for the Ducks include senior leaders Jeri lyn White, Dawn Berry and Claire Hunter. The rest of the Oregon contingent will consist of junior Kathy Cho, sophomore Megan Heckeroth and redshirt freshman Lacy Erickson. White, an All-America candi date, was ranked as the 55th indi vidual in the nation by Mastercard Collegiate Golf. The senior from Salem posted her fourth consecu tive top-20 finish in Oregon’s tied for-llth showing at the UCLA Bru in Classic on March 12-13. White is the Ducks’ lone re turnee from Oregon’s NCAA Tour nament team a season ago, a desti nation that Rouillard says is still a possibility for this year’s team. “We need to keep focusing on doing the things that we need to do as a team that will get us to na tionals,” Rouillard said. Originally, this weekend’s competition in Tempe, Ariz., was going to be Oregon’s final preparation be fore the Pac 10s. But in an attempt to gain more experi ence for the team, Oregon is now scheduled to compete in the Peg Barnhard California Colle giate on April 13-14. The added tournament will take place on the Stanford Golf Course. The Ducks know that there is no time to waste in their quest for consistency, as following the Pac 10s come the NCAA Regionals on May 10-12 and possibly a date in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., at the NCAA Championships on May 23 26. “We took a couple of days off for spring break, and I think the girls have come back rejuvenated for the last two months of the sea son and ready to work really hard on their short game, because that is what got us to nationals last year,” Rouillard said. “It will probably boil down to that again.” ROUILLARD Ducks hope Arizona heat treats them as well as it did last year ■The men’s tennis team hits the home stretch of its season in familiar position By Robbie McCallum Oregon Daily Emerald It was around this time of the year last season when the Oregon men’s tennis team made its historic stretch run into the NCAA Tourna ment. It was two up set wins against the Arizona schools that vaulted the Ducks into the national spot light and put them into serious postseason contention. The Ducks look to duplicate such success when they head to Tempe, Ariz., today for a 1:30 p.m. match with No. 30-ranked Arizona State. They then play No. 48 Ariz.ona in Tucson on Sat urday, the first of five straight Pacific-10 Conference road matches. The 2001 Ducks are in a state similar to last year’s, with a record just below the .500 mark and only two wins over top-100 ranked teams. Oregon needs victories this weekend at Arizona and Arizona State if it wishes to be consid ered for the NCAA Tournament and to gain momentum for tougher Pac-10 Conference matches later in the season. The odds won’t be in Oregon’s favor though. The Ducks are com ing off a tough southern road trip in which they dropped all three matches. Oregon will need ace Oded Teig to be at the top of his game if it is to earn an upset. 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