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. Last season,
the sophomore clinched the 4-3
Arizona upset with his 4-6, 6-3,
6-4 singles win over the Wildcats’
Michel Stopa. Teig also teamed
with former Duck Thomas
Schneiter for two key doubles
wins last season.
Teig (18-12) will face Arizona
State’s No. 57 Nic Dubey and
Arizona’s Steven Capriati.
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