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Struggles continue for tennis ■ Oregon women’s tennis team drops two close matches while men are swept in Los Angeles By Robbie McCallum Oregon Daily Emerald Close matches used to be the keys to success for the Oregon women’s tennis team. In three NCAA qualifying seasons from 1998 to 2000, the Ducks won eight matches decided by one point while losing only four. In this season alone, Oregon has lost six one-point matches, in cluding two this weekend on the road. The Ducks nearly pulled off two major upsets, but fell just short, losing 4-3 against Tulsa and Texas Christian. Two freshmen kept the out matched Ducks in the running against two top-35 teams. Davina Mendiburu and Courtney Nagle went 4-0 on the weekend to add to their team-leading wins total. “We had two very good wins from our freshmen,” Oregon head coach Jack Griffin said. “We had great performances from our freshmen again [on Saturday].” Against No. 34 Tulsa on Friday, Mendiburu and Nagle evened the score for Oregon after the Golden Hurricane captured the ever-im portant doubles point. Mendiburu swept Tulsa’s Jana Sedivec, 6-3, 6 4, while Nagle put Marjolein van Drongen away in overtime, 7-5. Junior Janice Nyland, playing at the No. 1 position for the sixth TENNIS time this season, upset the Hurri canes’ Blanca Posada, 6-2, 6-2 for Oregon’s third point. But Oregon would win no more as Tulsa added three singles wins of their own to go with the dou bles point. On Saturday, the Ducks faced a similar fate 300 miles to the south in Fort Worth, Texas. Junior Adeline Arnaud and sophomore Jeanette Mattsson got Oregon off to a good start with an 8-2 doubles win over Texas Chris tian’s Rosa Perez and Saber Pierce. Mendiburu and Nyland clinched the doubles point with a hard-fought 8-6 win over the Horned Frogs’ Paty Aburto and Leoni Weirich. Oregon then squandered its one point lead, dropping four straight matches to give TCU the win. Only Mendiburu and Nagle man aged wins in singles play. i 4 We're just one player short this year, it seems like. We just need to continue to compete and get better. Jack Griffin head coach women’s tennis “We fought hard but have been coming up short in the 4-3 match es,” Griffin said. “We’re just one player short this year, it seems like. We just need to continue to compete and get better.” The Ducks fell to 4-15 on the year while the Horned Frogs won their 13th straight match. Oregon has only two more matches re maining before the Pacific-10 Championships in Ojai, Calif., on April 26-29. Men routed by LA. schools Sophomore Jason Menke was the only Oregon men’s tennis player to come away from Los An geles with a win this weekend. No. 21 Southern California proved to be too much for the 8 12 Ducks, as the Trojans prevailed 6-1. Menke swept USC’s Garrett Wong, 6-1, 6-2 at the No. 6 singles position. The doubles team of senior David Becker and freshman Buck Mink took the Trojans’ Nick Rainey and Damien Spizzo into overtime but fell, 9-8. Freshman Greg Dubourdieu also played in an overtime match, but lost to Parker Collins, 7-6,4-6, 1-0(3). “Greg has done a good job re cently and has been competitive in every match,” Oregon men’s coach Chris Russell said. “It’s also great to see Jason get a straight set win at No. 6.” Against top-ranked UCLA on Saturday, the Ducks couldn’t come as close. The Bruins swept every match en route to a 7-0 win. “We got a slow start in dou bles,” Russell said. “And in sin gles, we played well in the first sets, but kind of fell off after that.” Becker and Mink lost a close 8 6 match to the No. 24 doubles team of Travis Rettenmair and Marcin Matkowski. White goes as low as she can go in victory ■Women’s golf were led by their senior leader, while the men falter in their attempt for two straight wins By Peter Hockaday Oregon Daily Emerald Jerilyn White knew she could do the limbo. She always knew she could go low. White has consistently shot rounds of 74, 72 and even 70 over her career, but has never gone low enough to win a tournament. Arguably the best Oregon golfer ever without an individ ual title to her name, White shot a career low 68 Saturday at the Peg Barnard Cali fornia Collegiate to win medalist honors for the first time. Oh, and she led the Ducks to fifth-place in the 11-team field, their best finish of the season com ing at just the right time with the Pacific-10 Conference champi onships taking place in one week. White’s composite score of 144 over the two-round tournament was good enough to lead her past Stanford’s Stephanie Keever and San Jose State’s Jessica Krantz, who both shot 147’s. . “I couldn’t be more proud of Jeri lyn,” Oregon head coach Shannon Rouillard said. “She wanted to conquer this course and she sure did.” Oregon golfers Megan Heckeroth (155,21st), Kathy Cho (161,32nd), Lacy Erickson (164, 46th) and Dawn Berry (166,52nd) helped the I Ducks as well. Stanford won the Peg Barnard, which was held at the Cardinal’s own Stanford Golf Course. San Jose State, California and Washing ton rounded out the top five teams. The Ducks will travel to the Pac 10 Championships in Tempe, Ariz., April 23-25. Men near-last in Arizona Last week, the Oregon men’s golf team blew out its competition at the Western Intercollegiate, winning by a whopping 17 strokes. But this weekend the Ducks wrote an entirely different story, placing 19th of 22 teams at the Thunderbird Invitational in Tempe. Oregon finished more than 17 strokes — such a magical number just a week ago—behind the 13th placed team. The Ducks were led by Aaron Byers, who shot a respectable 218 over the three-round tournament to end up in 60th place overall. Matt Genovese, John Ellis, Chris Carnahan and Mike Sica also placed for the Ducks. Arizona State won their own tour nament, thanks in large part to Jeff Quinney’s course-record 62 in the fi nal round. Quinney, a Eugene native and U.S. Amateur Champion, com peted in the Masters at Augusta Na tional Golf Course last week. 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