Tennis nets mixed results
■The men’s and women’s
tennis teams end their regular
season, but still have the
league tournament this week
By Robbie McCalium
Oregon Daily Emerald
The word frustration can’t even
begin to describe what the Oregon
women’s tennis team is going
through.
With a 5-16 overall record, the
Ducks are well out of NCAA con
tention, but that statistic is deceiv
ing.
Oregon absorbed its seventh one
point loss of the season at the hands
of No. 46-ranked
San Diego State
Sunday. The
Aztecs jumped
out to a quick 3
0 lead, then out
lasted the Ducks
for the 4-3 win.
If the Ducks
had been able to
turn those seven 4-3 losses into
wins, they would find themselves
12-9 and in good position for a
postseason berth.
San Diego State capitalized on
dominant doubles play, capturing
the crucial doubles point with two
8-4 wins. The Aztecs’ Katja Karren
to and Whitney Wells earned quick
two-set victories in singles play to
push the SDSU lead to 3-0.
That’s when the Ducks mounted
their comeback. Freshman sensa
tion Davina Mendiburu earned a
gritty, 7-5, 6-1 win over Silvia
Tornier. The Menton, France, na
tive was playing at the No. 2 singles
position for the first time this sea
son. Mendiburu is second on the
team in wins with 16.
Fellow freshman Courtney Nagle
also earned a
big win for the
Ducks. The
Danville. Calif.,
native fought
Katy Becker
into the third
set, eventually
winning by a
tiebreaker, 6-3,
5-7,1-0 (0). The
GRIFFIN
win was Na
gle’s sixth
straight, dating back to March 31.
At the No. 6 singles position, jun
ior Adeline Arnaud also won a
third-set tiebreaker over SDSU’s
Julie Chidley, tying the match at 3
3.
That put the pressure on junior
ace Janice Nyland, who split the
first two sets with the Aztecs’ Lind
sey Hedberg, 6-1, 3-6. Hedberg then
put away the match with a decisive
6-1 set to win.
On Saturday, the Ducks earned
their fifth win of the season against
UC-Irvine. Oregon swept doubles
matches and the No. 2 through No.
6 singles matches in straight sets.
‘Tt was a good day [Saturday],”
Oregon women’s coach Jack Griffin
said. “We played solidly. It was
great to get a win.”
The Ducks have one remaining
regular-season match in California,
a Wednesday make-up match with
UCLA, before the Pacific-10 Confer
ence Championships the next day.
Teig shines in UO loss
Sophomore ace Oded Teig
earned the biggest win of his season
in a season-ending loss to No. 16
Washington.
The Holon, Israel, native defeat
ed the Huskies’ No. 42 Matt Hanlin
7-5,4-6,6-3 for Oregon’s lone point.
The win pushes Teig’s season
record to 20-15 after his second win
over a ranked player this season.
Teig upset Arizona State’s No. 69
Nic Dubey April 6.
The Ducks managed no other
wins, however. The Huskies won
five of the six singles matches and
swept doubles play for their 18th
win of the season.
Sophomore Jason Menke took
Washington’s Ari Strasberg into the
third set at the No. 5 singles posi
tion but fell, 6-3, 3-6,6-3.
“We got great performances from
Oded Teig and Jason Menke, but
some of our young guys, our fresh
men, showed our inexperience in
singles,” Oregon head coach Chris
Russell said. “Hopefully over the
next year we will develop in that
area.”
The Ducks finished the season 8
13 and 0-7 in the Pacific-10 Confer
ence.
Both Oregon tennis teams look
ahead to the Pac-10 Champi
onships this week in Ojai, Calif.
UO celebrates season at banquet
■ WNBA draftee Angelina
Wolvert is named MVP of the
women’s basketball team
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
The unknown future of the Ore
gon women’s basketball program
didn’t prevent the team from cele
brating a relatively successful —
at the Eugene Hilton, with little
mention of the ongoing investiga
tion into the program and head
coach Jody Runge’s coaching
methods.
albeit tumul
tuous — 2000
01 season.
BASKITBAU
Before an esti
mated crowd of
500, the team
held its annual
awards banquet
Saturday night
Leading the team with 14.1
points and 5.9 rebounds per game,
senior forward Angelina Wolvert
was named the MVP. The 6-foot-3
Wolvert was drafted Friday by the
Cleveland Rockers of the WNBA in
the third round. As the 20th over
all pick by the Portland Fire, sen
ior center Jenny Mowe was the
first Oregon player ever drafted
into the WNBA. Wolvert and
Mowe were the first two Pacific-10
Conference players drafted.
Sophomore point guard Alissa
Edwards was named Oregon’s
Most Improved Player and Best
Defensive Player. Edwards played
just 34 minutes the entire 1999
2000 season, but emerged as per
haps the most critical player dur
ing the Ducks’ stretch run to the
NCAA Tournament this season.
She was third on the team in as
sists (62) and steals (32).
Senior Camber Ellingson was
honored with the Bev Smith Most
Inspirational award, while fresh
man Cathrine Kraayeveld was the
team’s Most Valuable Newcomer.
The Ducks finished the season
with a 17-12 overall record and 10
8 record in the Pac-10. As a 13th
seed, Oregon lost to Iowa in the
first round of the NCAA Tourna
ment; it was the team’s eighth
straight trip to the Big Dance.
The team was wrought with tur
moil after eight unidentified play
ers met March 4 with Athletic Di
rector Bill Moos, criticizing
Runge’s coaching methods and re
portedly requesting that she be
fired.
Moos hired the services of Bond,
Schoeneck & King, a law firm with
a national reputation for evaluat
ing collegiate sports programs,
which is preparing a report.
No deadline has been set for the
firm’s findings.
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