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Softball’s skid continues
■The losing ways persist
for the Ducks in three games
down in the desert
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon softball team
dropped three games in Arizona
this weekend, extending its losing
streak to nine.
The Ducks (25-33 overall, 1-13
Pacific-10 Conference) scored their
only run of the
weekend in a 6-1
loss to No. 1 Ari
zona Sunday.
Sophomore Janell
Bergstrom was 2
for-3 with an RBI
against Arizona’s
Becky Lemke (16-2), who allowed
just five hits to pick up the win.
Bergstrom’s single in the fourth
slipped through the legs of Arizona
outfielder Lauren Bauer to score sen
ior Triawn Custer from first base, ac
counting for the only run the Ducks
had all weekend.
Junior pitcher Connie McMurren
took the loss for Oregon.
“This is a very tough team and I
thought we battled very well,” Ore
gon head coach Rick Gamez said.
“We limited our errors this weekend
and were able to hit the ball, but Ari
zona is an extremely tough team. ”
Arizona (51-4, 13-2) has won 41
consecutive games at home.
The Ducks benefited from the
eight-run mercy rule in an 8-0 loss
Saturday in Tucson.
“Again, we were able to get hits
and put runners on base,” Gamez
said. “But we needed to continue to
get hits with runners in scoring po
sition and we didn’t do that. ”
Oregon loaded the bases against
Jennie Finch in the sixth inning af
ter an Alyssa Laux single, a walk to
catcher Missy Coe and a single by
Custer. But Finch, who is now 23-0
this season, struck out Bergstrom to
end the inning.
The Wildcats put runs on the
board early, with three runs in the
first and four in the second. Andrea
Vidlund (9-8) tallied the loss for the
Ducks.
Friday’s game against Arizona
State was not much better. The
Ducks picked up their only Pac-10
win of the season against the Sun
Devils earlier in the year in Eugene,
but were unable to produce any
runs Friday in a 6-0 loss.
Sophomore Lisa Wangler (5-9)
took the loss by giving up seven hits
and three rims in 2 2/3 innings.
“We had been playing pretty well
heading into this game,” Gamez
said. “I had hoped we would con
tinue to get timely hits and score
runs early, but Arizona State played
a strong defensive game tonight.”
Ducks routed at Pac-10s
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■The Oregon tennis teams
finish the season with few
wins at the Pac-10 tourney
By Robbie McCallum
Oregon Daily Emerald
After a dud of a season, the Ore
gon tennis teams hoped to finish
things with a bang. It was fitting that
it ended with a fizzle.
Wins were few and far between
for the Ducks at the Pacific-10 Con
ference Championships in Ojai,
Calif. Both the men’s and women’s
teams, the only non-ranked teams
in the conference, finished last in
the Thatcher Cup Standings, a scor
ing system that ranks Pac-10 teams
at the Championships.
Most of the men’s success came
in doubles play, where the Ducks’
No. 1 team of sophomore Oded Teig
and Martin Pawlowski upset Ari
zona State’s Nic Dubey and Matt
Klinger, 8-5. Their success was
short lived, however, as they were
eliminated in the quarterfinals by
No. 19-ranked Alex Kim and K.J.
Hippensteel of Stanford, 8-5.
“They played a couple of good
matches with a win over ASU’s No. 1
team and they were very competitiv e
with Stanford’s No. 1 team, so I was
veiy pleased with their effort,” men’s
head coach Chris Russell said.
Oregon’s No. 2 team of senior
David Becker and freshman Buck
Mink played Arizona State’s Pirn
Van Mele and Olivier Charroin
tough, but fell 8-6.
In the invitational doubles tour
nament, the freshmen combo of
Alexander Druzenko and Greg
Dubourdieu disposed of UCLA’s
Derrick Nguyen and Chris Sands, 8
5. But again, the Ducks were unable
to capitalize, as they were eliminat
ed by Stanford’s Scott Lipsky and
David Martin, 8-1.
The men’s lone singles win over
the weekend also came from Teig.
The Holon, Israel, native defeated
Van Mele in straight sets, 6-1,6-2.
The women were led by fresh
man sensation Courtney Nagle, who
earned the Ducks only singles win
of the weekend. The Ducks’ leader
in total victories defeated Arizona
State’s Jennifer Baker, 6-2, 7-6. The
freshman finished the season with
an 18-7 record, tied for second on
the all-time single season victories
list and broke the school freshman
record, previously held by team
mate Monika Geiczys.
With NCAA Tournament bids all
but eliminated, the Ducks’ seasons
are over. The men finished the 2000
01 year with an 8-13 overall record
while the women were 5-17. Both
were last in the conference standings.