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Wednesday, October 24,2001
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Jonathan House
Emearld
Amy Reynolds (26)
and Monique
Tobbagi (9) looked
impressive against
Gonzaga Tuesday,
but lost a
heartbreakerto the
Zagsinfive
games.
Another one slips away from Ducks
Oregon volleyball put up a fight against Gonzaga but couldn’t come away with a win against the Bulldogs in Tuesday’s five-set match.
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
And the streak lives on.
Despite a team-high 18 kills by senior
Monique Tobbagi, the Oregon volleyball
team could not pull out a win against Gon
zaga Tuesday in Spokane, Wash.
Gonzaga (7-11 overall, 3-4 West Coast
Conference), on the strength of 21 kills by
Christina Davis, pulled out a five-game
squeaker (30-26, 30-27, 28-30, 29-31, 15
12) against the Ducks (8-12, 0-9 Pacifc-10
Conference), and extended Oregon’s losing
streak to a season-high 11 matches.
But it was one heck of a match.
After outlasting the Zags in game three,
the Ducks headed to game five for the third
time this season, only to see it slip out of
their fingers.
A kill by junior Stephanie Martin kept
the Ducks close at 8-7, but that was the
closest they would get in the final and de
ciding set. Four straight Gonzaga points
widened the gap between the two teams,
but head coach Carl Ferreira’s squad fight
back to get within one at 13-12. Two Zags’
points, however, did the Ducks in and
gave the match to Gonzaga.
“Our three top hitters are continuing to
lead us,” Ferreira said. “Monique has begun
to generate a rhythm, but I think we need to
begin scoring points from other areas as
well.”
Without strong play in games three and
four, the Ducks would have never even
gotten to that position. But the match did
n’t start out so great for the Oregon
women.
Up 10-8 early on in the first game, Ore
gon saw Gonzaga fight back to take a 17-14
lead. A kill by freshman Lauren Westen
dorf gave the Ducks hope, but the Zags
again struck back to end the Oregon run.
Down by one at 26-25, a kill by Tobbagi
put the Ducks right back into the game, but
the Bulldogs scored the last four points of
the game, leading to the Ducks’ demise.
Game two would be no different, as a
sluggish Oregon start led to a quick Gonza
ga lead, only to see Ferreira’s squad come
back to tie it at 10. The Ducks were in driv
ing position at 18-16 when another Gonza
ga run of four points put the Ducks behind,
this time for good. Oregon could get only as
close as 24-23 before losing to the Zags by
three.
With their backs to the wall and staring at
their third sweep in a row, the Ducks fought
back in impressive fashion. After the Ducks
jumped out to a commanding 20-11 lead,
the Bulldogs fought back to win nine of the
next 10 points. But a kill by junior Lindsay
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Underdog Oregon anxious
to move on, get back on field
Injury forces Struyk to miss rest of year
■ Despite training all season
to recover from an injury,
Tara Struyk will have to sit out
her sophomore campaign
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
Due to a leg injury that oc
curred in training camp before
the season, redshirt sophomore
Tara Struyk
will likely
miss the re
mainder of
the season.
A calf
strain and
tendonitis
have limited Struyk’s workouts
to the pool, and head coach Tom
Heinonen knows that as each
week passes, it will be harder
and harder for her to get back
into competitive running shape.
“It is becoming less a smaller
blow for us,” he said. “It’s been
so long since she’s been able to do
any dry-land training, that it’s not
likely that she could step in and
help us anymore.”
It is unlikely that Struyk will
be able to race in the Western Re
gional, which begin Nov. 10.
“It’s pretty devastating,” Struyk
said. “I’m almost used to it,
though.”
In addition to missing this en
tire season, Struyk sat out last
year’s cross country season with
tendonitis.
Back in business
Oregon’s Laura Harmon, a
sophomore who has been among
the top women scorers for the
Ducks this season, is back at full
strength after suffering from a
kidney infection that severely af
fected her performance at the
Pre-NCAA meet on Oct. 13.
Harmon actually made a trip
to the emergency room and was
on antibiotics before competing
in the pre-nationals.
Redshirt sophomore Alicia
Snyder-Carlson, has recovered
from an ankle sprain and re
sumed a full workout Tuesday.
Seeing red
This Saturday, the Oregon har
riers will face their conference ri
vals in the Pacific-10 Champi
onships. The likely favorite, in
both the men’s and women’s
fields, is Stanford. After the foot
ball team’s loss last Saturday,
Stanford isn’t making any friends
on the Oregon campus, and it is
likely that they will anger more
Duck fans this weekend.
The Cardinal are led on the
men’s side by a young group of
runners, including freshman Ryan
Hall and sophomores Grant Robi
son, Ian Dobson and Louis Luchi
ni. The Cardinal are currently
ranked No. 2 in the nation.
The women, who are No. 1, are
led by junior Lauren Fleshman
and are looking for their sixth
consecutive title.
■The Oregon football team gets
backto work after a long weekend
of thinking about its tough loss
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
The betting line lists Oregon as a
three-point underdog this week.
In a season in which
the Ducks have played
with a bulls-eye on
their chests in every
game, they will enter
Pullman, Wash., on
Saturday aiming to
knock off the undefeated Cougars a
week after losing to Stanford.
“If our kids are hungry and anxious
as the underdog, that’s great,” Oregon
head coach Mike Bellotti said. “Even
had we won, there’s the potential that
going up there, we could have been the
underdog. I don’t think (being a target)
was a burden. I think it was something
the kMs were proud of.
“It certainly added pressure.”
As the Ducks walked onto the prac
tice field Tuesday, they appeared loose
and ready to go. Joey Harrington joked
with reporters about the weather.
Some of his teammates got a chuckle
out of hearing a girl yell, “We love you
Joey!” while leaning her head out a
moving car on nearby Centennial Av
enue.
But it was still evident that it had
been a rough couple of days since see
ing their season take a major setback
with the 49-42 loss to the Cardinal.
“We were mad and upset from Sat
urday night to Sunday,” linebacker
Kevin Mitchell said. “It’s kind of a big
shock. But we just decided to move
on.”
“It’s gone,” defensive tackle Chris
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