««00
Auto Pros Inc
Locally owned
lube9 oil, filter
DOWNTOWN
1320 Willamette
485-2356
2975 West 11th
344-0007
OPEN Sundays*^,
Chassis Lube • New Oil Filter • Up to 5 Qts
10W-30 Kendall Oil • Clean Front Window
• Vaccuum Front Floor Boards
Kendall
fill MOTOR OIL
^^9 EMU M THE HOTKTIOII
3/4 or 1 -ton &
Extra Cab Trucks
Additional •+
Appointment
necessary
Most light cars
& trucks
□ LID inno
Authentic Chinese Cuisine
RESTAURANT &
LOUNGE
W7 Franklin Blvd.
343-4480
013271
Quickest way to
great career:
AMA
Main Event
You. Your resume. Your resume with recruiters
FREE casino night
with recruiters!
January 30, 2002
After the Career Fair
Gerlinger Lounge „
4:30-7:00
Don’t gamble with your
future!
A FREE career
event offering food,
prizes and gambling^
fAiansraasftwsi
! Tennis teams start off hot
■ In a busy weekend of action, both
the men’s and women’s tennis teams
go undefeated to start the regular season
By Peter Martini
for the Emerald
The Oregon women’s tennis team swept a busy
weekend against Santa Clara, Northern Arizona and
Idaho.
Against Idaho, the Ducks won five out of six singles
matches and all three doubles matches.
Davina Mendiburu and Courtney Nagle trailed their
. doubles match, 5-3, before winning the next five games
to win the match 8-5.
I “We started out really slow,” Nagle said. “But we de
cided to wake up and we cleaned up our errors.”
Oregon’s No. 1 doubles team, Janice Nyland and
Monika Gieczys, won easily, 8-1. Adeline Arnaud and
Ester Bak defeated Idaho’s Pooja Deshmukh/Zeliika
Vidic, 8-5.
The singles matches created some late excitement.
Down 5-4 in the third set, Mendiburu overcame a 40-0
deficit to even it up at 5-5. She then handily won the
next two games to win the set 7-5 over Idaho’s Barbora
Kudlikova.
It s tough to face a triple-match-point and come out
on top. It was a gutsy performance,” assistant coach Nils
_ Schyllander said. “She lost her concentration in the sec
ond set and early in the third and made it harder for her
self. But in the end, she competed like a champion.”
Gieczys lost the only singles match of the weekend
for the Ducks, and it was a tough one to take. She led
5-1 in the third set and had the match-point in the sev
enth game. But Idaho’s Deshmukh battled back to win
the final six games to pull off the 7-5 upset.
Monika became defensive and went away from her
game plan. It’s a tough loss for her,” head coach Jack
Griffin said. “But she’s a junior and she has great sup
port from her teammates, so I think she’ll be able to put
it behind her and play well for us. ”
* Overall, the weekend was very productive for the
Ducks as they won 17 of 18 singles matches, won all
nine doubles matches and increased their record to 4-0.
Oregon has next weekend off, but then faces Loyola
Marymount, San Diego and San Diego State on Feb. 8
10. The Ducks lost to all three schools last season.
“We finally get a chance for some payback against all
three,” Nyland said. “It’s been on my mind for a year.”
Griffin said he is pleased by the way the team im
proved throughout the weekend, but he still wants to
find a solid No. 3 doubles team before the trip down to
California.
“We have three players that can play in the third
doubles team, so we’re still figuring out who plays to
gether the best,” Griffin said. “Winning that first point
before singles is so crucial against the better teams in
the nation.”
Men slam Idaho,
Northern Arizona
The Oregon men’s tennis team breezed through the
weekend over Northern Arizona and Idaho to start the
regular season 2-0.
The Ducks beat Idaho on Sunday 7-0, not losing a set
in singles.
Adam Amato Emerald
Davina Mendiburu and the Oregon women’s tennis team began the
regular season with three wins this season.
Oregon also swept the three doubles matches.
“We’ve been getting better throughout the practices
and we showed it this weekend,” head coach Chris
Russell said. “We also played better in doubles today
against Idaho than we played against Northern Ari
zona.”
Oded Tieg and Sven Swinnen won their doubles
match, 8-4. The doubles teams of Jason Menke and
Manuel Kost and Johan Paalberg and Chris King won
their matches, 8-2 each.
“They are stepping it up right now,” Russell said.
They are not losing their focus against weaker compe
tition and that’s important because (Brigham Young
University) will be very tough next week.”
In the 6-1 victory Friday over Northern Arizona, the
Ducks started slowly in doubles, but still won all three
matches, 8-5,8-4,8-5.
“We did struggle a little bit in our doubles,” Tieg
said. “But it wasn’t really that difficult to win.”
The only singles match Oregon lost during the week
end was Swinnen’s loss to Northern Arizona’s
Jonathon John, 7-6, 2-6, 7-6.
Russell said Swinnen struggled, but it was important
for him to get a match under his belt.
The Ducks’ competition will get much tougher as
they will play BYU and Washington at home next
weekend.
“We showed we’re not set yet in doubles,” Russell
said. “But they came together in the end and it was im
portant to get these matches under our belt because we
have some really tough matches coming up.”
Peter Martini is a freelance reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald.
University Studies Abroad Consortium
Your Gateway to the World
Africa
Australis
>w Zealand
SM
• Many programs offer Intensive Language Courses in
Spanish, French, German, Basque, Thai, Danish, Hebrew,
Czech, Italian and Chinese
• University credit
• Scholarships available
• Semester, yearlong and summer programs available
• Wide range of academic courses in small class sizes
• Enjoy field trips, excursions and optional tours
http:// usac.unr.edu
email: usac@unr.edu
University of Nevada
USAC/323
Reno, NV 89557-0093 • 775/784-6569
Sports brief
Patriots, Rams
to meet in Super Bowl
PITTSBURGH — They weren’t
supposed to win their division.
They weren’t supposed to be one
of the last four teams standing.
And they sure weren’t supposed to
make the Super Bowl.
Now that the New England Pa
triots have done all that, they kind
ly request that you continue to in
sult them.
The Patriots used two quarter
backs and two touchdowns by
their special teams to beat the fa
vored Pittsburgh Steelers, 24-17, in
Sunday’s AFC Championship
game. The Patriots are going to Su
per Bowl XXXVI. An eager nation
expects the St. Louis Rams to beat
them by 14 touchdowns.
Drew Bledsoe subbed for an in
jured Tom Brady and threw for 102
yards and a touchdown. Brady had
taken over for an injured Bledsoe
three months ago. Patriots coach
Bill Belichick said he would wait
until later in the week to name a
Super Bowl starter.
— Michael Rosenberg
Knight Ridder newspapers