UO men’s tennis prepared for outdoor conditions
■ With a trip to New Mexico
to play NMSU, the Ducks men’s
tennis team will play outside
for the first time this season
By Peter Martini
for the Emerald
The No. 72 Oregon men’s tennis
team is ready to face the elements.
For the first time this season, the
Ducks will play outdoors when
they travel to New Mexico, begin
ning with a match today against
New Mexico State.
“We’ve been working this week
on preparing for the elements,”
head coach Chris Russell said.
“They need to practice battling the
wind, the sun and other things you
don’t get indoors.”
New Mexico State, which leads
the Sun Belt Conference with a 2
0 conference record, is 7-2 overall
this season, including victories
over No. 59 Yale and No. 71
Arkansas.
Oregon will play No. 65 Texas
Arlington on Saturday and No. 73
New Mexico on Sunday. Texas-Ar
lington is 4-4 this season, but win
less against ranked teams. New
Mexico is 5^with wins over No.
69 Boise State and Arkansas.
“All three teams are about at our
level,” Russell said. “We need to
play very well to beat any one of
those teams.”
Wrestling
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“At tournament time, anything
can happen,” he said. “Different
people respond differently to that
sudden-death pressure, and I
think that we have a lot of guys
on our team that will rise to the
occasion.”
The seedings for the tournament
will be decided on Friday after
noon during a meeting of the Pac
10 coaches, but it is likely that at
least six of Oregon’s starting 10
wrestlers will be ranked in the top
four of the tournament brackets in
their respective weight classes.
The Ducks best shot at a confer
ence title comes with senior Eu
gene Harris in the 165-pound
weight class. Harris placed fourth
at last year’s tournament at 157
pounds and compiled a 26-3 over
all record (13-2 Pac-10) this sea
son. He is currently ranked No. 4
in the country, while UC Davis’
Burt Pierson is ranked No. 11.
No. 10 Shaun Williams is one of
three ranked wrestlers in the 125
pound weight class and will prob
ably be seeded second in the tour
nament. Jason Harless
(133-pounds) and Tony Overstake
(157) will also likely be seeded
second in their classes, and 149
pounder Casey Hunt is expected to
receive a No. 3 seed, as is heavy
weight Eric Webb.
Redshirt freshman Shane Web
ster (174) has wrestled very well
for Oregon this year and has a
good shot at advancing in the
tournament.
“Webster just keeps getting bet
ter and has lost close matches to
the (probable) top two seeds in the
tournament,” Kearney said speak
ing of Oregon State’s No. 13
Nathan Coy and Cal Poly’s No. 14
Steve Strange. “I know for sure
that those two guys don’t want to
meet him early in the tournament.
He is the kind of guy who can pull
off upsets.”
If the Oregon wrestlers can com
pete well on an individual basis,
the team may give Arizona State a
run for the conference title.
“We are in a position that if the
individuals can do their jobs, we
can sneak up and be a player in it,”
Kearney said. “There are four or
five teams that are fairly close,
which makes it great for a team
like ourselves who are a little bit of
a dark horse to sneak in there and
maybe win the whole thing.”
The top four finishers in the
conference tournament are invited
to nationals, which will be held
March 21-23.
E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
The Ducks are 6-2 this season,
and are 1-2 against ranked oppo
nents, beating No. 63 Brigham
Young. Oregon’s matches on the
road have been tight, beating Port
land 4-3,- and losing to No. 69
Boise State 4-3.
Sophomore Chris King is unde
feated (5-0) in singles this season at
the fifth and sixth spots in the line
up. Freshman Manuel Kost is 6-2 at
the No. 1 and No. 2 spots.
The next home match^for the
Ducks is on March 8 against Sacra
mento State. After that match, Ore
gon will travel to California to play
UC-Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Pa
cific, Stanford and California.
The Ducks will return home on
April 5 for weekend matches
against Arizona State and Arizona.
“Our schedule is now progres
sively getting tougher,” Russell
said. “And most of them will be
on the road and outdoors. It will
prepare us for what we’ll face dur
ing the (Pacific-10 Conference)
schedule.”
Women travel
to No. 3 Stanford
The Oregon women’s tennis team
will continue its Pac-10 schedule as
it travels to the Bay Area.
TheNo. 59 Ducks play No. 3 Stan
ford today in Palo Alto, Calif. The
Cardinal are 8-1 overall (1-0 Pac-10).
Stanford’s only loss came
against Georgia, which is the top
ranked team in the country. In
Pac-10 play, the Cardinal domi
nated No. 14 California, 7-0 last
Saturday in Berkeley, Calif.
No. 9 Lauren Barnikow leads a
Stanford lineup with eight players
ranked in the top 132.
Oregon will play California on
Sunday. The Golden Bears are 5-1, in
cluding victories over No. 67 Loyola
Marymount and No. 30 Pepperdine.
The Ducks will try to rebound af
ter losses last weekend to Washing
ton and Washington State. Oregon’s
record is 7-5 (0-4 Pac-10).
Peter Martini is a freelance reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald.
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Oregon’s Eric Webb (right) and the wrestling team head to Corvallis for the Pac-10 Tournament. Webb is 17-8 overall (8-4 Pac-10)
this season in the heavyweight class, despite battling a toe injury that has hindered him throughout the season.
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