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Levens leads ASU in upset
■The Sun Devil guard nets 17
second-half points to lead
another ASU comeback win
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
Amanda Levens didn’t need ex
ternal motivation Monday night.
She figured it out all on her own,
to the tune of 17 second-half points
against a Stanford juggernaut that
was upset by Levens’ Arizona State
team, 70-63 in the inaugural Pacific
10 Conference championship game.
A day after leading the Sun Dev
ils to a come-from-behind win over
Oregon with 16 second-half points,
Levens led the comeback charge
again in the title game.
Her spurt in Sunday’s semifinal
came after Arizona State coach
Charli Turner Thorne berated the
senior guard in a huddle. But on
Monday, the conference title pro
vided enough motivation.
“She didn’t say anything today,” Lev
ens said as she laughed alongside her
coach after the game Monday. “We just
talked about starting strong in the second
half, and we came out and did that. ’ ’
With the Sun Devils down by nine
points early in the second frame, Lev
ens took the ball
and took over the
game. With
17:59 left, Levens
drove on Stan
ford’s Lauren St.
Clair and drew a
foul. She made
both free throws
to cut the Cardi
nal lead to eight.
Minutes later,
Levens drove
and hit a jumper to pull Arizona State
within three points.
“The way they were playing up
on our post players, it was allowing
us to get to the basket pretty easily,”
Levens said.
Levens’ biggest points came with
12:24 left in the game. The senior
was fouled on another drive to the
basket, made the first free throw but
missed the second. An Arizona
State player grabbed the rebound
on the missed free throw and
dished it back to Levens, who hit a
long three pointer to put the Sun
Devils up 46-42. Stanford never led
after that four-point play.
“Levens really stepped up big for
them,” Stanford head coach Tara
VanDerveer said after the game.
Levens was honored along with
teammate Melody Johnson as a
member of the All-Tournament
Team. Levens finished with 22
points and averaged 17 points per
game during the tournament. The
point guard had only seven
turnovers on the weekend and only
one in the championship game.
Arizona State’s monumental up
set Monday night cannot be quanti
fied. Stanford lost only one game
all season, to then-No. 2 Tennessee.
Turner Thome said her team’s vic
tory came from guts and emotion.
“This is the toughest group of kids
I’ve ever been around,” Turner Thome
said. “It’s a credit to Amanda and the
other kids that they were able to make
those pressure shots down the stretch. ”
For Levens, it was all about zon
ing out the pressure and focusing
on pure basketball.
“Personally, I didn’t even pay atten
tion to the score,’ ’ Levens said. ‘ ‘We were
more poised than we’ve ever been. ’ ’
The next step for Levens and the Sun
Devils is the NCAA Tournament. Ari
zona State locked up an automatic bid
by winning the conference tourney.
E-mail sports reporter Peter Hockaday
at peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Oregon sweeps three on road trip
■ Oregon’s men’s tennis
struggles in doubles but
beats three ranked teams
behind strong singles play
By Peter Martini
for the Emerald
On its first weekend road trip,
the No. 73 Oregon men’s tennis
team used strong singles play to
sweep three ranked teams and im
prove its record to 9-2 overall this
season.
The Ducks defeated No. 63
New Mexico, 4-3, on Sunday in
Las Cruces, N.M. But Oregon
was dominated in doubles, los
ing 8-2, 8-3, 8-1.
The Ducks won four out of six
singles matches behind strong play
by junior Oded Teig at No. 2. Teig
beat New Mexico’s Michael Polasek
6-3, 6-1.
Sophomore Chris King, fresh
man Sven Swinnen and sopho
more Greg Dubourdieu gave
Oregon strength at the bottom of
the lineup, winning all three
matches. Junior Jason Menke
and freshman Manuel Kost lost
at No. 3 and No. 1, respectively,
for the Ducks.
On Saturday, Oregon beat No. 75
Texas-Arlington, 5-2, again show
ing its strength in singles. The
Ducks played better in doubles
with Teig and Swinnen winning
their match 8-2. Kost and freshman
Johan Paalberg lost 8-5, and Menke
and sophomore Martin Pawlowski
lost 9-8.
Oregon defeated No. 74 New
Mexico State, 4-3, on Friday to
open the weekend. The Ducks won
four out of five singles but lost the
doubles point, which set the tone
for the weekend. The bottom three
in the order went 9-0 for Oregon in
the three matches.
“We just wrapped up one of the
best road trips in the history of
Oregon tennis,” head coach Chris
Russell said.
Women’s tennis
drops two in Bay Area
The No. 60 Oregon women’s ten
nis team struggled during the
weekend in two 7-0 losses at the
Bay Area schools.
On Saturday, the Ducks lost to
California, winning only one set in
singles. Sophomore Courtney Na
gle won the first set in her 6-7, 6-4,
6-2 loss to Nicole Havlicek of the
Golden Bears.
In doubles, Oregon lost 8-5,9-7,8-5.
“We just didn’t play well down
there,” head coach Jack Griffin
said. “I’m not sure what hap
pened.”
The Ducks lost to No. 3 Stanford
on Friday. Against the Cardinal,
Oregon only won one set in singles
and two games in singles.
“We played against two really
good teams, but we could’ve put
up a better showing,” Griffin said.
Peter Martini is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
Sports briefs
Women’s track dominates
in first outdoor meet
The Oregon women’s track and
field squad faced a daunting task
this weekend but came through
with strong marks in the final in
door competition of the season.
Senior Niki Reed won the pole
vault competition with a mark of
13-5 feet and 1/4 inches at the Ne
braska Last Chance Qualifier in
Lincoln. Reed, a two-time All
American, won by almost six inch
es over Oklahoma’s Leslie Dunlap.
Sophomore Kirsten Riley placed
seventh in the meet at a mark of 11
8, the only other Duck to partici
pate in Nebraska.
In another competition, the
Ducks got their first taste of the out
door season at the Linfield Ice
Breaker in McMinnville. Sopho
more Sarah Malone earned her
second-best javelin throw ever at
170-9 and won the competition by
more than 11 feet ahead of fellow
Duck, Elisa Crumley. Crumley, a
freshman from Hillsboro, placed
second at 159-4, outdistancing the
NCAA provisional mark of 150-11.
Junior Charyl Weingarten placed
third at 146-4.
In the 100 meters, junior Janette
Davis took first at 12.17 seconds,
while freshman Michelle Donovan
placed first in the 400 at 60.18.
Junior Alicia Snyder-Carlson, as
an unattached entrant, took the 800
at 2:19.50, with freshman Laura
Harmon taking the 1,500 with a
time of 4:48.90.
The list doesn’t end there, as
junior Lucretia Larkin won first in
the 100 hurdles (15.27), and
transfer Mary Murphy claimed
the high jump (5-6). Freshman
Clarice Hayward-Lee won the
triple jump, and junior Mary Etter
earned a Pacific-10 Conference
invite with a 44-7 mark in the
shot put and 160-0 in discus.
Finishing up, junior Jordan
Sauvage was first in the hammer
at 166-2.
— Hank Hager
Men’s track ends
indoor season on high note
The Oregon men’s track and field
squad ended its indoor regular sea
son with its strongest effort of 2002,
with a host of NCAA qualifying ef
forts in the Washington Qualifier in
the Dempsey Indoor Center.
Junior sprinter Sarnie Parker low
ered his season best and his ranking
in the 60-meter dash on the NCAA
provisional list by .04 seconds with
his win in the final (6.66 seconds)
— a mark which might earn him an
entry in next weekend’s NCAA In
door Championships in Fayet
teville, Ark.
A trio of distance runners also
scored their first provisional marks
of the season. Freshman Noel Paul
son scored a one-second personal
best in the mile (fifth, 4:04.31). In
the 5,000, junior Jason Hartmann
claimed third (14:07.12), just ahead
of redshirt sophomore John Lucas,
who posted a 30-second personal
best and his first NCAA provision
al mark of his career (fifth,
14:16.40). Both eclipsed the
14:18.15 minimum qualifying stan
dard, but their marks, like Paul
son’s, are outside of the top 20 na
tionally with usually 16-18 athletes
invited per event to the NCAA
Championships.
Also among the distance ranks,
redshirt senior Ross Krempley
made his season debut (800, fifth,
1:53.35) as did redshirt freshman
Daniel Seddiqui, (seventh, 1:58.85).
Among other strong marks,
junior Micah Harris finished first
in the 60-meter hurdles, just
missing his season best by 0.03
seconds (8.06).
—from staff and wire reports