- Sports briefs
Woods named Athlete of Week
Oregon sophomore Trevor
Woods on Monday became the sec
ond Duck this season to win the Pa
cific-10 Conference’s men’s field
event Athlete of the Week honor.
The All-American from Coos
Bay was rewarded for his win and
first career 18-foot clearance in
the pole vault (18-0 1/2) in the
Oregon-Washington dual meet
Saturday. Heading into last week
end’s action, only two other
vaulters nationally had met or
bettered the 5.50-meter equiva
lent mark this season.
Woods’ effort moved him to
fourth all-time for the Ducks and
also one of only four ever to clear
the 18-foot barrier. The conference
pole vault leader in 2002 also had
NCAA provisional 17-6 1/2 clear
ances in his two prior outdoor
stops. Indoors in March, he upped
his then-PR to 17-11 3/4 for third in
the NCAA Championships in
March — the same height as the
winner but with more misses.
Last season, Woods took fourth
as a freshman in the 2001 Pac-10
Championships (17-3) and was one
of two freshmen invited to the
NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Other winners Monday from the
remaining three men’s and
women’s categories included
Washington’s Eric Garner (men’s
track — 800 — 1:50.80; 1,500 —
3;43.40), USC’s Nakiya Johnson
(women’s track — 400 — 52.30)
and Arizona’s Brianna Glenn
(women’s field — long jump — 21
5; 100 — 11.36).
In the award’s second edition of
the 2002 outdoor season, Woods
followed the lead of teammate and
redshirt junior John Stiegeler, who
won the honor a week prior. The
fellow Coos Bay native won the
javelin in the Texas Relays on April
6 with a first attempt effort and
NCAA automatic mark of 242-11,
barely four feet short of his season
best and national-leading mark of
247-0. Stiegeler, however, tore a lig
ament in his left knee in the compe
tition and will sit out the remainder
of the season.
The Duck men and women
look forward this week to the Mt.
SAC Relays, scheduled to begin
Thursday in Walnut, Calif. The
Ducks will likely enter decath
letes Billy Pappas and Jason Slye
and heptathlete Jenny Kenyon in
combined event competitions
starting Thursday at nearby
Azusa Pacific University.
—from staff and wire reports
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focus solely on education.
“Greg didn’t feel he was doing
well enough in his major,” Russell
said. “He felt thought that tennis
was getting in the way, and so he
chose to quit the team.”
Oregon has one final opportuni
ty to win a Pac-10 match at the
Washington Huskies on Saturday.
“We felt we should have beaten
USC,” Menke said. “This weekend
was a gauge for us to see what level
we’re playing at right now and it’s
pretty high. If we practice (this)
week with intensity and play like
we did this weekend, then we can
pull of an upset up there.”
UO women
extend win streak to five
The Oregon women’s tennis
team played well in Louisiana and
increased its winning streak to five
matches.
The No. 54 Ducks beat No. 44
Louisiana State and No. 56 Tulane
to improve to 12-9 overall.
Against Tulane, Oregon won four
out of six singles matches to win 4
3. The team lost two out of three
doubles matches to lose the dou
bles point.
Freshman Daria Panova lost 6-1,
6-2 in her fifth match as a Duck. Ju
nior Monika Gieczys lost 4-6, 6-3,
6-3 in the No. 2 spot for the only
other loss of the day.
Senior Janice Nyland, senior Vick
ie Gunnarsson, sophomore Davina
Mendiburu and sophomore Court
ney Nagle all notched victories.
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Oregon’s Sven Swinnen (left), a native of Switzerland, rips a shot past a UCLA opponent
Sunday. Swinnen and doubles partner Oded Teig lost the match 8-5.
“We were really solid at the bot
tom of our singles lineup,” Oregon
head coach Jack Griffin said. “We
were extremely pleased with our
level of play.”
Oregon beat LSU, 5-2, Saturday
to begin the two-game road trip.
The Ducks struggled again in
doubles, losing two of three, but
won five singles matches.
“We came out fired up after losing
the point in doubles,” assistant coach
Nils Schyllander said. “We had a
great match beating a very good LSU
team on their home courts.”
Panova upset No. 65 Bruna Colo
sio at No. 1 singles to lead Oregon.
“This was a great win for Daria,
over a three-time All-American,”
Schyllander said.
The Ducks have two matches left
this season. They will try to win
their first Pac-10 match in two years
at home against Washington and
Washington State this weekend.
Peter Martini is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
Yankees, Pettitte
go down in Boston
By Anthony McCarron
New York Daily News
BOSTON (KRT) — This
would be another Red Sox
heartbreak, wouldn’t it? Even
with Andy Pettitte in the club
house with an elbow injury that
could loom over the rotation,
after another crucial fielding
mistake had socked them in the
gut and another poor hitting
day from several principles, the
Yankees still had a chance to
beat Boston in the ninth inning
Monday.
Against Boston’s erratic clos
er, Ugueth Urbina, whom the
Yankees tried to trade for last
year, they attempted to make up
a one-run deficit, getting run
ners on second and third with
one out.
But Rondell White, who by
his own admission “was terri
ble” Monday, struck out. So did
John Vander Wal, who thought
the full-count pitch he watched
go by was outside. Instead of a
rally-extending walk, Vander
Wal had to walk back to the
dugout, dejected and angry, as
the Red Sox celebrated a 4-3
victory at Fenway.
The Yankees’ Boston bummer
was a Patriots’ Day weekend
that ended with the Yanks’ third
loss in the four-game series
against their rivals — all by one
run. Throughout the series, the
Red Sox won the kind of games
that the Yankees usually do.
Derek Lowe, the Sox closer
most of last year who is now in
the rotation, pitched seven ter
rific innings Monday, allowing
just two hits and one run. He
struck out a career-high nine,
crushing the already-fading
Yankee hopes for a solid road
trip.
The Yankees had won the
first two games of the eight
game trip that ended Monday.
But they’ve lost five of their last
six. “When you start 2-0, you
have higher aspirations than
coming back 3-5,” New York
manager Joe Torre said.
It seemed like the Yankees
might even the series and the
road trip when Derek Jeter
homered in the eighth inning, a
two-run shot that pulled them
to within a run. Jeter had boot
ed a grounder by Tony Clark in
the first inning that loaded the
bases and helped the Red Sox
add a run.
But Jeter’s homer, his second
of the year, gave the Yankees
life. In the ninth, Jorge Posada
singled and Robin Ventura
doubled before White (0-for-4,
4 Ks) and Vander Wal struck
out.
No one in the Yankee club
house believed that the 3-2
pitch to Vander Wal had nipped
the corner. Several Yankees may
have strayed near fine territory
with their appraisals of Larry
Young’s call.
“It was maybe a foot outside,”
Torre said. “It’s too bad. I’m not
an umpire-complainer, but
there’s not much you can do
about it. That one was real bad.”
“Just take a look at the replay,
that’s all I can say,” Vander Wal
said. “It was a big ballgame.
They’re all big ballgames to us.
“In my opinion, it was a ball.
There’s no doubt in my mind.
But I’m not the one calling balls
and strikes.”
Vander Wal was asked if the
ball tailed away from him. “You
could say that,” he replied.
Meanwhile, Torre also
seemed to be sensitive about the
Yanks’ fielding, which cost the
team repeatedly over the week
end. The Yankees entered Mon
day with the most errors and
worst fielding percentage in the
American League.
“You make a couple of errors
in a key spot, everybody thinks
it’s*a terminal disease,” Torre
said.
Losing to the Red Sox certain
ly would be. It’s bad enough that
Sox manager Grady Little
thought that his team got a
charge out of winning this series.
“I think, as it turns out, it’s
going to mean a lot around
here,” Little said. “As close as
they were and to come out on
top makes it mean a lot.”
(c) 2002, New York Daily News.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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