Club Sports ultimate ends in eighth at nationals
■ The Club Sports women’s
ultimate team finishes its season
with an eighth-place finish at the
national tournament
By Jesse Thomas
for the Emerald
The Club Sports women’s ulti
mate team wrapped up its season
Sunday at the national champi
onships. The last competition of
the season for the Oregon women
left them with a top-eight finish in
Spokane after being eliminated in
the quarterfinals.
Oregon began the tournament
with pool play Friday. The Ducks
demolished Yale 15-5, then defeat
ed Bucknell but lost to Carlton.
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The women then defeated Penn
State in the fourth round to face
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology in the quarterfinals.
The Ducks took a 4-1 lead in the
first half but could not maintain it
as MIT charged back for the win in
the second half.
“We were really satisfied,” Ore
gon coordinator Serena Woods
said. “We played well but probably
could have won. But it’s not like we
threw the game away.”
Stanford was the only other team
to represent the Northwest, and the
Cardinal walked away with the
championship trophy. For the
Ducks, they reached both their
goals — making it to nationals and
placing in the top 10.
“We planned our season right,
because we peaked at nationals,”
Woods said.
Oregon can only be optimistic
about next year in light of the im
provements made by each individ
ual throughout the course of the
season. Although they will be los
ing a few players to graduation, the
Ducks have a good group to build
on for next year.
“I’m definitely excited because
we have a solid core group of peo
ple coming back,” sophomore co
captain Chelsea Dangler said.
Jiu-Jitsu gets started
Oregon now has a new club
sport to add to its roster as the
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu club was estab
lished last month.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu is not a tradi
tional-form martial art, but attracts
students from all walks of life, grad
uate student Jayson Chun said.
The sport has become famous
by the Ultimate Fighting Champi
onships.
“It eliminates all punching and
kicking,” Chun said. “It’s like a hy
bridization of wrestling.”
The Oregon team successfully
hosted their first tournament a
few weeks ago in the Student
Recreation Center. The Ducks had
42 people compete in different
weight categories.
“I’m very pleased with the club,”
Chun said. “People were training
hard but had no competition.”
This art of jiu-jitsu was estab
lished by the Gracie family in
Brazil in the 1920s. Matches are
five minutes long, and contestants
win by forcing their opponents to
submit. In other words, the object
is to put one’s opponent in a posi
tion they can not get out of.
The sport emphasizes ground
fighting and is also a form of self
defense. If no one has submitted
after five minutes of competition,
the winner is determined by a
point system.
The team currently practices
from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in
Mat Room No. 2 at the Rec Center.
The Ducks will also compete in re
gional tournaments over the sum
mer and continue practice.
Jesse Thomas is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
Sports brief
Nets pull away from Celtics
in fourth quarter
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Ja
son Kidd is quiet, and this is a
good thing from the perspective of
his coaches and teammates.
New Jersey’s point guard has
been anything but quiet on the
floor, where the All-Star has aver
aged a triple-double in these East
ern Conference finals.
But off the court, the Nets’ heart
and soul has chosen to say little to
his teammates in the form of lead
ership and is instead doing a slow
burn that has translated to a steady
sizzle once the game starts.
“When Jason’s real quiet,
there’s something going on inside
him that you just want to leave
alone and let explode when the
game starts,” Nets coach Byron
Scott said. “He’s coming at games
with a vengeance.”
Wednesday night proved no ex
ception.
Riding the intensity of Kidd, the
big game of Kenyon Martin and
the sweet shooting of Kerry Kittles,
the Nets defeated Boston 103-92
before a sellout crowd of 19,850 at
Continental Airlines Arena. With
the win, New Jersey took a 3-2 lead
in the series and moved one victo
ry away from the franchise’s first
appearance in the NBA Finals.
Game 6 is Friday night in
Boston.
Kidd finished with 18 points, 12
rebounds and seven assists. Kittles
had 21 points while Martin and
Keith Van Horn each had 19.
Boston must win two games
with the daunting knowledge
that New Jersey has controlled
this series. The Nets have led for
all but 84 seconds of the last
three games combined, including
all but 25 Wednesday night.
Mindful of the slow starts that
forced his team to claw back from
large deficits the last two games
— once successfully, once not —
Celtics coach Jim O’Brien
implored his.team to begin better.
It didn’t happen.
Pierce, who entered Game 5
averaging 26 points in the
series, led the Celtics with 24
points Wednesday.
— By K.C. Johnson
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