Ducks extend losing streak
with Bay Area heartbreaks
Oregon plays tough against
California, but can’t pull off a
victory in a five-game match
Volleyball
Hank Hager
Sports Reporter
California has proved to be a
thorn in the side of the Oregon vol
leyball team this season.
The Golden Bears — who nar
rowly defeated the Ducks in five
games earlier this year — were up
to their old tricks. This time, under
an even more dire situation Satur
day night at Haas Pavilion, Califor
nia showed why it is the most im
proved team in the Pacific-10
Conference this season.
Oregon, despite a 2-0 set lead,
lost in five games (28-30,24-30,30
23, 30-26,15-10) to California, and
extended its Pac-10 losing streak to
32 one night after losing to No. 6
Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif.
Senior Lindsay Closs led the
Ducks (10-15 overall, 0-11 Pac-10)
with 22 kills while freshman Dariam
Acevedo had 20. Freshman Kelly
Russell also pitched in with 15 kills
as the Ducks hit for a .239 percent
age — Oregon’s highest this season
in a Pac-10 match.
Despite jumping out to a com
manding early lead, the Ducks al
lowed California (15-6, 5-6) to jump
back into the contest.
The Golden Bears, who were
without star offensive sophomore
Mia Jerkov because of an ankle in
jury she suffered against Oregon
State on Friday night, received 22
kills each by senior Leah Young and
freshman Jenna Brown.
“The bottom line is that we put
ourselves in a position to win and
didn't put them away,” Oregon head
coach Carl Ferreira said. “We kind
of got away from our system and
what we were doing in the first two
games and that allowed them to
start gaining confidence.”
Overall, the Ducks out-killed Cal
ifornia, 80-75, and had seven serv
ice aces to the Golden Bears’ three.
In the long run, it was Oregon’s of
fense — which hit for a .348 per
centage in game 1 and .375 in game
2 — that could not continue its
dominance. The Ducks hit .188 in
game 4 and negative .034 in the fi
nal stanza, helping propel California
to the victory.
Junior Lindsay Murphy also had
15 digs to lead the Ducks in the loss.
Against the Cardinal (19-3, 9-2),
Acevedo had 10 kills and Russell
had eight, but the Ducks were swept
(30-21, 31-29, 30-21) Friday at
Maples Pavilion.
Closs also had eight kills, but
Stanford was too much to handle, as
sophomore Ogonna Nnamani led
the Cardinal with 17 kills.
Oregon had a 29-28 lead late in
game 2, but couldn’t pull off the vic
tory after a Stanford block on a
Ducks’ service error. Stanford junior
Sara McGee gave the Cardinal the
victory after two straight kills.
“They were really focusing on
Dariam on the outside and Lind
say Closs and Kelly Russell did a
really good job for us in the mid
"The bottom line is
that we put ourselves
in a position to win and
didn't put them away."
Carl Ferreira
Oregon head coach
die,” Ferreira said. “We handled
and served the ball very well and
were in this match, which is some
thing I don’t think we did last time
we played them.”
The Cardinal out-killed Oregon,
49-40, but the Ducks held the ad
vantage in digs, 47-44. Both teams
had four service aces on the night,
with the Ducks led by Closs’ two.
Oregon will visit Oregon State on
Friday in the second installment of
this season’s Civil War.
Contact the sports reporter
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
Soccer
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initial momentum they needed,
sophomore Arlene Tuttle would take
care of the rest by scoring her first
two career goals. Tuttle’s first score
came on a header in the 73rd
minute from eight yards out, and
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<"1^j-^Pr)ff an assist from Denner to
^giveOregon the 3-2 victory.
“Arlene gives us a strong physical
player out front who hustles after
everything, and she showed it on
"Arlene gives us a
strong physical player
out front who hustles
after everything, and
she showed it on both
of her goals"
Bill Steffen
Oregon head coach
both of her goals,” Steffen said.
“I was surprised to get two — I
would have been happy with one,”
Tuttle said. “Friday’s game we came
out from the beginning fired up but
(Sunday) we were kind of lack
adaisical, acting like we had all the
time in the world to score.”
The Ducks didn’t have all the
time in the world Sunday as Oregon
found itself scrambling for one last
goal in the final minutes.
Oregon (2-11-2, 1-4-1 Pac-10)
came away with a split with the
desert schools as they head into their
final two weeks of conference play.
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