Duck tennis fares well at ITA regionals
The Oregon men’s and women!* tennis
teams come back from California feeling
confident and having gained experience
Ryan Heath
Freelance Sports Reporter
Productive weekends are becoming com
monplace for Oregon tennis.
The Ducks men’s team finished its third
tournament this month while the women
completed their first action of the season as
both competed in the Omni Hotels ITA
Northwest Regional Tournament.
“We made a lot of progress,” men’s head
coach Chris Russell said. “We realized our
strengths and exposed some of our
weaknesses.”
Very few of those weaknesses were ex
posed in the early rounds of the tourney.
Ducks Chris King, Jason Menke, Thomas
"I am very happy with the
way we played.... There
were a lot of bright spots"
Nils Schyllander
head coach
Bieri, and Junaid Hossain all won in straight
sets in the opening round at Moraga.
After receiving first-round byes, No. 7
seeded Manuel Kost took care of Sacramento
State’s Jacob Silva 6-2, 6-2, while No. 9 Oded
Teig defeated Dustin Ilic of Fresno State and
Sven Swinnen, seeded 17th, took St. Marys’
Rafael Lopez in straight sets as well.
The first day of competition also saw
three of the five doubles teams advance to
the second round.
“We played well on certain days,” Russell
said. “And didn’t back it up well the next day.”
On day two, Teig and Kost advanced to
the fourth round in straight sets and all
three doubles teams continued their domi
nance through to the round of 16. Kost fin
ished his day by beating Gal’s Robert Kowal
czyk 7-5, 6-2 while Teig fell to No.
11-ranked David Martin of Stanford.
Monday, Kost was unable to top Washing
ton’s Alex Vlaski, the No. 15-ranked player
in the nation, despite beating him twice last
year. The doubles teams also fell in hard
fought matches.
“At this point in the season, it is about
playing a lot of matches,” Russell said. “Our
toughness on the court needs to improve. It
comes from the heart.”
The Oregon women also gained the expe
rience they were looking for at the ITA.
“I am very happy with the way we
played,” head coach Nils Schyllander said.
“There were a lot of bright spots.”
Two of those bright spots were the play of
Daria Panova and Courtney Nagle. Panova
reached the quarterfinals and Nagle bested
Washington’s number one player, Claire
Carter, in straight sets.
“They were very hungry to compete,”
Schyllander said of his young team’s play in
Palo Alto. “We showed we are playing
smart tennis.”
In doubles, the Panova/Davina Mendiburo
and Nagle/Julie Merle teams were able to ad
vance to the round of 16 before being oust
ed by two teams from California.
This weekend the women head to San
Diego for the USD Tennis Classic and the
men host the Duck Classic in Eugene.
Ryan Heath is a freelance writer for the Emerald.
Pac-10
continued from page 9
After playing WSU, No. 16
Arizona State hosts Califor
nia, then heads to No. 11
USC before finishing the sea
son at Arizona.
USC’s three remaining Pac
10 games are at Stanford on
Nov. 9, at home against ASU
and at UCLA on Nov. 23. The
Trojans also host Notre Dame
on Nov. 30.
Running rampant
The state of Oregon boasts
two of the nation’s best
tailbacks.
Oregon’s Onterrio Smith
(1,015 yards) and Oregon
State’s Steven Jackson (1,004)
are neck-and-neck in the race
for the Pac-10 rushing title.
At 126.9 yards per game,
Smith is eight in the nation,
with Jackson right behind at
125.5 rushing yards per game.
Suggs sacks record
With 4.5 sacks in a 27-16
win over Washington on Satur
day, Arizona State defensive
end Terrell Suggs tied the
NCAA single-season record of
17.5 quarterback sacks.
Suggs, the nation’s sack
leader who has said he
shaves his entire body before
each game, has four Pac-10
games and, presumably, a
bowl game to break the
record set by Syracuse's
Dwight Freeney last year.
“I’ve never really had more
Surfing
continued from page 9
when and where to surf. Most importantly, we
consider wind direction and speed, swell direction
and height and tidal fluctuations. So, depending
on conditions, we might go to beaches anywhere
from Newport to Coos Bay,or beyond.”
Besides not freezing to death, Griffes hopes to es
tablish an Oregon surfing tradition.
“I want to create a surfing community for
University students,” Griffes said. “We know
that there are plenty of students coming to Oregon
who have had experience surfing, or would
like to get started, but who aren't aware that
there are other surfers in the area. So we're organizing
the club with an aim toward bringing surfers together.”
Anyone who has ever stepped on an Oregon
beach knows the scene can be downright miserable.
“Oregon has world-class waves, on par with any
thing that you might find in California or Hawaii;
the waves are just'colder,” Griffes said. “Wet suit
technology has improved plenty over the years, so’
that you can now enjoy high-quality waves in Ore
gon without getting hypothermia in the process.”
Griffes plans on shaking up the surfing communi
ty, or lack thereof, starting with educating surf club
members about ocean conditions.
“One of the things that I plan to do this year, as the
surf club coach, is to hold training on forecasting,”
Griffes said. “I've got a few sources, mostly on the
web, that I use to select times and places for surfing.”
With ample surfers lurking on campus, bringing
the contingency together is the only obstacle.
“We have 15 to 20 people signed up as of now,”
Griffes said. “We just need to get people together, try
to get people to get in touch with each other.”
So for real surfers, weather isn’t an issue. For real
surfers such as Griffes, nothing will stand between
them and the ocean they grew up riding on, not
even hypothermia.
Scott Archer is a freelance writer for the Emerald.
Jeremy Forrest Emerald
Terrell Suggs (48) broke the single-season NCAA sack record on Saturday.
than two (sacks) in a Pac-10
game before,” Suggs told. “The
Pac-10 is a great conference. I
just challenge myself to turn it
up another level because of
what the Pac-10 is and that’s
what I did (Saturday).”
Ironically, Suggs does not
hold the ASU single-season
sack record. A1 Harris set that
mark in 1978 with 19 sacks.
The NCAA did not start keep
ing sacks as an official record
until 2000.
UW sacked, again
Washington’s Cody Pickett
was sacked eight times by the
Sun Devils as the Huskies (4-4,
1-3) lost their third conference
game in four tries.
Pickett finished the game with
210 passing yards, ending his
streak of seven-straight games
with at least 300yards passing.
“I don’t know how many
times (Pickett) got hit,” Husky
offensive lineman Elliot Zajac
told UW’s The Daily. “There
were a lot of times I turned
around and he was already on
the ground.”
Until the fourth quarter in
Tempe, Ariz., Washington’s high
powered offense had only man
aged a field goal, and trailed 21-3.
“Our team has got to suck it
up,” UW head coach Rick
Neuheisel said after the game.
“That’s the bottom line —
there’s no sugar-coating it.”
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