Ducks 11th after first round in Vegas
The Oregon women’s golf team faces
tough conditions in Sin City
Golf
Jon Roetman
Sports Freelancer
On a day when the weather was an extra
opponent, the Oregon women’s golf team fin
ished the first round of the Las Vegas
Founders Women’s Collegiate Showdown in
11th place.
No golfers made par at the Anthem Coun
try Club in Las Vegas, Nev. Monday, as the
wind pushed 46 of 81 scores over 80 strokes.
Brigham Young sophomore Margaret Gibby
led the field with a 1-over par 73.
“A round in the 70’s was a good score to
day,” Oregon head coach Shannon Rouillard
said. “Rounds were high overall, I think, cer
tainly higher than what you see under nor
mal conditions.”
The Ducks are 22 strokes behind tournament
leader UNLV, which carded a 303, but are only
six strokes out of the top eight. New Mexico is in
second place at 306, followed by Pepperdine at
307, Denver at 310 and BYU at 311. Other tour
nament participants include Colorado, San Jose
State, Califomia-Irvine, San Diego State, Texas
A & M, Hawaii, Colorado State, Eastern Wash
ington and Wyoming.
“The wind and the greens made it a tough
round today, so I feel wonderful about our
position,” UNLV head coach Missy Ringler
said. “We need to stay focused on the greens,
but the most important thing is that we re
main confident because we have the advan
tage on this golf course.”
True freshman Erin Andrews carded the
Ducks’ best score with a 6-over 78, putting her
in a tie for 21st, five strokes off the pace. True
freshman Therese Wenslow was the only other
Duck to finish under 80, shooting a 7-over 79.
Sophomore Johnna Nealy is tied for 48th after
a 10-over 82. Sophomore Jess Garlyon is tied
for 65th, shooting an 86, while senior Annie
Davis, who joined the team last winter, tied for
74th after a round of 89.
“Therese and Johnna have been so solid
for us and I’m so excited that Annie has been
able to come so far in such a short time,”
Rouillard said. “I don’t think she even real
izes what an accomplishment that is.”
UNLV redshirt freshman Tina Mabanta is
in second place individually with a 74, one
stroke behind Gibby. Denver’s Tessa Gillam,
Pepperdine’s Katherine Hull and Lindsey
Wright, New Mexico’s Kristi Larsen and
UNLV’s Sunny Oh and Young Pak share third
place at 75.
“We played the most difficult side in a lot
of wind,” Rouillard said. “Now that we’ve
seen the course, we’re looking to improve
over the next couple of days.”
The Las Vegas tournament will last
through Wednesday, as teams play 18 holes
a day. The Anthem Country Club is a 6,194
yard, par-72 course. This is the Ducks’ final
tournament of the fall.
Jon Roetman is a freelance writer for the Emerald.
Volleyball
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could. We executed tonight. We played
Oregon volleyball. Everything was there.
UCLA just did a lot of the right things in
the end and came out on top.”
Against No. 2 USC, the Ducks were even
more in-tune offensively, but the Trojans
were just too much in a three-game victo
ry (30-20, 30-21,30-23) Friday in front of
715 fans at Mac Court.
“That’s as good a collegiate volleyball
roster that you will see in the next 10
years,” Ferreira said of USC. “It’s awe
some.”
The Trojans (21-1,14-1) had runs of at
least seven points in each of the three
games en route to the victory. However,
the Ducks matched up well with their
Southern California opponents.
Overall, USC out-killed (49-34) and out
dug (44-39) the Ducks.
Closs had 10 kills in the loss.
Nothing but the best
Oregon came away happy with itself af
ter playing well against the Bruins and Tro
jans. The Ducks didn’t win, but against ar
guably their stiffest competition all season,
they played with a cohesive offense that
didn’t cave in.
Ferreira said he was impressed by Ore
gon’s play in the loss, but he won’t be com
pletely happy until the Ducks can pull out
the victory.
USC “averaged 22 points a game, and
we averaged 18 points a game,” Ferreira
said. “So you go, ‘Wait a minute, the sec
ond-ranked team in the country has got
four points a game on you.’ You think
that’s not real significant. But over the
course of every single game you play, it is
very significant.
“I have said this consistently, entirely
throughout the entire Pac-10 season. We
have played at a top-20 level the whole
Pac-10 season. Winning requires you to
stay at the top-20 level the whole time.
And we can play at that level. I think we’ve
proved it week in, week out.”
No rest for the weary
Although the AVCA/USA Today Top 25
Poll has not been released, the Ducks
Adam Amato Emerald
Freshman Dariam Acevedo played well for the Ducks, but Oregon couldn't pull out a victory against
the No. 2 Trojans or the No. 19 Bruins.
know they will visit tough competition this
week in the desert.
Friday, Oregon takes on No. 16 Arizona
in Tucson. The Ducks were swept by the
Wildcats earlier in the season at Mac Court.
Saturday, they travel across the state to
Tempe, where they visit No. 23 Arizona
State.
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Water polo
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However, the team has a spring season to look for
ward to.
“We attend open tournaments throughout the
spring,” Baumann said. “We don’t have any champi
onship goals, and in the spring we play at open tour
naments for fun.”
Baumann said the demanding conditioning and
physical play often go overlooked in water polo.
“Conditioning is a huge factor in playing well,” water
polo team member Anthony Tran said. “We are really
well-rounded athletes, we stay above water for the en
tire time and swim with someone against us, pushing
us down.”
"When a player has the ball\ his arm
is an extension of the ball.... They
can pretty much maul you, to an
extent, they grab and hit"
Matt Baumann
Water polo team coordinator
Think hockey, but with the ice melted and with no
sticks.
“The refs don’t call what’s under water,” Baumann
said. “There is a lot that goes on.”
Kicking, grabbing and swimsuit-pulling are a few of
the tactics used by the players to gain every advantage
that they can.
“When a player has the ball, his arm is an extension
of the ball,” Baumann said. “They can pretty much
maul you, to an extent, and they grab and hit.”
There are limits, of course. There are regular fouls, and
flagrant fouls warrant a 20-second penalty, in essence
providing a power play for the opposition. Three of those
fouls, and you’re done for that game and the next.
Then there’s the conditioning.
“For the first two weeks, we work only on condition
ing,” coach Jeff Lee said. “Warm-up laps, team laps and
leg exercises. After that, we scrimmage”
Those leg exercises consist of emptying out a five-gal
lon jug full of water upside down with your legs while it
drains out — under water, of course. The players also
tread water for 15 minutes, without using hands.
“People forget how tough it can be,” Tran said. “Peo
ple give you crap about wearing a Speedo, but they
don’t know what they are saying. Go swim 100 yards
full speed, let’s see what they have to say after that.”
Scott Archer is a freelance writer for the Emerald.
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Malaefou Mackenzie (21) and the Trojans are three wins away from a possible BCS bowl berth.
Pac-10
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In the race for the Heisman Trophy, Palmer
and Gesser jumped to fourth and fifth, respec
tively, in an unofficial poll of ESPN.com college
football analysts. Oregon’s Onterrio Smith is
no longer listed on the poll’s top-14 candidates.
Huskies still barking
After three straight Pac-10 losses, the
Huskies (5-5, 2-4) finally got back in the win
column Saturday against Oregon State.
Oregon State’s Richard Siegler, like Oregon’s
Keith Lewis, provided the Dawgs with plenty of
motivation after disparaging comments last week.
“We proved you can’t run your mouth in
Husky Stadium and get a win,” Washington re
ceiver Reggie Williams told The Seattle Times.
“It definitely made us a little angry, all the dis
respect that was going on.”
Oregon State quarterback Derek Anderson
threw five interceptions in the 41-29 Husky win.
Meanwhile, junior quarterback Cody Pickett
threw for 262 yards
against OSU to be
come Washington’s all
time passing leader
with 5,917 yards.
“It’s going to get us
on a roll. We’re defi
nitely on a roll now,”
UW comerback Chris
Massey said.
The Huskies roll
right into Autzen Sta
dium on Saturday.
Stat
of the week
The five Pac-10
winners Saturday put
up 55, 49, 41,37 and 32 points, an average of
42.8 points.
A defensive coordinator’s nightmare. An of
fensive coordinator’s dream.
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4. Oklahoma
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