Ducks fall to conference heavyweights
Martin Mitchell has a pin and
Jason Harless wins both of his
matches, but Oregon loses two
dual meets on the weekend
Mindi Rice
Freelance Sports Reporter
Oregon looked like two different
squads in the weekend’s two meets,
but both ended in Pacific-10 Confer
ence losses.
Friday, Oregon (5-8 overall, 4-2
Pac-10) came out looking dead against
No. 12 Boise State (6-3, 3-1). Ben
VomBaur, the No. 4 wrestler at 125
from the Broncos, earned a 2-1 lead
over sophomore Jacob Boyles and
never let go. A five-point technical fall
with near fall was awarded to Vom
Baur after he outscored Boyles 23-8.
Redshirt junior Jason Harless fol
lowed with the 133 weight class, fighting
to earn a 3-2 decision. Bronco Jesse
Brock, the defending Pac-10 champion,
earned his only points on two escapes.
“I was very pleased with Jason,”
head coach Chuck Kearney said
Friday.
Oregon’s two bright spots left in
the meet came at 157 and 174. Ju
nior Branson Phillips earned a 7-0
decision over his Boise State oppo
nent at 157. Sophomore Shane Web
ster, ranked No. 7 by Intermat,
earned the decision at 174 by taking
out his Bronco opponent 8-3.
“It’s a battle of toughness, and the
guys have to get tougher,” Kearney
said Friday.
Oregon’s 27-9 loss to the Broncos was
its first Pac-10 loss of the season. The
other Pac-10 team that started Friday
undefeated — No. 6 Arizona State —
also earned its first conference loss Fri
day, in an 18-16 loss to Oregon State.
Sunday, the Ducks battled the Sun
Devils (10-6,3-1). Oregon started the
meet on the right footing — up 10-0
after two matches.
Sophomore Martin Mitchell
pinned his opponent at the 1:11
mark of the 125 match for his sixth
pin of the season.
“It’s always good when you’re the
first match to fire up the team,”
Mitchell said. “I knew this was an op
ponent I could step up against.”
Harless, the only Oregon wrestler
to win both his matches this week
end, controlled No. 11 Mike Simp
son. Harless earned a 13-2 four-point
major decision.
"We competed a lot
better tonight... our
kids wrestled hard "
Chuck Kearney
head coach
“Just going out there with confi
dence is what won the match for
me,” Harless said.
Oregon’s 10-point lead came down
in the next five matches, as Arizona
State fought for four decisions and a
pin to put the score 18-10 in the Sim
Devils’ favor.
Freshman Tony Rolen built a 5-0
lead over Sun Devil Ron Renzi in the
first 30 seconds of the 184 match.
Rolen almost pinned Renzi twice —
once in the first period and once in
the third — but couldn’t hold on for
the fall.
“Tony’s gonna be a real good col
lege wrestler,” Kearney said. “He has
continually gotten better.”
Rolen earned the four-point ma
jor decision over Renzi with a 13-2
final score.
The Sun Devils forfeited the
heavyweight match, but still won the
dual meet 21-20.
“We competed a lot better
tonight,” Kearney said. “Our kids
wrestled hard.”
The Ducks travel to California on
Wednesday for two dual conference
meets.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Sports briefs
Duck soccer scores in
WUSA Draft
Oregon senior goalkeeper Sarah
Peters was the 28th overall selec
tion in Sunday’s Women’s United
Soccer Association Draft, and she’ll
play alongside an Oregon assistant
coach for the San Jose CyberRays
next season.
Peters was taken in the fourth
round by the CyberRays, who also
picked up Oregon assistant Keri
Sanchez on Sunday via trade from
the Boston Breakers. Sanchez, a for
mer North Carolina player who has
national-team experience, has start
ed 34 games for the Breakers over
the last two seasons.
“Being drafted has been a dream,”
Peters said. “I’m really excited to get
to train with somebody with as
much experience as LaKeysia
(Beene, CyberRays starter and 2001
WUSA Goalkeeper of the Year) and I
look forward to that challenge.”
San Jose, led by national star
Brandi Chastain, won the inaugural
WUSA Cup in 2001 but missed the
playoffs in 2002. Ironically, the Cy
berRays were eliminated from play
off contention in the last game of last
season by Sanchez’s former team,
the Breakers.
— Peter Hockaday
Tennis rolls at home
The No. 46 Oregon women’s ten
nis team rolled past Portland and
Idaho at home this Saturday. The
Ducks won both matches 7-0 with
out losing a single set.
No. 28 Daria Panova remained un
defeated in the regular season and
extended her win streak to nine
matches dating back to her Pac-10
Indoor Championship.
The men improved their record
to 2-1 on Saturday with a 5-2 victo
ry over No. 72 Brigham Young in
Provo, Utah.
No. 64 Manuel Kost came back
from an abdominal injury to win the
number four singles match for the
Ducks 6-2, 7-6 in his first match of
the regular season.
The Ducks played New Mexico
State on Sunday.
Next weekend both the men and
women play at home. The men take
on Portland and the women battle
Sacramento State, Pacific and Cali
fomia-Irvine.
— Ryan Heath
Softball opens
season in style
The Duck softball team opened
the season swinging for the fences,
and while they didn’t hit many balls
over the fence, they still knocked a
few proverbial dingers.
Freshman pitcher Amy Harris
starred for Oregon, giving up only
two earned runs and 13 hits in 16
innings as the Ducks went 4-1 over
a weekend-long tournament in San
Marcos, Texas. Oregon opened with
a 10-0 win over Texas A&M-Corpus
Christi, then had three consecutive
2-1 wins over Texas Tech, host
Southwest Texas State and Hous
ton before falling 3-1 to Arkansas
on Sunday.
Harris, a highly-touted recruit
who led North Eugene High School
to a state championship in 2000,
won the Texas Tech game and lost
the Arkansas game despite giving up
only one earned run.
—Peter Hockaday
Golf heads to Ping
After a two month layoff, the Ore
gon men’s golf team will travel to
Tucson, Ariz., to begin the second
half of its 2002-03 schedule today
and Tuesday at the Ping Arizona In
tercollegiate.The par-71, 6,900-yard
Arizona National Course will test the
15 squads participating. Oregon,
which finished in the top 10 in all
four events it played during the fall
season, will face 11 of the nation’s
top 50 teams. Included in the field is
No. 3 Wake Forest, host and No. 10
Arizona, No. 15 New Mexico, No. 17
UCLA, No. 21 Pepperdine, along
with two-time defending Pacific-10
Conference champion USC.
Ducks competing in the two-day
event include seniors John Ellis and
Chris Carnahan, junior Jimmy
White and freshmen Gregg LaVoie
and Justin St. Glair. Ellis, Oregon’s
most dominant player thus far, com
pleted an impressive fall with two
top-10 finishes and a stroke average
of 72.1.
— Scott Archer
Track squads build to
success in Idaho
Samie Parker and Niki McEwan
lived up to the hype and starred for
the Oregon track and field squads in
their second meet of the indoor sea
son, the Bodybuilding.com Invita
tional in Nampa, Idaho.
Parker notched an NCAA provi
sional mark (6.68 seconds) in the
60-meter dash, the football star’s
first race of the season. McEwan also
notched an NCAA-provisional height
in the pole vault, jumping 13 feet, 9
1/4 inches one week after matching
the Oregon record at 14-11/4.
The Ducks had four wins and
three runners-up all told in the Ida
ho meet.
Peter Hockaday
Men's
continued from page 9
first half, but couldn’t find their
touch to start the second half, go
ing 2-for-12. The Trojans capital
ized, building an 11-point lead ear
ly in the half after Desmon Farmer
hit back-to-back three-pointers.
Ridnour brought the Ducks back
within four, at 62-66, after he hit a
three with 9:28 left. But that’s as
close as Oregon would get.
“As bad as we played, it was a
three-point game with like seven
minutes to go — that ought to tell
you something,” Kent said.
Even more revealing was Oregon’s
sloppy first half. The Ducks, who av
erage 14.8 turnovers per game, had
20 turnovers in the first 20 minutes
— tying a season-high for a full game
— thanks in large part to a harassing
Trojan zone defense.
“SC had something to do with
maybe five or six of (the turnovers),
but they were just mental break
downs on our part, poor decision,
poor passes,” Kent said.
Because of mistakes of its own,
USC (13 turnovers) wasn’t able to
pull away in a half that featured 12
lead changes, and the Trojans led
40-34 at the break.
Joseph kept the Ducks close in
the first half, scoring 15 points on 6
of-8 shooting. Ridnour had just four
first-half points and five turnovers.
“We got the split (on the road),
but I’m not happy with it,” Kent
said. “The best thing to do is re
group and get ready for Stanford
and Gal coming in for two big
ballgames.”
Contact the senior sports reporter
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
Women's
continued from page 9
After an intense battle on
both ends, with time winding
down, Polk delivered a dagger
with 52 seconds left to give the
Wildcats a four point lead.
But Oregon had some fire power
of its own.
On the other end, Ganes
grabbed an offensive rebound with
just more than 30 seconds left to
play, and converted while getting
fouled. Her foul shot was right on
the money to bring Oregon within
one point.
The battle ended after that
free-throw.
The damage had been done.
Polk and the Wildcats won
the battle this time, but the
war is far from over. With Polk
and Ganes just freshmen and
Bills a sophomore, the ground
work is in place for it to
become a war for the ages.
Contact the sports reporter
at jessethomas@dailyemerald.com.
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