Wrestlers battle sunny California teams Oregon finishes its California trip with dual meets against Menlo and Fresno State Wrestling Mindi Rice Freelance Sports Reporter Sunny California days are ending soon for the Oregon wrestling squad. The Ducks wrap up their three-day, four-meet trip with two dual meets against non-conference opponents Menlo College and Fresno State. Menlo College is an NAIA school in Atherton, Calif., with a wrestling program consistently ranking in the NAIA top 10. Currently, Menlo sits at No. 4 in the NAIA Coaches Poll. Six of the 10 weight classes have Menlo wrestlers ranked in the top 10. Senior Saul Lucatero is ranked No. 1 by the NAIA Coaches at the 149 weight class. Fellow senior Joey Martinez sits at No. 2 at 157, while senior Jose Sanchez is No. 5 at 133. Three Menlo wrestlers sit at No. 7 in their weight classes — senior Isaac Pumarejo at 125 and juniors Eddie Lucatero at 165 and Junior Liberal at 174. Menlo is 5-8 this season in dual meets, including losses to Cal-State Bakersfield and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. Fresno State, Oregon’s second op ponent on Friday, is in the “other teams” section of the Intermat rank ings. “Other teams” is the next 11 teams after the top 25. Oregon is also featured in the “other teams” list. The Bulldogs feature only one wrestler ranked by The Wrestling Mall — No. 14 Eddie Gifford at 174 — but they beat No. 19 Nebraska earlier this season, 19-16. Oregon lost 30-3 to Nebraska in December. The Ducks battle Menlo at 3 p.m., then rest while Menlo and Fresno State wrestle at 5 p.m. The Bulldogs and Ducks then wrestle at 7 p.m. Fresno State is hosting all three matches in its gym. Wednesday, Oregon split two duals against Pacific-10 Conference rivals Cal-State Bakersfield and Cal Poly. “We wrestled tough,” head coach Chuck Kearney said after the loss to Cal-Poly. “The guys that competed tonight did a good job of competing.” Seniors Casey Hunt and Tony Overstake were joined by sopho more Shane Webster as the only Oregon wrestlers to win both their matches Wednesday. Hunt pinned his Cal-State Bakers Virtual Office Systems, Inc. omputers In Partnership with UO Bookstore! AMDB *FREE* CD Burner or DVD player upgrade with purchase of any VOS Computer. Valid only at Bookstore! uumMfteoo* $849.99 • MSI KT3 Ultra 2 Board • 32 MB GeForce 2 MX • 40 GB 7200 RPM Drive • 256 MB DDR 266 MHz • 17”.27SVGA Monitor System includes A TX case, 360 Watt power supply, Windows XP Home, 52X CD, 56K V.90 modem, floppy, mouse, keyboard, sound, and stereo speakers digitoj)DUCK Support Women’s Basketball Shoot to Win is Back! 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Both Phillips broth ers won their match against Cal State Bakersfield, while Larwin won his Gal Poly match. Sophomore Elias Soto won his only match of the day, at Gal-State Bakersfield. Redshirt freshman Jacob Boyles wrestled at 133, Ming in for redshirt junior Jason Harless. Harless, who is 5-1 in Pac-10 matches, was unable to travel with the team due to a knee in jury. Harless had won both his match es the past weekend. Boyles lost both the 133 matchups on Wednesday. The Ducks will return home for a week of practice and school before heading north to Corvallis on Feb. 16 to battle Pac-10 rival Oregon State. 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