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STOREWIDE Ski Equipment Downhill • Cross Country Snowboards • Clothing On Now! Ducks set for Cleveland The men’s golfers will compete in third spring tournament in California today and Tuesday Golf Scott Archer Freelance Sports Reporter After a two-week break from competition, the Oregon men’s golf team travels to Westlake Village, Calif., today to compete in the Cleveland Golf Classic. Oregon, which already has two tournament appearances under its belt in the spring season, looks to improve its play in yet another competition featuring elite teams. The Ducks will play two rounds Monday and one Tuesday at the 6,815-yard, par-71 North Ranch Save $100 with the New Apple PowerBook 12.1" Purchase a PowerBook 12.1” and get up to $100 off the cost of additional items. 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(^oAsts GBranam/ Norman Dorsen Fellow and Wayne Morse Fellow, UO School of Law tSesiM/ Director, UO Affirmative Action Office Barrett Associate Professor, UO School of Law c?oma& fflti/icA/ Q^aiza Assistant Director, Multicultural Recruitment, UO Admissions (£cter <SAerer Associate Professor of Management, Lundquist College of Business fflates WeatAerA/ Instructor, UO School of Law and former Associate Editor of Michigan Journal of Race and Law Chief of Human Resources, ODOT Moderator: JioAi Associate Professor, UO School of Law CODAC Center on Diversity and Community for inquiries or accommodations, please contact CODAC at 346-3168 or codac@darkvving.uoregon.edu Country Club. Eleven of the 17 teams in the field are ranked in the most recent Golfweek Top 25. Headlining the tournament are No. 8 UCLA, No. 16 Pepperdine, No. 20 Washington and No. 25 Tennessee. Arizona State, Brigham Young, Cal ifornia, California-Santa Barbara, Fresno State, Houston, Ohio State, Oklahoma. Oregon State, San Diego State, Stanford and USC round out the field. “It seems we see a strong field everywhere we go,” head coach Steve Nosier said. “But we had some very nice competitive qualifiers and will be sending a pretty experienced group out there this week.” Making the trip south for the Ducks will be seniors John Ellis and Chris Carnahan, juniors Jimmy White and Mike Sica, and freshman Gregg LaVoie. Those same five members repre sented Oregon in its last tourna ment appearance Feb. 12-14 in Waikoloa, Hawaii. Oregon finished that tournament in 14th before its two-week break. UCLA, which Ore gon has faced in every tournament in its young spring season and will again see today, won the Taylor Made/Waikoloa Intercollegiate after finishing second in the first tourna ment of the spring for the teams, the Ping Arizona Intercollegiate, Feb. 3-4. The Ducks finished 14th in both of their first two tournaments, snapping their streak of 12 consec utive top-10 finishes, discounting last year’s NCAA regional tourna ment. The streak dated back to last year’s Cleveland Golf Classic March 4-5. Oregon finished tied for second. Ellis, then a junior, fin ished in eighth place, followed by Carnahan, who finished 20th. Sica also competed last year finishing tied for 48th overall. Scott Archer is a freelance writer for the Emerald. Women nearly nip No. 4-ranked Bears The No. 37 Oregon women’s tennis team falls to No. 4 California and No. 3 Stanford Tennis Ryan Heath Sports Freelance Writer For a split second during the Oregon women’s tennis team’s 4-3 loss to No. 4 California on Sunday, the Student Tennis Center was completely silent. But only for a split second. Duck senior captain Monika Gieczys, ranked 89 nationally, bat tled No. 45 Christina Fusano from down 5-2 in the third and final set to force a tiebreaker that would decide the winner of the dual match between the Ducks and Golden Bears. . With the tiebreaker score 7-6 in Fusano’s favor, Gieczys watched her slicing forehand sail wide of the white line just before the short lived silence. As Gieczys sat physically and emotionally drained, face pressed in a towel, her teammates consol ing her, the silence was replaced with applause. The match started with the No. 37 Ducks losing the doubles point despite an 8-4 victory by No. 38 Courtney Nagle/Daria Panova over No. 11 Raquel Kops-Jones/Fusano. The Golden Bears promptly took straight-set victories in the four and five singles matches, forcing the Ducks into a must-win situa tion in the remaining four matches. No. 16 Panova ousted No. 13 Kops-Jones 6-4, 6-1 and freshman Anna Leksinska took a 6-4, 7-5 win from the sixth spot. No. 52 Nagle tied up the dual match with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 victory, setting the stage for Giezcys’ pivotal set. The loss came on the heels of a 7-0 losing effort against No. 3 Stan ford where the Ducks (9-5) were unable to win a set. The Cardinal has a squad that boasts the No. 1 doubles team in the nation as well as four singles players in the top 50. Men also fall The No. 65 men didn’t fare much better this weekend. The Ducks (7-3) lost to No. 10 Wash ington 6-1 on Friday and were un able to capitalize on a doubles point victory against No. 55 Pur due on Saturday as the Boilermak ers won 5-2. The lone point from Friday’s loss came when Washington’s Ari Strasberg retired with Duck junior Sven Swinnen leading 3-0 in the fi nal set. The loss snapped a six-game Duck winning streak, dating back to late January. Ryan Heath is a freelance writer for the Emerald. Sports briefs Woods’ conviction reduced Rodney Woods, the Oregon defen sive back recruit who pleaded no contest to a felony assault charge in 2000, had his conviction reduced to a misdemeanor in a Lancaster, Calif., court Friday. The ruling clears the way for Woods to attend Oregon. Woods signed a letter of intent with the Ducks, but Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti and Athletic Director Bill Moos stated that the letter was con ditional, and only if the recruit had his sentance reduced could he play football for the Ducks. —Peter Hockaday Pole position It seems the Oregon women’s pole vaulters don’t need any outside com petition this year. There’s enough within the team. Niki McEwen won the pole vault competition with a clearance of 13 feet, 9 1/4 inches at the Pacific-10 Conference Invitational in Seattle on Saturday. Kirsten Riley finished third and moved up the provisional list with a clearance of 13-1 3/4. Meanwhile, on the men’s side of the action, freshman hurdler Eric Mitchum won the 60-meter hurdles in 7.87 seconds, his first NCAA pro visional time. The men also notched two other wins and nine personal or season bests in Seattle. — Peter Hockaday Softball rained out No. 22 Oregon received a vacation weekend early when the Red Desert Classic Softball Tournament was can celed Friday due to inclement weath er and poor field conditions. The Ducks travel to San Jose, Calif., for games against Georgia Tech and Northern Illinois on Friday. —MindiRice