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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
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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