Sports briefs
Golfers host
Duck Invitational
Coming off an impressive finish
both individually and collectively,
the Oregon women’s golf team will
look to continue its strong start to
the spring portion of its 2002-03 sea
son today and Tuesday.
The Ducks, which placed ninth last
week at the Spartan Invitational, are
again hitting the links this week as
they hosts their own Oregon Duck In
vitational at the Shadow Hills Country
Club in Junction City, Ore.
Oregon will be led by sophomore
Johnna Nealy, who shot a career
round of golf last week in the open
ing round of the Spartan Invitational
tying an Oregon sophomore single
round record with a 69.
Oregon will also showcase another
outstanding player in freshman
Therese Wenslow, who leads the
team with a stroke average of 75.1.
For the first time this season the
Ducks will have all 10 roster mem
bers in action at the tournament as
it will field two teams.
“My hope is to keep building this
tournament so it does become a first
rate event that teams do want to
come to, so we can showcase not
only our golf team but also the uni
versity and our incredible facilities,”
head coach Shannon Rouillard said.
Included in the 11 team field will
be Colorado, Colorado State, Idaho,
Missouri, Montana State, Portland,
Portland State, San Diego State, San
ta Clara and Washington State.
The tournament will feature 2002
individual winner sophomore Kim
Welch of Washington State among
the 60 individual competitors, but
will not see defending team champi
on Washington participate. Welch
won the 2002 Oregon Duck Invita
tional with an even par 216, which
was held at Mallard Creek in
Lebanon, Ore.
The Ducks finished 11th in the 15
team field last year with current
Oregon junior Lacy Erickson finish
ing tied for 32nd at 232, while soph
omore Jess Carlyon completed the
tournament tied for 48th at 237.
Teams will play 36 holes Monday,
and 18 Tuesday with an 8 a.m. shot
gun start on both days.
— Scott Archer
Tennis teams falter
The Oregon men’s and women’s
tennis teams are looking forward to
a change of scenery this week after
another rough weekend.
The No. 36 women lost their
fourth home game in a row and the
men suffered through another losing
weekend on the road.
Both will look to change their
fortunes as the women head out of
Eugene to visit Washington and the
men get a well-deserved rest from
competition.
The women held their own against
two top programs, No. 8 UCLA and
No. 2 Southern California.
The Ducks fell to UCLA, 5-2, de
spite straight set victories by fresh
men Ducks Anna Leksinska and
Jamie Marshall.
“It was another hard-fought bat
tle,” head coach Nils SchyHander
said. “Our kids hung tough out
there; we just came out on the short
end again.”
Saturday, the Ducks were held to
two points again in a 5-2 loss to USC.
Oregon junior Courtney Nagle, No.
52 in the nation, beat No. 32 Luana
Magnani in straight sets and Ester
Bak defeated No. 90 Tiffany Brymer.
The Ducks were unable to win the
doubles point, but No. 38
Nagle/Daria Panova handled No. 20
Brymer/Jewel Peterson of USC, 8-4.
The No. 64 men didn’t fair much
better against No. 35 Rice on Friday
as they fell 7-0 in Houston.
The Duck doubles team of No. 15
Sven Swinnen/Oded Teig battled No.
1 Richard Barker/William Barker of
Rice and lost, 8-2.
The Ducks were ousted by No. 11
Texas A&M on Saturday without
scoring a point.
“I don’t say this very often, but we
had them in some very close match
es,” head coach Chris Russell said. “I
understand that it is hard to say
when you lose 7-0, but we had some
good things happening out there on
the courts.”
The men resume play March 25
when they host Califomia-Riverside
and San Francisco.
— Ryan Heath
UO track stars
improve marks
In their last runs attempts at
NCAA qualifying marks, three Ore
gon track and field athletes improved
their personal bests and standings on
the NCAA provisional lists Saturday
in the NCAA Last Chance Qualifier
in the Dempsey Indoor at the Univer
sity of Washington.
Oregon’s NCAA provisional quali
fiers will know today whether they
will be invited to the NCAA Indoor
Championships, scheduled for Friday
and Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark.
Junior pole vaulter Kirsten Riley
upped her best by 1 3/4 inches with
her winning mark Saturday (13-3
1/2). Her mark Saturday greatly im
proves her chances at an invite since
at least 16 athletes are normally in
vited to the collegiate finale and her
mark was the same as a trio of per
formers tied at 12th nationally.
Two other Ducks are already
qualified in the event — seniors
Becky Holliday and Niki McEwen
— and rank second and third na
tionally with NCAA automatic
marks of 14-1 3/4 and 14-1 1/4
from earlier this season.
On the men’s side, freshman Eric
Mitchum lowered his personal best
in the 60 hurdle final to 7.86 (sec
ond), after clocking 7.94 in the pre
lims — with both marks under the
7.95 qualifying standard.
In the 3,000, redshirt junior Ryan
Andrus made his debut on the NCAA
provisional list (fourth, 8:01.22),
trailing teammate Jason Hartmann
who ran unattached (third, 7:59.43).
Freshman 800-meter runner Jan
Olszowy (ninth, 1:51.63) just missed
the NCAA provisional standard by
less than 11/2 seconds (1:50.20) and
was just off his personal best from
last weekend (1:50.40).
—from staff and wire reports
Men's
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later, Gardner fed Hassan Adams
for a fast-break dunk that gave Ari
zona the perma-lead and sent the
crowd into a frenzy.
Gardner left with Luke Walton
late in the game to a standing ova
tion from the crowd. Walton scored
eight points and led the Wildcats
with six assists. Senior Rick Ander
son also left to an ovation before
Gardner and Walton. Anderson fin
ished the game with four points
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and eight rebounds.
Ridnour, Crosswhite, Luke Jack
son and James Davis were the four
Ducks in double figures. Jackson
had 12 points, Davis 11 and Cross
white 10. Jackson led the team
with 14 rebounds.
The Ducks will now head to the
Pae-10 Tournament, and they will
need to beat a team they lost to on
Thursday — Arizona State. The
Ducks and Sun Devils will square
off this Thursday in Los Angeles in
the first round of the conference
tourney. Kent said he’s confident in
his team’s ability to win a game he
said the Ducks need to win.
“If vye had played this way
Thursday, we would have had that
big win already out of the way,”
Kent said of Thursday’s 91-77 loss
in Tempe.
This Thursday’s game will tip
off at approximately 3:30 p.m. All
the games in the Pac-10 Tourna
ment will be broadcast on Fox
Sports Net.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Softball
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the game, earning her fifth win of
the season.
The game was tied at one going
into extra innings, when Minneso
ta scored a run in the top of the
eighth. Oregon scored two runs in
the bottom half of the inning for
the win.
In Oregon’s second game of the
day, Kontra held Santa Clara score
less with the help of senior Andrea
Vidlund while the Ducks won, 3-0.
The Ducks scored two runs in the
bottom of the first, and added an in
surance run in the fourth. Kontra im
proved to 6-0 on the season.
The NIST was Oregon’s last pre
season tournament. The Ducks
host a doubleheader against Port
land State on Thursday afternoon,
before opening the Pac-10 season
against Oregon State in Corvallis
on Saturday.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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