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Women’s tennis upset
hopes fall short at UW
The No. 35 Oregon women’s
tennis team loses to No. 21
Washington, 4-3, in Seattle
Tennis
Ryan Heath
Freelance Sports Reporter
Winning the doubles point and
taking singles matches at the top
and bottom spots weren’t enough
for the No. 35 Oregon women’s ten
nis team to upset No. 21 Washing
ton this weekend.
The Ducks fell to the Huskies, 4
3, on Saturday despite sweeping the
doubles matches.
“It was definitely the best doubles
we have played all year,” head
coach Nils Schyllander said. “That
was really good to see.”
Leading the way for the Ducks
was the No. 28 duo of Courtney Na
gle/Daria Panova and their upset of
No. 9 Claire Carter/Darija Klaic. Se
nior captain Monika Gieczys and
freshman Jamie Marshall also
teamed up to take their match, 8-4,
and clinch the doubles point.
Ducks Ester Bak and Anna Leksin
"We played a very
good match today. We
were right there, and
hopefully we'll come
out on top tomorrow,"
Nils Schyllander
tennis head coach
ska completed the sweep with an 8-6
victory from the No. 3 spot.
No. 18 Panova rebounded from
two losses last weekend to take No.
36 Garter in three sets and fresh
man Leksinska won her match from
the No. 6 singles spot by taking a
10-8 tie-breaker in the last set.
The Ducks were unable to win
the fourth point as Marshall was
forced to retire due to injury and
No. 40 Nagle and Gieczys fell to
the 87 and 95 ranked players in
the nation.
Marshall’s injury comes as a big
blow to the already injury-plagued
Ducks. Freshman Julie Merle has not
played competitively in almost a
month and junior Davina Mendiburu
is out for the season with a tom ante
rior cruciate ligament.
The Ducks dropped to 9-8 on
the season as they continued a
five-game skid in Pacific-10 Con
ference play, while the Huskies im
proved to 10-1.
“We played a very good match to
day,” Schyllander said on Saturday.
“We were right there, and hopefully
we’ll come out on top tomorrow.”
The Ducks faced Washington
State in Pullman on Sunday. Results
were not available at press time.
Ryan Heath is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Golfers ready for busy break,
including UO-hosted tourney
The Oregon women head
to UCLA, while the men host
their own Duck Invitational
Golf
Scott Archer
Freelance Sports Reporter
The Oregon women’s golf team
swings back into action early next
week as it looks to continue its im
pressive start to the spring portion
of its 2002-03 season.
Oregon is coming off its most im
pressive single round of golf in last
week’s Duck Invitational, where the
team shot a season best 299. The
Ducks claimed seventh overall at
the tournament, which was played
in Junction City. Next up for the
Ducks is the UCLA Bruin Classic,
which will be played at Santa Clari
ta, Calif. The three-day tournament
will be played March 24-26.
The Ducks will be led by fresh
men Therese Wenslow, who is com
ing off the third top-10 finish of her
young career. The Bruin classic is
one of only two tournaments left for
the Ducks before the Pacific-10
Conference Championships begin
April 24. The Ducks finished eighth
overall in last year’s Bruin Classic,
led by current sophomore Jess Car
lyon, who shot a career-low final
round 71 to finish the tournament
fifth overall. Pepperdine was last
year’s tournament champion, while
UCLA finished second in the 16
team field.
Men host Duck
Invitational
The Duck men’s golf team will
host its annual Oregon Duck Invita
tional, March 24-26, at the Eugene
Country Club. Oregon hasn’t played
since early March when it traveled
to Westlake Village, Calif., and fin
ished tied for 13th overall at the
Cleveland Golf Classic. Senior John
Ellis shot a final-round 67 to tie for
eighth overall, his fifth top-10 finish
in seven tournaments this year.
Oregon won last year’s tourna
ment with a one-stroke victory over
Washington State. Senior Chris Car
nahan finished the tournament in
fifth place and was followed by Ellis,
who finished tied for 11th overall.
Oregon has received strong play
from freshmen Gregg LaVoie this
season, but LaVoie struggled in his
last outing, finishing tied for 54th
in the Cleveland Golf Classic. Ore
gon has three more tournament
appearances before it heads to the
Pacific-10 Conference Champi
onships April 28-30. Oregon will
head to the Western Intercollegiate
less than one week after competing
in the Duck Invitational.
Scott Archer is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Jude
continued from page 15A
going to trial because he’s Kirby
Puckett, because he has money.
I hope that’s the case.
But Kirby’s nowhere to be found
— he hasn’t said a word. Pessimisti
cally, I think the allegations are
true and that he’s always been a fa
cade, a hoax. A game.
I wish I could rationalize Kirby’s
problems. Maybe I should feel sor
ry for the guy who grew up the
youngest of nine children in the
“hell’s gate” neighborhood of ur
ban Chicago.
Maybe I should feel sorry for him
after that day in 1996, when his ca
reer, unfortunately, ended prema
turely after he was diagnosed with
glaucoma, leaving him nearly blind
in his right eye. That would’ve left
anyone bitter.
The kid in me wants to believe in
Kirby. I want to believe his inten
tions, as a ballplayer, were genuine.
Even now, after a divorce with his
wife of 17 years, I want to believe
he will get his life in order.
As hard as I try, I’m not a kid
anymore. I’ve grown a little older, a
little wiser from my experiences,
and they will surely guide me down
the road. The hope of something
better outweighs the disappoint
ments of the past.
Not that I regret ever worship
ping the guy. My memories of Kirby
— his llth-inning home run and
his amazing catch in the sixth
game of the 1991 World Series —
are great, but they’ve faded along
with my youth.
Now, it’s time to move on.
Farewell, Kirby. I hope you find
something better for your life.
I hope I do, too.
Contact the senior sports reporter
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
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