Panova tops Duck effort in wins over weekend
I ne Uregon women win
three matches during the
weekend and the men
improve to 5-0 this season
By Alex Tam
Freelance Reporter
The Oregon tennis teams contin
ue to roll.
The women breezed through their
three oppo
nents over the
weekend to
FE NNIS stay undefeat
- ed through
the first six
matches of the dual match season.
The 41st-ranked Ducks (6-0 over
all) routed No. 40 Minnesota, 6-1, at
home despite losing their first dou
bles match of the dual season on
DUCK
Sunday. The women are continuing
their strong play in both doubles
and singles and are happy with the
way things are going before confer
ence play begins this week.
"The girls are expecting to win,"
Oregon head coach Nils Schyllander
said. "The team believes they should
win every time out."
At the No. 1 singles position, jun
ior Daria Panova prevailed against
senior Angela Buergis in straight
sets, 6-3, 7-5. Behind a raucous
crowd, Panova, ranked No. 8 in the
country, finally took care of her op
ponent on her fifth match point
when Buergis hit the ball long along
the baseline.
"I just tried to fight for every
point," Panova said. "I think I was
playing good. I tried to play as fast as
I can."
The only blemishes of the day
were Panova and senior Courtney
Nagle's doubles loss to Buergis and
"We knew Boise (State)
would be tough. I was
very proud of our effort.
The girls came ready to
play and did not make
any mistakes."
Nils Schyllander
Oregon head coach
sophomore Nischela Reddy, 8-5,
and freshman Dominika Dieskova's
singles loss to Reddy, 7-5, 6-4. How
ever, Oregon's doubles record im
proved to 17-1 for the season.
On Friday, the Ducks took care of
Portland in a 7-0 sweep, which saw
the women lose only one set the en
tire dual match. Oregon also tri
umphed over No. 61 Boise State
with a 6-1 victory.
"We knew Boise would be tough,"
Schyllander said. "I was very proud of
our effort. The girls came ready to play
and did not make any mistakes."
The Oregon women will continue
action as they open up the Pacific-10
Conference season at home against
Arizona State on Thursday at 6:30
p.m. in the Student Tennis Center.
Men continue streak
The Oregon men (5-0 overall)
handed Idaho its first loss of the sea
son with a 7-0 victory Saturday.
Junior Manuel Kost beat senior
Fabian Dummett in a little over half
an hour to win, 6-0, 6-0. Kost con
tinued to play on Dummett's back
hand, which he struggled to hit all
match long.
"I didn't miss (and) I served well,"
Kost said.
Sophomore Markus Schiller
racked up another singles win
against junior Hector Mucharraz, 6
2, 6-3, to take his overall record to
10-2 in his first year at Oregon.
"1 executed pretty well," Schiller
said. "I went to the net a lot and kept
my legs moving. It worked out well
this week."
In the most thrilling match of the
day, sophomore Arron Spencer
came back in a third set tiebreaker
after being down one match point to
win, 7-5, 6-7(3), (12-10).
The men will next play at Boise
State on Friday at 6:30 p.m.
Alex Tam is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
Duke takes 17th-straight game over lowly Clemson
Freshman Luol Deng tied
his career high of 22 points
to help the Blue Devils win
By Jon Solomon
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
DURHAM, N.C. — Clemson
stayed close for 19 minutes against
the nation's top-ranked team on its
home court Sunday night. Once it
unraveled, however, the Tigers could
never re-cover.
The Blue Devils used a 14-0 run
spanning the first and second halves to
defeat Clemson 81-55 before 9,314 at
Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Clemson coach Oliver Purnell was
left lamenting the "what-ifs" of 63 sec
onds to close the first half and 2:21 to
start the second half.
"We're going to watch the tape and
just cringe and throw up," Purnell said.
"We had two or three kinds of non-fun
damental things in that last two min
utes of the first half that kept us from
possibly even leading going in."
Despite 19 points from Sharrod Ford
and 18 by Shawan Robinson, Clemson
lost for the 17th time in a row to Duke
and for the 13th consecutive time by
double digits.
The Tigers shot 46.5 percent, the
highest mark by an ACC opponent
against Duke. But they committed
22 turnovers, shot 13-of-26 at the
foul line and failed to grab some im
portant rebounds.
Luol Deng tied his career high with
22 points for the Blue Devils (20-1,9-0
ACC), who remained in first place in
the ACC standings by two games.
Duke shot 61.9 percent in the second
half after being held to 40 percent in
the first half. J.J. Redick scored 18 of his
23 points after halftime
"It doesn't really feel like we blew
them out" Redick said.
Clemson (9-11, 2-7 ACC) fell back
into a last-place tie with Virginia, two
games behind the nearest teams.
"It was going well, and we just let
down," forward Chris Hobbs said. "We
didn't have the same intensity that we
had the whole 19 minutes of the first
half. If you do that against Duke, it's
over. You can't give them a breath."
Duke went on a 9-0 run in the last
1:03 of the first half to lead 36-27 at in
termission. It was a downer for the
Tigers, who had held their ground for
most of the half. They even led by one
point with less than four minutes to go.
Clemson seemed in good shape
when Robinson knotted the score at 27
with a 3-pointer. The Tigers had a
chance to go ahead one possession lat
er, but Deng tipped away a fast-break
pass and chased it down for the steal.
Redick sank a 3-pointer to put Duke
up 30-27, and the run was on.
Clemson turned the ball over on a
lane violation. After Daniel Ewing
missed the front end of a one-and-one,
Duke's Shelden Williams rebounded
the miss, scored on a putback and
made the subsequent foul shot.
"That's a killer," Purnell said.
Clemson's Vernon Hamilton missed
two free throws with 10.6 seconds left.
Sean Dockery pushed the ball down
court for Duke and dished to Lee Mel
chionni, who sank a 3-pointer right be
fore the buzzer sounded.
The Tigers shot 45.5 percent from the
field in the first half and got 14 of their
27 points from Robinson, who entered
the game averaging 20 points in the
past three games. But Clemson also
committed 13 turnovers that led to 14
Duke points and was 5-of-10 at the line
The Blue Devils went a stretch of
6:58 with one field goal. Scoring
threats Ewing and Redick combined
to shoot 3-of-12. That changed in the
second half.
But what particularly frustrated Pur
nell was that Clemson got outrebound
ed 32-25, including 15 offensive re
bounds by the Blue Devils.
"We really didn't rebound and
box out and defend like we usually
do," Ford said. "I think that's one
thing we have to go back and work
on this week."
(c) 2004, The State (Columbia, S.C.).
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
CIVIL WAR
continued from page 5
mobility from playing with a left
knee injury limited her involvement
in the offense.
Davis finished with a team-high
13 points but connected on only 5
of 15 shots.
Beaver guards stuck with their play
er-to-player defensive assignments at
all times to limit open three-point
looks for the Ducks.
"We talked about (Wagner and
Davis) all week," Spoelstra said. "We
just knew we had to stay tight. We
knew that if (Oregon point guard)
Corrie (Mizusawa) wanted to drive,
the help wasn't going to come from
the guards anymore. The help had to
come from the posts."
A general lack of aggressiveness also
contributed to the Ducks' downfall.
While Oregon Slate was rewarded for
pounding the ball inside with 28 trips
to the foul line, Oregon settled for
perimeter shots and went to the chari
ty stripe only 19 times.
The Beavers took advantage of their
opportunities, calmly sinking 25 of
their attempts while the Ducks cashed
in on only 13.
Eleanor Haring extended her double
digit scoring streak to six games with a
12-point performance. Bills added 10
points and grabbed four rebounds.
Contact the sports reporter
at jonroetman@dailyemerald.com.
LOSS
continued from page 5
we didn't get those open looks is that
we just did not move the ball."
It was apparent that the Beavers
studied the Ducks' behind-the-arc
attack. In part one of the Civil War
on Jan. 10 in Eugene, Oregon was 8
for 18 from three-point range. Five
of the eight made up a career-high
for Wagner, which she has since tied
three times.
Saturday, Wagner went 1 for 1 in
three-point attempts during her 12
minutes on the court. The sopho
more partially tore the lateral menis
cus in her left knee Jan. 15 in a loss
to Washington.
"I'm not moving too well," Wagner
said. "It affects how I play and I don't
want to be out there unless I can help
the team. We had to get some people
in there that could move."
In Oregon's past two games, Wagner
has been held to three points or less.
Hampered by the injury, she averaged
14.5 minutes in the two games.
"1 think that knee is always going
to be a factor," Smith said. "It's cer
tainly hindered her from practicing
as well as she can and I think it
takes a little away from game-time
readiness. However, we did get her
open for one three and that was re
ally important for us. *
Combined, Wagner and guard Bran
di Davis account for 64 percent of Ore
gon's three-point offense this season.
Davis, who led the Ducks in the
first Civil War with 15 points and
again Saturday with 13, made Ore
gon's three other shots from three
point range. The junior was 3 for 6
from behind the line.
"It's not all about our guards, it's all
of us as a whole," Davis said. "I don't
think just because two people didn't
get as open (off) looks as they did the
last game (that it) affects the team. It's
all about stepping up and putting it
all together."
Contact the senior sports reporter
at mindirice@dailyemerald.com.
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