Ducks face ‘tough’ teams
in Arizona State tournament
The No. 20 Ducks battle
three teams ranked in the
top 25 in Oregon's second
preseason tournament
By Mindi Rice
Senior Sports Reporter
The Oregon softball team has a
tough road to travel in Phoenix, Ariz.,
starting today.
In the Ducks' opening game of the
Fiesta Bowl Tournament, No. 20 Ore
gon (2-2) faces No. 14 Cal State
Fullerton, which has yet to play. The
Titans ended their season at home last
year against Oregon when the Ducks
beat Fullerton, 2-1, in the NCAA Re
gional last May and came up one
game short of the Women's College
-v World Series.
Immediately following the 10:15
a.m. game against the Titans, Oregon
plays No. 15 Texas A&M (3-0).
"This is our toughest weekend be
fore the (Pacific-10 Conference) sea
son," Oregon head coach Kathy
Arendsen said. "You know this is go
ing to be a grudge match for Fuller
ton. Texas A&M has a very good ball
club. They're underrated and they're
in the top 15."
The Ducks have a later start on
Saturday as they face Ohio State at
4 p.m. and Cal State Northridge at 6
p.m. Oregon closes the tournament
Sunday at noon against No. 11 Texas.
"After last weekend, we kind of
know where we are at," infielder
Erin Goodell said. "This weekend,
we're playing some really tough
teams which is good for us. We need
that with our tough competition in
our conference."
Seven of the eight Pac-10 teams are
ranked in the USA Today Top 25 poll,
with Oregon State receiving votes. All
eight teams are ranked in the
ESPN.com/USASoftball poll.
Oregon has everyone healthy for
this weekend's tournament. Pitcher
Amy Harris injured her wrist during
the offseason, and Arendsen said she
expected Harris to get a few innings in
during the Phoenix tournament.
The return of Harris will complete
the Ducks' pitching staff. Returning
from last season are senior Anissa
Meashintubby, junior Lindsey Kontra
and I Iarris, a sophomore. Meashin
tubby is No. 7 all-time at Oregon in
shutouts, while Harris is Oregon's all
time single-season strikeout leader.
Adding depth to the rotation this sea
son is junior transfer Ani Nyhus.
"I'm looking for five strong wins
(for the team)," Nyhus said. "I think
that with the expectations that we
have for ourselves, we need to go out
there and do something like that.
Every team out there is going to be
hard to beat."
The Fiesta Bowl Tournament is
Oregon's second tournament of the
season. Last weekend, the Ducks trav
eled to Miami, Fla., for the Florida In
ternational Tournament.
Oregon opened its season with a
11-6 loss to No. 7 Georgia, then
turned things around for a 9-1 victo
ry against Florida International.
The Ducks started Feb. 7 with a sec
ond loss, 3-0, to Florida Atlantic. They
rebounded again with an afternoon
8-0 win against Iowa State.
Nyhus and infielder Beth
Boskovich were named to the all-tour
nament team.
"Last weekend we figured out
what we need to work on," Good
ell said. "If we can maintain our in
tensity level all the way through the
tournament, I think that will help
up be more successful."
After Oregon returns from Phoenix,
the Ducks will have four tournaments
remaining before the Pac-10 season
starts at the end of March.
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POLO
continued from page 8
the Griffith Memorial Tournament,
held Jan. 22 through Jan. 25 in Eu
gene at Courtsports.
Sixty-five players participated in the
event, with several Ducks winning
their divisions. Ted Haley placed first
in the men's singles B division and he,
along with partner Lindsey Baptiste,
took home first place in the mixed
doubles B division. Dar Afshar and
Dan Goettsch also finished in the top
five in their brackets.
"We had a really good showing as
far as sportsmanship and playing
well," said Coordinator Alexis Karl
son-Martini. "We had a good all
around tourney."
Karison-Martini said that the racquetball
dub is still looking for people to join and
that it welcomes players at all levels.
The team practices Tuesday and
Thursday mornings at the Eugene
Family YMCA. More information
about the Club can be found in the
Club Sports Office, located on the
ground floor of the EMU.
Kirsten McEwen is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
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Later, when corrected, Platt said,
"That's a lot worse."
The Ducks committed just four
of the 26 turnovers in the last eight
minutes of the game, but they were
costly. The first came by Platt just
under the eight-minute mark, al
lowing Bobby Jones to score two of
his 18 points to cap a 15-0 Husky,
scoring run.
Three minutes later, Platt com
mitted another, leading to yet an
other Washington lead after the
Ducks had fought back.
The final, almost the nail in the
coffin, came with 2:07 left, midway
through a 6-3 Washington run that
put the Huskies ahead for good.
"Second half, we had way too
many dumb plays down the
stretch," Crosswhite said. "When
you're up by 10, you've got to dig in
and put teams away."
The final two points of the game
came rather ominously. Washing
ton's Nate Robinson inbounded the
ball with six seconds left and drib
bled the length of the court before
dunking the ball.
The Ducks didn't like that and
said so. Words were exchanged be
fore the teams left the floor.
"That was maybe a little uncalled
for by Nate," Washington forward
Mike Jensen said. "But they rubbed
it in our face in Eugene."
And from Oregon's perspective?
"I just told Nate, 'You're a tremen
dous player with too much class for
that,"' Kent said.
On a cold night by Jackson, the
Ducks had four players score in dou
ble figures, led by a season-high 19
from Andre Joseph. He was 5 of 7
from beyond the three-point line,
but also committed three turnovers.
Platt had a career-high 15 points
and Crosswhite equaled his output.
"It's tough to lose regardless, but
when it's in our control, it's even
harder," Platt said.
In control was exactly the posi
tion the Ducks were in with 14:08
left. Four Platt points, sandwiched
two three-pointers by Joseph and
Jackson, put Oregon up by nine.
The Ducks eventually extended that
lead. But the Huskies chipped back.
Jones had three points in a nine
minute span, the third coming on
the front end of two free throws
made after an intentional foul by
Oregon forward Jay Anderson.
"I thought (Washington) really
turned the game around when we
had the intentional foul," Kent said.
"I have to look at tape to see what
happened, but why we would chuck
them, I have no idea. The momen
tum clearly was in their favor.
"To me, this is about senior lead
ership on the floor. They've been in
these situations before. They under
stand it. We had some major break
downs on the floor by some veteran
players we need to clean up."
Robinson led the Huskies with 20
points while Jones and Brandon
Roy had 18. Jensen led all players
with 10 rebounds.
Oregon forward Jordan Kent suf
fered a sprained right ankle early in
the second half during a scramble
for the ball. He is questionable for
Oregon's game Saturday in Pullman
against Washington State.
That game begins at 2 p.m.
"If we don't defend, we'll be in
more ball games like this down the
stretch," Kent said.
Indeed.
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