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Daria Panova lost her first match of 2004 as the Ducks lost in Washington.
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opportunity slip away." Three Ducks
headed into the contest with perfect
singles records, but all three came out
with their first loss of the year.
That included Panova, the No. 8 sin
gles player in the country, who lost at
the No. 1 position to the 35th-ranked
Carter in three sets, 6-3, 5-7,1-0 (5).
Senior Davina Mendiburu also suf
fered her first defeat, against Dinka
Hadzic at the No. 4 position in straight
sets, 6-2, 6-0. Mendiburu had not lost
one singles match the entire year dat
ing back to fall preseason tourna
ments. Her record now stands at 9-1.
At the No. 6 position, junior Ester Bak
earned the lone singles win by triumph
ing over Monika Kolbovic, 6-2,7-5.
Against Washington State, the dou
bles portion proved to be the tiebreak
er as the two teams split the six singles
matches.
"It was a good win for us," Schyl
lander said. "It was a tough place to
play, but we came through when we
needed it."
The two games will not count to
ward the conference record, but the
teams will play in Eugene next month.
The schedule only gets tougher for
the Ducks when they travel to the Bay
Area to take on a pair of top-five
schools. The women resume confer
ence play to face No. 1 Stanford on Fri
day and No. 4 California on Saturday.
Men's weekend called off
The Oregon men's matches against
host UC-Santa Barbara and No. 22
Oklahoma State in Santa Clara, Calif,
were canceled due to rain.
The Ducks (6-1 overall) return
home to face No. 23 Rice on Friday
and play the first match in the confer
ence against No. 10 Washington on
Saturday at the Student Tennis Center.
Alex Tam is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Boss doesn't appreciate
Henry's comments
TAMPA, Fla. — Further annoyed at
John 1 lenry for the Boston Red Sox
owner's public comments Saturday
comparing him to Don Rickies, Yan
kee owner George Steinbrenner is
planning to file a grievance with the
commissioner's office against Henry,
according to sources.
Steinbrenner, the sources said, feels
that Henry violated an edict from Bud
Selig last Thursday by talking to re
porters again about the verbal bean
balls the two sides have been throw
ing at each other. Selig told both men
to shut up when their sniping got
white-hot.
It's another in a long line of recent
events that could make the front-office
rivalry between the teams the equal of
the juicy one of the field. It's almost as
if the owners are trying to one-up the
amazing, seven-game ALCS the two
teams played in October, which the
Yankees won on Aaron Boone's 11 th
inning home run in Game 7.
It all started when Henry, a former
limited partner in the Yankees, sent an
E-mail to reporters saying that base
ball should have a salary cap to deal
with the Yankees' "insane resources."
He added that the game "didn't have
an answer for the Yankees."
An angry Steinbrenner released a
statement that chided the Sox for los
ing out on Alex Rodriguez, the star
who once seemed destined to be
traded to Boston. Rodriguez himself
said yesterday that it felt like "there
were about three-fourths of my body
that was wearing a Red Sox uniform."
But the Yankees eventually stunned
baseball by trading for A-Rod and, in
some way, trumping the Sox
"We understand that John Henry
must be embarrassed, frustrated and
disappointed by his failure in this
transaction," Steinbrenner's statement
read. "Unlike the Yankees, he chose
not to go the extra distance for his fans
in Boston. It is understandable, but
wrong, that he would try to deflect the
accountability for his mistakes onto
others and to a system for which he
voted in favor."
— Bill Madden and Anthony McCarron
New York Daily News
Pettitte, Clemens
get accustomed to Astros
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Brad Ausmus
looked up while stretching. He saw
the crowd, a thick one, three rows
deep. Rarely do stretching Houston
Astros receive this much attention,
especially in February.
'That was different" the catcher said.
Where hype is concerned, every
thing is different here. Pitchers Roger
Clemens and Andy Pettitte have re
turned home Now, it's as if the people
of I Iouston drink wine and smell ros
es each day. The love has ventured to
Florida, and the Astros have six weeks
to prepare for arguably the most antic
ipated season in their history.
"I'm as excited as ever to be here and
get this thing started," Clemens said.
Clemens couldn't miss this. He ex
ited the shortest of retirements to
pitch with Pettitte again. Only a hun
dred million Steinbrenner dollars
ago, Clemens and Pettitte were pitch
ing for the New York Yankees. It was
the World Series. Clemens was in Mi
ami, supposedly pitching his final
game
It was a stunning ending. Appar
ently, it was not the fitting one. So
Clemens, the ultimate worker, the
most vicious competitor, will try
again. The legend and one of base
ball's most accomplished left-han
ders join a team already good enough
to have playoff aspirations.
And so here we are, at a giddy
news conference, watching the two
joke on each other like brothers.
— Jerry Brewer
The Orlando Sentinel
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