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Oregon women upset by Cougars
The Oregon women were
handed a tough 4-3 loss
on senior day against No. 58
Washington State Saturday
By Alex Tam
Freelance Reporter
The Oregon women's tennis team
did not imag
ine its last
homestand of
the season
_ ending this
way.
The Ducks (9-7 overall, 2-6 Pacific
10 Conference) lost their seventh
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straight dual match, 4-3, to No. 58
Washington State on Saturday.
Up 3-0 and needing one more win
to clinch a victory, the women were
stunned when they dropped the last
four singles contests in one of the
toughest losses of the year.
Oregon's best chance of winning
the match came before an injury
forced senior Courtney Nagle to retire.
"It was a close, hard-fought match,"
Oregon head coach Nils Schyllander
said. "It was a battle out there It was very
unfortunate that Courtney got hurt"
Nagle appeared on the verge of
closing out the victory for the Ducks
after winning the first set. However, a
back injury suffered during that set
became more painful as the match
wore on, Nagle said. The injury even
tually hampered her ability to serve
and she retired at the beginning of the
third set to lose 3-6,6-2 and 1-0 (ret.)
to the Cougars' senior Lorena Arias.
"It sucks because I knew 1 was go
ing to beat (Arias)," Nagle said. "I was
playing really well. I wanted to stay
out there as much as I could, but I
couldn't. It was really disappointing."
Nagle's teammates said they also felt
frustrated that they could not win on
senior day and that another opportuni
ty passed to snap their losing streak.
"1 feel very sorry for (Courtney),"
sophomore Dominika Dieskova said.
"I hope next time we can win and it
will make her happy. (Washington
State) came all fired up, but I feel very
bad because I feel we were better than
they were at every single spot."
Oregon dominated early on by
sweeping all three doubles matches to
take a 1-0 lead. Dieskova and sopho
more Anna Leksinska teamed up to
overcome the Cougars' duo of Arias
and junior Zsofia Fodor, 8-4, at the
No. 2 spot.
Dieskova then gave the Ducks a 2
0 lead after she easily handled junior
Nora Gaal in straight sets, 6-3 and 6-3,
at the No. 3 position in singles.
"I think I played really well,"
Dieskova said. "I was ready because I
knew it was a big opportunity for us."
Oregon then increased its lead to 3
0 when junior Daria Panova
triumphed over third-year Cougar Or
solya Sallai, 6-3 and 6-3, at the No. 1
position. Panova, ranked eighth in the
country, improved her singles record
to 10-4 this year.
But Washington State charged back
to tie up the score at 3-3 after Fodor
beat Oregon sophomore Jamie Mar
shall in three sets, 7-6, 1-6 and 6-2.
The Ducks had one last chance to
claim the victory, but senior Davina
Mendiburu's comeback attempt in
the third set fell short. Washington
State's Chris Martinez battled after
losing the second set to win, 6-3, 4-6
and 6-3, against Mendiburu at the
No. 4 position.
The women end the conference sea
son the same way as the 2002-03 sea
son by finishing at 2-6 despite winning
their first two conference matches.
Oregon returns to nonconference
action when it faces St. Mary's in Fres
no, Calif., on March 21.
Alex Tam is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
Skipper leads Ducks down south
The Oregon men’s track team
claimed four All-American
honors at the NCAA Indoors
By Jon Roetman
Sports Reporter
It was an All-American weekend for
the Oregon men's track team.
The Ducks received four All-Ameri
can performances during their most
successful NCAA Indoor appearance
in program history this weekend at
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The seven
entry Oregon men's contingent — the
Ducks' largest ever — finished 18th in
the overall standings with 13 points.
Oregon finished third among Pacific
10 Conference teams behind UCLA
and Arizona State (12th-place tie at
17 points apiece). The Ducks' point
tally was two off their all-time best of
15 in 2002.
Freshman Tommy Skipper led the
way for Oregon on Saturday, gamer
ing All-American honors with a sec
ond-place finish in the pole vault. The
Sandy High School phenom recorded
the second-highest mark during his
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brief NCAA career, clearing a height of
18-feet, 4 1/2 inches.
Only Washington senior Brad
Walker, the returning NCAA champi
on and indoor record holder, posted
a better mark (18-8 1/4).
"Personally, I'm a little disappointed
because I came in here going for the
win and I didn't get it," Skipper said.
'The frustrating part was that coach told
me to adjust the standard before my
first miss of the night and I forgot to tell
the officials to move them, and that def
initely contributed to the miss."
Skippeds best vault remains his Ore
gon record-breaking performance of
18-8 3/4 in February, this season's top
mark nationally. He became the Ducks'
third-ever indoor All-American pole
vaulter, along with Trevor Woods
(2002) and Piotr Buciarski (1998).
"My goals coming into indoors
were to clear 19 feet, get my Olympic
Trials qualifier and try to win the na
tional title," Skipper said. "I'm still
working on those, and getting closer,
and I have to give all the thanks in the
world to a wonderful team, coach,
university and training environment."
Three Oregon athletes tallied All
American performances on Friday.
Sophomore Eric Mitchum claimed
honors in the 60-meter hurdles. The
Calumet City, 111., native finished with
the top time in his class — sixth best
overall — at 7.74 seconds. The mark
was Mitchum's second-fastest ever and
placed him 13 seconds behind event
winner Antwon Hicks of Mississippi.
"I wasn't intimidated coming in
and was ready to try and give it my all
in the final," Mitchum said. "I floated
a little over the first hurdle and that
slowed me some and really cost me. I
made up a little in the middle, but
you can't make any mistakes when
somebody wins in 7.61.1 can't be too
upset, though. I'm an All-American
and I'm still building towards the out
door season."
Senior Ryan Andrus accepted hon
ors in the 5,000 meters with a sev
enth-place finish. The Orem, Utah,
native's time of 14:03.21 in the 25-lap
race was 23.58 behind event-winner
and returning outdoor champion Al
istair Cragg of Arkansas.
Redshirt junior Leonidas Watson
added a third All-American honor to
the Oregon resume with a ninth-place
finish in the long jump. The St. Louis
Community College transfer recorded
a distance of 25-2 1/2 and missed the
final scoring place (eighth) by one inch.
On the women's side, redshirt jun
ior Magdalena Sandoval was in posi
tion to crack the top 10 in Friday's
5,000, but lost momentum in the fi
nal kilometer and dropped back to
17th. Her final time of 16:29.69 was
1:15.51 behind event-winner Kim
Smith of Providence.
Contact the sports reporter
at jonroetman@dailyemerald.com.
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