Oregon's women
take 13th at ASU
Therese Wenslow finished
tied for 22nd in Tempe, Ariz.,
at the PING/ASU Invitational
By Brian Smith
Freelance Reporter
Mother Nature, it seems, has it in
for the Oregon women's golf team
this spring.
After being forced off the course by
persistent thunderstorms, the Ducks
were never able to climb the talented
leaderboard. In the end, Oregon fin
ished in 13th place at the 2004
PING/ASU Invitational in Tempe,
Ariz., snapping their streak of six con
secutive top 10 finishes.
The inclement weather forced the
Ducks to wait and finish the first
round of the
tournament
on Saturday.
GOLF "The first
- delay we had
was about an
hour and a half long," Oregon coach
Shannon Rouillard said. "The second
(delay) was exactly an hour, and with
^ all the lightning and rain, the officials
* finally decided to call it."
When play was halted on Friday,
k the Ducks, as a team, completed
eight holes on the 6,230-yard, par-72
Karsten Golf Course. Two of the
Ducks, sophomore Michelle Tim
pani and junior less Carlyon, were
able to finish six holes in their open
ing rounds.
The suspension of play was a mixed
blessing, providing some players with
the opportunity to start anew, but for
others, the weather put a halt to solid
opening rounds.
"I took it as a benefit," Tipmani
said. "I got off to a rough start. I was
six over when play was suspended,
and ended up finishing the rest of the
round at even par. But for the girls
who were playing well, it was tough."
Improvement continued on Sun
day. The Ducks, behind sophomore
Therese Wenslow's final round 73 and
Timpani's 75, finished with a team
score of 299 to give them a tourna
ment score of 915, four strokes ahead
of Texas Christian, which finished tied
with Oregon State. As much as the
Ducks improved, however, so did the
rest of the field. Tournament champi
on and second-ranked UCLA re
turned to form after its opening
round 295 by shooting 284 and 282
in the second and third rounds, re
spectively. USC finished in second,
sixteen strokes back, while sixth
ranked New Mexico fired a team total
881, to finish third.
Individually, Wenslow continued
her strong spring play. Her tie for
22nd gives her three straight top 25
finishes, including a tie for second at
the Duck Invitational and a tie for
11th at the Colby Invitational.
"I've been practicing a lot lately,"
Wenslow said. "It's nice, now that I
am scoring better. I just need to make
some more putts, however."
Brian Smith is a freelance writer for the
Emerald.
VICTORY
continued from page 7
Thirty-eighth ranked junior Sven
Swinnen led the Ducks with a three-set
victory, 6-2,4-6,6-4, over Arizona State
senior Chris Stewart.
The victory gave the Swiss-born
Swinnen a tie for fourth on the all-time
^Oregon list with 55 match wins. Swin
nen also moved up to a tie for ninth
place on Oregon's all-time single-sea
son victory list with 19.
"Sven knows what it takes to win
matches, and when he sticks with his
game plan he is hard to beat," Rus
sell said.
The Ducks fell behind early when
Arizona State captured the doubles
point, but quickly tied it up when Ore
gon junior Manuel Kost made quick
work of Arizona State junior Clinton
Letcher, 6-2, 6-2. The victory marks the
third in a row for Kost.
Sophomore Arron Spencer clinched
the victory for Oregon when he defeat
ed Arizona State's Ryan McBride in two
straight tie-breakers for a 7-6,7-6 win.
'There's obviously nerves, but I was
in the same spot against Stanford and
that gave me confidence that I could
win a match in the tie-breaker,"
Spencer said.
The Ducks home-court advantage
didn't work in their favor Friday, as
they lost to Arizona 5-2.
The Wildcats came out swinging and
defeated the Ducks, 2-1, in doubles to
pick up the first point Oregon's lone vic
tory came from Swinnen and Spencer,
marking their 14th victory of the year,
moving them to 10th all-time for single
I
season doubles victories at Oregon.
While the Ducks won the top two
positions in singles with victories from
Swinnen and Kost, Arizona swept the
rest of the matches to pick up the win.
"Every one of their guys played to
win the match and that was the differ
ence," Russell said.
Women's team goes 1-1
on road trip
The Oregon women's tennis team's
three-match winning streak was halted
Friday by 7’ulsa, 5-2, but the Ducks re
bounded for a 4-3 victory Saturday
over San Diego State in California.
Eighth-ranked junior Daria Panova
picked up her 28th victory of the sea
son by shutting out Dita Hauerlando
va, 6-0,6-0. Sophomore Anna Leksins
ka clinched the match for the Ducks,
defeating Patricia Graf, 6-4,4-6,6-4.
"The match was a great college battle
and with a lot of players playing hurt,
Anna (Leksinska) and the rest of the
team stepped up to the challenge," Ore
gon head coach Nils Schyllander said.
The Ducks started their match
strong against Tulsa on Friday, sweep
ing the doubles play and picking up an
early 1-0 lead, but they could only win
one more match the rest of the day
with Leksinska's three-set victory over
Timberly Greenly, 6-2,2-6, 7-5.
"We had so much momentum af
ter winning the doubles point,"
Schyllander said. "We just got out
played in singles."
The women conclude their road trip
today against San Diego.
Clayton Jones is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
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