Oregon’s Bak beats Brown,
propels Ducks to 14th win
The Ducks beat San Diego
Monday despite 8th-ranked
Daria Panova’s defeat
By Clayton Jones
Freelance Reporter
Oregon junior Ester Bak got a little
revenge sprinkled on top of her victo
ry Monday in the Oregon women's
tennis victory over San Diego.
While at Beaverton High School,
Bak lost in the 2001 Oregon High
School State Finals to San Diego's Jen
nifer Brown, who
DUCK
TENNIS
Ducks a 4-3 victory
attended North
Medford High
School. Bak
defeated
Brown Mon
day in three
sets, 6-4, 5-7,
6-2, to give the
n San Diego.
"I've played her a few times and
we've gone back and forth, but this
time I was pretty confident I could
win," Bak said. "She stepped it up in
the second set, but I'm a gamer."
Oregon's 14th win tied the single
season record for the Ducks since the
Pacific-10 conference merged into
nine teams in 1997, tying their win
total in 2002.
The Ducks got an early 1-0 advan
tage, winning the doubles point, 2
1. The team of Daria Panova and
Courtney Nagle, ranked No. 49 in
the country, won its match, 8-4,
against San Diego's Lauren Kazarian
and Brown.
The other doubles victory for the
Ducks went to Anna Leksinska and
Dominika Dieskova, which marked
their 17th win of the season, moving
them up to fourth all-time on the
Oregon single-season doubles win
list. They beat San Diego's Lauren Perl
and Lena Baensch, 8-6.
"It was important to win the dou
bles point and our match because it
turned out to be 4-3 match," Leksin
ska said.
In singles action, the upset of the
day came in the No. 1 match. Ore
gon's eighth-ranked Panova lost to
61 st-ranked Emma Murphy in
straight sets, 6-4, 6-2. The loss is
Panova's 10th of the year and keeps
her four victories from tying her
own Oregon record of 32 wins in a
single season.
In the No. 4 match, Oregon senior
Davina Mendiburu rallied from a 5-1
deficit in the second set to win her
match against Tara Livesay, 6-1,7-5.
Dieskova defeated Perl in the No. 2
singles match, 6-3, 6-1. The 18th win
for the Oregon freshman moved her
one win away from reaching the top
10 in single-season wins at Oregon.
"Illis was a great team effort today
and gives us a lot of confidence for the
rest of the season," Oregon head
coach Nils Schyllander said.
Oregon will have 10 days off until
it travels to California for the third
consecutive time and will play Long
Beach State and Pepperdine.
"We can take a few days off, the
team can focus on school and we can
take care of some of our nagging in
juries," Schyllander said.
Clayton Jones is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
SERIES
continued from page 7
inning. Oregon failed to score any
runs in the final stanza.
"We need to learn how to finish
games," Loomis said. "We need to
learn how to put away teams. We can't
just get a lead and sit on it."
In the last game of the series
against Western Washington, Matt
Mensik did not allow a hit until the
fourth inning when the Vikings took
the first lead of the game, 3-0. Un
like Saturday, Oregon immediately
answered Western Washington's
outburst, scoring five runs of its own
in the fourth inning.
The Ducks entered the sixth in
ning ahead by two, and Mensik al
lowed one run before striking out
the side with the bases loaded.
Oregon escaped the sixth inning
with a 5-4 lead and used its turn at
bat to add to it.
Douglas began the inning with a
single, and five Oregon players fol
lowed as the Ducks scored sue runs
and took an 11-4 lead.
"We need to learn how to
finish games. We need
to leam how to put away
teams. We can't just get
a lead and sit on it."
Jon Loomis
Oregon catcher
"We came into the final inning a
little overconfident," Caputo said.
"It only takes a play or two to turn
the tides."
Oregon's fate was decided in the
seventh inning. Mensik walked the
first two batters and it went downhill
from there. Western Washington
scored nine runs off four pitchers and
took the lead for good, 13-11.
"It made us realize we are beat
able," Douglas said. "It humbled us a
little bit and now we know where we
stand and what we have to do."
Oregon will play its last home
game of the season at Volcanoes Sta
dium in Keizer on Saturday at 11
a.m. against Central Oregon Com
munity College.
"It's our last series against them,"
Loomis said. "We beat them two out
of three last time, so they are going to
be looking for blood."
Rircten McEwen is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
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