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SPORTS BRIEFS Oregon men, women finish regular season The regular season ended in dra matic fashion for the Oregon women's tennis team. The 34th-ranked Ducks (16-8 over all, 2-6 Pacific-10 Conference) defeat ed No. 36 Pepperdine, 4-3, in Malibu, Calif., Saturday for their fourth con secutive victory. The 16 wins is the fourth highest win total in the pro gram's history and is the team's best record since the 1992-93 campaign. Senior Davina Mendiburu sealed the victory for Oregon, despite losing the first set to Pepperdine's Karin Schlap bach, in a three-set thriller, 2-6,7-6,6-2. "There is not enough you can say about the way the team performed," Oregon head coach Nils Schyllander said. "Davina had to save three match points and the rest of the team played with tremendous heart. It was a phenomenal way to end the regular season." The Ducks started the dual match off well after sweeping the three dou bles matches to earn the first point. 'Hie No. 43-ranked tandem of junior Daria Panova and senior Courtney Nagle started things off with an 8-3 victory over Carolina Raba and Charlotte Vemaz. The doubles point proved crucial as the teams split the six singles match es. Panova continued her singles dominance at the No. 1 position when she overcame 33rd-ranked Na talie Braverman, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, to im prove her record to 29-11. Sophomore Anna Leksinska con tinued her impressive late-season play when she defeated Eva Dickies at the No. 5 position in straight sets, 6-4, 7 5. The victory gave Leksinska her 17th win on the year. On Friday, the women squeaked by Long Beach State, 4-3, behind fresh man Dominika Dieskova's 19th win of the year, a straight sets defeat of Kelly Chan, 6-4, 6-2, at the No. 2 position. The 49ers dominated early on, winning each of the three doubles matches. Oregon's only hope was to win at least four singles matches and it did. Senior Ester Bak clinched the match when Long Beach State's Clau dia Argumedo retired in the second set, 6-4, 5-4. "I give a lot of credit to Long Beach, they played really hard," Schyllander said. "We were down early but we bat tled back and won the match on a day where we didn't play our best tennis." On the men's side, Oregon failed to defeat No. 22 Washington for the second time this season with a 6-1 loss in Seattle. The Ducks won the doubles point but ended up losing all six singles matches. "I am extremely proud of our guys," head coach Chris Russell said. "Wash ington played about as well as anyone — we just could not get any breaks." —Alex Tam Duck men finish eighth The Oregon men's golf team did all it could do this weekend. Needing a good showing in the fi nal tournament of the season before the Pacific-10 Championships, the Ducks delivered an eighth place finish at the U S. Intercollegiate, held on the 6,786-yard, par-71 Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, Calif. More importantly, Oregon beat most of the teams it needed to beat to have a chance at securing one of the final three automatic bids to next month's NCAA West Regionals. The Ducks finished ahead of five of the seven teams in contention with three solid rounds of golf, something that they have not been able to do all year. "I think we certainly helped our case by beating those five teams, but there are certainly a couple of others in the mix as far as regionals are con cerned," Oregon head coach Steve Nosier said. "We just need a good showing at Pac-lOs and anything we can do there will help our cause." The biggest surprise for the Ducks was the play of sophomore Justin St. Clair. St. Clair carded his third top 20 of his career and led the Ducks with his 72-73-72-217, good for a 4-over par tie for 19th. "There were some pretty good play ers in this field," Nosier said. "So for Justin to go out and finish in the top 20 is a pretty good accomplishment." Senior Mike Sica and sophomore Gregg LaVoie finished tied for 29th, at 7-over par 220. Freshman Matt Ma re bounded from an opening round 79 with a 72-73 to finish tied for 44th. Sophomore Kyle Johnson finished tied for 84th with a 233. Individually, San Diego State's Aaron Goldberg took home medalist honors with his 4-under 67 on Sunday, to finish with an 8-under 205. Gold berg finished three strokes better than UCLA's John Merrick and four better than UC-Riverside's Brendan Steele. UCLA took home the team title by shooting a 14-under 838. San Diego State finished second at 855, followed by No. 17 California at 867 and UC-Irvine at 869. Tournament host Stanford and No. 7 Texas finished tied for fifth at 872. The Ducks will now turn their atten tion to next week's conference champi onships, held April 26-28 at The Gallery Golf Course in Marana, Ariz. — Brian Smith 2 O O 4 WANT TO LIVE IN THE HALLS NEXT YEAR? 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