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
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