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POWER continued from page 7 The next year, Arendsen received a phone call one day from Vaque ras head coach Craig Nicholson. Nicholson called to let his friend Arendsen know he had a pitcher she needed to look at. "When he gave me the name and said she's from Canada, I'm going 'oh my god, I know who she is,'" Arendsen said. "1 was like, 'All right, we're interested. We want her. What can we do?"' In speeding up their schedule to recruit Nyhus by an entire year, the trio found a pitcher who is work ing her way up the Oregon top-10 lists and record books, and at the same time, lending a hand in rewriting the conference's — and nation's — perception of what was a struggling Oregon program as re cently as two years ago. This weekend, the scene for Oregon softball — or at least this season — may very well rest in Nyhus' glove and on the dirt of Howe Field. Friday, the No. 12 Ducks (32-11 overall, 6-3 Pac-10) host Arizona State (30-21, 0-7) at 2 p.m.. The weekend games come at 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday when No. 1 Arizona (43-1, 7-0) rolls into Howe Field. Like the rest of her team, Nyhus knows not to overlook Arizona State, even though the No. 1 ranked Wildcats are at the front of everyone's mind. Both teams are on Nyhus' radar because they were the first schools that interested her after her stay at Central Arizona. "I wanted to go to Arizona or Arizona State to stay in Arizona be cause I liked it a lot there," Nyhus said. "But with (Arizona's) Alicia Hollowell coming in my sopho more year as a freshman there, I knew, after seeing what she had posted, that I wouldn't get any pitching time. Their head coach kind of said the same thing to me — that he would take me but he had no use for me right then. Swinnen falls but Panova wins in California Daria Panova impressed in winning her first two matches at the Pacific-10 Championships in Ojai, Calif. By Clayton Jones Freelance Reporter The highest ranking in Oregon men's tennis history didn't help jun ior Sven Swinnen. Swinnen was ousted in the first round of the Pacific-10 men's Individ ual Tennis Championships on Thurs day in Ojai, Calif. Swinnen, ranked 17th in the nation, didn't have his serve broken once throughout the three-set thriller, but couldn't break through Arizona's Colin O'Grady's and lost, 7-6,6-7, 7-6. "I think if you look at it the right way, this could be a blessing," Oregon head coach Chris Russell said. "Swin nen just doesn't get disappointed after a loss; he analyzes what he needs to improve and goes out and gets better." Russell said the loss will give Swin nen the time to isolate some aspects of his game he needs to improve be fore the NCAA singles tournament. Oregon's lone singles player still alive is junior Manuel Kost. The Swiss born Kost powered his way over Ari zona's Whi Kim, 6-4, 6-3, and avenged an earlier loss this season to UCLA's Luben Pampoulov, defeating the Bruin in three sets, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5. Erik R. Bishoff Photographer Daria Panova, seen here earlier this season, won her first two matches of the Pacific-10 Conference Championships in Ojai, Calif., to advance to Friday. "He out-played Kim and his serve was just too big," Russell said, "Against Pampoulov, he had him play extra tennis by volleying. He stepped up and earned this win." Kost will play No. 31 Adriano Biasellia of Southern California today at noon in the quarterfinals. In Oregon's other two matches, Markus Schiller lost to No. 11 Sam Warburg of Stanford, 6-2, 7-5, and Thomas Bieri lost to USC's Jasmil Al Agba, 7-6, 6-0. "Both of them played their asses off in spots and if they can step up and do that throughout the whole match, it will help the team out tremendous ly," Russell said. Panova breezes to quarterfinals Oregon's Daria Panova continued her quest for a second-straight Pac-10 individual outdoor title by defeating Arizona State's Joslynn Burkett, 4-6, 6 2, 6-2, and 39th-ranked Theresa Logar of Stanford, 6-2, 6-2, to move her way into today's quarterfinals. Panova said her first-set struggles were due to the shadows on the court. "It took me a set to get used to the courts, but after I adjusted I did what I needed to do to win the match," she said. "Daria just had some first-round jit ters and once she got that out of her system, she didn't make any mis takes," Oregon head coach Nils Schyl lander said. Oregon's Dominika Dieskova overpowered her first opponent, but a battle with dehydration in her sec ond match slowed the freshman from Slovakia. She was defeated, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1, by 12th-ranked Alice Bames of Stanford. "Dominika was playing very well and it's a shame this happened to her," Schyllander said. Courtney Nagle finished her singles career at Oregon, losing in the first round to Dea Sumantri of Washing ton, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. "I was most impressed with Court ney and how she played her match to day," Schyllander said. "She played a great match and should be proud." Clayton Jones is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. "I wanted to go to a program that was going to be successful," she added. Being careful with her pitching has a new meaning for Nyhus. The White Rock, British Columbia native was used to just blowing pitches by every batter she faced. "You're going to face the best in the nation every game," Nyhus said about the Pac-10. "UCLA was really my first look at that — I had to focus and be smart all the way through the order. Their No. 7 hitter hit a home run off me (Sunday). I mean, there are no weak spots in that lineup. Our team is the same way. Every team that we look at, there is so much talent all the way through the order that you have to be careful with every batter." When she arrived in Eugene, Ny hus was in the process of overcoming an injury she sustained during her summer playing for the Canadian National Team. Add in White, Ore gon's pitching coach, and her recov ery was combined with essentially learning how to pitch — something she had been doing since she was six — all over again. "We noticed right away that she had some mechanical things we thought we could improve on," White said. "It's not that she wasn't a good pitcher already, it's just a matter of we thought we could change some things and make her into an even better pitcher." Oregon might not be the only team to benefit from her improve ment. Nyhus' participation on the Canadian National Team means that she is in the running for a spot on the final roster for the Athens Olympics in 2004. That roster will be an nounced later this month. In the meantime, Nyhus is concen trating on the Ducks and trying not to worry about what might happen north of the border. 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