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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. Her roommates help her
keep her mind off it too.
"I met her on her recruiting trip last
year," Oregon second baseman Erin
Goodell said. "I had heard a lot about
her and how good her team was. (Beth
Boskovich and I) told her she could
live with us, because on her recruiting
trip we got along well."
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at mindirice@dailyemerald.com.
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