Oregon suffers first Pac-10
losses to 'Cats, Sun Devils
After a 10-1 start, its best in 32 years, Oregon's
volleyball team sunk against both Arizona schools
BY LUKE ANDREWS
SPORTS REPORTER
Despite a successful run through
the non-conference schedule that
included the school’s best start in 32
years, the Oregon volleyball team
stumbled in its first two Pacific-10
Conference games, losing 3-0 to
both Arizona State and
No. 15 Arizona.
The Ducks (10-3 overall, 0-2 Pac
10), playing their seventh and
eighth consecutive games on the
road, were led by senior Kelly Rus
sell and her 21 kills in two games,
but the Ducks’ 47 attack errors
proved to be too much to overcome.
Oregon fell 30-21, 30-20, 30-24 to
Arizona State one night before slip
ping against Arizona 30-20,
30-19, 30-25.
Similar to last season, when the
Ducks went 9-3 in the preseason be
fore going 1-17 in the Pac-10, Ore
gon struggled in its first
conference weekend.
The Ducks hit a season low .070
against Arizona State, which won its
fifth match in six tries this season and
extended its win streak over Oregon to
15 straight matches dating back to the
1996 season.
Russell posted a double-double
against the Sun Devils, recording a
team-high 15 kills and 10 digs. She fin
ished the match with a .560
hitting percentage.
But Oregon’s 29 attack errors, eight
service errors and two ball-handling
infractions handed Arizona State 39 of
its 90 points in the three-game match.
Freshman Margie Giordano paced
the Sun Devils’ attack with 16 kills,
and Gresham native Staci Smith had
a career- high eight blocks. Arizona
State’s defense also held Oregon
freshman Mira Djuric, the Pac-10 kills
leader, to only eight kills.
The Ducks showed much-needed
signs of improvement a night later
against No. 15 Arizona, cutting their
attack errors down to 18. Oregon also
hit .200 for the match, led by junior
Kristen Bitter’s team high .467 hitting
percentage. Bitter also finished with
10 kills, one behind Djuric, who had a
team-high 11 kills.
“We played better tonight, but Ari
zona played very, very well,” first-year
head coach Jim Moore said. “We
learned some things tonight, and had
we played like this against Arizona
State, the end result may have looked
a little different.”
Arizona (10-1, 2-0) was led offen
sively by Jennifer Abernathy’s match
high 20 kills. The Wildcats hit .364 as
a team and had seven aces on the
match to Oregon’s one.
“Up until intermission was the
best I had seen (Arizona) play in the
last three years,” Wildcats head
coach David Rubio said. “It was one
of the few times that I have felt we
played a really gobd match from
start to finish.”
The Ducks held a lead in the third
game, but one of Kim Glass’ 10 kills
gave the Wildcats a 16-15 lead that
they would not relinquish. Glass
also finished the match with 12 digs
to collect her sixth double-double of
the season.
“We did some good things at the
end, but we have to learn how to stay
with Pac-10 competition every game
and every match,” Moore said.
The Ducks have a prime opportuni
ty on Thursday when they host No. 25
California at McArthur Court. Then on
Saturday, defending national champi
on Stanford comes to Eugene and will
be Oregon’s third ranked opponent in
as many games. Both matches against
the Bears and Cardinal begin at 7 p.m.
kuidrews@dailyemerald.com
Soccer: Smith lessens pressure on Garbin
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can play with her back to goal and set
Garbin up, set (Andrea Valadez) up —
set somebody else up from there. ”
Smith made six shots on goal, and
the sophomore was moved from mid
field to forward prior to the game. The
move paid almost immediate divi
dends, with the Eugene native creating
shots and placing less pressure on
leading scorer Nicole Garbin.
With Pacific-10 Conference play ap
proaching, Erickson said they don’t
want to have teams simply focusing on
Garbin, Oregon’s leading scorer with
six goals.
“I liked some of the runs from our
forwards,” Erickson said. “We worked
on some more attack. Now we just
need to finish, and that’s something
that’s a mental (thing) ... you can
work on it all you want, but come
game time you got to put those
ones away.”
Smith blasted a shot on goal with
16:06 left in the first half, breaking be
tween two South Dakota defenders
who appeared ready to clear the ball,
before Smith controlled it and booted
the shot that South Dakota’s Davis had
to knock down and grab.
“We need to shoot more — coming
from everybody,” Smith said.
“Garbin’s under a lot of pressure.”
Garbin did have her chances — sev
eral on breakaways with shots going
slightly awry. Going elbow-to-elbow
with a South Dakota State defender,
shooting a looping shot at the goal
keeper and a second-half breakaway
that ended with a shot off her left foot
that went wide left, amounted to a
frustrating night.
Smith’s performance helped, which
Garbin said she expects after seeing
her in practice.
“She’s constantly working, support
ing, on and off the ball,” Garbin said.
Oregon sponsored a fund raiser Fri
day to aid Tlilane’s soccer program,
which has moved to Texas in the after
math of Hurricane Katrina. Members
of the soccer parents group “The
Quacks” handed out green ribbons in
exchange for monetary donations Fri
day and at the soccer team’s official
tailgate party before the Oregon-USC
football game.
Oregon and TUlane are working to
set up a home series starting
in 2007.
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