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practicing against Kraayeveld and
Bills the last two seasons. She im
proved her strength this summer to
take advantage of her large frame.
Oregon also expects contribu
tions from juniors Haring and Cice
ly Oaks as well as sophomore
Kaela Chapdelaine.
Put together, Oregon has a blend of
basketball experience touching all
parts of the globe.
“Everybody on this team brings
something different,” Nurse said.
Coaching changes
Nurse is one piece of the multi
cultural feel to the women’s bas
ketball team that includes players
from three countries. It extends to
their coaching staff, where native
Australian Brown joins Smith’s
staff after assistants Allison and
Mike McNeill left after last season.
Having 20 years experience at
the Australian Institute of Sport,
Brown gets his first Division I
experience this season. The adjust
ment as part of an evolving coach
ing staff with Selena Ho also join
ing is going smoothly, Brown said.
Peg Swadener enters her third year
on staff.
Joining a team coming off a sec
ond round appearance in the
NCAA Tournament and veteran
laden, Brown is optimistic.
“We’ve got speed. We got some
size,” Brown said. “We got some
experience and I think we’ll be
able to over time ... bring that into
a very cohesive unit.”
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early leads against
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Coming off a losing weekend, the Ducks return
to Mac Court looking to win against USC, UCLA
BY JEFFREY DRANSFELDT
SPORTS REPORTER
This wasn’t the Oregon volleyball
team’s ideal result. TWo road matches
quickly ended within six games.
Oregon lost to Stanford and Califor
nia last Thursday and Friday, respec
tively, and now returns home to face
the Los Angeles schools this week.
Oregon (11-11 overall, 1-10 conference)
plays six of its final eight matches at
McArthur Court.
The Ducks’ schedule doesn’t get
any easier this week. USC comes to
town on Thursday and UCLA meets
Oregon on Friday.
Starting its trip at Stanford, Oregon
held leads in each game before losing.
Oregon had leads of 2-1 and 10-8
in game one. Stanford then took
control and led 29-19 before win
ning the game 30-20 on a kill by
outside hitter Kristin Richards.
Game two was similar with an early
5-4 Oregon lead disappeared in a 9-2
Stanford run. Oregon recovered to tie
the game 17-17 before a 6-0 Cardinal
run led to a 30-23 win.
Oregon took another lead, 5-4, in
game three until Stanford tied the
match at nine apiece. Stanford utilized
runs of 6-0 and 10-0 to take control.
Mira Djuric, who had five service er
rors in the match, had two service aces
to bring Oregon within 27-20 before
another service error as the Ducks lost
the game 30-20 and the match in less
than an hour and a half.
Oregon had a .110 hitting percentage
compared to Stanford’s .346.
Freshman outside hitter Djuric
had 12 kills and senior Jaclyn Jones
had eight kills. Stephanie Alleman
filled in for injured libero Katie Swo
boda with 15 kills.
Stanford adjusted to the absence of
injured outside hitter Cynthia Bar
boza. Barboza was second in fresh
men to Djuric in the Pac-10 kills lead
before suffering a torn anterior cruci
ate ligament in a match against Cal
the previous week.
“We’re in a position of trying to rein
vent ourselves right now,” Stanford
head coach John Dunning told one
media outlet. “I think a lot of people
don’t understand what it’s like to be in
the position our team is in right now.
Losing a big person on your team to in
jury is really difficult, and I’m really
proud of the effort (Thursday). ”
Stanford received strong play from
Richards and middle blocker Foluke
Akinradewo as each had 17 kills.
Oregon State, the Ducks’ in-state
rivals, may have played a role in
making the Ducks’ next opponent,
Cal, more focused. Oregon State up
set Cal in five games the night be
fore Oregon traveled to Berkeley.
The Golden Bears played like a team
trying to make a statement by
sweeping Oregon in three games.
Oregon head coach Jim Moore em
phasized before leaving that Oregon
had to control its side. Against Cal,
Oregon hurt itself by committing 22
attack errors and 12 service errors.
Oregon only had a . 109 hitting per
centage to .308 for Cal.
Jones posted nine kills for Oregon.
Kristen Bitter highlighted Oregon
with eight kills and a .316 hitting per
centage. Cal also contained freshman
standout Djuric as they held her to
six kills. The Cal match marked only
the second time in 22 matches a team
held Djuric to less than 10 kills. Alle
man had another strong effort with a
match-high 17 digs.
Cal’s Jenna Brown and Samantha
Carter had record-setting nights.
Brown became the fifth player in
Cal history to have more than 1,000
career kills and 1,000 career digs.
She had seven kills against Oregon.
Carter had 38 assists and jumped to
second on Cal’s career assists
list with 3,849, passing Olympian
Holly McPeak.
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