Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
March 9, 1998

UA Roundup

Women's tennis struggles in Bay Area

Every tennis match has a touch of gray.

Try singing that tune to the Arizona women's tennis team, who failed to survive against

fifth-ranked Stanford and seventh-ranked California during a weekend trip to the Golden State.

No. 23 Arizona was routed 7-1 by the Cardinal Friday. Stanford (15-0, 6-0 in the Pacific 10 Conference) won for the 33rd-straight time by firing bulls eyes in all six singles matches.

"They are a very good team, but we weren't totally out-classed," freshman Michelle Gough said.

Stanford's Julie Scott and Ania Bleszynski, the nation's number one doubles tandem, also prolonged a winning tradition by defeating UA's Monique Allegre and Betsy Miringoff 8-4 to claim their 16th victory of the season.

Gough and fellow freshman Vanessa Abel avoided the shutout by scoring an 8-2 win over Jennifer Heiser and Sarah Pestieau.

"We were more relaxed knowing that we had already lost (as a team)," Gough said.

Saturday, the Bears scratched out a 6-3 Pac-10 triumph.

The match had to be moved indoors after rain drops coated the tennis courts.

"It's a lot faster indoors, but I don't know if that had an effect on our games," Gough said.

The first day at the 102nd annual Pacific Coast Doubles Championships La Jolla, Calif., for two UA doubles teams also proved to be the last.

Senior Jerome Oliveri and sophomore partner Michel Stopa advanced to the second round after a 6-4, 6-2 win over a William and Mary team but were tamed 6-4, 6-3 by Stanford's Paul Goldstein and Ryan Wolters later that day.

Brian Jackson and Mike Huss, UA freshmen, fell in both the first round (to the College of the Desert) and the first round doubles consolation final (to Notre Dame).

-Michael Isaac Jacobs

UA men's swimming team finishes fifth in Pac-10

The UA men's swimming team finished fifth out of six teams at the Pacific 10 Conference Swimming Championships. Stanford won its 17th-consecutive Pac-10 Championship, followed by Southern Cal, California, Arizona State, UA, and Washington.

UA sophomore Ryk Neethling set a conference record in the 1,650-meter freestyle event. His time of 14:47.38 shattered the previous record by over 16 seconds. Neethling finished third in the 200 free (1:36.94), an event which he was favored to win, by a mere .65 of a second.

In the same event, freshman Jay Schryver finished seventh with a time of 1:38.26. Freshman Ben Anderson finished seventh in the 200 butterfly in 1:48.35.

In the relays, UA finished fifth in the 200, 400, and 800 free events.

-Bryan Rosenbaum