The Ducks took on No. 40 Washington in its third-straight match against a ranked team and came away with its fourth-straight lost.

The doubles point was lost by the Ducks in a tiebreaker match between Washington’s Elianne Douglass-Miron and Riko Shimizu and Oregon’s Sofia Hager and Nicole Long.

Oregon’s No. 3 doubles win between Marlou Kluiving/Allie Hueffner and Washington’s Andjela Nemcevic/Jilija Lukac was sizable. The Kluiving/Hueffner combo came away with a 8-3 victory. However, Jasmine Minor and Lina Åkesson weren’t able to hold off Natali Coronel and Grace Ysidora, losing 8-4.

When singles came around, the Ducks didn’t fare any better.

Jasmine Minor logged the only win (6-1, 6-4) for Oregon in the No. 2 match against Grace Ysidora. The win broke Minor’s five-game losing streak.

“It felt good,” Minor said to GoDucks.com about the win. “I actually took a lot of confidence from spring break because my quality of play was getting much better. I definitely got my energy back this week after that nine-day road trip.”

The No. 5 and No. 6 matches both went to Washington as Allie Hueffner and Åkesson lost 3-6, 3-6 and 2-6, 4-6, respectively. However the match which clinched it for Washington was the No. 3 singles. It was there that Julija Lukac defeated Hager 6-4, 6-2.

“I thought we responded pretty well after losing the doubles point in a tiebreaker,” assistant coach Maja Kovacek said of the Ducks’ performance. “We battled for the doubles point which was nice, but it was one of our longest doubles matches lasting about an hour and 40 minutes. We need to be more comfortable playing a couple of spots and we need to be able to put away points to win against good teams.”

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[Originally published here by the Daily Emerald on April 6, 2014]