OJAI, Calif. – Oregon put up a strong fight in doubles before falling in the opening point, and couldn’t bounce back from a slow start in singles in a 4-0 loss to No. 18 Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship quarterfinals Thursday night.
The Ducks will now wait until May 2 to find out their NCAA Tournament fate, currently with a 15-8 overall record.
How It Happened: The Ducks battled in doubles but ultimately came up short. After falling, 6-2, at the No. 3 spot, the other two UO pairs took their matches down to the wire at No. 1 and 3. Uxia Martinez Moral and Sophie Luescher gave the No. 13 doubles pair in the country in Connie Ma and Angelica Blake of Stanford all they could handle, pushing their match to 5-5 before it was halted. Lillian Mould and Ares Teixido Garcia led 4-1 but ended up falling, 6-4, with the Cardinal winning the match on a deciding point to lock up doubles.
In singles, the Ducks couldn’t overcome some slow starts as they fell in the opening set at five of the six spots. Teixido Garcia lost 6-3, 6-2 at the No. 3 spot to make it 2-0 before Misaki Kobayashi fell 6-2, 6-2 at No. 6 and Myah Petchey dropped her match at the second spot, 6-2, 6-2, to No. 21 Alexandra Yepifanova, clinching the match for Stanford.
Martinez Moral was the only Duck to take an opening set as her match…
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