Table tennis
The Oregon table tennis club kicked off its league play at a five-team tournament Oct. 7 at Portland State University. The entire Northwest Division, consisting of Lewis and Clark, Western Washington, Oregon State, Oregon, and hosting Portland State, competed in the event. Each squad seeded its own players prior to the event, placing members in matches against players with a similar ranking. Oregon’s men’s squad finished second, while the Duck women, with the help of Tina Chen, took home the title. Chen may soon be asked to switch sides and give the men’s team a boost, particularly because the women’s team is looking strong.
“With the teams they’re playing right now, they have a good chance to win without her,” team coordinator Andrew Delaney said.
Club sailing
The University sailing club took to the water this weekend for its first out-of-state competition of the season. At the Stoney Burke Regatta off of Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay Oct. 6-8, the Oregon team of Taylor Chittick, Rob Dubuc, Beth Otto and Jessica Andrews sailed in a total of nine races over the course of almost seven hours placing 11th in a field of 22 teams. In individual races, Chittick chalked up a fifth-place finish, while Dubuc crossed the line in sixth. This performance comes on the heels of the club’s second-place finish at the Northwest Sloop Qualifiers, held in Eugene Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.
“(We need to work on) consistency and finishing,” Chittick said. “If you finish sixth in every race you’ll probably end up third overall, but if you get a third and a thirteenth, you might end up tenth.”
The club travels to Seattle next weekend for a regatta sponsored by the Washington Huskies.