SportsScope : Undefeated Bruin Women Spikers Hit Oregon Trail

The top-ranked UCLA women’s volleyball team (16-0 and 9-0 in the Pacific 10 Conference as the week began) will be in Oregon this weekend. The Bruins will meet No. 20 Oregon on Friday and Oregon State on Saturday.

Last week UCLA defeated USC and Washington, each in four games, and Washington State in three. Junior middle blocker Daiva Tomkus has hit double figures in kills in 10 of the last 11 matches and leads the Bruins in kills, blocks, aces and hitting percentage.

The Pepperdine women’s volleyball team (6-11 overall and 4-0 in the West Coast Athletic Conference) will play host to the University of San Francisco (4-10, 2-3) at 7:30 p.m. Friday and to Santa Clara (12-8, 5-0) at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Wave outside hitter Tami Seidenberg, team leader in kills and digs, and teammate Laura Fort were injured last week when they ran into each other last week in a four-game loss to UC Santa Barbara. Neither Seidenberg, with a hairline jaw fracture, nor Fort, with 18 stitches in her forehead, played as the Waves defeated the University of San Diego in three games but both were in the lineup in a three-game loss to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

UCLA freshman Alysia May won the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Assn.’s Rolex qualifier tournament last weekend at UC Irvine. In the semifinals, May defeated Pepperdine’s Camilla Ohrman, 3-6, 7-6, 6-0, and won the championship against Pepperdine’s Jana Kovacevich, 6-2, 7-5.

The No. 9 Pepperdine water polo team (6-6 overall and 2-2 in the Big West Conference) will face No. 2 UCLA at 3 p.m. today at UCLA’s Sunset Canyon pool. The Waves will also play No. 6 UC Irvine at noon Sunday at Heritage Park Pool in Orange County.

In September, the Bruins defeated Pepperdine, 15-6, in the Wasko Tournament at Pepperdine. Junior Rob Sutter leads the Waves with 28 goals.

The UCLA women’s cross-country team, which edged Nebraska, 93-94, in last week’s Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Invitational, will compete Saturday in the Cal Poly Pomona Invitational. At San Luis Obispo, UCLA’s Laurie Chapman finished sixth in 17:47 and teammate Melissa Sutton was ninth in 18:03.

The UCLA women’s golf team scored a 937 to finish fourth last week at the Tulsa Invitational. Defending NCAA champion Tulsa won with a 916. In her first collegiate tournament, UCLA freshman Christy Erb, 1988 junior world champion, shot a 230 for 54 holes to finish eighth and lead the Bruins.