By Alan Babadzhanov

EUGENE, Ore - After a long month of road matches, the No. 67 Oregon Ducks (12-9, 1-2 Pac-12) are back in Eugene with a pair of home matches on Friday against the #25 UCLA Bruins (8-6, 1-2 Pac-12) and the No. 49 USC Trojans (5-11, 0-2 Pac-12) on Sunday. The Ducks are coming off a 4-1 win against Utah and look to ride the wave this week. They have a tough task ahead of them as UCLA has two ranked players in No. 22 Govind Nanda and No. 120 Spencer Johnson.

The Ducks are 1-4 in their past five matches due to some rough circumstances. No. 2 Singles player David Cierny hasn't played the past two matches due to injury. This has led to everyone moving up in the lineup and No. 3 Vlad Breazu is on a four match losing streak. No. 1 Quinn Vandecasteele is going to need to pull through as his past couple matches have led to unfinished three set matches. With UCLA having two ranked Singles players, the top of the lineup is going to need to pull through against this deep Bruins team. The Trojans are on a 6 match losing streak; just recently lost 1-4 to the Bruins. The one match that is keeping them in the rankings is their tight battle with UCSD (Ducks lost to them earlier this season).

Projected Lineup for the Ducks

#1 Doubles- Quinn Vandecasteele/Matthew Burton

#2 Doubles- Ray Lo/Lenn Luemkemann

#3 Doubles- Avi Shugar/Lachlan Robertson

#1 Singles- Quinn Vandecasteele

#2 Singles- Vlad Breazu

#3 Singles- Matthew Burton

#4 Singles- Zian Vanderstappen

#5 Singles- Lenn Luemkemann

#6 Singles- Ray Lo

Predictions

4-2 Bruins

4-1 Oregon vs USC