MONDAY, JANUARY 30. 2006
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
3B
TENNIS
Team wins on home turf
BY ANTONIO MENDOZA
amendoza@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRIVER
TOPEKA — The Kansas tennis team gained its second shutout of the season after defeating Drake 7-0 on Saturday.
Anthony Mattingly/KANSAN
The match was Kansas' third of the spring season and the first one in Kansas at the Wood Valley Racquet Club in Topeka.
"Topeka has been our home turf, until the facility here in Lawrence opens up," Kansas coach Amy Hall-Holt said.
The team will practice indoors in Lawrence for the remainder of the season at First Serve Tennis, 5200 Clinton Parkway.
In Topeka, Kansas competed in six individual matches and three doubles matches. The doubles matches counted as one total point, and the six individual matches counted as one point each.
"That right there definitely says it all, a 7-0 win, being in our home facility," Hall-Holt said. "The girls all played hard in practice, and it all paid off in our match today."
Kansas put up two shutouts against Drake in the nine matches.
The first came in an 8-0 doubles match victory, which featured sophomore Elizaveta Avdeeva and freshman Ksenia Bukina.
Freshman Ksenia Bukina returns the ball to her opponent in Saturday's meet in Topeka. She clinched victory in both her single and double matches and is ranked 79th in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
Bukina, an Obninsk, Russia native, is ranked 79th nationally by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings.
In the second shutout, freshman Edina Horvath won her match in two straight games, 6-0, 6-0.
No matches were played beyond two sets.
"I thought we took advantage of playing a little bit of a weaker team and got some confidence to go on the road for the next month," sophomore Lauren Hommell said.
Hommell and Horvath won in doubles competition.
Kansas' month-long road trip will start in Salt Lake City on Saturday. It ends March 5.
when Kansas will play host to Texas Tech, the first Big 12 match of the season.
— Edited by Vanessa Pearson
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TRACK
Invitational display impressive
BY EVAN KAFARAKIS
ekafarakis@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
The Kansas track and field team had a successful showing against 41 other area schools on Saturday in the Jayhawk Invitational at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
The women were victorious in the 60-meter dash, triple jump, shot put, pole vault and the 3,200-meter relay for the Jayhawks, while the men dominated the distance runs.
The meet featured close to 850 athletes. Teams scores were not tallied.
"Overall, I was impressed with individuals throughout the day," Kansas coach Stanley Redwine said.
Former Jayhawk Charlie Gruber, running for Team Nike, won the event with a time of 4:02.59. He was followed by Kansas sophomore Colby Wissel at 4:08.13. Wissel said he had been happy to break 4:10.
Tiffany Cherry won the 60-meter dash in 7.51 seconds, a personal best. Cherry, who had changed her warm-up routine by listening to Yolanda Adams' "Never Give Up" pre-race, said she had wanted to build off of the victory and reach the NCAA Indoor Championships this year.
On the women's side, senior
Not to be outdone, the men's team also finished well. Senior Cameron Schwehr easily won the
Sophomore Crystal Manning and junior Shatoya Hill placed first and second, respectively, in the triple jump. Manning jumped 40-4 in the finals to secure the victory.
Freshman Stephanie Horton won the women's shot put with a throw of 15.08 meters. Junior Abby Emsick finished right behind her with a throw of 13.77 meters.
Keeping with the distance theme, the mile and half-mile runs were dominated by Kansas runners, led by a familiar face.
3,000-meter run with a time of 8:45:25. The Colbert, Wash., native said he had been working toward becoming an All-American by the end of his career at Kansas.
Matt Baysinger won the 600-yard run with a time of 1:10.99. Baysinger won the event last week as well at the Kansas/Kansas State/Missouri Triangular.
Joshy Madatilh won the 1000-meter run with a time of 2:24.83.
feron finished third at 4:11.17,
and senior Erik Sloan was fourth
at 4:12.32.
The 800-meter run saw the Jayhawks sweep the podium. Junior Michael Rost won with a time of 1.53.54. Senior Brandon Hodges was a close second at 1.53.46 and junior Adrian Ludwig placed third at 1.54.09.
Senior thrower Sheldon Battle did not compete. Because he had already qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the weight throw and shot put, Redwine said he had felt no need for Battle to participate.
Redwine said Battle would compete next week in Lincoln, Neb., along with his teammates at the two-day Husker Invitational. The event begins Friday.
Edited by Matt Wilson
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