THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2008
SPORTS
3B
》 TENNIS
Junior leads victory against St. Louis
BY ALEX DUFEK
adufek@kansan.com
After suffering a hard-fought, 5-2, loss to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Kansas women's tennis team made winning look oh-easy with a sweep of the University of St. Louis Billikens, 7-0, yesterday at First Serve in Lawrence.
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Junior Edina Horvatl led the Jayhawk attack, winning both her singles and doubles matches on the day.
"I was really proud with the girls, the way they came back and they just competed," coach Amy Hall-Holt said.
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"I feel awesome being on court," Horvath said. "Everything is working right now, doubles and singles, and I think I'm in good shape, so it just works right now."
Edina Horvath, Budapest, Hungary, junior, returns a hit from St. Louis' Joe Becker. The Jahyawhans 7-0 on April 1st. St. Louis yesterday at First Server in Lawrence.
Horvath, who was perfect against Arkansas and Tulsa one weekend ago, was undefeated in her last eight matches.
Hall-Holt agreed with Horvath's self-analysis and echoed the idea that Horvath is playing the best tennis of her college career.
"Her intensity level has increased, her motivation to keep doing well for the team," Hall-Holt said. "Everybody wants to step out there and fight for the team and Edina's been a trooper. She has just been a great team player, and she's really
Horvath claimed the lone Kansas singles victory versus Illinois and brought home one of two doubles wins for the Jayhawks, with the help of partner Elizaveta Avdeeva. Horvath and Avdeeva defeated Illinois' team of Megan Fudge and Leigh Finnegan 8-4 and the Billiken duo of Amanda Hellberg and Cassey Miller 8-2, to improve their record to 6-1 this spring.
stepping up, and I'm really proud of her for what she's accomplished."
The only other jayhawk victory versus Illinois was a 9-7 triumph by senior Lauren Hommell and freshman Magdalena Tokarczyk against the Fighting Illini's Joe Becker and Tara Grant.
The sweep of St. Louis, which included wins in all six singles matches and all three doubles, lifted the Jayhawks dual match record to 1-3 on the season.
"It just works with Liza," Horvath said. "We communicate really good on the court, and actually I think it helps that we are really good friends outside from the court."
"Every match, every win helps, and that's what we base our practices on is being competitive with each other," Hall-Holt said. "Because it's just going to keep bettering not only you, but your teammates as well."
The next action for the women's tennis team will be 11 a.m. Saturday at First Serve in Lawrence against the MUKC Kangaroos.
— Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
football notes
Jayhawks announce 2008 defensive line coach
The Kansas football coaching staff is in place for 2008 after some departures and shuffling of duties. The Jayhawks named Joe Bob Clements as the defensive line coach last Friday, replacing defense coordinator Bill Young, who left for the same position at Miami. Clements worked most recently as the defensive line coach at San Diego State for two seasons after serving as a graduate assistant, recruiting coordinator and defensive ends coach at Kansas State for seven years. Prior to his coaching career, the Emporia native
Football season will be recognized in March
played at Kansas State while Kansas head coach Mark Mangino was an assistant coach for the Wildcats.
Kansas football will celebrate the 2007 season at a ceremony scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Sat, March 8. The recognition was originally slated to take place earlier in the year but several players' participation in the NFL Combine conflicted with the ceremony. The event will be held at Allen Fieldhouse and is free to the public.
Asher Fusco
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MLB
Pitcher's trainer submits evidence
Pitcher Roger Clemens has been accused of using steroids. It is believed that a criminal investigation will take place.
BY RONALD BLUM ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — One of Brian McNamee's lawyers said Sunday he believed the justice Department will open a criminal investigation into Roger Clemens' denials of doping.
Meantime, the chairman of a congressional committee said comments attributed to one of the pitcher's lawyers could be interpreted as trying to intimidate a federal law enforcement official.
Clemens gave a five-hour deposition last week to staff lawyers of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform prior to Wednesday's public hearing. McNamee, former personal trainer to the seven-time Cy Young Award winner, gave a seven-hour deposition.
"I think there will be a criminal prosecution after Wednesday, and that means there will be grand jury proceedings and subsequent proceedings," said Richard Emery, one of McNamee's ator-
neys. "I don't see there's any possibility that Brian has any jeopardy. I only see the possibility of Clemens getting investigated by Justice, whether or not Congress refers it."
A message left Sunday night requesting Justice Department comment was not immediately returned.
Told of Emery's comments, Rusty Hardin, Clemens' lead lawyer, said: "They have consistently acted and indicated that they have a pipeline to agents of the Department of Justice. Whether they do or not, it certainly raises a lot of questions of whether what's going on here is proper. So I'm not going to express any predictions of what will or will not happen."
McNamee says he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone at least 16 times in 1998, 2000 and 2001, accusations Clemens has repeatedly denied. Both are set to testify Wednesday on Capitol Hill in what figures to be a day of high drama.