Monday, February 14, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 3
Family bonds motivate KU rowers to improve
By Shawn Linenberger
kansan sportswriet
sports@kansan.com
The family that rows together, stays together.
Three Jayhawk rowers had family members competing in the 18th annual Kansas Open Indoor Rowing Championships Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. Rowers competed on rowing machines called ergometers.
He won the collegiate varsity openweight division with a time of 6 minutes. 31.1 seconds.
Freshman Sara Stuart's brother, Danton, a club rower and senior at Virginia Tech, was initially coming to Lawrence just to visit his sister for the weekend, but decided to enter the meet last week.
Sara Stuart finished in ninth place in the collegiate novice division with 7:42 Bill Geiger, who is from Leavenworth, was the lone entry in the 50-year-and-older division last year; but did not win this year.
Geiger, 55, finished third out of five with a time of 7.37.6. He improved on last year's time by 8 seconds.
Geiger's daughter Julie, a junior,
looked to him for inspiration.
"I pumped me up," Julie said. "I knew if he did well, I could too. Unfortunately, I had a mental lapse somewhere."
Julie Geiger finished the collegiate openweight division in 40th place with a time of 8:01.5. She didn't improve on her time last year when she finished in 7:48.
Freshman Jennifer Andrews competed in the coxswain (COX-son) division. A coxswain is the member of a boat who does not row. She navigates the boat and keeps the rowers synchronized.
in the indoor event, coxswains row for 1,000 meters on the ergometers, compared to the standard 2,000 meters.
ROWING RESULTS
2000 Kansas Open Indoor Rowing
Championships
University Women's Team Points
Team Total Points
1) Kansas 72
2) Creighton 35
3) Kansas State 35
4) Drake 16
5) Wichita State 15
6) South Dakota 4
7) KU Club 1
8) Nebraska 0
She finished in fourth place with a 402.7 time.
Collegiate Varsity Openweight Women
Women I) Risa Petty (Kansas) 7 minutes 16.3 seconds
Andrews persuaded her mother, Joleen Aeschliman, Topeka, to
2) Emily Benz (K-State) 7.20.9
1) Lauria Pavulvà (K-State) 7.21.6
4) Keesha Cravenus (Kansas) 7.22.8
5) Missy Dammell (K-State) 7.24.1
6) Dana Parsons (Kansas) 7.24.6
7) Joy Dobrauc (Creighton) 7.25.5
8) Letie Ebba (Kansas) 7.27.1
9) Tara Lynn (Kansas) 7.28.4
10) Carissa Land (K-State) 7.28.9
Aeschiman, who is 48, won her division with a time of 8:33.1.
enter the senior division, which is open to rowers 40-49 years of age.
Above: Competitors warm up for the 18th annual Kansas Open Indoor Rowing Championships. The undefeated Jayhawks won Saturday's championship at Allen Fieldhouse.
Left: Leavenworth junior Julie Geiger rows on an ergometer as her father Bill Geiger, behind, monitors her progress. Bill Geiger competed in events prior to Julie Geiger's race. Photos by Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Kansas crew wins contest
By Shawn Linenberger
kansan sportswriter
sports@kansan.com
They won the women's team trophy with 72 points, leaving Kansas State and Creighton tied for second with 35 points each. Nebraska finished without any points.
The Kansas rowers weren't gracious hostesses Saturday, winning their own Kansas Open Indoor Rowing Championships with relative ease.
The Kansas rowing team entered the Kansas Open Indoor Rowing Championships in Allen Fieldhouse Saturday as four-time defending champions. The Jayhawks have won the team title every year since rowing became a varsity sport in the fall of 1995.
Senior Risa Petty, who won the collegiate division with a time of 7:16.3, finished two seconds slower than her first-place finish last year.
"Last year, I had to win the event to keep us in the team-title race," Petty said. "This year it was more for fun."
The Jayhawks also won the collegiate rowing title. The event involves four rowers rowing 500 meters on an ergometer. Risa Petty, Tara Lynn, Heather Muir and Dana Parsons won the event with a time of 6:25.
The Kansas championships also included divisions in which anyone could participate, including former rowers and even coaches.
At times the event resembled a hospital more than a sporting event.
"The Creighton coach was throwing up after his piece," said graduate student rower Stacie Frain. "A lot of people also had to be helped off because they were so exhausted."
The Jayhawks begin the spring season March 25 against Tulsa University in Tulsa, Okla.
Men's tennis stops four-game losing skid with win against Iowa
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Kansan sportswriter
By Brent Wasko
After four consecutive losses, the University of Kansas men's tennis team finally picked up a victory.
The Jayhawks stopped their losing streak yesterday by knocking off the No. 68 Iowa Hawkeyes. The win came just a day after a lopsided loss to No. 33 Indiana at Alymer Acquired Club.
Kansas coach Mark Riley said the win was a welcome boost to the team's morale.
"Since things have been so down later, I was happy we got a good effort out of all our guys," he said. "They had to give sick of losing at some point."
The 4-3 win against the Hawkeyes did not come easy. Kansas began by claiming two out of their three doubles matches for one point. The Jayhawks hadn't won a doubles point since their first match of the season against Southwest Missouri State.
"Whoever wins the doubles point seems to win the whole match," said freshman Pete Stroer. "It's always good to start things out in a positive way."
Kansas and Iowa would go on to split the first four singles matches, making the overall score 3-2 in favor of the Jayhawks with just two matches left. Kansas needed only one more victory
KANSAS TENNIS
to beat Iowa, and the two Jayhawks left to compete were senior Bryan Maier and sophomore Quentin Blakeney.
Maier lost his first set 5-7 to Iowa's Hunter Skogman, putting pressure on Blakeney to come through for his team. Blakeney responded by winning his first set in close fashion 7-6 (7-3) against Hawkee senior J.R. Chidley.
"I didn't really know how the team was doing overall, but I figured it would come down to me and Bryan." Blakeney said. "I did know that Bryan had lost his first set. I was just trying to concentrate on what I had to do."
To the delight of the crowd, Blakeeney won point after point during the second set. He said he made some adjustments late in the first set which enabled him to claim the second set 6-2. With Maier eventually losing his match, it was Blakeney's point that propelled the Jayhawks to the victory.
"In the first set, I adjusted my forehand swing to put more topspin on the ball." Blakeney said. "("Chidley) was never able to find a weakness in my game after that. I was happy I could help my team to the win."
Kansas was not quite as fortunate the
previous day against Indiana. The Jayhawks lost the match 5-2, and Riley said the team was never really in contention for the win.
"What happened is that they won all the big points today," Riley said. "We can't panic at this point. We are underachieving right now, but we'll get it right."
The Jayhawks only won three matches the entire contest. Sophomore Rodrigo Echagaray had to battle an elbow injury but defeated Hoosier junior Ian Arons in No. 2 singles play, 6-4, 6-4.
But against Iowa yesterday, it was a different story. Stroer had the best showing, winning both his singles and doubles matches. On Saturday, Stroer and doubles partner Blakeney also got past Indiana's No. 3 doubles team of Ari Wilansky and Paul Jacobson 8-4. Stroer then beat Hoosier sophomore Rahman Smiley 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 during his singles match.
"Pete is getting better with each match," Riley said. "He comes out and plays everyday and is going in the right direction."
Kansas, 2-4, will travel to Boston this weekend for a match against Harvard on Friday and Columbia on Saturday. The trip will mark the first time Kansas has met Harvard in tennis competition.
Kansas sports briefs
Softball team drops three of four in rough weekend
The Kansas softball team had a tough opening weekend at the Fiesta Bowl Classic, losing three of its four games.
The Jayhawks fell to Fresno State and Arizona State Friday. Fresno State shut out Kansas 10-0. Senior pitcher Melanie DeWinter held Fresno State to two hits and two runs through the third inning, but a grand slam by Fresno State put the Buildogs up by seven and the game out of reach. Sophomore Shelly Musser was the only Jayhawk to get a hit off the Fresno State pitcher.
In the second game, Arizona State took an early 3-0 lead. Kansas scored in the fourth inning
but was not able to produce any more runs, losing 7-1.
"It was a tough first day," said coach Tracy Bunge. "We played two quality teams, and two quality teams stepped up and played us real well. We saw some things that we need to work on."
Kansas defeated Georgia State 4-3 Saturday. The Jayhawks came back and scored two runs in both the fourth and fifth innings to clinch the win.
The Jayhawks then lost to Utah yesterday. Utah came back to win the game 6-5 in the ninth inning.
The Jayhawks will travel to North
carolina this weekend to play in the Triangle Classic.
— Rebecca Barlow
Women's tennis loses first spring match, slips to 3-1
The Kansas women's tennis team dropped its first match of the spring to No. 36 Ohio State Friday on Duke's campus in Durham, N.C.
The Jayhawks were tied at No. 41 before the match and fell to 3-1 overall this season.
In singles play, junior Monica Sekulov and senior Julia Sidorova captured Kansas' only two match points with wins at the No. 4 and No. 5 positions. Both have posted a perfect 4-0 dual record so far this spring. Sekulov is 12-6 overall and Sidorova has an 11-3 record during the 1999-2000 season after the match with Ohio State.
Ohio State swept the doubles competition, handing the No. 2 doubles team of Sekulov and freshman Tiffany Chang and the No. 3 doubles team of Cheryl and Lisa Malliaiah their first losses of the season. Both teams are now 3-1 overall.
The Buckeyes are coached by former Kansas coach Chuck Merzbacher. Ohio State leads the series with Kansas 2-0, but Friday's meeting was the first since 1978.
— Kansan staff report
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