Monday, April 26, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
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Women's tennis honors senior
Senior tennis player Kris Sell (left) listens to coach Jenny Garrity between sets. Sell defeated Big 12 Conference champion Martina Nedorstova 6-4, 6-1, which helped propel the women's team to a 6-3 victory against Texas A&M yesterday at Alvamar Racquet Club. Photo by Graham K. Johnson/KANSAN
Kansas women's tennis coach Jenny Garrity choked backed tears as she tried to honor the team's lone senior and her younger sister Kris Sell before Sell's last home match.
By Melinda Weaver
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Kansas sportswriter
By Melinda Weaver
"I'm really proud of her," Garrity said.
"She was a great representation of Kansas athletics. I was glad our parents were here, and everyone came out to support her. They were happy tears, not sad tears."
No. 27 Sell, 98-51 career singles and 63-34 career doubles, put together a fabulous performance in her final home match, defeating No. 39 Texas A&M's No. 66 Martin Nedorstova, winner of the Big 12 Conference title, in straight sets 6-4-1.
The crowd at Alvamar Racquet Club gave her a standing ovation as she left the court.
"A&M is the one team I wanted to play in my final match," Sell said. "They are kind
The No. 43 Jayhawks, 12-11 overall and 8-3 in conference, did not let Sell down as the team put together a 6-3 victory in its final regular season match.
of our biggest rival, and I wanted to beat them the most."
In No. 2 singles, Brooke Chiller was able to win a three-set match that lasted more than three hours. She defeated Lisa Ding-wall 6-3, 5-7, 6-1.
"They were awesome and inspiring," Garrity said. "They did an incredible job of just playing tennis. I've always said the hardest part of collegiate tennis is closing the matches, and we were able to do that today."
"I had a real tough match." Chiller said. "I did well just fighting through it. It's nice to play well and win. I'm exhausted though."
Chiller's doubles partner Julia Sidorova also played a long three-set match, losing to Kathryn Scott 6-7 (7), 6-0, 3-6.
However, the pair showed no sign of fatigue in its doubles match and cruised to
an 8-3 victory in No. 2 doubles against Scott and Monica San Miguel.
Saturday, the results were not as good as the team lost to No. 7 Texas B-1.
The only victory came for No. 3 singles player Cheryl Mallaiah.
However, the match was not a lop sided as the score indicated. Three of the singles losses went into three sets and in No. 1 doubles Sell and Mallaiah lost 9-8 with a 9-7 score in the tiebreaker.
"I was actually very pleased with our competition," Garrity said. "The matches that we couldn't close out yesterday, we closed out today. Texas has a very good team, and they proved that yesterday by making big points at the right time. We can't look past anyone in the Big 12, but we would love another opportunity to play Texas."
Men's tennis ends season beating Oklahoma State
The win yesterday earned Kansas a first round bye as one of the top four seeds in the Big 12 tournament in College Station, April 29-May 2.
Edited by Juan H. Heath
By Melinda Weaver sports@kansan.com Kansan sportwriter
The Kansas men's tennis team ended its four-game losing streak Saturday with a 5-2 win against Oklahoma State to finish the regular season 11-7 overall and 3-5 in the conference.
Alex Barragan, Rodrgio Echagaray and Quentin Blakeney moved up one spot in the singles lineup with the absence of No.1 doubles and No.3 singles player Ed Dus, and Micah Zomer saw his first action this spring.
However, the team did not skip a beat.
At No. 3, Barragan defeated Marc Paulik 3-6, 6-4, 6-0. Echagaray defeated Jacques de Toit at No. 4 singles 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-4. Zomer also put together a straight-set victory at No. 6 singles against Chris Preeger 6-2, 6-4.
Senior Kenny Powell was the team's other singles victory at No.2 singles, defeating Jeremy Ewford 6-1, 6-2.
"We played much better," Bar
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ragan said. "We played with more focus in all our matches. We didn't have all our forced errors, and we played more solid. The team is going to get much better if we work like we have in the last two weeks."
No. 40 Jayhawks won the doubles point for the first time in five matches.
Coach Mark Riley has tried several combinations all season, and he chose the right matchups Saturday.
Seniors Powell and No. 18 Luis Uribe defeated Rob Howarth and Jeremy Ewert 8-4 in No. 1 doubles and Barragan and Echagaray defeated Pregler and de Toit, who withdrew because of injury.
"The doubles has been a key point all season," Riley said. "When we preform well in doubles, we tend to perform well in singles."
Echagaray said the doubles
would be a key for the Jayhawks in the post season.
"We need to concentrate on doubles this week in practice because that is the key," Echagaray said. "If we win the doubles point, we have more chances to win. We can get the three other singles matches that we need to win."
In collegiate tennis, the team that wins two of the three doubles matches captures only one point toward the final score.
Saturday's win moved Kansas into the No. 6 seed in this weekend's Big 12 tournament. The team probably will play Texas A&M, a team that beat them 5-2 two weeks ago in the first round.
Riley said the victory against Oklahoma State gave the team more confidence heading into the tournament.
"We needed to win," Riley said.
"Now we will play Texas A&M on their home court, and we need to be ready to go. We have to play with more energy. We have to get it all together, or it will be a very short trip."
- Edited by Amber Stuever
Two track stars take top honors for Jayhawks at Drake Relays
By Mike Miller
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Kansas sportwriter
Scott Russell won the javelin for the second straight year, Candy Mason won the pole vault and nine more athletes placed in the top ten for the men's and women's track teams at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa.
Russell's throw of 231-6 provisionally qualified him for the NCAA Championships in June. He became the sixth Jayhawk in Relays history to win an event multiple times. The two-time All-American also finished fifth in the hammer throw with a provisional qualifying toss of 197-4.
"Today was a good day for the 'Hawks. Having two champions at the Drake Relays is a really good deal," said coach Gary Schwartz.
"I was off technically. If I could have corrected a few things, I would've thrown a lot better," Russell said.
Mason's vault of 12-5 1/4 placed her fifth overall. It was her first title at Drake.
"I finally got my watch. They give you a banner, medal and a watch for winning." she said.
The three-time All-American senior also placed seventh in the long jump with a mark of 18-73.4.
The men pole vaulters also jumped well, as Greg Steele vaulted 16-5 1/2, finishing fifth. Colby Miller finished ninth with a vault of 16-0 3/4. The Jayhawks now have three vaulters who have jumped 16 feet or higher on the season.
The women throwers were solid for the Jayhawks, as sophomore Marlea Woodman placed eighth in the discus with a mark of 152-7, and Andrea Bulat placed seventh in theavelin. throwing 137-5.
Lester Smith jumped 49-6-1/4, finishing sixth in the triple jump, while Ryan Speers placed ninth in the shot put with a mark of 54-8-1/4.
The Kansas relay teams had two teams finish in the to five.
The distance medley relay team of Charlie Gruber, Jabari Wamble, Doug Kleppler and Kevin McGinn ran its best time of the season, finishing third with a time of 9:44.64.
The 4x1,600-meter relay team of Craig Hettick, Gruber, Brian Blachly and McGinn finished fifth with a time of 17:06.95.
While half of the team traveled to Des Moines, the rest of the squad competed in the Missouri-Kansas City Invitational in Kansas City, Mo.
Eighteen top-ten finishes, eight top-five finishes and the first title of Shannon Agee's career highlighted a successful weekend.
Sherre-Khan Blackmon finished second in the 400-meter run.
Agee's vault of 10-11 1/2 was her second highest vault of the season.
On the men's side, Armond Enclare jumped a season-best 43-0
1/4 in the triple jump, finishing third, while Dorian Jordan jumped
22-13/4 in the long jump, finishing fifth
Justin Stancil vaulted 14-5 1/2,
finishing fourth in the pole vault
rounding out top-five finishers.
Edited by Darrin Peschka
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