Wednesday, April 14, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Women's tennis faces fierce rival in K-State
By Amanda Kaschube
Kansan sportswriter
sports.kansan.com
Intrastate rival Kansas State will travel to Lawrence today to face the women's tennis team at 3 p.m. at the Robinson courts.
The Jayhawks look to extend their perfect home winning streak to 14-0 and overall winning streak to 16 against the Wildcats. The two teams met twice last season, and the Jayhawks won both matches, 8-1 and 5-3.
Junior Brooke Chiller hopes to improve her record today to 17-16 and earn her sixth victory in the last seven matches.
Chiller was named Big 12 Player of the Week for the week ending April 11.
Chiller is 3-2 in the conference at No.2 singles and has posted a 17-15 overall doubles record with partner, junior Julia Sidorova.
Coach Jenny Garrity said Chiller had been playing very well in the past matches.
"Brooke has kept battling for us, and that meant a lot to the team." Garrity said.
The lone senior on the team, Kris Sell, will be key in the match. Sell has never lost to K State's No.1 singles player, and she would like to keep it that way.
"I'd like to end my career at KU without losing to them," Sell said. "They are really tough fighters, but we're up for them."
Sell is ranked No. 23 and is 23-18 overall.
Garrity said the in-state rivalry extends beyond football and basketball.
"We always get up for this match," she said. "It's a big conference match, and if we want to be in the top four in the conference, we have to win this one."
Freshmen Cheryl and Lisa Mallaiah both have compiled winning streaks during the past few weeks. Cheryl has four consecutive wins at No. 3 singles and is 4-2 in the conference.
"I'm a lot more confident now," Cheryl Mallaiah said. "I just keep fighting for my points, and I think I'm playing a lot better."
Lisa Mallaiah has three wins in a row and is a perfect 5-0 in the conference at No. 6 singles. The No. 3 doubles team of Lisa Mallaiah and sophomore Monica Sekulov has consecutive wins against Missouri and Tulaa. With a win against Kansas State, the duo can improve its record to 10-8.
Garrity said the team has been playing tough tennis recently.
"The team just tells themselves to 'eat dirt,'" she said. "They will do anything possible to win. I'm very proud of them." The Jayhawks are sixth in the conference with a 4-2 record.
In case of inclement weather, the match will be held at 5 p.m. at Alvamar Racquet Club.
Kansas will face Oklahoma State on Saturday and Oklahoma on Sunday.
Edited by Clint Hooker
Softball team set to face Creighton
By Brandon Stinnett sports@kansan.com Kanson saintwriter
The Kansas softball team will try to win a game at home for the first time since March 16 today when the Jayhawks play host to Creighton (19-21, 4-0) in a doubleheader at Jayhawk Field.
Kansas coach Tracy Bunge said the Jayhawks should expect two highly competitive games.
"Creighton is a good, solid team, and they always come to KU ready to play in year in and year out." Bunge said. "We have to go out and execute and make some things happen."
The Jayhawks are coming off a weekend road trip through Texas in which they split doubleheaders with Baylor, 9-8 and 4-3, and Texas Tech, 4-1 and 1-4.
Kansas' 4-3 win in the second game against Baylor on Saturday was the Jayhawks' first conference victory of the season, and it snapped an eight-game losing streak.
"It's easiest to say I was a lot happier with the team's play this weekend than I have been in recent weeks." Bunge said.
Junior pitcher Sarah Workman appears to have regained her confidence. Workman was the winning pitcher in both of the Jayhawks' victories on Saturday and Sunday. She gave up a three-run home run in the first inning of the second game against Baylor and gave the Bears a 3-0 lead.
But Workman held the Bears scoreless for the next six innings, and the Jayhawks came from behind for a 4-3 victory. On Sunday Workman allowed one run on three hits in the Jayhawks 4-1 victory against Texas Tech.
"She pitched really well," Bunge said. "She was just unhittable in the first six innings against Texas Tech. She was a totally different pitcher than
what we saw last week against Missouri. She's got her confidence back."
Bunge's record for all-time career home runs on the Kansas softball team is on the verge of being broken. Junior Shannon Stanwix belted two homers in Texas and tied Bunge's all-time career home-run mark with 15. Bunge said it was one record she couldn't wait to relinquish.
"I want her to break the record really soon," Bunge said. "Then people will stop asking me about it. I'll be tickled pink when Shannon does finally break it."
Stanwix said she was not going to make breaking the record a priority.
"I really don't think about the record too much," she said. "If I break it, that's fine, but I'm not going to go up to the plate trying to hit a home run."
Stanwix has been one of the Jayhawks' leading offensive producers this season.
She leads the Jayhawks in home runs (7), RBI (19) and slugging percentage .496). She went 6-for-13 in the four games against Baylor and Texas Tech.
"When (Stanwix) is swinging at pitches too high or in the dirt, she gets too aggressive," Bunge said. "This weekend she got out there and waited for her pitch. She's a very, very good hitter."
Stanwix, who batted. 258 with three home runs last season, said she felt better about her hitting then a year ago.
"Last year, it's no secret, I struggled at the plate," Stanwix said. "This year, I'm getting a lot more solid hits."
UConn guard booked on marijuana charges
The Associated Press
- Edited by Kelly Ahrendt
HARTFORD, Conn. — Khalid El-Amin, who helped Connecticut to its first national championship just 15 days earlier, was arrested yesterday and charged with possession of marijuana.
The sophomore point guard was picked up on a Hartford street and charged with possession of less than four ounces of marijuana, police said. El-Amin was hustled out of a police substation in the city's North End just after 6 p.m. and taken to the main police station to be booked.
About a dozen teen-agers had gathered at the substation on news of the arrest. They cheered as El-Amin eluded reporters and jumped into the car.
Another UConn star, junior Richard Hamilton, was with El-Amin when he was arrested, police said. Hamilton, a first-team All-American, was not charged.
Tim Tolokan, UConn's sports information director, said the school had no knowledge of the arrest and no further comment.
El-Amin, a 5-foot-10 point
guard, led the Huskies (36-2) to a 77-74 victory against top-ranked Duke in the national championship game on March 29. It was the school's first trip to the Final Four.
El-Amin announced last week that he would return to UConn for his junior season rather than make himself eligible for the NBA draft.
He has started 71 games and became the third UConn player to score 1,000 points as a sophomore.
For the past two seasons, he has averaged 14.9 points and 4.1 assists. He finished second in scoring this season with 13.8 points and led the team in assists with 140.
El-Amin's arrest came one day after Minneapolis North High School in Minnesota retired his jersey. El-Amin graduated from Minneapolis North High School in 1997 after leading the Polars to three consecutive state high school basketball championships.
El-Amin was voted to the Final Four All-Tournament Team after scoring 30 points and handing out 10 assists in the wins against Ohio State and Duke.
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