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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 12, 1999
Men's tennis prepares for Ohio State match
By Melinda Weaver
Kansan sportswriter
After winning its first home match of the season Wednesday, the Kansas men's tennis team heads to Columbus, Ohio, tonight to face Ohio State.
The Jayhawks will play their second match in three days.
Kansas coach Mark Riley said he expected the team to be prepared, even though they had little practice time before the trip.
"We need to be more consistent all the way around." Riley said. "We need to be sharper, but we'll be ready to play. We've got to get better and be more consistent."
While the 15th-ranked doubles team of Ed Dus and Luis Uribe suffered an 8-4 loss, the rest of the team increased their play to produce a win.
The Jayhawks slammed to a decisive 6-1 victory Wednesday night against Wichita State, the first Region V team they've faced.
"We were very flat starting out." Riley said. "Our doubles were flat. Number three did a good job, and number two played well, but the number one team played like they could get the job done without doing much. That won't happen again."
Each Jayhawk, based on his playing ability, is given a ranking and competes against an equally-ranked player of the opposition.
After Dus and Uribe lost and Quentin Blakeeny and Rodrigo Echagaray won, the doubles point rested on the play of Kenny Powell and Alex Barragan in No. 2 doubles. The duo clinched the point with a 8-6 win.
The three doubles matches are worth one point in collegiate tennis.
Both Dus and Uribe rebounded from the doubles loss by putting together sound singles victories. In No.1 singles, Uribe defeated Dan Sewell 6-1, 6-3, and in No.3 singles.
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Dus defeated Mark Sewell 6-3, 6-1
"I felt pretty good about my match," Uribe said. "I played a solid match and a complete one. I plowed the way I needed to play."
Echagaray, a freshman who joined the team in January, produced his first victory by beating Mike Hooper 6-3, 6-0 in No. 6 singles.
"The freshman have matured," Uribe said. "They know what they need to do to win in collegiate tennis. It's very different from what they're used to. Experience always helps."
Kansas freshman Alex Barragan prepares for the next round. Barragan is one of the team's players in singles and doubles. Photo by Kate Levenson/KANSAN
The only singles loss came from Powell who lost in two sets to Mark Mullins in No. 2 singles. The defeat was Powell's first of the season.
"I'm disappointed in Kenny's loss, but we can't ask him to be perfect," Riley said. "His team did well under pressure and won the doubles point for us. Kenny Powell played like a senior leader should."
Women's tennis team to battle BYU in Utah
The Kansas women's tennis team will open its Regional action this afternoon as it travels to Provo, Utah, to face Brigham Young University.
By Amanda Kaschube
Kansan sportswriter
"This is our biggest week so far," said Kansas had coach Jenny Garrity. "This is a big match regionally."
Nationally, Kansas is ranked No. 17 while BYU is No. 18. Regionally, BYU is second to top-ranked Kansas.
"We really want to beat them because we haven't in a while," said Kris Sell, Moorestown, N.J., senior.
Sell, 32-10 last year, will face BYU's No. 1 singles player Eline Chiew, who was 34-5 last year.
BYU was atop the Regional standings last year and has beat Kansas the last two years.
Sell has never played Chiew, a transfer from UNLV.
"She is a very aggressive player with a hard serve," Sell said. "I'll have to talk to the coaches to see
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how I'll play her."
Garrity said BYU was especially eager to win because it was playing at home and ranked second in the region.
"They are just lurking in our shadow, and I'm sure they would like to win the big match at home," she said.
"There are a few injuries, and Lisa Malliaiah has been sick with the flu for the last week," Garrity said. "We just want a healthy team that we can feel good about."
Kansas will not be playing at full strength, though.
Lisa and her sister Cheryl Mallaiah, North Longwood, Fla., were named as the Region's top 20 freshmen.
"I think their confidence is down because they lost their top three players," Sell said. "We want to take advantage of that."
Both Kansas and BYU lost several of their troop players this season.
Kansas is 0-2 this season, with loses to Duke and William and Mary.
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