8B
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
MONDAY JANUARY 31,2005
Women's basketball team defeated in Lincoln
Kaylee Brown, junior guard, looks to pass as Jina Johansen, Nebraska guard, stays on her toes during the second half of the game Friday night in Lincoln. Brown, Nick led the Jayhawks with 15 points and was 3-of-4 from the three-point range.
BY BJ RAINS
brains@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWITTER
LINCOLN, Neb. — A gun show was held next door to the Kansas women's basketball game against Nebraska on Saturday, but Kansas junior guard Kaylee Brown performed some sharp shooting of her own.
Brown came out on fire during the Jayhawks' 59-48 defeat to the Cornhuskers, hitting her first five shots. In the first 10 minutes of the game, she went 3-3 from behind the three-point line. Some of her success, she said, was due to the Cornhuskers tight defense on junior forward Crystal Kemp.
"When we have Crystal inside and they pinch down on her, it opens up the outside," Brown said. "I was able to knock down some shots today."
Brown was well on her way to a career night before she was whistled for her second foul with just less than 10 minutes remaining in the first half. As the Jayhawks struggled on offense, Brown sat on the bench and watched for the remainder of the first half.
She started the second half and her hot shooting continued. She scored on the team's opening possession, hitting a midrange jumper that gave the Jayhawks the lead, 29-28. She missed for the first time three minutes into the second half when her three-point attempt
clanked the iron. Foul trouble once again forced Brown to the bench, where she watched as the game slipped away.
Brown finished with a team high 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting, including 3-of-4 behind the arc. After the game, Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson said she was pleased with Brown's contributions.
"Kaylee hit some tough shots," Henrickson said. "Two of them were off of busted plays."
On Saturday, Brown was the key contributor for a Kansas team that has been lacked a go-to scorer. Because of that, a different player has to step up her game each night, Henrickson said.
"We don't have a 30-points-anight scorer or a six-blocks-agame defender," Henrickson said. "Our kids have to understand that they have to bring what they can bring every single night, no matter where, no matter when, no matter who. We just didn't do that tonight."
Freshman guard Taylor McIntosh has been more aggressive lately. Earlier in the season, she was reluctant to attack the basket, but she has become more aggressive and comfortable with taking the ball to the hoop, Henrickson said.
Game Notes
"No one is going to guard her 15 feet from the rim," said Henrickson. "We've worked on it a lot in practice, and tried talking her into driving the lane. A
lot of times, she's standing in front of the rim, and her kid is over there doubling Crystal, and she has the ball. She needs to go to the rim and make a play."
McIntosh may have tried a little too hard on Saturday. She was called for a charge when she knocked over a Nebraska player, while driving to the rim.
After committing eight turnovers in the game's first 20 minutes, the Jayhawks committed 15 turnovers in the second half. At one point in the second period, they committed turnovers on five straight possessions.
"I thought we were soft, and didn't handle any pressure in the passing lane. We were not very strong with the basketball." Henrickson said.
Nebraska stepped up its defensive pressure in the second half, but Kemp attributed most of the turnovers to poor execution by the lahawks.
"I think we broke down," said Kemp, who had 10 points and six rebounds in 39 minutes of action. "There were times when we were frustrated because we didn't get our first look to fall, and we kind of forced up our second and third looks when things just weren't there for us."
*The crowd of 4,012 at The Devaney Center for Saturday night's game was a season high for Nebraska. In contrast, Kansas' season high was 5,551 when it hosted Kansas State on Jan 8.
No.25 Brigham Young defeats Kansas
— Edited by Jennifer Voldness
BY RAHUJ SHARMA
rsharma@kansan.com
KANASAN SPORTWINTER
After rallying last week to defeat Illinois State, the Kansas tennis team (1-1) struggled to sustain any sort of rhythm in a 7-0 defeat to No. 25 Brigham Young University on Saturday in Overland Park.
Four Jayhawks lost in straight sets.
Junior Christine Skoda fell to Olga Boulytcheva, 1-6, 0-6. Skoda, who leads the team with
"We still have a lot to work on," Kansas coach Amy Hall-Holt said after the match.
31 career singles victories, has dropped both of her matches this season.
Freshman Lauren Hommell,
who posted the second-most
victories on the team in the fall,
behind Stephanie Smith, was
ousted by Anastasia Sourkova,
3-6. 3-6. Smith was also defeated
in straight set fashion to doubles
specialist Dolly Chang. 1-6. 0-6.
Junior Luiza Loureiro fared no
better, as the Brazilian native
was defeated by Hadley
MacFarlane. 2-6. 4-6.
Despite the poor performance in singles, Saturday did mark the debut of Kansas freshman Elizaveta Avdeeva. A highly
touted player from Obninsk, Russia, Avdeeva gave the Cougars' Lauren Jones quite a scare in the singles match. Having taken the first set 6-1, Avdeeva lost her momentum as Jones stormed back to claim the next two sets, 1-6, 1-6.
Brigham Young's Sofia Holden knocked off sophomore Brittany Brown in come-from-behind fashion, 3-6, 7-5, 1-0 (4) Brown, who won the first set, saw a second-set lead slip from her raquet during Holden's late-match rally.
The Cougars swept the doubles competition, winning all three matches. Lauren Jones and
Dolly Chang took care of business in the top slot, as the doubles tandem disposed of Hommell and Avdeeva, 8-4. Then, Hadley MacFarlane and Anastasia Sourkova continued the exceptional play for Brigham Young by knocking off Brown and Sophomore Ashley Filberth, 8-5. Olga Boultcheva and Sofia Holden defeated Skoda and Loureiro, 8-3.
"We are just a few points away from being where we want to be as a team," Hall-Holt said. "It is all about competing and being tough."
— Edited by Jennifer Voldness
FALLS: Second half turnovers haunt the Jayhawks
CONTINUED FROM 1B
After a perfect first half, Brown started up again following the intermission by nailing another long distance shot on the first Jayhawk possession. Then Brown's hot hand cooled as she missed her next two shots and then was removed from the game at the 13:47 mark with her third foul.
As the perimeter scoring slowed to a halt, Kansas' inside game also stalled and the Jayhawks put up only 10 points in the first 12:32 of the second half. During this stretch, the
Cormhuskers enhanced its lead to 12 points. 49-37.
Turnovers that fueled the Nebraska run plagued the entire Kansas second half. While the Jayhawks committed eight turnovers in the first half, Kansas gave it away 15 times in the second frame. Junior guard Erica Hallman, the second leading scorer for the Jayhawks, scored 12 points on only four-for-15 shooting. Hallman recorded eight assists, but turned the ball over six times. Kansas hosts Oklahoma at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Edited by Lori Bettes
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