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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2015
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KATELYNN MALONEY/KANSAN
Junior Chaley Brickey tags out freshman Kelsey Arnold from Oklahoma on a steal to end the fourth inning on Friday night. This led to a stop in Oklahoma's momentum and a 4-2 victory for Kansas. Kansas lost the remaining two games in the series.
Jayhawks unable to win series against Sooners
DEREK SKILLETT
@derek_skillett
Despite a great start to the weekend, the Jayhawks (35-10, 5-7) were unable to win their series against the No. 5 Oklahoma Sooners (42-7, 14-2). The Jayhawks lost the series 2-1. Kansas has won only one conference series this season.
The Jayhawks began the weekend upsetting the Sooners 4-2 on Friday night. They won the game in extra innings on a go-ahead two-run home run from freshman Daniella Chavez in the eighth inning.
"(Chavez) is one of the best hitters in the country.
"It ites amazing." Chavez said. "I was down the whole game, striking out, but with the whole team supporting me I just came out and bounced back."
The Jayhawks recorded only three hits in Friday's game, but all three contributed to their victory. Junior Chaley Brickey recorded two hits: a two-run home run to tie the game in the fifth inning and a double to set up Chavez's home run in the eighth inning.
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As a freshman, she has ups and downs and got a couple bad at-bats," Kansas coach Megan Smith said. "She's always ready. One swing of the bat and she can change a game."
Unfortunately, the Jayhawks could not carry that momentum into Saturday's game. Kansas was shut out to the tune of a 13-0 loss. The Jayhawks only recorded two hits during the game, one from senior Maddie Stein and another from freshman Erin McGinley.
"The biggest difference is that we didn't make adjustments to (Parker)," Stein said. "We already saw her for seven or eight innings (on Friday), and we should have known what her tendencies were and what she was going to give us, and we didn't make that adjustment to her."
Kansas' inability to create any offense against Oklahoma freshman pitcher Paige Parker was the difference between Friday and Saturday's games.
The Jayhawks made a good comeback effort Sunday., but they couldn't find a way to defeat the Sooners, losing 7-4. Kansas scored all four
of its runs in the final three innings, but freshman Jessie Roane couldn't capitalize with two runners on base, striking out to end the game.
Brickey led the Jayhawks with two hits Sunday. Stein and Chavez added one hit apiece for the Jayhawks.
Senior pitcher Alicia Pille got the start for the Jayhawks on Sunday and allowed 10 hits and seven scores while only recording four strikeouts.
"Today we fought the entire game and gave ourselves a chance to win," Smith said. "Against a team like Oklahoma, that's all you can ask for. Give yourselves a chance to win, and we did that today."
On a better note, the Jayhawks managed to hold Oklahoma's star senior Lauren Chamberlain to only one hit over the three weekend games. Chamberlain entered the weekend with 90 career home runs and a 1.009 slugging percentage this season.
- Edited by Lane Cofas
Tennis falls to Oklahoma State in championships
JACOB CLEMEN
@jclemn9
Kansas women's tennis fell to No. 11 Oklahoma State 4-0 in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Championships on Friday, ending its 2015 season.
In Waco, Texas, the Jayhawks faced odd circumstances as rainy weather delayed the match two hours and forced a move indoors to the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center. The rain delay also forced the teams to begin with singles play, rather than the usual doubles matches.
The Cowgirls made quick work of the young Kansas team as they defeated a pair of freshmen to jump out to a 2-0 lead. Freshman Summer Collins was the first to fall as she lost 6-2, 6-1 while fellow freshman Alexis Czapiski fared only slightly better,
falling 6-3,6-4.
In the second singles position, freshman Smith Hinton was dropped by a score of 6-3, 6-3 as Oklahoma State surged ahead 3-0. The deciding match was senior Maria Belen Ludueña's final appearance as a Jayhawk as she lost 6-3, 6-4 in the top singles position.
Coach Todd Chapman credited Oklahoma State's experience and effort as it outplayed Kansas.
"I think Oklahoma State did a great job of playing with leads at that point and kind of loosened up. They played well and took it to us at a couple of spots," Chapman said in a press release. "I thought we played well and had chances, but there is a reason they've been top 10 in the country all season. They can play the big points, and this may be sort of
an experience for us."
Kansas will look to the offseason to regroup and gain experience as it expects to have many returning players who were relied on heavily in their freshman seasons.
"I feel like this has been a year of growth. We are really young and played a majority of the year with four freshmen, maybe five, in the lineup," Chapman said. "The one thing they gave me all year was effort. They had both feet in and cared a lot about what was going on. I feel like we got a lot better and grew as people and competitors."
Kansas finished the year 8-15 overall and 4-6 against Big 12 opponents. Friday's match was the first time in three seasons that Kansas lost its first match in the Big 12 Championships.
Edited by Yu Kyung Lee
Sporting KC stuns Houston Dynamo in late 4-4 draw
GRIFFIN HUGHES
@GriffinJHughes
One point.
In soccer, earning one point for a match signifies a draw, a 90-minute game where both teams end up with the same score. A draw is usually associated with the boring 0-0 snooze-fests that are played entirely in the center field.
A typical draw isn't thought of as a 4-4 slugfest ending in a 94th minute goal to seal a single point for a team.
A typical draw doesn't have 28 shots between the two teams, a 100 percent shot on
A typical draw doesn't feature two teams desperate to stay in the hunt, as Sporting KC and Houston were Saturday at the BBVA Compass Stadium.
This wasn't a typical draw. Sporting KC set the tone early as forward Krisztián Németh netted a beautiful right-foot shot to the far post in the second minute. It was a rare goal in the run of play for Sporting KC and it was just the beginning of a shootout that would take the full 90
goal conversion rating, and five goals combined in the second half.
The Dynamo answered back, scoring off a botched clearance from Sporting KC defender Matt Besler, when Houston forward Giles Barnes blasted a sweet volley into the upper corner of KC goalkeeper Luis Marin's near post. That goal came just nine minutes later after Sporting opened the tally.
minutes — and then some — to settle.
The scoring was just getting started.
To read the rest of this story, visit www.kansan.com.
Edited by Yu Kyung Lee
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