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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015
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Brittany Lincicome wins ANA Inspiration in playoff
JOHN NICHOLSON Associated Press
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.
— Brittany Lincicome ended up in Poppe's Pond for the second time in her career early Sunday night in the ANA Inspiration.
Lincicome eagled the pars 518th in regulation to pull even with Stacy Lewis and outlasted her U.S. Solheim Cup teammate with a two-putt par in fading light on the third extra hole.
Lewis had three chances to win on the 18th. She missed birdie puts from 13 feet in regulation, 15 feet on the first extra hole and 12 feet on the second.
Playing a group ahead of Lewis, Lincicome made a 10-foot eagle putt to match Lewis at 9-under 279. The long-hitting Lincicome, also the 2009 winner, finished with a 69.
Lewis, the 2011 champion closed with a 70.
Lincicome lost a playoff to Inbee Park last year in the LPGA Championship, one of the tour's five majors. The 29-year-old Florida player, a six-time winner on the
LPGA Tour, is projected to jump from 18th to sixth in the world ranking.
Two strokes ahead of playing partner Sei Young Kim and four ahead of Lincicome with five holes left, Lewis missed a chance for her third major title. She has 11 LPGA Tour victories and 18 runner-up finishes, three in seven starts this year.
The 30-year-old Texan bogeyed the par-4 13th and 15th — missing from 6 feet on 13 and 5 feet on 16 — and closed with three pars.
Morgan Pressel was third at 8 under. She nearly holed her approach on 18 for eagle and made a short birdie putt for a 70.
Kim, three strokes ahead of Lewis entering the round, had a 75 to tie for fourth at 7 under with Carlota Ciganda (68) and Anna Nordqvist (69). Kim had only one par on the back nine, on the 18th when she needed an eagle to get into the playoff.
Lexi Thompson, the winner last year, was 6 under. She finished birdie-eagle for a 70.
Stacy Lewis hits from the tee on the seventh hole during the final round of the LPGA Tour ANA Inspiration golf tournament at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., on Sunday. Lewis closed the tournament with a 70.
ALEX GALLARDO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tennis sweeps Sunflower Showdown on senior day
JACOB CLEMEN
@jclemn9
Lone Kansas senior Maria Belen Ludueña didn't score, but picked up her first Sunflower Showdown win in four years against instate rival Kansas State on Saturday as the Jayhawks swept the Wildcats 4-0 on senior day.
Kansas' win improved the Jayhawks to 41-13 all-time against K-State, but marked the first time in six years that Kansas was able to defeat its instate rival.
"Since I've been here, we've never beaten Kansas State," Ludueña, from Curicó, Chile, said in a press release. "I don't know how beating them on senior day could get any better. We always want to beat them, and we've been close over the last four years. Today we had the opportunity to beat them and we did."
While the day was about Ludueña's accomplishments over her four-year career at Kansas, it was the strong play of the freshmen and the debut of Kansas freshman Lauren Pickens that ultimately sealed the win for Kansas.
An impressive start in doubles saw the pairing of
Summer Collins, a freshman from Atlanta, and Smith Hinton, a freshman from Raleigh, N.C. pick up a 6-3 victory. Rachel McNeely, a freshman from Westminster, S.C. and Alexis Czapinski, a freshman from Lawrence, also picked up a convincing win, 6-1. The wins gave Kansas the early lead and set the tone for the rest of the matches as Kansas cruised to victory.
"Since I've been here, we've never beaten Kansas State. I don't know how beating them on senior day could get any better."
MARIA BELEN LUDUENA Senior
"I felt like our energy was much better in the doubles," coach Todd Chapman said in a press release. "It seemed like we wanted to be out there, be aggressive and get after it. I felt like that was the key today.
that energy, maintain that momentum and to not give their opponent any reason to think that they could beat us."
... It is just one point but I think it really gave us some momentum and the challenge for the girls was to maintain
McNeely gave the Jayhawks a 2-10 lead when she won her singles match handily 6-1, 6-1.
Hinton followed with a nearidentical performance, grabbing the third point with a 6-1, 6-2 win in the second singles position.
Pickens overcame nerves to complete the sweep with a 6-3, 6-4 win, which marked both her first career appearance and singles victory for Kansas.
"I felt like I had a much better start even though I got nervous," Pickens said in a press release. "This is the first time I've really gotten to play and it was much better overall. Every time you go out there you don't want to let your team down."
Kansas moved to 7-10 on the season and climbed over .500 in conference play at 3-2.
The Jayhawks will be back in action at home Wednesday for a midweek matchup with Tulsa at 2 p.m. Kansas' next conference match is Friday in Stillwater, Okla., against No. 13 Oklahoma State.
Edited by Kayla Schartz
Sporting KC overcomes unfortunate events, defeats Philadelphia 3-2
CHRISTIAN HARDY
@HardyNFL
For 90 minutes, it appeared Sporting KC would be leaving Sporting Park without three points once again.
Coming into stoppage time,
Philadelphia led 2-1. But
Sporting KC broke it open with
two goals from Jalil Anibaba
and Kristizen Németh in
stoppage time for a 3-2 win.
But it was the extra six minutes of stoppage time awarded by the referee that counted for Sporting KC on Sunday night.
The win didn't come without some struggling in the 90 minutes, though. Philadelphia struck first on an own goal in only the third minute as goalkeeper Luis Marin jumped the gun on a corner kick into the box, resulting in an open goal. After a deflection off
But Sporting Kansas City knotted it back up quickly. The team notched its third set-piece goal of the season as Benny Feilhaber fed a beautiful ball to striker Dom Dwyer on the back post off a corner. After breaking the Sporting Kansas City record for goals across all competitions in a single season, Dwyer was finally on the board with his first goal in 2015.
Jacob Peterson, the ball had just crossed the touch line before Anibaba tried to clear it. It was too late; the referee called it a goal.
that buss wasn't there to stay
— Dwyer put two more in the back of the net throughout the game, but neither counted.
One was waived on an offside call, and the other was called off for a foul, as Dwyer used a defender to get in the air to head a corner kick off the crossbar and into the net. The
After plenty of build up, Sporting KC put two more goals home in the final minutes, and these ones counted. Anibaba redirected a pass from Roger Espinoza into the box for the first goal with about five minutes of stoppage left to play. A few minutes later, Feilhaber notched another assist as Nemeth got a head on a corner kick as Sporting Park erupted in cheers.
That bliss wasn't there to stay
Kansas City fans weren't happy with the second.
The goal was Sporting KC's 1,000th in club history; it was also the club's 600th match. Defeating Philadelphia put Sporting KC in third place in the Western Conference.
The team will return to action next weekend against Real Salt Lake in a rematch of the 2013 MLS Cup.
Edited by Mitch Raznick
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