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MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Team remains winless since Big 12 play began
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Junior Victoria Khanevskaya returns a volley during her singles match against Oklahoma Friday afternoon at the Jayhawk Tennis Center. Khanevskaya was defeated 2-6 and 0-6.
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A season that started out 7-0 for the Kansas women's tennis team is back to .500 with three matches remaining.
The Jayhawks have lost to all six of their Big 12 opponents so far in 2012, the latest coming the road at No. 13 Texas and No. 16 Texas A&M over the weekend. Both defeats came in a decisive fashion, as Kansas lost 7-0 to the Longhorns and 6-1 to the Aggies, respectively.
"I just feel we have got to be mentally stronger," coach Amy Hall-Holt said. "That's probably the difference right now: the mental toughness."
The only players who won a match against Texas were junior Monica Pezzotti and sophomore Dylan Windom—the No. 1 doubles duo took down the No.
34-ranked tandem of Lina Padegimaite and Noel Scott 8-2.
The team, which had already lost the No. 2 doubles match at that point, went on to drop the No. 3 doubles match, 8-6, and all six singles matches. Maria Belen Luduena played the most competitive match at No. 3 singles, a 6-4, 7-5 loss to Texas' Cierra Gaytan-Leach.
Windom was the only victorious Jayhawk in the 6-1 loss to Texas A&M. Windom defeated Laura Santacroce, 6-3, 6-0, at the No. 4 singles spot. The top three Aggie singles players are currently ranked in the top 150 of women's Division I tennis nationally, the best of which being No. 7 Cristina Sanchez-Quntanar. Sanchez-Quintanar defeated Pezzotti, 6-0, 6-2, in the No. 1 singles match.
"We're playing hard," Hall-Holt said. "We're right there and
hopefully, eventually it's going to go our way."
Kansas now only has three conference matches remaining before returning to College Station, Texas. for Big 12 Championships from April 26-29. The Jayhawks will take the next 10 days off before traveling to play rival Missouri for the last time in regular season conference play on April 13.
The last two conference matches of the season will be on the road at Iowa State (the Big 12's only other unranked team) on April 15 and Kansas State on April 21.
"Our goal is to win them, of course, and for everybody to just fight hard," Windom said. "Coaches are happy with a hard-fought match and you learn from your losses."
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Edited by Tanvi Nimkar
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Kansas senior Doug Quinones led the Jayhawks over the weekend, finishing tied for 20th in the Irish Creek Collegiate tournament in Kanapolis, N.C. Kent State won the tournament by 14 strokes over second place Duke
Men's team finishes 45 shots back of Kent State
Kent State won the tournament with a score of 825, followed in second place
The Kansas men's golf team finished eighth with a total score of 870 in this weekend's Irish Creek Collegiate in Kana-polis, N.C.
by Duke's 839 and Mercer's 843
Kansas senior Doug Quinones fired back-to-back rounds of 70 on day one, placing in a tie for 11th. Quinones slipped on a flight of stairs, bruising his elbow, but played through the discomfort to shoot a 74 in the final round and finish tied for 20th.
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Juniors Alex Gutesha and Chris
Gilbert finished the tournament tied for 35th Dylan McClure finished tied for 48th with a 222, and David Auer finished the tournament with a 231 landing him in a tie for 67th.
The Jayhawks will travel next to the Cowboy Classic, April 9, in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Trevor Graff
OLYMPIC QUALIFYING
Honduras qualified for its second straight Olympics by beating EI Salvador 3-2 in overtime. The teams combined for three goals in the extra periods.
Honduras takes down El Salvador in overtime
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Second-half substitute Gerson Rodas scored twice in a goal-filled overtime, giving Honduras a 3-2 victory over El Salvador on Saturday in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament.
Honduras earns its second straight Olympic berth and third since 2000. El Salvador, the surprise Group A winner, has not qualified since 1968.
Sanchez — another substitute — equalized in the 106th when he snapped home a header from just right of the penalty spot on a cross from Xavier Garcia.
"There were a lot of doubters in our country," Honduras coach Luis Fernando Suarez said. "Our own fans were nervous and didn't really trust that we could accomplish the goal. This is something to be very proud of."
Rodas scored in the 101st minute to put Honduras up 2-1, but Edwin
That set the stage for Rodas' game-winner in the 115th, when he ran onto D.C. United midfielder Andy Najar's cross from the right corner and headed it inside the left post.
Antony Lozano scored in the first minute for Honduras, but Milton Molina equalized in the 77th for El Salvador.
"I am proud of my guys and what they put into it," El Salvador coach Mauricio Alfaro said. "They are a top level team, it's a tough loss, but I am proud of my guys."
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NHL
Chicago qualifies for playoffs once again
Setoguchi had a goal and two assists in regulation, then sealed the victory in the third round of the shootout with a quick shot that beat Ray Emery.
CHICAGO — Devin Setoguchi and Erik Christensen scored in a shootout to help the Minnesota Wild beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-4 on Sunday night for their third straight victory.
Patrick Kane had the lone Chicago goal in the shootout against Josh Harding.
Kane scored his second goal in regulation, during a power play with 2.45 left in the third period, to tie it at 4. Alone in the slot, Kane converted a feed from rookie Andrew Shaw after Patrick Sharp forced Minnesota defenseman Tom Gilbert to turn over the puck.
Although the Blackhawks dropped their final home game of the regular season, they already had clinched a playoff spot with a 5-4 victory Saturday night in Nashville and can finish no lower than sixth in the Western Conference. They finished 27-8-6 at the United Center.
Dany Heatley, Kyle Brodziak and defenseman Clayton Stoner also scored Minnesota, which won in a shootout for the second straight night. Sharp and Viktor Stalberg scored for Chicago, which has lost only twice in regulation in its last 16 games (11-2-3).
Chicago is in the postseason for the fourth straight season after missing the playoffs in nine of 10 previous years.
But Stoner pinched in and scored on a rebound of Setoguchi's jam-in attempt 20 seconds later to put Minnesota back in front, 3-2. Then Brodziak added his 22nd goal, sweeping in a rebound while tumbling to the ice, 41 seconds later to make it 4-2. Kane cut it to 4-3 on a shot from the right circle at 8:20.
Stalberg slipped past the Minnesota defense, took a feed from Brent Seabrook, cut to the net and tied it at 2 at 5:28 of the second.
Heatley's tap-in power-play goal, capping a neat cross-cice passing play with Mikko Koivu and Setoguchi, put Minnesota ahead 2-1 just over 3 minutes later.
Setoguchi opened the scoring at 10:11 of the first on a breakaway after taking Heatley's long feed. Crawford made a pad save on Setoguchi's first shot, but the puck trickled underneath him, and Setoguchi stopped and slammed it in.
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Sharp tie it 34 seconds later. He connected from the slot after taking a centering pass from defenseman Nick Leddy, who had carried the puck in all the way down right wing.
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