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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TRACK AND FIELD
Women's team key in Missouri domination
MAX GOODWIN
mgoodwin@kansan.com
The men's and women's track and field teams traveled to Columbia, Mo. on Friday to battle the Missouri Tigers in a dual meet between the rival schools. The Jayhawks survived with a victory of 191-167, despite the men's team falling to Missouri by a score of 92-85. It was the women's team that carried the victory, beating the Tigers by an impressive margin of 106-75.
Junior Andrea Geubelle had a phenomenal day inside the Hearnes Center at the University of Missouri, winning the long and triple jumps, as well as a second place finish in the 200 meter dash.
"She's a competitor and she did
what she came here to do" Coach Stanley Redwine said.
Geubelle leaped her personal record on her first long jump of the day and it is also the longest jump in the NCAA this season. For the day, she added a total 13 points to her teams score.
The women's team dominated in the field events, winning in 5 of the 6 events. Colleen O'Brien was the women's high jump winner with a jump of 5ft 7in and has already won three event titles this season. In track, Sophomore Diamond Dixon won the 600 meter race with a time that is the fastest of the NCAA season.
For the men's track events, junior Kyle Clemmons was the 600 meter winner for Kansas. Sophomore
Shawn Smith and freshman Michael Stigler also won event titles for the lavhaws on the track.
The Jayhawks return to Lawrence and will host the Jayhawk Invitational on Jan. 27.
The men's team won the 4x400 meter relay—a relay team that included Clemmons and Stigler—yet still fell short of Missouri on total points.
"Hopefully now, since we have a week off, we'll have some time to train and start fresh here in a couple weeks," Redwine said.
— Quotes from kuathletics.com
— Edited by Gabrielle Schock
RESULTS
Event 1st place Team Year Time/Distance
Women 60 Meter Dash Paris Daniels KS JR 7.58
Women 200 Meter Dash Denesha Morris KS JR 24.94
Women 400 Meter Dash Paris Daniels KS JR 55.77
Women 600 Yard Run Diamond Dixon KS SO 1:22.57
Women 800 Meter Run Jasmine Webb MO FR 2:16.99
Women 100 Meter Run Laura Roxberg MO JR 2:48.32
Women 1 Mile Run Rebeka Stowe KS SR 4:49.89
Women 3000 Meter Run Kinsey Farren MO SR 10:08.33
Women 60 Meter Hurdles Rebecca Neville KS JR 8.89
Women 4x400 Meter Relay Moris, Keys, Dixon, Daniels KS - 3:49.40
Women Distance Medley Belvis, Farmer, Ross, Roxberg MO - 11:39.03
Women High Jump Colleen O'Brien KS FR 1.70m
Women Pole Vault Demi Payne KS SO 4.10m
Women Long Jump Andrea Geubelle KS JR 6.21m
Women Triple Jump Andrea Geubelle KS JR 12.83m
Women Shot Put Jessica Maroszek KS SO 1487m
Men 200 Meter Dash Shawn Smith KS SO 22.08
Men 600 Yard Run Kyle Clemons KS JR 1:12.67
Men 60 Meter Hurdles Michael Stigler KS FR 8.17
Men 4x400 Meter Relay Stigler, McCuin, Clemons, Manley KS - 3:17.45
Men Distance Medley Wasinger, Fink, Buchanan, Munsch KS - 10:12.38
Men High Jump Nick Giancana KS SO 2.05m
Men Pole Vault Alex Bishop KS SO 5.20m
Junior sprinter Andrea Geubelle competes in the Women's 60 meter dash from the Bob Timmons classic last month where Geubelle placed third with a time of 7.76. Most recently, Geubelle won the long and triple jumps and finished second in the 200 meter dash at the Jayhaws' last meet in the Hearnes Center at the University of Missouri.
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TENNIS
Sophomore starts season strong at Hawaii Invitational
CORBIN MIHELIC
cmihelic@kansan.com
Sophomore Dylan Windom may be the only Kansas tennis player to walk away pleased from the first tournament of 2012.
Windom won all three of her matches in No. 3 singles play at the Hawaii Invitational, but the Tifton, Ga. native was the only player on the team to win multiple matches in the tournament.
"It was very good of her to come back in that kind of condition and ready to play," coach Amy Hall-Holt said. "We were very excited and very pleased with her performance this weekend."
Window took down Washington State's Andjela Kankars, 6-3, 6-4, on day one. She defeated Barbara Pinterova of Hawaii on day two when Pinterova retired in the second set, 5-7, 4-0, ret. Her third singles win was against Kentucky's
Khristina Blajkevitch, 7-6 (2), 6-0,
on the final day of competition.
In the fall, Windom had much success playing doubles with Ekaterina Morozova (the duo was ranked as high as No. 33 in the nation), but singles success isn't necessarily a new thing. She finished with a
Windom
team-high 14 victories as the No. 5 singles player in 2011.
"I had a great last spring in my freshman year playing singles. So that just brought confidence into this year." Windom said.
Windon went 0-3 in No.2 doubles with sophomore partner Claire Dreyer. Dreyer was the only other Jayhawk to win a match in the Hawaii Invitational, with a victory against Elizaveta Luzina of
Washington State, 6-2, 6-2, at No.
4 singles.
"We talked with Coach, and the mental aspect of this weekend was kind of weak," Dreyer said. "We needed to be just more positive, and I think that was what definitely happened with me."
The team will now take a three-week break before playing 22 dual matches between February and April. Dual play begins Feb. 7 with a home match vs. UMKC.
"There's nowhere to go but up from here," Dreyer said. "I think that these next few weeks, we are going to hit it hard and we are really going to get serious. We have so much talent on this team and so much potential, so I think we are all excited to get going. I think we're going to have a great team."
Edited by Jeff Karr
Missouri beats A&M Monday for the first time since 2004 season
ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Reserve Michael Dixon scored 18 points and helped spark a 17-0 first-half run as No. 5 Missouri beat Texas A&M 70-51 on Monday, snapping an eight-game losing streak to the Aggies.
The Tigers (17-1, 4-1 Big 12) started the game by making only five of their first 14 shots from the field against the conference's best scoring defense. But Dixon's 3-pointer with 7:22 remaining in the first half started the 17-0 run
that gave Missouri a 31-17 lead.
Elston Turner hit a free throw to end the Aggles' 6:32 scoreless drought.
Turner and Khris Middleton both had 13 points for Texas A&M (10-7, 1-4), which scored the first seven points of in the second half to get within 42-30. The Aggies got within 10 points three times, but could get no closer.
Marcus Denmon's steal and ensuing three-point play with 8:40 left started a 10-1 run for Missouri, which led 64-44 with 3:57 left in the game.
Missouri's last win over Texas A&M had been in the 2004 Big 12 tournament.
Missouri is ranked in the top five for the first time since 2003-04, and has won 62 of its last 65 home games, falling only to Kansas twice and Texas A&M. The Tigers have won each home game this season by an average of 27.6 points.
The Aggies came in allowing 57.5 points per game, holding opponents to 36.9 percent shooting. Missouri couldn't do much better, shooting 40 percent, but the Tigers held Texas A&M to 35 percent.