THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2009
SPORTS
9B
TENNIS
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Jerry Wang KANZAI
Senior Edina Horvath serves against BYU's Kristina Doerr and McCall Jones. Edina and her doubles partner Ekaterina Morozova won No. 1. Doubles match 8-4. The team lost to No. 61 BYU at First Server on Friday afternoon.
Singles step up when doubles struggle
BY JUSTIN HILLEY
Erin Wilbert improves in singles play, while doubles teams continue to switch up
jhilley@kansan.com
In their first two outdoor matches of the season, the layhawks continued to struggle in the doubles rounds as they fell to BYU, 4-3, and Tulsa, 6-1.
The Jayhawks are now 5-3 and will begin Big 12 play this Friday.
Playing in the No. 1 position, the new doubles tandem of senior Edina Horvath and freshman Ekaterina Morozova defeated BYU's Kristina Doerr and McCall Jones, 8-4. This turned out to be the team's only doubles victory of the entire weekend.
After losing the early doubles point, the Jayhawks fought back when Morozova, freshman Erin Wilbert and senior Yuliana Svistun won their singles matches. But by the time Morozova achieved the team's first singles win, BYU had already picked up its fourth point, winning 4-3.
"Overall I think we're improving. I feel like we competed well, but came up on the short stick. I wasn't real pleased with the doubles, but I felt they bounced back in singles and competed hard," coach Amy Hall-Holt said.
Morozova defeated BYU's ranked player, Kristina Doerr,
6-4, 6-4.
"Morozova keeps impressing me every time she sets out. She set a high bar for herself out there on the court, and right now with all of them I don't expect anything less," Hall-Holt said.
The dual match ended with a smiling Hall-Holt embracing Wilbert and Systun.
After watching her daughter win her team-best seventh singles match of the season on Friday, Karen Wilbert was in attendance again for Saturday's match versus Tulsa, witnessing Wilbert achieve her eighth
singles victory. She traveled from Lafayette, La., and Wilbert said her mother was surprised to see a louder, fist-pumping Erin.
glad that she's here; she's a real good support system for me," Erin Wilbert said.
After taking early leads at both the No. 2 and 3 doubles positions, the new pairings of Svistun/Dzuba and Wilbert/Dorn fell 8-6 and 8-5, respectively. Horvath and Morozova played at the No. 1 position again, but this time lost 8-5.
Although it fought assiduous-
"I think she's kind of shocked. She said that she's never seen me play this way before. I'm usually not so, 'Come on!', but it means so much more whenever you're playing for your team than if your just playing for yourself. I'm
"I wasn't real pleased with the doubles, but I felt they bounced back in singles and competed hard."
AMY HALL-HOLT
Coach
ly, the layhawks' only singles victory came from Wilbert when she defeated Tulsa's Rebecca Row 6-2, 6-1. Wilbert has been working to improve her consistency, which she said played a role in her win.
"I was just making a lot of balls. It was really important today, especially with the wind." Wilbert said. "I've been working really hard, and I've gone out and just performed well. Doubles is another story; we're still kind of working on that."
This weekend showed that the squad can compete with ranked teams. Hall Holt's said her spece-
Singles and doubles records
Singles:
Doubles: 13-17
Overall: 43-47
Singles:
Freshmen 13-8
Sophomores 5-5
Juniors 2-7
Seniors 10-10
Total 30-30
tations of each player increases every day because she has seen the level at which they can play, and when they do not, it upsets her. She said she is, however, happy with their performances in the singles rounds.
"We're working hard, and I think these matches this weekend have helped us prepare for Nebraska on Friday. Just staying focused on getting better in practice and taking these matches and keep building for conference. That's what it's about," Hall-Holt said.
Edited by Sam Speer
TRACK & FIELD
NCAA to announce Indoor qualifiers
BY JASON BAKER
jbaker@kansah.com
Jordan Scott will maybe have some of his teammates join him to compete at the NCAA Indoor Championships next weekend. Keyword being "maybe."
The Kansas track and field team competed on Saturday at the Iowa State NCAA Qualifier in Ames, Iowa. This past in weekend both distance runners junior Lauren Bonds and senior Colby Wissel competed in Notre Dame's Alex Wilson Invitational in South Bend, Ind.
It was the last chance for the team to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in College Station, Texas, to be held on March 13 to 14.
Out of all the Jayhawks that competed, it was freshman sprinter Keith Hayes who was the only Jayhawk to provisionally qualify for the Indoor Championships.
Hayes provisionally qualified in the 60-meter hurdle event, running a time of 7.86 seconds, placing him third in the finals. Both Bonds and Wissel also provisional qualified this weekend. Bonds in the one-mile, running a time of 4:48 and Wissel in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 7:58.
In track, provisionally qualifying for a meet is equivalent to college
basketball of being on the bubble, it doesn't guarantee a trip to the Indoor National Championship as automatically qualifying for an event, but it does put the athlete on notice by NCAA for possible selection based on how well they performed during the season.
"The only thing I was worried about was going to NCAA," Hayes said.
Iowa State NCAA qualifier
Hayes placed fifth in the preliminary round running a time of 7.95 seconds, qualifying him for finals.
WOMEN
"It wasn't clean. It was a fast race but it wasn't a clean race." Hayes said. Hayes said his performance in the finals round went a lot better than the preliminary round.
Hayes said that after this weekend, he was optimistic about making it to the Indoor Nationals, especially for next year.
Hayes said that although he didn't reach his goal of 7.80 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles, that he was still hapy with his performance. He said running a 7.80 would have given him a better chance of making it to the Indoor Nationals.
"If there were more meets left this season, I probably wouldn't run eight seconds ever again." Hayes said. "I probably should have taken care of business sooner than later."
WOMEN
200-meter dash
Victoria Howard 24.33 (2nd)
4X400 relay
4X400 relay Kansas 3.44.64 (10th)
Pole vault
MEN
Mackenzie Wills 3.70 meters (tie for 8th)
Abby Jones 3.70 (tie for 8th)
Long jump Jareb Stallbaumer 7.03 meters (4th)
Triple jump
Long jump
Triple jump
Corey Fuller 15.21 meters
(2nd)
Jamaica Collins 5.62 meters (5th)
One-mile
Patrick McGowan 4:16.69 (5th)
4X400 relay
Kansas 3:13.36 (16th)
Alex Wilson Invitational
Women's one-mile Lauren Bonds 4:48.50 (11th)
Men's 3,000-meter run Colby Wessel 7:58.08 (4th)
"I stay healthy and I keep working at it in practice. The opportunity will rise up again." Haves said.
The team won't know for sure who will officially be going to the championship until Monday when the NCAA will announce its chosen athletes.
"It's definitely nerve wracking," Hayes said. "I hope I get to go. But I'd rather be 100 percent sure
that I'm going than being on the bubble."
Edited by Jesse Trimble
Northern Iowa wins Arch Madness title
Associated Press
ST. LOIS — Ali Farokhmanesh scored eight of Northern Iowa's 12 points in overtime, helping the top seed overcome a big finish from Ostis Erdidge in a 60-57 victory over Illinois State in the Missouri Valley Conference championship game Sunday.
Kwadzo Ahelegbe added 17 points, hitting the go-ahead free throws with 16 seconds left in OT for Northern Iowa (23-10), which earned the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
The Panthers matched a school record for victories while earning their first NCAA bid since 2004.
BY R.B. FALLSTROM
Eldridge had 21 points and hit five three-pointers after a scoreless first half, but he missed a long three-point attempt at the end of regulation and another at the end of overtime.
Northern Iowa was 3-0 against
Like Eldridge, Farokhmanshis was scoreless in the first half. He finished with 13 points while going 3-for-4 from three-point range, hitting two from long range in overtime.
Illinois State (24-9) this season, with another victory in double-overtime and all three decided by a total of nine points.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Northern Iowa had a 12-point lead in the first half before Illinois State rallied behind Eldridge's shooting. Illinois State shot 23 percent in the first half and 30.2 percent overall.
Eldridge missed his first six shots before heating up with six in a row, including a pair of three-pointers from well beyond the line. Coach Tim Jankovich wore a big grin after Eldridge's 3-pointer from the deep corner while well covered put Illinois State in front 43-40 for the first time since the game's first basket.
NASCAR Busch led majority of laps at Atlanta Motor Speedway
Pole-sitter Mark Martin, who had become the second-oldest driver in Cup history to claim the top spot in qualifying, had another rough day after blowing engines the two previous weeks. He apparently cut a tire, smashed the wall and finished 31st, 14 laps down.
The 30-year-old Busch led 235 of 330 laps in the Kobalt Tools 500 surviving a couple of scraps with the wall and a late caution to pull away for a 0.332-second victory over Jeff Gordon.
"I've got to thank my guys," he said in Victory Lane. "This car was unbelievable. I guess good things come to those who wait."
For his victory lap, Busch grabbed the checkered flag and drove backward around the 1.54-mile quad-oval. That might have been the only way anyone would have caught him during the race
HAMPTON, Ga. — Kurt Busch, a former NASCAR Cup champion who's been overshadowed lately by his sibling Kyle, drove to a dominating victory Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Associated Press
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