THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY FEBRUARY 03, 2000
SPORTS
7B
TENNIS
Hawks discover wings despite loss
Kansas' Edina Horvath comes out strong against DePaul, but team can't collect victories
BY JUSTIN HILLEY jhilley@kansan.com
After a sluggish performance on Saturday that resulted in a 7-0 loss to No. 41 DePaul, the Jayhawks returned to the court with more intensity on Sunday versus No. 75 Iowa, but left without a victory.
The layhawks are now 4-3 overall and fourth in the Big 12 with a .571 win percentage.
Facing a team that just two days before had been awarded its highest ITA ranking in school history, the Jayhawk doubles teams came out against DePaul lethargic, leading to a quick dual match point (8-0, 8-2, 8-2) that was led by the Blue Demons' pair of Anna Redecis/Selma Salkovic at the No.1 position. The singles round carried the same theme with all six matches completed in two sets.
The young lajayhawk battled, but knew it wasn't their best
offering.
"We played well, but I think we can definitely do a lot better; we played a little stale today," coach Amy Hall-Holt said. "We started out slow, and we kept fighting and fighting in the second sets, but it was too late. We still have a lot of work to do."
Not everything that day was disheartening. Senior Edina Horvath had one of her strongest outings on Saturday against DePaul's No. 1 player, Dunjo Antunovic.
Hall-Holt was very pleased.
We had Edina
We had Edina playing at the No. 1 position today." Hall-Holt said. "She went 7-6 (5), 7-5 (2) with top-ranked player; it could have gone either way. She played one of the best
matches I've ever seen her play. I was very proud of Edina and her performance."
Heading into the weekend, the Jayhawks were 4-1 and had just been removed from the ITA rankings. Sunday morning they were 4-2 and wanted to prove something against ranked Iowa.
"We played well, but I think we can definitely do a lot better; we were a little stale today."
AMY HALL-HOLT Coach
"We are very, very compatible with Iowa, and I think that the girls now realize that we need to step up." Hall-Holt said after Saturday's match. "Four and one and we dropped out of the rankings. It's pretty disappointing to the girls that we did fall out, and I think they have a lot to prove tomorrow."
Sunday's dual match did not go as expected.
All three doubles matches versus Iowa were close, but the early point went to the Hawkeyes. Horvath and junior Kuni Dorn, playing at the No.1 position, were the only Kansas pair to win, 8-6, in the doubles round. The freshman doubles combo of Erin Wilbert and Alessandra Dzuba nearly pulled out a victory, but were undone 9-8 (7-2).
The Jayhawks' freshmen were the only ones to show up in singles action as Wilbert, 7-5, 7-5, and Kate Morozova, 6-4, 3-6, (10-4), defeated Iowa's Alexis Dorr and Ally Majerik, respectively, but it was too late. The Hawkeyes had already chosen four singles victories; the match ended with a 5-2 Iowa triumph.
The Jayhawks haven't defeated a ranked opponent this season.
Edited by Jesse Trimble
Senior Edina Horvath returns a shot from an opposing Drake player during a doubles match on February 1. Horvath took DePaul's No. 1 player to the brink of defeat this weekend.
Weston White/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
NBA
Celtics defeat Phoenix, Rondo scores career-high 32 points
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHOENIX — Rajon Rondo scored a career-high 32 points to go
with 10 assists on his 23rd birthday and the Boston Celtics didn't need Kevin Garnett to beat the Phoenix Suns 128-108 on Sunday.
Ray Allen scored 31 and Paul Pierce 26 in Boston's first game since Garnett
losing leading scorer and rebounder Amare Stoudemire following eye surgery on Friday. He won't be able
Phoenix Suns experience first loss (128-108) to the Boston Celtics under new coach Alvin Gentry.
went down with a strained muscle in his right knee that is expected to sidelined him for at least two weeks.
The Suns have bigger problems,
to resume physical activity for about eight weeks.
The Celtics blistered Phoenix with 63 percent shooting.
Alvin Gentry.
Jason Richardson scored 21 for the Suns in their first loss in four games under new coach
had 28 points and 10 rebounds to help the Raptors beat New York two days after absorbing a 30-point loss against the Knicks.
RAPTORS 111,
KNICKS 100
TORONTO — Andrea Baronani
Each of the Toronto starters reached double figures and four of the five had double-doubles. Anthony Parker scored 24 points, Shawn Marion had 16 points and 15 rebounds and Chris Bosh added 11 points and 12 boards. Jose Calderon had 13 points and 11 assists.
Al Harrington scored 31 points and David Lee had 17 points and 15 rebounds for the Knicks, who have lost nine straight games in Toronto.
had a season-high 27 points and the Pacers survived a second-half stretch of 11 minutes without a field goal to beat Chicago.
PACERS 98, BULLS 91
INDIANAPOLIS — Troy Murphy
The Pacers, playing without injured leading scorers Danny Granger and Mike Dunleavy, led 69-55 midway through the third quarter but did not make another field goal until a 3-pointer by Murphy with 6:43 left in the final period.
Chicago took an 80-77 lead before Murphy's 3-pointer. There were two more ties before T.J. Ford put Indiana ahead for good with a 3.
Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo, left, dribbles in Phoenix Suns guard Goran Draigic, right, of Slovenia, in the first quarter of an NBA basketball game. Rondo was the games high-scorer with 32 points as the Celtics won 128-108.
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