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Friday, January 15, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Tough home opener awaits men's tennis
By Blake Spurney
The Kansas men's tennis team will open its spring schedule this weekend at home against 22nd-ranked and defending Big Ten Conference champion University of Minnesota on Saturday and against Tulsa University on Sunday.
By Blake Spurney Kansan sportswriter
The unranked Jayhawks, who placed second in the Big Eight last year, enter the spring with a 1-1 record and played only two dual matches in the
"It's a very tough home opener for us," Coach Michael Center said of Minnesota. He also said that Tulsa was the best last year and would provide a stiff test.
The young team, which field four freshmen and one sophomore in its top seven spots, will look to fifth-year senior Carlos Fleming, Cleveland, Ohio, for leadership. He is the No. 1 singles player for Kansas and is starting to pick up his game a notch, Center said.
Fleming was the conference champion in the No. 4 singles slot last season. He said that he and the other
players were looking forward to the weekend.
"We've worked hard as a team." Fleming said. "Everyone is really excited about the match, and everyone is ready."
One of the younger players, redshirt freshman Jeremy Sutter, has performed the most consistently this year. Center said.
Other top newcomers are true freshmen and doubles partners Reid Slattery, Mar Sinaro, Calif., and J.P. Visssep, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
"They were top impact players right away," Center said.
Eric Michaela, Long Island, N.Y., is another promising freshman from
"There's a lot of balance this year." Center said. "It'll be a real battle for the conference title."
Kansas will play all but one of its home contests this season at the Alvara Racquet Club, 4120 Clinton Ave. There were both matches are this weekend.
Saturday's dual begins at 6:30 p.m.
and Sunday's is at 11:30 a.m. Each
competition will consist of six singles
and three doubles matches.
Renee Knoeber / KANSAN
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Track squads will race tomorrow in Anschutz
By Blake Spurney
Kansan sportswriter
Coach Gary Schwartz said the early season objective was to see where his athletes were in their conditioning.
The Kansas men's and women's indoor track teams will come running out of the blocks Saturday in their first meet of the season, the Kansas Invitational at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
"It provides a low-key key to begin the season," he said.
Schwartz did emphasize, however, that his autumns were still going to be a success.
Attending the meet will be members of 12 area collegiate teams, including Missouri and Wichita State.
Kansas returns 19 female letter winners, including senior All-American Marveth Labosky in the high jump.
Junior Julia Saul, also on the team.
was an All-American in cross country. Schwartz said that some of his other top returning females were sophomore sprinter Natasha Shafer, junior triple jumper Taripele Triplett and middle distance runner Kristi Kloster.
The women are capable of finishing
in the top two or three in the Big Eight Conference this season. Schwartz said, but were not ready to break Nebraska's 13-year reign on both the indoor and outdoor titles.
Kansas tied its highest conference finish ever in both the indoor and outdoor seasons last year, placing second in the indoor and third in the outdoor. Schwartz called it a major breakthrough.
On the national level, the women tied for 25th place at the NCAA Outdoor Championships as a team, best in school history.
Kansas' men, on the other hand, will try to improve on last year's fifth- and sixth-place conference finishes in the indoor and outdoor segments, respectively. Schwartz said they might be able to earn third place this season.
Harun Hazim, a junior, was the only member of the men's team to make it to the NCAA Championships last year, competing in the long jump.
Other standouts cited by Schwartz were junior Dan Waters and senior Jon Handy, middle distance runners, and juniors Michael Cox and David Jackson both long distance runners.
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