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Soccer team seeking answers after defeat
By Yoshitaka Ebisawa sports@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
Freshman midfielder Jennifer Ray attempts to evade her Baker opponents in the Jayhawks' 3-0 victory against the Wildcats in an Aug. 19 exhibition. Kansas will take on Saint Louis on Friday. Kansan file photo
Coach Mark Francis couldn't believe what he saw.
"They were the same players," he said. "But they didn't look like the same players."
Just two days after the Kansas women's soccer team strongly opened the 2000 season with a 3-0 victory over Northwestern last Friday in Evanston, Ill., the Jayhawks suffered a 4-0 shutout loss to Illinois on Sunday in Champaign, Ill. It was as if some other team — a less effective team, of course — showed up on the field and played in Kansas uniforms.
"they were not able to run. We stepped too slow," said Francis, who guided Kansas to eight wins — the most the team has won in a season — as a first-year coach last year. "We didn't do anything well. We played that bad.
"Illinois was pretty good. They were a lot better than Northwestern. But we made them a lot better than they were. If we'd played as well as we did on Friday, it would've been a pretty even game, I think."
The question is: what happened to the Jayhawks Sunday?
"I don't know," Francis said.
"People played the whole game on Friday, and some people looked a little tired (Sunday). I think maybe that's a part of it. We'll do a lot of fitness in practice (this week). I think we need to be a little bit sharper."
In soccer, a 4-0 game would be as one-sided as a 10-0 game in baseball."Four-nothing is pretty much slashing someone," said Francis, a two-time Big South Conference Coach of the Year at Southern Alabama. "We got beaten so bad. We were horrible. I think players were disappointed in not just getting beaten.
("But) I think it'd be good for us. Getting beaten that bad so early in the season, I think, made them realize that we still
have a lot of work to do," he said.
Emma Di Cesare, senior defender and the team's co-captain, agreed.
"I think we can just learn from it," she said. "If it wasn't mental breakdown, we were physically tired. And now we know we can't start off a game like that."
Unlike Sunday's game, Kansas looked impressive last Friday against Northwestern. Offensively, Kansas fired 18 shots at the Northwestern goal and three of them went in. Defensively, the Jayhawks kept pressuring the ball, especially
midfield, and didn't give the Wildcats many scoring chances.
"When we had the ball, we did a good job keeping it and switching the ball," Francis said. "Switching the ball allowed us to get in behind the defense a lot. We created a lot of scoring chances, and finishing was very good."
Kansas (1-1) will play its third game this season Friday against Saint Louis at Herman Stadium in St. Louis. And hopefully for the Jayhawks, the Kansas team that beat Northwestern last Friday — not the exhausted team that lost to Illinois — will show up.
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