THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009
SPORTS
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TENNIS
Season winds down for team, two tournaments remain
BY ANDREW POSCH
Weston White/KANSAN
Junior Maria Martinez wins a point Friday afternoon. Martinez will play at the final tournament of the season at First Serve in Lawrence.
aposch@kansan.com
After two months of competition, women's tennis has only two tournaments left.
An eight-team tournament beginning at 9 a.m. today at
First serve in Lawrence and ending Sunday will conclude the Jayhawks' 2009 season.
While coach Amy Hall-Holt is with four players at the ITA regional tournament in Norman, Okla.
since the KU Invitational Sept. 25-27. After a successful finish, including an undefeated doubles run by Dzuba and Martinez, Goff said the four Jayhawks are ready to go out in style.
"We'll just go play and see how we do. We want to finish strong."
this weekend, assistant coach German Dalmagro will lead the four remaining players in the home tournament.
"There are a lot of good teams coming, so it's a good chance for
GERMAN DALMAGRO
Assistant coach
"We don't have a few of our top girls,but we expect a lot," Dalmagro said.
Senior Kuni Dorn, juniors Maria Martinez and Kate Goff and sophomore Alie Dzuba have been preparing for this weekend
the four of us that are here to perform well and end the season on a good note" Goff said.
All week the players have been training specifically to satisfy their own objectives — both physical and mental.
Both Goff and
Martinez said that their mental game has given them trouble in the past. As hard as they've practiced on the court, it's their heads that have hindered match victories. In order to improve, Martinez said, she needs to concentrate on every point she plays.
The players also took a different approach during on-court practice. They split into two teams
KANSAS RESULTS
Doubles - Round one:
Wilbert/Khanevskaya lost to Wichita State. 8-3
Lazarevic/Morozova lost to Tulsa, 8-2
Singles – Round one:
Khanevskaya lost to Arkansas, 6-2, 6-1
and went head-to-head with each other. This way they could more easily put pressure on themselves to set up for real match situations, instead of just drilling.
"We made it fun and played points in a game situation," Dorn said. "It was nerve-wracking playing against your own teammates."
Lazarevic lost to Kansas State, 6-4, 6-0
Dalmagro said one of the most prominent goals laid out at the beginning of the season was to gain experience from matches. For this final weekend, he hopes his players will take the skills they've picked up and put them to use. "We'll just go play and see how we do" he said. "We want to finish strong."
Wilbert def. Kansas State, 6-4,1-6,6-0
Morozova def. Minnesota, 6-2, 6-3
Singles - Round two:
Wilbert lost to Nebraska, 6-4,
6-2
To end out on top, the Jayhawks will have to make their way through seven other squads from throughout the Midwest. This includes three Big 12 schools - Iowa State, Kansas State and Missouri. Other teams attending are Abilene Christian, UMKC, New Mexico and Arkansas State.
UMKC is the only one of the opponents that Kansas has faced already this year. Including both singles and doubles matches, the Jayhawks beat the Kangaroos in six matches and only lost two.
VOLLEYBALL
Edited by Abby Olcese
Rivals' match to break conference tie
BY ZACH GETZ
zgetz@kansan.com
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Getz at twitter.
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The Border Showdown will continue Saturday as the Kansas volleyball team takes on Missouri at home in a match that will break the teams' Big 12 Conference tie.
Kansas is on a two-game winning streak and is 11-8 (4-6) overall while Missouri is 12-9 (4-6). Missouri and Kansas are tied at seventh in the Big 12. Missouri is also 0-5 on the road in the Big 12, and 1-6 overall on the road.
Kansas went up 1-0 in the first
match-up with Missouri this season, but even though Kansas and Missouri were close in the last three sets, Kansas faltered late in all three sets. Kansas could have played better in that match, sophomore outside hitter Allison Mayfield said.
The team is looking forward to the Missouri rematch, junior
outside hitter Karina Garlington said. The game is also important for positioning in the Big 12 standings, Garlingen said.
"As soon as we got in the locker room (after Texas Tech), we were so amped to play Missouri," Garlington said. "It's more than just a rivalry game. There is a lot riding on it."
Kansas has a good opportunity to pick up a lot of quality victories with seven of its last 11 games at home, Mayfield said.
"It seems that home matches are a little easier and we have more confidence," Mayfield said.
"Hopefully we'll be able to come out a little better the second half than we did the first half."
While Kansas will need to do well in the second half of its Big 12 play, coach Ray Bechard said he wouldn't put a figure on the number of matches Kansas needs to win.
"We're just going to take them one at a time, and do what we can to prepare for each match," Bechard said.
- Edited by Samantha Foster
NCAA FOOTBALL Miami team more than just a quarterback
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Jacory Harris came into this season as Miami's cover story, the quarterback who was featured prominently.
was that some figured he was Miami's lone hope for success.
If it existed,it wasn't correct.
The perception, he feared,
The eighth-ranked Hurricanes are having a slew of unknowns entering the year emerge as key players, most of whom hadn't done much, if anything, for Miami before this season.
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