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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SWIMMING & DIVING
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Freshman swimmer Chelsie Miller, swims in the breaststroke against the Iowa State Cyclones last Friday. The Jayhawks went on to win the meet against Iowa State.
Jayhawks sweep Iowa State in two-day home meet
STELLA LIANG
sliang@kansan.com
The Kansas swimming and diving team continued its strong performance Saturday as it defeated Iowa State 190-106 in the two-day home dual meet.
"Brooke had an awesome meet," Kansas assistant coach Jen Fox said in a KU Athletics news release. "She
The team swept all eight events on Saturday, bringing the final tally of first-place finishes to 15 out of a possible 16. Senior Brooke Brull led the team on Saturday with two first-place wins, both season-best times, during her last home meet. Her first-place finishes came in the 200-yard backstroke and 200-yard individual medley.
ended her senior season with a lot of momentum. We are very pleased with her performance today. She did a really good job of leading the did way with the seniors."
The other Kansas first-place finishes went to senior Svetlana Golovchun, juniors Alison Lusk and Malia Johnson, sophomore Deanna Marks and freshmen Meredith Brownell and Haley Molden. Golovchun and Molden tied in the 100-yard freestyle, Lusk won the 200-yard breaststroke, Johnson led the 500-yard freestyle, Marks triumphed in the 100-yard butterfly and Brownell earned first place in the one-meter diving event. Brownell's score of 291.07 qualified her for the NCAA Zone Diving Championship.
Iowa State was led by senior Dani Harris and sophomore Sarah Deis. Harris placed second in the 200-yard backstroke and third in the 200-yard IM. Deis placed second in the 200-vard IM.
"Overall, it was a great performance and one of our better dual meets this season," Fox said in a KU Athletics news release. "We are really excited about where we are. We are going into Big 12s with a lot of momentum, and that was one of our goals for this weekend."
This meet marked the last time eight Kansas seniors would compete at home. Next up is the Big 12 Championships, from Feb. 27 to March 2 in Austin, Texas.
SOFTBALL
Edited by Elise Reuter
PARTICIPLES The softball team celebrates as senior outfielder Maggie Hull crosses over homebase. The Jayhawks defeated Georgetown in Miami during the Florida International Tournament. Kansas won 9-1, and 5-2.
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Team starts strong, falls short to NC State in championship
JOSEPH DAUGHERTY
jdaugherty@kansan.com
The Jayhawks rolled to the Florida International Tournament championship Sunday, where they fell short to the North Carolina State Wolfpack, 3-2.
On Saturday, the Jayhawks played Georgetown twice, defeating them both times. In the first game against Georgetown, the Jayhawks earned their second run-rule victory of the Florida International Tournament by beating the Hoyas 9-1 in six innings. The Jayhawks were fueled by senior left fielder Maggie Hull's fourth career grand slam. The Jayhawks earned the No. 1 seed in the tournament with their victory against the Hoyas. The Jayhawks played the Hoyas for the second time later Saturday and defeated them 5-2. The offense was still clicking, and freshman Alex Hugo was a double short of hitting for the cycle while driving in four runs. This victory put Kansas in the championship game against
NC State.
"We want to win championships, and it starts with these tournaments," head coach Megan Smith said. "So it's good that we're taking care of business."
Kansas faced NC State for the second time this season in the championship game of the tournament. The second meeting against NC State proved to be much more difficult than the first. In the first meeting, the Jayhawks rolled over NC State, 8-0 in six innings. In the second meeting, the Jayhawks fell short and lost their first game of the season, despite a two-run first inning and a solid relief performance from freshman pitcher Kelsey Kessler.
"We came out really strong; they answered back, and then we just kind of fell flat, which is something we don't normally do," Smith said. "So we've challenged them to be fighters from inning one to inning seven. We had a great weekend nonetheless."
The jayhawks relied on a strong offense and solid pitch.
ing throughout the weekend. As a team, Kansas hit .373 for the weekend, scoring 30 runs on 53 hits. The Jayhawk pitchers held teams to a .217 batting average and struck out'33 batters.
Strong performances from a few familiar faces and one newcomer powered the Jayhawks through the tournament. Hull seemed to start the season just the way she left off last season when she led the Big 12 in hitting. Redshirt junior Alex Jones seems to be showing no ill effects from her torn ACL last season, and Hugo had a huge weekend as well. The duo of Jones and Hugo finished the weekend 19 for 31(.613) with 11 runs scored.
The Jayhawks will next travel to Auburn, Ala., to play in the Tiger Invitational. Kansas will play Indiana State in the first game Feb. 15 at 5:30 p.m.
Edited by Allison Hammond
Duke pulls off narrow win against Boston College, 62-61
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski watched as all three teams ahead of the Blue Devils in The Associated Press Top 25 lost this week. Then he came to Chestnut Hill and nearly joined them.
"Nothing about today was easy," Krzzyzewski said Sunday night after No. 4 Duke overcame early and late deficits to beat Boston College 62-61. "These are games anybody can lose, and throughout the country everybody is losing them. Our guys found a way to win against a team that was also deserving to win, so that's a real good thing."
Mason Plumlee had 19 points and 10 rebounds, hitting the game-winning free throw with 26 seconds left to lead Duke (21-2, 8-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) to its fifth consecutive win. Seth Curry added 18 points for the Blue Devils.
Olivier Hanlan scored 20 points for Boston College, which led by five points with 2:15 left and had a chance to win it after
TENNIS
Duke went scoreless for the first five minutes of the game and trailed by as many as eight points, 13-5, in the first half. It led 21-14 before scoring 11 of the next 14 points, taking its first lead of the game on Plumlee's three-point play with 1 minute left in the first half.
TYLER ROSTF/KANSAN
Sophomore Maria Belen Ludueta serves the ball to the opposing side of the court in a meet on Saturday, Feb. 1. Belen Ludueta has been undeleted in doubles play until a loss this weekend against the University of Tulsa.
Plumlee made one of two free throws.
It was 27-all at the half before Curry and Cook hit 3-pointers and Curry followed with a four-point play that gave Duke a 39-24 lead.
University of Tulsa defeats Jayhawks in Sunday meet
Sunday started off with a bleak tone as the Golden Hurricanes swept the Jayhawks in doubles play, which is uncharacteristic for Kansas as the team had been red-hot in doubles play.
TYLER CONOVER
tconover@kansan.com
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The Kansas tennis team fell to the No. 23 ranked University of Tulsa 5-2 on Sunday after starting its spring season 2-0.
A few bright spots for the ladies came in singles play from Dylan Windom and Anastasija Trubica. Tulsa went 4-2 in singles play to wrap up its victory and is now 6-2 on the season. Freshman Maria Jose Cardona
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went up against the ITA singles No. 124 in Samantha Vickers and was bested (6-1, 6-1).
An easy way to tell this was an off-day for Kansas is that Paulina Los didn't have a win. In her previous two matches, Los had yet to see a loss. She and sophomore Maria Belen Luduena had been undefeated in doubles play, but Tulsa changed that.
No loss is welcome, but some losses are valuable in that lessons can be learned. With playing the best players in the country nothing comes easy, and head coach Amy Hall-Holt knows that. But she is pleased with how her team is competing and thinks it is still on the right track.
Kansas isn't back in action until Feb. 15 when the team travels to Charleston, S.C., to take on Charleston Southern. On Feb. 16, the Jayhawks go up against No. 66 College of Charleston. Kansas doesn't return to action in Lawrence until Feb. 23 when the Kentucky Wildcats come to town.
Edited by Julie Etzler
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