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Team looks to close out Big 12 season with road wins
BY JACKSON DELAY
jdelay@kansan.com
This weekend, the layhawks will face Nebraska on the road, in one of last Big 12 conferences matches of the season. The team will finish up the season on Monday when it plays Colorado.
Kansas is 1.7 in conference play. However, junior forward Kortney Clifton thinks that some of those losses are a result of the ball not bouncing Kansas' way.
"Of course we are disappointed, because we think we should get better results than that." Clifton said. "We are working really hard and things seem to not be going our way. I feel like we have done a lot of things right, it's just like one little thing that doesn't go our way."
Kansas has been on the losing end of some close games; six of
their seven Big 12 losses have been by two goals or fewer.
Sunday's match was symbolic
Sunday's mate of how the season has gone. Kansas battled Baylor in a physical game that reached double overtime, only to have a foul called against a Kansas defender. Coach Mark Francis clearly
disagreed with the call. Baylor converted the penalty shot, abruptly ending the game.
"[Nebraska] plays really hard, physical and they are all over you ... we have to come out and compete."
Despite the end to Sunday's game, Francis said, the team came out and showed good energy.
on the wrong end of a collision on Sunday, in which she chipped a bone and separated a ligament, but
Sophomore forward Whitney Berry, who leads the team with 55 shots, was seen practicing with a cast on her arm this week. She was
MARK FRANCIS Kansas coach
said she would play this weekend.
Clifton said the team would still be motivated despite its last place ranking in the Big 12 and four-game losing streak. "Especially for our seniors, this
is their last go at it. We want to work for each other and get some wins," she said.
Francis also thinks his team is
motivated.
"You would think they would be motivated to stop [the four game losing streak] and get a win. Especially playing Nebraska, they are always a rival for us," he said.
In order to finish strong, the Jayhawks will have to upset a Nebraska team that's no stranger to scoring. Nebraska is second in the Big 12 in shots, assists and points, and is tied for second with 39 goals.
Morgan Marlborough has been a big part of Nebraska's offensive success, leading the Big 12 in nearly every offensive category. Kansas has 12 goals overall this year, while Marlborough alone has 16.
Francis said, "She's a good player and they've got a couple of good offensive players. She's good in the air too, so we've got to make sure we are competing and challenging for stuff in the air with her"
Throughout the season, Kansas has scored eight goals in the second half, compared to only four in the first half. In order to beat Nebraska, Francis said his team would have to play well both halves.
"[Nebraska] plays really hard, physical and they are all over you. They come out and play hard all the time," he said. "We can't afford to come out at the beginning of the game and be haphazard. We have to come out and compete."
Clifton said that her team could
do only one thing at this point.
"Continue to do what we can and compete as hard as we can and want it more than the other team," she said.
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