2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
TODAY
MONDAY. APRIL 10. 2006
SPORTS CALENDAR
Women's golf in nusie Maxwell Bering Classic, all day, nom. Okla, OKa
TUESDAY
Baseball vsNorth Dakota State, 6 p.m., Hoglund Ballpark
Player to watch: Preston Land. The freshman first baseman has emerged as an impact player for the Jayhawks. Land has four home runs on the season.
WEDNESDAY Baseball vs. North Dakota
State, 3 p.m., Hoglund Ballpark
Softball at Missouri 6 p.m.,
Columbia, Mo.
FRIDAY
Baseball at Oklahoma State, 6:30 p.m., Stillwater, Okla.
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Tack at Tom Botts Invitational, all day, Columbia, Mo.
SATURDAY
Baseball a Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla.
TENNIS
Softball vs. Texas Tech, 2 p.m., Armahe Ballpark
Men's golf at US, Intercollegiate, all day. Stanford, Calif.
Tack at Tom Botts Invitational, all day, Columbia, Mo.
Women's tennis aColorado, 11 a.m.
Boulder, Colo.
SUNDAY
Softball vs. Texas Tech, noon, Arrocha Ballpark
Baseball at Oklahoma State, 1 p.m. Stillwater, Okla.
Men's golf at US. Intercollegiate, all day, Stanford, Calif.
THE COLUMN
Getting in their heads: Make brain game count
BY JIMMY CHAVEZ
JCHAVEZ@KANSAN.COM
The beauty of athletics is that you can defeat an opponent mentally easier than you can physically. So, starting with the football team, Kansas coach Mark Mangino and his staff should take a page from former Iowa coach Hayden Fry.
You throw on a little Raffi and other children's music and you have the recipe for intimidation of the most hideous variety.
Mangino should take it a step further and have adorable little ponies, kitties and teddy bears painted on the wall. Basically, Rainbow Bright and the Care Bears are your friends.
The opposing Iowa locker rooms are painted pink.
Can you imagine Nebraska getting pumped up for a game against Kansas in Memorial Stadium? It gets better.
This could also be applied to the basketball team. Kansas has its history, atmosphere and ambiance of Allen Fieldhouse on its side. In a way,
that should speak for itself, but then I wouldn't be able to write any more columns.
In the visiting locker rooms, you take a similar approach. Only you take a page from the Boston Celtics when they played in the old Boston Garden. Make sure it's either too hot or too cold in the visiting locker room. Then, like they used to do, turn off all the hot water in the showers.
This may have been a strategy — lull the other team to sleep before defeating that team on the field. Who knows if it works?
This brings us back to the baseball game yesterday. The Jayhawks played songs, like the Beach Boys "Good Vibrations" and The Beatles "Hey Jude" on the loud speakers at Hoglund Ballpark.
But at the end of Sunday, the Jayhawks had another victory and took the series against Texas Tech, two games to one.
And who knows, maybe next fall Barney the dinosaur could lead Kansas State on to the field at Memorial Stadium?
Just a thought.
Chavez is a San Antonio,
Texas, senior in journalism.
GOLF
In the past few weeks, the Kansas men's golf team has struggled to find consistency, forcing coach Ross Randall to shuffle players in and out of the lineup in search of a solid starting group.
Team still struggling to find consistent play
Coming into this weekend's Courtyard by Marriott Intercollegiate, Randall decided to go with a starting five full of proven veterans. After his team tied for a lastplace finish in this tournament, Randall may have to keep searching for a workable lineup.
The Jayhawks left Cary, N.C., in a tie for 13th place in the field of 14. In three challenging rounds, Kansas racked up a total score of 895 at the par 72 MacGregor Downs Country Club.
Junior Gary Woodland provided reason for some optimism, playing two of his three rounds under par to finish in a tie for 22nd. Senior Pete Krsnich struggled in the second round, but managed to finished tied for 52nd.
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Kentucky wrapped up the team honors, finishing with a total of 854, and Duke's Ryan Blaum won individually, shooting a three-round score of 202.
— Asher Fusco
Sophomore Elizaveta Avdeeva prepares to return a shot from her Missouri opponent Saturday at the Robinson Courts. The duo of Avdeeva and Ksenia Bukina won their doubles match with a final score of 8-1.
Kansas falls to Baylor
BY ANTONIO MENDOZA
amendoza@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
The Kansas tennis team played host to Missouri and No. 8 Baylor this weekend in the last two home matches of the spring season.
It was also the last home match for Christine Skoda since Sunday was senior day.
Kansas defeated Missouri by a score of 6-1 at the Robinson Courts on Saturday but lost to Baylor 6-1 on Sunday.
to lose the set, which was lost by
the score of 7-5, 7-5.
"It's just another match — yeah, it's my last match at home, but its not my last match," Skoda said.
Kansas started the match against Baylor when it lost two out of the three doubles matches. The only doubles team to win was the team of sophomore Lauren Hommell and freshman Edina Horvath. They won by a score of 8-7.
"The girls wanted to step up for Skoda this weekend, knowing this is her last weekend playing on our home court as well as the team wanting to do well, they wanted to do well for Skoda," Kansas coach Amy Hall-Holt said.
Skoda won in singles competition against Missouri on Saturday in two sets and lost in singles competition against Baylor on Sunday. It took a tiebreaker
The doubles loss gave Baylor the early 1-0 lead going into the singles matches.
Horvath was the only player for Kansas to win a singles match when she won in two sets by a score of 6-3, 7-6.
"I thought they performed very well and competed very well with a Top 10 school," Hall-Holt said.
Baylor was the first Top 10 school Kansas had played this season.
against these girls than we did against a Top 50 school," Skoda said.
With the loss, Kansas snapped a five match home winning streak.
Sophomore Elizaveta Avdeeva's 11-game singles winning streak also came to an end. Horvath now has the team's current longest winning streak, at nine singles matches.
"I think we played better
On Saturday, Kansas' only loss to Missouri came at the No. 6 spot when sophomore Stephanie Smith lost in three sets. Freshman Ksenia Bukina's match also went to three sets, but she prevailed in the final set.
The weekend put Kansas overall record at 12-8, and moved its conference record to 3-5.
The next Kansas match will be April 15 when it plays Colorado in Boulder.
Edited by Lindsey Gold