2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2006
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TUESDAY
TUESDAY
Women's basketball vs.
Kansas State, Big 12 Tour-
nament, 5
o.m., Dallas
Player to watch: Kaylee Brown. The senior guard did not score a point or dish out an assist in the 62-44 loss to Kansas State last
Thursday on senior night
WEDNESDAY
Softball vs. Missouri State,
2 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
Baseball vs. Baker, 3
p.m., Hoglund Ballpark
Softball vs. Missouri State,
4 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Softball vs. Eastern Michigan Jayhawk Classic, 2 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
Baseball at Clemson, 3 p.m.
Clemson, S.C.
Sotthall vs. Minnesota, Jayhawk Classic, 4 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
Swimming. Zone Diving, all day. Columbia, Mo.
Track. NCAA Indoor Championships, all day, Fayetteville, Ark.
Women's golf, The "Mo" morial all day, College Station, Texas
SATURDAY
Tennis vs. Iowa, 11 a.m., Robinson Courts
Baseball at Clemson, 1 p.m.
Clemson, S.C.
Softball vs. Portland State, Jayhawk Classic, 2 p.m., Arrocha Ballnack
Softball vs. Eastern Michigan, Jayhawk Classic, 4 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
Track. NCAA Indoor Champion-
Swimming. Zone Diving, all day,
Columbia. Mo.
Women's golf, The "Mo" morial, all day, College Station, Texas
CLUB SPORTS Hockey ends season with overtime loss
The Kansas hockey team wrapped up its season Saturday with a 5-4 overtime loss to Missouri in Jefferson City, Mo. The Jayhawks finished the season with a record of 11-17-2.
Kansas got down 2-0 but carne back to tie the game 2-2 and eventually sent the game to overtime, but came up short.
"Basically we trailed the whole game and kept fighting back," junior forward Nick Hantge said.
- Frank Tankard
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Senior player named to All-Big 12 first team
Senior forward Crystal Kemp was named to the All-Big 12 Conference first team, the conference office announced Friday.
This is the first time a Jayhawk has been on the conference first team since Lynn Pride in the 1999-2000 season.
"It is a great honor," Kemp said in a statement released by the Athletics Department. "It's something that I'll be able to look back on and be proud of. But right now, I'm focused on getting ready for our next game and doing everything I can to help this team get to postseason play."
She finished the season fourth in the conference in scoring, averaging 19 points per game. The Topeka native also ranks in the top 10 in both rebounding and field-goal percentage.
Senior guard Erica Hallman was named honorable mention for the second consecutive year.
Hallman is 11th in the conference in scoring, averaging 14.7 points per game. She is also eighth in the conference in assists and second in three-point shots made.
Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson was pleased for the two seniors recognized at Thursday night's game against Kansas State.
"Those two seniors have been the key to our season and both should be very proud of what they've been able to accomplish," Henrickson said.
Ryan Schneider
TRACK & FIELD Members make times that qualify for meet
The Kansas track and field team made the most of its weekend.
At the Alex Wilson Invitational hosted by Notre Dame, senior Charisse Bacchus jumped for a NCAA automatic qualifying performance in the long jump.
Many of the Jayhawk track and field members have provisional qualifying times getting into the NCAA Indoor Championship meet in Fayetteville, Ark., to compete in the championship meet if their times stand through the rest of the nation's meets.
The jump was sixth overall on the national performance list.
Bacchus' leap of 213/4 feet, was good for first place at the meet and broke her own school record.
The men's distance medley relay team missed the automatic qualifying time by
Sophomore Crystal Manning finished second in the triple jump. Although missing a provisional mark by a quarter of an inch, her jump of 41-5 3/4 feet put her in second place overall on Kansas' all-time performance list.
Sophomore Paul Hefferon has a provisionally qualifying time in the men's 3000-meter run.
two seconds.
At the Cyclone National Qualifier in Ames, Iowa., senior Aaron Thompson improved upon his provisional time in the 60-meter hurdles by running them in 784 seconds.
Thompson's time made 15th on the national performance list.
Sophomore Julius Jiles finished fifth in the 60 hurdles with a time of 7.96 seconds.
Evan Kafarakis
Senior Cameron Schwehr turned in a provisionally qualifying time of 4:04.4 in the mile run.
Pitcher sets record helps to defeat Tulsa
SOFTBALL
The Kansas softball team pulled away with a 6-3 defeat of the University of Tulsa on Sunday to win the 2006 Best Western Airport Festival at the Donna J. Hardesty Sports Complex in Tulsa, Okla.
The Jayhawks finished the weekend with a record of 4-1 to move them to 9-10 on the season and closed out the 19-game road trip that spanned more than a month.
Senior pitcher/designated player Serena Settlemier (5-3) struck out six, while surrendering eight hits and two walks in her 6.2 innings of work on Sunday.
She also hit a home run and went 2-for-3 to lead the offensive.
That was Settlemier's fourth home run of the tournament, ninth of the season, and her school-best, the 31st of her career.
Kansas finished with eight hits in the victory, including a two-run home run from senior shortstop Destiny Frankenstein to add to her season total of nine.
On Saturday, Kansas pulled away with a big victory over No. 17 Nebraska, 4-0, but lost to Notre Dame, 5-2, on the second day of the tournament.
Kansas opened up tournament play with victories over Stephen F. Austin (5-0) and Northern Iowa (15-2) on Friday.
Kansas will have its home opener against Missouri State at 2 p.m on Wednesday.
— Jonathan Anderson
TENNIS
Anthony Mattingly/KANSAN
Freshman Ksenia Bukina returns the ball to her Red Raider opponent during Sunday's match against Texas Tech. Bukina won the match 6-1 6-4.
Youth shines in loss
BY ANTONIO MENDOZA
amendoza@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
After five weeks of playing out-of-state matches, the Kansas tennis team lost its first home match of the season against Texas Tech Sunday.
12 plav.
With more than five hours of the match completed, the match came down to the No. 6 spot on the team, Kansas freshman Yuliana Stivist. With Svistun down one game, she forced a tie breaker in the second set. The opponent proved to be too much for Svistun, winning in two sets against Katja Kovacic, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3), and giving Texas Tech the victory. With the loss to Texas Tech, Kansas fell to 5-3 on the season and 0-1 in Big
"I definitely thought we had opportunities," Kansas coach Amy Hall-Holt said. "We definitely had the lineup that could compete with them, and we put it out there, but some of us just didn't step up and compete the wav we should have."
The three points that Kansas managed to score were all in singles play. Freshman Ksenia Bukina, sophomore Lauren Hommell and freshman Edina Horvath all won their matches.
"We definitely got out competed; it started from doubles," Hall-Holt said.
Due to potential rainy weather, the doubles match was moved from the Robinson courts to First Serve, an indoor tennis facility in Lawrence. earlier this
season, Hall-Holt said that First Serve gave Kansas the option to play indoors and that was why Kansas played in Lawrence instead of Toneka.
The match took more than five hours to finish, mainly because First Serve has only three indoor courts, whereas the old indoor facility that Kansas played in had six.
Kansas will play two matches next weekend. One match will be on Saturday against Iowa, followed by Oklahoma State on Sunday, either at Robinson Courts or First Serve.
—Edited by Hayley Travis
SOCCER
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
KANANS SPORTWRITER
On a day that felt nothing like spring, the Kansas soccer team kicked off its spring season by tying Minnesota 1-1 at the KU Soccer Complex.
Spring season kicks off with tie
From the beginning, the Jayhawks were able to control the ball and had multiple shot attempts, including an open look that was counteracted by junior Holly Gault's offsides penalty.
In the twelfth minute, Kansas was able to put one into the goal. Gault passed to junior Lacey Novak, who fired a pass to freshman Sara Rogers in front of the goal. Rogers collected the pass and was barely able to squeeze the ball through the legs of Minnesota's goalkeeper to give the fayhawks a 1-0 lead.
Kansas maintained possession for most of the first half and had a few scoring opportunities, including a pass between two defenders from freshman Jessica Bush to a streaking Gault, whose upper-goal shot was barely saved by the goalkeeper.
In the 31st minute, the Gophers got on the board off of a goal kick. Kansas' defender and sophomore goalkeeper Colleen Quinn displayed the ball, and Minnesota was able to score on a kick from about 30 feet out to square the match at one, where the score remained until halftime.
During the second half, neither team attempted many shots, and Minnesota controlled possession early on.
Later in the second half, Kansas began to take control and had opportunities to score but was unable to capitalize, and the two teams played a scoreless second half.
"We played really well in the first half," Kansas coach Mark Francis said. "We weren't moving the ball as much in the second half and might have ran out of gas since we were playing with only one sub."
Francis said he was pleased with his team's overall effort.
The Jayhawks will take the field next against Yale on April 1 in Omaha, Neb.
"For our first spring game it was pretty good," Francis said. "We now know more things we need to work on."
Edited by Lindsey St. Clair