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9A
Up next,2 Top-100 teams
BY RUSTIN DODD
The Kansas tennis team returns to the court today after an 18-day break to face No. 16 Baylor in Waco, Texas. Baylor, a team that has won four straight times against Kansas, features three single players ranked in the top 100 of the ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings, and the No. 38 ranked doubles team.
Coach Amy Hall-Holt said her team had to make up for the talent gap by outworking Baylor.
"We just need to compete as hard as we can." Hall-Holt said. "We need to go in with an open mind, and we are coming off a good week of practice."
Kansas (4-9, 2-2) last competed as a team in a 5-2 home loss to Louisville on March 11, but Hall-Holt said that four players were able to get in some individual work during a spring break trip to Arizona. Baylor is coming off a Big 12 Championship and will be the highest-ranked opponent Kansas has faced during a season
that has already seen eight opponents ranked in the Top 75 of the ITA rankings.
The last time these two teams met was in the quarterfinal of the Big 12 Championships last year. Baylor won 4-0.
Junior Zuzana Zemenova headlines a potent Baylor squad at No. 1 singles. Zemenova, a two-time TLA All-American, won the NCAA Singles title in 2005, and went undefeated in conference play a year ago.
Kansas freshman Kunigunda Dorn earned her first appearance at No. 1 singles against Louisville, losing a three-set match. She could be called on to face Zemenova.
Junior Elizaveta Avdeeva played at the No.1 position the first 12 matches of the season and could also return to that spot against Baylor.
Hall-Holt has that whoever plays Zemenova has to outcompete her.
"You need to come in with a determined attitude and stay in it mentally." Hall-Holt said.
Kansas currently has sole posi-
session of sixth place in the Big 12 with a 2-2 conference mark. Hall-Holt said she was proud of the way her team had handled adversity this season. She has also been impressed by the improved play of sophomores Edina Horvath and Yuliana Swistun. Horvath has combined with Adevea at the No. 1 doubles spot and registered an 11-2 record with a 4-0 record in Big 12 matches.
Swistun has shown great progress during her sophomore campaign. Swistun has a 3-1 record at the No. 5 singles position.
"Not being in the lineup last year, and now this year she's playing No. 5 and having a great winning record," Hall-Holt said.
After playing Baylor, Kansas will travel to Lubbock, Texas, to take on No. 69 Texas Tech on Sunday.
Kansan sportswriter Rustin Dodd can be contacted at rdodd@kansan.com.
- Edited by Kelly Lanigan
MLB
Sosa homers, but Royals win
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SURPRISE, Ariz. — The Texas Rangers may have some tough roster decisions to make before opening day. Sammy Sosa isn't one of them.
Returning after missing four games with a stomach virus, Sosa hit his fifth homer of the spring in the Rangers' 7-5 loss to the Kansas City Royals in their final Cactus League game Thursday.
Rangersmanager Ron Washington plans to use Sosa primarily as a designated hitter with a few games in right field. Where will he be for the season opener Monday night at the Los Angeles Angels?
After being out of the majors last season, Sosa hit .404 with 15 RBIs in 16 games in Arizona after the 1998 NL MVP and seven-time All-Star came to camp with his original team on a minor league contract.
"I'll be happy wherever the skipper wants me to play," said Sosa, who is fifth on the career home run list with 588. "I feel good, strong and I am ready to go."
Washington was noncommittal on the club's plans for Sosa, but said that the 38-year-old slugger — who will have a base salary of about $600,000 this season — had a good comeback day.
"He's still seeing the ball well," Washington said. "He looked strong. That was a pretty good day, he hit the ball sharply in the second, turned around a 96 mph fastball for a home run and worked the pitcher well for a walk."
Sosa's homer gave the Rangers a 4-3 lead in the sixth. But Royals used an error, a walk and Mark Tehan's three-run home run to regain the lead in the eighth off Ezequiel Astacio, who was claimed off waivers from Houston earlier this week. It was Tehana's fourth homer.
Mark Grudzielanek, who had knee surgery March 5, went 1-for-3 in his second straight game. He plans to be in the lineup for Monday's opener against Boston.
Royals starter Odalis Perez left after three innings because of a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand. Perez said he won't miss a start, but manager Buddy Bell wasn't as certain
"I don't know what his status is for the second game of the year," Bell said "We don't want him to have to deal with this every other game."
Non-roster invitee Matt Kata doubled and tripled for the Rangers, and may have won a utility role this spring, when he hit .396. Minor leaguer Casey Benjamin hit a two-run homer for Texas.
BASEBALL (CONTINUED FROM 12A)
epitome of consistency. Missouri is notching just .277 at the plate. The Tigers are also led by an outfielder, sophomore Ryan Lollis, who leads the team with 31 RBI.
But it will likely be the other side of the game that presents the problem.
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"We've given up 23 home runs with runners in scoring position," Price said. "I think that's a pretty good indication that we've got young guys pitching that are still trying to get to the level that at this
Missouri's 3.06 team ERA leads the Big 12. Two Tiger pitcher ranks in the top five of the Big 12 ERA mark. Kansas' 4.60 team ERA could find the lahawk's predominantly freshman and sophomore pitching staff trying hard to keep up.
Conference talk aside, this weekend's series will never waver far from the rivalry that is the Border Showdown — no matter what the sport.
The Tiger players won't be the only ones looking to avenge the Jayhawks' taking three of four from them last season.
"I've been coaching 29 years and I've never seen as brutal as it is," Price said. "I'll be real honest with you, some of the things said out in the stands shouldn't even be said at a college baseball game. I think the difference is when you've got 60,000 football fans you can't hear the one idiot in the stands. You go to a baseball game with 1,500 people that
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M.B.B Broken bat strikes elderly man in head at game
MLB
JUPITER, Fla. — An elderly man sitting about six rows behind St. Louis' dugout was injured Thursday when a broken bat struck him during the second inning of the Cardinals' game against the
The man, whose name was not immediately released, was treated for a facial cut at his seat. Medical personnel helped him into a first-aid room in the concourse area about a half-inning later for further evaluation.
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St. Louis left fielder Chris Duncan swung and broke his bat,
some of which sailed past the protective net surrounding the backstop area and into the seats along the first base line. The game stopped for about two minutes while officials tended to the man, who did not appear to lose consciousness.
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