UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, January 22, 1996
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Men's tennis team has its ups and downs
Kansas splits its matches with Fresno State and Minnesota
By Spencer Duncan Kansan sportswriter
The grunts of the Kansas men's tennis team as they hit each ball seemed to sum up the way the weekend finished for the Jayhawks
However, they did not signify how it started.
It was a busy weekend for the No. 22 Jayhawks as they faced off against No. 23 Golden Gophers of Minnesota and No. 13 Bulldogs of Fresno State at Alvamar Racquet Club.
Kansas finished the weekend in a split.
The Jayhawks proved to be a better team than Minnesota on Saturday.
The day began with Kansas sweeping all three doubles matches and finished with the Jayhawks splitting six singles matches with Minnesota, 3-3.
The result was a 4-3 Kansas victory.
"It was a real-hard fought, emotional win for us, and it was nice to come out on top," said Michael Center. Kansas mep's tennis coach.
senior Victor Fimbres, who lost his doubles and singles matches, said. "But we are a young team that can only get better."
The Jayhawks lost to the Bulldogs 4-3. Despite the loss, it seemed in the beginning as if Kansas would have the upper hand.
Kansas won 2 of 3 doubles matches, including a victory by Isroff and Abaroa against the No. 3 singles player in the country, Fredrik Giers, and his partner, senior Rvan Juinio.
"This team has a good chance of getting in the Top 10. It should be a fun year."
Senior Michael Isroff, sophomore Enrique Abaroa and freshman Fernando Sierra were all victorious for the Jayhawks in singles competition.
The one loss the Jayhawks had was a tough one for the team.
After putting Minnesota away the men felt ready for their meet against Fresno State on Sunday. Only this time, things did not go so well for the team.
Fimbres and partner Xavier Aviles were up 6-3 when Fresno State charged back. The Bulldogs surprised Kansas and ended up winning the match 9-7.
"They started playing better and
Victor Fimbres Kansas senior tennis player
we were not as aggressive as we were when the match started," Fimbs said.
Things seemed to go downhill from there as K a n s a s dropped 4 out of 6 singles matches. But the meet came down to the last match of the night.
singles match in a tie-breaking set, 7-6, 2-6, 7-5, to Fresno State's Juinio.
In singles competition, the winners for the Jayhawks were Isroff who beat Bulldog senior Jake Bragonier and freshman Luis Uribe who beat senior Blago Petrov.
Despite that the weekend did not end the way in which it started, members of the team still see the weekend as successful and predict the team will only get better.
"This team has a good chance of getting in the Top 10." Fimbres said. "It should be a fun year."
Richard Devinki / KANSAM
Kansas sophomore tennis player Enrique Abaroa returns a shot in yesterday's match against No. 13 Fresno State at Alavar Ramacq Club.
Motivational speech by team captain inspires Jayhawks
Kansas track team shows'em in Missouri
By Adam Herschman Kansan sportswriter
Kansas junior captain Michael Evers made his point clear at a team meeting on Friday.
"The way Mike Evers put it was there were teams coming from Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, and it was a chance for us to show them what we had, and then they'd go back to their conferences going. "These guys are pretty good," Kansas assistant track and field coach Steve Guymon said.
At the Missouri Invitational, held Saturday at the Heares Center in Columbia, Mo., the Kansas women's team cruised to a first place finish with 160 points, 22 points ahead of second place Indiana State.
"And that's what happened."
The Jayhawk men's team finished second with 139.5 points, behind Missouri's 166.5 points.
"People pretty much absorbed it,"
"It was a great chance to really just compare ourselves to some other teams we usually don't get to see around too much."
Evers said about his pep talk at the meeting. "It was a great chance to really just compare ourselves to some other teams that we usually don't get to see around too much."
men's other captain, junior Brian Martin won the 400 meters with a time of 49.12 seconds.
Evers set two personal records at the invitational in the 55 meter hurdles and the pole vault. Kansas
Michael Evers Kansas men's team captain
"Mike and Brian being the two captains, they really stood up and kept of led by example." Guymon said.
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Kansas junior spinner Pierce Lisk and freshman high jumper Jason Archibald took first in their events for the second consecutive week. Lisk won the 200 meters with a time of 22.24 seconds. Archibald high jumped seven feet. Junior Paul Tan won the triple jump competition with a leap of 48 feet. 6 8/4 inches.
Although the men placed second, the results are deceiving because of the way the rules are setup. The home team is allowed to enter an unlimited number of athletes compared with 26 athletes of each visiting team. Missouri entered 48 of their track and field athletes on the men's team, which was almost twice as many as every other team competing.
The women faced the same rules. Kansas senior captain Melissa Swartz lapped the field en route to setting a personal record in the 3,000 meters with a time of 9:40.63. Her time was good enough for first and it provisionally qualified her for the NCAA Indoor Championships.
Kansas senior Kristi Kloster also provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships as she was first in the 800 meters. Kloster crossed the finish line in 2:08.00.
When Kansas sophomore Candy Mason took off in the long jump competition, she landed in first place, 18 feet, 7 3/4 inches from where she took off.
Kansas junior spinner Carleen Roberts finished first and set a personal record in the 55 meters. She finished the event in 7.11 seconds, and it was the second consecutive meet Roberts broke the finish line first.
Like Roberts, Kansas senior Lisa Brien won her event for the second time in as many meets. Brien won the 20 pound weight throw with a toss of 54 feet, 5/14 inches.
Kansas junior Kim Feldkamp came up victorious in the shot put competition with a throw of 44 feet, 1 1/4 inches.
"I was real happy with the overall women' s team, and the way they competed," Guymon said.
The Jayhawks will face the Tigers and Wildcats in a three team meet on Jan.27.
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