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12 The Review February 6, 2013
Lady Blues improve win streak to four straight Trevin Edelman
WASHBURN REVIEW
Coach Ron McHenry and his Lady Blues basketball team saw themselves in a physical matchup against the Gorillas of Pittsburg State Jan. 31 at Lee Arena. McHenry was comfortable with the physicality and said that his team was comfortable playing this style. “We are deep enough to play through a tough, physical game,” said McHenry. The first 10 minutes of the game went back and forth between the Lady Blues and the Gorillas. At the 10 minute mark, Laura Kinderknecht hit a three-pointer to take a 1310 lead and the Lady Blues rode that momentum to the locker room at halftime with a nine point lead, 2819. Washburn held PSU to only 20 percent shooting, while shooting 50 percent for the first half. The second half was dominated by the Lady Blues. Washburn had the lead for the entire half,
Photo by Abby Mies, Washburn Review
Southern Comfort: Senior forward Tiara George has been a beast on the offensive end of the court for the Lady Blues this season. The Louisana product was perfect from the field against Missouri Southern State University going 7-7 for 15 points. George cooled off against instate conference rival Pittsburg State, only scoring seven points against the Gorillas. stretching out the lead to 16 points at its largest, 3923. PSU got within nine points at different times in the half, but WU was too solid to give up the lead. The game ended with
a Washburn win, 58-44. The Lady Blues improved to 15-3 overall and to 9-1 in the MIAA. Pittsburg State dropped to 12-7 overall and to 6-5 in the MIAA conference.
Kinderknecht was the leading scorer for Coach McHenry with 15 points. She made three 3-pointers and shot 5-for-10 from the field. Sierra Moeller scored 10 points with four
free throws and 3-for-5 from the field. Stormye Everett crashed the boards hard, grabbing 11 rebounds in the game, setting the high mark for her career. “Stormye has brought us a great deal of energy to our game,” said McHenry. “She works hard at getting to the boards and that is a great start to be a good rebounder.” Leading up to the game, Coach McHenry knew that his player would have to handle the MIAA conference’s leading scorer, Lizzy Jeronimus. She was averaging 19 points a game coming into the game, but WU’s defense held her to only 12 points and 2-for-12 from the field. The stout defense also held PSU to a 30 percent field goal percentage. “We knew we could shut down everyone else, if we slowed her down,” said Moeller. Shutting down Jeronimus was a big key for the Blues. “The primary defenders on Jeronimus did a nice job of staying between her and the basket and without fouling,” said McHenry.
“We ran a couple of defenders at her and they did well. We also were pretty aware where she was most of the game.” The Lady Blues prepare to face Missouri Western University tonight in Schendel Court at Lee Arena at 5:30 p.m. MWU is 13-8 overall and a 6-6 conference record. “Missouri Western is a tough match up for us because they really want to put it on the floor and their bigs like to step out and shoot the perimeter jumper,” said McHenry. “We have seen that game before this year but Missouri Western does it at a high level. We also will need to handle their press because they are really good at creating turnovers.” Washburn is taking their four-game winning streak into this game and remain atop the MIAA standings.
Trevin Edelman, trevin. edelman@washburn.edu, is a freshman mass media major.
Washburn tennis teams get off to a rough start, go 1-3 in spring opener Luke Warnken
WASHBURN REVIEW
The Washburn tennis teams got off to a rough start this spring. Both teams traveled to Springfield, Mo. for their first matches of the spring season. The women’s team struggled mightily in both of their matches, losing both. The Lady Blues fell against the Panthers of Drury Univeristy 9-0 after being defeated 1-8 to the
Univeristy of ArkansasFort Smith.. The men’s team faired a little bit better. They defeated UAFS 8-1 and only lost 7-2 to Drury. The young, inexperienced Lady Blues are still trying to get accustomed to the college game. Junior Sophie O’Neill has the most experience out of the group, but struggled against some good competition. O’Neill fought hard against UAFS before falling 6-4, 4-6,
10-5 and then got drubbed against Drury, losing in No. 1-singles 6-0, 6-1. Washburn is also without one of its top players as Casyn Buchman continues playing with the Washburn Lady Blues basketball team. That has left Washburn head coach Dave Alden with six true freshmen, a redshirt freshman and a sophomore to fill the void. The men’s team is exactly opposite of the women’s team. Washburn
returned most of its team from last year. Having all that experience played dividends in the Ichabods first match of the spring season. The Bods swept singles plays against the University of ArkansasFort Smith. Unlike their counterpart, the Ichabods’ top five singles players are all juniors. In their first match-up this spring against Arkansas-Fort Smith, Arek Kozaczuk won easily in No. 1-singles
play, 6-1, 6-0. Fellow classmates Pascal Laucht and Steven Fletcher came away with wins in No. 2-singles and No. 3-singles. The No. 4-singles player, Bobby Florence, and No. 5-singles player, Chance Joost, breezed through in their matches. Sophomore Dario Munoz-Poletti, the only non-junior to play, rounded out the sweep in singles play. The Ichabods didn’t have similar success the next day against Drury,
getting spanked 7-2. Florence was unable to pull out a win in No. 3-singles, falling in three sets 7-5, 5-7, 10-7. Joost moved down to No. 6-singles against the Panthers and was the lone winner in singles play. Joost and Florence teammed up to win No. 3-doubles 8-5.
Luke Warnken, luke. warnken@washburn.edu, is a junior athletic training major.