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Sports
Tuesday, February 1,2011
Sean Gorman, Sports Editor
sgorman@ntdaily.com
Weather cuts tennis
teams weekend short
By Donnie Pipes
Intern
Playing in its first ever
Intercollegiate Tennis
Assocation Kick-OffWeekend,
the UNT tennis team fell
to the No. 9 California
Golden Bears on Friday 6-1.
"Cal made the NCAA
finals two out of the last
three years, so they're a good
team," head coach Sujay
Lama said. "We battled hard
over the four-hour match
and I'm proud of the girls
for the way they competed."
The Mean Green was
rained out of its second
match with TCU after
leading the Horned Frogs
2-1.
California
Entering the weekend as
the tournament's lowest
seed, UNT failed to upset the
top seeded Golden Bears.
Early struggles in
doubles play hurt the
Mean Green, as it lost two
of three doubles matches.
Senior Amy loubert and
junior Paula Dinuta were
the lone winners for UNT,
defeating Cal's Marina
Cossou and Alice Duranteua
8-6.
UNT was no match for the
Bears' four top-50 ranked
players in singles play, drop-
ping all but one match.
lunior Nadia Lee
forced No. 36 player
Tayler Davis into a close
match, but fell 6-4, 7-5.
Sophomore Barbora
Vykydalova was the only
Mean Green player to force
a third set against Cal. She
Photo by James Coreas/Senior Staff Photographer
Junior Nadia Lee returns a serve in practice this week. UNT fell to California
6-1 at the ITA Kick-Off Weekend on Saturday.
dropped the first set 6-3 and
claimed the second set 6-4
before dropping the third.
Joubert pulled out the only
win for the Mean Green
against Stephany Chang, 7-6,
6-3, finishing the weekend
undefeated.
"I thought the team
fought hard," Joubert said.
" I was very happy about my
matches. I didn't necessarily
play the best tennis, but I
found a way to win, which
is the important part."
Texas Christian
The Mean Green gained
an early lead against the
Horned Frogs but play
was stopped because of
bad weather on Saturday.
After dropping its doubles
match from the top spot,
UNT rebounded with two
wins from the No. 2 and No.
3 spots to take a 2-1 lead.
"We put ourselves in
position to beat TCU," said
Buried by
Bears
1. Junior Amy Joubert went
2-0 against Cal.
2. UNT is ranked No. 60, its
highest ranking ever.
3. This was UNT's first invite
to the ITA-Kick Off Weekend.
Lama. "And they're tradi-
tionally a good program, so
it's good for us as a team."
Persistent rain forced a
reschedule of the match,
which is scheduled to
happen in the next few
weeks at the Waranch
Tennis Complex in Denton.
The match will start from
scratch when the resched-
uled match is played.
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Mean Green meets match
By Bobby Lewis
Senior Staff Writer
The Mean Green women's
basketball team took a brief one-
point lead after getting off to a slow
start in Denver on Saturday, but
was overpowered in the second
half by the Pioneers' dominant
trio of scorers.
Denver's reigning Sun Belt Player
oftheWeek, redshirtseniorforward
Brianna Culberson, finished
with a career-best 27 points after
scoring just six points in the first
half. Culberson, junior forward
Kaetlyn Murdoch and senior guard
Britteni Rice combined to score 68
points in Denver's 86-67 victory
over UNT.
The loss is UNT's fourth in a
row.
"We did a good job of holding
Culberson in the first half," head
coach Shanice Stephens said.
"But in the second half, their big
three just went on a run. We were
solid enough offensively, but poor
defense just killed us."
Denver (13-8, 5-3) started the
game with a 10-2 lead, but UNT
(5-18, 2-8) used two 3-pointers
each from junior guards Brittany
Hudson and Tamara Torru to stay
in the game. Torru finished the
game with 11 points, one of three
players to score in double figures
for UNT.
However, it was Hudson who
led the way for the Mean Green,
as she notched 12 points in the
first half and hit all five of her shot
attempts. She made her first eight
shots and led the team in scoring
with 20 points before fouling out
late in the game.
"We were justlooking to get the
ball to [Hudson] because she was
the hot hand," sophomore forward
jasmine Godbolt said.
Godboltfinishedwith 18 points
and 10 rebounds, her third straight
double-double.
UNT's only lead of the contest
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Photo by Zac Switzer/Staff Photographer
Sophomore guard Sarah Workman tries to find an open teammate at practice.
The Mean Green lost to Denver 86-67 on Saturday.
camewith4:411eftinthehalfwhen
Hudson's fast break layup put the
Mean Green on top 27-26.
The Pioneers followed the
Mean Green's spurt by reeling off
11 straight points. UNT put in a
late 3-pointer and went into the
locker room down 37-30.
"We had a few turnovers in the
beginning and they just started
running on us and we just wasn't
getting back," Godbolt said. "I
wasn't expecting them to run up
and down the floor like that."
UNT forced more turnovers
than Denver did and scored more
fast break points, but could not
stop Culberson, Murdoch or Rice
in the second half.
Murdoch finished the first
half two points shy of a double-
Denver
Dominance
1. Denver finished with 13 blocks,
with nine coming in the second-
half.
2. Culberson, Murdoch and
Rice outscored the entire
UNT team 68-67.
double with 10 rebounds, while
Rice had 11 points at the intermis-
sion. Murdoch and Rice combined
for 22 points in the second half.
Murdoch also finished with 16
rebounds, a season-high.
UNT will be back in action at
5 p.m. Thursday when it hosts
Florida Atlantic at the Super Pit.
More road woes haunt UNT
By Ben Baby
Senior Staff Writer
Amidst the high altitude of
Denver, Colo., the UNT men's
basketball tfeam suffered its
second straight loss to the
Denver Pioneers in an 80-67
defeat Saturday night. UNT
had not dropped two straight
contests in 40 games, with the
last occurrence onlan.7 against
Arkansas State.
"What really hurt us, and
what our downfall was, were
the stops," senior guard Josh
White said. "We didn't get
enough consecutive stops on
the defensive end. We won't win
like that, giving 80 points up."
The loss puts the Mean Green
(16-6,5-4) two andahalf games
back of the Pioneers (11-10,
7-1) for first place in the Sun
Belt West Division. The Mean
Green went 4-4 in the month
of January.
All six of UNT's losses this
season have been on the road.
In its sixlosses, the Mean Green
allowed 87.8 points per game.
Coming into the game, the
Mean Green ranked seventh
in the Conference in scoring
defense, allowing an average
of 71.7 points.
"I can't put my finger on
exactly what it is, but even at
home, we're not holding people
to a clip that we really need to,"
head coach Johnny Jones said.
"We just have to get to where
we're doing that, and it's my job
that I find guys who are able to
play that way."
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Against the Sun Belt's top
scoring defense, the Mean
Green, which leads the confer-
ence in scoring, mustered 67
points. It was the fourth time
this season the team failed to
score at least 70 points. UNT is
2-2 in those contests.
Denver entered the contest
ranked second in the confer-
ence in 3-point field goal
percentage, shooting 42
percent. Pioneers junior guard
Brian Stafford led the assault
from deep, going five-of-eight
from long distance on his way
to a game-high 21 points.
Twelve of Denver's 24
completed field goals were
3-pointers. The Pioneers
finished shooting 46.2 percent
from behind the 3-point line
and 55.8 percent shooting
overall.
"We have to a better job
on defense," senior forward
George Odufuwa said. "That's
all it really comes down to.
We're still sloppy. We have to
clean it up."
UNT averaged 13.6 turn-
overs per game prior to the
contest and turnvoed over the
ball 12 times.
"We didn't take care of the
ball," Jones said. "When we did
turn the ball over, they did an
excellent job of scoring."
White scored a team-high
15 points in the loss. Odufuwa
had his tenth double-double of
the season, scoring 14 points
and racking up 11 rebounds.
UNT will try to stop its two-
game slide at 7 p.m. Thursday
at home against Florida
Atlantic, the leader of the East
division. In the confines of
the Super Pit, UNT has won
17 straight games, the 10th
longest home winning streak
in the nation.
"The last thing we're
going to do is feel sorry for
ourselves," White said. "We
have to get back to the basics,
and that starts in practice. We
just have to get back to our
winning ways."
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