Kansas University’s No. 1 doubles team of Ekaterina Morozova and Dylan Windom held off the 23rd-ranked team of Amanda Craddock and Cierra Gayton-Leach from Texas on Saturday afternoon at the Jayhawk Tennis Center, but the Jayhawks got just one point against No. 26 Texas, falling 6-1.
The Jayhawks fell to 6-7 on the season and 0-3 in Big 12 Conference play. Texas remains perfect in league action, extending its Big 12 mark to 4-0 and moving to 10-4 overall.
Despite a comeback attempt by Craddock and Gayton-Leach, Morozova and Windom never trailed. The KU duo went up 4-0 before the Texas team came back to win three games. Morozova and Windom pushed their lead to 7-3, and Craddock and Gayton-Leach immediately cut it to 7-4. But Texas came no closer than that, as the Jayhawks put the match away, earning the first KU win over a ranked doubles opponent since Morozova and Erin Wilbert defeated a No. 72-ranked team from Colorado on April 11, 2010.
Windom earned the only KU singles win when Elizabeth Begley defaulted.
Kansas will be back in action at 11 this morning when No. 25 Texas A&M visits the Jayhawk Tennis Center.
