Women’s tennis team beats Houston in doubles
The TCU women’s tennis team (2-0, 2-0 C-USA) dominated Houston (1-1, 0-1 C-USA) in the doubles matches at Colonial Country Club Saturday.

The Frogs No. 1 doubles pair, junior Paty Aburto and senior Rosa Perez defeated Houston’s Yolandi Terblanche and Miranda Foley, 8-5.

Sophomore Karla Mancinas and junior Saber Pierce, the Frogs No. 2 team, shut out Karine Urbin and Sarah Flood, 8-0.

Gloriann Lopez and Iris Jaklin also had a doubles victory over Analia Longoni and Kari Miller, 8-4.

TCU, who is ranked 29th, won five singles matches. Aburto, No. 1, defeated Foley in three sets. At No. 2, Pierce defeated the Cougars’ Analia Longoni in straight sets. Perez also won in straight sets against Urbin. The Frogs’ Jaklin defeated Sandra Blajer. Sophomore Ivonne Andrade also posted a win over Miller.

The Cougars only win came in the singles match as freshman Yolandi Terblanche defeated Mancinas, 6-4, 6-2.

Coach Dave Borelli, who is in his first season at TCU, said he is pleased with his team’s performance.

“The team needs the confidence at this level to get to the top 16 teams,” Borelli said. “It is important to beat teams like this.”

The women’s next match is against Texas-Arlington 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.
— Carmen Castro

UConn’s head coach to leave team, have surgery
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut men’s coach Jim Calhoun has prostate cancer and is leaving the team to undergo surgery.

“I want to attack this thing,” Calhoun said Monday at practice. “I’m going after it.”

The 60-year-old Calhoun will take a three-to-four week medical leave, with assistant George Blaney taking over as coach on an interim basis. Surgery was scheduled for Thursday.

Calhoun’s doctor, UConn Health Center urologist Peter Albertsen, said the cancer was detected early and was “relatively low-grade.”

“Coach Calhoun’s condition appears to be very treatable and we anticipate his return to normal job-related activities within three or four weeks,” said Albertsen, who will perform the surgery.

In his 17th season at Connecticut, Calhoun led the Huskies to national prominence, capped by an NCAA title in 1999. With a career record of 637-290, including 14 seasons at Northeastern, Calhoun is among the top 10 active Division I coaches with at least 600 career wins.

Calhoun is the only coach in Big East history to have been named the league’s top coach four times. The Braintree, Mass., native is also a member of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame.

The Huskies have been to the NCAA tournament 10 times under Calhoun. Last year, they made the round of eight before losing to eventual national champion Maryland.

TCU drops first game of season at home to UTA
The baseball team lost its first game of the season Sunday against Texas-Arlington, 5-3. UTA had a one run lead going into the seventh inning until TCU’s Mike Settle, a senior third baseman, hit a homerun over the left field fence to tie the game at two.

Settle, who was TCU’s RBI leader last season with 45, said it was memorable to have the first homerun in the Frogs’ new stadium.

“That’s neat to have the first homerun,” he said.

In the top of the eighth inning, UTA quickly took the lead again off of center fielder Robby Deevers’ three-run homerun. The homerun came on a 0-2 count.

TCU’s final run came in the bottom of the eighth inning.

With 3,105 fans, the game marked the most fans ever to watch a TCU game at home.

Head coach Lance Brown said the large attendance caused problems for the Frogs.

“We had a little trouble focusing at the new place,” Brown said.
— Evan Erwin