KU doubles team falls in championship

? Elizaveta Avdeeva and Edina Horvath placed second in doubles Sunday at the Leary Tournament.

The duo, which is ranked 36th in the country and was the event’s No. 1 seed, lost to Penn’s Ekaterina Kosiminskaya and Julia Koulbitskayaf in the final, 8-6.

Avdeeva and Horvath won three weekend matches by a combined score of 24-16. KU’s Kunigunda Dorn and Yuliana Svistun lost in the quarterfinals.

Svistun beat Columbia’s Nina Suda, 6-4, 6-3, in a round-robin consolation.