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6C THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
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Bill Ross/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston Bruins left winger Marco Strum, of Germany, right, scores past Colorado Avalanche goalie Vitaly Kolesnik of Kazakhstan, in the first period in Denver, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005.
Avalanche beat Bruins behind young goalie
BY JOHN MARSHALI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — Vitaly Kolesnik stopped 20 shots in his NHL debut, and Alex Tanguay had a goal for the third straight game and added two assists to lift the Colorado Avalanche to a 4-1 victory over the struggling Boston Bruins on Wednesday night.
Milan Heijuk, Brett McLean and John-Michael Liles also scored for Colorado, which won for the fourth time in six games.
Marco Sturm scored his third goal in four games since being traded from San Jose with Wayne Primeau and Brad Stuart for Boston captain Joe Thornton. The Bruins just didn't have many other good scoring chances and gave up too many at the other end to lose for the 11th time in 14 games.
They are 2-2 since dealing Thornton, the Boston captain last week.
- Kolesnik certainly didn't make it easy on the Bruins in what could be the start of a shakeup for the Avalanche. * Colorado called up the 26-year-old player from Kazakhstan on Tuesday after becoming frustrated with the spotty play of goalies David Aebischer and Peter Budaj.
Aebischer, the Avalanche's top goalie to start the season,
has a 3.37 goals-against average and was pulled after allowing four goals on 16 shots in the first period of a 6-4 loss to Buffalo on Sunday.
Budaj, a rookie, is 3-4-3 with a .904 save percentage, 0-3 in shootouts and has yet to win in four games at home.
Bringing up Kolesnik could be a sign that the Avalanche are looking to make a deal or it could just be that coach Joel Quenneville and the front office are looking to spark Aebischer and Budai.
Either way, Kolesnik looked solid, keeping good position in the crease and knocking down some tough chances through traffic.
He was particularly good during a power play midway through the first period, smothering a hard shot from the top with his body, gloving another from the left circle and sticking his skate out just in time to
block a rebound. Boston's only goal came with 27 seconds left in the first period, when Sturm slipped behind Colorado's defense for a breakaway and scored off a rebound that tied it at 1-all.
Boston goalie Andrew Raycroft had another tough outing after taking three games off.
Heijduk scored on a power play in the first period, knocking in his third goal in 18 games to an open net after a shot by Tanguay caromed off someone out front. Tanguay put Colorado up 2-1 midway through the second, holding the puck across the crease and flipping a shot over a prone Raycroft after intercepting a pass from Bruins defenseman Brian Leetch.
McLean made it 3-1 just over four minutes later with an improbable goal, beating Raycroft to the stick side after whirling around near the blue line. Liles scored his seventh of the season midway through the third, one-timing a pass from Joe Sakic past Raycroft's stick side.
Raycrow has allowed 15 goals his last four games.
MLB
Rockies offer salary arbitration to righty pitcher, not to catcher
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005
DALLAS — Right-hander
Byung-Hyun Kim was offered
salary arbitration Wednesday
night by the Colorado Rockies,
who refused to do the same for
catcher Todd Greene and right-
handers Dan Micell and Jamey
Wright.
Kim was 5-12 with a 4.86 ERA in 40 games (22 starts) for the Rockies this season. He allowed 42 earned runs in 84 innings at Coors Field, that 4.50 ERA being the fourth-lowest home ERA
The Rockies can continue contract negotiations with Kim, who has until Dec. 19 to accept and can re-sign through Jan. 8, Greene, Miceli and Wright can't re-sign with Colorado until Mav 1.
in franchise history for pitchers with at least 81 innings.
Kim was 5-12 with a 4.86 ERA in 40 games (22 starts) for the Rockies this season. He allowed 42 earned runs in 84 innings at Coors Field, that 4.50 ERA being the fourth-lowest home ERA in franchise history for pitchers with at least 81 inning.
Wright was 8-16 with a 5.45 ERA over 34 games (27 starts) last season. Miceli was 1-2 with a 5.89 ERA in 19 appearances.
Greene spent the past two seasons in Colorado, hitting 271 with 17 home runs and 58 RBIs over 113 games.
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Basketball
"I should play with more energy in the post," she said. "In the Big 12 they will be stronger than me."
The team will get its first big test on Sunday afternoon, when it takes on Wisconsin. That game tips off at 1 p.m. at Allen Fieldhouse.
Senior forward Crystal Kemp left the court briefly in the second half, and freshman forward Jen Orgas went down with a knee injury shortly afterward. Henrickson said both players were fine.
Overton was unhappy with several non-calls late in the game, at one point yelling out, "This is a joke."
Notes:
— After having only five fouls in the first half, Kansas had 13 in the second. UMKC coach Bo
After the game, Overton said his 2-6 UMKC team was learning a lot by playing a tough nonconference schedule, which continues on Sunday against Kansas State.
Edited by Erin Wisdom
Hawks
three-point percentage. Kansas leads the Big 12 and is second in the NCAA in three-point shooting percentage, knocking down more than 49 percent of its three-point shots.
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line, a stat which Henrickson attributed to a lack of focus. Kansas shot a season-low 41 percent against Birmingham Southern.
A close game, however, could spell trouble for Kansas because of its free-throw shooting. The Jayhawks only shoot 61 percent from the free-throw
Sunday's game matches two of the highest scoring teams in their respective conferences. Both Kansas and Wisconsin average more than 70 points per game.
Part of the Jayhawks' average 77 points per game can be attributed to their blistering
In their only previous meeting, Kansas lost to Wisconsin, 73-72, in the first round of the 1995 NCAA tournament.
— Edited by Anne Burgard
Rylan Howe/KANSAN
Senior forward Crystal Kemp takes a shot early in the first half. Kemp scored a game-high 16 points to help the Jayhawks improve to 6-0 with a 73-51 win against UMKC Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse.
Strides
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Some seniors will be playing in their first bowl game, because they transferred from a junior college after the 2003 season. Players like defensive ends Jermial Ashley and Charlton Keith will have that opportunity.
"I have never been to a bowl game so I am really excited for it," Ashley said, who also will play in his hometown of Fort Worth for his last collegiate game.
Luke believes that this bowl game will help Kansas be seen as a good football team in the future.
"You kind of feel like you are leaving something for the program, that we really did help build this program and that it is on its way up in the college football world," Luke said.
a football team that played hard. Mangino said that the next step for his program was to have teams in the conference calling Kansas a good football team.
After the victory against Iowa State to make the team bowl eligible, Mangino talked about how teams in the conference respected Kansas more and said that they were
Through the seniors on this year's team, Kansas has become a team that plays hard. The seniors believe that through their efforts the team will eventually become a team that will be called a good team by conference foes.
— Edited by Kellis Robinett
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