THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2005
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TODAY
*Softball vs. Wichita State, 3 p.m., Wichita*
*Softball vs. Wichita State, 5 p., Wichita*
- Softball Vs. Wichita State, 5 p.m., Wichita
FRIDAY
- Baseball vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m., College Station,
Texas
SATURDAY
- Baseball vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m., College Station,
Texas
- Rowing vs. Drake, Tulsa, all day, Lawrence
- Soccer vs. Minnesota, 11 a.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex
*Softball vs. Texas A&M 2, p.m. Arrocha Ballpark*
*Tennis vs. Baylor, 1, p.m. Waco, Texas*
SUNDAY
- Baseball vs. Texas A&M, 1 p.m., College Station,
Texas
- Softball vs. Texas A&M, 1 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
* Tennis vs. Texas Tech 1 a.m., Lubbock, Texas
MONDAY
- Swimming at world championship trials, all day,
Indianapolis
INTRAMURAL SCORES
MONDAY
MONDAY
SOFTBALL
Men
Phi Delt 2 def. Balco All-Stars 12-8
Red Scare def. Beers 15-9
Fiji 1 def. Beta A-1 19-10
DU 1 def. Kappa Sigma 1 9-1
DU 3 def. Law 20-10
VOLLEYBALL
Future Jayhawk setter given top Kansas 'Gatorade' honors
Kansas volleyball signee Katie Martincik was announced Tuesday as the 2005 Kansas
Gatorade Player of the Year.
Martinchich
Martincich earned the title after leading Bishop Miege High School to its third straight state title this fall.
Kansas coach Ray Bechard said the award was well-deserved.
Bechard
"She has unbelievable leadership skills and really understands the flow of the game and how to distribute the ball," Bechard said. "Schools on the East and West Coasts would have loved to have her, and we think she is the top setter prospect in this part of the country."
The 5-foot-10 setter from Shawnee was also selected as the 2004 Eastern Kansas League Player of the Year and garnered all-state and 5A all-tournament honors.
Martinicich, a two-time Kansas City Star player of the week, will join the Jayhawks for the 2005 season and begin training with the team this summer.
Bechard said Martincic would be a protege to incumbent setter Ari Rozum and likely replace her after the 2005 season. Last season's second-string setter, Ashley Bechard, a Kansan copy chief, will graduate in May.
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Spartan fans see double in finals
BASKETBALL
BY LARRY LAGE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Rob Dare and his friends crowded around a TV, screaming as Michigan State competed for a spot in the Final Four.
The students weren't watching the men's team, however. For the first time, Dare and his buddies were tuned in to cheer on the Spartan women.
Michigan State will have its men's and women's teams in the Final Four this weekend and Dare, as much as it surprises him, will be interested in both games.
"Everybody follows the men around here, but now people are jumping on the women's bandwagon, me included," the sophomore said yesterday. "I was really impressed with them against Stanford. Me and my friends couldn't believe how good they could shoot. Maybe we should've started following them earlier."
A green and white Spartans blanket attached to a flag pole flapped in the wind in the back of a pickup truck on the eastern edge of campus.
Michigan State has gone hoops crazy, a fact that could be seen and heard on and around campus.
Merchandise was hawked on street corners under makehift tents, and congratulatory messages could be seen on businesses' marques.
As if a partly cloudy, 70-degree day wasn't enough to create a buzz in the winter-weary college town, two Final Four-bound basketball teams provided an extra boost of excitement.
For the past two weeks, Michigan State president Lou Anna Simon has crisscrossed the country to give equal time to the Spartans in both the men's and women's NCAA tournaments.
There's no rest for Simon now.
"It's a great problem to have," Simon said in interview with The Associated Press a few minutes after the women's team beat Stanford on Tuesday night. "It's going to be a little easier on me this weekend because the sites will be closer together, and the games don't conflict.
"I can't wait to get to the pep rallies and other events we have planned before each game."
Simon will watch the men play North Carolina on Saturday in St. Louis, then travel 250 miles to Indianapolis for the women's game against Tennessee on Sunday.
If both Michigan State teams pull off upsets, Simon will be back in St. Louis on Monday for the men's national championship before wrapping up her whirlwind tour Tuesday night in Indianapolis for the women's title game.
Just six schools have sent both men's and women's teams to the Final Four, but the feat has now happened four years in a row.
Georgia was the first to do it, in 1983, and Duke followed in 1999 before Oklahoma, Texas, Connecticut and now Michigan State had two teams advance to the semifinals from 2002-05. Last year, the Huskies were the first to have both men's and women's teams win national championships in the same season.
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said superior facilities, successful recruiting and support from the administration likely helped each school pull off the accomplishment.
At Michigan State, the head coaches of both basketball programs are close and the players are, too.
Izzo said he spoke with women's coach Joanne P. McCallie yesterday afternoon, a day after he gathered his players to watch her team topple Stanford.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Kansas senior forward Wayne Simien was recognized yesterday by the Kansas Senate and House of Representatives in Topeka for his achievements during his senior season.
Simien honored in Topeka for success off court
"WHEREAS, Through his success, his positive attitude, and his strong personal character, Wayne Simien has won the respect and admiration of the entire State of Kansas; and
Simien and his parents, along with Kansas coach Bill Self and Self's wife, Cindy, attended the ceremony where the governor read Simien's list of career accomplishments from a proclamation:
WHEREAS, Kansas is proud to call Wayne Simien one of its own, and no matter where a professional career or personal life may take him, Wayne Simien will always be a Jayhawk," the proclamation read.
Simien
The Leavenworth native was named first-team All-American and Big 12 Conference player of the year during his senior season. He is one of four candidates for the Naismith Award, and he was named one of five finalists for the Wooden Award on Tuesday. Each award is given to the top player in men's college basketball, as determined by separate committees of media voters.
The Naismith Award will be presented at the Final Four in St. Louis. The 29th annual Wooden Award will be announced April 9 in Los Angeles. Simien, his parents, Margaret and Wayne Sr., and Self will attend the event.
Joining Simien on the list of Wooden Award finalists are Utah's Andrew Bogut, Dee Brown of Illinois, North Carolina's Sean May and Duke's J.J. Redick
The senior forward averaged 20 points and 11 rebounds per game during his senior season. He was named Big 12 player of the week three times.
Simien was also named one of 10 Wooden All-Americans.
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