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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2005
NCAA TOURNAMENT
Police pledge to be pleasant for Final 4
ST. LOUIS — Expecting thousands of guests in town for college basketball's premier event, police say they'll keep their guard up for any trouble without applying a stifling press on revelers in the city's first Final Four in a quarter century.
About a year in the planning, security downtown over the next several days—including Saturday's Division I semifinals and Monday's title game —will be measured, not as smothering as some complained things were when Pope John Paul II visited here six years ago.
Back then, media accounts previewing tight security were blamed for scaring away would-be viewers of the pontiff along motorcade routes, slashing the size of crowds that had been expected to be far larger.
Jim Suhr/The Associated Press
NFL
Veteran end signs with former team
ST. LOUIS — Defensive end Jay Williams, an 11-year veteran who broke in with the then-Los Angeles Rams in 1994, is returning to the team.
The Rams announced yester day they'd signed Williams, 33, to a three-year, $2.65 million contract. The deal includes a $300,000 signing bonus.
The 6-foot-3, 270-pound Williams spent six seasons with the Rams. In 137 career games, including 31 starts, he has 255 tackles, 23 1/2 sacks, four forced fumbles and two interceptions.
His best season was last season, when he had 57 tackles — 32 solo — with two sacks, one interception and two forced fumbles. He played in 16 games, though he started just one. He was released by the Dolphins in February.
Fraternities begin season battling
INTRAMURALS
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
mphillips@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
TEAM ROSTERS
Big hitting was negated by solid defense Tuesday night as Pi Kappa Phi defeated Alpha Epsilon Pi 5-4 in the opening game of intramural softball season for both teams.
Alpha Epsilon Pi
The game was played at the Lawrence High School softball field. The sun set just after the final out of the game, which went the full seven innings.
Jim Salter/The Associated Press
Both teams hit the ball into the outfield often, but Pi Kappa Phi's outfielders made the difference. catching eight fly balls.
- Joe Fine, Minneapolis junior
* Adam Shapiro, Austin, Texas, sophomore
* Jeff Gordon, Houston, Texas, sophomore
* Dan Burnstine, Glencoe, III., freshman
* David Smaason, New Orleans freshman
* Jason Ptaszek, Minnetonka, Minn., freshman
* Robby Grossman, Northbrook, III., sophomore
* Danny Friedman, Solon, Ohio, junior
The infield defense was not as solid. The teams' had a combined six infield errors, all of them on ground balls. AEP took the lead in the opening frame with a triple from Dan Burnstone, Glencoe, Ill., freshman.
Pi Kappa Phi
a triple from Ryan Wagner.
wagner, Wichita freshman, was the team's top hitter, going three for three with a double, triple and the game's only home run.
Pt Kappa Phi
* Joseph Toubia, Wichita freshman
* Chris Armstrong, Lawrence freshman
* Dane Berger, Wichita freshman
* Tom Fevold, Edina, Minn., freshman
* Mark Garretson, Edina, Minn., freshman
* Patrick Myers, Ft. Gibson, Okla., freshman
* Brett Urban, Lawrence freshman
* Luke Nath, Wichita freshman
* Ryan Wagner, Wichita freshman
Pi Kappa Phi countered with
"We had two a-day practices all week." he joked after the game. "They got us ready to play."
Following Wagner's home run in the third inning, AEPI was able to reclaim the lead in the fourth. Four consecutive singles produced two runs for the team.
giving it a 4-3 edge.
Going into the fifth inning the score was tied at 4-4. Wagner reached base on a double, sending Brett Urban, Lawrence freshman, to the plate for Pi Kapna Phi.
The Pi Kappa Phi defense finished the job, allowing just two of the final eight batters to reach base.
Urban took a ball, then sent the next pitch deep into center field. The AEPI outfielder couldn't run down the ball, 'giving Urban a triple and the game-winning RBI.
Pitching was also more consistent for Pi Kappa Phi. They struck out two batters, and only four batters saw a third pitch in the entire game. AEPI allowed two walks and a foul-ball strikeout.
Wagner and Joseph Toubia, Wichita freshman, each scored two runs for Pi Kappa Phi.
Cleanup hitter, Urban reached third base on two separate occasions.
The AEPI lineup was filled with offense from top to bottom. Every player on the team had at least one base hit and five players had multiple hits. But the team lacked power hitting. Dan Burnstine, Glencoe, Ill., freshman, was the only player to have a triple.
Pool play will continue over the next three weeks. Pi Kappa Phi begins their regular season undefeated.
The team members celebrated the victory by performing two chants: their own and AEPi's, mocking the loosing team.
Pi Kappa Phi is optimistic about the rest of the season.
"We won't stop until we win the championship," Wagner said.
— Edited by Nikola Rowe
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The Jayhawks were able to mount some offense and get on the board in the bottom of the fifth. Destiny Frankenstein, junior shortstop and co-captain, knocked a home run over the center field wall. Serena Settiermil, junior pitcher and co-captain, followed with a blast to center field. Settiermil led the team offensively, going 2 for 3.
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The Jayhawks pulled within five and added one run in the bottom of the seventh in the loss.
was disappoint-
She said that in the sixth and seventh innings, the team did a great job of attacking at the plate. She said the team would have to play like that for an
Tracy Bunge Kansas softball coach
"I was disappointed we came out flat in the beginning," Bunge said.
ed we came out flat in the beginning."
entire game to continue winning at home.
Signees
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With the loss, Kansas dropped to 15-11 overall and 0-2 in the Big 12 Conference. Nebraska snapped a four-game losing streak and picked up its first conference victory.
Today, the team will head to Wichita State for a double header against the Shockers. The first game is scheduled for 3 p.m. Bunge expects all three pitchers to play.
Early in the second half, Chalmers beat his man off a cross-over dribble outside the three-point line, drove to the basket in traffic, hit the shot and drew the foul.
A couple of plays later, he showed his passing skills when he hit fellow Kansas signee Downs with an alley-oop pass in transition. Downs finished the play with a reverse jam.
— Edited by John Scheirman
J.R. Giddens
"M icarh is so good. I mean Julian. I mean Mario. These guys are going to be good."
Chalmers topped off eight straight points by Kansas recruits for the West when he penetrated and laid it in.
Chalmers showed his range when he knocked down a 16-foot jump shot and then hit back-to-back three-pointers on the ensuing possessions. The second three-pointer came after he stole an inbound pass, stepped outside
Sophomore guard
the three-point line and knocked down the shot.
Watching the McDonald's game made current players like sophomore guard J.R. Giddens excited about the potential for next year's team.
"Micah is so good. I mean Julian. I mean Mario," Giddens laughed. "These guys are going to be good."
- Edited by Kendall Dix
PHOENIX — Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver ordered security guards to remove three Colorado Rockies players from America West Arena on Monday night. The players were exhibiting disorderly conduct while seated directly behind him during a game against Denver.
Rockies spokesman Jay Alves said outfielder Matt Holliday and pitchers Shawn Chacon, Brian Fuentes and Javier Lopez attended the game, but that he was not sure who was ejected.
The Rocky Mountain News identified two of the three who were ejected as Chacon and Fuentes.
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