2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 2005
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TODAY
♦ Softball vs. Utah, 2:30 p.m., Palm Springs, Calif.
Sunflower vs. Northern Colorado, 3 p.m., Hogund Ballpark
Baseball vs. Northern Colorado, 3 p.m., Hogund Ballpark
FRIDA
♦ **Sotball** vs. BYU, 8 p.m., Palm Springs.
- Women's Swimming at Big 12 Championships, all day,
College Station, Texas
$ \mathbf{S} $ University of New York at Buffalo
$ \mathbf{T} $ School for Nursing & Allied Sciences, Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska, Neb.
College Station, Texas
SATURDAY
SATURDAY
Schildhau CSE 12:30 p.m. Palm Springs, Calif.
*Sonah* vs. *Cus*, 120 pm, Ballpark
*Bassball* vs. *Northern Colorado*, noon, Hogfund Ballpark
Baseball vs. North Carolina
Women's Basketball at Kansas State, 5 p.m., Manhattan
◆ Baseball vs. Northern Colorado. 3:00 p.m., Hoglan Ballpark
+ Women's basketball at Kansas State
+ Ballpark & Washington, 8 p.m., Palm Springs, Calif.
- Women's Swimming at Big 12 Championships, all day,
College Station, Texas
Track at Nebraska, all day, Lincoln, Neb.
SUNDAY
**Men's basketball vs. Oklahoma State, 3 p.m., Allen**
Fairhill
♦ Softball vs. Arizona State, 1:30 p.m., Palm Springs, Calif.
MONDAY
◆ Men's Golf at UTSA Invitational, all day, San Antonio, Texas
◆ Women's Golf at Texas A&M, all day, College Station, Texas
TUESDAY
TUESDAY
❖ Baseball vs. Southwest Missouri State, 3 p.m., Hogland Ballpark
Men's golf at UTSA Invitational
- Women's basketball at Iowa State, 7 p.m., Ames, Iowa
+ Women basketball at Texas A&M, all day, College Station, Texas
+ Women golf at Texas A&M, all day, College Station, Texas
NTRAMURAL SCORES
WEDNESDAY
BASKETBALL
Men's
AD Pi def. Theta 3, 36-24
**Men's**
Mountain Dewds def. YL, 38-28
Ciz def. Oliver 6, 48-41
Losers def. Chi Chi 3, 58-46
Chronically Fattgued def. LVs Finest, 61-26
And Twins def. Rajun Cajuns, 55-40
Diplomatic Set def. The Snails, 60-47
Walk-Ons def. Delta Ch 4, 52-25
Coastal Rainballs def. FTP, 54-43
FOOTBALL
- Co-Creationalal
Ligers def. Hoof Hearted, 84-43
I will crush you def. B-Scol Bapers, 57-55
+ Women's
DENVER — The Denver Broncos released guard Dan Neil yesterday, parting ways with one of the cornerstones of their solid offensive lines for the past eight seasons.
Broncos smooth roster kinks rework offensive line players
A third-round pick of the Broncos in 1997, Neil started 104 games over eight years with Denver. He was in the starting lineup last season until knee and stomach injuries slowed him, forcing him to miss Denver's final three regular-season games and the playoffs.
games and the players. The Broncos are about $2 million under next year's salary cap, and releasing Neil should save them about $1.75 million.
them about $175 million.
Neil's backup last season, Cooper Carlisle, is an unrestricted free agent, as is last year's start ing left guard, Ben Hamilton.
ing left guard, Ben Hankman.
The Broncos will likely try to keep Hamilton, and the rest of the line is expected to stay intact. Center Tom Nalen recently reworked his contract and tackles Matt Lepisis and George Foster are under contract, with Lepisis expected to rework his deal to help the Broncos.
"We got three quality starts." Price said of the home-opening series. "Once we get into league play, we need that in order to have a chance to win series."
The Associated Press
Kansan file photo
Pitching, defense key to game
"The starting pitching has been solid," he said. "I think what's what's holding the team together."
BY MATT WILSON
mwilson@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
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Senior catcher Sean Richardson said he, too, was happy with the hurlers.
Junior Pitcher, Kodliak Quick, pitches during the South Dakota State game last week. The baseball team will depend on its solid pitching in today's series opener against Northern Colorado.
BASEBALL
Despite coming off a four-game winning streak, the Kansas baseball team won't be overconfident today in its series-opener against Northern Colorado.
The Jayhawks (10-3) rebounded from a winless trip to Stanford with a sweep of South Dakota State last weekend. In the series, Kansas out-scored South Dakota State 50-10. Jayhawk pitching was strong as well, improving their team ERA from 3.18 to 2.64 for the season, something that has pleased coach Ritch Price.
Despite the successful start, Price said the Jayhawks had plenty of room to improve. One problem has
been leaving runners on base. Thus far, Kansas batters have left 126 stranded, an average of 9.7 per game.
"Our situational hitting is something that we need to work on," Richardson said. "We have to drive in runs in clutch situations."
Price said the some of the players have struggled at the plate in critical moments of the game.
"I hope we continue to make progress in executing our short game," Price said. "When we have a few guys who are struggling at the plate, their problems magnify themselves when there are runners in scoring position. We need to do a better job with two strikes."
"We improved in our last series, but it is still not as consistent as it needs to be," Price said. "I hope we will get to the point where the one constant every day will be our defense. In order to be successful long term, we need to be better than we have been in the first 13 games."
Base running has also been a problem, especially against South Dakota, but this weekend Price said he hoped to see an improvement.
he Price also expects the defense to improve.
This weekend's opponent features another KU connection. Northern Colorado athletics director Jay Hinrichs is the former associate athletic director for facilities planning at Kansas.
Kansas "Jay helped me with a lot of the improvements that have taken place at Hoglund Ballpark since I've been here." Price said.
Northern Colorado (0-6) is reeling after a sweep last weekend at the hands of Creighton. The Bears will try to avoid surpassing their worst start in school history, an 0-8 record to begin the 1973 season. Last season, their first after returning to
Division I, the Bears won 29 games under coach Kevin Smallcomb.
Pitcher Rent
Mike Zagurski 2-0
Clint Schambach 2-
Sean Seal 1
PROJECTED PITCHERS
Northern Colorado is led by senior first baseman Phil Delich. After sitting out last season with a shoulder injury, Delich is batting .364 with one home run and three RBI.
Game time
3 p.m. today
Noon tomorrow
Immediately after
Game 1 tomorrow
Source; Kansas Athletics Department
Richardson said that the Jayhawks would not overlook the Bears.
"We're going to take the field with the same attitude," he said. "We have to continue to play good ball."
The opening pitch will be at 3 this afternoon.
Edited by Lisa Coble-Krings
Kansas to defend title in San Antonio
BY TIN HALL
thall@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
The Kansas men's golf team will head to San Antonio tomorrow after a one-week respite. The team will begin play at the UTSA Invitational on Monday.
on Monday.
Two weeks ago the team started its spring season in Walkoloo, Hawaii, where it finished in an 11th-place tie at the Taylor Made/Walkoloo Intercollege at the Walkoloo Village Course. The Jawahaws finished only two strokes behind Arizona State and Stanford, setting an all-time Kansas golf record by shooting 31 under as a team for the tournament.
The Jayhawks, who won the tournament in San Antonio last spring, will try to defend their title this weekend.
Docking
"I think that the team we are going to have to look out for the most is UTSA because they
know the course the best," sophomore Tyler Docking said. "We know that we can win down there because we did it last year, and we know that if we play well enough we'll win it again."
Coach Ross Randall also feels
confident about his team going into the event after its performance in Hawaii.
"I'm fairly happy with what went on in our last event," Randall said. "I think we played really well as a team in Hawaii, and we sure look to improve on things."
The University of Texas at San Antonio will host the tournament, which will be played at Oak Hills Country Club.
Docking, senior Kevin Ward and senior Andrew Price have earned excerpt status and did not have to qualify to play in the tournament. Sophomore Gary Woodland, junior Pete Krsnich and junior Luke Trammell round out the remaining
outside to participate.
"Our main goal with preparing for the tournament now is to find out who we will have going, and after that we have to hope for one more week of nice weather," he said.
three Jayhawks who qualified for the tournament. The team played qualifying rounds last week and early this week at Alvamar Country Club. The recent nice weather has been a big factor in allowing the team to get outside to play, Randall said.
There's a good chance that Randall's weather request will come true, as temperatures are expected to be in the low 70s for the opening round.
Edited by Azita Tafreshi
TRACK AND FIELD
Coach says mental preparation key
This weekend marks the last time Jeremy Mims will walk into the Big 12 Championships as a Jayhawk. The Iowa City, Iowa senior will lead the Kansas Track and Field Team into Lincoln,Neb.today. For Mims and other seniors, this marks the last opportunity for victory at an indoor conference level.
"There's a few things that I still want to accomplish. The past years
Mims
haven't gone as well as I have liked," Mims said. "But it's also been a great experience."
The middle distance runner ranks third in the Big 12 in the 600-meter run and fifth in the 800-meter run. Although he is
rocusing on the Big 12 Championships this weekend. Mims said that he would keep nationals in the picture as well.
"It's still on my mind, but I'm not going to let that get in the way," Mims said. "My overall goal goes beyond conference."
Mims said that the team received a boost of confidence after former coach Bob Timmons spoke to them on Sunday. Timmons coached the track and field team at KU from 1966 to 1988. He spoke of the importance of the conference championships
"That was always the place to get a p.r. (personal record)," Timmons said. "And if everybody runs that way, then you have a chance to win the conference."
Mims said he considered the speech beneficial.
"It helped us out and made us realize that we have a great history here at KU, and we're definitely headed back in that direction," Mims said.
Above all things, the Jayhawks think that mental preparation plays a large role in the championships coach Stanley Redwine said.
"I hope that everyone is going into the championships with the attitude to win every event," he said.
Patrick Shehan
a madcap and merry look at a demented family as hilarious as they are unconventional
Presents
the Pulitzer
Prize-winning
comedy
Reserved seat tickets are on sale in the KU Ticket Offices; University Theatre, 648-3922, and Lied Catering, 648-AARTS, and on-line at kutheatre.com. patrons ages 14 to senior students are staff $15, and all students $10; both VISA and Mastercard are accepted for phone orders.
This production is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fund; funding is also provided by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a national agency.
The University of Kansas Department of Theatre and Film University Theatre
You Can't Take It with You
by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Directed by Kim Hines, guest artist
Directed by Ran Fainzer, guest star
7:30 p.m.
March 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 2005
2:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 6, 2005
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
Please join us for a talkback with the director and cast members immediately following the performance Friday, March 4. You Can't Take It with You is a featured event of the 2005 New Literacies Conference sponsored jointly by the American Theatre and Drama Society and the University of Kansas.
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