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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 2005
ROWLING
Teams framed for success
BY JASON ELMQUIST
jelmquist@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
The men's basketball team wasn't the only Kansas team to return from Nebraska with a victory over the weekend. The KU men's bowling team won its fourth tournament of the season at the Maverick/Husker Classic in Omaha, Neb.
The men had led throughout most of the first day but fell to fourth after their last play on Saturday. Down 189 pins to Lindenwood University, the men "hung tough," said senior Rhino Page, to come out with a 46-pin margin of victory against Nebraska-Omaha.
"We were able to persevere and pull through." Page said.
Page finished first overall at the tournament with a 220-pin average. Junior Zach Taylor, a transfer
Despite the tournament being the smallest that the men have played at this year, said coach Michael Fine, the competition was tough. Three other top-15 teams on the collegebowling.com ranking system competed at the tournament.
from Nebraska, earned his first top-five finish of the season with a third-place pin average of 206.
"Zach is a key player. He gives the reads to the team." Page said. "When we switch lanes, he tells us what we need to do. Without him on the team, we don't make it."
"It was our smallest tournament, but it was not a cakewalk." Fine said.
The women's team also went up against a small field, as it finished second in a field of five yesterday.
The women were able to shave
14 points off the difference between them and tournament winner, Lindenwood University.
The teams' second place finish is its third of the season. The team continued its stretch of top-10 finishes in all tournaments this season. While it has been close all season, it has yet to clinch a tournament victory.
Senior Kelly Zapf took the top spot overall on the women's side with a pin average of 204.
"There needs to be another step to win a tournament," Zapf said. "We have to be good with our spare shooting and our first shot, making sure we leave no splits or other tough shots."
times is freshman Natalie Bennett.
Zapf also said that they have let bad frames linger during the next few frames, and by the time they get motivated and back up, they have fallen out back from the leaders. One woman bowler who does not seem to be fazed at those
Bennett picked up her first top-five finish of the season, as she finished in fifth place with a 185 pin average.
The play of Zapf and Bennett along with the rest of the bowlers on the women's team has "positioned them well" for the post season, Fine said.
"Lindenwood and Omaha are going to be teams we'll battle against to get to the national championship." Fine said. "We established that we are better than Omaha and that we can compete with Lindenwood."
The men's and women's teams will finish the regular season Feb. 19-20 at the Hoosier Classic in Indianapolis. After that they will have IBC sectionals on March 19 to 20.
- Edited by Laura Francoviglia
SUPER BOWL
Patriots live up to dynasty status
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Dynasties don't have to be perfect or pretty. They just have to win — like the New England Patriots.
The Patriots won their third Super Bowl in four years with a dominant second half last night, wearing down the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21.
It wasn't overpowering, and at times it was downright ugly. But it was more than enough to match the Dallas Cowboys' run of the 1990s and certify the Patriots of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady as the NFL's latest dynasty.
With MVP Deion Branch tying a Super Bowl record for receptions with 11, Brady efficiently running the offense and Rodney Harrison sparking a smothering defense, the Patriots
won their ninth successive postseason game. That ties the record of Vince Lombardi's Packers of the 1960s, and there's hardly any better company a team can keep.
The difference once again was an Adam Vinatieri field goal, this one a 22-yarder with 8:40 to go. New England won its other two Super Bowls by the margin of Vinatieri's kicks.
Philadelphia (15-4) got the ball back at its 4 with 46 seconds remaining. It was hardly enough time and far too much territory to cover against such a formidable foe.
Harrison got his second interception with 9 seconds remaining to end it.
Playing before a sea of mostly green jerseys in the crowd of 78,125, the Patriots made sure Philadelphia would not get its first pro sports title since 1983.
David L. Phillip/ASSOCIATED PRESS
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick is doused after the Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21 in Super Bowl XXXIX yesterday at Ailtnel Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla. At right is Belichick's father, Steve.
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