2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
INSIDE SPORTS
MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2005
CORRECTIONS
- Friday's University Daily Kansas contained an error. The photo caption for the story "Defense crucial for season rally" misidentified Larisha Graves. She is no longer with the team.
■ Friday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. The entry cost for the Rock Chalk Classic basketball tournament was misstated. The entry cost is $225 per team before Feb. 25 and $240 thereafter.
TALK TO US
Tell us your news. Contact Bill Cross or Jonathan Kealing at 864-4858 or sports@kansan.com
Kansas athletics calendar
TODAY
TODAY
Men's basketball vs. Missouri 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Women's basketball vs. Oklahoma, 7 p.m.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Notre Dame defeats UConn; Huskies miss last five shots
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Torin Francis scored 19 points to lead Notre Dame's inside attack in a 78-74 victory against UConn.
After shooting 50 percent for most of the game, UConn (12-5, 4-3 Big East), which missed its final five shots, including a breakaway layup by Marcus Williams that would have tied the game at 76 with 15 seconds left.
Chris Thomas had 11 of his 15 points in the second half for the Irish (13-5, 5-3), who had lost two straight. The Association Record
The Associated Press
Cowboys win at Buffaloes for first time in almost nine years
BOULDER, Colo. — John Lucas scored 26 points and James Curry had 17 of his 22 in the second half to lead No. 9 Oklahoma State to a 104-86 victory against Colorado yesterday.
Oklahoma State (15-3, 5-2 Big 12) rebounded from a 67-57 defeat to No. 13 Oklahoma last Monday with its highest scoring game of the season and won in Boulder for the first time since Feb. 24, 1996.
Andy Osborn and Chris Copeland each scored 19 points to lead the Buffaloes (10-8, 2-5), who made 11 of their school-record 17 3-pointers in the first half.
The Associated Press
Track and field wins 14 first places
Tiffany Cherry and Brooklyn Hann have five first place finishes for the women's team
By Patrick SHEHAN
pshehan@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWATER
The Kansas Track and Field team put on a show Friday at the Jayhawk Invitational in the Anschutz Sports Pavilion, earning 14 first-place finishes. In front of fans and families alike, the Jayhawks competed against 35 teams, including Big 12 foe Oklahoma State and regional schools Emporia State, Pittsburg State and Wichita State.
Kansas teammates Tiffany Cherry and Brooklyn Hann led the women's side with five first-place finishes.
Cherry, junior sprinter, placed first in the women's 60-meter dash with a time of 7.56 seconds. Hann, senior sprinter, electrified the home crowd
when she finished the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.52 seconds, the second fastest time in Kansas women's history. Hann owns the all-time women's 60-meter dash record with the time of 7.45 seconds, which she ran last year at the Big 12 Championships.
Kansas' underclassmen placed well at the home event.
Freshman Matt Baysinger won the 600-yard race, his first career victory, with a time of 1:11.44. Sophomore Mark Gdowski pushed Baysinger in the same heat and placed fourth with a time of 1:12.75. Gdowski, a middle-distance runner, topped his previous personal best at last year's Jayhawk Invitational.
Freshmen placed in distance events
as well. Freshman distance runner Connie Abbott won the women's mile run with a time of 5:17.71, and freshman Colby Wissel won the 3,000-meter race with a time of 8:26.26.
Freshman spinner Julius Jiles finished sixth in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.17 seconds.
Kansas coach Stanley Redwine said he was pleased with the his young team's success.
"We had a lot of freshmen that performed well today, and that is very exciting" Redwine said.
Redwine said, however, that the upperclassmen should not be overlooked. Senior thrower Sheldon Battle continued his streak of national qualifying weight throws with his throw of 65' 4.25".
Senior Amy Linnen won the women's pole vault with the jump of 12-feet-5.5-inches. Junior Jeremy Mims, a middle-distance runner from Iowa City, Iowa, won the 800 meter run with a time of 1:51.48.
Coach Redwine said he thought the Jayhawks could build on the weekend's success.
"Our team is starting to do what we are expecting them to do and what they are capable of doing," Redwine said. "It is always great to have those performances at home."
Former Jayhawk national champion and All-American Leo Bookman won the 60-meters and the 200-meters while competing for Team Nike.
— Edited by Jesse Truesdale
Showing their colors for the television
Rylan Howe/KANSAN
lan Golden, left, Lawrence resident, and Mike Smallwood, right front, Olathe resident, express their Jayhawk pride during ESPN's College GameDay broadcast. Fans crowded the barricades around the GameDay studio at the trophy room in Allen Fieldhouse Saturday night for an opportunity to appear on television cheering for Kansas.
Safin, Williams win Australian Open, earn Grand Slam titles
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Seeing somebody else unravel was different for Marat Safin. So was winning the Australian Open.
After losing two of the last three finals at Melbourne Park, Safin defeated Lleyton Hewitt 1-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 last night, deflating a crowd hungering for an Australian winner. This was the Russian's second Grand Slam tournament title, his other coming at the 2000 U.S. Open against Pete Sampras in the final.
Safin, who defeated top-ranked Roger Federer in the semifinals, was called the worthiest of champions by Hewitt.
"You knocked off the guy who's nearly been impossible," Hewitt told Safin. "You thoroughly deserve it."
After the third-seeded Hewitt shanked a forehand on match point, Safin was surprisingly subdued, making only one fist pump. Hewitt told him, "Mate, too good."
Hewitt was hoping to be the first Australian man to win the national championship since Mark Edmondson
in 1976. And he seemed in command and on his way in the first set, making only one unforced error. He led 3-0 in the third set and Safin was on the edge, smashing his racket into the court three times in eight points.
But that seemed to clear his head while Hewitt lost his. The Aussie became enraged at a line judge who called him for a foot fault on a break point in the seventh game of the third set. Hewitt saved the break point and then screamed at the line judge, pointing his finger twice at his face. That earned Hewitt a code violation from the
umpire.
"I'm human and I'm disappointed — to come that close, train so hard to put yourself in a position — it's hard to take at the moment," said Hewitt, who will replace Andy Roddick at No. 2 in the rankings. "Making a U.S. Open final, a Masters Cup final, and now an Australian Open final, I'm obviously doing something right. But would have been nice to get one of them."
Serena Williams ended Russia's domination of the women's majors a day earlier, winning her first Grand Slam
Earlier yesterday, Australians Scott Draper and Samantha Stosur, a wildcard pair playing together for the first time, won the mixed doubles, defeating Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe and Liezel Huber of South Africa 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (6).
final in 18 months and her seventh overall with a 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 victory over top-ranked Lindsay Davenport.
"For some reason, all the stars have lined up and we've had a cracker tournament," tournament director Paul McNamee said. "This was one out of the box. Just savor this, it's rarely like this."
VERYTHING BUT ICE
BEDS • DESKS
CHEST OF DRAWERS
BOOK CASES
unclaimed freight & damaged merchandise · 936 Mass
curvesinternational.com
841-1431
HOLIDAY PLAZA - 25TH & iOWA
Lawrence, KS 66047
Over 8,000 worldwide.
No warranties provided. Membership includes service fee. Valid only at participating location.
No valid with any other promotional offer.