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MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
AARON GROENE/KANSAN
A Kansas runner takes off at a home meet earlier this season. This weekend at the Baylor Invitational, 17 athletes had top-three finishes, including one first place.
Track and field sees success at Baylor Invite
G.J. MELIA
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She finished fifth in the javelin and eighth in the 4x400 relay. Her one topthree finish came in the high jump, tying for second with senior Colleen O'Brien, jumping to a height of $ 5^{\prime}8 $ $ 3 4 ^ {\prime \prime} $ in the event.
Junior distance runner Hannah Richardson picked up the lone first-place finish for Kansas with a time a of 4:26.81 in the 1,500 meters. Richardson's time outpaced Kansas State senior Laura Galvan by nearly seven seconds for the victory.
While the Kansas track and field team only brought back one first-place event finish, Jayhawk athletes totaled 17 top-three finishes at the Baylor Invitational in Waco. Texas, on Friday.
Junior Sydney Conley grabbed two top-three finishes on the day. Conley leaped a distance of 20'5 1/4", good for second in the long jump. Conley finished third in the 100 meters timed in at 11.65 seconds.
Senior Lindsay Vollmer returned after a leg injury from the NCAA Indoor National Championships in March. Vollmer competed in the javelin, high jump and 4x400-meter relay.
In the 800 meters, junior Rhavean King, sophomore Whitney Adams and redshirt freshman Lydia Saggau finished in third, fourth and fifth places, respectively.
Junior Anastasiya Muchkayev placed third in the shot put, while junior Daina Levy finished second in the hammer throw.
On the men's side, freshman Cole Ceban wowed with an impressive day of second and third place finishes in the discus and shot put, while another freshman Ben Burchstead finished third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
The 4x400 relay team of seniors Kenneth McCuin, James Wilson, Michael Stigler and junior Drew Matthews finished in second, timed at 3:11.68, nearly catching Baylor's relay team which finished two seconds ahead with a time of 3:09.57.
Stigler also competed in the 110-meter hurdles, where he clinched the third spot, timing in at 14.22 seconds. Stigler did not compete in the 400-meter hurdles in Waco, the event he set a world-leading time at the Texas Relays a week prior.
Kansas will next travel down to Fayetteville, Ark., for the John McConnell Invitational on April 11. The following week, Kansas will host the 88th annual Kansas Relays.
- Edited by Yu Kyung Lee
Price, Plekanec lead Canadiens to 4-1 win against Panthers
BILL WHITEHEAD Associated Press
Associated Press
SUNRISE, Fla. — Carey Price stopped 24 shots to pick up his league-leading 42nd win, Tomas Plekanec scored his 200th career goal, and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Florida Panthers 4-1 Sunday.
Brendan Gallagher, P.A. Parenteau and Devante Smith-Pelly also scored for Montreal.
The Canadiens moved two points ahead of Tampa Bay for first place in the Atlantic Division with two games remaining for both teams. Montreal trails the Metropolitan Division-leading New York Rangers by one point for first in the
Eastern Conference.
Eastern Conference.
Aaron Ekblad scored for Florida, and Dan Ellis finished with 23 saves.
Plekanec opened the scoring with Montreal on a 5-on-3 power play following penalties by Florida's Dmitry Kulikov and Erik Gudbranson just three seconds apart. Positioned on the goal line almost parallel to Ellis, Plekanec scored his 24th goal by sweeping in a wrist shot that slid between the backup goalie's legs at 6:36 following a pass from Andrei Markov.
The teams traded goals just 46 seconds apart in the second period. Ekblad tied it on a power play at 6:20 for his 12th goal by beating Price low on the glove side. Gallagher
regained Montreal's lead for good by finishing a 2-on-1 off a pass from Subban.
Parenteau split the Florida defense and put in his own rebound for his eighth goal with 8:33 left in the second.
Smith-Pelly capped the scoring with his first goal with Montreal, taking a pass from Parenteau after a turnover by Florida's Willie Mitchell.
Montreal forward Max Pacioretty left the ice after being interfered with by Kulikov then falling backwards into the boards after his skate made contact with Alex Petrovic's. Pacioretty, who leads Montreal in both goals and total points, did not return.
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