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TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Hendricks' shutout streak ends, Cubs top Giants
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JASON P. SKODA
Associated Press
DARRON CUMMINGS/ASSOCIATED PRESS San Francisco Giants' Ryan Vogelsong throws during the first inning of a spring training game against the Chicago Cubs on March 5 in Scottsdale, Ariz. The Giants lost to the Chicago Cubs 8-5 yesterday.
MESA, Ariz. — Chicago Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks gave up his first runs against big league batter this spring after extending his scoreless streak to 12 innings in an 8-5 win against the San Francisco Giants on Monday.
Hendricks, who went 7-2 with a 2.46 ERA as a rookie, didn't allow a run in his first two exhibition outings. He threw five shutout innings against the Giants before they scored five times in the sixth.
"I feel good," he said. "I felt strong through all those innings and made a few bad pitches late. But that's part of getting that pitch count up there and I'm right where I need to be."
Joe Panik led off the Giants sixth with a home run and Daniel Carbonell had a bases-loaded, two-run double.
Giants starter Tim Hudson gave up 10 hits and four runs in 42-3 innings.
"They hit a couple of good pitches," Hudson said. "It was a work day for sure. I got in some
Hendricks went 5 1-3 innings, allowing seven hits with a walk and striking out five.
jams, but limited the damage. Jonathan Herrera had three hits for the Cubs.
jams,but limited the damage."
STARTING TIME
concerned about his first bad outing of the spring coming so close to the start of the season.
"I didn't make great pitches throughout the day," he said. "It's one of those things where
there wasn't a game plan, and obviously I was throwing a lot of pitches while not really understanding what some of these younger guys (in the Cubs' lineup) strengths and
weaknesses are yet."
Cubs: In addition to his three starts in the Cactus League, Hendricks had allowed three runs in 10 innings in two 'B games.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Giants: Travis Ishikawa, who was pulled from Sunday's game because of back tightness, has a sore back and is considered day-to-day. An MRI on Monday came back good according to manager Bruce Bochy, who said Ishikawa should return to the lineup on Thursday.
Cubs: Outfieldier Chris Denorfia, who has been dealing with a sore left hamstring, took batting practice on Monday. He is expected to play in a minor league game by mid-week. His availability for opening day is still to be determined.
With the demotion of top prospects Kris Bryant, Javier Baez and Addison Russell earlier in the day, the Cubs'infield outlook became a little more definitive with Mike Olt, Tommy LaStella and Arismendy Alcantara looking to break camp with the big league club.
CLEARER IMAGE
Olt would see time at third
and spell Anthony Rizzo at first base, while LaStella is expected to play third and second and Alcantara can play the outfield as well as the infield.
"Tommy has done a really good job offensively and defensively," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. "Mendy can do it also. We have different options during the course of the game. We have some things to iron out yet."
The Giants haven’t had a good spring — they fell to 9-20-1 with the loss to the Cubs and there have been struggles in nearly all facets of the game.
"The little things hurt us all day," Bochy said. "We just didn't play good fundamental ball. I bet five or six runs of those runs shouldn't have scored. Give them credit but we didn't play well at all again today."
Giants: Host Colorado as Tim Lincecum faces the Rockies' Tyler Matzek.
GET IT TOGETHER
Cubs: Travel to Surprise as left-hander Eric Jokisch takes the mound against the Rangers' Derek Holland.
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East Tennessee State hires WSU's basketball assistant
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Former Wichita State men's basketball assistant Steve Forbes says he plans to build a winner at East Tennessee State by following the same formula that worked at his old school.
Forbes replaces Murry Bartow. ETSU fired Bartow on March 13 after he went 224-165 with three NCAA Tournament appearances in 12 seasons. ETSU earned the last of those NCAA invitations in 2010.
"I believe in all the things that he believes in," Forbes said. "He's given me a tremendous blueprint to bring here to East Tennessee State."
After being introduced Monday as ETSU's coach, Forbes said he was indebted to Witchita State coach Gregg Marshall and noted that they share the same philosophies.
"We want (our players) to go to the NCAA Tournament," ETSU athletic director Richard Sander said at a Monday news conference. "We want them to have an arena
ETSU went 16-14 this season and lost eight of its final 12 games, including each of the last four.
where people are yelling and screaming and just crazy for ETSU basketball. And unfortunately, that wasn't the case, and so I really wanted to go out and find somebody who could make that happen for these men, for our great fan base.
"I know we have found that person."
"You never know if this day's ever going to come," Forbes said. "Then after what I went through four years ago, to be able to come back to the state of Tennessee and be a head Division I basketball coach, to me is a surreal moment and something that I'm very proud of.
Forbes received a one-year show cause penalty from the NCAA in 2011 as part of the NCAA investigation of Tennessee that resulted in Pearl's firing. Forbes says the experience taught him that "when you make a mistake, you learn from it and don't do it again."
"I'm ready to go to work and build this program."
"It was a place I was familiar with because of my five years at Tennessee," Forbes said. "I knew there was a passionate fan base here and a tradition of basketball and people who loved basketball. It was a really, really, really good fit for me. When the opportunity came, I jumped on it."
The 50-year-old Forbes spent the past two seasons at Wichita State after going 62-6 in two seasons as the head coach at Northwest Florida State, a junior college in Niceville, Fla.
Forbes said the ETSU job appealed to him in part because of his previous connections with the area. Forbes spent five seasons working as an assistant on Bruce Pearl's Tennessee staff.
"I use myself as an example. As a coach, you always tell your players when you get knocked down, you've got to get back up and you've got to keep going. Well, I got knocked down, and I decided to dust myself off, be accountable for my involvement and then move on."
"What you do in a situation like that is you look in the mirror, you're accountable for your actions, and then you move on," Forbes said.
Forbes also has worked as an assistant at Texas A&M, Illinois State, Louisiana Tech and Idaho. Now he gets his first Division I head coaching opportunity.
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