THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2015
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Undefeated Kansas softball team moves to 10-0
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They just keep on winning. After suffering a serious scare on Sunday, the Jayhawks calmly made another comeback to defeat Weber State and move to 10-0 on the season, tying the best start in program history.
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Kansas endured its third scare of the season, falling behind 3-0 to Weber State before scoring five unanswered runs in the sixth inning to earn its 10th win of the season.
The Jayhawks have now swept two straight weekend classics. This one was not easy though. They had to fight through some tough challenges, including two tough games with New Mexico State and had to come back twice to win against
"Beth did a great job coming in; she was poised and confident and went right after their hitters. She did a great job for us until we got the lead then we put Pille back in there to close it out and I thought she did a great job doing that," Smith said.
The game of the weekend was undoubtedly the second game against New Mexico State, which turned into a 25-12 barnburner win for the Jayhawks on Saturday. The Jayhawks set offensive program records for hits (23), runs (25), RBIs (25) and doubles (7). The win, while entertaining, showed that Kansas has the ability to generate large amounts of offense to win games.
Weber State.
"It's unbelievable. It's tough to do and it's been a tough
At the end of the day, the Jayhawks are 10-0.
As has been the case for the entire season, the seniors came up big. Facing a 3-2 deficit in the sixth inning, senior Chanin Naudin blasted a double to right center field to push across two runs that gave the Jayhawks a 4-3 lead. A couple more runs gave the Jayhawks a 6-3 lead that they would preserve in the seventh inning for a big win. However, the Jayhawks left more than a few runs on bases that they failed to capitalize on, which frustrated coach Megan Smith.
through, but it is frustrating," Smith said in a press release. "We need to capitalize on the runners we get in scoring position early and I think we're waiting for things to happen instead of going and attacking things."
"I have confidence that our kids are going to keep fighting and that they're coming to come
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schedule," Smith said. "Our girls just believe every single game that they're going to win and they fight until they do. That's how we're going to win all of our games this season — none of them are going to be easy, we're going to have to fight through every one of them."
On defense, the Jayhawks had some difficulty pitching, having to rotate through three different pitchers. Senior Alicia Pille started the game, but was replaced by junior Monique Wesley, who was replaced by senior Beth Wilson. Pille returned in the seventh inning to finish off the game, but Wilson earned the win.
Up next, the Jayhawks will travel to Gainesville, Fla., to play in the Aquafina Invitational. Kansas will face its toughest matchup of the season, as they will play the No. 1 team in the country, the Florida Gators, who are also 10-0.
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Snedeker breaks personal record, wins Pebble Beach
DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
Nick Watney hits out of a bunker onto the second green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tourna ment Sunday in Pebble Beach, Calif. Watney took second place in the tournament.
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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Brandt snedeker broke his own scoring record and won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for the second time in three years.
Snedeker played bogeyfree in the final round Sunday and left the mistakes to everyone else. He closed with a 5-under 67 and a three-shot victory over Nick Watney, and the timing could not have been better
Snedeker fell out of the top 50 at the end of last year for the first time since 2011 and was guaranteed of playing only one major and no World Golf Championships unless he turned his game around. One great week at one of his favorite spots in golf changed everything.
The victory assures him a spot in the Masters and PGA Championship (he was already eligible for the U.S. Open). And he moves to No. 31 in the world ranking,
which most likely gets him into all the WGCs, starting with Doral in three weeks.
"I'm just so excited about what's next." Decker said.
what's next', Snedeker said. He made only one bogey in 72 holes of glorious weather, as good as it gets at Pebble Beach. And when he finally took the lead after Watney made his worst swing of the week — a 4-iron right of the sixth fairway and into Stillwater Cove — Snedeker pulled away, taking all the drama out of the final hour.
A conservative par on the final hole gave him a 22-under 265, breaking the scoring record by two shots that he set in 2013. He also broke by two shots the score to par previously held by Phil Mickelson (2007) and Mark O'Meara (1997) when the par-72 Poppy Hills was still in the rotation.
Watney opened with four straight birdies, but it was three bogeys in a five-hole stretch at the turn that cost him. He rallied with a pair of birdies for a 69 to secure
second place alone, a good step for him getting his game back in order.
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Watney never caught up. They matched birdies on the seventh and 11th holes, and then Snedeker pulled away with pars. Watney made bogey from a fairway bunker on the 13th, and from behind the green on the 14th to fall four shots behind.
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It was a big putt for Snedeker, and it was evident by the abrupt fist pump when it dropped. He took the lead on the next hole when Watney pushed his approach over the edge of the cliff and made bogey.
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Charlie Beljan closed with a 66 and finished third.
Jim Furyk, the 54-hole leader, didn't make his first birdie until the 11th hole. He missed three birdie putts inside 10 feet on the front nine, went out in 38, and was out of the hunt halfway through the final round. It was the ninth time Furyk failed to convert when he had at least a share of the 54-hole lead since his last victory at the 2010 Tour Championship. Then again, this was his first competition in five months.
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"I thought Brandt handled himself really, really well," Watney said. "Maybe in trouble one time, but very solid. So that's what I need to be like next time."
With a big crowd celebrating one of the most beautiful weeks ever at Pebble, the final round quickly turned into a battle between Snedeker and Watney.
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Watney, thrilled at the chance to play with San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey, opened with four straight birdies to build a two-shot lead. But on the par-3 fifth, a photographer shot his camera at the top of Watney's swing and he flinched, coming up well short and in a bunker. Watney made bogey, and Snedeker rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt for a two-shot swing to tie for the lead.
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"I only made two birdies today and I hit the ball way better than that," Furyk said. He tied for seventh, six shots behind, along with Jordan
Spieth and Matt Jones.
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