THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012
TRACK AND FIELD
PAGE 9
Larger poles prepare vaulters for invitational
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Regan Gilbert, a freshman pole vaulter, approaches the bar at the Bob Timmons Challenge at Anschutz Field House on Friday evening. On this particular vault, Gilbert cleared a height of 15.5 ft.
MAX GOODWIN
mgoodwin@kansan.com
Coach Stanley Redwine is sure that the track and field team will be ready to compete in its only home meet of the year, the Kansas Relays.
He is just as sure that they will not be overlooking the other meets on their schedule.
For now, there is still one more meet to focus on before they return to compete in Lawrence. This weekend, the team travels to Texas once again for the UTEP Invitational with a chance to get into a rhythm the week before the Kansas Relays. Rhythm is everything, according to pole vault coach Tom Hays. Rhythm in the team's activities, training, and especially in the vault.
"If you get in the rhythm in the vault your confidence goes a lot higher," Hays said. "You might be able to grip up two or three fingers. You're just going to hit it more elastic and bigger with rhythm."
Sophomore Alex Bishop and freshman Greg Lupton appeared
to get into rhythm last week at the Emporia State Relays, where they both jumped to a new personal record. Bishop's jump currently ranks 17th in the NCAA, while Lupton stands at 30th.
Coach Hays has teased the two, saying that they were still jumping on high school poles; it was not until recently that they switched to bigger poles. These are the poles that will allow them to vault over the bigger heights and move to the next level of competition. These new poles require Bishop and Lupton to be faster, stronger and more efficient in their technique.
"A lot of it for them is mental." Hays said. "You take off a little further from the box, so it's a little harder. They have to grow up a little bit mentally; the competition is harder in college so you have to jump on bigger poles."
Bishop said he feels that his timing is pretty good, but agreed with his coach that there is room for improvement in his rhythm. The bigger poles unbend much faster, giving him less time to turn up in his vault. The team's training has focused on consistency and it has paid off in major ways for Bishop. At the Texas Relays, he jumped his personal record, clearing a 5.30 meter bar to win the event and defeating much of the same competition that he will face at the Big 12 championships.
"I was fired up. I'm hungry for more." Bishop said. "It got me in that mode where there are unlimited possibilities."
Last Saturday at Emporia State, Bishop again focused on consistency and jumped his personal record again. For the UTEP Invitational, rhythm is once again the key. Now that the consistency is clearly there, Bishop said, it is just a matter of time before the bar is raised once again.
"This week we'll try to add more rhythm to their activities." Coach Hays said. "Then come in and be a little bit more rested for the home meet, to give them a chance to try to show off for the home crowd."
NBA
Edited by Ian Cummings
Reserves fuel Bulls past Heat
Chicago Bulls guard C.J. Watson celebrates with forward Luol Deng after Watson scored a three-point basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat in Chicago. Thursday. The Bulls won 96-86.
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CHICAGO - C.J. Watson scored 16 points, including the game-tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation, and the Chicago Bulls pulled away in overtime to beat the Miami Heat 96-86 on Thursday night.
Carlos Boozer led the Bulls with 19 points and Kyle Korver added 17 points for the Bulls, who outscored Miami 12-2 in overtime to boost their lead in the Eastern Conference to four games.
The Bulls were able to pull off the victory despite a horrible shooting night by Derrick Rose.
LeBron James scored 30 points for Miami, but missed a free throw that would have made it a two-possession game late in regulation. Dwyane Wade added 21 points, Chris Bosh scored 20, but the Heat lost for the sixth time in 11 games.
Things were looking good for Miami when James nailed a 3 that made it 83-81 with 49 seconds left in regulation. But with a chance to seal the game, he missed the first of two free throws with 11.4 seconds remaining.
!That kept the Bulls in it and Watson made a 3 to tie it at 84 with 2.2 seconds left. The game went into overtime when Wade missed a baseline jumper at the buzzer.
Deng started the extra period with a jumper. Taj Gibson dunked on Ronny Turiaf for a three-point play and scored on a neat spin move after Wade hit a free throw, making it 91-85, sending the Bulls to a dramatic
win on a night when their super-star had perhaps his worst game as a pro.
Rose scored just two points and hit 1 of 13 shots, a brutal night for the reigning MVP. Then again, he hasn't played much lately.
He returned from a 12-game absence due to a groin injury for Sunday's overtime loss at New York, only to sprain his right ankle. He did not play Tuesday,
when the Bulls beat the Knicks at home.
But even with Rose struggling, the Bulls managed to pull this one out.
Korver, who scored 14 on Tuesday, again came up big, particularly down the stretch.
His 3-pointer and jumper put Chicago ahead 78-74 with about 3:30 left, and after Wade scored, Boozer nailed a jumper and Ronnie Brewer hit a free throw
to put the Bulls' lead at 5.
Wade, however, kept Miami in it.
He scored on a drive and a jumper to make it a one-point game, and Bosh came up with a key rebound off a miss by Wade, feeding James for the 3 that made it 83-81. But things unraveled for the Heat after that.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Talent, experience aid starting roster
RYAN MCCARTHY
rmccarthy@kansan.com
Although the Jayhawks soc-
team already has the entire
starting roster returning from their NCAA Tournament team, coach Mark Francis and his coaching staff added a few more pieces this week.
K ans s signed German national team member Hanna Kallmaier and former Ohio State NSCAI All-American
Kallmaier
Cassie Dickerson onto the fall 2012 squad.
Kallmaier played for Deutscher Futball Verband of the German Football Association for four years before joining the Jayhawks. Some of her other accomplishments include taking Deutscher to a third-place finish at the European Women's Championship last summer and being a part of German soccer club FC Bayern Munich.
"Hanna is very technical and very comfortable on the ball, even under pressure," Francis said. "Her distribution is very consistent. She has good size, which makes her good in the air, and she is athletic. Defensively, Hanna does a very good job of winning the ball."
Dickerson, a first year law student at Kansas, Dickerson still has one year of eligibility after playing three years at Ohio State. She graduated from Columbus in 2010.
In 2010, she guided the Buckeyes to the Big Ten championship and the NCAA Final Four. She was also the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year and grabbed first team allconference honors for a second time. She also participated in the U.S.U-23 National Team camp.
"When you add a player who has been a first team all-American, so she's been voted as one of the top 11 players in college soccer in 2010, you're adding a kid who obviously is a very high talent in terms of a soccer player," Francis said.
"She's bringing in a lot of experience, experiences that no one on our team has had. We don't have anyone who has been a first team All-American, we don't have anyone who has played in a Final Four and we don't have anyone who has been a captain for three years."
The Jayhawks continue their spring swing this weekend in Iowa City, where they will face off Sunday against Iowa and Iowa State. The first game is at 11 a.m. and the second game is at 1:45 p.m.
— Edited by Max Rothman
BACK ON TRACK
Spurs rebound from L.A. loss win against Grizzlies 107-97
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Manu Ginobilli added 20 points and Tony Parker scored 13, redeeming themselves a night after being humiliated by the Kobe Bryant-less Los Angeles Lakers. The Spurs narrowly escaped their first three-game slide this season.
SAN ANTONIO—Tim Duncan had 28 points and 12 rebounds and the San Antonio Spurs snapped out of a funk to top the surging Memphis Grizzlies 107-97 on Thursday night.
Rudy Gay led Memphis with 19 points. The Grizzlies had their fourgame winning streak halted after their rally from a late 14-point deficit fizzled in the final minutes.
4 playoff seed. It was only the third loss in 12 games for the Grizzlies since the return of Zach Randolph.
Memphis fell 1½ games behind
Duncan scored 20 in the second half and matched his season high, a night after practically guaranteeing that the Spurs would respond from a listless effort against the Lakers. So frustrated was Duncan following Wednesday's night 98-84 loss that he said he was grateful to be playing a back-to-back, which the health-conscious Spurs typically greet with groans.
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The Spurs looked helpless while Lakers center Andrew Bynum become just the second NBA player in the last dozen years to corral 30 rebounds in a game, but behind Duncan, their front line fared much better against the equally big Grizzlies. The Spurs matched Memphis
in rebounding and held Randolph to 10 points and 11 boards.
Gay shot just 7 of 22 one night after he had 32 points against Phoenix. The Grizzlies whittled an 88-74 deficit down to two points with 3 minutes left before losing steam. Memphis staged its comeback despite shooting just 29 percent in the fourth.
Danny Green added 10 points for the Spurs. Parker had nine assists and shot 5 of 12 after scoring just four points against the Lakers.
O. J. Mayo scored 16 points and Marreese Speights added 15 for the Grizzlies.
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Hollins arrived in San Antonio reiterating that he has no intention of returning Randolph to the starting lineup anytime soon.
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