THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
PAGE 3B
BASEBALL
Bats struggle to come alive against Gonzaga
MAX LUSH
mlush@kansan.com
The Kansas baseball team went into the third inning of Sunday's game at the UTSA Classic in San Antonio tied 2-2 with undefeated Gonzaga, but everything would unravel from that point.
The Jayhawks managed only one hit, a walk and a hit batter after the second inning.
Gonzaga pitcher Andy Hunter dominated throughout the ball game. Hunter threw eight innings, allowing two runs on six hits and one hit batter, while striking out eight batters.
Hunter retired 14 straight layhawks in a span that lasted from the third inning until the first batter in the eighth. Leadoff hitter and shortstop Kevin Kuntz said despite some discouraging results, the layhawks can't get away from their approach at the plate.
"We need to keep hunting fastballs." Kuntz said. "We have to stay away from the curveball
unless there's two strikes or it's elevated."
Kuntz was one of the lone
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Kuntz was bright spots in the Kansas lineup, going 3-for-4 on the day with a run, an RBI and a stolen base. Kuntz scored the first run of
the game in the
top of the first inning when third baseman Zac Elgie squeeze-bunted him home with one out.
"I was just trying to be aggressive and find a fastball in the zone and put a good swing on it," Kuntz said.
Kansas junior pitcher Thomas Taylor gave away the lead immediately in the bottom half of the inning, allowing a two-run double with one out.
Taylor labored through 5.2 innings of work, allowing five runs on 10 hits and two walks, while striking out three. Taylor left the
game with two outs in the sixth inning and the Jayhawks trailing 3-2 with two runners on base.
"They got on me early with my fast-ball," Taylor said. "I had to start using my slider earlier than I wanted to get into the game."
Kuntz
Sunday was the first time this season that Taylor has given up a run. In his first two starts of the season, Taylor threw 14.1 scoreless innings and allowed just seven hits.
"It's always in the back of your head," Taylor said. "But at the same time, it wasn't in my thought process. I went out there doing the same things."
Taylor gave way to reliever Tanner Poppe to try and get out of the jam.
Poppe, the hard-throwing right-hander, couldn't shut down
Gonzaga. He gave up a two-run double to Gonzaga shortstop Steven Halcomb, the first batter he faced. Poppe then hit his next batter before allowing an RBI single to outfielder Royce Bolinger.
The jayhawks would go on to lose the game 7-2 to the Bulldogs. It is the fifth time this season that the Kansas baseball team has failed to score more than three runs.
Despite starting the season strong and winning their first four games, the Jayhawks have since gone 1-5 to fall back to .500 for the season.
Kansas dropped all three games this weekend at the UTSA Classic. The Jayhawks were outscored 22-12 by their opponents during the weekend.
"We have to try and come back from this and keep our heads up and learn from the adversity," Taylor said.
Edited by Christine Curtin
Kansas Stats
Player ab r h rbi bb
Kuntz 4 1 3 1 0
Eldredge 3 0 0 0 0
Stanfield 4 0 1 0 0
Elgie 3 0 1 1 0
Suiter 3 0 0 0 1
Marasco 4 0 0 0 0
Smith 4 1 1 0 0
Manship 3 0 0 0 0
McKay 3 0 0 0 0
Brunansky 0 0 0 0 0
Taylor 0 0 0 0 0
Poppe 0 0 0 0 0
Luvisi 0 0 0 0 0
Total 31 2 6 2 1
INTRAMURALS
Earning the right to play in the 'Phog'
rschlesener@kansan.com
March Madness is about to kick into full swing on the national level, and in similar format, intramural league tournaments have begun in Lawrence. Tournament games will continue all week long, with championship games being played on Wednesday, March 7 and Thursday, March 8 inside Allen Fieldhouse.
The playoffs are exciting, as they take on a "March Madness" type of feel. Win or go home, and
Imagine getting the chance to take the court in Allen Fieldhouse for the championship in your respective league. This is an experience some can only dream of.
you can bet these teams will lay it on all the line every night.
One particular fan-favorite team is the group consisting of the Kansas men's basketball managers. The team, coached by the players, has been on a tear currently sitting at 6-0. They go by the name "Perpetual Motion Squad" and will play their Sweet Sixteen game tonight at 5 against the "Marching Band Hoop Dreams" team, which currently sits at 1-4.
Perpetual Motion Squad came into the tournament as the number four seed, earning a 1st-round bye before winning by forfeit in the last round. Even with the fourth seed, Kansas forward Thomas Robinson and some of the team's players strongly believe the team will come through and win the tournament.
"Why shouldn't they?" Robinson said with a smile. "They've got the best coaches in the world!"
"Red team is winnin' it all," said Doug Compton, a junior from Lawrence on the Perpetual Motion Squad. "We cuttin' down the nets."
The team's head coach, Matt Shorman senior from Hays, was more cautious with his predictions, taking a page out of Bill Self's manual.
"We just gotta take it one game at a time, and enjoy the ride because that's what it's all about," Shrorman said.
In other intramural news, intramural leagues for the Spring intramural season are beginning registration. Several leagues will begin open registration on March 6, while some other registrations close on the same day.
Leagues with registration dead-
lines closing on March 6 include:
 women's double's tennis, men's
double's tennis and corec double'
tennis. Meanwhile, co-cre soccer, men's soccer, women's soccer, corec ultimate frisbee, women's ultimate frisbee and men's ultimate frisbee.
If students are interested in joining or creating an intramural team for any of these leagues, visit ku.athleague.com. Also catch the games throughout the week. The schedule can be found at www.ku.athleague.com/leagues. Follow @UDK_intramurals on twitter for live tweets and updates on this week's basketball playoff games, hgh
Edited by Pat Strathman
Long jumper earns spot at national meet Friday
This weekend served as one last chance at qualifying for track and field's NCAA Indoor National Championship. One Jayhawk took advantage of that opportunity.
TRACK
Junior Horizontal jumper Andrea Gebuleb jumped a season best in the long jump at the Alex Wilson Invitational at the University of Notre Dame. The jump moved herself from nineteenth to sixth in the long jump rankings, placing her ahead of teammate and Big 12 long jump champion Junior Francine Simpson (10) and guarantees Gebelle a spot in the event at the National Championship on Friday.
It was also an important weekend for Demi Payne, sophomore pole vaulter, as she traveled to compete in the Arkansas Invitational. Going into the event, Payne needed to add less than an inch to her season best pole vault to tie for sixteenth in the event and be awarded a spot in the national championship. She could not reach the
mark and ultimately failed to improve upon her highest mark of the season.
On the men's side, the 4x400 meter relay team ran its best time of the season at the Alex Wilson Invitational on Saturday. The women's 4x400 team escaped the weekend with their name still attached to the best time in the nation so far. They took the weekend off as they have been automatically qualified for the national championship since the Tyson Invitational on Feb.11.
The Jayhawks will have eight female athletes competing in six events in Boise, Idaho on Friday for national championships. The women's 4x400 meter relay team is ranked first in the nation, as is Andrea Geubelle in the triple jump. Junior Paris Daniels will run in the 200-meter race, Geubelle and Simpson both compete in the long jump, senior Alena Krechyk in the weight throw and sophomore Diamond Dixon will race for the NCAA's 400-meter title.
MLB
-Max Goodwin
Bees rush the baseball field
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — This was no 'B' game.
The Diamondbacks' grounds crew used a combination of cotton candy and lemonade to help disperse a swarm of bees that delayed the San Francisco Giants split squad's 11-1 win over Arizona for 41 minutes in the second innning Sunday.
With runners on second and third and one out in the second inning, a dark cloud appeared in right field, sending Diamondbacks center fielder Chris Young sprinting toward left.
"I didn't see them at first I just heard them," Young said. "I am not afraid of one or two of them. I wouldn't flinch at that. When you start talking about 500, 600 of them yea, I am afraid of that. I would be afraid of anything of that many. If there were that many mosquitoes, I would be afraid of that."
With the bees buzzing, Young and right fielder Adam Eaton signed autographs and mingled with fans near the center field fence. Giants center fielder Angel Pagan was prepared if the bees reached the dugout.
The bees moved toward the right field line then down to the Giants dugout behind first base. Two sections of fans near the dugout were evacuated and the bees settled in a camera well adjacent to the dugout.
"I was right next to the bathroom in case I had to lock myself in," Pagan said.
They smeared a combination of concession-stand lemonade and cotton candy on two utility carts and lured many of the bees away from fans and players. Some of the bees, however, found a perch on a television camera.
Only one person reported being stung, a Salt River Fields employee.
The grounds crew came up with a sweet solution.
Diamondback ace Ian Kennedy was on the mound when the bees showed up and didn't return after
the 41-minute delay, Kennedy threw 29 pitches, allowing one run and three hits.
"I was almost done. I was ready to go back out there but it was way too long to go back in," Kennedy said. "I threw a lot of fastballs, one or two breaking balls to get my command but for the most part a lot of fastballs."
Giants starter, non-roster invitee Brian Burres, was also pulled after the delay. He allowed one hit in one inning.
Once the game resumed Hector Sanchez smacked the first pitch from Diamondbacks reliever Barry Enright for an RBI single to give the Giants a 1-0 lead. San Francisco blew the game open in the fourth inning when the first four batters all singled and scored.
Ryan Theriot, Sanchez and Brett Pill each had three hits for San Francisco in a 21-hit barrage. Sanchez also had three RBIs and Pill two.
ASSOCIATED PRESS The San Francisco Giants and Arizona Diamondbacks' split squad scrimmage was delayed for 41 minutes Sunday.
"I thought we swung the bats well yesterday, and today the two guys at the top of the order. (Pagan and
Melkey Cabrera) showed us we are a little more athletic; Giants Manager Bruce Bochy said. "Really though out the lineup guys swung the bat well today. All of them did. It was a very nice ballgame."
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