THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012
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SWIMMING AND DIVING
Regular season concludes with rare defeat to Iowa State
ALEC TILSON
alectilson@kansan.com
A victory last weekend could have been a big mental boost for the Kansas swimming and diving team, but the season concluded in an unusual way in Ames, Iowa on Friday and Saturday.
In the team's final dual meet and competition of the regular season, Kansas (5-5, 0-2) battled Iowa State down to the final event before ultimately losing, 158-142.
It marked just the third time in the program's history that the team lost to Iowa State. Previously, Kansas was 24-2 against the Cyclones.
On Saturday, as Kansas trailed 140-124, senior Stephanie Payne torched the rest of the field with a time of 3:16.69 in the 300-yard individual medley, the meet's penultimate event. More than six
seconds ahead of the next finisher, Payne gave Kansas nine critical points late in the day, but the team still trailed 136-147 going into the final event.
It was, however, not the jay-hawks' day. The relay team of junior Svetlana Golovchun, senior Sarah Hettenbach, junior Brook Brull and sophomore Sophia Filatova finished second in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Iowa State claimed first place and the deciding 11 points.
Junior diver Christy Cash performed well. She posted a 269.85 in the 1-meter diving event, good for second place. She went on to finish third in the 3-meter diving, but posted a season-high finish in the event.
Despite a strong start by Kansas, the team could not hold off the evenly-matched Iowa State team.
In the second event, the 800-yard freestyle, sophomore Alison Moffit took first, junior Rebecca Swank second and sophomore Malia Johnson third. This gave Kansas 16 early points.
The following event, senior Shannon Garlie took first in the 150-yard freestyle, followed closely by teammates Brull and sophomore Morgan Sharp, which gave Kansas 16 more points in just the third event.
The Jayhawks returned to Lawrence and will prepare for the two remaining competitions of the season. The Big 12 Championships begin Feb. 22 in Columbia, Mo.
Edited by Pat Strathman
CHRIS BRONSON/KANSAN
Senior swimmer Stephanie Payne swims during the Women's 200-Yard individual medley during KU's Intrasquad this season at Robinson Natatorium. Payne qualified for the Olympic trials last year and continued her dominance this weekend in Ames, Iowa. Payne won the 300-yard IM with a time of 3:16.69, six seconds ahead of second place.
GOLF
Stanley recovers from loss with comeback win
SCOTTSALEA, Ariz. — Kyle Stanley
rebounded from a devastating loss to win the Phoenix Open, overcoming an eight-stroke deficit Sunday in a comback as unlikely as his collapse last week at Torrey Pines.
Stanley
In tears seven days ago in San Diego after blowing a big lead — dropping the final strokes with a triple-bogey 8 on the final hole — and losing a playoff, Stanley took advantage of Spencer Levin's meltdown Sunday to win his first PGA Tour title.
"I'm not sure what I'm thinking right now," Stanley said. "I just needed to focus on playing golf. I needed to put last week behind me."
He cried again, this time tears of joy.
"I just want to thank my mom and dad. They've done a lot for me. I'm speechless," Stanley said in the scoring area moments after the victory.
Ben Crane had a 66 to finish a stroke back.
Levin, six strokes ahead entering the round and seven in front after one hole, shot a 75 to finish two strokes behind Stanley.
"I just didn't have it," Levin said. "Maybe I was looking ahead too much and trying too hard. What are you going to do? I tried my best."
The 24-year-old Stanley, the long-hitting former Clemson star from Gig. Harbor, Wash., birdied the par-5 13th and par-4 14th to take a one-stroke lead at 15 under.
Did this victory erase last week?
"Not really," Stanley said. "I'm never going to forget that."
Associated Press
Kansas soccer brings in three new recruits
SOCCER
With the most of the hype last week on college football's National Signing Day, the women's college soccer scene may have gotten lost in the shuffle.
Nevertheless, on Thursday the Kansas team picked up three new recruits to go along with their 10 returning players from the 2011 season.
Leading the Jayhawks class was the reigning New Mexico state high school player of the year Ashley Williams.
The 5-foot-8 forward from Albuquerque was named an NSCAA High School All-American in her senior season after guiding her school, Volcano Vista, to second place at the state tournament.
Kansas also grabbed another player from New Mexico: defender
Kaley Smith.
Smith is also from Albuquerque but played at Eldorado High School. Smith was a four time all-state selection.
Williams and Smith played club soccer together for the Rio Vista Eagles and won three consecutive state titles between 2007-2009.
The Jayhawks' last member of the 2012 class is from Raymore-Peculiar High School in Missouri.
Courtney Dickerson from Peculiar, Mo., will dawn the crimson and blue next year after wrapping up her senior season with the Panthers this spring. Through her first three high school seasons Dickerson has been a three-time all-district first team selection.
— Ryan McCarthy
TRACK
Senior thrower breaks school record in meet
Senior Alena Krechyk set a new school record in the weight throw at the New Balance Invitational in New York City this weekend. A 67-foot throw
moved Krechyk on to the finals of the event, where she would eventually take second place.
The record-breaking throw was the highest rank a Jayhawk achieved at the event.
Junior Francine Simpson finished runner-up in the long jump. Her best mark of the
Krechyk
day, 6.32 meters, was a personal record and now ranks as the longest in the Big 12 this season
In the pole vault, sophomore Demi Payne also set a personal record, which allowed her to finish fourth in an extremely competitive final. She now ranks third on the Kansas women's pole vaulting list.
Payne
The Kansas women's team took seventh place overall while the men's team took a 20th place.
Edited by Tanvi Nimkar
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
No.24 Gonzaga stops late surge in victory
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MALIBU, Calif. — Marty Wilson knows it's going to take some time for his team to regularly be among the upper echelon of the West Coast Conference.
On nights such as Saturday, the first-year Pepperdine coach can't help but believe it will happen sooner rather than later. Kevin Pangos and Robert Sacre each scored 15 points, helping No. 24 Gonzaga beat Pepperdine 72-60 — but not before the Waves gave the Bulldogs a scare.
Gonzaga's 15-point lead shrunk to two points midway through the second half before it held on to win its 22nd straight in the series.
"We've told our guys that there is a thin line between the elite in
our league and everyone else," Wilson said. "We obviously proved that tonight. We can play with everyone in the league if we're doing all the things we need to do.
"We're not good enough yet to take a night off or have two or three of our guys not play well and still win the game."
Corbin Moore had 17 points and 10 rebounds and Joshua Lowry added 11 points for Pepperdine (8-15, 2-10), which lost for the 10th time in 11 games.
— move the ball and make the right decisions," Wilson said. "So that was a big part of it. When you defend and get stops, you become more confident."
"Our guys are starting to understand what we're trying to do
Guy Landry Edi scored 13
points and Elias Harris added nine for Gonzaga (18-4, 8-2 West Coast Conference), which broke out of a 3-point shooting slump to go 7 of 16 from beyond the arc.
The inexperienced Waves put a rocky first few minutes behind them, shooting 53.6 percent in the second half to make a game out of it.
"That's a great win for us, for the fact that we put a lot of emotion into that last game and we didn't win," Sacre said. "It was tough, but we responded like champions."
"I didn't want to end the winning streak," Edi said. "We had come in here and get the win, absolutely. We couldn't lose this game."
Pepperdine's last win in the series came on Jan. 18, 2002.
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