8B = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2003
SPORTS
Baseball
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With one out in the inning, junior first baseman Ryan Baty singled. Wheeler struck out and logged the second out of the inning, and junior right fielder Matt Trible walked. With Tribble on third, senior left fielder Casey Spanish delivered the game-winning single. That gave Tribble a score and Karsas the 4-3 lead, which became the final score.
Kansas coach Ritch Price said the team had been through peaks and valleys this year.
"We are over the hump now, and we just have to play against the ball and be mature," Price said.
On Saturday during the second game of the series, the dynamics proved to be different when Baylor came away with an 11-3 victory.
Junior pitcher Chris Smart started but lasted only five innings. Allowing nine hits and three earned runs, he was credited with the loss, which dropped his record to 1-3.
The only bright moment on the Kansas offense came from Spanish. As he went 3-3 on the day and hit his seventh home run of the season, he also drove in two runs and scored once.
Kansas also lost the third game. Wheeler started, pitched five and two-thirds innings and
As the offense tried to claw the Jayhawks back in the game, Kansas went through seven relief pitchers. Freshman Eric Peterson lasted the longest, pitching an inning and two-thirds of another. Four of the team's pitches during the game failed to register an out.
"If our starter doesn't get to the seventh inning, we are in trouble," Price said. "They definitely beat our bullpen up this series."
allowed eight hits and five runs.
Trailing 10-5 in the eighth inning, Spanish led the inning with a triple. Sophomore Travis Metcalf followed at the plate and hit his team-leading 10th home run of the season, cutting Baylor's lead to 5 points. Kansas failed to score again in the ninth and Baylortacked on one more, securing the final score of 11-5.
Although Kansas trails Baylor in the Big 12 for hits this season, Ryan Baty said this weekend's series didn't reflect the team's No.2 rank.
"We had a chance to win a series, and we did not come to play the second half of the game today." he said.
With the two defeats, Kansas' record dropped to 32-18 with 7-11 in conference play. Kansas will return to the field tomorrow when they host in-state rival Wichita State at Hoglund Ballpark.
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Softball
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In yesterday's game, the 'Hawks were blanked by the Bears 4-0.
"I didn't think I could get to it and in the last second it was right there," Wallach said. "I thought it was going to go straight over my head so I just tried to stay with it."
With a runner on second and one out, Baylor center fielder Kelly Levesque hit a monster blast to dead center when Wallach made a miraculous leaping over-the-shoulder catch.
Milhoan gave up four runs on eight hits, but the offense gave her little to work with by coming away
"She's such an amazing player," Pierce said of Wallach. "I thought it was to the fence and she did a ballerina spin and made an amazing play."
Golfers
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"They are just as frustrated with their performance as the coaching staff is," she said. "This is a team that will not quit."
Next up for Kansas (26-21, 4-14 Big 12) is a trip to Oklahoma City, Okla., for the Big 12 Conference Tournament. The Jayhawks finished ninth in the conference, and will play Texas Tech at 5 p.m. Thursday in the opening round. Bunge thinks her team has plenty of fight left for the tournament.
The Bears did all their damage in the fourth innings with two outs. They scored all four runs off four hits, accented by a home run by left fielder Kelly Osburn.
"I definitely still feel like I can win it," Marshall said. "I am playing with a lot of confidence right now."
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Randall said the team was right where he wanted it before the tournament. Hesaid Marshall and Hall were both hitting the ball well.
“Offensively, we just tightened up,” Bunge said. “We’re much more talented than that.”
with only two hits.
Sadly, it's not going to change anytime soon. There are no plans to give Kansas an indoor facility in Lawrence right now. The powers-that-be just assume these women trek to Topeka or Overland Park or even the hated Show-Me-State. They don't seem to really care.
Wood
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The loss dropped her to 10-9 on the year.
All this ignorance goes back to the worst hire Kansas has ever had — the nut job that was Al Bohl. Since his Fresno State days, Bohl was obviously a two-sport athletics director — football and softball. All the other sports could kiss his bizarre backside. Volleyball coach Ray Bechard said he hardly
The other eight "home matches" were played from Topeka to Overland Park to Mission. The ultimate punch in the stomach came on April 19 when rain forced a "home" match with Texas A&M out of Lawrence and into the Carriage Club in Kansas City, Mo. Yes, the Kansas Jayhawks played a home match in the great state of Missouri.
"We had one match at Robinson," Waterman said, shaking her head. "One home match."
However, three of the four matches scheduled to be played at Robinson were either canceled or moved out of town because of bad weather.
A team that next year will be without Marshall, statistically one of the best Kansas golfers ever, but will continue with a theme of strong relationships, hard work and dedication.
"This tournament is so important because everyone is jockeying for position for next year," Hall said.
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knew Bohl. Former basketball coach Roy Williams told The Kansas City Star that Bohl never did anything for him. Waterman agrees with both of them.
"We had been preached that football was the priority." Waterman said. "That's all, we ever heard."
Funny, because at Bohl's going-away party on his driveway April 9, he blamed Roy Williams for not letting him make the department as a whole better. Apparently, Bohl thought Kansas only had three sports football, basketball and softball.
Jayhawk players, meanwhile, continue to live under neglect. They have no home, the men's team was cut two years ago and nobody at Kansas seems to care that they're getting abused.
That's no way to treat one of your own.
Wood is a Lee's Summit, Mo... senior in journalism.
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