THURSDAY,APRIL3,2003
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN • 13A
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Kansas' Collison finalist for award
The Los Angeles Athletic Club announced yesterday that Kansas men's basketball senior forward Nick Collison was a finalist for the John R. Wooden Award.
Collison is Kansas' leading scorer, averaging 18.6 points per game and leading rebounder with 9.6 per game. He's started all 36 games this season and scored his 1,800th point in Kansas uniform.
The list, which has been been pared down from 30, had included Kansas forward Kirk Hinrich at the midseason cut. Hinrich was named to the 10-member Wooden Award AllAmerican team.
The award will be presented April 12 at the Athletic Club. Ballots were not due until after the start of the NCAA basketball tournament. The selections were based on more than 1,000 votes by national media and college basketballexperts.
Other finalists include T.J. Ford of Texas, Dwyane Wade of Marquette, Oklahoma's Hollis Price and David West of Xavier. Each of the five finalists will have $15,000 donated in his name to his university's scholarship fund.
The Wooden committee will also present the Legends of Coaching Award to coach Roy Williams at the ceremony.
-Kansan staff reports
Honorary referees announced for Relays The Kansas Relays committee announced its honorary referees Monday for the 76th Kansas Relays.
The men's and women's college and high school division each has its own honorary referee.
iowa State men's track and field coach Steve Lynn was given the honor in the college men's division.
Butler County Community College track coach Kirk Hunter received the honor in the college women's division.
Mark Hanson,track coach at Blue Valley West High School in Overland Park,was named the honorary referee in the high school boy's division.
Martha O'Rourke,track coach at Jenks High School, Okla., is the high school girl's honorary referee.
Honorary referees have been named since the first Kansas Relays in 1923.
The coaches chosen are recognized for their contributions to the sport of track and field and the Kansas Relays.
"It is an honor to have them associated with the Kansas Relays as our referees for 2003," said Kansas Relays meet director Tim Weaver. "Each is respected by coaches, athletes and officials alike, making them excellent referees for a premiere event like ours."
The Kansas Relays will be held April 16 to 19. Past referees include Knute Rockne, Glenn Cunningham, Bill Easton, Joe Schrag, Steve Miller and Al Oerter.
— Chris Wintering
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The wall Price speaks of is normal in the baseball world. Pitchers' arms tire. Hitters' weaknesses get exploited. Focus strays. It's natural.
The toll and repetitiveness of the everyday grind of baseball will slow every sandlot squad from time-to-time. It's the response to the wall that counts.
And Price got to his players fast.
Yesterday, he met with his players individually. He talked goals, he issued challenges, he heeded advice and he answered questions. He wants his team on the same page heading into the meat of Kansas' Big 12 schedule.
He doesn't care his team just went 1-5 to open the conference season. He won't accept seeing a head drop, or a shoulder slouch, because there is no room for
that. Not now. Not when the Jayhawks next five opponents, starting this tomorrow with No. 16 Nebraska, are nationally ranked.
"We just have to try and creep back into the race," Price said. "We know we're not going to win five in a row. But we do know that we can try to win each series."
Aiding Price is the most explosive offensive attack at Kansas in years. Three Jayhawks — senior pitcher/designated hitter Kevin Wheeler, senior left fielder Casey Spanish and junior first baseman Ryan Baty — are hitting more than .375. Last year, no one passed 341.
"I think they're so talented, three of the best players in the country," Price said. "They all have goals of playing professional and all will work hard enough to do it. I feel like we're as good as anyone in the country with the bat in our hands."
Future Jayhawk teams may not need the current team's hitting
clout, but it's required this year. Because the wall smacked the current pitching staff right across the face this past week. The 'Hawks allowed more than 10 runs per game the past two weeks.
If crafty left-handers Wheeler and junior Ryan Knippschild can fool some hitters as they have this year, and juniors Brandon Johnson and Chris Smart can perform out of the bullpen as they've shown at times, Kansas can get by.
Price can't wait to recruit a hard-throwing power pitcher, but for now, Kansas will have to get by on sheer will.
Then again, there's no questioning the heart of this team.
"The effort has been there from day one," Price said. "I'm so proud of these guys. They work hard, don't complain. Good things happen when you do that."
Malashock is an Omaha senior in journalism.
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get on base on the offensive side of the game.
"He went the entire season last year without making an error," Price said. "Almost every series he makes a plus play in the outfield, and he is just a tremendous center fielder for this club."
Price said his ability to run had opened up the rest of his game. Now he is batting .300 and is second on the team in stolen bases.
"I think he is as good as a leadoff hitter as there is in the Big 12 Conference," Price said.
The third and final piece of the outfield is Tribble. Earlier this season, Tribble set the Kansas record for hits in consecutive games when he hit safely in 21-straight games.
So far this season Tribble is batting.331 with 43 hits, three home runs and 21 RBI. Tribble is also one of only three players on the team to play in all of Kansas' games this season; Spanish and Baty are the other two.
Tribble appears to have a bright future ahead as Price projects him to be a seventh- to 10th-round draft pick in next year's 50 — round Major
League Baseball draft.
"Tribble is a real special ballplayer. He is a guy that always plays hard, and he has a real strong arm from right field," Spanish said. "He doesn't say much because he is always so focused, and he definitely has a bright future ahead of him."
As the Jayhawks prepare for this weekend's series against nationally-ranked Nebraska, Spanish, Hayes and Tribble's names will all appear in the starting lineup, with their teammates and coaching staff expecting big things from them.
- Edited by Julie Jantzer
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