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FRIDAY,FEBRUARY21,2003
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3B
California tourney to keep softball team busy
The Kansas softball team looks to continue its tenure as West Coast conquerors as they return to California for the second weekend in a row to take part in the Softball by the Beach Tournament in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Kansas is off to its best start in three years, thanks to timely hitting and solid pitching performances by junior Kara Pierce and senior Kirsten Milhoan.
The Jawhaws (7-1) open play by taking on Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo at 5:45 p.m. today, followed by a night cap with Univer-
ity of California Santa Barbara at 8 p.m. Saturday's schedule brings two teams down from Utah as Kansas will take on the University of Utah at 1:15 p.m. and then Brigham Young University at 3:50 p.m. The squad will close things out with San Diego State at 1:15 p.m. on Sunday.
Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo (8-9) comes off a 2-2 showing at the UNLV Tournament. For the Jayhawks to muffle the Mustangs, they will have to find a way to shutdown sophomore infielder Chelsy Stouler who leads the
Mustangs offensively with 21 hits, 15 RBIs and a .356 batting average. If Kansas can beat the Mustangs, coach Tracy Bunge would tally up her 200th victory as the Jayhawk skipper. She is 199-172 all-time at Kansas.
The hosting Gauchos of UC Santa Barbara from the Big West could be listed along with Kansas as clubs who have been on fire recently. Despite a 2-2 performance in the Campbell/Cartier Tournament in San Diego, the team has compiled an 11-4 record. The Hawks were originally scheduled to play the Gauchos in that tournament but were unable to after a schedule change because of rainy weather.
Utah (4-6) of the Mountain West Conference makes its way westward after a 2-3 effort in the UNLV Tournament.
Brigham Young (5-3), also from the Mountain West conference, has been on a tear as of late going 3-1 at the Texas A&M Tournament. Led by .455 batting average of junior outfielder Oli Keohouh, the team has an overall average of .270.
Kansas should be quite familiar with San Diego State (6-3) of the Mountain West by now. The Jayhawks and Aztecs got together in the second game of the Campbell/Cartier tourney, resulting in a 6-3 Kansas victory.
After the weekend, Kansas will travel from southern California to the heart of the Southeast as it makes its way to Tuscaloosa, Ala., for the Crimson Classic from Feb. 28 to March 2. The Classic is hosted by Alabama.
Steve Schmidt
Tennis finally on the road after restful home stint
By Jonah Ballow
jballow@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The No. 47 Kansas tennis team has not packed its bags once since the spring season began. Four home matches have resulted in a 3-1 overall record and 0-1 Big 12 record.
Last weekend, the Jayhawks suffered a 0-7 defeat at the hands of No.15 Texas but bounced back to beat Utah 7-0.
Kansas will head to Albuquerque, N.M., for non-conference matches against the Denver Pioneers tomorrow and the New Mexico Lobos on Sunday.
"With our first traveling match, we should be fresh and ready to play,"coach Kilmeny
Waterman said.
The Pioneers started the season 3-1 but have dropped their last two matches. This marks the first time Kansas and Denver have met since 1982. Denver came away with the 5-4 victory. Sophomore Yanick Dullens leads the Pioneers with a 4-2 record at No.1 singles.
The Lobos stand at 2-2 with losses to Boise State and Washington State. Kansas has won four of the seven meetings against New Mexico, but the Lobos won the last meeting 7-2.
"We can get the wins if we stay focused and confident," sophomore Paige Brown said.
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
Kansan Sportswriter
Track splits for two meets
The Kansas track and field team will split up tomorrow in a final tune up for next week's Big 12 Conference Indoor Championship.
Some of the men's and women's sprinters, hurdlers, distance runners and throwers will compete tomorrow at the KSU Open in Manhattan. The men's and women's vertical jumpers and horizontal jumpers will compete tomorrow at the Sooner Invitational in Norman, Okla.
Only the athletes who are in need of another practice meet will compete tomorrow, Kansas coach Stanley Redwine said.
Redwine said the meets were not originally on the schedule but were added earlier this week.
"In track, meets are added all the time, we just wanted to give some athletes an extra meet," Redwine said.
The athletes who have either qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships or are close to qualifying will not compete this weekend. Redwine said those athletes would rest this weekend because they still had two more opportunities to qualify with next week's Big 12 Championship and the Iowa State Invitational on March 8.
One athlete who will have the weekend off is junior sprinter Leo Bookman. Last week at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., Bookman broke his own school record in the 200-meter dash. With his time of 20.77 seconds, he was the first Jayhawk to automatically qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championship this year.
In addition to Bookman, senior Anson Jackson provisionally qualified in the 60-meter hurdles with his time of 7.89 seconds last week at the Tyson Invitational.
Sophomore Sondra Rauterkus provisionally qualified in the high jump earlier in the season with her leap of 5-10 at the KSU Invitational.
"We approach every meet with the goal of qualifying as many athletes as possible for the NCAAs," Redwine said.
Redwine said he hoped these extra meets would allow some athletes another chance to qualify.
The Kansas men's team is 5-3 overall and 2-2 in conference, and the Kansas women are 4-1 overall and 3-1 in Big 12 competitions.
Edited by Todd Rapp
Former Syracuse teammates get franchise tags in NFL
Former Syracuse University teammates Tebucky Jones and Donovin Darius were designated franchise players by their NFL teams Thursday as a hedge
against them becoming free agents.
The Associated Press
Darius was protected by Jacksonville and Jones by New England as negotiations continue on long-term deals with both safeties.
Yesterday was the NFL deadline for "tagging" — declaring potential unrestricted free agents franchise or transition players to make it harder for them to sign elsewhere when free agency begins Feb. 28.
Jones and Darius, both first-
round picks in 1998, are guaranteed $3.04 million for one year, the average salary of the top five safeties in the NFL. A transition player must be tendered the average of the top 10 players at his position.
In many cases, players protected are not superstars, simply solid players.
Baltimore put a franchise tag on Chris McAlister, its star cornerback, tendering him the required offer for $5.9 million.
Track in N.C. may lose race
Since NASCAR chairman Bill France Jr. said last month that the sanctioning body wants to change its schedule in 2004, the tiny 1.017-mile high-banked oval known as "The Rock" has been on the endangered species list.
The Associated Press
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. — North Carolina Speedway is in danger of losing one of its Winston Cup races.
Unable to sell out a race since expanding to 60,113 seats in 1999, the track is a prime target for France to sweip a date and move a Winston Cup race into a larger market.
Speedwaygeneral manager Chris Browning won't think about that possibility as the track prepares to host Sunday's Subway 400. But once the racing weekend is over, Browning knows Rockingham's fate could be decided.
The track's other event is in November.
But Browning expects talks to begin within the next month as International Speedway Corp., a France-family owned company that controls Rockingham, decides what to do.
NASCAR normally begins the sanctioning process in early summer.
North Carolina Speedway is right in the middle of a crowded racing market, and NASCAR wants to reach other parts of the country. Darlington Raceway in South Carolina and Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte are short drives from Rockingham and combine to host five Winston Cup races.
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