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4B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY MAY 7 2009
CLUB BASEBALL
Second baseman Robert Fulbright, Lawrence graduate student, fields a grounder as first baseman Kevin Sterk, Chicago graduate student, waits for the throw. Kansas sweeps Michigan State in three games on March 7 and 8.
Team qualifies for regionals
BY BEN WARD
BY BEN WARD
bward@kansan.com
Many teams have a team slogan or motto. You've probably seen them on the backs of T-shirts on campus: Play Together, Expect To Win, Never Give Up.
The Kansas club baseball team (17-4, 10-2) has one for you — Get Weird.
"It's just doing your thing," senior infielder Clinton Brown said. "We play our best when we're all laid back and having fun."
The approach seems to have been working, as the Jayhawks have earned a berth as a wildcard in this
weekend's NCBA Mid-America Regional Tournament in Topeka. The National Club Baseball Association has eight regional tournaments, all of which will send a winner to the NCBA World Series in Fort Myers, Fla.
"If we win three games this weekend we advance to Florida," said Mark Hays, senior utility player and team president.
The Jayhawks have to beat some solid competition to get there, though, as they face Colorado State (39-6, 15-0) in their first-round game.
The Rams, four-time NCBA national champions, enter the tournament as the consensus No.1 in the country.
"They're a great team, but we've been anticipating this game all season long," Hays said. "We want to show them what Kansas baseball is all about."
The Jayhawks will have their opportunity on Friday in a 7 p.m. contest at Lake Shawnee baseball complex in Topeka. Admission is free.
"I can't imagine a better thing to do on Stop Day than come out and watch two of the best teams in the country 'Get Weird,'" Brown said.
Edited by Liz Schubauer
COLLEGE SPORTS
NCAA hands out team bans
BY MICHAEL MAROT Associated Press
REMEMBER THE MOMENT
The NCAA handed down postseason bans to both teams for subpar academic scores Wednesday, the first time college sports' governing body has instituted a penalty it said it never wanted to use.
INDIANAPOLIS — Centenary's men's basketball team and Tennessee-Chattanooga's football team will miss the NCAA's postseason tournaments next season — no matter how well they do on the field.
If scores don't improve next year, those teams could face an even harbor sanction — the loss
of Division 1 membership in all sports.
Scores are calculated based on data from the fall semester in 2004 through the spring semester in 2008.
Each athlete receives one point per semester for remaining academically eligible and another point each semester for remaining at that school or graduating.
A mathematical formula is used to correlate a final team score, with 1,000 points being perfect. Teams that fall below 925 can be subjected to immediate penalties. Those falling below 900 consistently, such as Centenary and Tennessee-Chattanooga, can be hit with the harshest sanctions.
Jacksonville State's football team also could face a postseason ban but has requested a waiver to avoid that penalty. The NCAA has not announced when a decision will be made.
The list of underachieving teams showed distinct delineation between those programs with a lot of money and teams with less.
Of the 85 teams penalized in football and men's basketball, only 10 came from the six traditional power conferences, and none of those received the two harshest penalties — a reduction in practice time or a postseason ban.
One hundred seventy-seven teams overall were penalized.
Chelsea heartbreakers
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Barcelona's Andres Iñesta, right, celebrates with Samuel Etoo after scoring his equalizing goal during their Champions League semifinal second leg soccer match against Chelsea at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium in London.
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