THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 4, 2009
SPORTS
3B
SOFTBALL (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
giving up a two-run home run in the third. Kocon once again got the Jayhawks started, as her solo blast in the fourth cut the deficit to 2-1. But once again, Iowa State responded right away, tacking on a quick run to regain their two-run lead at 3-1.
From there the Jayhawk bats were silenced once again, but this time in a different fashion.
Freshman Lauren Kennewell earned the complete game victory for ISU despite giving the Jayhawks plenty of chances to even the score. Senior third baseman Val Chapple and junior second baseman Sara Ramirez each had two hits to lead Kansas, but the team stranded 10 runners on
base in the game, six of them in scoring position.
Edited by Realle Roth
"They pitched pretty well," Chapple said. "But we took ourselves out of the game. We weren't as aggressive or confident as we had been."
Despite the disappointment over being swept, the Jayhawks know that anything can happen in the Big 12 Tournament.
game stats
"All we can do is focus on the tournament this weekend," Kocon said. "We're probably going to have to play against Iowa State, so we just need to focus and have a better mentality going in."
Game 1:2-7,L
Game 2:1-3,L
WP - Zabriskie (17-23), LP - George (10-15), SV - none, HR - Johnson (ISU, 7), Jones (ISU, 6); Koon (8), McCaulley (1)
WP - Kennewell (1-0), LP
- Vertelka (9-10), SV - none,
HR - Bradberry (ISU, 2);
Kocon (9)
TRACK (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
"We ran into the Arkansas basketball complex and waited for an hour." Howard said. "Then we went back out and they gave us 30 minutes to warm up, then we ended up running it in a downpour."
Howard, who ran the anchor leg of the race, said right after the event, the meet was postponed
because lighting was visible. Soon after, the meet was canceled entirely.
Bradley, who ran the third leg of the race, said she felt that she did well with all that was going on.
"I think I ran pretty well despite all the rain in my eyes."
"I think I ran pretty well despite all the rain in my eyes," Bradley said. "But running a faster time in that kind of conditions was pretty good."
KENDRA BRADLEY
Sophomore sprinter
Bradley admitted that she is terrified of thunderstorms, but that once the gun went off, her focus shifted toward the race and not the rain.
Although Anderson, Howard, Dorsey and Bradley got the victory, Howard said it was disappointing that they were just sixth-tenths
of a second off from qualifying for the Midwest Regionals.
"We'll just have to get it at conference," Howard said.
With the Big 12 Outdoor Conference Championships in Lubbock, Texas, two weeks away, it's uncertain if the team will try to have a meet in that time, but what is certain is wanting to be prepared to race ready.
"The only thing we can do is probably more race-simulated workouts and have them try to be sharp." Red-wine said. "We don't want them to get rusty; we just have to change their workouts and hopefully keep
them sharp."
While the rest of the team was in Arkansas dealing with severe weather, junior Lauren Bonds headed to Palo Alto, Calif., to compete at the Peyton Jordan Invitational in the 1,500-meter run.
Bonds took ninth overall in her heat and her time of 4:20.95 is the third best time in the 1,500-meter run event for Kansas.
— Edited by Sam Speer
O'Hair avenges Bay Hill collapse
PGA
After losing his five-shot lead at Bay Hill, Sean O'Hair wins Quail Hollow Championship
BY DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
Sean O'Hair watches his tee shot on the third hole during the final round of the Quail Hollow Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Over who?" O'Hair replied.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Standing on the 18th tee, Sean O'Hair asked his caddie where he stood in the Quail Hollow Championship and got word that he had a one-shot lead.
It wasn't Tiger Woods. It might not have mattered.
Five weeks after blowing a five-shot lead at Bay Hill against the world's No. 1 player, O'Hair was determined to keep putting himself in contention until he figured out how to win down the stretch.
That time came Sunday against one of the strongest fields of the year, with Woods in his rearview mirror.
O'Hair, 26, closed with a 3-under 69 — the only player from the last nine groups to break 70 — and made enough key birdies that finishing with consecutive bogeys on the two toughest holes at Quail Hollow didn't cost him.
He wound up with a one-shot victory over Lucas Glover and Bubba Watson to become only the third player in his 20s with at least three PGA Tour vico-
over the firm green and his birdie chip turned away to the left. He closed with a 71 to join Watson (70) in a tie for second.
ries. The others are Sergio Garcia and Adam Scott.
"Losing (stunk) at Bay Hill," O'Hair said. "Even though it's tough to lose like that, to lose a five-shot lead against Tiger, you still learn from it. I talked to my coach. I talked
to my caddie, Paul (Tesori). And we just all said all I have to do is keep putting myself in those situations, and at some point I'm going to learn how to win. It's just nice to win as quickly as I did after Bay Hill."
"Even though it's tough to lose like that, to lose a five-shot lead against Tiger, you still learn from it."
O'Hair took the outright lead with a two-putt birdie from 70 feet on the 15th, then seized control with an 8-iron to 8 feet for birdie on the 16th hole, allowing him some room for error on the frightening finishing holes.
"I just hit it as hard as I could and tried to flight it," O'Hair said, "and hit really a perfect golf shot."
Glover, who bogeyed the par-3 17th, had a chance to force a playoff until his approach bounded
Woods struggled with his game throughout the final round, but he still had a chance to tie for the lead when he drove the par-4 14th green and had an eagle put from just inside 25 feet. He threw
putted for par, then failed to birdie the par-5 15th. Woods finished with 10 straight pars for a 72 to finish alone in fourth, two shots behind.
"I had my opportunity there at 14. I made a mistake there," Woods said. "I knew the green was baked out. It was downwind, and I didn't heed my own warning, and ended up putting too hard."
Watson, who has never won on the PGA Tour or Nationwide Tour, was atop the leaderboard for most of the back nine until he couldn't make the short putts required of champions. He missed from 6 feet for birdie on the 15th, and the same distance on the 16th.
Glover also missed a 5-foot
birdie putt on the 15th that ultimately cost him.
O'Hair allowed for a few nervous moments with a three-putt bogey from 25 feet on the 18th, one of the fastest putts on the course. He was spared when Glover's shot was too strong.
"I thought it was good, I really did," Glover said of his pitching
either wind or adrenaline, probably a little of both."
O'Hair, who finished at 11-under 277, will move up to
"He's got talent. We know that."
No. 12 in the world ranking, his highest position ever. He also earned $1.17 million, giving him just short of $3 million for the year, more than he has ever made in any one season.
Not bad for a guy who once traveled the mini-tours with his wife in a 40-foot bus, at times having to sit out tournaments because he couldn't afford the entry fees, playing others under pressure to make money to eat.
Now they have two children, with another one due next month.
makes this so sweet," O'Hair said. "It makes the hard work worth it, and it's just really nice to enjoy it with her, especially where we came from."
Zach Johnson, who had a two-shot lead to start the final round, imploded on the par-3 second hole with a triple bogey from the trees. He wound up with a 76.
TIGER WOODS Profesional golfer
"I think that's the stuff that
O'Hair recalls running into Woods on Monday at the Masters, eight days after the Bay Hill fiasco, nodding to a friend but grumbling under his breath at the reminder of what
went wrong
On Sunday, Woods hung around long enough to congratulate O'Hair, who was holding 4-year-old daughter Molly. O'Hair said Woods sent him a text message after Bay Hill with "some nice words,"after a delay of 1 hour, 54 minutes.
Woods had more for him on Sunday.
"He's got all the talent. We know that," Woods said. "We've seen how well he'll played. He's been through a lot off the golf course, and it's just a matter of time before all that settles in."
MLB
Nationals face relentless rain
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WASHINGTON—John Lannan was prepared to face the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Instead, the Washington Nationals left-hander waited out a nearly two-hour rain delay, then turned his attention to watching video of an unexpected
opponent.
Sunday's scheduledgamebetween the Cardinals and Nationals was posted by rain after a delay of 1 hour, 54 minutes. Lannan's start was pushed back to Monday night, when he'll face the
"I'm familiar with the (Astros) hitters, more so than the Cardinals."
"I'm going to go watch some video. I faced the Astros a couple of times — I faced them in spring training and I faced them last year. I'm familiar with the hitters, more so than the Cardinals," Lannan said.
Sunday's game never got started as persistent showers swept
JOHN LANNAN Nationals pitcher
Houston Astros in the opener of a two-game series at Nationals Park. However, heavy rains are forecast for Washington on Monday, so that start also could be in jeopardy.
No makeup date was immediately announced, and choosing one for the rescheduled game could be tricky. It was the last in a four-game series between the teams that marks the Cardinal's only
through Washington and never let up.
The grounds crew removed the tarp twice to drain water, once more to spread drying compound over the infield, then a final time
visit to Washington this season.
St. Louis had already scratched scheduled starter Kyle Lohse because of the wet conditions and replaced him with reliever Kyle McClellan, who would have made his first major league start.
"We decided (the field) was too dangerous to play on," said Mike Rizzo, Washington's acting general manager.
Instead, McClellan will return to the bullpen and Lohse will start Monday night at home against Philadelphia.
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