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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY APRIL 27, 2009
ROWING Jayhawks fall to ranked Gophers in Minnesota
No.20 Minnesota was too much for Kansas rowing as the teams competed in St. Paul, Minn., this weekend.
The Jayhawks' fifth Varsity Four boat won the first race of the day,驶离 out the Golden Gophers by 1.4 seconds.
However, the Gophers dominated from that point on. Minnesota won all the other races, including a 17.5-second margin of victory in the First Varsity Four.
Kansas returns to action this weekend to host Kansas State, Oklahoma and Texas in the first-ever Big 12 Conference Championship. The event will take place on Saturday at Wyandotte County Lake in Kansas City, Kan.
Taylor Bern
SOFTBALL Club team splits first home series with K-State
The Kansas club softball team played its first-ever home games this weekend, splitting a two-game series with Kansas State at Broken Arrow Park.
Kansas won the first game 8-7 in extra innings but lost 4-0 in the second game. The team was coming off a two-game sweep of Nebraska last weekend in Lincoln, Neb.
Afton Gray, Fort Scott freshman, pitched all eight innings in game one, and Stephanie Blevins, Anthony junior, made several diving catches in the outfield over the course of the doubleheader and had a key hit in the eighth inning to help preserve the victory.
This is the inaugural season for the club softball team. The team is 3-1 this spring against other club teams and 3-2 overall. Kansas' next games are a rematches with Nebraska on Saturday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Clinton Lake Sport Complex.
Royals fall to Tigers in close pitchers duel
MLB
Detroit's Inge and Anderson continue success at plate as Kansas City strands 11 in scoring position
Detroit Tigers Josh Anderson, left, slides past Kansas City Royals catcher Miguel Olivo as he scores on a sacrifice fly hit by Dane Sardina during the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. The Tigers won 3-2.
— Andrew Wiebe
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Brandon Inge is back at third base, and it's paying off at the plate.
Inge hit a two-run homer and Armando Galarraga pitched six solid innings to help the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 3-2 on Sunday.
Inge connected in the second, driving a 1-1 pitch from Sidney Ponson out to left with Jeff Larish aboard after a single. Inge is hitting .323 with seven homers and 17 RBIs after slumping to a .205 average, 11 homers and 51 RBIs last year.
/ASSOCIATED PRESS
"He's back at third base where he wants to be," manager Jim Leyland said. "It wasn't his fault last year. It's just the way it worked out. He knows he's going to be in there everyday for the most part. He's comfortable and I think it's helped him a lot.
"He's in a good groove. I don't want to make a big deal out of his home runs. I just want him to hit the ball hard. If he does that, he'll hit some home runs because he's real strong."
Inge, who started 56 games at catcher and 33 at third last year, has reached base in 18 consecutive games, the longest streak by a Tiger to begin the season since he started 2005 by reaching in the first 21 games.
"I'm not even trying to hit home runs," Inge said. "I don't even think about the outcome. I'm trying to get prepared as the pitch is coming and let everything I worked on in this offseason take over, like the hand position and to take over naturally, not thinking about it about it all. I say the mindset is the best thing I got going right now."
Galarraga (3-0) allowed one run and three hits, struck out seven and walked five.
"It was tough." Gar拉瑶said.
"I'm not happy at all, too many
walks and getting behind hitters.
I'm happy because we won."
Jose Guillen singled in Coco Crisp in the third but the Royals left the bases loaded when Alberto Callaspo grounded out. Kansas City is 2-for-17 with the bases loaded this season.
Bobby Seay, Ryan Perry and Fernando Rodney held the Royals to one run and one hit over the final three innings to preserve the victory. Rodney gave up Mike Aviles' one-out homer in the ninth before finishing for his fourth save
in four tries.
Detroit went ahead 3-1 in the fifth. Josh Anderson, who went 3-for-3 and has hit safely in seven of his past eight games, led off with a single and stole second. Anderson moved up on Adam Everett's groundout and scored on Dane Sardinha's sacrifice fly.
"Over the course of the year, there are going to be a lot of one run, two-run games, so anytime you can manufacture runs it's huge," Anderson said. "Our pitching was phenomenal today. It was
great to get a win today because anytime you can go on the road for 12 days and finish above .500 (5-4) that's big."
Ponson (0-3) gave up three runs and six hits in eight innings. He struck out seven and walked none after walking 10 in 15 1-3 innings over his previous three starts. He threw 73 of his 107 pitches for strikes.
"I attacked the zone much better," Ponson said. "I got more strikes than balls. I just had one bad slider to Inge and it cost me
the game. It was up. I'll take this kind of start any day."
The Royals went 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position in losing the final two games to the Tigers.
"The bottom line is we've got to get the big hit," manager Trey Hillman said. "We've got to get the offense going and plate some runs. It's not just one guy. We're not clicking."
Royals catcher Miguel Olivo struck out three times, bringing his total to 17 in 38 at-bats.
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