THE UNIVERSITY OF DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY APRIL 17, 2020
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2009
SPORTS
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Chicago slides by in overtime
Twelve seconds into 0T, Blackhawks win first playoff game in years
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Calgary Flames goalie Mikka Kiprusoff of Finland, looks down during the second period of a first-round NHL Western conference quarterfinal hockey game against the Blackhawks.
CHICAGO — Martin Havlat scored 12 seconds into overtime and the Chicago Blackhawks won their first playoff game in seven years, beating the Calgary Flames 3-2 on Thursday night in the West Conference quarterfinals.
But Chicago got even with 5:33 left when Havalt scored on his own rebound after Kiprusoff stopped his initial shot from the right circle.
David Moss opened the scoring for the Flames in the first period, and Chicago's Cam Barker tied it in the second.
Mike Cammalleri gave Calgary a 2-1 lead about 4 minutes into the final period when he scored on a 2-on-1 break, taking a nice pass from Dmond Langkow.
After tying it up late in regulation, Havat drove a wrist shot past Miiikka Kiprusoff from between the circles to match the third-fastest overtime goal in playoff history, and send the towel-wave crowd at the United Center into a frenzy.
Game 2 is Saturday night in Chicago.
Havlat was 3 seconds off the NHL record of 9 seconds set by Brian Skrudland for Montreal in 3-2 victory over Calgary on May 18.
1986, in the Stanley Cup finals. J.P.
Parise of the Islanders scored in 11
seconds of OT against the Rangers
in 1975, and Chicago's Pit Martin
also scored at 12 seconds in 1972.
Kipruson finished with 25 saves, including one on Dave Bolland to
preserve the tie in the closing seconds of regulation. Chicago's Nikolai Khabilouin, who has a 22-5-2 regular-season record against the Flames and beat them in the 2004 Stanley Cup finals while with Tampa Bay, made 23 stops.
TEXAS TECH (16-23)
PITCHING
Sophomore right-hander Chad Bettis worked his way into the
weekend rotation earlier this season, and it paid dividends Sunday when he silenced Oklahoma's offense, which had produced the most runs in the conference. Bettis worked a complete game and the held The Sooners to season lows in runs (one) and hits (four). He will likely start Sunday against Kansas' Lee Ridenhour.
Bettis
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OFFENSE
Senior first baseman Chris Richburg leads the Red Raiders offense from the third spot in the
burg is second on the team with a. 338 average, and tops the Raiders with nine home runs and 37 RBIs. Junior outfielder
Richburg
Taylor Ashby
is a threat every time he gets on base, leading the team with nine stolen bases.
MOMENTUM
Rookie coach Dan Spencer has gotten comfortable with his team since conference play began. After starting 9-15, the Raiders have faced some of the top teams in the country in conference, but have held their own and managed a 7-8 record in the Big 12, with a big series win against Texas A&M two weeks ago.
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BASEBALL (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
caught by the first baseman, so he's late to the bag," coach Ritch Price said. "We work on it everyday and you just have to learn from your mistakes."
But that wasn't to say the Kansas division hasn't had its fair share of spectacular plays. Robby Price and Narodowski have been involved in 26 double plays. They turned one on Tuesday that could have been shown on ESPN Baseball Tonight's Web Gems, if it highlighted college baseball instead of the MLB.
"That was awesome, that was a lot of fun," Price said with a smile.
Not too many teams can say they are successful when they produce multiple errors. Kansas is no different. The layhawks' record when they commit two or more errors is 4-5.
However, Robby Price isn't too concerned with the defense this weekend. "We'll be alright, we'll come back this weekend and play like we have all year," he said.
Defense is the reason why freshman Jason Brunansky has seen so much time in center field. Brunansky has committed only three errors in the toughest part of the outfield to play. His speed enables him to take away potential hits.
This will be Kansas' first Big 12 road series since March 27, making the pressure on the Jayhawk defense even more intense. Kansas is only 3-7 in road games this year and hasn't won a Big 12 game on the road yet.
Ritch Price specifically mentioned his catch in the seventh against Creighton. Not making that catch could have made the inning a lot worse for the lajawhacks.
"They had a leadoff double and the next guy hammered a ball over Brunansky's head and he makes the great backhand catch in center field and takes a double off the board," Price said. "Literally, they could have had back-to-back doubles and nobody out."
"Our pitching and defense has been there all year, one inning is not going to affect what we do behind them," Robby Price said. "We just got to keep bringing those bats and hopefully it turns out well this weekend."
Edited by Justin Leverett
KANSAS (24-12) PITCHING
PITCHING
Of the six runs scored by
cleggton on Tuesday, only two were earned, which shows that the pitching is still as outstanding as it has been all season.
Texas Tech is
second to last in runs scored, so Shaeffer Hall, who pitched a complete game last weekend against Oklahoma State, might be able to repeat his performance on Friday.
OFFENSE
While it's easy to blame the
innings. The Jayhawk batters had plenty of opportunities to increase their early five-run lead. Texas Tech is also second-to-last in pitching, so expect Buck Afenir, who was 0-for-5 on Tuesday, to come back strong.
Afenir
It seems nothing can stop Kansas right now. The team is rolling with a six-game winning streak and is playing its first weekend series against an unranked team in about six weeks. Coach Ritch Price, however, won't let his team sleepwalk in Lubbock, Texas. A sweep against the Red Raiders, which is very possible, would give Kansas 10 Big 12 wins, the fourth highest number of wins in the Ritch Price era.
MOMENTUM
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Junior distance runner Lauren Bonds brings home first place in the 800-meter run Thursday afternoon at Memorial Stadium. The events were 800 to 10,000 meters in distance and hold the nickname, the "distance carnival."
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Several Kansas runners left Thursday's "distance carnival" with the prizes they'd vied for. Four runners took first and others gave solid performances in their events, which included 800- to 10,000-meter runs.
Bonds took first in the women's unseeded 800 event, running it in 2:11.67.
"It's always fun to run at Memorial Stadium," junior Lauren Bonds said.
She may have been shy of her season-best time, but Bonds said the race was good preparation for her main event on Saturday, the 1,500-meter run.
In the women's 5,000-meter run, sophomore Amanda Miller got the victory with a time of 17:24.15.
"It was good for today, but I wanted something better," Bonds said.
"This was good preparation; it's my first 5K of the season. Hopefully I go out at Drake and regionally qualify," Miller said.
Last year, Miller took fifth in the event coming off an injury from the indoor season. Miller said having another year of experience helped her to get first this year.
Junior Kellie Schneider and sophomore Kara Windisch won the 1,500-meter and 3,000-meter runs, respectively.
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The two employed some healthy competition to edge into the top three.
In the men's 5,000-meter run, freshman Donny Wasinger took second, recording a time of 14.34.11 and junior Bret Imgrout took third with 14:40.08.
"Brett was running really hard and I was running really hard and we kept switching off helping each other." Wasinger said.
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For Wasinger it was his first time running a 5K on a track and he was impressed with his performance.
"In high school we did 5K's on a cross country course and today I ran a minute and 20 seconds faster, so it was a pretty good run," Wasinger said.
Like Bonds, Wasinger will also be competing in the 1500-meter run on Saturday. He said he would feel a lot more pressure Saturday than he did running the 5K.
And as for the "carnival" as a whole?
"It was just as fun as an actual carnival," Wasinger joked.
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5,000 meter run (Men)
1: Donny Wasinger
14:34.11
Bret Imgrmard 14:40.08
Kaleb Humphreys
15:02.29
7: Zach Zarda 15:15.56
8: Nick Canario 15:17.69
15. Sean Proehl 1:56.01
13. Clay Schneider 1:58.77
41. Kaman Schneider
1:59.49
25. Levi Huseman 2:00.72
800 (men)
800 (Womens)
1. Lauren Bonds 2:11
3. Anna Barber 2:6.32
5,000 meter (women)
1. Amanda Miller 17:24.15
25. Mackenzie Abernathy
18:41.53
1500 meter (women)
1. Kellie Schneider 4:45.36
3. Megan James 4:48.21
4. Allison Knoll 5:06.89
Although they didn't continue their friendly rivalry, Kratovil wasn't too disappointed about it.
DECATHLON (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
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With Kratovil out, junior Jacob Breth was the hawkays' sole representation in the decathlon.
"I'm just glad he's healthy enough that he can finish," he said.
but it didn't so I just called it quits after I made a certain height that I wanted," Kratovil said.
Breth had a personal best in discus, earning third place with a throw of 38.99 meters, before having to face his worst event of the day, the pole vault, where he
"I'm pretty excited about it, I just wished it was a victory though," Breth said.
Breth finished out the decathlon in fifth place with 6,320 points.
"I think I have a pretty good chance, I definitely learned some things about myself from this relays that I'm going to work on for big 12's." Breth said.
However Breth bounced back in the final event, the 1500-meter run, taking second place in 4:38.67.
"It could have been better,but
The next time the two will compete in a decathlon is at the Big 12 Conference Championships, which will be May 15-17. Kratovil and Breth agreed agreed that placing in the top 10 in that decathlon was their goal.
"It wasn't that bad, but I 1d jump a foot under what I should've jumped," Breth said. "I switched poles right before one of the bars which ended in my downfall."
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finished near the bottom of the standings.
I'm happy with that." Breth said. "It's definitely not for everyone but I envoy it."
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