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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2009
BASEBALL
Ninth-inning single brings victory against Iowa
BY JOSH BOWE
jbowe@kansan.com
Zac Elgie may have come to Kansas instead of going to play professional baseball, but until Tuesday, Elgie, a freshman first baseman, hadn't had a memorable moment yet in college.
He had not had,a breakthrough game to prove to his teammates and himself why major league scouts were willing to draft him last summer.
Eligee two-run single with one out in the top of the ninth propelled
For Kansas, Elgie's emergence was better late than never.
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lowa third baseman Kevin Hoef fumbles the ball after Kansas Robby Price stole two bases in the seventh inning of the game at Duane Banks Stadium on Tuesday.Price went 2-for-5 on the day and also scored a run in the backhalf's 5-digit victory.
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Kansas 002 000 12 2 - 5163
Iowa 101 000 10 1 - 394
**Kansas** **AB R H RBI** **iowa** **AB R H RBI**
Lytle, Casey rf 5 0 0 0 Toole, Just ss 4 0 0 0
Berry, Bob 2b 5 1 2 0 Hoef, Kev 3b 4 2 2 0
Heere, Brian cf 5 2 5 1 Willis, Trevor pr/rf 0 1 0 0
Afenir, Buck dh 5 1 1 0 Ewing, Andrew ph 0 0 0 0
Thompson, Tony 3b 5 1 3 1 Muller, Kurtis cf 4 0 2 0
Waters, Jimmy lf 2 0 0 0 Brown, Nick dh 5 0 3 3
Faunce, Nick pr/ff 1 0 0 0 Cataldo, T.J. 1b 2 0 1 1
Eligie, Zac 1b 5 0 3 3 Keppler, Phil 1b 3 0 0 0
Lincoln, Joe c 3 0 0 0 Zeise, Chett 2b/3b 3 0 0 0
Stanfield, James ss 5 0 2 0 Durant, Ryan rff 3 0 1 0
Totals 41 5 16 5 McQuillan, Mike lf 1 0 0 0 McCool, Zach ph/ff 3 0 0 0 McManis, Dallas c 3 0 0 0 Burke, Dallas ph 0 1 0 0 Totals 35 4 9 4
E — Iowa: Zeise (3); McQuillan (5); Schreiber (2); Schatz (2) Kansas: Stanfield (1).
Pitchers
Kansas          IP H R E R BB SO
Sellik         6.0 6.2 1           1 1 0
Burk            0.2 1 1             1 1 0
Murray W(1-0)   2.1 1 2             1 2 0
lowa    IP H P R ER BB SO
Schreiber 5.2 9 2 1 0 1
Schatz 1.0 3 1 1 1 0
Turbull 1.1 1 0 1 0
Heim L (0-1) 0.0 1 1 1 0
Heim L (0-1) 0.1 2 1 0 0
Kansas to a gritty 5-4 victory against Iowa on Tuesday night. And Elgie can finally relax.
"It definitely feels good to get it out of the way and finally start seeing multi-hit games." Elgie said. "It feels good to get that off your chest and contribute to help the team win."
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Elgie went 3-for-5 at the plate, a career-high in hits with another career-high of three RBI. The final two are what sent the lavhawks back to their hotel happy. They came off a first pitch fastball that coach Ritch Price told Elgie in a previous at-bat to not lay off of again.
"Coach Price said you should be looking for that first-pitch fastball that you see in the strike zone," Elgie said. "I took that advice into the last at-bat and it worked out for us"
Following a game that saw Kansas and Baylor combine for eight home runs, neither team had an extra-base hit in Tuesday's contest. That's the main reason the Jayhawks had only five runs total while collecting 16 hits.
"I don't think I've ever been a part of a game where there was no extra-base hits before," Elgie said. "But 16 hits, I'll take that every day."
Five of those 16 singles came off the bat of sophomore right fielder Brian Heere. Heere set a
career-high in hits and was not retired in any of his five at-bats. As much as Heere was ready to talk about Elgie's clutch hit. Heere couldn't recall the last time he went 5-for-5.
"It was probably junior high or little league or something," Heere said, chuckling.
It was Heere's fourth hit in the top of the seventh that tied the score at three, setting the table
for Elgie's magic two innings later.
Heere raised his batting average to .360 after struggling to keep his average above .200 in February.
Heere said that before the game he had some of his best batting practice work.
"I felt really good in batting practice. I felt like I had a good batting practice session." Heere said. "I was just seeing the ball well and putting good swings on the ball."
But Heere was just as quick to turn the focus to Elgie. Kansas failed to produce in a couple of run-scoring situations before the ninth inning even started and Elgie's bat bailed them out.
"We didn't have very many clutch hits early on in the game," Heere said. "Then Elgie comes up and gets a really big hit."
- Edited by Chris Hickerson
WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Huskies cap perfect season with sixth NCAA title
BY DOUG FEINBERG
Associated Press
sixth national championship.
ST. LOUIS - With one final blowout, UConn grabbed the national title and a piece of basketball history.
Tina Charles had 25 points and grabbed 19 rebounds Tuesday night as UConn routed Louisville 76-54 and captured the Huskies
It wasn't just that Connecticut claimed another title. It was how they did it.
UConn won every one of its 39 games by double digits, an unprecedented run in college basketball.
Charles commanded both ends of the floor and Louisville, which lost badly to UConn for the third time this season, had no one who
could stop her.
Coach Geno Auriemma had said before the tournament that his junior center would be the key to UConn winning the title. A year after he benched her in the NCAAAs for inconsistent play, Charles delivered.
"I'm really happy for her," Auriemma said.
"I told Tina before the game,
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Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma is carried off by his players after Connecticut won the championship game at the women's NCAA college basketball tournament on Tuesday in St. Louis. Connecticut defeated Louisville 76-54.
Louisville (34-5) came into its first title game with little pressure. The Cardinals were big underdogs, bidding to knock off three No. 1 seeds on their way to a title.
"It's the big stage, our first time playing in a national championship game," Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. "The first five minutes was what I was most concerned about. We went back and forth and I felt really good about things. Then we started to rush some shots."
Leading by six, the Huskies turned up their defense. Louisville missed 18 straight shots spanning the half as Connecticut turned a 30-24 lead into a 19-point advantage.
Angel McCoughtry finished off her stellar career for Louisville with 23 points. Candyce Bingham was the only other Cardinal in double figures with 10 points as Louisville (34-5) shot a dismal 31 percent from the floor.
Busloads of Louisville fans made
With UConn's victory, the Big East also became the first conference ever to sweep the NCAA and WNIT championships in the same season. South Florida topped Kansas 75-17 on Saturday to win the WNIT, which began in 1998.
I said 'Sunday night you played against an All-American center and you played defense and you worked as hard as the best center in America and now you have to prove it tonight' and she did."
unbeaten teams, in 1995 and 2002.
She was 11-for-13 from the field, and fell just one rebound short of becoming only the second player ever in a championship game to have at least 20 points and 20 rebounds. Charles was named the outstanding player of the Final Four.
Maya Moore and Renee Montgomery each added 18 points for the Huskies.
The victory put the Huskers in the same class as UConn's other
the 250-mile trip to pull for the Cardinals, and even though the game wasn't sold out for the first time in 17 years, the matchup of Big East schools still had a raucous feel to it.
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