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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013
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Caroline Patterson, a sophomore on the Kansas swim team, swims at a Feb. 2 meet against Arkansas inside Robinson Natatorium. This was first heat of the 200-yard backstroke.
Swim team faces Air Force Academy in first meet of year
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MIRANDA DAVIS
The Kansas swim team will head to Colorado Springs, Colo., this weekend to compete against the Air Force Academy swim team. This will be the first official meet for the Kansas team. On Oct. 3, the team competed in an intrasquad to kick off the season and get back in the water.
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The team will compete at 1 p.m. this Saturday. Standout performers from last week include senior co-captain Morgan Sharp, freshmen Allison Merecka, Leah Pfitzer and Lindsay Manning, and sophomore Bryce Hinde.
Hinde, from Fulton, performed well at a last Thursday's intrasquad with a first place finish in the 50-yard breaststroke with a time of
29. 82 and a first place finish in the 150-yard breaststroke with 1:42.79. This weekend, she would like a repeat.
Oakland Athletics right fielder Josh Reddick stretches but is unable to catch a solo home run by Detroit Tigers' Victor Martinez during the seventh inning of Game 4 of baseball's American League division series in Detroit on oct. 8. The Tigers won 8-6.
One of the goals for coach Clark Campbell is to get Hinde and several other swimmers to the NCAA championships this February.
"I would like to do the same, win both of my breaststroke events and if I'm swimming the IM [individual medley] place high in that event as well," Hinde said. "And hopefully take on the title for the meet against the Air Force Academy."
"I know that it's going to take dedication and 120 percent every single day to get there." Hinde said.
The team goes into this meet with a disadvantage because of the altitude differences between Kansas and Colorado.
This will be the first meet against another school for the large freshman class of swimmers.
This Tuesday was the last of the regular land workouts the team has been doing. As the season progresses, the workouts will move almost entirely to the pool, but at the beginning the focus is getting in shape.
After the meet this weekend, the next one will be at Texas Christian University on Oct. 17 in Fort Worth, Texas. The next home meet is Nov. 2 at Robinson Natatorium against Nebraska-Omaha and North Dakota at 1 p.m.
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Tigers rally past Oakland A's, Verlander set for Game 5
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DETROIT — Justin Verlander is again standing between the Oakland Athletics and the AL championship series.
But only after Max Scherzer — the man who supplanted Verlander as Detroit's top starter this year
— kept the Tigers' season alive with a relief outing to remember.
with a relief outing to remember. Scherzer escaped a major jam one inning after two fans reached out to try to reel in Victor Martinez's disputed home run, and the Tigers rallied past the Oakland Athletics 8-6 Tuesday to force a decisive fifth game in their AL division series.
game in here. Verlander will start at Oakland on Thursday night, almost a year to the day after he shut out the A's at the Coliseum in Game 5 of the division series last season. Scherzer was in line to start Game 5, but the 21-game winner came on Tuesday instead for his first relief appearance since the 2011 postseason. He wriggled out of a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the eighth inning and got the win.
"That was amazing," Verlander said. "He got himself in trouble and got himself out of it. That was pretty intense. I think all Tigers fans and Tigers players would have rather it be three up, three down, but it made for a great story, didn't it?"
Oakland hasn't announced a starter for Thursday. It is Bartolo Colon's turn in the postseason rotation, but rookie Sonny Gray could also come back on normal rest after a brilliant performance in Game 2.
We haven't decided anything vet, manager Bob Melvin said.
Playing catch-up most of the way in Game 4, the Tigers tied it first with Jhonny Peralta's three-run homer in the fifth and then on Martinez's solo shot in the seventh. A couple of fans attempted to catch Martinez's drive, and at least one of them bobbled the ball while reaching for it over the railing above the wall.
That prevented right fielder Josh Reddick from having any chance at a leaping grab. Reddick and center fielder Coco Crisp immediately protested, pointing up at the stands in the hope of a fan-interference call. But umpires upheld the home run after a replay review.
Gary Darling, the crew chief, wasumping in right field. He disagreed, even after the replay.
"I have no doubt I was going to catch that ball. When I looked at the replay, that's what I thought," Reddick said. "It's totally frustrating that a fan can influence the game."
"It was clear he was not going to catch the ball, so it was clearly going to be a home run," Darling said. "There wasn't any other evidence on replay to turn it another way."
Detroit manager Jim Leyland wasn't about to wait on a report
from the clubhouse for a replay of this magnitude.
"I usually wait for the guys to come out of the video room and let me know, but in this case, I went down there to look at it," Leyland said. "I was actually pretty relaxed because I saw the first replay they showed and I knew it was definitely a home run."
Scherzer came out of the bullden in the seventh and gave up a run, then ran into trouble again in the eighth. With the Tigers ahead 5-4, he allowed a walk and a double to start the inning. An intentional walk to load the bases followed, and Leyland opted to leave his ace on the mound.
Scherzer struck out Reddick, who swung and missed at what would have been ball four on a low, inside pitch. Stephen Vogt struck out too,
but pinch-hitter Alberto Callaspo's line drive to left nearly fell in before landing foul.
Callaspo eventually lined out to center.
"My number was called. I was ready," Scherzer said. "I was trying to warm up the same way, try to do everything the same way and think of it as a start."
Detroit, held hitless through four innings in a game of twists and turns, added three runs in the eighth on a wild pitch and a two-run double by Omar Infante that made it 8-4.
Yoenis Cespedes hit a two-run single in the ninth, bringing the potential tying run to the plate, but Joaquín Benoit struck out Seth Smith to end it.
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The draw extends Houston's unbeaten streak to five games, but the Dynamo (13-10-9, 48 points) were unable to close the gap on Kansas City (15-10-7, 52 points), which remained four points ahead of the Dynamo in second place in the Eastern Conference. Nielsen was tested early by the Dynamo.
Sporting KC, Dynamo finish in draw
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Will Bruin had a shot from the right box stopped by a sliding Nielsen in the second minute, and Nielsen got a foot on a Bruin shot from outside the right goalkeeper's box in the sixth minute.
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HOUSTON — Jimmy Nielsen had five saves, while Tally Hall had one stop and Sporting Kansas City and the Houston Dynamo played to a 0-1 tie Wednesday night.
Corey Ashe let loose a shot from 30 yards in the middle of the field in the seventh minute that Nielsen had to jump up and bat over the crossbar.
Aurelien Collin kept the game scoreleast at the half, clearing a Brad Davis free kick from outside the upper right box off the end line.
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Sporting Kansas City defender/midfielder Chance Myers, left, and Houston Dynamo forward Will Bruin, right, battle for the ball during the first half of MLS soccer game action at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston on Oct. 9.
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