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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SOCCER
Conference play starts for Kansas soccer this weekend
I STELLA LIANG
sliang@kansan.com
Familiar foes lie ahead, as the Kansas soccer team opens conference play this weekend.
Kansas is the only team in the Big 12 that hasn't played at least one conference game yet. The Jayhawks face the Iowa State Cyclones Friday in Ames, Iowa, and return home to host the Texas Longhorns Sunday.
Iowa State (6-5, 0-2 Big 12) started their conference season with a loss to Texas Tech on Sept. 27. The Cyclones had fallen behind 0-2 by halftime, and lost with the final score of 1-2.
Kansas ended the nonconference part of the schedule with a 5-5-1 record, which mirrors the inconsistency of play so far. The team looks to put that behind them and focus on the Big 12 season. Coach Mark Francis said that facing the same programs year after year, means the start of the conference schedule is like the start of a new season.
Sophomore midfielder and defender Haley Albert scored her first goal of the season in the 82nd
minute to give Iowa State its lone goal. The Cyclones also lost to Texas last weekend 1-3.
Iowa State is led in goals by senior forward Jennifer Dominguez. The team's goalkeeper, senior Maddie Jobe, is leading the league with 54 saves. Kansas junior Kaitlyn Stroud is second
in the league with 50 saves. Kansas has a 14-5 record against Iowa State and has won six out of the last seven meetings.
Texas (8-3-1, 2-0 Big 12) currently sits at the top of the Big 12 standings, alongside West Virginia. The Longhorns earned victories against TCU and Iowa State last weekend, and have won seven out of their last eight games, but have yet to win a match on the road. Against TCU they scored early, with their first goal coming four minutes into the game. They kept the lead throughout the match to shutout TCU 2-0.
Kelsey Shimmick lead the team with four goals. Eleven players have scored at least one goal, and six have scored at least two. The
Texas has a balanced scoring act. Junior defender Brooke Gilbert and sophomore forward
Longhorns boast a 13-3-2 record against the Jayhawks.
Kastor
The Jayhawks have most recently faced Santa Clara, losing 2-3. They could not finish a comeback started by sophomore midfielder Lia
na Salazar's goal with 17 minutes left. Eight Jayhawks have scored at least one goal this season. Senior forward Caroline Kastor leads the team with four, and Salazar is next with three.
Before the season, Francis said the team had the goal of winning the Big 12 conference.
He said that after the inconsistent nonconference season, with blowouts, shutouts and games he said the team should have won, they are starting to play like he expected them to.
Kansas will play Iowa State at 7 p.m. Friday and will host Texas at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Edited by Hannah Barling
Junior forward Caroline Kastor shoots against Eastern Illinois senior forward Ashley Streid during the first half of the game.
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CROSS COUNTRY
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Kansas runners lead the pack of the 5k race at the Bob Timmons Classic on Saturday, Sep. 1, at Rim Rock Farm.
Kansas Cross Country to compete in final home meet
DANIEL HARMSEN
dharmsen@kansan.com
The Kansas Men's and Women's Cross Country teams are set to compete in the Rim Rock Challenge on Saturday. The race will be the teams' second, and final, home meet of the year.
Both teams were successful the last time out, at the Bob Timmons Challenge, on Aug. 31. The men took first in the 6k, and the women took first in the 5k. The men hope to repeat their first place finish at last year's Rim Rock Challenge,
where they defeated No. 11 Indiana, Air Force and Texas Tech among others. The women will look to improve on their 6th place team finish a year ago.
This Saturday will provide a bump up in competition, but the layhawks are ready for the challenge.
On the men's side, juniors James Wilson, Evan Landes and Reid Buchanan had strong races last year, finishing 6, 7, and 8 respectively, at or around 24 minutes for the 8k. Senior Josh Munsch is expected to compete in his first race of the year.
On the women's side, sophomore
Saturday begins a tough stretch of meets for the Jayhawks: The ISU Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind. on Oct. 19, and then the Big 12 Championships in Waco, Texas on Nov. 2.
Hannah Richardson finished 38th last year in the 6k, and should lead the team again this year.
For more details on the race and directions to the course, visit kuhtletics.com.
— Edited by Hannah Barling
NHL
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Detroit Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk (13), of Russia, celebrates his goal with teammates against the Buffalo Sabres during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Detroit on Wednesday.
Red Wings open with 2-1 victory against Sabres
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DETROIT — Pavel Datsyuk and Mikael Samuelsson scored 36 seconds apart midway through the first period and the Detroit Red Wings held on to beat the Buffalo Sabres 2-1 Wednesday night in the season-opener for both teams.
Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard turned the puck over, allowing Zemgus Girgensons to score in his NHL debut with 7:24 left in the game. Howard tried to clear the puck from behind his net, but it hit Buffalo's Brian Flynn and popped over the net to set up Girgensons' backhander that pulled
the Sabres within a goal.
Howard made 19 saves in Detroit's debut in the Eastern Conference, playing an Atlantic Division game against the young Sabres.
Buffalo had a two-man power play for 1:31 early in the first period and for 51 seconds late in the second, but couldn't take advantage. In between those 5-on-3 opportunities, the Sabres were held scoreless on three power plays.
Ryan Miller gave up goals on the fifth and sixth shots he faced and finished with 32 saves.
He didn't seem to have much of a chance on either goal.
The Red Wings didn't create a lot of chances the rest of the game, but they had a goal waved off because Daniel Cleary was called for interference against Miller.
Detroit is hoping to start strong this season and finish better than it has the previous four years when it failed to get past the second round of the playoffs. The Red Wings seem to have a deep roster including a pair of newcomers, Daniel Alfredsson and Stephen Weiss.
outato, meanwhile, is rebuilding.
The Sabres played three teenagers: Girgensons, Mikhail Grigorenko and Rasmus Ristolainen. Buffalo selected Ristolainen, an 18-year-old defenseman from Finland, with the No. 8 pick in this year's draft. Grigorenko, who had five points in 25 games last season, and Girgensons were chosen in the first round last year.
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Samuelsson swiped the puck out of the air and into the net off a centering pass from Cory Emmerton 12:05 into the game. Datsyuk got a giveaway in the Sabres end, skated between the circles and backhanded a shot that Miller appeared to not see until it was too late at 12:41 of the first.
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