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PIGSKIN
Football notebook
Players reveal potential during game against Rice
ASHLEIGH LEE/KANSAN
Tony Pierson leads the team out onto the field before the Sept. 7 game against the South Dakota Coyotes.
DANIEL HARMSEN
dharmsen@kansan.com
PIERSON AND BOURBON TO GET EXPANDED ROLES:
On Saturday, Kansas WR/RB Tony Pierson caught a 6-yard buttonhook out of the slot, bounced off a defender and turned upfield and down the sideline, outrunning the Rice defense into the endzone for a 72-yard touchdown. The play tied the game at 7 and was one of the few offensive highlights. Pierson caught only three other passes for 18 yards.
In limited time, Brandon Bourbon also gave Kansas a nice receiving threat. He caught two passes, one for 8 yards, and on his only rush of the day, he gained 6
Despite their successes, Charlie Weis is red in the face trying to get the two players more involved in the offense.
"I haven't been sleeping well since Saturday." Weis said Tuesday at a press conference. "Bourbon and Tony will have expanded roles — they can take a small gain and
turn it into a big play."
Running back coach Reggie Mitchell said, "the plan is to give [Pierson] as many touches as he can get — most will come out of the backfield."
WEIS PLEASED WITH SECONDARY, DEFENSE:
The only thing that could have overshadowed Ben Heeney's heroic performance at linebacker, with 18 tackles, two pass breakups and a sack, was the play Kansas got from its defenses back.
JaCorey Shepherd and Dexter McDonald each tallied three pass breakups, and McDonald and safety Isaiah Johnson added interceptions.
"Shepherd's extra year of experience and listening to [defensive coach] Dave Campo has been a big plus," Weis said.
Despite a few growing pains and
When asked about Dexter McDonald's play on the opposite side, Weis grinned and summed it up with just five words: "Dexter has big time ability."
COMBS, BOLTON, COX MAY REDSHIRT:
communication problems, Weis said the secondary has been as good as he has seen it since he's been here.
Weis said DT Ty McKinney "has a chance to be a really disruptive front line guy" and the other defensive linemen aren't giving up their positions, so he thought it best to look to the future and possibly redshirt junior college standouts Marquel Combs and Andrew Bolton.
"You want to [redshirt] a few of them so you don't dwindle in numbers." Weis said. "And those guys will be waiting in the wings, and that will bode well for the future of our program."
kd taylor Cox has a nagging hamstring injury and may utilize his medical redshirt. The NCAA will recognize this medical hardship. Cox has four games to try it out before Kansas makes a decision.
Edited by Chas Strobel
MLB
Royals collapse in bitter 5-3 loss to Cleveland Indians
The Royals dropped $3\frac{1}{2}$ games back of Texas and Tampa Bay in the AL wild-card race. The Indians remain a half-game adrift after the Rangers beat the Rays earlier in the night.
Then again, the Royals aren't accustomed to playing games that mean something in September. So even though Ventura kept the Cleveland Indians off the scoreboard until the sixth inning and departed with the lead, the inability of the Kansas City bullpen to hold on in a 5-3 defeat is what will stand out as the season heads toward its conclusion.
"You look at that game and their bullpen pitched better than our bullpen tonight," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "We felt like we had the right matchups and didn't get it done."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Indians finally got a run off Ventura in the sixth, and then tied
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The electrifying performance that Yordano Ventura delivered in his big league debut Tuesday night would normally be enough to help Royals fans feel better after a late-game collapse.
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the game 3-all off reliever Kelvin Herrera in the seventh. Asdrubal Cabrera's go-ahead double off Wade Davis (7-11) gave Cleveland the lead, and Michael Helpon's homer in the ninth helped to seal it.
"It happens sometimes," Royals catcher Salvador Perez said of the collapse. "We have to keep going, keep playing hard through the last day of the season."
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He erratically walked Bourn on four pitches to lead off the game, and earned a roar when he finally threw a strike to Nick Swisher. The roar grew when Ventura got him to ground into a double play, and reached a crescendo when he struck out Jason Kipnis to end the inning.
"Everyone knows I was nervous," Ventura said. "That's why I couldn't throw one strike. But thank God, I was able to make adjustments and get the next guy out."
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first inning. They added two in the third, thanks in part to Emilio Bonifacio getting into the head of starter Corey Kluber.
The Indians finally started to rally in the sixth. Swisher's single and a pair of two-out singles by Carlos Santana and Michael Brantley made it 3-1 and drove Ventura from the game — he received a standing ovation. Cabrera walked to load the bases before Ryan Raburn struck out.
It may have been a wasted opportunity, but Cleveland atoned for it the next inning.
"The hit batsman was crucial at that point with Bourn coming up and hitting a triple right behind it," Yost said. "Those are things late in the season in games of this magnitude you really want to try to stay away from."
"It's not always going to be pretty, but we have to find a way to get it done," Swisher said. "We have a scrappy group in here, and we're not done. We're going to keep pushing because we want this. We want it bad."
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