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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 05, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Jayhawks look to continue winning streak in Arizona
STELLA LIANG
sliang@kansan.com
Hoping to continue its winning streak, the Kansas soccer team travels to Tempe, Ariz., this weekend to compete in the Sun Devil Desert Classic, an early season tournament. The Jayhawks will compete against Arizona Friday evening and host-team Arizona State on Sunday afternoon.
Arizona enters the tournament with a 3-0-1 record. The team earned victories in its first three matches of the season. Last Sunday, Arizona played to a 0-0 draw against Ohio State in double overtime. Senior forward Jazmin Ponce led Arizona with seven shot attempts. Junior goalkeeper Gabby Kaufman is the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week after the game against Ohio State and a 6-0 shutout against Riverside.
Kansas' second opponent of the weekend, Arizona State, comes in with a 2-1 record. The team defeated Stephen F. Austin in its latest match. Sophomore forward Cali Farquharson led the Sun Devils to victory with two of their goals. Farquharson is an impact player for the squad, having scored four of the team's six goals on the season.
omore forward Ashley Williams scored one of two Jayhawk goals. She was assisted by fellow sophomore forward Courtney Dickerson.
Arizona State is not an unfamiliar foe. Last year the Sun Devils made a trip to Lawrence on Sept. 2, 2012, for a game against the Jayhawks. After 110 minutes of play, including two overtime periods, the teams played to a 2-2 draw. Current soph-
The layhawks, who are 3-1 so far this season, look to continue their winning streak
Last Sunday, the lajhwaks introduced their new formation against Purdue, which gave the midfielders more room to operate.
After the game, coach Mark Francis said the team had not practiced the formation before, but executed it well. In the new formation, the team create smore offensive opportunities, giving the layhawks 23 shot attempts.
Also on the offensive side, the Jayhawks have been spreading the scoring wealth. Seven different players have scored in the first four games. There have been eight goals scored, with only senior forward Caroline Kastor finding the back of the net twice. Six players have also had assists on those goals.
Sophomore forward Ashley Williams crosses the ball during the first half of the match against the Arkansas Razorbacks on April 27.
FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
This weekend, there will be a new player wearing the Kansas uniform. Freshman defender Aurélie Gagnet from Montpellier, France, who arrived in Lawrence on Monday, will be a part of the team. Gagnet was not in town earlier because she was playing for the France Under-19 national team, which competed in the UEFA European U19 Cup last month. France beat
England 2-0 in the championship match.
The tournament this week.
The tournament this week
end will take place in Sun Devil Stadium. Kansas faces
Arizona on Sept. 6 at 6:30 p.m.
and Arizona State on Sept. 8 at 3:30
p. m. The fourth team participating in the tournament is Illinois.
Edited by Sarah Kramer
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Mariner's Morales sinks Royals with ninth-inning home run
Seattle Mariners' Dustin Ackley, right, is tagged by Kansas City Royals second baseman Emilio Bonifacio during the fourth inning Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo. Ackley was safe at second on the play as Mike Zunino took ball four during the attempted steal.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kendrys Morales hit a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to lift the Seattle Mariners to a 6-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.
Morales hit his 18th home run to straight away center on a 1-2 pitch from Aaron Crow (7-5) with Franklin Gutierrez, who had walked aboard.
The Royals used eight pitchers, tying a club record for a nine-inning game. Lucas Luetge (1-2) worked two perfect innings to earn the victory. Danny Farquhar worked a perfect ninth for his 12th save in 15 opportunities. Taijuan Walker, who became the youngest Mariners starting pitcher (21 years, 17 days) to pick up a victory in his major league debut on Friday at Houston, struck out two in the first inning.
his fastball touching 97 mph. Walker, a 6-foot-5 right-hander who was also a basketball star in high school with a 21-point average, did not allow a hit over the first three innings, but yielded four runs, four hits, a walk and a sacrifice fly in the fourth to tie the score. Jarrod Dyson's two-out, two-run single made it 4-4. Salvador Perez's sacrifice fly scored Eric Hosmer, who had singled for the first Kansas City hit. Billy Butler singled home Emilo Bonifacio, who led off the with a walk, for the first run.
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The Mariners, who had scored just four runs in losing their previous three games, scored four runs in the first four innings and chased Royals right-hander Ervin Santana.
Franklin Gutierrez's single in the third scored Nick Franklin, who had doubled. Brad Miller's sacrifice飞 scored Mike Zunino with the first run. The Mariners made it 4-0 in the third. Franklin laced an RBI-single to center, while Dustin Ackley scored on a wild pitch by Wade Davis. Santana failed to make it through the fourth, charged with four runs, seven hits and three walks in 3 1-3 innings, his briefest outing of the year.
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