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THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MLB
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Tampa Bay Rays' David DeJesus, right, shakes hands with on-deck batter Matt Joyce after scoring on a fielding error by Los Angeles Angels shortstop Erick Aybar on a ground ball by Rays' Evan Longoria during the fourth inning of a baseball game Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Tampa Bay snaps Angels' four-game winning streak
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Chris Archer pitched seven strong innings, David Dieses scored twice and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the angels 4-1 Wednesday night, ending Los Angeles' four-game winning streak.
- Archer (8-5) allowed one run and five hits while striking out five. For the fifth time in his last 10 starts, the rookie right-hander did not walk a batter.
Archer breezed through the first six innings, scattering three singles and facing 20 batters, only
two over the minimum.
Fernando Rodney pitched the ninth, striking out two for his 31st save. Garrett Richards (4-6) gave up four runs on seven hits and three walks in 3 1-3 innings.
DeJesus, playing his fifth game since the Rays got him in a trade with Washington, had two of the Rays' eight hits and drove in his first run. Ben Zobrist also had two hits and an RBI.
Dejesus led off the Tampa Bay first with a double and scored on Matt Joyce's sacrifice fly. In the fourth, Dejesus hit an RBI single off Richards' leg. The Rays scored
Mike Trout and Josh Hamilton opened the Angels seventh with singles. Kole Calhoun hit a sacrifice fly.
Trout had his 51st multihit game of the season and raised his batting average against righthanded pitchers to .332. He is hitting .333 against lefties.
three times in the iming, and an error on shortstop Erick Aybar put the Rays up 4-0.
Hamilton's single in the seventh extended his road hitting streak to a career-high 15 games.
Health becomes main focus during season preparation
CROSS COUNTRY
DANIEL HARMSEN
dharmsen@kansan.com
The University of Kansas Cross Country teams will host the Bob Timmons Classic at Rimrock Farm this Saturday to open the 2013 season.
The teams are looking to get off to a quick start in the first meet of the year, but most importantly, they want to be in peak condition when the championships come around.
Injuries plagued the teams last season, and coach Stanley Redwine said that the athletes needed to be more patient and to pace themselves so they could compete well at the end of the season and avoid injuries. The Jayhawks saw their poor health hurt the team at last season's league meet.
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"We were ready to go with the top five, but lacked a sixth, so if the fifth falls out, then you're really behind," Redwine said. Redwine added a large amount of freshmen in addition to athletes from Johnson County Community College for depth to combat potential injuries.
"We have 10 new people coming in, so we need to gel as a team," he said.
The men's team is looking to build on last year's success in the Big 12 Championships. The team placed fourth, but fell short of its ultimate goal to make Nationals.
Junior James Wilson races toward the finish line for the men's 6K run at the Bob Timmons Classic on Sept. 3, 2011. Wilson earned fifth place with a total time of 19:37.90.
Expected to be in that pack of runners is senior Josh Munsch and juniors James Wilson, Reid Buchanan, Conner Day and Brendan Soucie.
On the women's side, the University faces a loss of experience, with only one senior left on the team. To fill that void, the team is counting on the many new freshmen.
Redwine said that he expects the incoming freshmen to come in and contribute to the team, especially following the success of last year.
The newcomers had a lot of high
school success, but Redwine said that carrying that success over to the collegiate level on a consistent basis is one of the toughest things to do. The races that used to hold 70-80 people now have 300 people,
"We have 10 new people coming in, so we need to gel as a team."
with the competition including fifth-year seniors. Redwine said that there is a chance for some "shell-shock."
"Every meet that they run in
college will be, at the minimum,
equivalent to their state meets in
high school," Redwine said. "So
when you're talking about freshmen racing
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
men racing against fifth-year seniors, we just have to see how they interact with those people."
The only senior on the team, Natalie Becker, has a lot of leading
to do for the women. Junior Mady Rich will help lead the pack too, and sophomores Hannah Richardson and Sara Seiwald will be very crucial to the team's
success, as well.
The themes of the 2013 season on both the men's and women's side are to be patient and stay healthy, with productivity from the underclassmen being essential. If the Jayhawks can accomplish these things, it should be a very successful season.
Edited by Sarah Kramer
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