Monday, October 9, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Senior forward Colleen Colvin fights the ball away from a Colorado player during the Jayhawks' final home game at SuperTarget Field. Kansas lost the game 1-0 yesterday but triumphed in Friday's game against Texas Tech 1-0. Photo by Brad Dreier/KANSAN
Final home loss emotional for senior soccer players
By Chris Wristen
by Chris Wristle
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The largest senior class in Kansas soccer history bid farewell to SuperTarget Field yesterday, but it wasn't on the happiest of terms.
Kansas lost 1-0 to Colorado on Senior Day, the final home game of the year, and fell to 7-7 for the season.
Colvin wasn't the only one who had chances to score. The Jayhawks had their chances, placing 9 or 17 shots on goal, but never converted.
"It would've meant a lot (to win), especially if I would have put one of those three shots that I had in," said senior forward Colleen Colvin.
"It's not like we didn't have opportunities to score," Kansas
With 12 minutes remaining, junior Natalie Hoogveld drove a pass across the front of the goal to Colvin, who slid for the shot but sent it wide to the left. Junior midfielder Melanie Schroeder dribbed around the defense and fired a shot just high and right of the net with six minutes left. Schroeder lofted a corner kick in front of the goal with three minutes left. Peterson deflected the ball and Hoogveld drilled a shot that was deflected by a Colorado defender.
coach Mark Francis, "Their goalkeeper (Whitney Peterson) played really well. She was a big difference in the game, but still, with one-on-one's with their keeper you should put those away and we didn't today."
Despite the loss, Colvin said Senior Day was still a sad and special farewell for her senior class.
"I got pretty emotional after the game." Colvin said. "This is it. It's the last time we get to hear the warm up tape and play in front of our fans and friends."
Each senior was recognized in a pregame ceremony and then all seven were inserted into the starting lineup and played together for the first 17 minutes of action.
The loss of the seniors, Johanna Larsson, Kylie Watts, Emma Di Cesare, Katie Lents, Meghann Haven, Lindsey Horner and Colvin, will leave large holes to fill across the field.
Haven and Colvin are the top scorers in program history and Di Cesare is a co-captain and was last year's defensive Most Valuable Player. Larson is a threat on offense and defense. Horner is the program career leader in game-winning goals with four, three this year. Lents is a co-captain and the emotional leader. Watts is a threat
"I got pretty emotional after the game." Colleen Colvin
senior forward
from the back, scoring five career goals as a defender.
Although Kansas lost yesterday, Friday was a different story as two seniors combined to save the day. After 88 minutes of a scoreless tie, Haven sent a cross pass to Horner who collected the ball and drilled it into the back of the net to secure the victory.
The Jayhawks stand 3-3 in the Big 12 Conference and a conference tournament berth, something Kansas has never attained, is still within reach. Their home games completed, the 'Hawks will have to earn that berth on the road in Texas.
Mets head to National League Championship
Colvin said she hoped her final days in a Kansas Jersey would lead to that appearance in San Antonio at the tournament.
"I'm looking forward to the rest of our season. We have some good games coming up," she said. "Hopefully we will get some wins out of it and get into the post-season."
- Edited by J. R. Mendoza
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The New York Mets didn't need any more late-lining dramatics.
They scored early this time, and Bobby J. Jones did the rest to finish off the San Francisco Giants and put the Mets back in the National League championship series.
Jones pitched the sixth complete game one hitter in postseason history and Robin
Ventura gave New York all the offer it needed with a two-run homer in the first inning as the Mets eliminated the Giants with a 40 win in Game 4 of their division yesterday.
Jones limited the Giants to a clean, fifth-inning double by Jeff Kent, helping the wild card Mets win the final three games of the series and avoid a cross-country trip and a decisive Game 5 in San Francisco.
Bonds dropped to 0-5 in playoff series — three with Pittsburgh, two with the Giants — with a .196 batting average overall. Fittingly, the three-time MVP made the final out of the series, hitting a fly ball to center field that left him 3-for-17 against the Mets.
The Giants (97-65), who finished with the best record in the majors, had their magical season end with a whimper, in part because Barry Bonds was a postseason bust again.
New York earned themselves two days off before opening the National League Championship Series in St. Louis on Wednesday. The Mets were 6-3 against the Cardinals this season.
Jones, in his first career postseason start, made quite a name for himself.
Known as much for being one of two Bobby Joneses on the Mets as for his own pitching.
Jones etched his place in Mets postseason history.
Shea Stadium still felt the electricity of Saturday night's 13-inning 3-2 Mets win. Fans chanted Benny Agbayani's name as he stretched before the game, about 18 hours after his homer had brought the Mets one win away from the National League
Championship Series.
That used New York's fifth straight
That was New York's fifth straight postseason win in the last at-bat, including a 5-4, 10-inning victory in Game 2 at San Francisco.
Mets fans didn't need to wait as long this game. Jones struck out Bonds on a high fastball to end the first, drawing an ovation from a crowd ady for another celebration.
ing an ovation from a crowd ready for another celebration.
Ventura gave them much more to have shown in the bottom half. After
Mark Gardner walked Mike Piazza with two outs, Ventura turned on a first-pitch fastball and hit it off the scoreboard in right field.
bar and infirm the scoreboard Ventura, who had been just 1-for-12 in the series, rounded the bases as fireworks shot up behind the center-field fence and fans threw confetti from the upper deck. The Mets poured out of the dugout to greet Ventura, a team leader who had struggled much of this season.
After struggling to a 1-3 record with a 10.19 ERA after eight starts, Jones was banished to the minors. He returned two weeks later and won 10 of his final 13 decisions.
Jones wasn't even certain to start in this series. Manager Bobby Valentine toyed with the idea of starting Mike Hampton on three days' rest or using left-hander Glendon Rusch in Game 4, but stuck with Jones.
Lindsey Horner, senior forward, throws her arms into the air after scoring against Texas Tech. Horner's goal was cause for celebration, lifting the women's soccer team against the Red Raiders 1-0 in Friday night's match. Photo by Craig Bennett (KANSAN)
Bennett/KANSAN
Soccer repeats split-game pattern
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Less than three minutes before the buzzer, midfielder Meghann Haven's cross pass found forward Lindsey Horner, who collected the ball, turned and buried it to the Texas Tech goal.
"We played a sloppy game today. We were lucky to come away with a win."
"I was glad. I definitely didn't want to go into overtime in this weather." Horner said.
The goal was her third game winner this season, but Horner didn't seem impressed with her own accomplishment.
"That's my job as a forward. So I'm glad to be contributing, I
Lindsey Horner
away with a win."
senior forward
guess," she said. "We played a sloppy game today. We were lucky to come away with a win."
really kind of got going," he said.
Francis said the cold weather, which was in the 40s, probably affected both teams.
really kind of got going," he said. Having split its last home games this season, Kansas (7-7, 3-3 in the Big 12) may have to win one more conference game on the road to qualify the Big 12 Tournament.
"It didn't look like either team
But the team is already determined to collect victories on the road.
"We've got a lot of tough games to play," Di Cesare said. "But there's no doubt in my mind that we can compete with anybody in our conference so long as we show up to play on any given day."
—Edited by John Audlehelm
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