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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23. 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Soccer Power Rankings: Kansas at No. 2
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1. WEST VIRGINIA (4-0-1,
11-2-2)
Last time out: Defeated Kansas 2-0.
The Mountaineers are the lone team in the conference without a Big 12 loss. They are coming off of a perfect weekend in which they scored five goals and gave up zero. They haven't lost a game since the O-2 loss at home against Duke on Aug. 29. Senior forward Kate Schwindel and sophomore defender Kadeisha Buchanan won offensive and defensive players of the week, respectively, in the Big 12. WU was projected to win the conference at the start of the season.
Next Up: Oklahoma State
2. nansAS (4-2, 14-3)
Last time out: Lost to West Virginia
2-0
The Jayhawks are coming off of a losing weekend, but both losses came to top-25 teams, Texas Tech and West Virginia. Kansas did enough to win both games, but terrific goalkeeping them out
of the net. Coach Mark Francis said they are coming off of the best half they've played all season and if they can build on that then it will take them a long way. They have two games left, both of which are favorable matchups.
Next Up: Iowa State
3. OKLAHOMA STATE (4-1-1,
9-7-1)
Last time out: Defeated Oklahoma 2-1
The Cowgirls have won their last three games, but neither team is in the top three of the Big 12 standings. They haven't won a game on the road all season, which could pose problems when they travel to Kansas City, Mo. for the Big 12 tournament. They currently sit in second place in the Big 12, but that could change after this weekend's set of games against West Virginia and Texas, both of which are on the road.
Trending: Same
Next Up: at West Virginia
4. TEXAS TECH (2-3-1, 12-3-1)
Last time out: Defeated TCU 1 one of
The Red Raiders had one of the
toughest nonconference schedules of all the Big 12 teams and handled it very well winning them all. They have had a rough run-in with conference teams, but are still ranked higher than every Big 12 team besides West Virginia. They handed Kansas its first conference loss of the season and two of their conferences losses went into overtime. Their freshman forward Alex Marmureanu won Big 12's Newcomer of the Week after she scored her first goal of her collegiate career at Kansas.
Trending: Up
Next Up: Baylor
5. OKLAHOMA (2-2-1, 8-5-3)
6. BAYLOR (2-2-1, 8-5-2)
Last time out: Lost to Baylor 1-2
The Sooners have had a good season and beat No. 6 Florida back in August as well as No. 10 ranked Texas Tech Oct. 3. They haven't won a match since Oct. 5 against Iowa State, but they still have three Big 12 games remaining and still have time to turn it around. Unfortunately, two of those games are against top-25 teams in Kansas and West Virginia.
6. BAYLOR (2-2-1, 8-8-2)
Last time out: Defeated Oklahoma
2-1
Trending: Down Next Up: Texas
The Bears are coming off of a victory in a makeup game in Norman, Okla. against the Sooners, but before that they haven't won a game since late September, which was against the Big 12's last place team Iowa State. They still have the hardest portion of their schedule ahead of them in matchups against Texas Tech and West Virginia, both on the road where they have a below .500 winning percentage.
Trending: Same Next Up: at Texas Tech
7. TCU (1-3-3, 8-6-3)
7. TCU (1-3-3, 8-6-3)
Last time out: Lost to Texas Tech
0-1
With only one game to go on their schedule, it looks like the Horned Frogs will not be finishing conference play with a winning record. Their only win came against Texas last Friday, Oct. 17. The victory marked the team's first win in nearly a month when they defeated North Texas on Sept. 21.
Trending: Same
Next Up: at Iowa State
8. TEXAS (2-3, 8-6-2)
Last time out: Defeated Arkansas-Little Rock 2-0
The Longhorns only have one win against ranked teams this season. They defeated Texas Tech 1-0 way back on Sept. 26. They are coming off of a loss to TCU but a 2-0 shutout victory against 11-5-1 Arkansas-Little Rock. Texas has a better winning percentage on the road than at home so they could be a force during the Big 12 tournament.
Trending: Down Next Up: at Oklahoma
9. IOWA STATE (0-5, 6-9)
Last time out: Lost to West Virginia
0-3
The Cyclones are the only team in conference with a losing record and without a Big 12 victory. They have yet to find the back of the net during conference play and haven't been victorious since Sept. 19. They rank at the bottom of nearly every statistical category in the Big 12.
Trending: Down
— Edited by Logan Schlossberg
Next Up: at Kansas
Agents seize fake World Series tickets
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bogus World Series tickets worth tens of thousands of dollars, as well as counterfeit panties and other merchandise have been seized, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Homeland Security agents nabbed 126 counterfeit tickets before Game 1 between the Royals and the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Shawn Neudauer said the tickets had a $43,000 street value.
It's the Royals' first trip to the championship in 29 years. The World Series games in Kansas City are mostly sold out, although the Royals have sold a smattering of
tickets they'd held in reserve each day. Some standing-room only tickets are selling for as much as $400 on legitimate resale sites.
Three people from New York and one person from Atlanta were arrested in Kansas and have been charged in the ticket scheme, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said in a news release. Authorities suspect more sports fans bought bogus tickets from the suspects, and urged them to come forward.
Meanwhile, officials in Platte County, Missouri, have charged a homeless man with possessing 101 counterfeit T-shirts with trademark KC lettering, court records show.
Other counterfeit items seized by Homeland Security agents include baseball caps, cellphone cases,
sweatshirts, underwear and baby clothes, as well as equipment used to make the counterfeit items, Neudauer said. The value of those items wasn't immediately available.
Lindquist Press owner Eric Lindquist said he had no idea he violated copyright law when he printed a few dozen pairs of women's underwear with "Take the Crown" and "KC" across the rear for Birdies Panties in Kansas City. He said the design was hand-drawn.
Federal agents handcuffed him Tuesday and searched the Kansas City shop where he lives and works. Lindquist has not been charged.
"I was telling them that I have no interest in the Royals anymore or baseball in general," he said. "It was quite an education."
Neudauer said seized items are
Fans arrive at Kauffman Stadium for Game 1 of baseball's World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants on Oct. 21 in Kansas City, Mo.
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almost always destroyed, except in rare instances when the counterfeit trademark is removed from clothing before it is donated. He described the arrests and seizures
as "very typical" of a major sporting event.
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Ben Welle seeking repeat performance at El Paso golf tournament
The tournament features a 15-team field and is a par-72 course. Kansas finished fourth last year in El Paso, accumulating a three-round score of 854 (-10). Kansas is looking for its fourth top-five finish this season.
Kansas will compete in its penultimate tournament of the fall season this weekend in the Price's Give 'Em Five Invitational in El Paso, Texas.
In last year's showing, junior Ben Welle led the Jayhawks, tying for sixth and is looking for his third top-10 finish for the season. Welle is fresh off an eighth-place finish last weekend at the Sagamore Preview.
Kansas' lineup will feature senior Logan Philley, juniors Well and Connor Peck, sophomore Chase Hanna, and freshmen Brock Drogosch and Gary Daoust. The freshmen have regularly been rotated as Spencer Painton competed last week. One of the freshmen will partake in the individual competition.
"I feel really good about my game right now and returning to a course that I am familiar with and did well last year really gets me excited for Friday." Welle said.
"Ben was a huge help last year. This course sets up well for him and he drives the ball fairly straight," Kansas head coach Jamie Bermel aid. "If you can get the ball in the fairway there, you can take advantage of a lot of the holes."
The tournament will take place Friday through Sunday with each day presenting 18 holes.
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AN EVENING WITH
LAURA MORIARTY
7:30 p.m. Oct. 23, 2014 Lied Center Free admission Open to the public
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