THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Chaser Ronell Sharp shoots the ball towards the hoop at the Quidditch World Cup on Nov. 12, 2011. The Kansas Quidditch team will host the Kansas Cup tournament this Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Shenk Sports Complex.
Kansas Quidditch to host tournament Saturday
GJ MELIA
@gjmelia
Kansas Quidditch will be hosting the Third Annual Kansas Cup quidditch tournament this Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. at Shenk Sports Complex. The 11-team tournament will feature two Jayhawk teams and other schools from across the Midwest, including Wichita State, Missouri, Iowa State and Arkansas.
The Kansas Quidditch program lost a large amount of seniors last year, and around 50 percent of Kansas Quidditch program members are new.
This will be the first game experience for some of the
new players, but they have come a long way since tryouts in September.
"We just kind of had to start from square one," said senior team captain and chaser Max Wallerstedt. "It can be frustrating at times because we have a pace for where we need to be going, and we've had to slow that down for all the new recruits."
Conditioning has been a point of emphasis leading up to this weekend's matches. Kansas Quidditch has traditionally been a running team — a team that relies on speed and fast breaks to power its offense.
This year's team is smaller compared to last, and is more
focused on defense. They have been targeting the cutting of passing lanes, and converting more fast break points out of their man-to-man defense.
"(All positions) need to be integrated almost seamlessly," senior beater Kate Cooley said. "You could have the best beater in the world, but if you don't have any chasers to back them up you're not going to win. It has to be highly integrated"
With this man-to-man defense, the Jayhawks will run a three-man goalkeeper rotation with junior Adam Heald, sophomore Austin Pitts and freshman Matt Dwyer. Graduate student and beater Samy Mousa is a key player for the team this year. A former
high school quarterback, six-foot-four Mousa will lead the lavhawks' attack.
In addition to Kansas,
Arkansas was ranked
nationally in the top 20 last
"You could have the best beaters in the world, but if you don't have any chasers to back them up you're not going to win."
KATE COOLEY Senior beater
year. Missouri and Oklahoma State were also ranked in the top 50 nationally. Those
three setup up to be the three toughest opponents for Kansas, but Wichita State presents a challenge as well. The Shockers upset the Jayhawks in the 2013 Kansas Cup.
"I'm going to make it clear to our team that we need put teams away, that we're able to put away," Wallerstedt said. "We need to perform throughout the tournament, not just in key games."
Seven teams of the 11-team tournament field performed at the Quidditch World Cup this past spring, including both Jayhawk teams.
The first Jayhawk team, Kansas Quidditch, will not take the field until 11:20 a.m., as they have a bye into the
second round. The Crimson Warhawks are the other Kansas Quidditch team in the tournament, and will play their first match at 10 a.m. against Oklahoma Baptist. The winner will play Kansas Quidditch.
The losers of each game will go into a loser's bracket, and the champion of the winner's and loser's brackets will take on each other in the championship game, beginning around 6:40 p.m. If the loser's bracket team defeats the winner's bracket team in the first game, there will be a second game to decide who wins the Kansas Cup.
- Edited by Emily Brown
The University of Kansas School of Business
and Department of Psychology
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Men's golf team finishes eighth at Badger Invitational
CONNOR OBERKROM
@coberkro
The Jayhawks finished the tournament with a three-round score of 899 (+35). They had no golfers finish in the Top 15 for the first time this season.
The Kansas men's golf team run of two straight top-3 finishes came to an end as it finished eighth at the Badger Invitational in Madison, Wisc.
Junior Connor Peck and sophomore Chase Hanna led the Jayhawks with a total score of 244 (+8), which placed them tied for 21st in the tournament.
Kansas will compete in the Sagamore Preview in Noblesville,Ind.,on Oct.13-14.
"It was a bad day overall." Kansas coach Jamie Bermel said. "We were late to the course because of mechanical problems with the van, to find Hudson got disqualified. I think the ruling bothered several of the guys as we got off to a bad start."
Kansas saw two freshmen start in Daniel Hudson and Gary Daoust. Hudson competed last week and had his second round disqualified after an incorrect drop.
Hanna regressed after tying for second in last week's tournament.
"We need to learn from this and do better at our next event," Bermel said.
Kansas finished ahead of five teams, but Bermel wasn't content with how things transpired.
Daoust, meanwhile, saw the first action of his Jayhawk career, finishing with a total score of 229 (+13), tying for 39th overall.
- Edited by Logan Schlossberg
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