MONDAY,OCT.15,2001
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3B
Soccer team's ninth win sets new school record
Senior makes three goals in Colorado as Kansas wins two
By Ryan Wood Kansan sportswriter
All along, Kansas soccer team members said they knew that this year's squad was the best in school history.
Now.it's official.
The Jayhawks defeated both Texas Tech and Colorado this weekend, improving their record to 9-3 overall and 5-1 in the Big 12 Conference. Their nine wins are the most in school history, and the team has four games remaining in its regular season.
Senior forward Natalie Hoogveld
scored three goals against Colorado as the Jayhawks topped Colorado 4-0 in Boulder, Colo. yesterday.
Her performance marked the second time this year a Kansas player scored three goals in a game. Freshman forward Monica Brothers scored three goals in the Jayhawks' 5-3 victory against Oklahoma State on Sept. 30.
With the loss, Colorado dropped to 1-9-1 overall. The Buffaloes are 0-5-1 in the Big 12.
Behind a two-goal outing by freshman forward Rachel Gillfillan, Kansas had opened the weekend by edging Texas Tech 3-2 in Lubbock, Texas on Friday. All three Jayhawks scores came in the first half.
Hoogveld started her own assault against Colorado in that game's 18th
minute, taking a pass from senior forward Hilla Rantala and putting it past Buffalo goalkeeper Whitney Peterson. Four minutes later, Hoogveld was back for more, knocking in a shot on the right side of goal. Kansas freshman midfielder Stacey Leeper recorded her second assist of the season. Hoogveld completed her hat trick in the 60th minute, off of another Rantala assist.
Brothers finished the scoring in the 80th minute with her sixth goal of the season, scoring off of an assist by freshman goalkeeper Meghan Miller. Miller had three saves en route to her third shutout of the season. Hoogveld's three goals made her career goal total 17, extending her school record.
Coach Mark Francis said he was pleased at his team's refusal to back
"Going in to the game, we talked about playing consistent soccer for 90 minutes," he said. "For the most part, our level of intensity was really high."
down.
Texas Tech (3-11 overall, 0-6 in the Big 12) rebounded quickly, as Red Raider forward Melanie Brosnahan scored just four minutes later, tying the game 1-1.
Against Texas Tech Friday, Gilfillan started the scoring in the 24th minute, taking a feed from junior midfielder Brooke Jones.
Sophomore Lacey Woolf put Kansas ahead 2-1 in the 38th minute off of an assist by junior defender Nikki Wahle. The goal was Woolf's first of the season.
Gilfillan gave the Jayhawks breathing room in the 41st minute, scoring her second goal of the match. Kansas senior
midfielder Melanie Schroeder was credited with the assist, her fifth assist of the year.
The only scoring in the second half was a Texas Tech goal on a penalty kick in the 90th minute. It was too little, too late.
"We had some chances to score in the second half, we just didn't finish them," Francis said. "This is a tough place to play so we are happy to come in here and get the win."
get the win!
The remainder of Kansas' regular season schedule will be played at home, starting at 4 p.m. on Friday with a game against No. 10 Texas A&M at Super Target Field.
Swimming team splashes through busy intersquad meet
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By Jeremy Giles Kansan sportswriter
A combination of whistles, screams, cheers, splashes and an inaudible public address announcer created a teeth-rattling experience for those who attended the annual Crimson and Blue meet Friday night in Robinson Center.
The meet divided the Jayhawk swimming team in two, with sophomores and juniors swimming for the Blue team and freshmen and seniors competing for the Crimson. The meet featured a 16 events, but the team did not keep track of the score during the meet, focusing instead on individual marks.
The first event of the evening was a 400-yard relay. The Crimson team captured the victory
with a time of 4:00.24. The Blue team, finished with a time of 4:03.00.
In the 1,000-yard individual medley, sophomore Sarah Ross brought home the victory for the Blue team with a time of 10:32.80.
Senior Swimmer Carrie Kirkham said that the times in the meet weren't the best the team could do.
were the best we were all really tired from practice this week," Kirkham said. "So, we didn't make our best times."
After training in Clinton Lake two to three times per week since Labor Day only to have the lake race against Southern Illinois University canceled because of low temperatures, the Jayhawks have turned their attention indoors.
"We have stepped up our training week by week and we are looking for improvements in all events from last weekend," coach Cathy Burgess said. "The 16 different events provides us a chance to look at everyone on the squad in several different races."
The Jayhawks brought home a 116.5-88.5 victory in their first indoor dual meet at Southern Illinois University on Friday, Oct. 5. Kirkham led the team to victory with two individual wins. Kirkham was also part of the firstplace 200-meter medley relay team along with sophomore Shanell Salzman, freshman Miranda Isaac and senior Sarah Holke.
Although most of the individual swimming events weren't very competitive at the Crimson and Blue meet, overall, the score
between the teams was very close. The Blue team led slightly in the first half of the meet, winning four events, while the Crimson team took three, with neither team winning more than two events in a row. But, The Crimson team prevailed, pulling out a hard-fought victory from the Blue team.
The event served as a warm-up for next week's Big 12 relays in Columbia, Mo. Kirkham said she expected that the team would improve on its performance in the Crimson and Blue meet.
Crimson and blue shoes "I think we'll do really well in Columbia," she said. "We have a really good sprint team, so we'll do well in the relays. We also have a good freshman class, and they are really good sprinters, so we'll do well."
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Kristen Johnson, Wichita sophmore, swims in the 100-meter breaststroke during the women's swim team scrimmage Friday at the Robinson Natorium. Johnson, a blue team member, finished second in that swim.
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Women's golf prepped, eager to compete at home tourney
Bv John Domoney
Kansan sportswriter
Today, Kansas coach Nicole Hollingsworth will lead a team playing host to its first tournament in her three years at Kansas.
The Jayhawks are holding the Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational at Alvamar Golf Course. The tournament will begin today and finish tomorrow.
The tournament presents Kansas with an opportunity to play in front of its fans and defend its home turf against the 17 teams that have traveled to Lawrence to compete.
compete. "I've been here three years, and we've never played at home."
Hollingsworth said. "The fan support will be great and a lot of players have parents in. It's going to be a fun tournament for us."
Not only does Hollingsworth expect a cheering section, she said that her team also could reap the benefits of knowing the tricks of Alvamar's tricky holes.
"We've got some really good teams coming in here," Hollingsworth said. "For us it will be an advantage because the finishing holes on the back can be difficult. Hopefully we can have a good stretch of the last four holes because we've played them so many times."
Kansas is coming off its
appearance in the Women's Collegiate Shootout last week, where the team shot its two best rounds of the fall season. Hollingsworth said that performance showed her that her players were close to turning the corner before they head into the winter break.
"I think we're starting to see a glimpse of some good stuff," Hollingsworth said. "This week we have to play well in our home tournament and it has to come together for us."
One Jayhawk who is beginning to hit her stride is junior Heather Rose. Rose entered the fall as one of the players whom Hollingsworth was counting on
to lead the team with her performance and leadership.
Rose has yet to disappoint.
Rose has yet to enter Entering today's play Rose carries a cool confidence after she shot a career — and tournament — best 229 at the Women's Collegiate Shootout.
"Personally I'm very confident," Rose said. "My short game has really improved thanks to the awesome facility that we just got."
Along with Rose, the Jayhawks will be led by their normal starting rotation of juniors Tiffany Kruggel, Jill MacDonald and Kristy Straub, along with sophomore Jennifer Bawanan. Competing individually for Kansas is hun-
ior Jennifer Cassell and freshmen Lauren Phlegar and Meredith Winklemann.
Wickham
Straub is off to a slow start this fall, but Hollingsworth said Straub was lucky to even be playing golf after she had wrist surgery this summer and had to sit out during summer tournaments before returning to action on Aug. 1.
Hollingsworth hoped Straub could get off to a fast start today and finish well after she tied for 12th in last year's Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational.
"She always plays well at Alvamar," Hollingsworth said. "Hopefully this is the step she
needs to get in the right direction."
The tournament is the team's last until February.
Hollingsworth stressed that today's and tomorrow's rounds would sit with her players all winter.
"We have to finish well because with this tournament we have no excuses because this is our home track," Hollingsworth said. "This is all they'll think about going into spring."
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