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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
1B
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2002
Big plays lead to Kansas' loss
Senior wide receiver Byron Gasaway pulls in a pass under pressure from two Oklahoma State defenders. Gasaway was one of 18 seniors playing their last game at Kansas. He finished Saturday's game with 77 yards receiving.
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OSU offense rounds up 549 yards to secure win
By Doyle Murphy
dmurphy@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Josh Fields passed for five touchdowns, completed 11 of 19 passes and threw for 221 yards. And that was just in the first half.
The Oklahoma State sophomore quarterback tortured the Kansas defense throughout the Cowboys' 55-20 victory against the Jayhawks Saturday. His total of six touchdown passes eclipsed the old school record of four.
Fields will be the first person to say he didn't do it alone.
Junior wide receiver Rashaun Woods caught seven passes, including three touchdowns from Fields. He finished the game with 171.
game with 171 vards receiving.
"I don't know if it was anything I did," Fields said after the game. "I know that Rashaun and all those guys had a good game. Some of those balls — I was surprised that he even caught them myself. So I have to give up to them, because I just kind of threw it up then and they went."
"We knew we had some advantages. Josh did a great job getting Rashaun the ball."
ere and they went up and grabbed it."
Les Miles
Cowboys football coach
Woods would have grabbed one more if Kansas junior cornerback Remuise Johnson hadn't gotten him first, Woods said.
"I mean, the guy was holding me," he said. "I couldn't believe it. I think the refs were just trying to get the game over with, but that's okay."
Oklahoma State coach Les Miles said the Cowboys' receiving corps would give his team an edge.
"We knew we had some advantages," Miles told reporters. "Josh did a great job getting Rashaun the ball."
More than the touchdown record,Fields was concerned with another stat.
Along with Woods, junior tailback Tatum Bell and senior wide receiver John Lewis had touchdown receptions. Bell caught two.
"I was basically worried about total yards offense, because if we got so many
Cowboys lasso 'Hawks 55-20
SEE OKLAHOMA STATE ON PAGE 6B
By John Domoney
jdomoney@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
After finishing with a 2-10 record in his first season at the helm of a college football team, it might seem logical for Kansas coach Mark Mangino to take a couple days off before he looks for ways to improve his program.
But after Saturday's 55-20 loss to Oklahoma State, Mangino told reporters he would not take a vacation
until late February.
"For us the season ends kind of early, but that's okay," Mangino said. "We want to turn that into a positive by getting out on the recruiting trail and getting some work done in that area."
One of the positions that Mangino is likely to focus on in recruiting is defensive back. Cowboy quarterback Josh Fields threw a school record five touchdown passes in the first half. Fields tacked on another touchdown pass late in the third quarter to finish with six touchdowns on
17 of 27 passing for 354 yards.
Three of those touchdowns went to wide receiver Rashaun Woods who had seven catches for 171 yards.
Woods, who stands 6 foot 2 inches, continually used his size to his advantage against smaller Jayhawk defensive backs Bobby Birihiray, 6 foot, and Remuise Johnson, 5 foot 8 inches.
"At times it looked like playground plays," Mangino said. "We just made it
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SPORTS COMMENTARY
Levi Chronister lchronister@kansan.com
Coach needs more assets to build team
Since moving to Lawrence in 1997, fall has usured spring as my favorite season on Mount Oread. Orange and brown leaves race each other across campus, the temperature is perfectly mild, and basketball fever takes over the town.
As wonderful as this fall has been, though, the Kansas football team has been a blemish on the otherwise perfect season.
The Jayhawks stumbled to a 2-10 record in coach Mark Mangino's first season — one he would seemingly want to forget. After Saturday's game, though, Mangino said the team would take something from each of this year's games and learn from it in preparing for next fall.
After taking Mangino to task for not starting Brian Luke and not suspending players facing police charges in previous columns, I felt it was time to help Mangino by offering my suggestions for positives from each of Kansas' 12 games. Iowa State 45, Kansas 3
It wasn't a season opener to remember, but a few Jayhawks had decent first appearances, especially quarterback Bill Whittemore. The junior college transfer led the team on its only scoring drive after replacing an ineffective Zach Dyer. University of Nevada-Las Vegas 31. Kansas 90
Whittemore continued his strong play, completing 22 of 42 passes for 225 yards in his first start for Kansas. Junior punter Curtis Ansel averaged 44.6 yards on nine punts, including an 82-yard bomb that tied for third-longest in Kansas history. Kansas 44. Southwest Missouri State 24
Second-year freshman Greg Heaggans returned the opening kickoff 100 yards fora touchdown, which tied for the second-longest return in school history. Heaggans 195 total kickoff return yards set the Kansas single-game record.
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Kansas beats Baylor for first win in Waco
By Jason Hwang
jhwang@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Getting its first ever win at Waco, Texas, could have not come at a better time for the Kansas volleyball squad.
The Jayhawks won their fourth road conference match Saturday by defeating the Baylor Bears (9-18 overall, 2-14 Big 12 Conference) in a three game sweep (30-20, 30-22, 30-26). The team's ninth conference win is the most in a season in Kansas history.
Kansas (18-7, 9-7) snapped its two-match losing streak by not allowing a Baylor player, Tisha Schwartz, to register double-digits kills. This is the fourth time this season the Jayhawks have performed this feat. Schwartz, junior outside hitter, who was second in the Big 12 in kills per game, was held to eight kills and had 11 hitting errors in 34 attempts. Schwartz ended he match with a negative .088 hitting percentage.
"Coach has been down to Baylor four times, so it was nice to get him his first win in Waco," senior outside hitter Molly Seavuzzo said. "It was a total team effort tonight with everyone on the team doing their part."
Kansas freshman middle blocker Josiane Lima led the team with 12 kill. Sophomore libero Jill Dorssey, who led Kansas in digs for the first time since Oct. 23, had 11.
"Tonight's win was a good, clean win," said coach Ray Bechard. "With the exception of a few serving problems, we did everything well. It is very nice to reach some of these plateaus because it means we're making progress."
The Jayhawks play No.5 Nebraska at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the NU Coliseum in Lincoln, Neb.
— Edited by Christina Neff
Women remain undefeated
By Doyle Murphy
dmurphy@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team took another step in the right direction yesterday, but dragged its feet on the way out the door.
"They really outworked us in that first half," coach Marian Washington said after the game. "It was really good to see our young club come out the second half and take it up another notch. That alone makes us as a staff really pleased about some of the improvement we have been looking for."
The Jayhawks beat Fort Hays State University 73-56 to finish the exhibition season undefeated, but the Division II Tigers led 35-32 at halftime.
In their first game of the season, the Tigers looked like they were putting on a clinic rather than an exhibition. Fort Hays scored seven unanswered points in the final 1:55 of the first half. The run was capped by an offensive rebound and layup by Free State High graduate and Fort Hays sophomore Katie Rhodes in the closing seconds.
That improvement was no where in sight at the end of the first 20 minutes.
The Tigers pumped their fists and yelled to each other as they ran to the locker room, but it was the Jayhawks' turn to celebrate in the second half.
"We were saying to ourselves that they were going into the locker room like they have us beat," sophomore guard Aquanita Burra said after the game. "But we had to change our attitude and focus on what we had to do in the second half."
The Jayhawks have learned how to overcome first-half deficits by engaging in role-playing exercises, Washington said.
The preparation paid off.
Kansas opened the second half with a 19-4 run, making the score 51-39. The Jayhawks didn't trail again.
Guards led the way for Kansas.
Burras scored 11 points in the second half and finished with 19. The slower Tiger defenders had trouble keeping up with Burras. Most of her points came off fastbreak layups and drives to the basket.
"We ran our lanes," Burrasaid.
"We were trying to get those fast, easy points.
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KU guard Aquanita Burras drives past Fort Hays State guard Maggie Eck. The Jayhawks defeated the Tigers 73-56 in the exhibition game Sunday at Allen Fieldhouse.