1ZA • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2002 Women's golf team hopes to improve in Nebraska today The first outing of the season for the Kansas women's golf team was a tough one. The team's first tournament under coach Megan Menzel, played Sept. 6-8, resulted in a 14th place finish at the Unlimited Potential Baytree Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Today, Kansas tees off in the first round of the Chip-N-Club Invitational at the Wilderness Ridge Golf Club in Lincoln, Neb. The tournament will be played today and tomorrow, with 36 holes played this afternoon, and the final 18 completed tomorrow. The starting lineup for the Jayhawks will include seniors Jill MacDonald, Tiffany Krugel, Heather Rose and Kristy Straub, junior Jennifer Bawanan and freshman Chelsey Pryor. This will be Pryor's first competition with the team. Freshmen Kendall Schwerman and Tiffany Woods made their debuts at the Baytree Classic. MacDonald leads the team after one tournament with a 78.33 season-stroke average per 18 holes. She had the Jayhawks' best individual finish at the Baytree Classic tied for 39th place. Straub tied for 65th place and Rose tied for 109th place. "Our main goal is just to get better each round and mix up the lineup a little bit to get some good play out of a lot of people." Menzel said. "We want to get a little chemistry going within the team." Ryan Greene Men's golf squad plays Ohio tournament Last spring, the Kansas men's golf team fell one stroke short of a birth in the NCAA finals. Starting today, they look to pick up where they left off. This morning is the opening round of the Inverness Intercollegiate Invitational at the Inverness Golf Club in Toledo, Ohio. The first two 18-hole rounds will take place this morning and this afternoon, and the final round will be played tomorrow morning. The team lost two of its starters. Casey Harbour and Travis Hurst, from last year's team, and will look to fill those shoes today. Lone senior Chris Marshall was named a member of the First- Team All-Big 12 last year and was an All-American honorable mention. Sophomores Pete Krsnich and Jason Sigler will make their first competitive appearances as members of the team. Senior Chris Marshall and, junior Tyler Hall and sophomore Andrew Price will round out today's lineup. Marshall leads the young and talented squad with a career stroke average of 73.55 per 18 holes in 33 career events. Kansas State is the only other Big 12 team who will be competing. The 15-team field will include Oklahoma State, who was the cochampion at the 2002 NCAA Central Regional. The layhawks were originally scheduled for competition at the 2001 Inverness Intercollegiate last fall, but they were forced to withdraw from the tournament following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Ryan Greene SPORTS CALENDAR This week in Kansas athletics TODAY Men's Golf — at Inverness Intercollegiate, Toledo, Ohio Women's Golf — at Chip-N-Club Invitational, Lincoln, Neb. WEDNESDAY Men's Golf — at Inverness Intercollegiate, Toledo, Ohio Women's Golf — at Chip-N-Club Invitational, Lincoln, Neb. TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Volleyball — at Texas A&M, 7 p.m., College Station, Texas THURSDAY Soccer — Evansville at Evansville (III.) Tournament, 8 SATURDAY Football — Bowling Green, 6 p.m. Soccer — Oakland at Evansville (III.) Tournament, noon Volleyball — Oklahoma, 2 p.m. Free forAll lan is most definitely the hottest soccer player there is. Rachel, will you marry me? Yeah I was just wondering why Stover was cut from the spring football team. What's up with that, Al Bohl? Uh, yeah, Kirk Hinrich can party at my place any time. B I'm having a party, and you're only invited if your name is Kirk Hinrich. --lan is most definitely the hottest soccer player there is. Rachel, will you marry me? I just wanted to call in and say that I got a medium KU First t-shirt. Hahaha, you suckers. Have fun at the football game in your big, baggy t-shirts, girls. 图 Yeah, this is for all those people who are talking about how bad it is to diss on Mizzou in the paper. Um, yeah, if you're supporting Mizzou, you're at the wrong school. Ok, bye. --lan is most definitely the hottest soccer player there is. Rachel, will you marry me? I just wanted to say that Rachel Gilfil Guess what ladies? Not only is Boschee still on campus. So is Zerbe. - I'm at Broken Arrow park, and I thought I'd let everyone know that Mizzou sucks. (sung) it's all, and he waits and he waits and he waits, for a call from Kirk Hinrich. 图 Yeah, to the person wondering about the athletes and their sweats, I would just like to say that some days I choose to wear my gray sweats and not my blue ones. --- I think Gene Hackman should be our football coach. Thank you. APTOP25 图 My friend just mentioned a player on the Mizzou basketball team, and it reminded me how much I hate Mizzou. Mizzou sucks. The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through yesterday, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking. rank team rec pts pvs 1. Miami (58) 3-0 1,522 1 2. Texas (2) 2-0 1,419 2 3. Okla (1) 3-0 1,393 3 4. Tennessee 3-0 1,345 4 5. Fla.State 3-0 1,294 5 6. Ohio State 3-0 1,202 8 7. Va.Tech 3-0 1,153 9 8. Georgia 3-0 1,049 10 9. Oregon 3-0 1,006 12 10. Florida 2-1 869 13 11. So.California 2-0 844 16 12. Notre Dame 3-0 789 21 13. Washington 1-1 723 14 14. Michigan 2-1 673 6 15. Penn C.State 2-0 625 25 16. N.C.State 4-0 555 20 17. Wisconsin 4-0 475 18 18. Wash.State 4-1 471 11 19. Nebraska 3-1 462 7 20. LSU 2-1 361 22 21. Texas A&M 2-0 330 23 22. UCLA 2-0 247 NR 23. KansasState 3-0 225 NR 24. IowaState 3-1 154 NR 25. Colo.State 3-1 150 NR Rhode Island 82, Syracuse 79, Texas Christian 71, Hawaii 61, Miami 60, Marquette 46, Michigan 32, Saint Louis 29, Tennessee 21, West Virginia 19, Oklahoma St. 17, Minnesota 16, Louisville 15, Mississippi St. 14, Oklahoma 11, Colorado St. 9, Texas 9, Arizona St. 6, UNLV 6, N.C. Carolina St. 5, Massachusetts 3, Cincinnati 2, Gonzaga 2, Murray St. 2, Washington 2, Ball St. 1, Indiana 1, South Alabama 1. Listen to today's headlines on K-Talk with Meredith Carr only on www.kansan.com