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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Number swap renews players' identities
KATHLEEN GIER
kgier@kansan.com
Going into her senior season, Aishah Sutherland made a change she had wanted to make since she came to Kansas. She switched from number one to number 11.
"I finally decided to finish with the number I wanted," Sutherland said. "It was my number in high school, it was my father's number, 11 was always the number I wanted to play with."
Junior guard Angel Goodrich played with a number three on her jersey until she came to college. When she joined the team, the number was taken, so, instead, she chose 23. But this year she returned to the number she identifies herself with: three.
"It grew on me. It's been a part of me. To be honest I felt lost without it." Goodrich said.
It was this feeling of identity that fueled a number change for
Freshman forward Bunny Williams proudly dons the number five on her jersey. She wears it in memory of a close friend who died in high school.
six players on the Kansas women's basketball team.
Sophomore guard Keena Mays wore the number five last season. When she arrived at Kansas she offered the number to Williams.
Williams' move gave Mays the option to pick another number.
She turned to junior guard Angel Goodrich for her number 23 jersey. Mays decided to return to her number from high school, the number of her favorite player Michael Jordan.
"He just is my favorite player, greatest of all time," Mays said.
The 5-foot-7 guard joked that the jersey would give her new power on the court.
"I am going to dunk from the free throw line this year," Mays
said. "Yeah, I can't dunk. I wish I could though."
Freshman guard Natalie Knight came in and chose the number 42 which sent sophomore guard CeCe Harper to 24 in a move that returned them both to their high school numbers.
The Jayhawks premiered their new numbers in their Late Night in the Phog performance last Friday.
Edited by Josh Kantor
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WORLD SERIES
Cardinals bullpen blows late inning lead in game two
Jason Motte and the St. Louis Cardinals' bulleen failed to hold on this time, allowing the Texas Rangers to tie the World Series at a game apiece.
With the Cardinals on the verge of winning the first two games, Motte allowed consecutive singles to open the ninth inning, and sacrifice flies by Josh Hamilton and Michael Young lifted the Texas Rangers to a 2-1 victory Thursday night.
In a virtual repeat of the opener, pinch-hitter Allen Craig put the Cardinals ahead with a seventh-inning single off Alexi Ogando.
After five pitchers combined for three innings of scoreless, one-hit relief to finish off a 3-2 Cardinals win in Game 1, Motte quickly got into trouble.
Ian Kinstler blooped a leadoff single to left in the ninth, just the fourth hit for the Rangers, and then stole second. Elvis Andrus singled to center, with Kinstler holding at third, and Andrus advanced when Jon Jay's throw deflected off the glove of cutoff man Albert Pujols.
Cardinals manager Tony La Russa brought in lefty Arthur Rhodes to face
Hamilton, who is hitless in 16 consecutive World Series at-bats dating to Game 3 against San Francisco last year. But the reigning AL MVP drove home Kinsler with a fly to right.
Lance Lynn relieved, and Young hit a fly to center that scored Andrus.
Motte took the loss, and Mike Adams got the win with a scoreless eighth. Nefiatal Feliz pitched the ninth for the save, walking Yadier Molina before striking out Nick Punto and Scott Schumaker. Rafael Furcal fled out to end it.
When the Series shifts to Texas on Saturday night, Matt Harrison starts Game 3 for the Rangers against Kyle Lohse. Derek Holland goes for Texas in Game 4 on Sunday and Edwin Jackson for the Cardinals.
Texas, seeking the first Series title in franchise history, has not lost consecutive games since Aug. 23-25 at Boston and avoided a repeat of last year, when the Rangers went to San Francisco and were beaten by the Giants 11-7 and 9-0 in the first two games. The Giants went on to win the Series in five games.
Associated Press
WHAT PLEATER COULD SURPRISE FANS THIS SEASON?
I'll go with forward Kevin Young, the transfer from Loyola Marymount. Coach Bill Self said Young has a chance to be a starter, and he will have plenty of opportunities to prove himself this season. With forward Jamari Traylor ineligible, Young looks to be the third scholarship forward on the roster, garnering him plenty of playing time. Thomas Robinson will be consistent, somewhere around 12 points and eight rebounds a game. The rest of the production down low will have to come from Jeff Withey and Young. At Loyola in 2009, Young broke freshmen records in
Coach Bonnie Henrickson watches on as the one-on-one interviews progress at the 2011 Big 12 media day at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. This is Henrickson's eighth season as coach. The Jayhawks look to improve on their 21-13 record of last year.
total rebounds (224) and rebounds per game (7.2). He's also played for the Puerto Rican under-19 team, so the experience is there.
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the moves were based on football, women's basketball was also affected by the changes.
Coaches such as Oklahoma's Sherri Coale stressed the strength of the conference that sent seven of its 12
KIM MULKEY
Baylor coach
our relationship has no value to him, and then he asks to sleep with me, the answer is: no."
teams to the NCAA tournament last season.
"When you play in a league that has the strength that the women's basketball conference or the Big 12 Conference and women's basketball has, you don't want to see that broken up for any reason," Coale said. "And that's not good
petitive stand point, it is even more challenging because of the strength that the southern part of the league has and how talented those teams are," Hendrickson said.
The Jayhawks feature seven players from Texas and one from Oklahoma. Hendrickson said the additions of
southern games would be more motivating for those athletes and would be a good opportunity for recruiting.
As the conference continues to change, the rivalries that have lasted through the existence of the conference will also be affected.
When asked about whether she
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"Our rivalry belongs in the Big 12." Henrickson said.
Tensions were highest regarding the decision of Texas A&M to leave the Big 12 for the SEC. The Aggies are the defending national champions and are predicted to
"If a man wants to divorce me and says our relationship has no
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey compared the abandoned rivalry with Texas A&M to an ended marriage and admitted that she did not want to continue the competition beyond the conference.
finish second in the conference despite the loss of two starters.
value to him, and then he asks to sleep with me, the answer is: no," Mulkey said. "We are not going to play them anymore, because they decided that playing us was not important to them."
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