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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER-28, 2011
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MEN'S GOLF
CHRIS NEAL/KANSAN
Senior Doug Quinones takes a chip shot just off the green Monday morning during the Kansas Invitational. During junior college, Quinones played every meet in the No.1 position.
Men's golf finishes 10th in Louisville tournament
LAUREN DRUMMOND
Idrummond@kansan.com
The men's golf team finished tied for 10th overall in the Cardinal Intercollegiate in Lousville, Ky., this week. The tournament was shortened from three rounds to two because of rain.
Junior Alex Gutesha, who shot a 73 in the final round, led the Jayhawks. Gutesha climbed two spots in the rankings during the last round to finish tied for 10th place. Behind Gutesha's strong final round, the Jayhawks also gained four spots in the rankings to improve from 14th overall to 10th overall on the last day. Their final score was 597 strokes, which
was 24 strokes behind University of Arkansas at Little Rock, who placed first in the tournament.
Kansas coach Kit Grove was pleased with Gutesha's play.
"Alex played solid," Groves said in a press release. "He hit 16 out of 18 greens in regulation. That's a super-high percentage, but he didn't do a lot on the greens. He didn't putt bad, but he didn't putt well."
The layhawks now have three weeks to practice and improve before their next tournament held in Kiawah Island, S.C.
Grove was satisfied with how his team played this past week, but he knows there is room for improvement.
"We're a lot better from tee to green than we've been in the past three or four years," Grove said in the release. "We're giving away shots on the green, and it's killing our scores. It's a lack of execution. We'll get back and practice. But 10th place is not what we're trying to accomplish."
Four other Jayhawks finished in the top 100. Junior Chris Gilbert shot a final round score of 74 to finish tied for 33rd. Senior Doug Quinones shot a final round score of 80 to finish tied for 62nd.
Junior Paul Harris and freshman Dylan McClure both shot final round scores of 76 to finish tied for 65th.
Edited by Jayson Jenks
Check out Homecoming activities and events for today and tomorrow!
Wednesday, September 28
Office Decorating judging 8:30-10:30 a.m. Participating Offices
Homecoming Tabling 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wescoe Beach
Chalk 'n' Rock 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wescoe Beach
Jayhawk Jingles Dress Rehearsals 6-8 p.m. Adams Alumni Center
Thursday, September 29
Homecoming Tabling 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wescoe Beach
Mural Contest 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wescoe Beach
Free Pizza provided by Pizza Hut Noon-1 p.m. Wescoe Beach
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Homecoming Food Fest 6-8 p.m. Adams Alumni Center Featuring lavhawk lingles
Women's golf shows progress even in disappointing finish
WOMEN'S GOLF
LAUREN DRUMMOND
ldrummond@kansan.com
The women's golf team finished fifth in the Marilynn Smith Invitational in Manhattan this week. The team had a collective score of 921 strokes, 30 strokes more than invitational winner Arkansas, at Little Rock.
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Sophomore Meghan Potee reads the slope of the tenth hole green at the Marilynn Smith Invitational in September 2010. Potee shot a 75 in Tuesday's final round of this year's invitational, and tied for 24th.
Coach Erin O'Neil felt like the team could have done better.
"Unfortunately, we didn't finish up as well as I would have liked today," O'Neil said in a press release. "Although, we did see improvement in certain areas of each players' games which is encouraging. We are a young group right now and the most important thing for us to do is to learn from our mistakes, continue to work hard and get better each day."
Sophomore Thanutra Boonrakasasat came up big for the Jayhawks by biring a three round score of 221 strokes. She finished tied for fourth place. O'Neil said she was pleased with Boonrakasasat's play this week.
"She stepped up to lead us with three solid rounds on a difficult golf course and could have shot even lower if a few more putts would have fallen for her," O'Neil said.
Five other Jayhawks placed in the top 50. Freshmen Nadia Lutter shot a final round score of 78 strokes to finish tied for 22nd and place freshman Gabriella Di-Marco shot a final round score of 79 to place tied for 24th with sophomore Meghan Potee.
Junior Audrey Yowell finished tied for 38th place after shooting a final round score of 77 strokes. Sophomore Michelle Woods finished 43rd and Senior Katy Nugent placed tied for 46th place.
The Jayhawks will play in their next tournament on Oct. 3, when they will travel to Columbia, Mo., to compete in the Johnie Ames Invitational.
"We have a quick turn around before heading to Missouri so we will spend the majority of
our time working on putting and short game," O'Neil said in the news release. "Old Hawthorne is a good test and we are looking forward to competing there next week."
-Edited by Adam Strunk
Jayhawks start prepping after needed bye week
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Having this bye week just before conference play, it gave us a time to actually figure out exactly what we want to do," linebacker Darius Willis said, "exactly how we want to attack."
After a blowout loss to Georgia Tech two weeks ago, Kansas had a week off to ruminate over one of the worst defensive performances in school history. The numbers are startling and sobering, but they also proved to be a rallying cry — cue another cliche — for a team in need of a spark.
The Jayhawks believe they've ironed out many of their ills in the 10 days since the 66-24 loss to the Yellow Jackets. It's a good thing, too, because they open Big 12 play on Saturday against Texas Tech, which has added a stout running game to what has long been a prolific pass offense.
Circle the wagons and rally the troops. The clichés rolled off the tongues of just about every member of the Jayhawks' football team Tuesday afternoon, and with good reason.
"It brought us together, this bye week, and showed us where we can be," Willis said.
Which is anywhere besides where they were two weeks ago in Atlanta.
Georgia Tech ran for 604 yards and seven touchdowns against Kansas, putting two players over 100 yards on a combined 10 carries. As a team, the Yellow Jackets averaged more than the 12 yards per rushing attempt, and quarterback Tevin Washington was so ruthlessly effective that he completed just
"Coach Shealy knows what he's doing," Opurum said. "He's going to allow us to bring more pressure, and that's what he likes to do. He likes to be an attacker on defense, and these next few ballgames, you'll see that, and we'll have a better ballgame on Saturday."
"We all know we're a better defense than we've shown," said Toben Opurum, who is tied for eighth nationally in tackles for loss, giving the defense some semblance of a bright spot.
Now, the Jayhawks get to face the nation's ninth-ranked passing offense in Texas Tech and a quarterback in Seth Doege who is putting up video game-like numbers. Two weeks ago, he set an NCAA record by completing 40 of his 44 passes (90.9 percent), five of them for touchdowns.
Hard to believe that it could be much worse.
Kansas struggled in season-opening wins over McNeese State and Northern Illinois, but nothing to that extent. And it's caused plenty of heat for first-year defensive coordinator Vic Shealy.
Coach Turner Gill wouldn't speak specifically about what has changed over the bye week, but he
four passes for 164 yards and two more touchdowns.
The Jayhawks are allowing an average of 282 yards rushing per game and 550 yards of total offense, both dead last in the nation. The pass defense ranks 102nd out of 120 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision, and it's only that good because teams like Georgia Tech have run so successfully against Kansas that they haven't had to throw the ball a whole lot.
"I think it was good for us to just kind of regroup," Gill said. "Now we have a pretty good idea what we need to improve on, what our strengths are, so I think it was good for us to have that time (during the bye) to sit down and really evaluate a little deeper."
Part of that has to do with the offenses — the Yellow Jackets are run-oriented; the Red Raiders rely on the pass. But part of it also has to do with the fact that what Kansas was doing wasn't working.
"That's hard to do when you're in the middle of the week and you have to prepare for a game," Gill said. "But I'm glad we had it and I think we did some things to improve our football team."
did acknowledge that playing time may be spread around differently than in the first three games, and that there has been an overhaul in the defensive scheme put in place.
While it's easy to hang heads and point fingers after the blitzing put on by Georgia Tech, Gill said he's noticed none of that in the locker room or on the practice field. He praised the few senior leaders for bringing the team together during the bye week — for circling the wagons and rallying the troops — and promised that the positive mindset will yield positive results soon enough.
"Our guys are resilient," Gill said. "They came back, they were eager to be taught, they want to be taught football. They want to know what I, what we, can do to be a better football team, and that's what you want to see. They came back here ready to work, and that's what you got to do."
REALIGNMENT
Pickens warns of Big 12 trouble if Missouri leaves
Oklahoma State billionaire booster T. Boone Pickens said the Big 12 is in trouble if Misouri leaves.
Missouri has been rumored to possibly follow Texas A&M to the SEC. In San Antonio on Tuesday, Pickens said
"we got a real problem" if Missouri doesn't stay in the Big 12.
The oil magnate has given Oklahoma State's football program hundreds of millions of dollars and kept vocal during the latest round of college realignment. Pickens also says TCU and Houston are the most sensible replacements for the Big 12.
The Aggies will begin playing in the SEC next year.
Five Big 12 teams are ranked in the Top 25 — which Pickens says makes it unusual that the conference is "falling apart."
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