THE UNIVERSITY JANRY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008
SPORTS
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MEN'S GOLF
Jayhawks wrap up fall season in Dallas
Team claims 10th-place finish out of 12 teams as it battles the elements
BY BRYAN WHEELER
bwheeler@kansan.com
High wind and cold temperatures came as a surprise to the men's golf team as it traveled south for the Baylor Intercollegiate, the final tournament of the fall season. At tee-off time Monday, it was 38 degrees at Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas.
The team struggled in its first two rounds of the two-day event and would finish 10th overall. The Jayhawks went on to finish for a fourth-best third round on Tuesday but did not gain any ground in the 12-team field.
After two rounds, the layhawks were 40 strokes behind first-place Texas A&M. The two best individual performances for Kansas came from sophomore Nate Barbee
results
Baylor Intercollegiate:
T29. Nate Barbee,
(78-75-71—224)
T32. Andrew Storm,
(77-78-70—225)
T47. Walt Koelbel,
(77-80-72—229)
T58. Ian Anson,
(82-75-79—236)
T60. Blake Giroux,
(88-75-74—237)
and the team's two freshmen, Ian Anson and Blake Giroux. All three had scores of 75 in the second round. Coach Kit Grove said the weather and the team's mentality affected their performance.
"This game is so mental. Especially with the young guys," he said. "When they get going the wrong way, they think, not only am I playing bad, but someone else is playing bad."
In the third round on Tuesday, the weather improved and so did the players. Barbee shot a 71, leaving him tied for 29th place with a three-round score of 224. He had finished the second round tied for 34th place and nine strokes over par.
"It was a good learning experience," he said. "Going into the offseason we know we have a lot to work on."
Seniors Andrew Storm and Walt Koelbel recorded a 70 and 72 respectively.
Storm finished tied for 32nd place with a three-round score of 225. Koelbel finished tied for 47th place
with a three-round score of 229.
Anson finished tied for 58th place with a three round score of 236. Giroux finished tied for 60th place with a three round score of 237. Giroux improved through each round recording 88, 75 and 74.
"I'm really proud of Blake," Grove said. "He really struggled the first day. He fought back and shot a couple pretty good rounds for us."
"Our goal is to make it to regionals," said Barbee. "If we have a good spring season that is definitely a possibility."
The team will not compete again until the spring season when it travels to Kona, Hawaii, for the Hawaii Hilo Invitational. With improvement over the offseason, the team will try to make it to the NCAA Regionals.
Edited by Scott R. Toland
SPEAKER ESPN journalist to talk at Green Hall today
A national basketball writer will be on campus this afternoon to give a guest lecture at Green Hall.
Chad Ford, who covers the NBA and the NBA Draft for ESPN.com and ESPN Magazine, will speak at 12:35 p.m. in Room 104 in Green Hall.
Ford's lecture is titled, "When Parties Bring Their Jumpshots
to the Table: Sports and Conflict Transformation."
In addition to covering basketball for the worldwide leader in sports, Ford works as a law professor at Brigham Young University-Hawaii.
Ford, who has alluded to being a big Kansas basketball fan in some of his writings, will hold a question and answer session after he completes his lecture.
NFL
Player substance abuse cases come into focus
Case Keefer
Bumetanide, the diuretic that a handful of NFL players allegedly have been using, has been on the lengthy list of drugs banned from sports for decades.
DENVER — A designer drug it most certainly is not.
Banned for so long, in fact, that when news of the doping cases broke, a handful of
the nation's top anti-doping experts were sent scrambling to their dusty archives and the Internet for quick refreshers on exactly how the drug works.
Once they were reminded, they couldn't help but wonder how a substance so easy to detect and dangerous if misused could wind up in the systems of high-paid athletes.
Associated Press
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