SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
3B
TUESDAY OCTOBER 21, 2008
INTRAMURALS
Delta Chi 1 falls to Beta A1 in flag football semi-final
BY NIKKI SCHENFELD
nschenfeld@kansan.com
In the final minute of the semifinal flag football game Monday night, Delta Ch11 players and fans could feel victory. Within 32 seconds, that chance at victory was taken away.
In the greek flag football semifinals game between Beta Theta Pi and Delta Chi, Delta Chi1 held
onto the lead until the final 28 seconds. Beta A1 had first possession in the game but on first down quarterback Chris Wolfe, Winona, Minn., junior, was sacked and later turned over on downs.
On Delta Chili's first drive, quarterback Andrew Dockter, Lenexa junior, threw a complete pass on third down to Ryan Hahne for a touchdown with a successful one-point conversion leaving
Delta Chi1 in the lead 7-0.
Wolfe ran for two first downs, and on the next play he ran the ball into the end zone for a touchdown. Beta A1 was unsuccessful on the one-point conversion leaving the score 7-6.
With two minutes left in the first half, Wolfe intercepted the ball from Dockter, but Beta A1 was unable to score a touchdown before the half ended.
Delta Chi1 started the second half, but on third down, Dockter was sacked by Cooper Merrill, Leawood sophomore, forcing Delta Chi1 to punt. In the final six minutes both teams were forced to turn over the ball on downs.
With 1:40 left in play, it looked as if Delta Chi1 was going to pull off the victory. Dockter threw a complete pass to Hahne on Delta
Chi's own 20 yard line. On fourth down, with one minute left, Dockter threw the ball into the end zone, but a Beta A1 player intercepted the ball and ran it to the 40-yard line. Wolfe threw a 40-yard complete pass to Merrill for a touchdown with 28 seconds left in the game.
The one-point conversion ended the game, 13-7.
"I was able to lose the tackler," Wolle said. "I saw Merrill get open, and I threw as far as I could."
Beta A1 will play Sigma Nu2 today at 5 p.m. at Shenk Recreational Fields for the championship.
"I'm really excited," Wolfe said. "Sigma Nu2 has a good team and a good quarterback but we'll be ready."
Edited by Becka Cremer
Patriots win 41-7 against Broncos
Mary Schwalm/ASSOCIATED PRESS
New England Patriots quarterback Matt Cassel hands off to running back Sammy Morris during the first quarter of an NFL football game against the Denver Broncos on Monday night in Foxborough, Mass. The New England Patriots finally dominated the way they did when Tom Brady was playing. Matt Cassel threw three touchdown passes in his best game since taking over for the injured quarterback, Sammy Morris rushed for 138 yards and New England routed the Denver Broncos 41-7 Monday night. Randy Moss caught two touchdown passes, doubling his total for the season but far short of his NFL record of 23 last season. New England forced five turnovers and finished with 257 rushing. For one night, at least, the post-Brady blues were shoved aside by a complete performance.
SWIMMING & DIVING
Jayhawks swim their way to a two-and-two split
Senior wins 50-and 100-yard freestyle
BY ADAM SAMSON asamson@kansan.com
Senior Maria Mayrovich led the Jayhawks with wins in the 50-yard freestyle (23.48 seconds) and the 100-yard freestyle (50.54 seconds). Junior Emily Lanteigne also came away with two first-place finishes in the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle events. The Jayhawk divers swept the diving events as senior Hannah McMacken claimed first place on the 1-meter board, and teammate sophomore Erin Mertz
The KU women's swimming and diving team went two-for-two on the weekend with victories over the Arizona State Sun Devils and Northern Arizona Lumberjacks. The most impressive victory on the weekend came with a 149-147 win over the 20th-ranked Sun Devils on Friday at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center.
won on the 3-meter board.
KU's two victories this past weekend helped them improve to 2-0 on the season. The team will look to capitalize on its 2-0 start with a tough dual meet ahead this Thursday at home against Big 12 conference opponent Texas & M&M.
In addition to the team win, the KU divers, including McMacken and Mertz, qualified for the NCAA Zone Meet in March. Junior Meg Proehli qualified for the Zone Meet as well with her first place finish on the 1-meter board on Saturday at Northern Arizona.
With an exciting victory Friday afternoon, the Jayhawks breezed past the Lumberjacks Saturday with a 197-107 win. Never looking back, the Jayhawks swept the entire field, winning all 14 swimming events and both diving events.
"The weekend was a confidence booster for us — especially at the beginning of the season," Proehl said.
MLB
Edited by Andy Greenhaw
Rays and Phillies to meet in opening game Wednesday
BY BEN WALKER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Game 1 is Wednesday night at
koooky Tropicana Field. And really,
Brad Lidge's only blemish this season came in the All-Star game. Turns out that loss means a lot more now.
Because of that one slip-up, Lidge and the Philadelphia Phillies will open the World Series on the road — against the Tampa Bay Rays, the team with the best home record in the majors this year.
who could've imagined this matchup back in March, when Rays rookie Evan Longoria homered off Cole Hamels in spring training.
One of the oldest franchises in baseball against one
"Just seeing them in spring training, my impression of them was that they were more like an American League lineup."
of the newest, linked by a single thread — a history of failure.
While Maddon was a coach with the 2002 Angels when they won the World Series, this matchup is full of newcomers. Of all the players involved, the only one with a hit in any previous World Series is Phillies backup outfielder So Taguchi.
The Phillies, the losing team in pro sports history, with only one championship to their name. The Rays, sad sacks since joining the majors with Arizona in 1998, with the worst record in baseball last year.
The Rays capped their turnaround by dethroning the Boston Red Sox 3-1 Sunday night in Game 7 of the AL championship series.
"Obviously, winning is the silver lining. We would have been happy to do it in four," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said hours before Game 7.
And while Fox TV executives might've hoped for something seemingly more attractive — say, Cubs-Red Sox — the likes of former NL MVPs Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard, along with B.J. Upton, Shane Victorino, Chase Uley and ALCS MVP Matt Garza certainly give fans a fresh look.
will have been off a week by the time they play the opener.
JOE MADDON
Tampa Bay manager
Oh, another theme coming this October: rest vs. rust. The Philles
Friendly rivals, too. While the teams haven't met in the regular season since 2006 and Rays reliever Trever Miller is the lone Series player who's spent time on both sides, the clubs see a lot
"Just seeing them in spring training, my impression of them was that they were more like an American League lineup. I thought their offense, they could pound the ball up and down the lineup. I was really impressed with that," Maddon said recently.
Maddon grew up in Hazleton, Pa., about 100 miles from Philadelphia, and admits he didn't root for the Phillies as a kid. Over the past few years, he's become more of a fan.
The Phillies have trained in the Tampa Bay town of Clearwater for more than a half-century and maintain a year-round fan base in the area that includes Phils Hall of Famer Robin Roberts.
of each other every spring.
"Ive always been a big fan of their MVP guys, but I liked Victorino also. He made a big
impression on me in spring training," he said. "The thing I didn't know about them is how good their pitching was."
Tampa Bay dropped the "Devil" from its nickname this year and played like a different team, led by a rotation of James Shields, Scott Kazmir, Andy Sonnastine and Garza.
The Rays went 97-65 to win the AL East, breezed past the Chicago White Sox in their first playoff series and held off Boston. Quite a feat for a team that had never won more than 70 games, and had finished last in every season except one, before this remarkable run.
Upton has hit seven home runs this postseason — after hitting only nine all year — and Longoria has homered six times in the playoffs.
That home run Longoria hit in March off Hamels, the NLCS MVP, seems like a long time ago. The Tampa Bay third baseman delivered a much more key hit in July — his eighth-inning double tied the All-Star game, and Kazmir outpitched Lidge in the 15th for a 4-3 win, giving the AL home-field advantage in the Series.
Lidge is 46-for-46 in save chances without a loss this year. That defeat in the All-Star game looms larger now, because the Rays play so well at home. Somehow, they figured out how to play the crazy caroms off the catwalks — some of those balls remain in play. Still, the Trop Shop remains a good candidate for baseball's first postseason replay.
After starting out the season as 200-1 long shots to win the World Series, the Rays have a chance to become the first club to go from worst in the majors to champs in a single year.
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