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The University Daily Kansan
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Monday, October 6, 2003
Kansas ties A&M in overtime
Sean Smith/Kansas
Monica Brothers, Kansas junior forward, battled Annie Burnett, Texas A&M freshman defender, for the ball in the second half yesterday. Brothers scored her second goal of the season in the 57th minute of the game, which ended in a 1-1 tie.
By Nikki Nugent
nnugent@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Moral victories are not enough for Kansas goalkeeper Meghan Miller.
After Friday's 1-0 defeat to Texas, Kansas played to a 1-1 tie in double overtime against No. 3 Texas A&M yesterday.
"Moral victory keeps coming up," Miller said. "First we'll go with a loss is a moral victory, a tie is a moral victory and then hopefully, we can go as a win is a moral victory."
Kansas coach Mark Francis said he thought the team played extremely well against the Aggies.
"You tie the No. 3 team in the country and you'd think you'd be ecstatic," Francis said. "But I'm actually disappointed because I really felt like we did enough to win the game."
Both teams came out strong with an intense level of play. Bodies slammed into each other throughout the game, players went down all over the field and the referee showed cards to both sides.
The Aggies struck first in the 25th minute on a goal by Laura Probst. Probst put the ball past Miller from five yards out to put Texas
A&M up 1-0 at halftime.
Both sides questioned the referee's calls throughout the game, but Texas A&M's coach was the only one penalized until overtime. Aggies' coach G. Guerrieri was issued a yellow card with seven minutes left in the second half after disputing a foul call in front of the Texas A&M bench.
The physical play continued into the second half. Kansas' Monica Brothers tied the game in the 57th minute on an assist from Rachel Gilfillan. Gilfillan sent the ball from the left side to Brothers, who was alone in front of the Aggies' goal. Brothers, with just the Texas A&M goalkeeper between her and the net, put the ball in from five vards out.
As the final minutes of regulation ticked down, the Jayhawks were unable to finish a number of opportunities, sending the game into overtime.
"Monica did a great job," Francis said. "She kept her composure and didn't get frazzled, which would have been extremely easy to do in that situation."
In the 92nd minute, just over a minute into overtime, Brothers' leg got wrapped up by a Texas A&M defender, leaving Brothers nowhere to put her other foot but on the
defender's back. Brothers was issued a red card and had to leave the game. Brothers' red card was the junior's first as a Jayhawk. Brothers will have to sit out the next game against Iowa State.
Miller said the Jayhawks were building confidence as the season progressed.
"It's just disappointing for me to let the team down," she said. "Just what could have been if we had one more person on the field."
The Jayhawks played the rest of the game down one player. Kansas dominated the two overtime periods, but were unable to finish scoring opportunities, leaving the game tied 1-1.
"Every game we're proving to ourselves that we really are a good team and that we deserve to be out in the field," she said.
The Jayhawks sit at 9-3-1 on the season and 1-2-1 in the Big 12 Conference. The Aggies are now 8-1-2 and 1-0-2 in the Big 12.
Kansas travels to Ames, Iowa, to play Iowa State at 7 p.m. Friday and then to Columbia, Mo., to play Missouri at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Cross country teams place third, ninth
Edited Ashley Marriott
By Sean O'Grady
sogrady@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The members of the Kansas men's cross country team weren't smiling on the bus ride down to Stillwater, Okla.; they were focused on the task ahead. That focus paid off.
The Jayhawks finished third out of 25 teams at the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree on Saturday. It was the highest placing the Jayhawks have had at the meet under coach Stanley Redwine.
They defeated every conference and regional team in the race, including Oklahoma State, the top-ranked team in the region. At 117 points, Kansas was only 23 points behind perennial powerhouse Arkansas and 32 points behind meet champion Georgia.
"Our men performed well from our
"I felt so great about the race. It was a nice day to run. Our team had a really great performance."
Benson Chesang Freshman
top runner all the way to our bottom runner," Redwine said. "Anytime you have three runners in the top 17 and two runners in the top six, you have to be pleased with how your team performed."
The Jayhawks were led once again by freshman Benson Chesang. Chesang finished second overall, running the 8-kilometer course in 24 minutes, 9 seconds.
"I felt so great about the race. It was a nice day to run," Chesang said. "Our team had a really great performance."
Junior Chris Jones placed seventh; sophomore Cameron Schwehr, 17th; senior Dan Ferguson, 45th; and senior Brian Raggett, 58th, completed Kansas' scoring.
The men's team is now undefeated against Big 12 Conference opponents and boasts a 27-2 record.
In the women's race, Kansas did not fare as well as it had expected.
The Jayhawks finished ninth out of 19 teams, scoring 199 points. The 'Hawks finished behind Kansas State, which was eighth, by seven points. Big 12 rival Texas Tech took the women's team title with 93 points.
Collison injury ends season
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Former Kansas basketball player Nick Collison's rookie season in the NBA was over before it even began. Collision, now a Seattle Supersonic, never missed a game due to injury at Kansas.
At a press conference Saturday, the Supersonics announced Collison would undergo surgery on both shoulders and miss the entire season.
"It's very disappointing," Collison said. "I've wanted to play in the league since I was eight or nine. I thought I was there. and now I can't play."
Collison, the 12th pick in June's NBA Draft, was injured during a Sept. 28 practice when his left shoulder "popped out".
He said he was hurt when he was pushed down as he was going up for a rebound.
"It was an awkward movement, and I felt the shoulder basically pop out for a second and pop back in," Collison said. "I decided to shake it off and calm down."
He had another dislocation when reaching for a loose ball on Tuesday, Sept. 30. The next day the team decided to perform an MRI on the shoulder.
Collison said his shoulder popped out again during practice the next day.
Richard Zorn, the Supersonic's orthopedic surgeon, Richard Kirby, the team's
Collison
All three agreed that Collison should have surgery not only on his left shoulder but his right shoulder as well.
shoulder specialist and Russel Warren, New York specialist, all examined Collison's x-rays and MRI.
"Right now there's a laxity, a tendency for it to go out. If it goes too far, it goes beyond the cup portion of the joint and dislocates," Zorn said.
Collison will first have surgery on the left shoulder followed by surgery on the right a couple months later, but the team has not yet scheduled the surgeries. Warren, considered on one of the foremost experts on shoulder surgeries, will perform both operations. In April, Warren performed KU junior Wayne Simien's shoulder surgery.
SEE COLLISON ON PAGE 8A
Posting repairs
David Billings, senior general maintenance repair technician, pounded on the base for the south goalpost of Memorial Stadium Friday afternoon. An anonymous donor gave the Athletics Department a check to cover the expenses of replacing the goalposts.
Too many Memorials; football field needs name
Week in and week out Memorial Stadium is the best venue for college football in the Big 12 Conference. It's true, if you want the best college football experience in the Midwest, then head to Memorial Stadium.
This weekend's big game was at Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin where the Texas Longhorns handed Kansas State its second straight loss. Last week it was the 112th installment of the Border War at Memorial Stadium right here in Lawrence.
In two weeks it will be at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb., as the Cornhuskers host Texas A&M for Nebraska's homecoming game.
On Nov. 1 there's the Bedlam series matchup when Oklahoma State visits Oklahoma at the Gaylord Family-Okla.
Yes, count em' 1-2-3-4-5, five Big 12 teams their home games at a stadium named Memorial. It's a trend started right here at Kansas in 1921 when the oldest stadium west of the Mississippi was dedicated to soldiers lost in World War I. The Kansas version spawned copycats but eventually took a back seat to the other Memorial Stadiums on the plains.
homa Memorial Stadium.
Shane Mettlen
smettlen@kansan.com
Don't forget Missouri will try to rebound from a loss to Kansas when they host Nebraska at Memorial Stadium Saturday in Columbia, Mo.
Ask the typical college football fan what they think about Memorial Stadium and they will probably give you their opinion about the place the Nebraska, Texas or Oklahoma football teama
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call home.
But there is a way Kansas could distinguish its home from the others. Kansas should name the field.
Missouri's Memorial Stadium is home to Faurot Field, named after Don Faurot who coached the Tigers for 19 years. Texas added the name of legendary coach Darrell Royal to their Memorial
They can get away with it, but Kansas can't. Even Kansas State, who has the equally generic K-State Stadium, named the playing surface Wagner Field after a big-money donors Dave and Carol Wagner.
Stadium and Oklahoma honored donors, the Gaylord Family, when naming their stadium.
Only Kansas and Nebraska have a plain old Memorial Stadium. Nebraska is perennial power with five national championships.
Kansas could do the same and wouldn't even have to cheapen the whole thing by naming it after a donor.
Gale Sayers is one of the greatest football players of all time and he played college ball for the Jayhawks. John Hadl was an All-American while playing for the
The man is Kansas football. Plus, it's just got a ring to it: Fambrough Field at Memorial Stadium. Hopefully someday soon we'll see those words printed on the sideline.
Jayhawks and now is an associate athletics director. Both men would be worthy of having the field named after them, but neither is the right choice.
No one name is more synonymous with Kansas football than Don Fambrough. Coach Fam, as he is affectionately known, has been a part of five of the seven bowl games in the program's history as either a player or a coach. He also attends every Kansas practice and game, still today, at the age of 81.
Mettlen is a Lucas senior in journalism and sports editor.
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