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Kansas soccer out to pay back Baylor
The Jayhawks will play their first Big 12 Conference game of the season against Baylor today. Sophomore forward Caroline Smith said the team was more ready for conference play this year than it was last year.
By Nikki Nugent
nnugent@kansan.com
nnugent.sportwriter
The Kansas women's soccer team wants to taste sweet revenge.
The Jashawks take on Baylor today in the team's first Big 12 Conference game of the season. The team then travels to Texas Tech for a 1 p.m. game Sunday.
teens for The Jayhawks lost to Baylor in Waco last year 2-1 in a game they thought should have been a victory. Baylor finished tenth in the Big 12 last season with a 2-6-2 conference record. Kansas finished sixth in the conference with a 4-5-1 record last year.
Now that the Bears are coming to Lawrence, the Jayhawks are ready for redemption on their field. Sophomore forward Caroline Smith said the Jayhawks were more prepared going into conference play this year than last year. Smith said the Jayhawks owed Baylor big time.
"We never should have lost that game," she said. "We didn't show up to play last year."
She said the team knew the Baylor game was one of the big losses that prevented the Jay hawks from getting into the NCAA Tournament last year.
Kansas coach Mark Francis said the team was preparing for this game the same way they prepare for any conference game, but he couldn't hide the desire to beat the Bears.
Baylor is 5-3-0 on the season under first-year coach George Van Linder. The Bears have allowed 10 goals this season and have scored 18. Two of the team's victories were in close overtime matches. Baylor's schedule has not been as difficult as the Jayhawks'. Baylor has played no NCAA Tournament teams from the 2002 season, while Kansas has played six, losing only to Wisconsin.
"They beat us last year so we kind of owe them one," Francis said.
The Jayhawks broke into the Soccer Buzz Magazine college soccer poll this week at No.19, and the team received votes in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America for the first time. Now that the team is getting some national attention, Smith said she hoped it would lead to sureness, not arrogance.
lead to sureness, not arrogance. "Hopefully we'll be more confident and go into these games expecting to win." she said. "But expecting to play hard to win, too."
hard to win, 10,
Texas Tech is off to another
bad start at 1-4-1 on the season.
The Red Raiders play Oklahoma State today before meeting the Jayhawks on Sunday.
The team has scored only three goals, and has allowed eight so far this season.
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The Jayhawks meet Baylor at 5 p.m. today at SuperTarget Field and play Texas Tech at 1 p.m. Sunday in Lubbock, Texas.
this season.
The Red Raiders finished
11th in the Big 12 last season
with an overall record of 2-17-0.
Edited by Dave Nobles
QB sparks resurging Oklahoma offense
By Jenny Dial Oklahoma Daily via U-wire University of Oklahoma
NORMAN, Okla. — According to Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops, Jason White is the story of the year.
"As far as I'm concerned, Jason is the best story in college football," Stoops said. "He has just improved so much after being through so much."
had to beat Missouri to go to the Hall of Fame Bowl, and he had tore his knee up. He came in my office and wanted to know if he could play. I said I wouldn't let my own son play and I'm not gonna let you. Doctor said let
through so much. Anyone who has watched college football the past two seasons might agree, considering the harsh falls White took, tearing both ACLs. But the real story is the newfound maturity and patience of the quarterback.
"He is so focused on winning," he said. "He sees the field. He's patient. His maturity level is much higher."
His maturity level is high. While White has been a key for the Sooners' success in four nonconference games this season, he gives credit to the team.
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"A quarterback can't be great unless his team is great." White said. "The defense gets the offense out on the field a lot. We have a lot of good things to work with."
of good things to work With the week off, White said he might watch a few college football games, but he would like to get away from the sport.
"I think I might go to the zoo," he said.
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him play if he wants to, it's so messed up he can't hurt it any more. He went out and played three or four downs, and I've never seen anything have such an effect on the players. They played a better football game than they were ever capable of playing and we beat Missouri."
Gale Sayers, Kansas tailback, 1962-64
"Every year, it was the last game of the season. The thing was it had importance because it could have been for second or third place in the conference. But it was so cold every game. Nov, 30, or whatever, it was cold in
Columbia and cold in Lawrence. I just wanted to get the game over with."
with. Otto Schnellbacher, Kansas end, 1942, 1946-47
"We beat them both years. They were tough ball games, and we beat them over there by about a touchdown, and over here by
about a touchdown. They never had warm water in the showers after the games over there. They were not very nice folks."
Bobby Douglass, Kansas quarterback, 1966-68
back "Probably beating Missouri our final game of the Orange Bowl season. Anytime you beat
somebody as great as they were; they were actually better than their ranking. The big thing was to clinch the Big Eight title at the time. We got the Orange Bowl the week before, but still you don't want to lose that last game."
—Edited by Ehren Meditz