tuesday, September 23, 2003
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the university daily kansan
Women's golf team places in top five
By Mike Bauer
mbauer@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
For the second week in row, the Kansas women's golf team has finished a tournament with satisfactory results.
The Jayhawks placed fourth out of 16 teams at the Mary Fossum Invitational, which concluded Sunday. The team had a score of 937.
Michigan State placed first with a team score of 901, Kent State placed second with a team score of 926 and Arkansas placed third with a team score of 934.
"This was a huge day for our team," Megan Menzel, coach of the Jayhawks, said in a news release.
"We beat teams we needed to beat and hadn't in the past," Menzel said.
Those teams Menzel referred to included Indiana, which placed ninth; Illinois, which placed eighth; Notre Dame and Michigan, both tied at sixth; and Wisconsin, which placed fifth.
Menzel said the course in East Lansing, Mich., which has tough greens and longer par-4 holes, was much more difficult than in Ft. Collins, Colo.
Despite the increased difficulty in the course, Tiffany Woods, Escondido, Calif., sophomore, had a one-round score of 70, which was two under par for the tournament.
the tournament. Menzel said Woods' score was the lowest tournament score posted of all teams that competed in the tournament.
The score was Woods' first under-par score in her collegiate career. Woods'
total score for the tournament was 232.
"It was a great tournament — we got our first top-five ranking." Woods said.
Pryor
Jill Womble, Pleasanton, Calif., freshman, had a total score of 239.
"I really struggled the first day, but came back the second day," Womble said.
Chelsey Pryor,
Washington, Penn,
sophomore, scored a
236; Amanda Costner,
Claremont, Okla., freshman,
scored a 237; and
Merideth Winkelmann,
St. Louis
sophomore, scored a
249.
Menzel said the players working together really helped the team pull through in the tournament.
"It was a real team effort—lots of consistent plays from Costner, Winkelmann and Pryor. Womble posted two huge scores that helped us with team scores," Menzel said.
Woods said the team's plan was to go back into practice and work harder,to try to get better.
try to get better. "Every tournament we play, we come out more confident," Woods said.
The Jayhawks' next tournament will be the Legends of Indiana tournament in Franklin, Ind., Oct. 6 through 7.
By Mike Norris
morris@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Edited by Abby Sidesinger
An unidentified University of Kansas student was escorted out of Memorial Stadium by police on Saturday after attacking Jacksonville State's mascot, Cocky.
Cocky. "He was drunk," said Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office. "He took a swing at the mascot right in front of the officer and was escorted out of the stadium."
KU student roughs up Gamecocks' mascot
The man was not arrested, so his name was not released.
"The mascot was annoying the cheerleaders, trying to get one of them to box with him," she said.
Amy Francy, New London, Iowa, senior, was at the game with friends and witnessed the altercation.
After a few minutes of trying to box with no avail, fans in the stands had enough, Francy said. A fan in the front couple of rows jumped onto the field and punched the mascot.
nicked the nose," she said.
The crowd cheered. State troopers ran into the stands and chased the guy through the crowd, and the mascot went back to cheering, Francy said. But the Gamecock abandoned its boxing career.
doubled its boxing career. The attack was not the first time a mascot had been abused:
■ On July 9, 2003, Pittsburgh Pirate first baseman Randall Simon was arrested and fined $432 for hitting a 21-year-old female in an Italian Sausage costume with a bat. The incident happened in Miller Park, before a game between the Pirates and the Milwaukee Brewers.
Simon said it was an accident, and the female mascot did not press charges.
In 1996 someone killed the ram, Rameses XXIX, that served as the University of North Carolina's mascot. Police never found the perpetrators. But according to a university press release, it was thought to be teenagers on a dare who slit the ram's throat and sliced off its shoulder.
On December 13, 2001, during a San Jose State-Stanford football game, Cynthia Harrah, a San Jose State women's soccer player, jumped the railing at Spartan Stadium and attacked the Stanford Cardinal mascot, the Stanford Tree. According to a news release, Charles Armstrong, put her in a headlock after she began attacking him. The drum major of the Stanford band jumped in and the three began fighting until they slipped in the mud. Harrah was escorted out by police. Armstrong issued this statement:
"I didn't get hurt at all," he said. "If she'd hurt my costume then I would have been really pissed. I didn't get hurt, so I figure it was enough humiliation for her already."
St. Joseph's University hawk mascot must constantly flap its arms during every home basketball game. But once that proved very hard for 21-year-old hawk mascot, Steve Klarich. In an interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer he talked about being attacked by a Vilanova fan.
"When the fan came at me, I saw him coming, so I punched him in the face with one wing, and kept flapping with the other wing," he said.
Edited by Nikki Overfelt
Kansas football team returns to 11-game calendar next year
By John Domoney
Kansan staff writer
idomoney@kansan.com
After a second straight season of playing 12 regular season games, the Kansas football team will be back to an 11-game slate in 2004.
state in 2004. The change occurs because of a change in the calendar, which only allows for 12 weekends between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Pencil in a bye week and the Jayhawks will have only 11 game days next year and continuing until 2008.
"Financially it might look good to play another game," said Larry Keating, associate athletics director. "But the bye week is important to the team."
After moving from the University of Connecticut to Kansas this summer, Keating is now in charge of game scheduling for the football team.
Forming agreements years in advance with other schools for future games has been the norm for college football. But Keating said the practice was becoming less common.
Instead Kansas has only three games in place beyond this season. Next year's football schedule will feature non-conference games at home against Tulsa and on the road against Northwestern.
The only other non-conference game Kansas has scheduled is a home game against Central Michigan in 2007. The game was originally scheduled for last season but was moved to accommodate both schools, Keating said.
That leaves only one non-conference game to be scheduled next season. The date could be filled by a Division I-AA opponent, but Keating said this was still up in the air.
ar.
Under NCAA rules for Division I-A football, teams are bowl-eligible by winning at least 50 percent of their games. This year, Kansas must win six of its games and one of those victories could include Saturday's games against Division I-AA Jacksonville State. Under NCAA rules, a team may only use one victory over a Division I-AA school every four years to count toward bowl eligibility in a season.
towards bow engagements.
Because of this, Keating said a Division I-AA team coming to Lawrence next fall was still undetermined. Facing this choice, Keating performs the duty of finding a potential opponent for the Jayahwakes to finish up the schedule. Keating has to contact schools and find an opponent that also has an open date to play Kansas.
"You look at a school like Miami and Florida State who play each other every year in the non-conference because they
are rivals so they just pencil in the date," Keating said. "Our rivals are all in the conference right now."
This is where Keating meets with coach Mark Mangino to decide on who to schedule each year.
"We've already had some meetings since I've been here," Keating said. "We sit down and talk about each possible opponent before we schedule it."
opponent before we begin. Although Kansas' Big 12 Conference schedule is already set for next season, it will be different from the past two seasons because this is the last year of the two-year cycle of conference games. Kansas plays the other five teams from the northern division every year and plays three of the six teams from the southern division switching the rotation every two years. That means the Jayhawks will trade games with Texas A&M, Baylor and Oklahoma State for contests against Texas, Oklahoma and Texas Tech.
Texas, Oklahoma and Texas "I don't think there's any other way to do it," Keating said. "The northern division is basically a group of old Big Eight schools with the Texas and the Oklahoma schools in the south. Of course I'm not very happy that OU and Texas are in the same cycle for us."
Nebraska golf team struggling
Edited by Ehren Meditz
By Ben Gouldsmith Daily Nebraskan University of Nebraska
two tournaments of The Cornhuskers finished sixth at the Fairway Club Invitational at Firethorn Golf Club, their home course, to open the season. Last week, Nebraska finished 12th in a 16-team field at the Mean Green Classic in Texas.
LINCOLN, Neb. — Frustration is a word that is used frequently when assessing the Nebraska men's golf team's first two tournaments of the fall season.
["It has been] frustrating," said Nebraska coach Bill Spangler, whose Huskies played in the Kansas Invitational yesterday and continued today in Lawrence. "We're really close to having a good tournament. It's just correcting little errors. We'll get there eventually."
"We have so much more talent than what we're showing right now," Schnell said. "I think everybody's kind of frustrated right now."
ventually.
Freshman Brady Schnell agreed.
righter. Spangler said host Kansas and North Texas would be the teams to beat in the 54-hole tournament.
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Does anyone else think that is a little odd that KU has a chance to beat both Missouri and K-State in the same year?
Man, I am a die hard St. Louis Rams fan but I have got to say I have got to give it to those Chiefs. They look pretty good.
Kansas athletics calendar
today
Men's golf at Kansas Invitational at Alvamar Golf Club all day
friday
Tennis at Tulsa Invitational Tulsa, Okla. all day Soccer vs. Baylor Super Target Field 5 p.m.
Swimming vs. SIU Robinson Natatorium 6 p.m.
saturday
Football vs. Missouri Memorial Stadium 11:40 a.m.
Tennis at Tulsa Invitational Tulsa, Okla. all day Swimming vs. SIU (Lake Race) Clinton Lake 8 a.m.
Volleyball vs. Baylor Horejsi Family Athletics Center 7 p.m.
sunday
Tennis at Tulsa Invitational Tulsa, Okla. all day Soccer vs. Texas Tech Super Target Field 1 p.m.
Tennis
Team hires assistant coach; will assume job October 1
A season of changes continued yesterday for the Kansas tennis team. After replacing coach Kilmeny Waterman with former assistant Army Hall, the team announced the hiring of Troy Bray as the new assistant coach.
"We are very excited," Hall said. "Troy is going to bring a lot of experience to the University of Kansas."
Bray's experience has earned him recognition in producing top recruits from the junior college ranks to respected Division I programs.
respected division player. Bray was a tennis standout at the University of Nebraska in the early 1990s. Before being hired at Kansas, Bray served as the director of tennis at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo.
There, he coached the women's team to consecutive national championships in 2002 and 2003.
In addition to serving as the director, Bray was actively involved with recruiting for both men's and women's tennis.
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