THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2009
SPORTS
5B
GOLF
Kansas fails to overtake Nebraska in final round
lan Anson lines up a shot on the 8th green at Alvamar Public Golf Course, the location of many team practices. Anson was tied for 27th place entering the third round of the Kansas Invitational, held Sept. 25.
BY ANDREW WITUSZYNSK'
awituszynski@kansan.com
The Kansas Jayhawks finished in seventh place at the Bill Ross Intercollegiate in Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday. The Jayhawks dropped from fourth place to seventh place in the final round of play.
"Fourth would have been a tolerable finish, but seventh is not," coach KIT Grove said. "The body language from most of the players was really poor and it was tough to watch as a coach."
Grove said his biggest goal was to overtake Nebraska, who had a one-stroke lead on Kansas going into the final round of play. That did not happen as the Cornhuskers jumped from third place to second place.
"Hats off to Nebraska for playing as well as they did." Grove said. "Now we just have to finish ahead of them next week and get back to where they are for the season standings."
Central Arkansas won the tournament with a total of 880 strokes. Kansas' total number of strokes was 911.
"It was a disappointing finish for us and it couldn't have gone any worse," Grove said.
The individual leader for the tournament was Dustin Garza from Wichita State who shot a
three-round total of 211 strokes. The closest Jayhawk to that score was surprisingly not Nate Barbee, Dakota Dunes, S.D., junior. Barbee had led the Jayhawks with the best individual score in every tournament so far this year, but this time it was walk-on Jeff Bell, Wichita freshman who led the Jayhawks in scoring with a total of 225. Right behind Bell was Barbee with 226 strokes.
"Jeff has been a pleasant surprise for us this year," Grove said. "And not just on the golf course. He's a great kid and he does well in school and on the course he doesn't carry the weight of a bad hole with him on to the next one."
That attitude is one that many golfers would love to have. The ability to forget about bad shots can keep a score low instead of blowing up.
"I'm just lucky when it comes to that aspect of the game." Bell said. "It comes naturally for me to keep a good attitude on the course."
Alex Gutesha, Greenwood Village, Colo., finished with a total of 228 strokes right behind Bell and Barbee.
"This tournament could've been better for us obviously," Gutesha said. "We had high expectations and just didn't come through."
The lone senior in the Jayhawks five-man rotation. Bryan
Hackenberg, Denver, Colo., shot a pair of 77s on Monday and an 80 on Tuesday to finish with a total of total of 234 and rounding out the Jayhawks scores was Chris Gilbert, Simi Valley, Calif., freshman, with a 236.
Kansas will play in its final tournament of the fall season next in Las Cruces, N.M., in the
Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate on Oct 26 and 27.
Gutesha said all the players know what they need to do in the next tournament. "We don't have too many issues with our games, it's just a mental thing," Gutesha said. "We all just need to take something away from this tournament and learn from it and it will benefit us
in the future."
Grove said his team will be looking to improve on the seventh place finish.
"We have some work to get done before we leave on Saturday, but we go into every tournament looking to win and that's exactly what we're going to try to do," Grove said.
Edited by Betsy Cutcliff
MLB
Yankees defeat Angels, take 3-1 lead in ALCS
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Alex Rodriguez has done something remarkable in every game of his charmed October. CC Sabathia is settling for every time he takes the mound.
Together, they've got the New York Yankees within one game of a return to the World Series.
Rodriguez had three hits and scored three runs, while Melkro Cabrera drove in four runs for the Yankees, who have built a commanding cushion in this wild series with power and pitching.
Rodriguez homered in the third straight game of his outstanding postseason, Sabathia pitched eight resilient innings of five-hit ball on short rest, and the Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Angels 10-1 Tuesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the American League Championship Series.
One day after the Angels handed
New York its first playoff loss in an extra-inning thriller, the Yankees calmly asserted control with two early rallies before piling on five runs late — all backed by Sabathia's steady work in his second win over the Angels on three days' rest.
Johnny Damon added a late two-run homer for the Yankees, who could sew up their first trip to the World Series in six years with a win in Game 5 on Thursday night at Angel Stadium. New York's A.J. Burnett faces Angels ace John Lackey.
With a two-run homer over the left-field fence that silenced an excited Anaheim crowd in the fifth, Rodriguez drove in a run in his eighth straight postseason game, tying the major league record. It was his fifth homer in New York's seven postseason games, matching Reggie lackson's iconic 1977 effort for the second-most homers in a single playoff year for the Yankees.
Bernie Williams holds the New York record with six homers in
hours and making a coast-to-coast flight over the previous three days, both teams needed a no-nonsense victory. Sabathia came through for the Yankees in his second win of the series, providing rest for New York's taxed bullpen while further frustrating Los Angeles' lineup, which is foundering in the playoffs after an outstanding regular season.
Rodriguez also singled and scored New York's first run in the fourth, and he doubled and scored on an error in the ninth to cap his do-it all day.
The Yankees' $161 million left-hander yielded two walks and struck out five, throwing 101 pitches. After he retired Torii Hunter on a weak grounder to end the eighth, thousands of fans stood up and left Angel Stadium, not sticking around for the final demise of their suddenly punchless club.
1996, but that mark seems ripe to be topped by A-Rod in the first phenomenal postseason for a superstar who mostly sputtered in October until now.
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