THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
SPORTS
9B
Bowling break
Jenny Terrell/KANSAN
Nicholas Campfield, Topeka freshman, heaves the ball down the bowling Jane at Jaybowl during an early practice for the bowling team Monday afternoon. Campfield said his favorite thing about bowling is that it itms him out of doing his school work.
MLB
Snider helps Jays sweep Baltimore
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Richmond (7-10) allowed three runs and five hits in five innings to win for the first time in 10 starts. The rookie, 0-6 since beating Cincinnati on June 24, walked four and struck out two.
Casey Janssen, Josh Roenticke and Brandon League all worked one inning before Jason Frasor finished.
has lost four of five, allowed seven runs, five earned, and eight hits in seven-plus innings. Five of the eight hits were for extra bases.
It's the second time this season the Blue Jays have swept the Orioles. They also did it May 1-3 at Rogers Centre.
TORONTO — Travis Snider homered and had two RBIs, Scott Richmond won for the first time since June 24 and the Toronto Blue Jays completed a three-game sweep, beating the Baltimore Orioles 7-3 on Wednesday night.
Baltimore lost its season-high seventh straight and lost for the eighth time in nine games in Toronto this season. The Orioles have been outscored 48-19 over their losing streak.
Baltimore first baseman Michael Aubrey opened the scoring with a two-run homer in the second, his first of the season.
PGA
Jeremy Guthrie (10-16), who
Toronto halved the deficit in the bottom of the inning on consecutive doubles by Edwin Encarnacion and Lyle Overbay, then tied it in the third on Encarnacion's sacrifice fly.
Charity donations give Slocum shot at Cup
The Blue Jays added three runs in the fourth. Snider reached on an error by shortstop Cesar Izturis, took second on a balk and scored on John McDonald's single. lose Bautista followed with an RBI triple and scored on Aaron Hill's sacrifice fly.
ATLANTA — Heath Slocum is in danger of losing his PGA Tour card a month ago. Now he has a chance to win $10 million from the FedEx Cup if he were to win the Tour Championship.
Associated Press
His fortunes have changed. But not his priorities.
Woods is not likely to ever miss the Deutsche Bank Championship, which benefits his foundation. He has a long history with the Western Golf Association, which runs the BMW Championship at Cog Hill, where Woods has won five times.
Slocum donated $40,000 on Wednesday to three charities associated with the Tour Championship. The East Lake Foundation will receive $20,000, while the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the Chron's and Colitis Foundation each get $10,000.
Given his five victories before the playoffs began, and a system of cumulative points until the Tour Championship, Woods could have skipped all three playoff events and still been the No.3 seed at East Lake.
Baltimore rookie Matt Wieters led off the fifth with a towering homer to right, his eighth, a drive that hit the facing of the third deck.
"We're in a good position to help out," Slocum said. "This is something that we've been talking about for a while, and I'm glad that we could do that this week. There are so many great organizations that help so many people. Like I said, I'm just glad that we could even be a small part of it."
Snider restored Toronto's three-run lead with a solo shot to left in the sixth, his ninth.
Wednesday brought another scenario that only made him smile.
Even so, the idea that having a big regular season allows him to miss a playoff event raises questions about whether he'll be at The Barclays next year.
Then, all he would have had to do is win the Tour Championship.
ATLANTA — Tiger Woods was jolted at the start of the playoffs to learn he could win all three playoff events, finish second at the Tour Championship and still not win the FedEx Cup.
The tour has been promoting its players individual charity work since launching a campaign in May called, "Together, Anything's Possible" Commissioner Tim Finchem said Slocum's donation was another example.
Part of the charity is personal. Slocum has suffered from ulcerative colitis for the last 10 years. Since moving to the Atlanta area from the Florida Panhandle, he has been working with the Georgia chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation to find a cure.
Tiger could skip playoff events in current system
LPGA
Ochoa can't match success from past years
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DANVILLE, Calif. — Lorena Ochoa is running out of tournaments in a startlingly average season for a player who won 21 times in the previous three years.
Since winning the Corona Championship in her native Mexico in late April for her second victory of the year, the top-ranked Ochoa is winless in 10 starts.
"It's not easy so. That's why I need to work harder," Ochoa said Wednesday. "That's why I need to start playing better and do whatever it takes to keep that No. 1 position."
South Korea's Jiyai Shin leads the player of the year — and rookie — races and is within striking distance of catching Ochoa in the rankings. Norway's Suzann Pettersen and a handful of other players are also close heading into the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge, set to start Thursday at *Blackhawk Country Club*.
For nearly two years that wasn't much of an issue for the 27-year old star who replaced Annika Sorenstam at the top of the rankings in April 2007.
But 2009 has been a much different year for Ochoa. She has spent more time in Mexico while
playing in fewer tournaments and is in the midst of planning her December wedding to longtime boyfriend Andres Conesa, the CEO of AeroMexico.
Ochoa has finished better than 10th only twice in her last 10 tournaments, including a tie for fourth last week in the Samsung World Championships at Torrey Pines. She bottomed out with a 49th-place showing at the Safeway Classic in August.
On the course, the results have been disappointing.
In majors,
Ochoa also has
struggled. She was
26th at the U.S.
Women's Open
and 28th at the
Women's British
Open.
"My life is changing a little bit and that's just the way it is."
said Ochoa, who two weeks ago in Mexico City bristled slightly at criticisms of her game. "Sometimes it's hard to keep that same level and the same rhythm forever. It's been an up and down year for me for different reasons, especially outside the golf course.
"I think it was a good start, what happened the last couple weeks.
but I'm trying to get into the winner's circle," Ochoa said.
Ochoa has never won the CVS/pharmacy tournament, formerly known as the Longs Drugs Challenge.
"I think it was a good start, what happened the last couple weeks, but I'm trying to get into the winner's circle."
She was fourth in 2008 and lost a playoff to Pettersen in 2007.
"Compared to previous years I think this course is going to change a little bit probably with lower scores," said Ochoa, citing the softer greens at Blackhawk. "The par 5s are not as easy in terms of reaching because they are playing longer but
I just like it. I've been close a few times so hopefully this is my year."
"She didn't surprise me because we knew
how good she was," Ochoa said.
"Of course it isn't only her. There are a few players that are trying to catch me. It's OK. That's the way it is when you're at the top"
Shin also leads the money list and is trying to become the first player since Nancy Lopez in 1978 to win both player of the year and rookie of the year honors.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lorena Ocha, of Mexico, chips to the first green in the final round of the LPGA Samsung World Championship golf tournament on the Torrey Pines south course in San Diego Sunday. After dominating the LGPA Tour for years, Ocha has had an average season.