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KANSAN.COM/SPORTS | MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2017
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Allie Melendez would not let a subfreezing temperature of 10 degrees stop her from getting ice cream.
Walking from Daisy Hill to Massachusetts Street in winter 2014, Melendez,a senior from Los Angeles, contracted pneumonia, all because she wanted to get a scoop of her favorite flavor of Sylas and Maddy's ice cream.
"It was a freezing cold Tuesday night before finals week in December," Melendez said. "I had soiling wet hair, but goddamn it I was going to get my Buy One Get One [deal] at Sylas and Maddy's."
Since 1997, Sylas and Maddy's — named after the owners' family dog and their neighbor's cat — has been a staple of Lawrence that has enticed generations to visit again and again.
"You could be going to get yogurt, you could be eating at the restaurant that you ate at, but people choose to come here and we just want people to want to come back," Sarah England, owner of the Lawrence Sylas and Maddy's, said.
The business, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in June, is family owned and operated at 1014 Massachusetts St. Their other location is in Olathe.
The restaurant boasts over 150 recipes of various flavors, and always has 40 different flavors at a time of ice cream, sorbet and sherbet in the store.
"Since it is a family business ... a lot of our family works there and a lot of our family friends work there," she said. "We do feel like a pretty close-knit group, some of us."
Melendez is a huge fan of Sylas and Maddy's, and thinks the flavors can brighten anyone's day.
"I like how just basic it is," she said. "You know exactly what you're getting. If you're having a bad day, you get a full pint and take it home," she said.
Melendez said that she loves all the flavors offered, but cake batter is her ultimate favorite.
The ambiance in the restaurant also appeals to customers like Melendez.
"I just love how cute it is," she said.
Moreover, England says they do try to create a fun atmosphere for customers when they visit the restaurant.
"When you come in, we want you to just feel like you had a good time, you had good service,good quality ice cream, good price, we want you to enjoy your time," England said.
- Edited by Erin Brock
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anded the effort, having 14 athletes finish in top-three positions, including seven first-place finishes. Their performances earned Kansas an additional 138 points to add onto the 93 earned by the field athletes.
Senior Jacob Morgan crosses the finish line to place first in the men's 5,000-meter run on April 22 at the Kansas Relays.
Behind an exuberant home-crowd, several Kansas athletes contributed the home-track advantage to their strong performances.
In one of the final events of the evening, Morgan raced out to an early lead in the 5,000-meter race and never looked back. Morgan finished the race in 14:19.59,2.8 seconds ahead of teammate Dylan Hodgson. The pair won 16 points between them.
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est race of the relays. Coming in at a time of 3:53:57, Richards finished ahead of Joyce by .01 seconds.
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"The cheering, I loved it. It was awesome," Richards said, looking toward the large crowd of Kansas fans.
I can't believe how loud people were getting on that backstretch, I was like 'dang, is that for me?"
The Kansas women's team also put on a good
dles event earlier in the day. Dabney finished the scored quadrangular race with a time of 14.48 seconds.
performance for the home crowd, finishing second in a hotly contested competition with 181.5 points. They trailed Minnesota by 14 points, which ended the night with 195.5 points.
Dabney felt some pain in her groin area throughout the day, but didn't feel that performing twice in one day affected her performance.
Dabney, who placed seventh out of a field of seven in the women's 100-meter hurdles, also competed in the college open 100-meter hur-
"I really wanted to score some points for my team and finish out the weekend," Dabney said.
Both the men's and women's team saw several athletes run multiple events throughout the day, one of whom was sophomore Gabbi Dabney.
Junior Christian Hicks was another athlete to compete twice for the Jayhawks, competing in both the college
open and scored quadrangular men's 110-meter hurdles.
Hicks beat his personal-record in the college open with a time of 14.28 seconds, but unfortunately for the Derby native, the wind was over two meters per second, the limit for an official personal-record. Hicks then followed that performance up in the scored invitational, finishing second behind California's Ashtyn Davis. Although the wind was under two meters per second, Hicks finished his race in 14.46 seconds, .01 seconds behind his personal-record.
"I needed a lot of times under my belt so I can keep lowering it. This definitely really helped me," Hicks said, looking ahead toward the Outdoor Big 12 Championships.
Kansas will return to action next week with the Jayhawks staying in Lawrence for the Rock Chalk Classic on Saturday, April 29, with the hammer throw kicking the meet off at 11 a.m.
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