THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012
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Forward Caroline Kastor dribbles around a West Virginia defender on the offensive side of the field. The Jayhawks suffered a tough defeat to the Mountaineers on Friday.
Jayhawks add loss, tie to record
RYAN MCCARTHY rmccarthy@kansan.com
Both teams started the match a bit slow as they adjusted to the autumn chill for the first time all year. The Jayhawks eventually picked up the tempo and used the wind to their advantage for the rest of the first half. The Jayhawks dominated the possession for the majority of the half and kept it on West Virginia's side of the pitch.
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Kansas got shut out for the third time this season, dropping its record to 8-4-1, while coming to 2-2 in conference play.
"We definitely possessed the ball and were patient with it. We keep it on the ground and swung it around, but we just didn't get the goal," junior defender Shannon Renner said.
The soccer team was not able to overcome conference leader West Virginia on Friday, losing 1-0.
"We didn't finish our chances, plain and simple," coach Mark Francis said. "You're not going to beat teams like West Virginia if you don't finish one of six or seven really good chances."
The Jayhawks had plenty of chances against West Virginia, outshooting the Mountaineers 23-14. Yet as the last few minutes ticked away in the first half, West Virginia finally scored with forward Kate Schwindel in the 43rd minute.
Kansas attacked the box with shots, many of them being on target, but the Jayhawks couldn't get the ball past West Virginia goalkeeper Sara Keane. She finished the game with seven saves.
Kansas continued to create many opportunities yet were unlucky as shot after shot soared right above the crossbar, slightly off-target or directly into the keeper's hands. Francis remarked on how the team could learn from this loss.
"Today, especially in the second half, it comes down to taking care of the small details," Francis said.
Despite not getting the victory, Kansas still proved it's a team that has the opportunity and drive to really compete in the Big 12 conference this season.
"I think this team has always shown that, once we've had a tough game like today that didn't go our way, we bounce back every time," Francis said.
After overcoming the loss to West Virginia on Friday, the Kansas soccer team forced a draw on Sunday with a 1-1 tie against 12th-ranked Wake Forest.
The lone goal for the jayhawks came when junior Caroline Kastor scored her ninth goal of the season in the 73rd minute to tie the game. Her ninth goal has also tied her for the conference lead. Senior midfielder Amy Grow passed to Kastor, which allowed her to score the goal.
The game eventually went into overtime, and the Jayhawks tried to find opportunities to win the game.
Both teams attempted late
scores, but could not convert a goal. The Jayhawks now move to 1-0-2 in overtime matches in the 2012 season.
Wake Forest scored its only goal of the game when junior forward Katie Stengel was awarded a penalty kick after colliding with Kansas sophomore goalkeeper, Kaitlyn Stroud. Stengel ended up finishing off the penalty kick.
Kansas began with many opportunities to attack but was called offside three different times. The Jayhawks finished with five offseid penalties, while Wake Forest finished with three penalties. In the second half, Stroud was replaced by Kat Liebetrau, senior goalkeeper. Liebetrau ended the game with three saves in the second half.
The Jayhawks were also outshot for the third time this season, tallying 12 shots compared to Wake Forest's 16 attempts.
CROSS COUNTRY
— Edited by Lauren Shelly
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Sophomore Conner Day maintains a lead during the final uphill stretch of the 8K race at the Haskell Invitational Saturday. Day finished 10th overall with a time of 25.53.81.
Three Jayhawks place in Haskell Invitational
Kansas junior cross country runner Natalie Becker may have been the only Jayhawk woman to enter the Haskell invitational on Saturday, but that didn't stop her as she led most of the 5k race in her first race of the season after recovering from an off-season injury.
"The race really went as planned today." Becker said in a press release. "I went out at a good pace, and I felt relaxed at the end. It really just felt good to be back out."
good job up running up front at the start of the race," assistant coach Michael Whiteslee said in a press release. "We still need to be more aggressive in the middle part of the race, but I was pleased with how they competed today."
The win was the first individual victory of Becker's career.
The men's cross country team saw two of its three entrants place in the top 13. Sophomore Conner Day led the way with a time of 25:53.81 in the 8k race for a 10th finish. Freshman Alex Galli finished close behind with a time of 26:19.00, which put him in 13th place.
Senior Ben Wilson rounded out the Jayhawk trio participating in the race, finishing the day in 26th place with a time of 27:00.43.
"Conner and Alex did a really
The next race for the Jayhawks takes place on Oct. 12, when they travel to Madison, Wis. for the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational.
"The Wisconsin meet will be the first time we will really separate the teams into our top seven." Whittlesey said in a press release. "It will be a very competitive field, but if we can put ourselves in a position to finish high as a team, we'll be in good shape moving forward in the year."
Ethan Padway
MLB
Reds don't measure up to Giants' stature
CINCINNATI — Homer Bailey turned in a pitching performance worthy of a series clincher. Too bad for the Cincinnati starter that the Reds' bats and defense didn't follow suit.
Bailey flirted with his second no-hitter in his last three starts, but the San Francisco Giants got just enough good pitching of their own and capitalized on a key mistake to beat the Reds 2-1 in 10 innings Tuesday night, cutting their NL division series deficits to 2-1.
Third baseman Scott Rolen's two-out error in the 10th helped the Giants avoid a sweep.
"Festball, location," Bailey said when asked what was working. "We executed everything."
Rolen, an eight-time Gold Glove winner, couldn't come up with Joaquin Arias' short-hop grounder, bobbled it and threw late to first. The loss extended the Reds' 17-year streak of home postseason frustration.
The Giants managed only three hits against Bailey and three Reds relievers, but got two of them in the 10th to pull it out. San Francisco won despite striking out a season-high 16 times.
"The bottom line is we still don't have a playoff win in this ballpark," said Votto, who also played in the Reds' 2-0 loss to Philadelphia at Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park in Game 3 of the 2010 NLDS.
The Reds haven't won a home playoff game since 1995, the last time they reached the NL championship series.
San Francisco's one-hit wonders finally got it going against Jonathan Broxton, who gave up leoadoff singles by Buster Posey — the NL batting champion — and Hunter Pence. With two outs, Hanigan couldn't come up with a pitch, letting the runners advance. Arias' tough-chance grounder then put Rolen in a touch spot — charging the ball for a quick short-hop swipe. He couldn't come up with it cleanly, and Arias beat the throw.
The Reds got only one more hit the rest of the way.
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San Francisco Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval tags out Cincinnati Reds'
Brandon Phillips at third base.
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Forward Jamie Fletcher breaks through the West Virginia defensive line. The Jayhawks had an intense battle with the Big 12 newcomers on Friday but were defeated with a score of 1-0.
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