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MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012
SWIMMING
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TYLER BIERWIRTH/KANSAN
Swimmers of the Crimson and Blue teams dive during the intrasquad race on Friday at the Robinson Center. The Jayhawks first official race is in Houston against Rice on Saturday at noon.
Intrasquad race preps swimmers for season
CHRISTOPHER SCHAEDER
cschaeder@kansan.com
Top performances from junior Morgan Sharp and freshman Chelsie Miller helped carry the Crimson team to victory over the Blue team at the annual swimming and diving intrasquid scrimpage on Friday afternoon.
Sharp took top honors in the 100 and 200-yard freestyle, while Miller finished first in the 200-yard and the 500-yard freestyle.
Coach Clark Campbell was very proud of the progress made by Sharp and Miller at the meet.
"I was very happy with both of them," Campbell said. "Morgan is way ahead of where she has been in
the early season and with Chelse, we knew that having three Olympic trial cuts, that she could be a player right away and she proved that today"
Other highlights for the Crimson team were senior Rebecca Swank in the 1,000-yard freestyle, junior Sofia Filatova in the 100-yard butterfly, freshman Bryce Hinde in the 100-yard breaststroke and junior Alysia Golden won one of the two diving events at the meet.
The top performers on the Blue team were senior Svetlana Golovchun in the 50-yard freestyle, sophomore Alina Vats in the 100-year backstroke and freshman Meredith Brownell won a diving event.
For Campbell, the meet went as well as he expected at this point of the season.
"For September, it was about where we thought we would be," Campbell said. "We have a long ways to go, but that is the beauty of the season."
The team's first official meet of the season is on Saturday at noon when the Jayhawks will travel to Houston to compete against Rice. The first home meet for the Jayhawks will be on Oct. 20 against Minnesota.
Edited by Christy Khamphilay
Sophomore swimmer Caroline Patterson does the backstroke during the swim teams intersquad race last Friday at the Robinson Natatorium. The meet consisted of 13 events, which were sprints, middle distance and diving events.
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ROWING
Jayhawks finish strong at Oklahoma City regatta
The Kansas rowing team began its season Saturday at the Head of the Oklahoma regatta in Oklahoma City
with top ten finishes in the varsity eight, varsity four and double.
The race started with all four of KU's boats, qualifying for the finals in the collegiate eight with a time of 15:38.59, led by freshman Maggie Duncan, junior
Caity Decker, sophomores Jenni Hartzler and Erin Brogan and senior Olivia Catloth.
Coach Rob Catloth was happy about his team's performance at the first race of the season.
Coach Catloth said the hard work at practices is beginning to show at the races.
"I think the athletes felt like they are starting to learn and apply the things we are working on in practice. That's a positive. If you can make changes when you are tired, that is a positive."
—Christopher Schaeder
In the eight petite final, KU finished fourth, fifth and sixth and the team's top varsity eight participated in the grand final and finished fifth.
The final qualifying event of the race was the varsity four, where two KU boats qualified for the final with a time of 17:15.14. Junior Cara Murray, sophomores Alexis Fowkes, Andrea Joyce and Brooke Thurston and senior Katy MacCormack led the two KU boats.
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"We need to get better and get more points in the eight and when we are starting only 30 secs. ds back of Texas and Oklahoma instead of 48 seconds last year, it puts us in a better position as we get ready for the spring," Cattloth said.
In the double, which is not a typical event in collegiate rowing, KU qualified two boats in the finals. The top qualifier in the event for KU was the team of junior Alexandra Torquemada and senior Olivia
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"The intensity stunk," he said. "Today was brutal."
No one will disagree with Francoeur's assessment. Cleveland scored 10 times in the fifth inning to blow the game open and send Kansas City to its seventh loss in eight games.
CLEVELAND — Royals outfielder Jeff Francoeur didn't have to offer any detailed analysis for Sunday's 15-3 loss to the Indians.
Royals fall to Indians
Kansas City Royals' Alex Gordon, right, is congratulated by teammates after hitting a two-run home run off Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Zach McAllister in the sixth inning of a baseball game on Sunday in Cleveland.
"It it got away in a hurry," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "A 10-run fifth is not good for your business."
Luke Hochevar (8-16) was tagged for nine runs in 4-2-3 innings in his final start of the season.
Among the Royals' recent losses was a 15-4 pasting by the Indians at home a week earlier.
Hochevar dropped to 1-7 in 11
starts since beating the Indians on July 31. The right-hander gave up nine hits and three walks to close a wildly inconsistent season.
The loss also added to the Royals' injury problems, which seems to grow by the day.
In 21 outings, he had a 2.88 ERA. In 11 other starts, he lasted only a total of 48 innings and had a 13.88 ERA.
Alex Gordon hit a two-run homer, his 13th, in the sixth for Kansas City. Tony Abreu's RBI single made it 1-13 in the seven.
Third baseman Mike Mouastak
left in the sixth with left groin
tightness, although Yost said he would have been able to stay in the game had the score been closer. First baseman Eric Hosmer and shortstop Alcides Escobar missed the three-game series with shoulder injuries. Hosmer has a slight tear in his right rotator cuff and will be re-examined Monday when the Royals open a three-game homestand with Detroit.
The Royals and Indians will have some say on how the AL Central race ends. Kansas City plays the Tigers, who lead Chicago by three games. Cleveland hosts the fading White Sox for three games, also starting Monday.
The Indians are 5-2 after a 12-41 stretch that dropped them from contention into last place in the AL Central and cost manager Manny Acta his job. General manager Chris Antonetti will interview Alomar and former Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona soon for the full-time position and expects a few other candidates to be in the search.
The 10-run inning was Cleveland's first since doing it in Kansas City in a 19-1 win on May 16, 2011. The Indians had not scored 10 in an inning at home since an 11-run first inning against the Royals on Aug. 13, 2006.
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