8B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUCOS
SPORTS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2004
Saints recover from deficit, defeat Chiefs
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Saints have fallen behind early and often this season. And they have seldom come back.
Yesterday, the Saints recovered from an early 10-point deficit and then scored a late touchdown to win.
Aaron Brooks threw a 42-yard touchdown pass to Joe Horn midway through the fourth quarter and New Orleans defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 27-20.
"I've just got one thing to say," Horn said. "Everybody that said goodbye to us, we ain't gone yet."
New Orleans (4-5), which has been outscored 54-0 in the first quarter in the last seven games,
trained 10-0 after one quarter against the Chiefs. But for a change the Saints were able to rally — and then hold on to win.
With the score tied at 20, the Saints drove 72 yards to take the lead with 5:35 remaining. The Chiefs (3-6) responded by driving to the Saints 17, but running back Derrick Blaylock could not handle a pass from Trent Green and linebacker Orlando Ruff grabbed it to preserve the victory.
"We got a heck of a rush and closed the pocket on him." Ruff said. "As he was getting ready to throw, they got an arm on him, which caused the ball to hang up on him. The whole time I was thinking, I can't mess this one up."
the Chiefs gained 497 yards,
and Green threw for 311 yards. But Green, who had six touchdown passes in his last two games, was held to one scoring pass against New Orleans.
He completed 22 of 33 passes, and was intercepted twice.
"The first three possessions we got 10 points out of it," Green said. "And then you can just go from there. It was frustrating for us the rest of the game. Anytime you have the number of penalties that we had, both offensively and defensively, and the turnovers that we had, it's hard to win a game when you do that."
Blaylock, playing for the injured Priest Holmes, had 33 carries for 186 yards and a touchdown.
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race before Benson fell back.
Mathew finished second. Benson defeated his brother when he won the Big 12 Championships two weeks ago.
"I started struggling with my hamstring, so I kind of slowed down a little bit." Chesang said.
Chesang covered the 10-kilometer course in 30 minutes, 30.74 seconds, finishing 42 seconds behind Carlson, who posted a time of 29:48.44.
Chris Jones, the only senior who competed for the men's squad, was disappointed with the team's second consecutive fourth-place regional finish, once again falling two places short of qualifying.
"The reason I came here was to go to nationals," he said. "Now it's been four years and I don't get to go. It's a bad feeling, but what can you do? At least we had Benson qualify."
Freshman Colby Wissel was the next Jayhawk to cross the
time, finishing in 17th in 31:03.92.
He was followed by junior Matt French, who came in 26th in 31:22.06.
Freshman Paul Hefferon came in next in 34th in 31:29.33, with Jones right behind in 36th in 31:31.69.
The women's team finished 16th out of 26 teams.
Senior Megan Manthe led the way for the 'Hawks, placing 61st out of 185 runners with a 6-kilometer time of 22:14.75 seconds.
Missouri won the race. Illinois placed second and was led by winner Cassie Hunt with a time of 20:21.29.
Manthe, the lone senior competing for the Kansas women's squad, raced despite a stress fracture in her left foot that had kept her from running in practice for six weeks.
Freshman Lisa Morrisey, who hadn't finished in the top five on the team all season, crossed the line next for the Jayhawks in 72nd, clocking a season-best time of 22:25.94.
Junior Angela Pichardo followed in 90th place in 22:44.052.
Freshman Connie Abbott was right behind in 91st at 22:45.62, followed by sophomore Dena Seibel in 109th at 23:03.14.
Pichardo said the experience of running in the most important race of the season will benefit the young squad in the future.
"It was good to see how everyone was able to use this as a meet to improve and gain experience," she said. "Even though we got 16th, we stayed together and helped each other during the race."
Coach Stanley Redwine was also optimistic about the team's potential for next season, despite the fact that the team dropped from fifth place in last year's meet to 16th.
"We graduated some people last year and we replaced them with young people," he said. "That's where we are right now. I think they did a good job."
— Edited by Ashley Bechard
Sophomore midfielder Nicole Cauzillo connects on a header in front of Nebraska junior forward Nikki Baker in yesterday's NCAA tournament second round game.
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The Jayhawks attacked the Nebraska defense for virtually the rest of the game, but were unable to score until junior forward Jessica Smith found a hole in the defense in the 68th minute.
get loud.
She ended Kansas' scoreless drought by knocking a curving shot into the left edge of the goal.
After the goal, she ran back to mid-field, waving her arms in the air telling the crowd to
The fans obliged and seemed to help energize the Jayhawks for the rest of the second half.
Kansas did everything right from that point on, but couldn't manage another score before the game went to overtime.
The Jayhawks kept up their dominance early in overtime by attacking the Nebraska goal, but it all became moot when Baker slipped past the Kansas defense, took a pass from junior
torward Kari Hogan and scored the game-winning goal.
Each Kansas player dealt with the loss in different ways. Some fell to the ground in disbelief, while others tried to cheer up with hugs.
Francis took the loss as hard as anyone and said he would never have a group of players like this again.
"This is the best team we've ever had," he said. "We were capable of going further than last year, but obviously that can't happen now."
- Edited by Ashley Bechard
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