INSIDE SPORTS
2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15,2004
Kansas athletics calendar
TOMORROW
Women's basketball vs. California All-Stars at home at 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Volloyhall at Texas at 7 p.m., Austin, Texas
THURSDAY
Swimming at North Carolina Invite, all day,
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Thursday's scores
FLOOR HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
FLOOR HOCKEY ACCESS
**Men's Greek**
DU2 def. AE Pi (1-0)
Beta Freshman. Sigma Chi 2 (1-0)
Beta A-2 def. DU3 (1-0)
SAE I def. Beta A-3 (7-0)
Men's open
1122 def. Candygram for Mongo (4-1)
VOLLEYBALL
Men
ICA 1 def. Sie Ep 1 (25-17, 25-20)
CoRec
CoRec Bro's and Ho's def. B-School Bappers (25-12, 25-
13)
(13) Team Skete def. Mountaineers (25-17, 25-14)
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Woodard to enter Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in '05
Former Kansas women's basketball player Lynette Woodard was selected Sunday to be inducted in the 2005 class of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. The selection follows up Woodard's September induction into the general Basketball Hall of Fame
the Gila and During her career at Kansas, Woodward scored 3,649 points and became the all-time leading scorer in Division I women's basketball. She was named a Kodak All-American four times.
Woodard also played in the Olympics twice, and served as the captain of the gold-medal American team in 1984.
Following her college career, Woodard played professionally as the first woman on the Harlem Globetrotters. She later joined professional leagues in Italy and Japan before playing two seasons in the WNBA.She served the past five years as an assistant coach at Kansas under Marian Washington.
-Kensan Staff Reports
Woodard and five other nominees will officially join the Hall of Fame during the June 10-11, 2005, weekend in Knoxville, Tenn.
Third recruit for '05 signs onto next year's basketball class
Bonnie Henrickson has signed on another top-notch recruit for the 2005-06 women's basketball team.
Sophronia Sallard, a 5-foot-10 small forward from Syracuse, N.Y., signed a letter of intent to play at Kansas on Friday. According to Blue Star recruiting service, Sallard is the No. 25 player in the nation. The Adidas top-10-all-star girls report rates her as the No. 15 wing player in the country.
In her junior year at Nottingham High School, Sailard averaged 17 points and nine rebounds and earned Metro Player of the Year honors.
Mercury Sailor of Kansas over Kentucky, Syracuse, Alabama-Birmingham and Virginia.
Fan farewell
Virginia:
Sallard joins 5-8 point guard Ivana
Catic and 6-2 forward Jennifer Orgas
who both signed last week.
Kansas is expected to sign one more player before the early signing deadline on Wednesday.
Paul Brano
KU fans Josh Bailey, Lawrence junior, left, and Jesse Plous, Leawood junior, express their frustration with a call during the second half of the Jayhawks' loss against the Longhorns Saturday. The game was the final game at Memorial Stadium for 19 seniors.
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Rams shut down Seahawks
St. Louis defensive players answer their coach's challenge, stop Seattle
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Mike Martz's week of anger was no empty display. He saw the season slipping away for the defending NFC West champions and thought taking potshots at his players might be his best shot at turning things around. The St. Louis Rams responded to the tongue-lashings and physical practices by slapping around the Seattle Seahawks.
Seaahawks.
Marc Bulger got off to a red-hot start and a beleaguered defense held Seattle to three field goals in five trips inside the 20 in a 23-12 victory to earn St. Louis a first-place tie with Seattle atop the NFC West yesterday.
Martz held little back after consecutive losses to the New England Patriots and the then winless Miami Dolphins.
Douplims.
"You don't want the head man upset," Rams wide receiver Kevin Curtis said. "It can't help but fire you up a little bit to play even harder."
such impressively.
"It's easy to take things for granted — all of us, coaches too," Martz said. "If you don't coach attitude and bring out the passion that they have to play this game, then you start to slide, and I think that's where we were."
Martz's tactics included a live scrimmage on Wednesday, a very unusual full-contact drill for the NFL but something that he'll continue after seeing such impressive results.
The Rams led 17-0 early in the second quarter. A month ago in Seattle, they had to score 17 points in the final 5 1/2 minutes of regulation to force overtime.
The Rams (5-4) responded to Mad Mike by sweeping the season series against their top competition in the West, this time benefiting from an early cushion rather than a fast finish.
overtime. "They made key plays when they had to, and we didn't," Seahawks coach Mike Holngren said. "I think that was the story."
Shaun Alexander had 176 yards on 22 carries for Seattle, putting him over 1,000 yards for the fourth straight season.
chance to be the game. "I was just thinking 'make plays,' and I went out to make a play," Alexander said. "Their defense made a better one."
But Alexander's fumble after a 35-yard gain to the St. Louis 9 early in the fourth quarter blew the Seahawks' chance to tie the game.
Seattle's Matt Hasselbeck played with a charley horse after colliding with Alexander on the Seahawks' first play, and ended with one of his worst games of the season for the Seahawks (5-4), going 15-for-36 for 172 yards. The Seahawks were limited to four field goals by Josh Brown.
"We've been giving up points and I'm quite sure teams are coming in and thinking 'Man, we should be able to get
at least 30 points,' and rightfully so," Williams said. "When this defense can hold a good offense like that to 12 points it's going to build momentum."
Bulger was 5-for-6 for 71 yards on the opening drive, capped by a 15-yard touchdown pass to Curtis, and was 12-for-15 in the first quarter for 158 yards. By early in the second quarter he had completed passes to nine receivers.
He was ineffective much of the second half playing with the lead, finishing 23-for-54 for 262 yards.
But Marshall Faulk helped compensate, shrugging off a lost fumble and finishing with a season-best 139 yards on 18 carries, and the Rams totaled a season-best 202 yards on the ground.
ground.
The Rams came out firing. Martz called 13 consecutive passes to open the game and 10 were completions, including the 15-yard TD to Curtis. He finally called for a handoff midway through the second quarter, resulting in a 14-yard gain by Steven Jackson. Jackson scored from the 4 on the next play for a 14-0 lead.
play for a 14-6 lead.
The Rams played much of the game minus two stars. Offensive tackle Orlando Pace was ejected in the third quarter for making contact with the side judge during a scrum following a lost fumble by Faulk. Torry Holt took a blow to the head in the first quarter and did not return.
Postseason play will not include K-State
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOULDER, Colo. — Kansas State still has a week to go in its season.
After that, the Wildcats will be in unfamiliar territory — watching bowl games, instead of playing in one.
A f t e r Colorado beat the Wildcats 38-31 on Saturday on Joel Klatt's improbable 64-yard touchdown pass to Ron Monteilh
nobody wants to go out this way," safety Jesse Tetuan said. "I feel terrible because I was one of those guys that didn't help us win at all. I feel terrible because there were seniors that can't get this chance back."
Kansas State's tumble to 4-6 overall and 2-5 in Big 12 Conference play comes just one season after the Wildcats won their first Big 12 title and played in the Fiesta Bowl.
team. That was also Kansas State's last losing season — until this year rolled around.
with five seconds left on the clock. Kansas State is going to miss the postseason for the first time since the 1992 team, which finished 5-6.
and Missouri.
Against the Buffalooes (6-4, 3-4),
they overcame deficits of 24-10 and
31-24 in the fourth quarter and
appeared headed for overtime with a
late score.
Snyder said. The Wildcats, who close out the season at home Saturday against Iowa State, had stayed in bowl contention with back-to-back wins over Nebraska and Missouri.
played in the Fiesta Dow. "We have broken a lot of streaks this year, and none of them have been ones that we wanted to break," coach Bill Snyder said.
Dylan Meier — a substitute playing with a nagging injury that has hampered his throwing motion for much of the year — drove K-State 80 yards and hit Jermaine Moreira for a 17-yard touchdown with 36 seconds left.
touchdown with Colorado's last-ditch drive, Klatt was able to recover from a diving tackle attempt by defensive tackle Derek Marso and throw the game-winner to Monteilh.
"That play killed me," said Marso, who could only grab Klatt's right foot. "I wanted to die."
At least the Wildcats can still avoid their worst finish since 1989, when they went 1-10 in Snyder's first season, by beating Iowa State.
boating Iowa State.
"This football team will be remembered, more than anything else, by how they respond to this loss a week from now." Snyder said. "We have a lot of seniors who are going to line up and play their last game. Our seniors have not brought the kind of leadership that we need, and it is time for them to step up for their last one and truly take command of the leadership of this team."
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