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GOLF
Jayhawk women end fall season on a good note in Arkansas
The Kansas women's golf team finished ninth in a 19-team field yesterday in the Lady Razorback Invitational in Rogers, Ark.
The tournament was the Jayhawks last until spring.
Boston Red Sox Bill Mueller is hit by a pitch thrown by New York Yankees Jon Lieber in the first inning of Game 6 of the ALCS Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004 in New York.
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The Jayhawks shot a team total of 938 after three rounds at the Pinnacle Country Club in Arkansas.
Sophomore Amanda Costner finished in a tie for 32nd with a total score of 236.
Junior Chelsey Pryor, who shot a three-round total of 235 to finish in a tie for 29th, led the Kansas team.
Junior Tiffany Woods helped the Jayhawks win the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational last week at Alvamar Country Club in Lawrence by placing in a tie for fifth place individually with freshman teammate Annie Giangrosso.
In Arkansas, Woods posted a three round total of 237 to finish in a tie for 35th.
Giangrosso finished in a tie for 44th in Arkansas with a three-round total of 238.
Sophomore Jill Womble posted a three-round total of 239 to place in a tie for 49th.
"We are consistent, but I'd like us to be consistent with lower scoring," O'Neil said.
"We will look to the spring and work hard to improve between now and then," said coach Erin O'Neil. "I have definitely seen some good things from our team."
lowa State won the tournament with a three-round team total of 905, while Texas A&M took second place with a 916 total.
Arkansas placed third with a team total of 920.
The Jayhawks resume action on Feb. 28, 2005, when they participate in the Texas A&M "Mo"morial Invitational in College Station, Texas.
Eric Sorrentino
BASEBALL
Kansas baseball makes Web site's top five list
recent article on
A recent article on StudentSportsBaseball.com tabbed the baseball program at the University of Kansas as a "program on the rise."
For the past two years, the baseball team has recorded back-to-back 30-victory seasons for the third time in school history.
The list evaluated programs in terms of coaching staffs, facilities, college environments and academics. Joining Kansas on the "Top Five on the Rise" list were UCLA, South Carolina, Long Beach State and San Diego State.
Red Sox victory forces game 7
-Kansan staff report
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Gritting his teeth and grimacing throughout, Curt Schilling willed away the pain in his right ankle and the Boston Red Sox got the benefit of two reversed calls to move within one win of the most shocking comeback in baseball post-season history.
For the second straight year, the New York Yankees and the Red Sox will go to a Game 7, a winner-take-all battle for the AL pennant between baseball's perennial striped power and a Boston team desperately trying to win the World Series for the first time since 1918.
Pitching on a dislocated ankle tendon that forced him out of the opener, Schilling smothered the Yankees by allowing one run over seven innings to lead the Red Sox over New York 4-2 Tuesday night and pull Boston into a 3-3 tie in an AL championship series that was three outs from a sweep just two days earlier.
New York was ahead 5-0 in the series before blowing a ninth-inning lead in Game 4 at Fenway Park and losing in the 12th Sunday night. The Yankees led Game 5 in the eighth Monday, then lost that one, too, another 5-hour marathon that stretched on for 14 innings.
Of the 25 previous major league teams that fell behind 3-0 in a best-of-seven series, none had forced a Game 7. But back in the Bronx, where they wasted a four-run lead in Game 7 last year, the Red Sox broke through with a four-run fourth against Jon Lieber.
The team trying to reverse The Curse benefited from two big reversed calls.
In the fourth, Mark Bellhorn hit a ball over the left-field wall that was at first ruled a ground-rule double before it was correctly changed to a three-run homer that made it 4-0. It was his first postseason homer.
Then in the eighth, after Miguel Cairo's double and Derek Jeter's RBI single off Bronson Arroyo pulled the Yankees to 4-2. Alex Rodriguez hit a ball between the mound and first. Arroyo picked it up and ran toward first, where just before the base the striding A-Rod slapped the ball away.
Jeter came all the way around to score as the ball bounced down the right-field line. After Boston manager Terry Francona came out to argue, the umpires huddled, discussed the play, then called Rodriguez out for interference and sent Jeter back to first.
Rodriguez raised both hands and put them on his helmet, screaming about the reversal and the game was held up for 10 minutes while fans tossed debris on the field and Yankees manager Joe Torre argued. Gary Sheffield then fouled out, ending the inning.
After Boston's Orlando Cabrera was
ruled safe at first base in the ninth, preventing the Yankees from completing a double play, public address announcer Bob Sheppard made his second announcement for fans to maintain order. The umpires talked with Kevin Hallinan, senior vice president of security in the commissioner's office, as Yankees reliever Tanyon Sturtze warmed up.
Helmeted police then came on the field and kneeled in foul territory along the stands on both the left- and right-field sides in the top of the ninth.
Schilling, who accepted a trade to the Red Sox last fall for the express purpose of beating the Yankees, took a three-hit shutout into the seventh before allowing Bernie Williams' solo homer on the 91st of his 99 pitches.
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Arroyo allowed the run in the eighth and Keith Foulke pitched the ninth.
After chasing the Yankees all summer and falling short in the AL East race for the seventh straight season, the wild-card Red Sox caught up to their old rival, an unexpected turn of events given how close Boston was to packing up for the winter just 48 hours earlier.
Tim Wakefield, who lost Game 7 last year on Aaron Boone's 11th-inning homer, starts for the Red Sox on Wednesday night, most likely against Kevin Brown or Iavier Vazquez.
While the Yankees are trying for their seventh AL pennant in nine seasons under Torre and record 40th overall, the Red Sox are attempting to reach the World Series for the first time since 1986.
Kansas athletics calendar
TOMORROW
Tennis at ITA Regionals, all day, in Tulsa, OKr.
Volleyball at Okahoma, 7 p.m. in Norman, Oklahoma
Tennis at ITA Regionales, alt.day in Tulsa, Oklahoma
FRIDAY
Soccer at Texas A&M, 7 p.m., in College Station,
Texas
Tennis at ITA Regions, all day, in Tuska, Oklah.
Men's Golf at Stanford, all day, in Palo Alto, Calif.
Monday's intramural scores
Men's Open
LCA-3 def. Beta Freshman 21-18, 21-15
Country time def. Pearson 21-9, 21-16
Ballsackers def. A-BA 2-17, 21-18
Fiji 2 def. LCA-4 21-13, 9-21, 15-3
CoRec
Hawks def. AK Psi 21-9, 21-10
Groove def. Llamas 21-18, 21-11
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NFL
Rams' latest winning streak overshadows sluggish start
ST. LOUIS - Move over Reggie Jackson. Mike Martz is the NFL's version of Mr. October.
The St. Louis Rams' 28-21 victory over Tampa Bay Monday night was their third straight since a 1-2 start. They're 3-0 in October this season, 3-0 last October and 18-4 in the month since 1999. Martz took over as offensive coordinator that Super Bowl-winning season and became head coach the following year.
This season's October rejuvenation has moved the Rams (4-2) into first place in the NFC West and facing a game Sunday at winless Miami (0-6). After a sluggish September that ended with a 28-25 overtime loss at home to New Orleans — a game in which the St. Louis defense surrendered a three-point lead in the final 23 seconds — the Rams suddenly look again like the team that has made the playoffs four of the past five seasons.
"We're getting some momentum going, and we're getting better every week," Martz said. "This is all you can ask for."
The Rams struggled early on both sides of the ball — their Martz-declared "fast and furious" offense sputtering along averaging fewer than 20 points per game through September. On defense, the Rams gave up 34 points in a loss at Atlanta on Sept. 19, then forced just one punt in the loss to the Saints, a punt that was called back because of a roughing-the-kicker penalty.
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Hockey player's sentencing in murder-for-hire case delayed
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — The sentencing for former St. Louis Blues player Mike Danton in a federal murder-for-hire case has been deferred until next month, according to the office of the judge hearing the matter.
U. S. District Judge William D. Stiehl had a scheduling conflict and had to change the hearing date, which was to have been Friday, the judge's secretary
said yesterday. The hearing has been set for 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 8.
Danton, 23, agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to cause a person to travel in interstate commerce to commit murder.
Danton pleaded guilty July 16 to federal charges related to a murder-for-hire plot, a move that will almost certainly end his NHL career.
A related charge of making a telephone call in the murder-for-hire plot
was dropped as part of a deal with prosecutors.
Danton's plea agreement fell short of identifying his agent, David Frost, as the intended victim. But prosecutors have said in open court that Frost was the man Danton wanted killed. Frost has denied he was the target.
the FBI said they wouldn't oppose the move.
But Stiehl has noted that Danton may not be allowed to return to the United States. That, combined with the fact that Danton will be at least 30 and at least seven years removed from hockey by the time he gets out — there is no parole in the federal system means his once-promising career is likely over.
Danton could face seven to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine at sentencing. He is seeking transfer to a Canadian prison, and prosecutors and
A federal jury on Sept. 20 acquitted
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co-defendant Katie Wolfmeyer, 19, of charges that she helped Danton in the plot.
Danton met Wolfmeyer, of the St. Louis suburb of Florissant, Mo., at an area mall where the Blues practice.
Danton's attorney, Robert Haar, said yesterday that "we were ready to go forward (with sentencing) on Friday."
"We would like to get it resolved as soon as possible," he said.
Thriving Under Pressure Using Your Strengths to Cope with Stress:
This program focuses on enhancing the skills you already have to deal with stress inside and outside of the classroom environment.
Part of the Women in the Classroom Series
Thursday October 21st 7:00-8:00 p.m. Malott Room, Kansas Union
*Sponsored by The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
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