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SPORTS
FRIDAY,OCTOBER 1,2004
Team O'Malley eliminated from playoffs
By B.J. RAINS
brains@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWITER
Editor's Note: Thousands of students at the University of Kansas participate in intramural sports each semester. Each week during intramural season, a Kansan sportswriter will highlight one intramural game, as suggested by Recreation Services.
For the second consecutive game, the BV All-Stars and Team O'Malley were tied at halftime of their intramural flag football contest. And for the second consecutive game, the BV All-Stars came away with the victory.
This time the game meant more, as Team O'Malley was eliminated from the open division of the flag football playoffs and the BV All-Stars stayed alive with a 29-12 victory.
Junior quarterback Tyler Bron opened up the scoring in the first half, when he hit his teammate junior Greg Kiblen with a 60-yard pass for the first of Kiblen's two touchdowns on the day.
Team O'Malley countered with a score of its own, a 15-yard pass from sophomore Brian O'Malley to sophomore Brett McDonald, to tie the game at six. But on their next possession, O'Malley's pass was intercepted by junior Erik Harper, who returned it for a touchdown, giving the All-Stars the lead back 12-6. McDonald added another touchdown late in the first half, which tied the game at 12-12.
Controversy swirled in the second half. The BV All-Stars had the ball at midfield, and trouble began as quarterback Tyler Bron dropped back to pass.
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Team O'Malley sophomore defender Jamison MacDonald rushed towards Bron, and BV All-Star junior lineman Colin Manerick tried to block him. MacDonald made contact with Manerick, sending Colin flying to the ground. The referee threw a flag for illegal contact on MacDonald, but the play was still alive. It was a free play for the BV All-Stars. As MacDonald argued with the referee, Bron threw up a high, deep pass into the back of the end zone. BV All-Star junior wide receiver
Aaron. Kuddes caught the pass for the touchdown.
"The safety bit on the pump fake and when Aaron came back across the middle, he was open and I hit him." Bron said. "They only blitzed one guy, so I had plenty of time to wait back and watch the play develop."
watched the game. The BV All-Stars suffered a blow to their receiving core late in the game, when junior wide receiver Even Riesman left the game with a hamstring injury. After making a catch, Riesman was running across the middle of the field when he felt a pop in his left hamstring, and immediately fell to the ground. The degree of his injury was not immediately known, and his status for next weeks game remains
The BV All-Stars had a definite speed advantage over Team O'Malley, and they used that to its advantage, throwing deep passes all game long.
Team O'Malley may not be the fastest team in the league, but that doesn't bother the team.
"That was the game plan," Kuddes said. "We knew we were a lot faster than them, so we wanted to get past them and throw it deep. We did that, and came away with the win."
"We're the most unathletic team in the league, but we have the most fun," said Team O'Malley junior wide receiver Andy Seitnater.
HEIGHT: Team needs to use size advantage during games
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"They help me more than I help them," she said. "Looking from the outside, they can see better what the other team is doing."
She said all the frontline positions required quick feet and what coach Ray Bechard calls a "soft eve."
"You can't guess where the ball's going to go," she said.
Brown said the team would have to take advantage of its height and athletic ability on the front line to rebound from its 1-3 start in Big 12 Conference play.
"All of us are real physical players," she said. "We need to
"You can't guess where the ball's
going to go."
Josi Lima Junior middle blocker
No. 24 Kansas will play Baylor at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Waco, Texas.
The Jayhawks' next home game will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday against the No.15 Kansas State Wildcats.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Edited by Neil Mulka
D.C. scrambles to fund new,old stadiums
WASHINGTON — The celebration can't last long in the nation's capital. The real work is just beginning now that the Montreal Expos are on the way.
Major League Baseball has some unfinished business, too. The other team owners must approve the move when they meet in November. A buyer has to be found for the relocated team. A deal must be completed that appeases Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos
The city government must race against time to approve funding for a new stadium. RFK Stadium must be renovated in time for opening day in April, and a team nickname needs to be chosen.
"We finally have taken the first step," commissioner Bud Selig said Wednesday, shortly after announcing the Expos' move to Washington. "And I want to say, obviously, there's a lot of work to be done."
For a day, at least, there was unbridled jubilation among officials who had worked diligently to end the city's 33-year drought of major league baseball. Mayor Anthony Williams drew cheers as he dunned a Washington Senators cap at a news conference at the City Museum.
"After 30 years of waiting and waiting and waiting," Williams said, "and lots of hard work and more than a few prayers, there will be baseball in Washington in 2005!"
The team will play at RFK for three seasons while a new ballpark is built along the Anacostia River, south of the Capitol. It's a $440 million package that requires approval by the city council.
Some present council members have objected to the plan, which would pay for the ballpark with a new tax on the city's largest businesses, a tax on baseball-related income and lease payments by the team's new owners.
"It's the team owners, business owners, the stadium users who are paying for this, and not one dime of a D.C. resident is covering this important investment in our city," he said.
Williams went on the offensive to answer the criticism.
The Associated Press
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Alvamar Golf Club, Kevin Ward, Leawood senior, won the individual tournament, and continued his run of victories from the summer. He said that it was nice to get a victory early in the season, but he wanted to focus and prepare for the Windon Memorial Intercollegiate tournament next week.
"Andrew knows the course so well," Ward said. "It's pretty good to have almost two home tournaments in a row. I really hope that he can go out and play well, because that will mean a lot to him, going to his home course."
PRICE: Coach says team looks to improve
Randall said the team did not play its best golf last week and looked to build on the victory at Alvamar.
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The golf team will have to get things going without the services of Gary Woodland, Topeka sophomore. Woodland injured his back and has been in pain for seven to eight weeks. Randall said doctors told Woodland not to take a golf swing for the next eight to 10 days.
Randall held additional qualifying rounds to determine who would replace Woodland next week. The qualifier ended today.
Randall said that he would rather have Woodland miss next week and get better for the last two tournaments of the semester. Woodland should be available when Kansas travels to Palo-Alto, Calif., for the Nelson-Stanford Invitational on Oct. 22.
Edited by Neil Mulka
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