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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2004
Guiel caps late rally as Royals beat Tigers, 9-8
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Aaron Guiel was the only starter on either team without a hit. That didn't stop him from winning the game.
Guiel capped a three-run Royal rally in the ninth Tuesday night with a sacrifice fly, driving in the winning run in Kansas City's 9-8 victory over Detroit.
The win snapped a five-game losing skid for the Royals, who rallied from deficits of 5-0 and 7-4.
Guiel's 0-for-5 performance while his teammates collected 17 singles didn't bother him in the least.
"There's going to be
"There's going to be lots of nights I don't get a hit," Guilie said. "Wins are kind of hard to come by for us this year."
With the Royals trailing by two in the ninth, Abraham Nunez led off with his fourth single of the game.
Ugueth Urbina (4-6) walked Calvin Pickering and gave up a bunt single to John Buck to load the bases.
Ruben Gotay followed with an RBI single and Alexis Gomez grounded into a runscoring fielder's choice to tie it at 8
"We let this
one slip away. We had leads and we weren't able to hold them."
Gomez
Alan Trammel
Detroit manager
Gomez hustled to first and barely avoided the double play.
"We needed a break and we got it," said Jeremy Affeldt (3-1), who allowed a run on two hits in the ninth and got the win. "Gomez hustling that ball out to first base was his so key."
Guiel then lifted Urbina's first pitch to center and Buck slid home with the winning run.
"We let this one slip away," said Detroit manager Alan Trammell. "We had leads and we weren't able to hold them."
The Royals' 17 singles without an extra-base hit tied a team record.
"We probably shot ourselves in the foot," Trammell said. "When you give up that many hits and that many runs, you can't expect to win too many games."
Dimitri Young homered and drove in three runs, and Ivan Rodriguez went 4-for-4 for the Tigers, who have lost five of their last $x.
Young hit an RBI single in the first inning and Craig Monroe also had a run-scoring single to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead.
Marcus Thames doubled leading off the second and scored on Nook Logan's single. Carlos Guillen had an RBI single and Rodriguez's RBI double made it 5-0.
Wake up and wakeboard
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KU wakeboarding members Kyle Wilkinson, Pittsburg sophomore, and Matt Ostmeyer, Stillwell senior, were on campus Tuesday hoping to recruit members. The wakeboarding team is having a meeting for those who are interested at 7:30 p.m. today in the Student Fitness Recreation Center.
Tennis champ avoids defeat
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova nearly found out just how quickly one can go from diva to disaster.
No reigning Wimbledon women's champion ever lost in the first round of the U.S. Open, and Sharapova was just one game from that fate. Then she steeled herself to claim 12 of the last 14 points and got past Laura Granville 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 Tuesday night.
"My game went off for a while. I went to La-La Land," the 17-year-old
Siberian-turned-Floridian said, "but I came back to Earth."
She wasn't the only top player pushed to the limit on Day 2 at Flushing Meadows: 2000 Open winner Marat Safin and 11th-seeded Rainer Schuetterl lost, while 2003 runner-up Juan Carlos Ferrero and No. 5 Tim Henman both needed five sets to advance.
Safin, Schuettert and Ferrero all were put in the same quarter of the draw as 2003 champion Andy Roddick, who followed Harapova on court.
One indication of how players slide from star to afterthought: While Sharapova was on the National Tennis Center's main stage, 2000-01 Open champ Venus Williams was in the last day-session match on another court.
Made to wait until after 8:30 p.m. to play, because she was scheduled for after Henman and Ferrero, Williams was broken while serving for the match but eventually pulled out a 6-3, 7-6 (3) win over 64th-ranked Petra Mandula of Hungary.
Broncos cut players to meet limit
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER - The Denver Broncos waived 11 players and placed four on reserve lists Tuesday to reduce their roster to the 65-man maximum.
injured reserve list.
Cornerback Jimmy Spencer, who last year was the NFL's first player-coach since 1970-71, was placed on the retired reserve list.
He will remain with the team as assistant defensive backs coach.
Running back Mike Anderson, cornerback Jermaine Chatman and wide receiver B.J. Johnson were put on the
Anderson will miss the entire season after tearing both muscles in the left groin area late in Friday night's 31-17 exhibition victory over the Houston Texans.
Chatman, in his first year out of Arizona, broke his left hand in the Houston game.
Johnson, a rookie wide receiver out of Texas, has been out since injuring his left ankle on Aug. 5 in training camp.
Spencer, a 12-year veteran, played four seasons in Denver. Before Spencer, the last player-coach in the NFL was
Dan Reeves with the Dallas Cowboys.
Coach Mike Shanahan said the cuts were difficult.
"People put their hearts and souls into making the team, and all of a sudden you have to deliver the bad news. That's always tough," he said.
Waived by the Broncos were defensive end Luis Almanzar, running back Santonio Beard, wide receiver Atnaf Harris, safety Ron Israel, linebacker Riall Johnson, defensive tackle Brandon Kennedy, guard Tyler Lenda, quarterback Mike Quinn, tight end O.J. Santiago, tackle Jamain Stephens and cornerback Scott Turner.
Chiefs cut roster down to 76
KANSAS CITY, Mo . Guard Donald Willis was placed on the physically-unable-to-perform list Tuesday by the Kansas City Chiefs while rookie quarterback Casey Clausen was waived.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Also waived were wide receiver Zach Fletcher, wide receivers Herb Haygood, Dave Kelmic and Jeris McIntyre and running back Jonathan Smith.
Every NFL team has to get to a 53-man roster by Sunday. On Sept.6, they can create an eight-man practice squad.
Altogether, the Chiefs made seven transactions to reduce their roster to 76 players.
The 6-3, 325-pound Willis has
appeared in 63 games, including six starts, in his seven-year NFL career. He was with Kansas City from 2000- 2003.
Clausen was a four-year starter at Tennessee who started 44 games for Volunteers and completed 775 of 1270 passes for 9,707 yards and 75 touchdowns, second in the school's career list only to Peyton Manning.
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INTRAMURAL SCOREBOARD
Check the Kansan's Intramural Scoreboard every day for team results. Monday's Flag Football Results
Brian O'Malley vs. Fiji Pledge — tie
0-0
■ Delta Chi 2 vs. Sunshine Squad —
Delta Chi 8 win 8-0
Bubb Rub vs. BV All-Stars — Bubb
Rub win 28-6
Kougz vs. Theta Chi 1 — Theta Chi 1 win 26-18
Thirty Stones vs. Untouchables
Thirty Stones win 21-12
■ Pearson vs. Xtreme — Pearson win 20-6
Phi Psi 1 vs. Missionaries — Phi Psi 1 win 18-0
A6 vs, JD Hawks — JD Hawkes win 16-0
Source: Kansan Intramural Scoreboard
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