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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Sports
Friday
October 1, 1999
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Kansas tennis
After losing big to Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb., Kansas volleyball looks to regain its stride at home against Texas Tech.
The Kansas men's and women's teams will be swinging across the country this weekend.
SEE PAGE 13A
KANSAS TENNIS
SEE PAGE 12A
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Playoff pursuit
The New York Mets fell two games behind Cincinnati and Houston in the chase for the last two spots in the NL playoffs.
SEE PAGE 11A
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Kansas to play 14th-ranked Baylor
Kansas midfielder Lindsay Hunting slides as she shoots for a goal in practice this week. The Jayhawks continue Big 12 play today when they face the Baylon Bears in Waco, Texas. Photo by Chad Cummings/KANSAN
Soccer team to face Bears Red Raiders
By Chris Wristen
sports@kansan.com
Kansas sportwriter
The Kansas soccer team will dive back into Big 12 Conference play today when it takes on Baylor at 7 tonight in Waco, Texas.
The Bears, 7-3,1-1 in the Big 12, are ranked 14th in the nation by the National Soccer Coaches Athletic Association and are the defending regular season conference champions.
They bring a solid offensive attack that has netted 23 goals this season. Forwards Courtney Saunders and Nikki Hales headline the offense, but Baylor is weakened with the loss of senior Molly Cameron. Cameron, Baylor's all-time leading scorer, tore her anterior crucitate ligament during the first week of
practice and will miss the entire season.
"They've got two very good forwards," said coach Mark Francis. "We're going to have to shut those two out of the game. Our defense is much better now, though, much more organized."
The Kansas defense will have its hands full, but is confident it knows enough about the Bears to get the job done.
"I played with a couple of their girls this summer, so I kind of know what to expect," said freshman defender Bridget Goyen.
Goyen, who is a native Texan, is looking forward to the return to her home state.
"A lot of my family is going to be there," Goyen said. "It's about 100 miles from my house, and I'll get to see my brothers."
In addition to defensive play, the offense is going to need a big game if Kansas is going to knock off Bavlor.
"We've got to do a better job finishing our chances because against conference teams we're not going to get as many good chances," Francis said.
"With Texas Tech, we have to win to get into the conference tournament. There's no 'if' or what,' we have to."
Bridget Goyen freshman defender
The Jayhawks will travel to Texas Tech to play the Red Raiders at 1 p.m. Sunday. That game could be a must-win if the Jayhawks hope to qualify for the Big 12 tournament.
The top eight teams qualify for the conference tournament, something Kansas has never accomplished before. Texas Tech is one of the teams Francis said his team would need to beat to qualify.
today.
"I think there's some teams in the conference that we are definitely more matched up with than others, and Texas Tech is one of them, along with Oklahoma and Oklahoma State," Francis said. "They're teams that if we show up and play well we should definitely beat."
The Red Raiders, 4-5-1, 0-2, have struggled so far this season. They recently lost a 2-1 overtime game to Texas Christian and will battle 20th-ranked Missouri
His players also realize the importance of a victory against Texas Tech.
"With Texas Tech, we have to win to get into the conference tournament," Goyen said. "There's no 'if' or 'what,' we have to."
Edited by Chris Hopkins
Athletes find ultimate challenge
Oscar Zavarse, Caracas, Venezuela, sophomore, catches a pass. Zavarse was playing yesterday for the HorrorZontals, the men's ultimate Frisbee team. Photo Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Men's, women's Frisbee teams hope to repeat previous success
By Jason Walker sports @kansan.com Kansan sportwriter
Will Spotts, Lawrence graduate student, carries a Frisbee wherever he goes on campus.
spots is a member of the HorrorZontals, the Jayhawk men's ultimate Frisbee team. The HorrorZontals are in their 20th year of existence at the Kansas, and for the past two decades they have been practicing this unique sport on campus.
Ultimate, as the players call it, is a game that is played on a field that is 70 yards long and 40 yards wide, with 25-ward end zones at each end.
For the 14 players, seven on each team, the object is to pass the Frisbee to teammates, without it being stolen, all the way to the end zone. A point is awarded for each score, and the games are usually played to 13 or 15 points, unless time runs out.
While that may sound simple, the rules of ultimate make scoring not
See FRISBEE on page 15A
Rowers to get feet wet at first regatta of the season
By Shawn Linenberger
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas rowing team will begin the 1999-2000 season tomorrow near Pittsburgh at the Head of the Ohio Regatta, hoping to build on its success last year.
going to the Jayhawks are coming off their best year since the program began in Fall 1995. They won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta in May; rowing's equivalent to basketball's NIT. This year, though, Kansas has its sight set on the NCAA championships.
NCAA champion,
"Last year was our breakthrough year," said co-captain Risa Petty. "Before that, we weren't an upper-echelon team. Now we are, and we want to prove that we deserve to be in the NCAAs."
Petty said the Hawks should be even faster this year.
Petty wants to improve on last year's results — which could be difficult, considering that six of Kansas' opponents were in the NCAA championships last year, including Brown, the defending national champion, Virginia, last year's NCAA runner-up, Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin and Cornell are the other
Kansas competed in the Head of the Ohio Regatta for the first time last year, placing 17th out of 40 collegiate and national teams. The Jayhawks placed 10th out of the collegiate teams.
The Jayhawks are optimistic because their first-varsity eight boat is senior-dominated. Junior Heather Muir is the only rower not entering her final year. Senior Nikia Rosenberger is the first-team coxswain. The coxswain steers the boat.
NCAA qualifiers competing tomorrow. Big 12 Conference member Texas will also be at Pittsburgh.
Coach Rob Catloth said he's ready for the season to start.
"We're ready to get our feet wet," he said.
"We've been practicing for over a month.
I'm eager to see where we stand."
Co-captain Tara Lynn said that practices had been going well.
"We're on fire," Lynn said. "We're picking up right where we left off last year. We know where we want to go. Our goal is essentially making the NCAA."
Cravens, Tara Lynn, Risa Petty and Abby Rosdahl are this year's co-captains. Lynn and Petty were co-captains last year.
- Edited by Mike Loader
Co-captains were nominated this week by their teammates. Seniors Keesha
LINEUPS
**first-varsity boat** Rita Rosenberger, coxain, 8; Risa Petty, 7; Heather Muir; 6; Jara Lynn, 5; Sarah Canfield; 4; Jettie Ebbs; 3. Jeeka Crawcens; 2; Abby Rosdahl; and 1. Jlaura Hubert, bow seat
**second-varsity boat:** Jennifer Page, coxwain, 8.)Stacley Frain; 7.) Shannon Gribbin; 6.)Kristi Dubiel; 5.)Ellen Remsimg; 4.)Tara Allsop; 3.)Caren Nies; 2.)Ali Brox; and 1.)Tiffany Marquart, bow seat.
For baseball, Tiger Stadium was more than just a ballpark
The baseball world lost a friend this week.
einem world lost a friend this week
Before defeat the Kansas City Royals
8-2 Monday afternoon, the Detroit Tigers
laced up their spikes, tucked in their jerseys and trotted out to their positions on the Tiger Stadium field for the last time.
It was the last major league baseball game played at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull avenues in downtown Detroit.
Navin Field, which has since evolved into modern-day Tiger Stadium, opened its doors for baseball April 20, 1912 — five days after a ship called the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
Tiger Stadium was a park built for baseball — its odd corners and peculiar dimensions, an overhang protruding over the right-field wall, its seats so close to the field that fans felt like they could reach out and touch the players and its eerie echoes. No ballpark anywhere is quite the same.
No outpark any where is quite the same.
But the story of this iron cathedral is
But the story of this more than one of endurance, or simple originality.
It is a landmark that transcends baseball, a defining part of its city.
Even in their most hopeless hours, it is where people gathered to rejoice, to release frustration, to pray their church of baseball.
Matt
James
sports columnist
sports@kanan.com
In the Depression,
when many struggled
to find trolley fare.
It is ironic that the last game at Tiger Stadium would include the Royals, a small-market team struggling to compete in a sport that has become big-business.
Next year, the Tigers will play at state-of-the-art Comerica Park, just a mile from Tiger Stadium, but light-years away in reality. No longer will the words, "Ty Cobb played here," or, "This is where Lou Gehrig ended his consecutive-games streak," be uttered. No one will point to the towering roof in right, and daydream about the day Reggie Jackson hit one out of the stadium in the 1971 All-Star game.
The glorious third deck will instead be luxury boxes, and stretch limos will replace the waves of fans walking to the games.
Where will fans park? Will they continue to help someone earn a few bucks by parking in their yard, or a church lot? Or, they will pay $15 to park in the convenience of a new parking garage.
they would walk across the city and count out their nennies to buy grandstand seats.
Baseball always has been America's pastime. Young and old, rich and poor — all were welcome. But the game is no longer for the average Joe and Jane. It is slowly passing us by.
More than 107 million fans have jammed into Tiger Stadium during its life. But those people were more than a number. They were millions of sons watching batting practice, dreaming that their dads were once major-leaguers, and millions of fathers, praying a foul ball would land in their son's mitt.
but their penalties to buy g. and h.
These were people who had lost almost
everything; jobs, money and in many cases
their homes. In the 1930s, no city was
crushed under the weight of poverty like
Detroit.
There will be other memories made in the new ballpark. But how many will be able to enjoy them?
That summer, the Tigers fought their way to first place and slowly pulled away in the standings, won the pennant and the World Series. No one can say with certainty that this glorious summer of Detroit baseball eased tension in the city, but Tiger Stadium was a place of refuge, where for two or three hours, color was transparent.
Thank you Tiger Stadium. We will remember you with pride. For what we have seen, and what you represent.
When there seemed to be no hope, in Tiger Stadium they learned to hope again.
Tiger Stadium they learned to hope again. In the spring of 1668, the distrust and hatred that had torn the country apart at its racial seams, still raged in inner-city Detroit.
James is a Hugoton senior in journalism.