2B
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2006
athletics calendar
FRIDAY
Women's swimming, Intrasquad, 4 p.m., Robinson Center
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Player to watch. Senior team captain Jenny Shor placed in three different events at last season's Big 12 Championship meet. She set personal bests in the 100 back (55,58,58 place), 200 back (200,85 ninth), and 50 (23,91,16th).
Soccer vs. Texas, 4 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex
Women's tennis, Indiana Tournament, all day, Bloomington, Ind.
SATURDAY
Football vs. Texas A&M, 11 a.m., Memorial Stadium
Volleyball at Oklahoma, 7 p.m., Norman, Okla.
Softball. Big Red Fall Classic, 2:30 and 4:45 p.m., Lincoln, Neb
Tennis, Indiana Tournament, all day, Bloomington, Ind.
SUNDAY
Soccer vs. Texas A&M, 1 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex
Men's golf, Window Memorial Classic, TBA, Skokie Country Club, Glencoe, IL.
Softball, Big Red Fall Classic, 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Lincoln, Neb.
Tennis, Indiana Tournament, all day, Bloomington, Ind.
VOLLEYBALL (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Kansas in game one. On their 16-5 run to end the game, the Tigers used a five-point unanswered and a six-point unanswered run to crush the lahwahs by 11.
Missouri dominated Kansas on the stat sheet too. The Tigers had a .438 hitting efficiency compared with the Jayhawks' match-low .074.
In game two, the Jayhawks gave a better effort but came up short. The 'Tigers committed just one error in the game, leading them to a four-point victory. Missouri had a more efficient hitting ratio with a .395 hitting percentage compared to Kansas'. 283.
Missouri never trailed Kansas in the final game. The Tigers had a match-high 19 kills and used an 11-2 run to take the lead 26-14 en route to victory.
Kansas' Correa led the team with a match-high 16 kills and
With the victory, Missouri picked up the first event of the 2006-07 Border Showdown against Kansas.
Brown notched 10 kills, hitting double digits as well. Brown also led the defense with a match-high 17 digs.
The Jayhawks will continue their road circuit at No. 25 Oklahoma (12-3, 4-1) this Saturday. Kansas returns home Oct. 11 to take on Kansas State.
Game Note:
Last night's match in Columbia had the fifth-largest crowd in Missouri history with 3,031 fans.
Kansan sportswriter Drew Davison can be contacted at ddavison@kansan.com.
- Edited by Patrick Ross
NASCAR to debut new racecar in '07
》 NASCAR
BY JEFF DETERS
A new car, set to debut in 2007, will be the latest development for NASCAR, a sport that has evolved from its early days of racing on the beaches in Daytona, Fla. to roaring down the backstretch of new state-of-the-art track like the Kansas Speedway.
Tony Stewart coasts across the finish line out of gas to win the Banquet 400 NASCAR race on Sunday, October 1, 2006, in Kansas City, Kan. Second-place finisher Casey Mears also coated across out of gas, as the race finished in a game of who could avoid one final pit stop.
The "Car of Tomorrow" is the culmination of a five-year program led by NASCAR's Research and Development Center. The new car's primary goal is to increase driver safety without diminishing per-
Organization hopes new car will increase drivers' safety, preserve performance
past north lawrence off of hwy. 24
NASCAR driver Jeff Burton test drove the car and had some suspicions about the its set-up. "When you look at it, it looks so radically different you'd think it would drive radically different," Burton said. "However, they don't."
formance. The car will include a more upright windshield, stronger steel-plated leftside door panels and materials that absorb force to lessen impact on the driver. The driver will also sit closer to the center of the car, farther away from the impact during a crash.
Brett Bodine, a former NASCAR driver and owner, played a major role in the development of the car.
Bodine said he was pleased with NASCAR's technological progress during the last 50 years.
"NASCAR now has a lot more tools in its toolbox to govern the sport," Bodine said. "The results of that are safer cars, lever playing fields, better competition." The car
the same amount of horsepower, has the same kind of tires"
will be more box-like in shape as opposed to the sleekly designed cars of today.
Even though the car doesn't drive all that differently, Burton said it still presented problems for drivers.
"Aerodynamically, it's quite a bit different," Buron said. "But it it's still a race car. It's still a car that makes
"It makes me very proud to work for NASCAR and be part of this project," Bodine said. "I am very proud to have been part of the growth spurt of our sport for 17 years."
Kansan sportswriter Jeff Deters can be contacted at jdeters@kansan.com.
Edited by Derek Korte
It looks like Prince is hoping to build younger players for the future rather than win games. Kansas State
win struggle to win one conference game this season.
COLAIANNI (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Jayhawk fans shouldn't complain about what Prince is doing. His actions make it easier to make fun of Kansas State football. Kat
Big 12 north for the third-straight season. All the work that Bill Snyder did to bring Kansas State into
Jayhawk fans shouldn't complain about what Prince is doing. His actions make it easier to make fun of Kansas State football.
the national spotlight was squandered in Snyder's final two seasons and Price continues to run the program into the ground.
State football, Kansas State will most likely finish in last place in the
Prince's actions should not come as any
surprise, considering he did not have any experience as a head coach and he ran an average offense at
Virginia his last two seasons there. He is looking like a rookie coach and now he is turning to rookie players, a plan that rarely works at this level. Starting two true freshmen in the backfield is asking for disaster.
Freeman will start his first career game on Saturday at home against Oklahoma State. Prince said he knew what needed to be done for Freeman to be successful on Saturday against a team that has had two weeks to prepare for this game.
"We want to make sure that we have good support around him. Everybody around him has to play a clean game," Prince said at his
weekly press conference on Tuesday.
The Wildcats will have difficulty providing good support for Freeman considering the offense will start five freshmen on Saturday. Kansas State and Prince will drop to 0-2 in conference play on Saturday and the team's two losses will be against the two worst teams in the Big 12 South. Imagine who Prince throws under the bus after Saturday's loss.
Stay classy, Ron Prince.
Colaiani is a McLean, Va., senior in journalism and political science.
Edited by Derek Korte
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