2B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
CLUB SPORTS
Season looks promising for soccer club Men's team adds ten new players, works toward this year's championship
BY KAYVON SARRAF
The University of Kansas men's club soccer team is not worried about placing high hopes on its shoulders entering the 2006 season.
Success is the norm for a program that has won its region and competed in the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association's Collegiate Soccer Sport Club Championships in four of the past five seasons.
"Anything short of winning our region and going back to nationals would be a disappointment," said Mike Kutz, St. Louis senior. "We need to win our region in order to qualify for nationals and we've gotten to the point where we expect to win it."
The Jayhawks' best performance at nationals came two seasons ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where the team lost in the quarterfinals.
If the team is unable to qualify for the championship division at nationals this season it will likely still travel to Arizona State University to participate in the tournament's open division Nov. 16 to Nov. 18.
The pursuit of the national tournament got off to a sour note Friday night in Manhattan, where the Jayhawks fell to Kansas State 2-1.
"It was a tough loss. We had some good opportunities and were pretty unlucky. We have some new guys and once we get a chance to jell we should be real solid," said Adam Evans, Kinewood, Tex., senior.
The team adds 10 new players
to a 22-member squad that lost to ev-ntual-champion Missouri in a shoutout in the regional semifinals last year.
"We're a lot deeper this year. We're basically two-deep at every position to the point where all our starters could leave the game and there wouldn't be much of a drop-off", said Kutz, a goaltender.
The team is led by captains Sean Strull, Garland, Texas, junior, and Thomas Sunderland, Overland Park junior. Strull led the team in scoring last season.
This season's games include a return trip to Manhattan for the Ed Chartrand Memorial Soccer Tournament. The Jayhawks won the tournament when they reached it two seasons ago.
Up next is the team's home opener against Wichita State at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Shenk Sports Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets.
"Friday's loss was a tough one. We're looking forward to getting a chance to bounce back on Saturday. If we play as well as we can, we shouldn't lose any more league games," said Alex Brand, Eden Prairie, Minn., senior and club president said.
This year, the team plans to raise funds by selling T-shirts and sweatshirts.
Kansan sportswriter Kayvon Sarraf can be contacted at ksarraf@ kansan.com.
Edited by Dianne Smith
Ohio St. still tops
Record through Sept. 9 • First-place votes •
Previous ranking
Others receiving votes: Clemmon 92, Bosie
St. 72, Alabama 70, Georgia Tech 33, UCLA
33, Rutgers 32, Wisconsin 28, Pittsburgh
11, Texas A&M 11, Missouri 9, Purdue 1
GOLF
Jayhawks preview difficult course Kansas finishes in fifth place after strong second day of play
BY ASHER FUSCO
Coach Ross Randall wanted his team to compete in the Rich Harvest Farms Intercollegiate in order to give the golfers a taste of the course that awaits them later this season in the NCAA regional tournament. As it turns out, the team's experience at Rich Harvest Farms could be invaluable considering the unforgiving nature of the course.
After going through some early jitters the layhawks enjoyed a strong final round en route to a fifth-place finish in Sugar Grove, III., this past weekend.
Things did not look good for Kansas when play ended on Saturday. Senior Tyler Docking was the only Jayhawk near even par.
Senior Gary Woodland was forced to curtail a frustrating first round when play was suspended
because it got dark. Woodland finished the first round with a score of 79, seven over par.
play well," said Randall. "But this is one of the hardest courses around so quite a few teams had big scores."
"The first day we really didn't
Kans s looked like a completely different team when it took
"This is one of the hardest courses around so quite a few teams had big scores."
in the final round to finish in a tie for 27th place.
"Knowles had some putting problems in the first two rounds
ROSS RANDALL
Kansas golf coach
to the course on Sunday. Woodland reverted to past form, shooting a second-round 75 and a third-round 71 to launch himself up the leader board and into a tie for sixth place overall. Woodland's 71 was tied for the lowest single-round score posted at the tournament.
but put together a real good run in the final round," Randall said.
Tyler Docking kept his second and third-round scores below 80 and finished tied for 15th overall.
Senior Barrett Martens recovered from a rough first round to finish tied for 39th with an overall score of 238. Sophomore Zach Pederson brought up the
rear for the Jayhawks with a total score of 242, tied for 51st place.
The most pleasant surprise of the weekend came from freshman Bobby Knowles. Knowles, competing in his first collegiate tournament, showed some inexperience early, firing back-to-back 80s in rounds one and two. He showed consistency from the tee box but struggled on the greens, three-putting several holes.
Louisville finished first overall with a final score of 895. Other notables include Big 12 rivals Kansas State, Colorado and Missouri, which finished tied for 2nd, 4th, and 11th respectively. Overall individual honors went to Louisville's Derek Fathauer, who posted a total of 221.
Kansas hosts the Kansas Invitational next Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 18 and 19. The tournament will be held at Lawrence's Alvamar Golf Club.
The third round was a different story. He posted a two-over-par 74
Kansan sportswriter Asher Fusco can be contacted at afusco@kansan.com.
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BIG 12
Coaches displeased with new time-keeping rules Shorter games provide less time for fans to enjoy the experience
BY ARNIE STAPLETON ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — The new NCAA rules designed to shorten football games are actually diminishing the time-honored experience for fans and players alike, say several Big 12 coaches who are exasperated by the changes.
The NCAA implemented rules this season to keep the clock running more. The result has been an average of 12.6 fewer combined plays, Ty Halpin, NCAA associate director of playing rules administration, said.
Some schools, however, have experienced drastic declines in their number of offensive plays. Colorado ran just 48 plays last week against Colorado State in a game that lasted just 2:48, more than 45 minutes shorter than the Buffs average game a year ago.
Under the new rules, clocks start on kickoffs rather than when the receiving team touches the ball. After a change in possession, the clock restarts when the ball is marked for play and not the ensuing snap. And kicking tees were shortened by an inch to limit the number of clock-stopping touch-backs.
"I hate it," said Texas coach Mack Brown. "I just think one of the greatest things about college football was the ability for teams to come back. And now the great plays right before the half, at the end of the game, are more limited than they used to be."
Brown noted that last weekend's matchup with Ohio State was 22 minutes shorter than the Longhorns' big game against the
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"A little under 10 percent of the game is gone." Brown said. "And I don't think that's fair to the fans."
Halpin said the NCAA doesn't track the time of games, which last year averaged 3:20 for televised games and 3:03 for nontelevised games. Several approached the four-hour mark.
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said it's silly to think college football fans want less of a good thing.
"I'm not excited about it. I don't know that our fans are," he said. "We have 85,000 people at our games. Many people travel great distances, some travel five to six hours. I don't know that they come to see a quick game, to see a game played in three hours."
In Denver, Colorado (48) and Colorado State (58) ran 106 combined plays, the fourth-fewest in a CU game since 1946. In the modern era, the only game that featured a similarly low number of plays was Colorado's game against Nebraska on Nov. 7, 1961, when the teams combined for 106 plays in a snowstorm in Lincoln.
"You are seeing it have an effect on games and I think it's going to have an effect on the overall climate of college football." Buffalooes coach Dan Hawkins said, "I don't think you're going to see the dramatic comebacks that you have in the past."
Texas A&M coach Dennis Franchione said the new rules have unleveled the playing field because they will diminish offensive statistics, making it more difficult for teams or individuals to establish records.
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