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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 2007
SOFTBALL
Hawks get good start to fall season
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Freshman second baseman/shortstop Kolby Fesmire bunts during the softball game against Missouri Southern Saturday afternoon. The Jayhawks won all three of the games they played this weekend.
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Liz Kocon, freshman outfielder, tracks down a fly ball to right field during the softball game against Butler Community College Saturday afternoon at Arrocha Ballpark. Kocon made the catch.
Team defeats all three opponents, wins first two games by run rule
BY BRITT BEASLEY
bbeasley@kansan.com
The softball team swept the KU Triangular tournament, going 3-0 against Butler Community College, Missouri Southern Saturday and Missouri Western Sunday at Arrocha Ballpark.
Kansas cruised in its first two run-rule-shortened games of the season Saturday.
"Right now we are looking at how are they doing with the things we talked about," Kansas coach Tracy Bunge said about the weekend's games.
The team started the weekend by playing BCC Saturday morning and showed no sign of fatigue when the game started. Junior Stevie Crisosto led off the game with a single and later scored on a double by Junior Elle Pottorf, who later scored on a ground out by freshman Liz Kocon.
The scoring continued as the Jayhawks made five runs in the next inning and another run two
innings later to push the lead to 9-0, a score the team wouldn't relent.
Freshman Allison Clark started the game by pitching three scoreless innings, allowing only two hits and striking out two. Junior Valerie George then came in and closed out the rest of the game pitching two scoreless innings, allowing no hits and striking out four.
In the second game on Saturday against Missouri Southern, the Jayhawks again jumped to an early lead in the first inning by scoring on a fielder's choice by Pottorf. The Jayhawks' big inning in the second game came in the fourth, when they sent nine batters to the plate and scored four runs. Sophomore Sarah Vertelkia pitched four innings, allowing three hits and striking out eight.
"Sarah is continuing to work on a couple of pitches that we have stressed since early this time last year, her screwball and riseball, and her screwball is
definitely looking like a much improved pitch," Bunge said.
"Allie Clark looked a little like a freshman," Bunge said. "She
In day two of the triangular,
the Jayhawks played Missouri
Western. The teams scrimmaged,
with the Jayhawks winning 5-3.
Their big inning came in
"Right now we are looking at how are they doing with the things we talked about."
TRACY BUNGE Softball coach
was a little bit up and down trying to work out some things and I think she got into better rhythm the last two innings that she threw. It's good for freshmen to
that most high schoolers learn when they make the jump to college."
After a short recess, the teams picked back up and played another few innings. Junior Val Chapple came through with a two-run home run in the bottom of the first.
the fourth when they sent eight batters to the plate and scored three runs. The pitching staff on Sunday didn't look like the team from the day before.
have to be put into the fire. The other team did a good job of making Allie pay for the mistakes she made out over the plate, and that's the biggest thing I think
Chapple struggled the first six innings. She did a little work in the cages, which changed her mind set in the last couple of innings. The Jayhawks won the second half of the scrimmage 5-0.
The softball team plays again next weekend against Iowa Central, Emporia State, and Washburn in the Jayhawk Pink Classic at home.
Doubles duo looks to weekend after loss
Edited by Jyl Unruh
Edited by Meghan Murphy
BY PAT TEFFT
ptefft@kansan.com
Avdeeva and Horvath will try to reproduce their doubles successes this weekend. The duo travels to UCLA for the qualifying doubles draw of the ITA All-American Championships. Avdeeva also competes in the pre-qualifying singles bracket. Qualifying begins Oct. 1 in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
The Kansas tennis team kicked off its fall season this past weekend at the Cissie Leary Tournament in Philadelphia. The doubles duo of Elizaveta Avdeeva and Edina
The next team event is Oct. 5-7 at the Hoosier Classic in Bloomington, Ind.
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Avdeeva
In other singles play, Horvath lost to Yale's Lauren Ritz in the main draw's round-of-16. Dorn, along with freshmen Maria Martinez and Mymee Tokuda, lost in the consolation singles bracket round-of-16.
Kansas' other doubles duo Kunigunda Dorn and Yuliana Svistun lost in the quarterfinals of consolation play. Svistun combined the effort with a singles victory on Sunday in a round robin consolation contest against Columbia's Nina Suda.
Horvatin ied the team by advancing to the finals before falling short of the title.
before losing the championship match.
TIGERS 7, ROYALS 2
Verlander pitches well,
Detroit defeats Kansas City
Avdeeva and Horvath, ranked 36th in the country and the No. 1 seed in the tournament, fell in the finals to Penn's second-seeded team, 8-6. The duo won three matches this weekend with a combined score of 24-16
DETROIT — Justin Verlander earned his 18th win, Marcus Thames homered twice and Detroit helped their dwindling playoff chances.
Moments after their victory, the Tigers were eliminated from the AL Central race when Cleveland beat Oakland to clinch the division title. The defending AL champions still have an outside shot at the wild card, but they need a New York Yankees collapse in the final week to reach the postseason.
Verlander (18-6) allowed two runs, five hits and two walks in six innings. He has 35 wins in his first two full seasons, the most for a Tigers pitcher since Frank Lary also had 35 from 1955-56.
Detroit scored four runs off Jorge De La Rosa (8-12) in the first and never looked back.
Billy Butler led off the Kansas City second with his eighth homer, but the Royals handed the run back when Ramon Santiago reached on an error.
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