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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,2007
SOCCER
'Hawks have rough weekend
Team loses Friday, Sunday games; now holds 0-5-1 record
BY ALISON CUMBOW
cumbow@kansan.com
Two more losses were added to the Kansas women's soccer team's record this weekend.
BEST GAME OF SEASON
Friday and Sunday's games yielded the same result: a shutout score. Kansas lost to the Portland Pilots, 2-0, and the Washington Huskies, 1-0. The Jayhawks stooped to a 0-5-1 record.
Coach Mark Francis was optimistic before heading into Sunday's game because of how well the team played on Friday against Portland.
"Portland is legit," he said. "If there is a better team in the country than those guys, I would like to see it."
Ten minutes into the first half, senior gokeeper Colleen Quinn had already made two crucial saves for the layhawks. By the end of the game, she had saved ten shots, and reached the double digits for the second time in two weeks.
Senior midfielder Emily Strinden
Quinn
shot three times,
while sophomore
forward Kim
Boyer, junior
midfielder Missy
Geha and sophomore
forward
Shannon McCabe
each shot once.
game's turnout, despite the loss.
**Corner Kicks** 1 2 T
Kansas 1 2 3
Washington 1 4 5
**Shots by period** 1 2 T
Kansas 4 7 11
Washington 7 7 14
**Saves by period** 1 2 T
Kansas 1 2 3
Washington 3 2 5
**Team** Final Score
Kansas 0
Washington 1
**Corner Kicks** 1 2 T
Kansas 0 1 1
Portland 1 7 8
**Shots by period** 1 2 T
Kansas 1 5 6
Portland 9 9 18
**Saves by period** 1 2 T
Kansas 4 6 10
Portland 0 3 3
Kansas 0
Portland 2
Francis was happy with the
Game summaries
FIVE STRAIGHT SHUTOUTS
The Jayhawks' second loss of the weekend, against the Washington Huskies, was a huge disappointment for the team.
All of Kansas' shots on goal didn't get past the Huskers' goalkeeper.
"We played extremely well, and competed against them," he said. "We had a couple of great shots in the second half. It was a very good performance by us."
Huskies' freshman forward, McKenna Waitley, scored the only goal during the first half of the game, boosting the Huskies' record to 2-4.
The Jayhawks tried to score within the 90-minute time frame, as sophomore forward Kim Boyer, senior midfielder Nicole Cauzillo, sophomore midfielder Nicola Dolinsky and senior midfielder Emily Strinden each had two shots.
Despite Kansas' efforts.
Washington dominated the game in shot attempts, corner kicks and goal saving.
WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE JAYHAWKS?
The soccer team will host Missouri State at 5 p.m. on Tuesday at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex.
Edited by Kaitlyn Syring
》 WOMEN'S GOLF
Golf team faces challenge Women's squad to take on tough field at high altitudes
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awiebe@kansan.com
Ron Moore Women's Intercollegiate
A week after battling wet playing conditions, the Kansas women's golf team will attempt to improve on its fifth-place finish last week in Nebraska's Chip-N Club Invitational.
Course: Highlands Ranch Golf Club (6,518-yard, par 72), Denver, Colo.
Despite only traveling with one senior, the team said it wanted the
The team will get the opportunity when competition begins today at the University of Denver's Ron Moore Women's Intercollegiate at Highlands Ranch Golf Club in Denver.
Field: Arkansas-Little Rock, Baylor, Colorado State, Colorado, Columbia, Texas Tech, San Jose State, Tulsa, Northern Colorado, Colorado State, San Francisco, Denver, Mississippi, Iowa State, Nebraska, Kansas State, North Carolina-Wilmington, UC Davis
Kansas will travel with a young team for the second week in a row. Senior Annie Giangrosso will be accompanied by sophomores Emily Powers and Meghan Gockel, and two freshmen Megna Bal and Grace Thiry. The team will make only one change from last weeks squad: Thiry will replace freshman Sydney Wilson in team play.
The tournament begins with 36 holes today, and a final round of 18 holes tomorrow. Kansas is one of seven Big 12 universities competing in the field of 18 teams, which also features UC Davis and San Jose State. Kansas should be challenged by the tournament's host, the University of Denver, currently ranked No. 20 in the country by golfweek.com. Denver won last year's event by 18 strokes and is the favorite for a first-place finish.
Last week's results:
Last week's results:
Giangrosso — tie for 12th
Powers — tie for 10th
Thiry — tie for 19th
Bal — 30th
Gockel — tie for 41st
momentum from last week's strong performances by Giangrosso, Powers and Thiry to translate into another top-five finish. O'Neil said the team would attempt to build on last week's solid, but sometimes inconsistent, performance as the team's inexperienced players got used to collegiate competition.
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"I think our freshmen will begin to feel more comfortable the more they play," O'Neil said. "We just want to take it day by day and make sure all the girls are ready for the spring."
The team will face thinner air because of the high altitude. O'Neil said the conditions would favor players who played well farther from the tee box. She said longball specialists like Giangrosso and
Powers should benefit, but said she remained confident that the precision drives of Gockel, Thiry and Bal would be just as effective because of the extra yardage the altitude would provide. Some players have to make adjustments in club choice throughout the tournament because some are not used to the effect the higher altitude has on shot distance.
Kansas will be challenged, but the team wants to build on the potential exhibited, in last week's finish. The combination of a strong field with the adjustments necessary to succeed at a high altitude, should serve as building blocks for future success.
Edited by Chris Beattie
>> TOUR OF MISSOURI
Discovery Channel claims team title George Hincapie key to team victory
Hincapie took the individual title and Discovery Channel claimed the team title Sunday in its final U.S. appearance, playing it safe in the final stage of the sixday, 563-mile event, a 74-mile circuit race.
The final day of the inaugural Tour of Missouri served as a victory lap for George Hincapie and the Discovery Channel team. Several of them, in fact.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"It was very important for us to have a strong team here and try to get the win," Hincapie said. "Having basically most of the Tour de France team working for me was really special."
Ivan Dominguez of Toyota- United took his second stage of the tour in a mass sprint, finishing in 2 hours 7 minutes 13 seconds. He also won the first stage, an 85-mile road race with finishing circuits in Kansas City, Mo..
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Contador also raced in the Tour of Missouri, this time serving as support. Hincapie, Greenville, S.C., took the individual lead in the second stage, a 125.6-mile road race from Clinton to Springfield, Mo..
Brad Huff, the top sprinter for Team Slipstream-Chipotle, crashed within 100 yards of the finish line. Huff ended up several yards away from his bike after flipping over the handlebars, but rode across the finish line after team members rushed to his aid.
Hincapie, 34 years old, has been with Discovery since the team's inception 11 years ago and was a key member of units that won the Tour de France eight times, the first seven by Lance Armstrong and the last this year by Alberto Contador.
The Discovery team also featured Levi Leipheimer and Yaroslav Popovych, who finished third and eighth in this year's Tour de France.