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Jayhawks to play baseball in the major leagues
5. TRAVIS METCALF YEARS AT KANSAS:
2002-2004
The third baseman is playing for the Texas Rangers' Triple-A squad, the Oklahoma RedHawks. At only 25 years old, Metcalf could have a long Major League career ahead of him. He batted for a .255 average and belted five homeruns for the Rangers last season.
4. STEVE JELTZ YEARS AT KANSAS: 1978-1980
Jeltz, who was born in Paris, was the best Major League Baseball player ever from France. He had nearly 1,000 more at-bats than any other French major leaguers. Although he only held a .210 career batting average, he served as a quality utility infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies and Kansas City Royals.
3. STEVE RENKO YEARS AT KANSAS: 1964-1965
Renko played for seven different teams during his 14-year career as a starting pitcher in the majors. His best year came in 1973 as a Montreal
Expo. Renko held a 2.81 earned run average that season while striking out 164 batters.
2. CHUCK DOBSON YEARS AT KANSAS:
1964
Dobson quickly worked his way up to the majors and made his debut for the Kansas City Athletics two years after leaving Kansas. He played for the Athletics organization for seven years before ending his career with the California Angels. Dobson recorded a career-year in 1970 when he led the league in shutouts with five and games started with 40.
1. BOB ALLISON YEARS AT KANSAS:
1954
Allison combined power and speed in his 12-year career to become a three-time All-Star. He was the American League Rookie of the Year in 1959 when he hit 30 home runs and stole 13 bases for the Washington Senators. He went on to play 10 seasons with the Minnesota Twins where he drove in as many as 105 runs in one season.
Case Keefer
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The KU track & field team qualified 10 athletes — seven females and three males — for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field
BY JESSE TEMPLE jtemple@kansan.com
Championships, which begins today at 10 a.m. and runs through Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.
Ten qualify for championship
Nine of the athletes advanced to this point by finishing in the top five of their respective events at the Midwest Regional Championships in
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Lincoln, Neb. Zlata Tarasova, Togliatta, Russia junior, was forced to wait an extra few days for the NCAA to make its at-large announcements before she qualified in the hammer throw, giving Kansas double digits.
The team arrived in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday to prepare for its final meet of the season. Head coach Stanley Redwine said he wasn't surprised by the 10 athletes that qualified for the championships.
"I believe that the athletes that have put the work and time in to get there are there," Redwine said. "I see the work they're doing on a daily basis to get there. You always
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All-American status."
For the women, Crystal Manning, Terrell, Texas, senior, and Nickesha Anderson, Hanover, Jamaica, junior, were the only athletes to qualify for the championships in more than one
want more athletes there. But I am excited that we have the number that we have"
event. Manning will compete in the long jump and the triple jump, an event she earned All-American honors last year. Anderson will compete in the 100-meter dash and the 200.
Kokhanovski said a qualifying throw today of about 225 feet should put Agafonov into the finals on Friday, where he would need a toss of 235 to 240 feet to win.
Last year she earned All-American honors by finishing as one of the top eight American athletes in an event at the outdoor championships. Brown broke the school record in the 400-meter hurdles at last year's championships with a time of 57.15 seconds.
Ashley Brown, Overton, Neb., senior, qualified in the 400-meter hurdles.
Brown said she wasn't feeling pressure about duplicating her All-American feat this year.
"It's not so much pressure," she said. "It's the expectation of where I want to be. I have no doubt with my training regimen that I can be there. My goal is to break 57, and I think if I run that time, it will put me at
"He's prepared for everything," Kokhanovski said. "If it works out, the strongest throw is going to win. And why not Egor? He has as much chance as those two guys. Egor is very competitive."
On the men's side, Egor Agafonov, Togliatta, Russia senior, Jordan Scott, Watkinsville, Ga., sophomore, and Julius Jiles, Kansas City, Mo., senior, advanced to the championship. Agafonov and Scott did so by winning the Midwest Regional in the hammer throw and pole vault. Agafonov set a meet record in the hammer throw for the third consecutive year with a toss of 223 and Scott's pole vault carried feet 1 inch. Jiles qualified in the 0-meter hurdles, finishing second regionals in 13.75 seconds.
Agafonov's throwing coach, Andy Kokhanovski, said the hammer throw title likely would come down to Agafonov, Cory Martin or Jacob Dunkleberger, both of whom are from Auburn University.
Edited by Brieun Scott
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