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Jayhawks' hopes ride on regionals Tournament begins Saturday in Tenn.
BY CATHERINE ODSON
The Kansas rowing team will need the ultimate upset to qualify for the NCAA championships.
point."
"Wed have to beat a lot of really good schools," coach Rob Catloth said. "Upset a lot of really good schools at this
Ten of the top 20 teams will compete in the South-Central Regionals on Saturday and Sunday in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Kansas' boats would need to finish in the top
"You're just trying to fine tune things and squeeze all the speed out of the boat you can get."
six in the Central Region to move on to the NCAA championships.
"It's going to be a pretty challenging event with very high quality," Catloth said. "It's probably the highest quality of women's rowing in the country in Tennessee this weekend."
eight, said the focus wouldn't be on keeping up with the top teams, but rather racing with the middle teams to get the sixth spot.
"We'll just have to have a really good race and not focus on getting up with the leaders but with the teams that are closer to us," she said.
TIFFANY JEFFERS
Senior rower
The lahawks will compete in all five events — first and second varsity eights, varsity four, open varsity four and novice eight.
Senior rower Tiffany Jeffers,
who will race in the first varsity
Kans as, along with most Division I teams, did not compete last weekend.
the boat you can get. Everybody's working with the same time frame so it's pretty even across the board."
The team will leave for Tennessee this afternoon.
Kansan senior sportswriter Catherne Odson can be contacted at codson@kansan.com.
Edited by Dianne Smith
Jarrett fails to qualify after 424 races
》 NASCAR
Driver Dale Jarrett, center, talks with crew chief Jason Burdett, left, and Tricia Walls, right, during NASCAR Nextel Cup testing at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., on Tuesday.
BY JENNA FRYER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chuck Burton/ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dale Jarrett knew his first season with Michael Waltrip Racing would be rough. But he never imagined he'd be sitting at home while a race roared on without him for the first time in 13 years.
It happened last week in Richmond, Va., when Jarrett failed to qualify for the first time in 424 races. Not since North Wilkesboro in 1994 had Jarrett missed the cut, but he bounced back that next week with a win at Charlotte and never looked back.
It would take nothing short of a miracle for jarrett to rebound the same way.
The 1999 Cup champion heads to Darlington Raceway this weekend looking not for a fourth career victory at the South Carolina track. Jarrett instead would be thrilled with simply earning a spot in the 43-car field.
"It's not a situation where we expect miracles or anything," said jarrett, who went to his son's baseball game and didn't watch a single lap of last week's race.
"I did realize they can have a race without me and it's not the end of the world. But you could see it coming, it was no great surprise. Even so, it's never fun whenever you are not a part of what you do."
Out of provisionals and saddled in a struggling first-year team, jarrett ultimately could miss more
races than he'll make this season. It was hardly what he signed up for one year ago, when he and Waltrip announced their new partnership at Darlington.
Jarrett left his longtime home at Robert Yates Racing to drive a Toyota for Waltrip, and he took big-money sponsor UPS with him. It was like winning the lottery for Waltrip, but a bit of a leap of faith for jarrett.
He trusted that Waltrip would have everything in order, and Toyota
would blaze its way into the Nextel Cup series. But if either faltered, Jarrett still would have his past champion's provisional to fall back on.
Then NASCAR threw him a curve in January when it took away endless provisions by changing the rule to a maximum of six. And the new team sputtered out of the gate, with Waltrip's crew getting caught cheating during Daytona 500 preparations.
The Camrys are slow, the team development is behind, and all three of the MWR cars have struggled to make races. Waltrip has missed nine straight, David Reutimann has made seven of 10 and Jarrett used all six of his provisionals to make the nine races he started.
Knowing what he knows now, he insists he wouldn't change his decision to join MWR.
"No regrets whatsoever," he said.
All lined up
Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Geoff Jenkins warms up before the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals on Wednesday in Milwaukee.
Carlos Delgado helps Mets to victory
MLB
SAN FRANCISCO — David Wright hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the ninth for New York.
Carlos Delgado hit a solo homer into McCovey Cove and doubled in the tying run in the eighth for the Mets, who rallied to win their second straight series. Ruben Gotay also homered.
New York loaded the bases in the ninth against former Mets closer Armando Benitez (0-1).
Jose Reyes got aboard when right fielder Todd Linden and second baseman Ray Durham miscommunicated on a shallow fly and the ball dropped in for a hit. That loaded the bases for Wright, who lined a double down the left-field line.
Dave Roberts homered and Barry Bonds went 0-for-2 and drew two walks for the Giants.
Aaron Heilman (3-2) recorded two outs for the win and Billy Wagner saved his second straight game and eighth overall.
Nationals extend their winning streak
MILWAUKEE — Geoff Jenkins homered and drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Washington Nationals 3-1 Wednesday for their sixthstraight win.
Milwaukee finished a 10-game homestand 9-1 and have won 10 of the last 11.The Nationals' longest losing streak since moving to Washington now stands at eight.
J. J. Hardy's 19-game hitting streak ended after his final at-bat in the eighth, when he waved wildly at a third strike, Lefty-hitting Prince Fielder singled off left-hander Micah Bowie (0-2), who was lifted for right-hander Jesus Colome. Colome allowed back-to-back singles to Bill Hall and Jenkins, which scored Fielder after catcher Brian Schneider couldn't come up with a throw to the plate.
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>> INDY CAR RACING
Vanderbilt graduate ready to focus on race career
BY TERESA M. WALKER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Brad Jaeger might be the only driver heading to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this month who actually will be slowing down.
He graduates Friday from Vanderbilt with a degree in mechanical engineering, allowing the Indy Pro series rookie to focus entirely on his first Indy race without the distraction of classes, books and tests.
"It'll be a month to remember," the 21-year-old laeper said.
Jaeger debuted on the developmental series for Brian Stewart Racing in March and has run two races. But his boss said Jaeger's racing has suffered because he was busy being a full-time student.
"Once we have his undivided attention, I'm going to expect him to run at the front and possibly win. He's won in other classes. That's the way I look at it. If you've won somewhere else, we can make you a winner in the Pro Series," Stewart said.
Stewart knows talent. He has had drivers such as Paul Tracy, Bryan
Herta and Jacques Lazier, and won the 2005 and 2006 titles thanks to Wade Cunningham. Waiting for Jaeger to finish college has been worth the trouble to get a driver/engineer who can work well with the crew.
"It's better if the driver can talk to you about the car and really understand what's going on." Stewart said.
"I just remember being at the track as a really little kid and playing with my remote-controlled car, just growing up in that environment. As soon as I could, I wanted to go go-kart racing," the younger jaeger said.
Education came first for Jaeger, son of an electrical engineer who designed and sold the Escort radar detector in the 1980s, then retired. That gave Jim Jaeger time to race in the Sports Car Club of America series with his son in tow.
His father eventually tired of the stress of racing, but that didn't stop his son from asking for a few years to let him race.
"That was such a relief when he finally agreed." Brad Jaerge said.
larger started racing karts at 13.
But Jaeger didn't want to put his racing career on hold while he pursued his degree at Vanderbilt.
five years or so after he started begging. He moved into his father's old car in 2022 and won seven races and nine poles in the regional Sports 2000 series. He was second in 2003 while winning four races in a separate regional series.
--it clear to the professors from the start of a class or the start of a semester I wasn't slacking off. I was pursuing my dream. This was going to be my profession when I finished school," he said. "As soon as they realized this is truly what I wanted to do, they were very helpful."
"I sort of made it a point to make
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