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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY,MAY 7,2007
athletics calendar
TUESDAY
Baseball vs. Rockhurst, 6 p.m. Hoglund Ballpark
WEDNESDAY
Baseball vs. Missouri State, 6 p.m. Hoglund Ballpark
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Softball vs. Iowa State at Big 12 Championships, 5 p.m. Oklahoma City
- Baseball vs. Chicago State, 7 p.m. Hoglund Ballpark
- Softball at Big 12 Championships, TBA, Oklahoma City
- Track at Big 12 Outdoor Championships, All day, Lincoln, Neb.
SATURDAY
SATURDAY
**Baseball** vs. Chicago
State, 1 p.m. Hoglund Ballpark
**Baseball** vs. Chicago
State, 4 p.m. Hoglund Ballpark
**Softball** at Big 12 Championships,
all day, Oklahoma City
**Rowing** at South-Central Regionals, TBA, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
**Track** at Big 12 Outdoor Championships, all day, Lincoln, Neb.
SUNDAY
- Baseball vs. Chicago State, 1 p.m. Hoglund Ballpark
- Rowing at South-Central Regionals, TBA, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
- Track at Big 12 Outdoor Championships, All day, Lincoln, Neb.
ROWING
ROWING Several rowers honored at annual team banquet
Two seniors took home the top awards at the Kansas rowing team's annual banquet Friday night.
Senior rower Lindsey Miles won the Oarswoman of the Year award, and senior coxswain Samira Naji won the Nikka Rosenberger Coxswain award.
Other award winners included senior rower Alia Bober, Senior Award; sophomore rower Megan Heacock, Most Improved Oarswoman; freshman rower Lindsey Lawrence, Outstanding Newcomer; and sophomore rower Valerie Jackson, Most Improved Newcomer.
Four awards had multiple
winners. Nine seniors were recognized with the Senior Oarswoman Award, including Miles, Naji, Ashley Broockerd, Jelayna Da Silva, Whitney Fasbender, Tiffany Jeffers, LlynnAnn Laugesen, Tricia Sawtelle and Annie Sims. Five of them were recognized with the Senior Academic Award. Da Silva, Fasbender, Jeffers, Miles and Sims. Miles and Sims also won the "Class of 2000" Team Academic Award.
The team's captains — Miles, Naji, Sims and junior rower Kara Boston — were also recognized.
The rowing team didn't compete last weekend but will make a final push at the South-Central Regionals in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
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The fifth-inning rally fell short when sophomore catcher Elle Pottorf hit into a double play to end the inning.
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Freshman Sarah Vertelka (5-5) replaced Humphreys and started the game for the Jayhawks, throwing for two innings.
Sophomore Valerie George came into relief for the remainder of the game and struck out two.
First game
Kansan sportswriter Evan Kafarakis can be contacted at ekafarakis@kansan.com.
The Jayhawks will once again have another shot at the Cyclones. Kansas plays Iowa State in the first round of the Big 12 Championships on Thursday in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Edited by Katie Sullivan
Iowa State 8-3, Kansas 0-2
first game
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Kassie Humphreys, Sarah Vertelk (2) and Tiffany Craner;
Alyssa Ransom and Ashley Killeen. W — Ransom 11-17.
L — Humphreys 18-14, 2B
KU: Val Chapple; ISU: Alex Johnson, Kelsey Kidwell.
Second game
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Vertekla, Valerie George (3)
and Elle Pottorf; Ransom,
Carlin and Killeen. W — Ransom
12-17, L — Vertekla 5-5.
S — Carlin. 2 8. ISU: Katie
Reichling. HR — KU: Chapple.
Records — Kansas 32-23-1,
7-11 Big 12 Conference, Iowa
State 24-39, 3-15.
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grand fashion; a match-up with the despised Missouri Tigers. Past chapters in the Border Showdown series have been decided with the help of the home crowd. This
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defensive coordinator Gene Chizik to fill the void. Chizik has earned a reputation as a defensive mastermind thanks
Final record: 6-6 (2-6)
without the assistance of the Memorial Stadium crowd. This could be a major problem for Kansas, considering Missouri is the far superior football team. Quarterback Chase Daniels proved himself last season, scorching opposing defenses week in and week out. In his sophomore season, Daniels
to stints on the coaching staffs of two undefeated teams during his career. Iowa State is unlikely to go undefeated in 2007, but some improvement is likely. Bret Meyer is the most experienced quarterback in the conference and also one of the most prolific. Meyer's targets include massive wide receivers Todd
threw 28 touchdown passes and only 10 interceptions alongside nearly 400 rushing yards. Tight ends Chase Coffman and Martin Rucker make up one of the most dangerous one-two punches in the nation and could combine to catch more than 100 passes this season. With the Jayhawks home-field advantage negated by the move to a neutral site, the Tigers will not have much trouble finishing off the Jayhawks on their way to a bowl game.
Blythe and Marquis Hamilton, who both weigh more than 200 pounds. Blythe has caught a school-record 26 touchdowns during his time at Iowa State. The Cyclones' best defensive player is linebacker Alvin Bowen. The senior averaged 13 tackles per game last season, the best mark in the nation. By this point in the season, Kansas could be desperate for a mark in the victory column. Playing at home against one of the worst teams in the conference could be a recipe for a Jayhawk victory.
**Projection:** WIN
**Record:** 6-5 (2-5)
Kansan sportswriter Asher Fusco can be contacted at afusco@kansan.com.
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Hendrick Motorsports maintains Crown Royal winning streak
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BY JENNA FRYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND, Va. — Jimmie Johnson led teammate Kyle Busch to a 1-2 finish at Richmond International Raceway on Sunday, the third consecutive victory for Hendrick Motorsports.
Hendrick takes top 2 spots
Hendrick has won seven of the past eight Nextel Cup races and swept all four races in which NASCAR has used its new Car of Tomorrow.
Ricky Rudd (88) and Ward Burton (4) scrape the wall as Tony Stewart (20) makes contact during the last few laps of the NASCAR Crown Royal 400 Nextel Cup. The auto race was at the Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va., Sunday.
It looked as if Hendrick would finish 1-2-3 for the final 100 laps of the race, as Johnson, Busch and pole-sitter Jeff Gordon battled for the lead. But Gordon faded over the final 15 laps and gave up third place to Denny Hamlin.
Gordon, who won the past two weeks, settled for fourth as Cheviroltes took the top four spots in the race that began briefly Saturday night with 12 laps run under caution before it was halted because of rain. It started fresh on Sunday.
Johnson, the defending Nextel Cup champion, won for the fourth time this season but first at RIR. The .75-mile track has been among the worst on his resume, with Johnson having scored only one top 10 finish in 15 previous visits.
"This means the world to me to win here," Johnson said. "We haven't been that strong here. It reminds me of Indy last year, and we beat a track that's been tough on us. We looked at it as a new oppor-
unity for the team and myself to learn the right setup and for me to learn the right rhythm of the track and had some awesome racing with my teammate."
In this year of Hendrick Motorsports, everything is clicking and the competition is admittedly frustrated.
"You can argue that Hendrick has all the best drivers," Hamlin said. "It's tough to beat them when they've got four very, very good teams. We've got three good teams, but when you've got four like they have — all competitive and all running up front every week, the information that they exchange is going to be better."
Only Casey Mears, the fourth driver in the Hendrick stable, is struggling. He wrecked early and finished 18th.
"We've got great race teams and I'd say probably four of the best 10 or 12 drivers out there," he said. "It's hard to beat the best drivers with the best equipment and the best teams. You just have everything all pieced together correctly."
Busch said the entire organization is the class of the NASCAR right now.
Only Kevin Harvick had a car that could challenge the Hendrick crew, and the Daytona 500 winner led 106 laps midway through the race. He was out front when the sixth caution of the race sent the field into the pits, but as Harvick pulled out, he clipped rookie David Ragan, who was heading into his
It caused considerable damage to the front of Harvick's car and forced him to stop for repairs. He was in 17th, with heavy black tape around the nose of his Chevolet, when the race resumed and never challenged again. He rallied to finish seventh.
"We just didn't communicate." Harvick said.
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Kurt Busch finished fifth and was followed by his Penske Racing teammate Ryan Newman in sixth. Tony Stewart, Clint Bowyer and Matt Kenseth rounded out the top 10.
After Harvick's pit-road error, Kurt Busch briefly moved to the front, but his stay was brief. David Gilland wrecked to bring out a caution and Kurt Busch ducked onto pit road for service. But the leaders didn't follow him, and Busch shuffled back to ninth on the restart.
It it the three Hendrick cars out front, as Johnson, Kyle Busch and Gordon were 1-2-3 when the race resumed. Jeff Green then hit Dale Earnhardt Jr., to cause Earnhardt to spin and bring out the eighth caution of the day.
It didn't change the running order, as the three Hendrick cars stayed out front until a debris caution with 82 laps to go. Dave Blaney broke up the Hendrick party with a two-tire pit stop that saw Johnson and Gordon come out in first and second. Blaney third and Kyle Busch fourth with 78 laps to go.
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Woods wins Wachovia tournament Top golfers compete for title, cash prize
BY DOUG FERGUSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tiger Woods added the Wachovia Championship to his growing collection of trophies Sunday with a 60-foot eagle putt to take the lead, a double bogey that kept it interesting, and by avoiding the kind of calamity that doomed his challengers down the stretch at Quail Hollow.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A tournament that looks like a major now has a winner whose career is defined by them.
Backed by a two-shot lead on the toughest hole on the course, Woods played it safe and made par from 8 feet to close with a 3-under 69 for a two-shot victory over Steve Stricker.
Despite the topsy-turvy finish,
the outcome was all too familiar.
It was Woods' third victory this year, and his ninth on the PGA Tour in his last 12 starts dating to his missed cut in the U.S. Open. He finished at 13-under 275, the lowest score to win the tournament, and earned $1.134 million for the 57th victory of his career. He also went atop the FedEx Cup standings for the first time this season.
"Over the course of my career, I've won a few tournaments here and there, and it's been nice," Woods said. "This one, considering the field and the golf course and the conditions, ecstatic to have won here."
Stricker had his best chance to win for the first time since 2001, one shot behind with three holes to play. He hit into the trees and the sand on the 16th on his way to double bogey, recovered with a 30-foot birdie on the 17th, then lost all hope when he went for the flag on the 18th and hit into the creek. He shot 69.
Rory Sabbatini, who said he wanted Woods in the final pairing, didn't make a par until the 10th hole and closed with a 74 to tie for third with Phil Mickelson, who closed with a 70 but was never a factor.
The Wachovia Championship is only 5 years old but already regarded one of the best stops on the PGA Tour with its world-class course and strong field — only the Masters and two World Golf Championships had more top players. Of the five winners in its short history, four of them are major champions.
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