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athletics calendar
Baseball vs. Saint Mary's,
6:30 p.m. Hoglund Ballpark
TODAY
WEDNESDAY
Softball vs. Wichita State,
5 p.m. Wichita
Softball vs. Wichita State,
7 p.m. Wichita
SATURDAY
FRIDAY Baseball vs. Kansas State 6:35 p.m. Manhattan
FRIDAY
Softball vs. Iowa State,
2 p.m. Ames, Iowa
Baseball vs. Kansas State,
3 p.m. Hoglund Ballpark
Track at Nebraska Invitational,
All day, Lincoln, Neb.
FOOTBALL Assistant coach resigns, replacement named
SUNDAY
Running backs coach Earle Mosley has resigned due to health reasons, coach Mark
Softball vs. Iowa State,
Noon, Armes, Iowa
Baseball vs. Kansas State,
1 p.m. Hoglund Ballpark
Mangino announced Friday. The position will be filled by Louie Matsakis, who served as a scout, statistical analyst and director of
Along with coaching the running backs, Matsakis will coordinate Kansas's special teams.
quality control for Kansas in 2004 and 2005.
Matsakis
He has experience as a special teams coordinator at Texas State University-San Marcos and Capital University in Bexely, Ohio. He has also worked as a special teams intern at Texas Tech. Matsakis has never worked as a running backs
collegiate level.
Mosley, who helped with recruiting, coached at Kansas for two years. His most notable accomplishment
during his tenure was coaching 2006 Big 12 Conference rushing leader Jon Cornish.
Mosley
Asher Fusco
Kansas' performance varies across nation
BY TAYLOR BERN
TRACK AND FIELD
The Kansas track and field team competed at four different meets this weekend. It traveled across the country in search of better competition and returned with mixed results.
Sophomore Zlata Tarasova finished third in the hammer with a throw of 199-09. Both Agafonov and Tarasova have regional-qualifying marks.
At the Drake Relays, junior Egor Agafonov continued his dominance with a season-best throw of 228-04 feet, winning the hammer throw. Agafonov avenged a second place finish at last year's Drake Relays and has won every outdoor meet this season.
Sophomore Victoria Howard, fresh off of her Kansas Relays victory in the 100-meter dash, won both the 100 and 200.
In the pole vault, senior Lara Gjerde and sophomore Ryan Hays swept the event for Kansas.
Gjerde cleared 12-9 feet, ahead of second team teammate junior Libby Harmon at 11-11, while Hays soared over 15-5.
The most success for the Jayhawks this weekend came at the UMKC Invitational.
Competing in the long jump, senior Eric Babb failed to follow up his success at the Kansas Relays. Babb came in 10th with a distance of 23-10 feet. Junior Barrett Saunders tied for 18th at 23-00.
Brown had a 14th-place time of 13.80 in the 100-meter hurdles, while Jiles' time of 14.25 in the 110-meter hurdles also left him in 14th. The top eight advanced to the finals.
Junior Maresia Pencil won the 800-meters in 2.13.41, and freshman Mary Lacy placed second in the discus with a throw of 126-06 feet.
Howard came in at 12.20 seconds in the 100-meters, and then crossed the line in 24.45, winning the 200.
At the Penn Relays, junior hurdlers Ashley Brown and Julius Jiles each failed to make it to the finals after disappointing preliminary times.
Results from the Cardinal Invitational were not available Sunday.
Kansan sportswriter Taylor Bern can be contacted at tbern@kansan.com.
— Edited by Carissa Pedigo
CORNISH (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
running backs like Thomas Clayton and Justin Hairston before Cornish. Clayton played just five games in his senior season at Kansas State under first-year coach Ron Prince. Hairston was a relative unknown from Division I-AA Central Connecticut.
Cornish enjoyed great success as a running back in his final two seasons at Kansas, but many NFL talent evaluators thought him too slow to be a major contributor at the professional level.
At the NFL Scouting Combine and the Kansas Pro Day, Cornish posted 40-yard dash times in the 4.5 to 4.6 second range. Elite running back prospects ran the same distance in anywhere from 4.3 to 4.5 seconds.
In the weeks leading up to the draft, Cornish said he expected to be selected in the sixth or seventh round. If he was not taken, he said he would try to sign with an NFL team as a free agent.
Cornish's list of feats at Kansas is a long one. He set the Kansas single-season rushing record in 2006 with 1.427 yards, in the process leading the Big 12 Conference in rushing. As a senior he received All-Big 12 First Team honors and averaged 5.8 yards per carry, a Jayhawk record.
Overall, 28 former Big 12 players were selected. Texas sent seven players to the NFL, the most of any Big 12 school.
Kansan sportswriter Asher Fusco can be contacted at afusco@ kansan.com.
Edited by Ryan Schneider
Senior rowers Whitney Fasbender, Ashley Broockerd and Annie Sims carry their boat to the water before races began Sunday at Wyandotte County Lake. The women placed third in the second varsity eight race.
ROWING (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Texas finished first in the team standings, followed by Kansas and Kansas State. It was the sixth straight year the Longhorns claimed the Big 12 Invitational title.
The Jayhawks' first varsity eight boat closed the gap with the Longhorns, finishing just under four seconds back. Kansas finished 10 seconds behind Texas earlier this season on the Kansas River.
Kansas quickly pulled into second, but all three boats stayed close for the first 500 meters. In the second 500 meters, Texas pulled in front and K-State began to fall behind. The Jayhawks made up some of the lost water on the Longhorns, but they never caught up. Texas pulled away in the final strokes of the race.
between them and Texas all the way down," Kansas coach Rob Catloth said. "Texas did get us in the end, but we were second by just about less than a boat length."
Senior rower Lindsey Miles said the weather was a factor.
"The headwind really took it out of us to stay with them that far, and the sprint was not usually as high as we have it," she said. "We were pulling as hard as we could with the headwind."
Kansas' next competition will be May 12 and 13 at the South-Central Regionals in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
"It was a pretty good battle
Kansan senior sportswriter Catherine Odson can be reached at codson@kansan.com.
Big 12 Invitation
Edited by Ashley Thompson
Team Standings 1, Texas, 55.2, Kansas, 46.3, Kansas State, 42.
First Varsity Eight — 1, Texas,
7.16:65 (27 points), 2, Kansas, 7.20:55
(24). 3, K-State, 7.35:21 (2).
Second Varsity Eight — 1, Texas,
7:36.4 (14). 2, K-State. 7:29.9 (12). 3,
Kansas. 8:05.6 (10).
First Varsity Four — 1, Kansas;
8:31.0 (7) 2, Texas; 8:41.8 (6) 3, K-State;
9:29.5 (5)
First Novice Eight — 1, Texas, 7:29.5 (5). 2, K-State, 7:35.9 (4). 3, Kansas, 7:56.5 (3).
Second Novice Eight — 1, Texas,
7:49.1 (3). 2, Kansas, 8:42.4 (2).
Second Varsity Four — 1, Texas A,
8:51.5, 2 (no points), Texas B, 9:41.3,
3, Kansas, 9:57.1, 4, K-State, 10:21.3
BIG 12 BASEBALL K-State scores seven runs in 10th to avoid sweep
LINCOLN, Neb. — Kansas State tied the game with two outs in the eighth inning Sunday, then scored seven runs in the 10th to win 8-2 and avoid a sweep by Nebraska.
Rob Vaughn hit a groundup in the middle with runners on the
corners in the eighth inning and beat the throw to first, allowing Eli Rumler to score for the Wildcats to tie the game at 1-1.
Nate Tenbrink led off the 10th inning with a home run to give the Wildcats a 2-1 lead. Later the same inning, Tenbrink capped the rally with an RBI single.
Associated Press