REMEMBERING JACKIE
Teams across Major League Baseball celebrated the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier Sunday.
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Starting quarterback picture still unclear
If fans intended to leave the Spring Scrimimage with a clear-cut picture of the Kansas quarterback situation, they left disappointed.
BY ASHER FUSCO
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Sophomores Todd Reesing and Kerry Meier each had good moments on Sunday afternoon but no clear favorite to win the job emerged as the Blue team defeated the White team 48-0.
Junior defensive end Richard Alspaugh attempts to tackle sophomore quarterback Todd Rees during the 2007 Spring Scrimmage Sunday in Memorial Stadium.
The score of the game can be taken with a grain of salt, considering the Blue squad was made up of primarily first-string players and the White team
was comprised of reserves. The focus of the spring game was squarely on the competition for starting jobs and some standout individual performances.
Neither of the dueling quarterbacks was able to create any separation in the race for playing time. Reesing finished 10-for-20 for 171 yards, scurrying his way out of several potential sacks in the process. When Reesing was in the game, Kansas used a diverse array of plays, including short passes to senior tight end Derek Fine and longer
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Running back shines in Spring Scrimmage
BY MARK DENT
Brandon McAnderson rarely saw the open field last season.
His carries usually consisted of three things: get the ball at the 3-yard line, knock down a couple of linebackers and fall into the end zone or past the first down marker.
So his stat line from Sunday's Spring Scrimmage was a little bit of a surprise. He ran for 80 yards on 15 carries for the Blue team in its 48-0 victory. McAnderson, senior running back, reeled off long runs of 14, 13, 11 and 9 yards. The 11-yard carry led to the first of his two
touchdowns.
"He makes people miss," Kansas coach Mark Mangino said. "You'll see time and again people miss him. He had a linebacker in front of him two times and cut around him."
Last season, Jon Cornish had all the opportunities. Cornish, first team All-Big 12 running back, dodged and darted his way to a school-record 1,457 yards on several long runs. McAnderson, playing fullback, helped pave the way.
He ran the ball sometimes, but he never had much room to go far. With
BASEBALL
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The final out of the inning is called against Kansas during its first game Sunday afternoon against Baylor. The Jayhawks won the first game of the doubleheader.
Kansas sees mixed results
Home run at the end of game one couldn't keep luck on Jayhawks'side
BY ALISSA BAUER
Junior second baseman Ryne Price was having a rough day. A pair of errors, one that caused the tying run to score in the seventh, and the other that put a runner on third in the ninth, hung over Price in the first game of Sunday's doubleheader against Baylor (21-17, 6-9 Big 12 Conference).
- Redemption came with one swing of the bat.
All was forgotten when Price sailed a walk-off home run over the center field fence. His eight bomb of the season gave his team the 4-3
"He had a tough weekend. That's probably the worst he's played with a glove his entire life," coach Ritch Price said. "One of the things we preach to our players is when you make a mistake, you live for an opportunity to redeem yourself and I don't know if you can do it in any better fashion than he did. That was a big-time swing."
Price's home run capped off a hit-heavy game for the Jayhawks, but they struggled with the run count. Once the Jayhawks (19-22, 5-10) got rolling in the third, their bats dominated as they out-hit the Bears 10-3.
victory.
On the other side of the ball, junior lefty Zach Ashwood (3-3) kept his offense in it, surrendering just two hits in 5 1/3 innings of work. One of the two, however, was a two-run shot that put a deep dent in the lead he was working with.
But it was the run count that Kansas struggled with. In the top of the ninth, Kansas still found itself in a tie ballgame because of the 13 runners the Jayhawks left on the bases throughout the afternoon.
After busting out for his first home run against No. 6 Texas last weekend, junior left fielder John Allman slugged his second one of the season in the bottom of the fifth
The lead narrowed quickly in the Bears' next at bat. Two batters equaled two runs in the top of the sixth when right fielder Aaron Miller sent Ashwood's delivery over his own territory in right. Although Miller's shot was only the second hit Ashwood gave up, it was his last pitching opportunity of the game.
He was lifted one batter later for freshman left Wally Marcelio.
on Sunday. Allman's two-run shot followed a single by Robby Price's single, and extended the Jayhawks' lead to 3-0.
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SOFTBALL
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Sophomore shortstop Stevie Crisosto swings at the ball for a basehit during the game against Texas A&M on Sunday afternoon. The Aggies had sixteen hits against the Jayhawks. Kansas was unable to score any runs and lost 13-0.
Lackluster offense contributes to loss
Jayhawks manage one hit in 13-0 game
BY EVAN KAFARAKIS
Sunday's game between Kansas and Texas A&M will quickly be forgotten by the Jayhawks — and for good reason.
The Aggies notched 16 total hits, including three doubles, one triple and a home run, as the Jayhawks could produce only one hit the entire game.
The Aggies, ranked No. 5 in the nation, pounded the Jayhawks 13-0 in Kansas' worst loss of the season.
"We're going to forget about it," senior first baseman Nicole Flashburn said. "A&M is the best
With nothing seeming to go right for the pitching staff, defense and bats, coach Tracy Bunge said the best thing for the team to do was regroup and move on.
"We can analyze this game to death and say' yeah, we didn't look very good, we didn't do a lot of things well," Bunge said.
Kansas, allowing one run on two hits.
This isn't the first time the Aggies have come to Arrocha Ballpark and put a beating on the Jayhawks. Two years ago they swept the Jayhawks 13-1 and 7-1.
Washburn said that the Jayhawks went to regionals that same year, so the loss, though painful, shouldn't cause panic.
"This group of kids care, but right now they're going through a bad stretch."
"This doesn't end our season; this
doesn't make or break our season
TRACY BUNGE Kansas coach
"This group of kids care, but right now they're going through a bad stretch," Bunge said. "We can approach it many ways, but we're choosing right now to move on."
Freshman pitcher Sarah Vertelka threw for 3 1/3 innings giving up eight runs on 10 hits and was then replaced by sophomore Valerie George, who finished the game for
The Kansas pitching staff gave up hits to 11 different Texas A&M batters.
Senior ptcher Kassie Humphreys started the game for the Jayhawks, but after giving up four runs on four hits in three innings, Humphreys was pulled.
up to this point," Washburn said.
The Jayhawk bats have been hit or miss recently and were a definite miss against the Aggies, totaling one hit.
"We didn't do a lot of things well, and a lot
of the offensive struggles was that Amanda Scarborough was that good," Bunge said of the Aggie pitcher.
Scarborough pitched a complete game one hitter and struck out 10 of the 24 Jayhawk batters she faced.
She had a no-hitter going through the bottom of the seventh inning, but was broken when freshman first baseman Amanda Jobe hit a single to shortstop.
The Jayhawks hadn't played a game the entire week because of a postponed game against Missouri. Because of Lawrence weather conditions, the team had a difficult time
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