THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 5B
SPORTS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2
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"We decided to put Julie in goal just to see how she would do." Francis said.
Sunday for the first time for freshman Julie Hanley.
Francis said that he didn't know who would start in goal tonight.
"We definitely need to start playing the way we can, going into the Big 12 weekend," Gault said. "That's when it becomes serious and things get ugly."
end will do that for us. Gault said she wanted to get Kansas soccer ready to win the Big 12 title like it did last season.
"We have to go into the conference with confidence," Francis said. "Wins this weekend will do that for us."
ugly. Kansas will have another game this weekend against Purdue in its last non-conference game of the season.
ence game of the season.
Purdue (2-4-0) broke a
three-game losing streak last
Tuesday, holding off Butler, 2-
1.
Purdue is 0-2 against Big 12 opponents this season, dropping games against Missouri and Iowa State.
Jayhawks sat at 44 percent.
"I don't know a thing about them," Gault said. "I don't know if we've ever played them. These are two teams that we should beat."
has sat at 44 per cent. Sophomore forward Katie Grambeau will lead the Purdue offense.
"We deffinately need to start playing the way we can, going into the Big 12 weekend. That's when it becomes serious and things get ugly."
Like Kansas, Purdue has averaged 20 shots per game. The Boilermakers have held a slight edge on shot on goal percentage at 46 percent, while the
She has five points on two goals and an assisst, all without starting a game this season. She was also responsible for the game-tying goal against Butler.
Holly Gault Kansas defender
while racking up 27 saves on the season.
The game against Purdue is scheduled for 1 p.m.
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Baseball
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the Stanford series because Quick had just transferred from Stanford. Price said that wouldn't be the case this season.
"Now that he has been with us a year and has been in our program,he will definitely play," Price said.
In addition to Stanford and USC, Kansas will play eight other teams that made the NCAA Tournament last season. Of those 10 teams, five hail from the Big 12.
Three of which, Baylor Nebraska and Texas, reached the College World Series, and Texas ultimately won the championship.
Jared Schweitzer, senior first baseman, was excited by the caliber of Kansas' opponents, especially Clemson, another team that made the NCAA Tournament last season. The Jayhawks rarely play teams from the Southeastern Conference.
"It should be fun to go to a
SEC school and see how good they are," Schweitzer said.
Another non-conference opponent of particular interest to the Jayhawks is in-state rival, Wichita State. Baty, a Wichita native, always looks
forward to playing in his hometown, but also emphasized the impact this season series has on the Kansas baseball program as a whole.
"When we play Wichita State, it's a huge rival for me, and not only me, but for the team as well because it's a recruiting battle between the two teams," he said.
Of all the big games on the Jayhawks' schedule, the Texas series was the one Baty was looking forward to the most.
"We beat them two out of three last year, here, on national television and they're
"We beat them two out of three last year, here, on national television and they're the defending national championship. So maybe we can knock them off in austin."
he said.
In May, the Jayhawks will travel to Austin, Tex. to face the defending national champion Texas Longhorns.
Matt Baty
Kansan outfielder
If Kansas can finish eighth or better in the Big 12 Conference it will qualify for the Phillips 66 Big 12 Tournament and move one step closer to Omaha.
the defending national champions," he said. "So maybe we can knock them off in Austin this year."
The Jayhawks' home opener is Mar. 3 at Hoglund Park against Western Illinois.
Edited by Patrick Ross
EXPERIENCE REAL WORLD SUCCESS IN OUR WORLD
The University of Kansas Department of Theatre and Film University Theatre presents
JACQUES BREL is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
General admission tickets are on sale in the KU ticket offices, University Theatre, 864-3982, and Lied Center, 864-ARTS, and on-line at kutheatre.com. Tickets: public; $18, all students; $10, senior citizen and KU faculty and staff; $17. Both VISA and Mastercard are accepted for phone and on-line orders. This production is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fee; funding is also provided by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a national agency.
paid for by KU
by Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman and Eric Blau
7.30 p.m.
September 16-17 & 21-24, 2005
2:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 18 & 25, 2005
Stage Too! in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre
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