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Junior pitcher/outfielder Alex Jones tries to steal third base during Wednesday afternoon's game at Arrocha Ballpark. Jones contributed three hits and two runs to Kansas' victory against Independence Community College. The Jayhawks won the five-inning no-hitter 12-0.
Series loss against OSU due to offensive shortfalls
JOSEPH DAUGHERTY
jdaugherty@kansan.com
The Jayhawks softball team lost two of the three games in a highly competitive series against Oklahoma State this weekend.
Kansas' hitters bested Oklahoma
State in all three games of the weekend series, but dropped the series opener and series finale. Both of the games that Kansas lost this weekend came
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down to the final outs with the bases loaded. The Jayhawks lost both games by a 3-1 deficit, leaving the bases loaded in both of the losses. Kansas brought the bats in the second game of the series winning 9-7.
Coach Megan Smith said that the series boiled down to the Jayhawk offense, which was just not good enough in all three games to be successful.
"It came down what team got the clutch hits," Smith said. "Oklahoma State got the clutch hits and we didn't."
In game one of the series, the Jayhawks recorded six hits while the Cowgirls posted four, but all
three of the Cowgirls runs were scored on two home runs. Kansas was poised for a comeback as the Jayhawks loaded the bases in the top of the seventh, but the Cowgirls held on for the 3-1 win Friday night at Cowgirl Stadium.
The Jayhawks brought the bats to game two of the series in what turned out to be a high scoring thriller. The Jayhawks overcame a 4-1 deficit to hand the Cowgirls a 9-7 defeat. Freshman Alex Hugo was huge for the Jayhawks in game two she had three hits, four RBIs and two homeruns. The two homers tied her with former Jayhawk Jessica Moppin for the most by a KU freshman (11).
In the series finale, the layhawks bested the Cowgirls on hitting for the third straight game, but fell short 3-1. The layhawks were once again poised to make a rally in the seventh and final inning but failed to score once again with the bases loaded. Senior pitcher Kat Espinosa started all three games for the Cowgirls, notching two victories in her three starts. Despite surrendering six hits and five walks in the final game, Espinosa was still able
"I was told I tied the record so it's not that impressive; it would be more impressive if I broke it," Hugo said. "But it was good to get back into the groove of hitting and playing softball."
to come away with the victory.
A wild play that lead to an interference call on Kansas' second baseman Ashley Newman helped Espinosa notch the victory. Newman laid down a sac bunt, and was struck with the ball as the OSU defense attempted to throw her out. The ball ricocheted off Newman and into right field, allowing the game-tying runs to score. The call was reversed when Newman was called out on interference, forcing both base runners to return to the bases.
"The difference this weekend was when we had runners in scoring position we didn't score and they did," left fielder Maggie Hull said. "They were very tough losses because we really felt like we outplayed them and wanted to come out with the series win, but all we can do is go out and fight against UMKC. This just makes the Baylor series that much more important in terms of our goal this postseason."
Despite the loss, Sunday marked a monumental day for two Jayhawk seniors, as Hull and first baseman Mariah Montgomery made their 200th-consecutive start. They are the first players in the Megan Smith era to reach this milestone.
Athlete wins 100 meter invitational by split second
- Edited by Julie Etzler
KANSAS RELAYS
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The race couldn't have been much closer, but in the end it was Trell Kimmons who finished one-hundredth of a second faster
MAX GOODWIN
Kimmons
mgoodwin@kansan.com
"I felt like I came and did what I wanted to do," Kimmons said after
the race. "I'm just so happy that I
came out with the victory."
than Jaques Harvey, with a winning time of just under 10.22 seconds.
It was exactly the way that Kimmons hoped to begin his professional season — with a victory in his first race of the season.
Mitchell graduated from Florida State University in the spring of 2012 and said that he has not been able to make many trips back to the midwest since his time at Raytown South.
"It's tough to come back home," Mitchell said. "But when I do take
Maurice Mitchell, a native of Kansas City, Mo., and a 2008 graduate of Raytown South High School, was excited to run a race so close to his hometown.
The fifth-place finish and time of 10.35 seconds was not exactly what Mitchell had expected.
Team uses week to prepare for Big 12 Championship
advantage of it."
Mitchell is remaining positive after the disappointing performance and was already focused on "going back to the drawing board" to improve his time in the 100 meter dash during training.
"I'm just glad to be able to come back to my hometown and compete," Mitchell said.
The Kansas men's golf team will likely take the course this week for the last time this season, but there is still plenty to accomplish for the squad at the Big 12 Championship - especially for a team that has placed last at the tournament in two of the last three years. But the confidence is in place for the Jayhawks after their first 2013 victory
MEN'S GOLF
Edited by Brian Sisk
CHRIS HYBL chybl@kansan.com
last week in Iowa City, Iowa, at the Hawkeye Invitational.
gunsch on both sides of the fairways, but really, the key is around the greens," Gilbert said. "Limiting double bogeys and missing on the right side of the pin so you can get up and down is really the key out there."
As technical as Gilbert makes it sound, being patient is the main focus for Bermel's squad.
"There's not a lot of birdie opportunities out there," Bermel said. "I'm sure the weather will be windy, cold, rainy, whatever, so a lot of elements and a lot of competition. We got a big task at hand."
Bermel did leave out one element: snow. Flurries are in the forecast for early Tuesday in the wake of scattered thunderstorms predicted for this evening. Also, both days are forecasted to have winds above 20 mph. However, this could all work to Kansas' advantage.
"We've been practicing in the wind and cold more than anything," senior Alex Gutesha said. "So to be honest, hopefully it's like that at Prairie Dunes because the other guys haven't seen it."
ual in the NCAA regional tournament, the team does not. The No. 98-ranked Jayhawks have only the automatic bid as their last resort, but they still have much to prove at what will be their toughest tournament of the year. The Jayhawks will have plenty on their plate with six Big 12 teams ranked in the top 50.
"We definitely want to go out, and I think the timing of our last event was perfect," senior Chris Gilbert said. "I think the
Bermel is taking the same five golfers — Chris Gilbert, Stan Gautier, Alex Gutesha, Ryley Haas and Paul Harris — who captured the win at the Hawkeye Invitational last week to the Big
"it's a 72-hole event with a great field from all the Big 12 schools, and it's going to be a tall order," head coach Jamie Bermel said.
"I think the win has got our confidence up and all five guys believe."
win has got our confidence up and all five guys believe. We finally have all five guys contributing and playing well, and I think we are just excited to finish on a good note."
Gilbert has led Kansas in an odd year, but, while Gilbert has a near locked up spot as an individ-
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"Everyone talks about how the fairways are narrow and the
12 Championship at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson. The Big 12 Championship was held at the course two years ago, but the setup is still a concern for the Kansas team.
CRIME
NBC Sports announcer arrested on DUI suspicion
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- NBC Sports announcer Al Michaels was arrested over the weekend in Southern California on suspicion of drunken driving, authorities said Sunday.
cent legal limit, according to Lewis.
Michaels was pulled over at about 9:30 p.m. Friday after officers manning a DUI checkpoint witnessed him make an illegal U-turn, Santa Monica police Sgt. Richard Lewis said.
Michaels, the play-by-play man for "Sunday Night Football," was taken to the station, where he registered a blood alcohol level over the .08 per-
He was booked for suspicion of DUI and held for about five hours before being released on his own recogniz- nance, Lewis said.
A call Sunday by The Associated Press to Michaels' agent was not immediately returned.
"We are aware of the situation and we've been in contact with Al," said Greg Hughes, a spokesman for NBC Sports. "We have no further comment at this time."
Michael was ordered to appear in court June 26.
An Emmy Award winner and broadcaster on "Sunday Night Football."
the 68-year-old Michaelspent nearly three decades at ABC Sports before moving to NBC in 2007.
Michaels worked NFL games and other sports for ABC, and called "Monday Night Football" for nearly 20 years. He also is known for his call of the U.S.-Soviet Union "Miracle on Ice" game at the 1980 Winter Olympics and the earthquake-interrupted Game 3 of the 1989 World Series.
Last year he received the Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports Broadcasting.
Associated Press