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THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Golf team hopes to rely on depth as postseason looms
CHRIS HYBL
chybl@kansan.com
The Kansas men's golf team has a lot to do in a little time. The team has just two tournaments left before the Big 12 Championship and not a lot to show for this season's sport - 0 top five finishes.
Bermel.
"We've really struggled this year, we can get three really good scores but we've been struggling with that fifth and fourth score," said Kansas golf coach Jamie
One of the team's last two tournaments before postseason play will be this weekend. The team is set to ship out to Charlotte, N.C., this morning at 9:00 a.m. and begin preparation for their participation in the Irish Creek Collegiate on Friday and Saturday. The Jayhawks have seen the course before and will try to top last year's 8th place performance.
"We've been talking a lot about the golf course: what to do and what not to do," Bermel said. "It's
always good to go back to a course season. Along with Stan Gautier
always good to go you're familiar with especially if you have a few guys that played in the event."
Chris Gilbert and Alex Gutesha are the two players that have participated in the event and they are also two players that
"The guys have a hard time understanding that they don't need to shoot 65 when a 68 will help,when a 70 will help."
JAMIE BERMEL Kansas golf coach
have helped carry the team this
the three have finished in the top-three for Kansas' team score in each tournament this spring. The trio has five top-20 finishes among them.
Switching the five-man lineup has a corn
modity for Bermel this year, and
that is changing again this week. Bermel will put Bryce Brown into the rotation. Brown finished T-23 at the team's last tournament, the Desert Shootout in Phoenix over spring break.
"He played well down there so I put him in the lineup," Bermel said. "He played well over spring break so hopefully he can continue to do that and help out the team."
The Jayhawks have felt pressured to earn a respectable finish for the duration of the spring
season, but Bermel just thinks the team is actually over-pressuring themselves.
"The guys have a hard time understanding that they don't need to shoot 65 when a 68 will help, when a 70 will help." Bermel said. "We just need to do a better job of understanding that and I think that will help our scores come down a little bit."
The Jayhawks will tee-off the 54-hole event on Friday morning.
Edited by Tyler Conover
SOFTBALL
Freshman pitcher Kelsey Kessler starts her first softball game at the University with a five-inning no-hitter Wednesday at Arrocha Ballpark. Kansas defeated Independence Community College 12-0.
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Team travels to Lubbock aims to sweep Texas Tech
JOSEPH DAUGHERTY
idaugherty@kansan.com
Coming off the Big 12 opener and the toughest weekend of the season, the Jayhawk Softball team will head to Lubbock on Friday to face the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
Last weekend, the Jayhawks fell to the No. 7 Texas Longhorns in all three games of the series. Though some of the final scores can be misleading, the Jayhawks competed and had a chance to win each game of the series. Last weekend marked the second straight series that the normally potent Kansas lineup was held in check and was not able to string together multiple key hits.
"Aside from one inning, we were right there with Texas in all three games," coach Megan Smith said. "We had one bad inning that left a bad taste in our mouth, but I felt like we competed well and had
a chance to win at least a couple of games, and that shows our growth as a program, and we hope to continue that this weekend at Texas Tech."
Smith believes Texas Tech is a lot like the Jayhawks because they have a strong offense and solid pitching. Smith expects the Red Raiders to have an explosive offense like always, and for this to be a series where there could possibly be a lot of runners on base and runs scored.
Texas Tech is 27-14 on the season and coming off a series against Oklahoma State where the Red Raiders came with one win in the three-game series. The Red Raiders are hitting .323 and allowing opponents to .230. Texas Tech boasts an offense with seven players that have started more than 29 games hitting .300 or above. The potent Texas Tech will provide a
challenge for the young Jayhawk pitching staff.
The Jayhawks hope to get the offense back on track after two subpar weekends by this season's standard. Even after two tough weekends for the offense, Kansas is still hitting. 363 as a team and has seven regular starters hitting .300 or above, including Big 12 leader Maggie Hull who is hitting.490.
"It's been a couple weekends since our offense has been able to go," Hull said, "so I'm excited to go out there and score a lot of runs, and we hope to win every game we play this weekend."
MLB
At least on paper, this weekend's series in Lubbock looks like it could be a shootout. The Jayhawks enter this weekend series 0-3 in the Big 12 and the Red Raiders are 1-2.
Edited by Elise Reuter
Royals hope to avoid another loss to Chicago White Sox
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — Adam Dunn homered and the Chicago White Sox went deep four times to back a solid start by Jake Peavy in a 5-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday.
Tyler Flowers, Dayan Viciedo and Alexi Ramirez also connected, and the White Sox made it two straight wins to start the season after dropping 12 of 18 to Kansas City a year ago.
The Royals, full of optimism after posting the majors' best record in spring training, will try to avoid a season-opening sweep Thursday.
Peavy (1-0) allowed one earned run and four hits in six innings, striking out six and walking none.
Dunn had two hits and scored
twice. He led off the second with his 407th home run — tying Duke Snider for 48th place on the career list — and Flowers opened the third with his second shot.
The three-time All-Star resigned with Chicago after a
Peavy did his part, outpitching Ervin Santana (0-1) after Chris Sale shut down the Royals in a 1-0 victory Monday in the opener.
Viciedo made up for his gaffes in left field with a big swing in the fourth, hitting a two-run drive that made it 4-1. The Royals scored a run in the sixth and loaded the bases against the Chicago bullpen in the seventh, only to come away empty-handed. Ramirez got the lead back up to 5-2 with a drive leading off the bottom half off Luke Hochevar, and the White Sox sung on from there.
rebound season last year and started this one on a strong note. Five relievers combined to shut down the Royals, with Addison Reed working the ninth for his second save.
Santana (0-1), a mainstay in the Angels' rotation for eight seasons, also went six innings and gave up four runs and five hits. He struck out eight and walked one, but the long ball did him in.
Kansas City is counting on Santana to help solidify the rotation along with fellow newcomers James Shields and Wade Davis and a re-signed Jeremy Guthrie, moves that helped spark a surge of hope after the Royals finished with a losing record for the 17th time in 18 years.