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Tighe Van Anne, a sophomore from Eudora, drives in for a lay up Monday evening at the Student Recreation Center. Van Anne came to play soccer but decided to join up on a pick-up game of basketball also.
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Michigan State tournament run is in jeopardy after Lucas'injury
DETROIT — Kalin Lucas' Achilles tendon injury has ended his season and possibly Michigan State's Final Four chances, but coach Tom Izzo said Monday afternoon that indications from the junior point guard's MRI exam are that the injury isn't as career-devastating as it could have been.
The MRI exam conducted Monday confirmed that Lucas ruptured the Achilles tendon in his left foot. Recovery time is
"Doctors said it's up a little higher (on the Achilles) and not at the bottom, which some say is better for his long-term future and recovery," Izzo told the "Shep and Sharp" show on local WDFN-AM.
"We feel terrible for Kalin; he was having a great NCAA Tournament." MSU coach Tom
expected to be 4-6 months.
Izzo said in a released statement. "The good news is there is no doubt he will make a full and complete recovery. He's a tough kid, and hell do everything necessary
them I had theirs."
Lucas will travel with the team to the Midwest Regional in St. Louis, where Michigan State will
"We feel terrible for Kalin; he was having a great NCAA Tournament."
to return to his elite level."
TOM IZZO Michigan State head coach
"I appreciate all the support I've received from everyone, but especially my teammates," Lucas said in the statement. "At half-time against Maryland, they told me they had my back. And I told
play Northern Iowa on Friday night
game against Maryland.
He tore the tendon when he landed a awkwardly after going up for a jump shot late in the second half of Sunday's
Carmona, who was so wild last season that the Indians demot-
Lucas' replacement, Korie Lucious, beat the buzzer with a three-pointer that lifted the fifth-seeded Spartans to an 85-83 win over the fourth-seeded Terrapins.
Indians crush Cubs in 9-2 victory
MLB
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MESA.Ariz. — Fausto Carmona is in control — something he hadn't been able to say for almost three years.
After going 19-8 with a 306 ERA in 2007, when he finished fourth in Cy Young voting and helped the Cleveland Indians win the AL Central, Carmona had trouble throwing strikes. He averaged more than five walks per nine innings the next two years and went 13.19 with a 5.89 ERA for disappointing teams.
This spring, Carmona has walked only two batters in 13 innings while posting a 0.69 ERA. The big right-hander, who got in better shape over the winter and adjusted his mechanics on the mound, was especially dominant Monday, pitching six shutout innings in a 9-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
"Impress," Lou Piniella said. "It's the best spring training start I've seen. He made it look easy."
Cubs manager
("Chicago batters") couldn't take pitches. He was pounding the strike zone. That's what we talked about all spring: "Stay in control and pound the zone."
wasn't nearly as sharp,
allowing two
runs on four
hits and two
walks in four
innings. It was
his final outing
before Piniella
announces his
season-opening
rotation on
Friday.
confidence each inning," Cleveland catcher Mike Redmond said. "The last two innings were phenomenal. It was strike one, strike two, strike three. Nasty.
Cubs starter Jeff Samardzija
Samardzija is competing with Carlos Silva for a spot, but Silva has been better, meaning
"What I want to do is start,but we'll see how it turns out."
Samardzija's teammates offered little help Monday. After Austin Kearns led off the second inning
bullpen decisions, Samardzija laughed and said: "Yeah, but I was (bad) last year."
"What I want to do is start, but we'll just see how it turns out," he said. "Everybody just wants to help this team win. There are a lot of big situations in the 'pen, too.'"
"He had more and more
"It's the best spring training start I've seen. He made it look easy."
LOU PINIELLA
Chicago Cubs manager on Indians
pitcher Fausto Carmona
JEFF SAMARDZIJA Cleveland Indians pitcher
Asked if his outstanding performance as a rookie reliever during the 2008 pennant race actually could work against him as Piriella makes rotation and
ed him to rookie ball in June, spent Monday sawing off bats with hard, sinking fastballs just as he did in 2007.
Samardzija could be headed to the bullpen. Silva, who left Sunday's start after two innings with a tight right quad, said Monday that he felt fine.
with a double.
with a double,
first baseman
man Derrek
Lee fielded
Redmond's
grounder and
threw late to
third rather
than take
the sure out
at first. Jose
Constanza
then hit an apparent double-play grounder, but second baseman Bobby Scales' relay throw was high.
In the fifth, third baseman Jeff Baker made an error and Scales couldn't catch Constanza's popup, leading to two unearned runs off John Grabow. Mike Parisi gave up four eighth-inning runs on a hit, two walks, a hit batter and a wild pitch. Meanwhile, the Cubs were blanked on three hits through eight.
"One of our worst games of the spring," Piniella said. "We looked sort of dead."
Cleveland pitching had something to do with that. Paced by Carmona, the Indians lead all AL teams with a 3.38 ERA.
MLB
Giants defeat Rangers 5-4
SCOTTSALE, Ariz. — Barry Zito pitched into the seventh inning but was charged with four runs and 10 hits in the San Francisco Giants' 5-4 victory over the Texas Rangers on Monday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vladimir Guerrero, who signed a free-agent deal with the Rangers in the offseason, had two hits and two RBIs against Zito, who struck out four and walked none in 61-3 innings.
C. J. Wilson, getting an opportunity to join the Texas rotation after working as a reliever, pitched five innings. He gave up
Kevin Frandsen hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth to give the Giants the win.
("Pitching coach") Mike (Maddux) made a speech the other day, saying that you can have a rough first inning, get a lot of bad bounces, but what matters is how you finish," said the 29-year-old Wilson, who was 5-6 with a 2.81 ERA and 14 saves in 74 games last season.
"My delivery was pretty good, my change up was pretty good and my cutter was working. I'm proud of my change up and how far it's come. It's keeping guys off balance."
Wilson said his progress in the remaining two weeks for the spring will be gauged on "going out there and getting extended (more innings)."
He understands the difficult decisions facing team officials about where to put certain pitchers.
"It's like riding a teeter-totter," Wilson said. "You need a good bullpen, but you need good starting pitching.
"I'm just going to do the best I can to produce a lot of innings if I am a starter, or put up a lot of zeros as a reliever."
three runs and four hits.
San Francisco infielder Juan Uribe left after two innings with a tight right hamstring. He hit a two-run double in the first inning. He is listed day to day.
Also, catcher Matt Treanor has been traded from the Brewers to the Rangers for infielder Ray Olmedo.
MLB
Matsui takes the field in 4-2 victory
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Hideki Matsui was in left field for the first time this spring as the Los Angeles Angels beat a Los Angeles Dodgers split-squad
Matsui, who signed a free- agent deal with the Angels over the winter, hasn't played defense in a regular-season game since June 15,2008, for the New York Yankees against the Houston Astros.
4-2on Monday.
hit his way and was removed for a pinch runner in the fifth inning after going 1-for-2.
Matsui did not have any balls
Jeff Mathis homered and drove in three runs for the Angels. Joe Saunders gave up two runs and four hits in five innings.
Associated Press
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