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Monday, May 3, 2004
Nettle Fierros, sophomore third baseman, was tagged out at home plate yesterday by Texas' Jacklyn Daniels, sophomore catcher. The softball team won 3-1 yesterday.
Softball sweeps
Kansas defeats Texas during field dedication weekend
By Jonathan Kealing
jkealing@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas softball swept the University of Texas Longhorns 3-0 and 3-1 during the weekend.
the weekend.
Yesterday's 3-1 victory improved senior pitcher Kara Pierce's record to 16-11. Pierce also picked up a save in Saturday's victory. Freshman pitcher Kassie Humphreys picked up that victory and improved to 14-10.
The victories improved Kansas to 30-25-1 and 6-10 in the Big 12 Conference.
In the bottom of the third inning,
Yesterday's game was scoreless through the first 2.5 innings.
sophomore third baseman Nettie Fierros drew a walk. Sophomore left fielder Heather Stanley then hit a fly ball that landed out of the reach of Longhorn sophomore shortstop Amber Hall.
Sophomore catcher Melaney Torres then sent a one-out single between third base and shortstop, advancing the runners and reaching first base. With the bases loaded, sophomore shortstop Destiny Frankenstein singled to Hall but didn't receive an RBI because Fireros was thrown out at home.
Then, with two outs, sophomore designated player Serena Settlemier hit a 3-1 pitch back up the middle. Stanley and Torres both scored and Frankenstein reached third base,
"The best thing about that at-bat was she was patient," head coach Tracy Bunge said.
Settlemier returned to the starting lineup for the first time since her two-game suspension, which was issued for her being late to practice. Settlemier had played in several of the last five games, but was excluded from starting. She had been in a hitting slump going into her suspension.
"I don't like being benched," Settlemier said. "I've never been benched. It helped me get out of my slump."
Kansas would add one more run in the sixth inning.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Coach announces signing of 6-foot forward from Iowa
The Jayhawks' new women's basketball coach has a new recruit.
SEE SOFTBALL ON PAGE 8A
Bonnie Henrickson announced the signing of Jamie Boyd for the 2004-05
season for safety
Boyd is a 6-foot
forward from
Underwood, Iowa.
Boyd is Iowa's 2004 Miss Basketball and started all four years at
Henrickson
Underwood High School. One of
the best players in Iowa history. Boyd's 1,920 career points ranks 15th and her 1,007 career rebounds ties her for eighth in the state, all-time.
As a senior, Boyd averaged 17.8 points, 8.1 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game. Boyd also is known as an outstanding defender and led her team in steals all four years in high school. Boyd's signing will help fill the void left by 6-foot-4 forward Tamara Ransburg, who transferred to Old Dominion.
Kansan staff reports
TENNIS
Tennis team falls to Texas, finishes ninth in Big 12
For the second straight year, the Kansas women's tennis team is the ninth-best team in the Big 12
Seeded ninth, the 'Hawks fell to No. 1-fellow Texas Friday, 4-0. Kansas started the meet by losing a close, 8-5 contest in a doubles match.
In order to upset the Longhorns, the team would have
needed four singles victories.The team lost three, which led to the Longhorns clinching the victory.
"We had every opportunity to clinch the doubles point, but Texas raised their level of play due to the pressure we forced on them," coach Amy Hall said in a news release.
The tournament was held in Oklahoma City because of inclement weather.
Stick war
- Kayann staff reports
Jason Sawyer, Haskell Indian Nations University student, played stickball at Haskell Friday afternoon. Stickball is a Native-American game that symbolizes war where teams use sticks with netted ends to throw a leather lace ball and hit poles at either end of the field. The ball is about the size of a golf ball and the poles are the same diameter as telephone poles. The game is full-contact and unpadded. Women are not allowed to touch the sticks because it brings bad luck. Most of the players in Friday's game were Haskell students and alumni.
BASEBALL
Texas Tech too much for Kansas
By Ryan Colaianni
rcolaianni@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
With Big 12 Conference regular season play coming into its final weeks, the Kansas baseball team desperately needed a series victory against Texas Tech this weekend. However, the pitching staff allowed 48 runs in the three-game series, and the lavwhawks were swept.
"It's a tough time we're going though," coach Ritch Pice said. "They swung the bats as good this week as anyone we have played all year and they absolutely took us apart."
they abscused Freshman starter Sean Land allowed seven runs in a third of an inning in the second game of a double header yesterday. The Jayhawks fell 18-7 in a shortened game because of the lopsided score, and Land was given the loss.
"We wanted to get Land his first start," Price said. "Obviously that didn't go very well. I still like his potential and his upside; I still think he will be a quality guy for us."
Things didn't get better for the 'Hawks when Ken Livesey came on to relieve Land. Livesey allowed two more runs in the inning, and the Red Raiders held a 9-0 lead after the top half of the first inning. Livesey allowed seven total runs in 2.2 innings pitched.
The 'Hawks cut the lead to five in the bottom half of the second inning as they scored four runs. Sophomore Matt Baty drove in three runs on a triple that hit the centerfield wall and sophomore Ritchie Price drove in another run on a sacrifice fly to cut lead Red Raider lead to 9-4.
The Red Raiders scored nine runs over the next four innings to put the layhawks away for good.
The pitching staff struggled the entire weekend, losing the first game of the doubleheader yesterday 11-4 and Saturday's series opener 19-7.
Price and pitching coach Steve Abney will discuss potential remedies for the pitching problem.
SEE BASEBALL ON PAGE 8A
Track leaves Big 12 Championships disappointed
By Michael Phillips
mphillips@kansan.com
Kansan Staff Writer
It was a tough weekend for the layhawk track and field team.
Competing Friday and Saturday at the Big 12 Conference Championships in Norman, Okla., the weather was cold and windy all weekend.
On the track, things weren't much better than the weather.
The women scored 38 points and finished in 10th place. First place went to Texas with 151 points.
appointing total of six points. They finished in 12th, or last, place. Nebraska won with 172 points.
The men's team finished with a dis-
Despite nine winnere receiving all-Big 12 Honors, the team's efforts did not translate into a good team score.
Despite nine women and eight men
A regional qualifying time was notched by the women's 400-meter relay team. The team consisted of
Tiffany Cherry,
Clark
Charisse Bacchus and Octavia Garrett.
Garrett, a freshman from Upsher,
Texas, ran a season-best time of 55.20
seconds in the 400-meter dash. In the
Lavole
finals, she ran 55.27 for a sixth-place finish. Junior Kim Clark finished the 800-meter run in 2:10.31 for seventh place and all-Big 12 honors.
She was also part of the 1600-meter relay team, which finished fourth with
DUCHESS Williams, a season-best time of 34.42.
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Junior Chris Jones finished eighth in the 5,000-meter run with his time of 14:40.98.
There were no event winners for the Jayhawk team. Only one athlete who finished in the top three in an event. That was senior Laura Lavioe, who received all-Big 12 honors after finishing second in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:27.82.
It was a season-best time for Jones. Also finishing eighth for the Jayhawks was senior T.J. Hackler. His high jump SPORTS@CANSAN.COM
The men's team was competing without its best runner, Leo Bookman, who redshirted the outdoor season to prepare for the Olympics.
The team finished in seventh with a season-best time of 3:13.25. Running in that event for Kansas were Ryan Mathisen, Aaron Thompson, Mark Gdowski and Jeremy Mims.
Athletes who scored regional qualifying times will compete in the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships in College Station, Texas, in one month.
The others will have one final chance to get a qualifying mark at the Ward Haylett Invitational in Manhattan on May 15.
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- Edited by Ashley Arnold