4B the university daily kansan
sports
monday, april 19,2004
FACE OFF: Wind hinders passing attack, Gordon intercepts three returns, one for touchdown
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and Mark Simmons, junior wide receiver; caught four passes for 93 yards.
All of the quarterbacks strug-
gled with the wind. Barmann
overthrew a couple of open
receivers, while Swanson threw
four interceptions.
four interceptions. Swanson said he thought he improved this spring, in spite of his interceptions yesterday.
Sadiq Hammed, freshman cornerback, intercepted a pass thrown by sophomore quarterback Adam Barmann during the last play of the second quarter. Muhammed caught the ball and was tackled, ending the first half with a score of 10-0 with the blue team ahead.
"Defenses are different in D-1 than they are in JUCQ," Swanson said. "That's what I need, it'll make you grow up fast."
Mangino said Barmann had a slight lead in the quarterback race because he knew the offense better.
To be fair, Swanson rarely had time to set and throw. He was constantly harassed by a pass rush led by John McCoy, senior defensive end, that sacked him twice and constantly pressured him into mistakes.
When quarterbacks made mistakes, Charles Gordon was often on the other side. Gordon, freshman wide receiver, intercepted three passes and returned one for a 46-yard touchdown. Jonathan Lamb and Kevin Kane, junior linebackers, also had interceptions, while Sadiq Muhammed picked off Barmann's hail-mary attempt. Mangino said that after the game Gordon was the team's best cornerback. One of the bigger surprises was the inability for either team to run the ball.
The blue team defense was missing starters Gabe Toomey, junior linebacker, and Rodney Harris, safety, off a unit that allowed 4.9 yards per carry last season. But the defense yesterday
"I told them after the scrimmage that it wasn't their best day. We've got some guys that are gimping around, but those are just excuses."
Mark Mangino Kansas football coach
allowed just four yards rushing on 25 carries for the white team.
not that the blue team did much better. Clark Green, sophomore running back, averaged 3.9 yards per carry, while Randle averaged 3.1 yards. The longest rush from scrimmage was a 17- yard scramble by Barmann.
Mangino said the offensive line didn't play up to its potential.
"I told them after the scrimimage that it wasn't their best day," Mangino said. "We've got some guys that are gimping around, but those are just excuses."
the blue team scored twice in the first quarter, first on a Johnny Beck 54-yard field goal, then on the interception return by Gordon. The two teams were then scoreless until the fourth quarter, when Austine Nwabuisi, senior fullback, ran for a one-yard touchdown. Eight minutes later, Barmann found Simmons deep for a 44-yard touchdown. After an errant snap with 1:13 left in the game, McCoy tackled Kevin Long, senior quarterback for a safety.
Kansas Football Notes
Weekend football attendance
Kansas' announced attendance was a generous 3,200 for a game played in a cold wind. In comparison, Kansas' neighbors to the north, Nebraska, had its spring game on Saturday, with an announced attendance of 61,000.
Livin'in in the backfield
McCoy,Nick Reid, junior linebacker, and Kane had strong spring games.
All three players had three tackles for loss, and the nine tackles combined for 50 negative yards.
In addition, Reid led the team in tackles, McCoy chipped in a safety and Kane added an interception and a 15-yard return.
The game took place an hour before the spring practice and
Alumni game
featured an eclectic group of players, from 1940's Kansas players to more recent alumni.
Don Fambrough, a member of the 1947 Orange Bowl team and former Kansas football coach, booted an extra point while Bobby Douglass, quarterback of the Kansas' 1968 Orange Bowl team, threw passes. Fambrough had his final extra-point attempt blocked
to leave the game as a 13-13 tie
Injured Jayhawk
Mangino said the offensive line was banged up, as were Toomey and Harris. Not to worry though, Mangino said all of the injuries were minor, and all of the players would be ready for the fall.
Edited by Meghan Brune
ALERT: McCoy ready if he gets called up for service
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middle linebacker.
reserves to get money for school because he didn't know how his football prospects would play out
He opted instead for Victor Valley Junior College and was a JC-Grid Wire All-American and the conference player of the year as a sophomore. He had 114 tackles, 10.5 sacks and 45 tackles for loss as a sophomore and played
McCoy had many options coming out of high school, with Division I schools such as Pittsburgh and Mississippi offering him scholarships.
As a freshman, he played on the defensive line and had 19 sacks.
Again the offers started to flood in, this time from multiple SEC schools and Big 12 Conference schools. McCoy said he chose Kansas because of its coaching staff. Believing that he was coming in to play middle linebacker, McCoy was switched to the defensive line because the injuries started to pile up, and the Jayhawks already had adequate depth at linebacker.
he'd be more aggressive.
He had to play everything from pass rushing end to strong side defensive end to defensive tackle
and rarely was able to focus on one position. Near the end of the season he was used mostly as a pass rushing specialist on passing downs.
Many of Kansas' defensive ends left following last season, so McCoy was thrust into the starting defensive end spot opposite David McMillan, senior.
McCoy has good size at 6-foot-3-inches, 250 pounds, and he has excellent speed playing defensive end. On consecutive plays, McCoy can race around the tackle to make a play, or he can bull rush up the middle to collapse the pocket.
He was one of the biggest stand-
outs through spring practice coming into last week and ended with the spring game on a high note.
McCoy had five tackles, including three in the backfield for a combined loss of 37 yards. Two of the tackles for loss were sacks and the third was a safety on senior quarterback Kevin Long late in the fourth quarter.
He also had countless quarterback pressures and seemingly spent the whole game in the backfield.
As for the army, McCoy said he was waiting to hear more.
"It's a hard situation right now, but when my country calls me, that's where I go," McCoy said. "I have no regrets."
— Edited by Ashley Arnold
BOWLING: Men's team takes title, women's team finishes 5th
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pulled together and we knew we could do it," said Ryan "Rhino" Page, Lawrence sophomore
Page, Lawrence, who received Honorable Mention All-American honors on Wednesday, was the Men's Most Valuable Player for the tournament.
The IBC is a 16-team double elimination tournament. The men did not lose any matchups as they went through the winners bracket to clinch a position in the Final Four.
"One to six, we had the best six bowlers in college bowling," said D'Errico. "We were stronger as a team and everything came together at the right time."
The women's team did not have as much success as the men's, but they did finish fifth in the women's division.
Kelly Zapf, junior from Rochester, N.Y., earned Honorable Mention All-American.
Pikeville College defeated Wichita State on Saturday for the women's championship.
-Edited by Cindy Yeo
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