Sports
Disappointing weekend
The Kansas baseball team lost to Oklahoma State yesterday in a game that went to 14 innings. The loss sealed the Cowboys' three game sweep of the Jayhawks. PAGE 3B
The University Daily Kansan
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Monday, April 19, 2004
Jayhawks spring into season
Football teams face off at practice game
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Junior linebacker Zach Mims tried to grab the ball after sophomore running back John Randle fumbled in the second quarter of yesterday's spring scrimmage.
By Kevin Flaherty
kflaherty@kansan.com
Kansan senior sportswriter
Defenses dominated sloppy play as the blue team defeated the white team 26-0 in the spring game yesterday.
The two football teams had a combined seven turnovers and three missed field goals on a field that boasted a 28 mph wind with gusts up to 35 mph.
The blue team was made up of the starters through spring practice and the white team was the reserves. Some of the players, such as Jason Swanson, junior quarterback, and John Randle, sophomore running back, played for both sides.
Mark Mangino, Kansas football coach, said the game wrapped up a strong spring.
"I thought the game was good work, we got a lot of repetitions," Mangino said. "We're a work in progress. This spring has been our best in the three years I've been here."
The first offensive score didn't come until early in the fourth quarter. Still, not all of the offensive players struggled. Adam Barmann, sophomore quarterback, finished 16-27 for 212
Brandon Rideau, senior wide
yards and a touchdown. His only interception came on a hail-mary pass at the end of the first half.
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One week prior to game, player's army unit on alert
By Kevin Flaherty
kflaherty@kansan.com
Kansasan sportwriter
On first down and 10 late in the first quarter, Jason Swanson, junior quarterback, rolled out of the pocket to pass.
As he opened himself up and threw the pass, he was leveled to the ground by a blur in a blue jersey.
As the pass fell incomplete, John McCoy, senior defensive end, pulled himself off Swanson and trotted back to the huddle.
It may have seemed like an average play for McCoy, who has been active in the pass rush all spring, but every play this past week had a new significance.
McCoy
"John was put on alert by his reserve unit this week," Kansas football coach Mark Mangino said after yesterday's annual blue and white game.
"He's been really kind of on edge about that, a little nervous," he said.
McCoy is a member of Army reserve unit 3817 headquarters and battalion, which was put on alert yesterday, a week before the spring game. He joined the reserves following his senior year in high school.
His unit specializes in supply, and McCoy isn't sure when or if it will be shipped out.
"It kind of took my breath away," McCoy said. "It's pretty much just a matter of time, I guess. It would be hard to leave everything I've worked for, but duty calls."
Mangino said McCoy joined the
Records broken across the board at Relays
By Michael Phillips
mphillips@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
This prompted meet director Tim Weaver to proclaim afterward, "The rebuilding era is over."
The 77th Kansas Relays was characterized by an increased level of competition, as 16 Relays records were broken or tied.
The Relays took place on Thursday through Saturday at Memorial Stadium. It was the fifth event since the Relays took two years off because of construction at the stadium.
The field events were highlighted by high jumper Nathan Leeper.
It seemed like everywhere the fans looked on Saturday there was a record performance or a close finish.
After that victory, he stopped jumping and started training for this year's Olympics.
He placed 11th in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, then joined team Nike and won the USA Outdoor Championship in both 2001 and 2002.
The Relays were his first appearance since he began training as he cleared at a height of 7-feet-5.75 inches to a raucous ovation from the crowd.
"I feel like no three people are going to beat me," he said after the jump. "It doesn't matter if they jumped 7-7 during the indoor season."
"I feel like no three people are going to beat me. It doesn't matter if they jumped 7-7 during the indoor season."
Nathan Leeper Team Nike high jumper
Andrea Dutoit won the women's pole vault after clearing 14-feet-3.25inches.
Dutoif has taken the year off from medical school to train for the Olympics.
Her strength training has resulted in her using a pole five inches longer than most athletes at the Relays were using.
Some of Dutoit's best performances were at the Relais.
"Instead of feeling like I was doing my own thing, I had all these people behind me," she explained.
Another field athlete who had the crowd behind him was javelin thrower Scott Russell.
The Jayhawk alumnus' winning throw on Friday of 242-feet-8-inches went into a stiff wind that kept marks down all day.
Nevertheless, as Russell came to the line for the final throw, the crowd started clapping and Russell unleashed
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Joshy Madathil, Liberal sophomore, caught his breath after running the men's invitational mile Saturday afternoon. Madathil finished second overall with a time of 4:13.85 minutes.
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Bookman ambitious at Relays
Leo Bookman, right, Dickinson, Texas, senior, led the men's invitational 100-meter dash against Rae Edwards of Nike. Bookman finished with a time of 10.04 seconds, which would have been a new record, but because of strong winds did not count.
Annie Bernathy/Kansas
By Michael Phillips
mphillips@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The KU senior, who is taking a redshirt this semester while he trains for the Olympics, ran two sprints.
Leo Bookman wasn't wearing KU colors on Saturday, but the Memorial Stadium crowd knew whom to cheer for.
Bookman had a great start and flew to an early lead. For the last 30 meters, he was challenged by Rae Edwards and Tyrone Edgar.
His first event was the 100-meter dash.
Edwards, the 20-year-old phenom,
came up just .04 seconds short, and
Edgar threw himself across the finish
line for third. After securing victory,
Bookman gave the crowd a fist
pump, then heard his time.
He ran a 10.04, the fifth-fastest time in the world this year, on his first 100-meter attempt.
"I surprised myself in the 100," said Bookman, who specializes in the 200-meter dash.
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Men's bowling team wins championship
For the first time in 41 years, the University of Kansas has finally brought home a bowling championship.
By Jason Elmquist
jelmquist@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The men's bowling team beat Saginaw Valley State to win the Intercollegiate Bowl ing Championship. It is the team's first championship since 1963.
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"I'm very pleased," said coach Mike Fine. The group has made sacrifices, for
the past nine months. They maintained a strong vision since the beginning."
Three of the six men's bowlers finished their college bowling career this weekend. Marc D'Errico, Rochester, N.Y., senior; Alan Emmons, Loveland, Colo., senior; and Jason Reese, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, won their
Jason Reese Kansas City, Ken., graduate student
"It's a wonderful feeling," Reese said. "When I started at KU, I only bowled one tournament on the Bteam. All my hard work finally paid off."
first and only Intercollegiate Bowling Championship.
"When I started at KU,I only bowled one tournament on the B-team. All my hard work finally paid off."
The B-team is equivalent to the junior varsity bowling team.
Despite not winning any of the six tournaments all year, the team was able to come out on ton in the most important tournament.
"We put everything aside. We just
TALK TO SPORTS: Contact Henry C. Jackson or Maggie Newcomer at SPORTS@KANSAN.CO
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