wednesday, april 14, 2004
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the university daily kansan 5B
79-year-old bowls perfect game
Woman becomes the oldest female to ever bowl 300
The Associated Press
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. — Lynne Truby wasn't surprised to hear her 79-year-old mother had bowled a 300 game.
Judy Keltner, the manager of Summit Lanes in Lee's Summit, where Lois Morgan rolled the perfect game, also was among those who wasn't surprised Morgan achieved the feat at 79.
"She was already the oldest
woman to do it because she did it at 77," Keltner said.
Truby said, "It wouldn't surprise you either if you knew her."
After all, the perfect game was not her mother's first.
It wasn't even Morgan's first since birthday No. 70; she's had two other 300 games since that day.
Morgan, the oldest woman to attain perfection on a bowling alley, is not a lifelong bowler. The first time she bowled as an adult, Morgan was in the Army, stationed near El Paso, Texas.
Once Morgan got out of the service, she got married, had children and didn't think much about bowling — until her kids reached
school age. It was 1959 and she was asked to join a PTA league. Bowling a line cost 50 cents.
After Morgan began to bowl more, a family acquaintance who was an instructor helped Morgan perfect her game.
"I had been told for years about being in the 'zone.' It was like I was in a zone," she says. "I threw every ball in the pocket. It was just easy."
She was in a league with men when she rolled her first perfect game at age 71.
In 2003, she was named the senior woman bowler of the year by the Kansas City Bowling Association.
And she has been elected a
member of the Missouri bowling hall of fame.
But she's not always serious about bowling.
During a recent game, she scored a 298 while wearing house slippers and a nightshirt on Halloween.
And she said it won't be her last perfect game.
But Morgan got another chance at a 300 game April 6 during her Tuesday Twister League play.
"I was just horsing around," Morgan said. "I had a 6-10 split or something in the 10th frame."
"The record for a man bowling 300 is 88 years old," Morgan said. "I plan on doing it at 89."
Royals hit four home runs still defeated by White Sox
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Ozzie Guillen's homecoming was a winner yesterday, thanks to an offense the Chicago White Sox figure will make them a contender.
Paul Konerko hit a go-ahead three-run homer to help struggling Esteban Loaiza get his second win, and the White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 12-5 in Guillen's Chicago debut as manager.
Guillen got a rousing ovation before the game, taking his cap off at home plate and waving to the crowd.
The former shortstop spent 13 of his 16 major league seasons with the White Sox before he left after the 1997 season. Now he's back to run the team, promising to make it fun.
"Even when I was playing, I always wanted to manage," Guillen said before the game.
"Coming back to Chicago and knowing how the people feel about me and how I feel about the people makes it easier."
konerko, who got off to a dismal start a year ago in a disappointing season, connected in the fifth off Darrell May (0-2) following walks to Frank Thomas and Carlos Lee to make it 7-4.
The Royals, meanwhile, hit four homers of Loaiza on a blus-
tery day with the wind blowing out at 22 mph and a game-time temperature of 43.
It was the first game at U.S. Cellular Field since a $28 million renovation project in which eight rows were lopped off the top of the steeply inclined upper deck that is now covered by a new roof.
"It makes it look a little more like the old park, a little classier. But nothing else has changed," fan Larry Ortman said as he bundled up against the cold from the upper reaches of the stadium.
Loaiza (2-0), who won 21 games a year ago and was the Cy Young Award runnerup, was staked to a 3-0 lead in the second when Lee doubled, Konerko singled, Joe Crede hit a run-scoring single and Miguel Olivo a two-run double off May.
But Angel Berroa broke out of an 0-for-12 slump with a solo homer and after Carlos Beltran doubled, Mike Sweeney also homered to tie it at 3-3 in the third.
Aaron Guiel hit his third homer of the season for Kansas City to make it 4-3 in the fourth before Juan Uribe got his first hit with the White Sox, a solo homer to center leading off the bottom of the fifth.
After Konerko's homer gave the White Sox the lead, Jose Valentin delivered a two-run
Loaiza allowed seven hits, two walks and five earned runs in six inning. Notes:
Tony Graffanino homered to finish Loaiza in the seventh.
Throwing out the first pitches were Guillen, Chico Carrasquel and Luis Aparicio, all former All-Star shortstops who hail from Venezuela and played for the White Sox. Magglio Ordonez, also from Venezuela, caught one of the pitches and Carlton Fisk, who got one of the loudest ovations of the day, caught one of the others.
Sweeney now has 21 career homers against the White Sox.
- Loaiza allowed just 17 homers all of last season in 226 innings. He's already given five in his first two starts covering 12 innings.
Royals starters still have not won a game this season.
Manager Tony Pena said Kevin Appier could be close to rejoining the team after a strong rehab outing at Wichita. Appier is on the disabled list with a right elbow tendon injury.
Announced attendance Monday was 37,706 and because of comp tickets was deemed a sellout in the park that now has a capacity of 40,615.
Longhorn basketball gets star
The Associated Press
SEAGOVILLE, Texas — With the addition of 7-foot, 230-pound LaMarcus Aldridge, perhaps the state's best prep player, the Texas Longhorns' incoming recruiting class is drawing comparisons to Michigan's fabled Fab Five.
Aldridge committed to Texas months ago but also was considering turning pro. He recently decided to go to college first and will make it official today, the first day of the spring signing period.
The Seagoville star will be the third prep All-American heading to Austin, joining fall signees guard Daniel Gibson of Houston Jones and power forward Mike Williams from Wilcox-Central in Camden, Ala. Clear Lake center Connor Atchley and Dion Dowell, a small forward from Texas City, round out the class.
"LaMarcus going makes it awesome," Mike Kunstad, publisher of Texas Hoops Magazine, said of the UT recruiting class. "This could be the 2004 version of the Fab Five. With those five youngsters you have it all - inside, outside, wing men; just everything."
Recruiting Web site TheInsidersHoops.com lists all five as top 100 recruits nationally.
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