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Barbee's first place helps team to second place finish
BY ETHAN PADWAY
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Despite rain delays, Nate Barbee played well enough to win his first individual tournament of the year at the Bill Ross Intercollegiate in Kansas City, Mo.
Jiorl Jeff Bell brushes debris away from his ball Tuesday morning during the second round of the Bill Ross Intercollegiate tournament. Bell pitted his first two rounds with a 75 and an 80.
Chris Neal / KANSAN
Barbee shot 213 to finish the tournament at three under par.
"I'm really happy for him," coach Kit Grove said. "He works his butt off and he has been off to a slow start and he's been struggling, especially for him, especially after the superb year he had last year."
"Hopefully this allows him to turn the corner and get back to doing this on a regular basis," Grove said.
Other players recorded low scores that helped the team place second in the tournament.
"I'm happy with second. Obviously the goal is to win," Grove said.
Sophomores Chris Gilbert and Alex Gutesha tied for 23rd place in the tournament. Gilbert opened up with a 73 on Monday before coming back and shooting a 75 and a 78 on Tuesday. Gutesha opened with 78 on Monday before improving to 75 in his second round and finishing with a 73 in his final round.
Junior Doug Quinones shot 75 Monday before shooting a 78 in his second round and a 74 in his final round Tuesday. Senior Jeff Bell shot 75 on Monday before shooting an 80 in his second round. He recorded another 75 in his final round.
Central Arkansas won the tournament with a total score of 876. The host, UMKC, finished in third. Northern Iowa and Missouri State rounded out the top five.
"I'm happy with second," Grove said. "Obviously the goal is to win and we were in a really good spot going into the day."
Edited by Emily McCoy
1. Nate Barbee - 213
T23. Chris Gilbert - 226
T23. Alex Gutesha - 226
T28. Doug Quinones - 227
T37. Jeff Bell - 230
KANSAS RESULTS
Sophomore Dan White chips a ball onto the green Tuesday morning at the Bill Ross Intercollegiate tournament. As a freshman, White averaged a score of 76.78.
Chris Neal / KANSAN
Check out a photo gallery from the tournament at kansan.com/
MLB
Rangers rout Yankees 10-3 one game from World Series
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NEW YORK — No disputing this: The Texas Rangers are routing the New York Yankees and are now just one win from their first trip to the World Series.
Aiming for a Series matchup against San Francisco or Philadelphia, Texas has outscored the Yankees 30-11, outit them 43-26 and would have swept if not for wasting a five-run lead in the opener. Nelson Cruz hit the last of Texas' four homers, a two-run drive that gave the Rangers seven homers in the series and 15 in the postseason.
While the Yankees are seeking a record 41st pennant, Texas is trying to reach its first World Series since the franchise started play as the expansion Washington Senators in 1961.
Bengie Molina hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off A.J. Burnett in the sixth inning. Josh Hamilton added a pair of solo drives to give him four in four games and the Rangers battered the Yankees 10-3 Tuesday night for a 3-1 lead in the AL championship series.
Instead of trying to avoid Cliff Lee, the Yankees can only hope to force a Game 7 and face him again.
Game 5 Wednesday will have a rematch of starters from the opener, with the Yankees CC Sabathia against C.J. Wilson. Since the LCS went to a best-of-seven format, 24 of the 30 previous teams to take 3-1 series leads have winnets pennants.
On a night of contested homers,
Texas left no doubt with its long shots. Fans started streaming out of Yankee Stadium as the Rangers pulled away in the late innings.
It was a costly loss, too, for the defending World Series champion Yankees. All-Star first baseman Mark Teixeira limped off in the fifth inning with a strained right hamstring. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said the team would likely replace Teixeira on the roster with infielder Eduardo Nunez.
In contrast, Alex Rodriguez has been a bust against his former team, going 2 for 15 (.133) with two RBIs.
Molina's two-out homer came after an intentional walk and put Texas ahead 5-3. Before he circled the bases and pounded a fist against his chest — and left Burnett
clasping hands behind his head — not much was clear.
Robinson Cano hit a second inning home run off the top of the right-field wall that left Cruz screaming and pointing after a fan appeared to block him from making a possible catch.
Two batters later, Lance Berkman hit a high drive down the right-field line that was clearly foul but initially was ruled fair by umpire Jim Reynolds. After a video review just the third in postseason play since the process began two years ago — umpires reversed the call and ruled it foul. The Yankees didn't even argue.
An inning after Molina homered, Hamilton added a solo shot off left-hander Boone Logan, who had just come in. Hamilton and Cruz homered off Sergio Mitre in the ninth.
Derek Holland pitched 3-2-3 innings of scoreless one-hit relief after he replaced Tommy Hunter, who was knocked out in the fourth inning.
Holland, Daren O'Day and Clay Rapada walked the bases loaded
in the eighth with Texas leading 7-3. After Darren Oliver's 0-1 pitch may have glanced off Nick Swisher's back foot — there wasn't a call or argument — Swisher flied to short center on the next pitch, dropping to 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position in the playoffs. Berkman followed with an inning-ending forceout, and Oliver finished for a save.
Burnett, who took the loss, was one out from making it through six innings, more than the Yankees could have expected.
Pitching to backup catcher Francisco Cervelli, starting because he catches Burnett more often than starter Jorge Posada, the erratic right-hander with a sharp curveball and explosive fastballs in the early innings and pitched well until allowing Molina's homer.
After throwing 23 of his first 29 pitches for strikes, Burnett lost his rhythm in the third.
The $82.5 million man had lost seven of his last eight regular-season decisions, was dropped from the rotation in the first round and hadn't pitched since Oct. 2.
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