TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2006
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3B
MEN'S GOLF
Rough course,weather doesn't hurt play
BY ASHER FUSCO
afusco@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
During a weekend of unpredictable weather, Kansas men's golf coach Ross Randall also got a few surprises from the bottom of the lineup.
With leaders Gary Woodland, junior, and Pete Krnich, senior, struggling to find the fairway at last weekend's U.S. Intercollegiate, the team rieled on the
Docking
productive play of junior Tyler Docking to stay in contention. Docking put together two solid rounds of 71 and 75.
celed because of poor weather, but the Jayhawks posted team scores of 301 and 302 in the first two rounds.
The Jayhawks finished in a tie for 11th
The scores were high on the course that punished players with foot-deep rough and all-around soggy conditions.
place out of 17 teams, which included some of the nation's best teams. The third round was can-
"The golf course was extremely difficult because they haven't had a chance to cut the grass in about three weeks," Randall said. "The rough was as thick as these guys have ever played."
Randall has shuffled the lineup repeatedly in recent weeks in search of consistent play heading into next week's Big 12 Championship. Docking's emergence might have reassured Randall that the team would be deep enough to enjoy postseason success.
"Tyler played pretty well, and for us to be a good team, we need him to be in the lineup playing well," Randall said.
Docking, who struggled to
find his stroke early in the season, said he was confident about his game going into the Big 12 Championship.
"I really played great at this tournament; so in terms of my confidence and ability level, I'm really above and beyond anywhere I've been this year," Docking said.
Docking's first-round 71 helped him finish in a tie for 15th place individually. Senior Luke Trammell put together two
strong rounds to finish in a tie for 43rd, while redshirt freshman Zach Pederson rode a strong first round and tied for 54th.
Woodland and Krishn rounded out the Jayhawk scores, tieing for 63rd and 81st.
UCLA edged out USC to take the team honors, and Stanford's sophomore Rob Grube shot a second-round 64 to grab first place individually.
- Edited by Jodi Ann Holopirek
MLB
Cards' Pujols ties HR mark
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PITTSBURGH — Albert Pujols tied a major-league record with a home run in his fourth consecutive at-bat, Jason Marquis pitched eight innings of three-hit ball and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 Monday night.
A day after hitting three homers, including a gamer-winner, Pujols homeered to center off Pirates starter Paul Maholm (0-2) in the top of the first to give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead.
ous time it was accomplished in the National League was by the Atlanta Braves' Andruw Jones from Sept.7-10, 2002.
Pujols doubled in his next atbat in the third and walked his next time up before flying out to left in the seventh.
It was the 35th time in Major League history that a player has homered in four straight at-bats. Carlos Delgado, then with the Toronto Blue Jays, last did it Sept. 25, 2003. The previ-
Puiols joins Stan Musial (July 7-8, 1962) as the lone Cardinals player to do so.
Jason Isringhausen allowed a lead-off double to Jack Wilson in the ninth before retiring the middle of the Pittsburgh lineup
(Gene J. Puskar/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols, left, rounds third to greetings from coach Jose Quando after hitting a two-run first inning homer off Pittsburgh Pirates starter Paul Paul Maholm during baseball action in Pittsburgh, Monday
— Jason Bay, Jeromy Burnitz and Craig Wilson — for his fourth save.
The Cardinals have won three straight games.
Marquis (3-0) had allowed only one hit and two baserunners through seven innings before the Pirates scored their only run in the eighth when pinch-hitter Nate McLouth singled in Jose Castillo, who had doubled.
fielder beat out for a single.
Pittsburgh's only other hit Chris Duffy's slow dribler past Marquis that the speedy out-
Marquis retired 14 in a row in one stretch. The only other baserunner for Pittsburgh against Marquis was Bay, who drew a two-out walk in the first.
Maholm entered the game with a 7.71 ERA but had his best start of the young season,
Marquis, who struck out only two, has won each of his three starts this season.
permitting only two runs on seven hits in six innings.
The Cardinals' John Rodriguez was a late scratch from the lineup due to an allergic reaction to something he ate,
team officials said. St. Louis is 31-10 lifetime at PNC Park and has the most wins of any visiting club.
- Edited by Jodi Ann Holiparek
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