SPORTS
2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 13. 2006
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
FRIDAY
Baseball at Oklahoma State, 6:30 p.m., Stillwater, Oka-
Track at Tom Born Invitation, all day, Columbia, Mo.
Player to watch: Don Cayz. The senior closer is the Big 12 leader in saves (12) and has a perfect 5-0 record on the season. If the game is close at the end, KU fans know to look for #14 to enter the game.
SATURDAY
= ocebell at Alabama State, 2 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla.
Softball vs. Taxas Tech, 2 p.m., Arrocha Cz Ballpark
Men's golf at U.S. Intercollegiate, all day, Stanford, Calif
Track at Tom Bottos Invitational, all day, Columbia, Mo.
Women's tennis at Colorado, 11 a.m., Boulder, Colo.
SUNDAY
**Softball vs. Texas Tech, noon, Arrocha Ballpark**
**Baseball at Oklahoma State, 1 p.m., Stillwater, Okla.**
**Men's golf at U.S. Intercollegiate, all day, Stanford, Calif.**
MONDAY
Women's golf at Big 12 Championship, all day, Lincoln, Neb.
TUESDAY
Baseball vs. Missouri State, 6 p.m., Hoglund Ballpark Women's golf at Big 12 Championship, all day, Lincoln, Neb.
SOCCER Team Canada to visit for exhibition
The Kansas soccer team will face the Cana-
The Kansas soccer team dian NationalTeam in a spring exhibition match at 3 p.m. at the Hummer Sports Complex in Topeka.
Kansas, which is 1-0-2 in the spring season, is coming off a 1-1 tie against the Kansas City Legends U-15 Boys team. In that game, junior defender Holly Gault scored the tying goal with
a little more than two minutes left Gault
The Jayhawks will be the fourth of five college teams the Canadian National Team will face this spring. They already defeated Purdue, Louisville and Missouri.The Canadian National Team easily beat Purdue and Louisville, but only defeated Missouri 2-0.
The Canadian National Team features six former players from the University of Nebraska.
Mark Dent
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KANSAS RELAYS
Sheldon Battle, Jamestown, N.Y. senior, and member of the KU Track and Field team, throws the hammer during practice on March 29 in the field by Memorial Stadium. Battle and some members of the track team will compete alongside Olympians in the Kansas Relays, which begin on April 20.
TALK TO US
110 athletes ready to compete
BY EVAN KAFARAKIS
ekafarakis@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
The 79th annual Kansas Relays will be a week from today, April 20 to 22, at Memorial Stadium. The GOLDZONE II event will take place Saturday, April 22 from 2 to 5 p.m.
Tim Weaver said he felt like a late-night commercial salesman at a press conference on Wednesday, announcing the athletes competing at the Kansas Relays.
"How much would you pay to see 2004 Olympic gold medalist Justin Gatlin perform in front of your very eyes? Not only can you see Gatlin, but we'll also throw in 2000 Olympic medalist Maurice Greene with no extra cost," Weaver, Relays meet director, said.
Along with those two attractions, Weaver announced the list of 110 athletes set to compete at GOLD-ZONE II. There will be 35 Olympic athletes — 11 of them medalists —
14 world champion medalists, eight U.S. champions, 19 NCAA champions and 34 other major championship winners who will compete at the GOLDZONE II event.
Kansas track and field coach Stanley Redwine, and All-American seniors Charisse Bacchus and Sheldon Battle accompanied Weaver at
The 79th annual Kansas Relays will be a week from today, April 20 to 22, at Memorial Stadium. The GOLDZONE II event will take place Saturday, April 22 from 2 to 5 p.m.
"Never has there been a collection of athletes to compete in an event like this in this part of the nation." Weaver said.
the press conference. Bacchus saos aside from competing in front of a home crowd, she was looking forward to watching the international athletes compete.
"The good atmosphere will give extra adrenaline and can help produce some big throws," Battle said
There will be at least 24 nations competing at the Kansas Relais.
Bacchus will likely compete in the long jump, hurdles and the 4 x 10 meter run. Battle, competing in his second and last Relays as a member of the Kansas track and field team, said he was looking forward to the atmosphere that would be surrounding Memorial Stadium.
Battle is likely to compete in the shot put, discus and hammer.
Redwine seemed the most excited about the coming attractions.
"I'm a track nut, so I can't wait to see all the events," Redwine said. "Every event is loaded."
The goal this year for the GOLD-ZONE II is to break the attendance record of 32,000, set in 1972 when Kansas' own Jim Ryun raced the mile.
"Not many people can travel to an Olympic Games or world championship meet, so we're importing the action to Kansas for an April afternoon." Weaver said. "I expect the size of the crowd to be every bit as impressive as the performances on the track."
Edited by Meghan Miller