MONDAY. APRIL 10. 2006
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3B
Jayhawk baseball sweeps Tigers
BY ASHER FUSCO afusco@kansan.com KANSAN SPORTWRITER
Anthony Mattingly/KANSAN
Junior third baseman and pitcher Jason Gibson winds up a pitch to his Missouri opponent on Sunday at the ice Fields. The Jayhawks won the game with a dominating 7-2 victory. The Jayhawk Baseball Club's record now stands at 7-3.
Standing two games out of the playoff race with only seven games remaining in the regular season, the Kansas club baseball team entered Sunday's match-up with Missouri in need of a victory. Luckily for the Jayhawks, they were able to spend Sunday afternoon racking up runs on a hapless Tiger pitching staff.
The Jajahwys plated five in the first inning and didn't let up until the game was called after seven innings, the final score standing 2-7 in Kansas' favor.
Kansas used an early three-run home run from catcher Glenn Bauer, Shawnee Mission junior, to pick up momentum, and never relinquished the lead. Andy Hicks, Neodesha junior, helped the Jayhawks' cause with a two-run double into the left field corner.
The Missouri pitching staff had trouble finding the strike zone during the game. The Tigers issued eleven walks and gave the Jayhawks plenty of easy opportunities to score. Kansas manager BJ Rains, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore, was pleased with his hitters' plate discipline.
"We knew if we took a lot of pitches and got deep into their bullpen, they'd run out of pitchers," Rains said.
The three Missouri pitchers who took the mound Sunday combined to allow 18 hits,
while their Kansas counterparts only gave up eight.
Kansas handed the ball to Jason Gibson, Overland Park junior, who picked up the win and struck out three batters in four innings pitched.
Assisted by his team's explosive offense, Gibson said he felt little pressure on the mound.
"Our guys gave me a lot of backup and really made it comfortable for me up there," Gibson said.
The Kansas bullpen was called upon to pitch the final three innings of the game, and did so admirably, allowing no runs and only two baserunners.
Jayhawk left-hander Jonathan Anderson, Momence, Illinois, sophomore, used a nasty curve ball to retire the Tigers in the sixth, and Landon Lukens, Medicine Lodge sophomore, closed the game cleanly.
The Jayhawks are still in the playoff hunt, but will most likely need to win each of their seven remaining games to reach the postseason. The team will kick off a four-game series Saturday April 22 at Missouri before finishing the regular season April 29 and 30 at the St. Louis University.
Edited by Lindsey Gold
TRACK
Kansas puts on strong show at Texas Rleays
BY EVAN KAFARAKIS
ekafarakis@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
It didn't take long for the Kansas track and field team to show off its talent at the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, this weekend.
The first event in which the Jayhawks participated was the 4x800 meter relay, as the men's squad placed sixth and the women's squad placed fifth in the highly competitive event.
Freshman Zlata Tarasova's toss of 193 feet 10 inches broke the Kansas hammer record by 10 feet and placed her at third in the event.
Sophomore thrower Egor Agafonov placed third in the men's hammer toss with a distance of 217 feet, eight inches,
just nine inches short of the Kansas hammer record.
On the third day of competition, senior Charisse Bacchus placed second in the women's long jump, lean
Tarasova
ing 20 feet, seven inches. The All-American's jump was good enough to qualify for regionals.
Fellow All-American senior Sheldon Battle placed fourth in the discus event Section A with a throw of 191 feet, eight inches, also good for a regional qualifying performance.
Also throwing the discus for a regional qualifying performance was junior Cody Roberts, whose
throw of 173 feet, 11 inches gave him a fifth-place finish in the Section B group.
Junior Abby Emsick, Kansas's record holder in the discus, threw a regionally-qualifying toss of 155 feet, six inches in the women's Section A group, good for an 11th-place finish.
Battle also competed in the shot put and placed third. His toss of 64 feet, four inches qualified him for regionalals.
Freshman thrower Stephanie Horton placed 10th in Section A of the women's shot put, Horton's toss of 47 feet 5 inches exceeded the regional standard.
The Jayhawks will compete in the Tom Botts Invitational in Columbus, Mo., next weekend.
MLS Wizards win close game against Dynamo
— Edited by Timon Veach
MLS
HOUSTON — Jose Luis Burciaga Jr. scored in the 90th minute to give Kansas City a 2-1 victory over the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night.
The Dynamo (1-1) dominated much of the game, but defensive laps allowed the Wizards (2-0) to escape with the victory.
Brian Ching, who scored four of Houston's goals in its 5-0 season-opening win against Colorado, broke a scoreless tie in the 64th minute when he headed in a shot off an assist from
Kevin Goldthwaite. That lead lasted less than 2 minutes; Sasha Victorine scoring on a header off a corner kick from Burciaga in the 66th minute. Houston had several opportunities to score, but Burciaga slipped behind the Dynamo defense to fire in a shot past goalkeeper Pat Onstad for the victory.
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