2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 5,2006
SPORTS CALENDAR
TODAY
Tennis vs. Nebraska, 2 p.m., Lincoln, Neh
Softball vs. Arkansas, 4 p.m.,
Favetteville, Ark.
Softball vs. Arkansas, 6 p.m., Fayetteville, Ark
THURSDAY
Baseball vs. Wichita State, 7 p.m.
Wichita
THURSDAY
Track at Texas Relays, all day,
Austin, Texas
Player to watch:
Julius Jiles. The sophomore hurdler won the 110-meter hurdles at Tulsa in 14.12 seconds.
Jiles was also strong in the in the 400-meter hurdles, with a time of 53.77 seconds to finish fourth.
Julius Jiles
FRIDAY
Baseball vs. Texas Tech, 6 p.m., Hoolund Ballpark
Track at Texas Relays, all day,
Austin, Texas
Men's golf vs. North Carolina State, all day, Cary, N.C.
SATURDAY
SUNIDA
Softball vs. Baylor, 4 p.m., Waco,
Texas
Baseball vs. Texas Tech, 6 p.m., Hoglund Ballpark
Track at Texas Relays, all day,
Austin, Texas
Women's rowing, Kansas Cup, TBA, Lawrence
Men's golf vs. North Carolina State, all day, Cary, N.C.
Tennis vs. Missouri, noon, Robinson Coussons
SUNDAY
Softball vs. Baylor, noon, Waco, Toune
Baseball vs. Texas Tech, 1 p.m., Hooland Ballpark
Tennis vs. Baylor, 11 a.m., Robinson Courts
Women's golf vs. Oklahoma, all day, Norman, Okla.
MONDAY
MONDAY
Women's golf vs. Oklahoma, all day, Norman, Okla.
TUESDAY
Baseball vs. North Dakota State,
p.m., Hogwild Ballpark
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Kansas to play Toledo on ESPN2 next season
The Jayhawks will be playing in a Friday night ESPN2 game next season. The Jayhawks will take on the Toledo Rockets Friday, Sept. 15 next season at the Glass Bowl in Toldedo, Ohio.
A 6 p.m. start time has been announced for the Jayhawks when they face Northwestern State on Sept. 2, Louisiana Monroe on Sept. 9 and South Florida on Sept. 23. All games will be played in Memorial Stadium.
Kansan file photo
— Drew Davison
SOCCER Women versus boys at KU Sports Complex
Kansas will play the Legends U-15 Boys team tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the KU Sports Complex.
The Legends are a club soccer team based out of Kansas City and has teams at age levels from six to 19. The Legends' accomplishments include one national championship, 14 indoor national championships and sending 130 players to college.
Kansas, coming off a victory againstYale Saturday, is looking to gain its second victory of the spring season. The game against the Legends is the first of three games the soccer team will play against U-15 boys teams.
Mark Dent
STORM RECOVERY
Athletics fields 'playable'
Facilities ready for spring season after microburst
Wichita senior Greg LaRue takes photos of the KU soccer team's bleachers that were twisted and destroyed by tornado-like winds, as Wichita sophomore Abby Pastore looks over the destruction in the early morning of March 12. Pastore said they had decided to go out and look at the damage caused by the winds and were amazed at the destruction it had caused.
BY FRIG JORGENSEN
ejorgensen@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Soon after, Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, and the Athletics Department staff trekked through the damage, evaluating what needed to be done to make the fields game-ready.
The March 12 storm that wrecked much of Lawrence and the University of Kansas campus also tore through the KU soccer, softball and baseball fields.
Susan Wachter, chief financial officer for the department, said the actual cost of all the repairs was still uncertain, but the department would likely pay around $30,000 out-of-pocket. Wachter said most of the damage would be covered by insurance.
Before the storm, the department had insured most of the sports facilities and associated equipment.
When the heavy winds hit on March 12, much of the sporting area south of Allen Fieldhouse was damaged. Hoglund Ballpark received only minor damage, but the Arrocha Ballpark was heavily affected. The bleachers behind home plate and first base were thrown through the backstop. They lay
on the infield near first base until crews removed them.
The soccer field was relatively undisturbed — there was not much equipment on the field. The bleachers adjacent to the field, however, were destroyed. The wind twisted and pushed them toward Oliver Hall.
With softball and baseball in season, those ballparks were a high priority for the department. Cleanup crews went right to work pulling bleachers and debris off the fields.
Construction crews followed up with repairs to the backstops and bleachers to make them game-ready.
Marchiony said it took about a week to get everything back to par. This allowed baseball and softball to go on without much of a hitch.
"The fields are playable," Marchiony said. He said the crews had worked as fast as possible so the damage would not interrupt the season.
Soccer has been playing exhibition games on the road. Today, the team will play an exhibition match against the Legends U-15 boys team at 5:30 at the KU Sports Complex.
Bleachers will not be available for the game, but a large turnout is not expected. The team will play the Canadian national team April 13 at Hummer Park in Topeka.
- Edited by Kathryn Anderson
SOFTBALL Kansas sweeps Big 12 honors for first time
For the first time in team history, Kansas swept the weekly Big 12 Conference softball honors, as junior pitcher Kassie Humphreys was named Big 12 Pitcher and senior pitcher/designated player senior Serena Settlemier was named Big 12 Player of the Week.
Humphreys' earned the accolade after pitching two innings of no-hit ball in a victory against UMKC last Tuesday. She followed that performance by pitching eight innings and striking out 12 batters, only allowing one hit against Oklahoma State Saturday. It was the second time that Humphreys had earned the award.
Last week, Settlemier hit .636 for the Jayhawks, scored seven runs, drove in 13 and hit four home runs. It was the third time that Settlemier earned had the award.
Mark Dent
NBA
NBA Barkley, Wilkens elected to hall of fame
elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame, along with five other coaches and former players, two of whom he played against many times.
INDIANAPOLIS - Charles Barkley earned his reputation as one of the NBA's best forwards — and biggest talkers. But he always had the body and stats to back up his quick wit.
Next up: Planning one of the most unique induction speeches ever.
"The first thing you do when you get that phone call is let out a little scream," Barkley said Monday after the announcement.
On Monday, Barkley was
Barkley's reaction may bring a wince to two of his new Hall-of-Fame colleagues — Joe Dumars and Dominique Wilkins, who heard plenty of Barkley's rants on and off the court during the 1980s and 1990s.
The selection of Wilkins and Barkley seemed especially fitting because both played college basketball in the Southeastern Conference and had battled more than a decade in the NBA as two of the game's top forwards.
The other inductees are Connecticut women's coach Geno Auriemma, Italian coach Sandro Gamba and longtime contributor Dave Gavitt. All six will be inducted in Springfield, Mass., in September.
The Associated Press
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