8B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2006
SPORTS
Fixing the score ... board
Randall Sanders/KANSAN
Workers make repairs to the scoreboard structure at Hoglund Ballpark Monday afternoon. Despite Sunday's severe weather, the structure remained intact. Only the soft material was damaged and needed to be replaced.
TRACK AND FIELD
Team 'never satisfied'
Outdoor season to begin for men and women
BY JACK WEINSTEIN
sports@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRITER
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Lawrence welcomed back three All-Americans Sunday after the NCAA Indoor Track Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., last weekend.
"As a meet, we had some people that performed really well, and I think we had some people that tried really hard and I think of the mistakes that were made, they almost tried too hard," Kansas coach Stanley Redwine said.
Redwine said that the meet invited, on average, the top 16 national performers in each event.
On Saturday, sophomore Egor Agafonov placed second in the weight throw, which qualified him as an All-American. His throw of 76 feet and one inch was only bested by the longest throw in collegiate competition this year.
"Egor came in ranked fourth and ended up second," Redwine said. "On his fifth throw, he went out there and decided he wanted to win. That's the attitude that we want our athletes to have."
Senior Charisse Bacchus also qualified for All-America honors for the first time in her career Friday by placing fifth in the women's long jump with a jump of 20 feet, 11.75 inches. After placing 10th and missing out on becoming an All-American last year, Bacchus said that although
"It's about time." Bacchus said. "It's an accomplishment that I've had in mind for a long time. It gives me a bit of satisfaction, but I'm never satisfied. I'm always setting more and more goals."
"It feels good to be an All-American, to be the top eight in the country," Battle said. On Monday, Battle was named the Division I Men's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year for the Midwest Region by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
For the second year in a row, senior Sheldon Battle is an All-American. On Friday, Battle's throw of 63 feet and four inches was good for fourth place in the shot put. In the weight throw on Saturday, Battle finished in 10th place with a throw of 69 feet. He earned All-American status by finishing as a top-eight American in the event. Even though Battle is an All-American, he didn't perform as well as he wanted to.
With a strong field in the 60-meter hurdles, senior Aaron Thompson tied his own school record of 7.84 seconds, which placed him 11th in the preliminary race. He missed qualifying for the finals by .01. Although Thompson didn't qualify for All-American honors, he took something positive away from the championships.
"I'll take some positives from it, from the experience of being here, the competition and carry it to the outdoor season so I can make it in outdoors," Thompson said.
The distance medley relay team of seniors Joshy Madathil, Brandon Hodges, Benson Chesang, and sophomore Matt
she was pleased, it was a long time coming.
"Egor came in ranked fourth and ended up second. On his fifth throw, he went out there and decided he wanted to win. That's the attitude that we wanted our athletes to have."
Baysinger ran a time of 9:46.53.
They finished in 10th place.
Stanley Redwine Kansas coach
"It's tough to say the least, especially for the other three," Bay-singer said. "I'm a sophomore, so I have a chance to do this again and they don't. It's hard to be this close and not get it."
Baysinger described the team's finish as a bittersweet end to a good season.
The distance medley team set a school record of 934.91 running on a 320-meter track in South Bend, Ind. The track in Fayetteville was 200 meters. Madathil said one of the factors in the race was the length of the track.
"On larger tracks, there are longer straight-aways, so you don't have to run in lane two, which adds to the distance you're running and makes it a little harder to pass people when you're running farther than they are," Madathil said. "It definitely makes a difference running on a shorter track."
With the exception of Hodges, each athlete who competed in Fayetteville will compete in the outdoor season starting on March 25 with the Tulsa Duels.
Edited by Janiece Gatson
MLB
Royals recruit pitcher; reassign eight players
SURPISE, Ariz. — The Kansas City Royals attempted to bolster its pitching staff Monday, the same day the club reassigned
the major league camp.
In the market for a starting pitcher after Mark Redman had knee surgery and Zack Greinke left camp for personal reasons, the Royals signed right-hander Luke Hudson to a minor league contract with an invitation to
eight of its players to the minors.
Hudson went 6-9 with a 6.38 ERA in 19 games last season with Cincinnati, starting 16 times.The 28 year old missed all of 2003 after having shoulder surgery.
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