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Sophomore midfielder Whitney Berry fires a shot Sunday at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex. Kansas lost to Oklahoma 3-1 despite outshooting them 18-11.
Colts break Chiefs' winning streak, no NFL team goes 4-0
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INDIANAPOLIS — Mike Hart still has some of those old Michigan moves in his back pocket.
The Colts (3-2) won in atypical fashion. For the first time this season, Peyton Manning failed to top 300 yards or throw for a touchdown. He finished 26-of-44 for 244 yards with one interception and couldn't get the Colts into the end zone until Hart's win-clinching score with 4:02 to go.
Addai left midway through the third quarter with what appeared to be a right shoulder injury. He did not return.
With an overpowering 11-yard touchdown run on the last of his career-high 11 carries, the third-year running back scored in relief of the injured Joseph Addai to give Indianapolis a 19-9 victory over previously unbeaten Kansas City.
It's the first time since 1970 that no NFL team reached 4-0.
Kansas City (3-1) never did get in the end zone.
Jamaal Charles carried 16 times for 87 yards, and Matt Cassel was 16-of-29 for 156 yards. The Chiefs had to settle for three field goals and lost a chance for a miracle
fourth straight time against one of the league's highest-scoring offenses by forcing the Colts to settle for four field goals before Hart finally punched it in.
This is the first time since 1970 that no NFL team has reached 4-0. For the first time this season, Peyton Manning didn't throw for a touchdown.
Nine plays later, Adam Vinatieri hit a 20-vard field goal.
Indy, meanwhile, was trying to show it could stop the run and keep foes out of the end zone. The Colts succeeded on one front — limiting the Chiefs to three field goals and no TDs. But Kansas City still ran 27 times for 113 vards.
But this was all about the defenses, which played like they had something to prove.
comeback when Ryan Succop missed a 51-yard attempt with 1:17 to go.
Only Minnesota and Kansas City had held each of their previous opponents to 14 points or fewer. The Chiefs nearly did it a
On the next series, Haley went for it on fourth-and-2 from the Indy 8 and Cassel's pass fell incomplete.
Coach Todd Haley opened the game with an onside kick that didn't go the necessary 10 yards.
The difference was Kansas City's failed gambles.
Jayhawks fall in upsets to Oklahoma and OK State
with a 47-yarder, Succop hit from 35 and 43 yards out, the second after Manning's interception, to tie the score 9-9 late in the third quarter.
"We made a mistake and allowed a goal, so at that point we have to be kind of creative and take some chances," coach Mark Francis said.
BY JACKSON DELAY jdelay@kansan.com
After that goal, Kansas had to try to respond.
Kansas looked to ride the momentum from beating Texas into this weekend's play, but they weren't able to do so. They fell to No. 7 Oklahoma State 2-0 on Friday and lost at the hands of Oklahoma on Sunday 3-1.
It was taking those chances that allowed Megan Marchesano
On Friday the Jayhawks were engaged in a defensive battle. At halftime, the scoreboard was filled with goose eggs, as both teams weren't able to break past the others' defense. It wasn't until the 60th minute of the second half that Oklahoma State was able to break the scorele action. OSU's Kristen Kelley was able to intercept a blocked shot and put it in the back of the net.
From then,
it was essentially a stalemate. Succop hit a 45-yard goal with 2 seconds left in the first hall to make it 6-3.
Manning took advantage, setting up Vinatieri for a 24-yard field goal that made it 6-0 less than five minutes into the game.
A f e r V i n a t i e r i opened the second half
Manning made amends quickly, taking the Colts 60 yards on the next series and getting Vinatieri into position for his fourth field goal of the day, a 42-yarder with 14:40 left in the game to give Indy a 12-9 lead.
to score the
Cowgirls second goal of the game unassisted in the 80th minute.
"We showed up in the second half but unfortunately the game is 90 minutes long. At that point we are 2-0 down," Francis said.
"They scored the second goal on the breakaway, which is a risk you have to take," Francis said.
Francis also noticed a difference in his team's second-half play.
said.
"We came out and started the game and obviously it is not an ideal situation to go down within the first 10 seconds," senior Cattlin Noble said. "I think as a team we got frazzled, we tried to play more
"We've dug our hole and now we have to climb out of it."
through which they were 1-2. Nonetheless, Francis felt that his team had played well throughout that stretch.
"Second half we knew it was dire. We played way better," Noble said. "I wish we could do that the whole game."
CAITLIN NOBLE Senior midfielder and forward
On Sunday Kansas started off the game with a sour taste in its mouth. Oklahoma's Whitney Palmer, who came into the game with a team high five goals, played the ball off of the kickoff and shot from 20 yards out over the outstretched arms of Kansas' sophomore goalkeeper Kat Liebetrau to give Oklahoma a 1-0 advantage, only 11 seconds into the game. This was the fastest goal ever allowed by a KU team.
"In the last three games we've been a little more consistent; obviously we haven't really gotten the results, but the girls are playing hard," Francis said. "They're playing a lot better and a lot more consistent than we have been, so that's a positive."
Sophomore Whitney Berry, freshman Madi Hillis, and junior Emily Cressy all registered a shot on goal for the Jayhawks. The 2-0 loss marked the third game of conference play that Kansas has been shut out.
direct and we lost the style of play we are accustomed to"
goal in the 20th minute courtesy of Dria Hampton. Hampton also beat the keeper high with a shot from 20 plus yards away.
"We have to create some more opportunities," Francis said. "I think we have to be a little bit more clinical in the final third of the field. Our final pass and our final ball, at times needs to be better."
Friday marked the third game of Kansas' four game homestretch,
The early goal seemed to shock Kansas, and it was an uphill battle from there.
Kansas came out the second half down 2-0 and they played at a different level.
Oklahoma scored another
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WHEN: Friday, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Lubbock, Texas
Kansas' lone goal of the match would come from a cross by senior Lauren Jackson in the 80th minute that was headed in by Noble.
Oklahoma would add another goal in the 66th minute off of a rebounded shot.
Kansas outshot Oklahoma 13-7 in the second half. Kansas also had nine shots on goal, to Oklahoma's five.
Francis said his team needs to take advantage of the chances they get.
"We have got to finish the opportunities that we've got," Francis said. "(Oklahoma) had three goals, and they maybe had five good chances today. The goal we scored wasn't even a good chance, (Caitlin) Noble just hit it well. We probably had six other chances from in or around the box where we hit it right at the keeper or we hit it wide."
"We put ourselves in a much more challenging position, to have to go away and travel and have to win," Noble said. "We've dug our hole and now we have to climb out of it."
Noble realizes the challenge that the lavhwacks have before them.
Kansas has four Big 12 games left, only one of which is at home.
Edited by Anna Nordling
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