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Team takes fourth after close battle
BY BETT KASPAR
kblaspar@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
After four days of battling Missouri for third place in the Big 12 Championships, the Kansas swimming and diving team fell just short in College Station, Texas.
The team finished fourth out of six teams in the tournament.
Kansas (439) finished behind Texas (942.5).Texas A&M (761), and Missouri (453). Kansas finished ahead of Nebraska (386.5) and Iowa State (357).
"We did all we could, it came down to the last day," senior cocaptain Gina Gnaizg said.
The second day of competition started with the Jayhawks in third and highlighted a school record-breaking performance by Gnatzig in the 500-yard freestyle.
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Gnatzig set a school record in the preliminaries with a time of 4:48.77. She went on to finish
fifth with a time of 4:49.28.
"I really trained hard in my freestyle, and I am glad it paid off in the end," Gnazig said. "With it being my last year, it meant a lot to leave something behind."
The Jayhawks finished the day in fourth place.
On the third day, the 200-yard free relay finished fifth with a time of 1:35.12. Gnatzig finished sixth in the 200-yard free with a time of 1:49.38. Kansas was able to advance to third place on the busiest day of competition.
On the fourth day, Kansas finished the 400-yard free relay with a time of 3:26.83, placing third. However, the Jayhawk effort was not enough to pull past the Tigers; Kansas finished the championships in fourth.
"Overall, I think we had real solid performances," Gnatzig said.
Kansas will be in action for the next tournament on March 9.
Kansas senior Gina Gnatzig competes in the 100-yard freestyle at Robinson Gymnasium Jan.27. Gnatzig and the Jayhawks finished fourth place overall in the Big 12 Championship at College Station, Texas.
Edited by Hayley Travis
OVERALL PERFORMANCE
| Event | Top KU performance |
| :--- | :--- |
| 500 free | Senior Gina Gnatzig |
| 200 IM | Freshman Danielle Herrmann |
| 50 free | Senior Lindsey Urbatchka |
| 400 IM | Senior Emily Rusch |
| 100 back | Junior Jennie Short |
| 100 breast | Freshman Danielle Herrmann |
| 200 free | Senior Gina Gnatzig |
| 100 fly | Freshman Ashley Leidigh |
| 200 back | Sophomore Terri Schramn |
| 100 free | Senior Gina Gnatzig |
| 1650 free | Freshman Molly Brammer |
| 200 breast | Freshman Danielle Herrmann |
Time Placed
04:49.28 5
02:04.3 11
24.08 14
04:25.1 5
55.58 6
01:03.3 4
01:49.4 6
54.63 5
02.00.72 6
51.00 10
16:54.66 10
02:17.64 6
Source: Kansas Athletics Department
Collision lands two players in hospital
BY ALISSA BAUER
abauer@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
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A diving collision in the second inning Saturday put two Kansas starters in the hospital and forced the team to use a rearranged lineup to put away Lipscomb University, 15-10.
Senior outfielder Matt Baty and junior outfielder Kyle Murphy collided in what turned out to be an eventual double for Lipscomb's Ryan Mitchell.
Both were sent to a local hospital. Kansas coach Ritch Price would not comment on either
player's condition.
Kansas (9-4) used six non-starters and six pitchers en route to the victory.
Designated hitter Brock Simpson went 2-for-4, scored twice, and drove in three against the Bisons. Sophomore second baseman Matt Berner stepped in for fellow sophomore Ryne Price at second and drove in four runs on the afternoon.
"They had a couple of bad at bats early in the game," Ritch Price said of the pair. "But in the late innings they came back, hit clutch and put up some BRI for us."
The early afternoon didn't go
particularly well for any of the Jayhawks. Price said after the game that Bisons starter sophomore lefty Paul Piennette was throwing a curve ball that came across at 74 mph.
The Jayhawks fell behind 4-1 by the end of the fifth inning, but Kansas posted five runs in the sixth and seventh innings to take an 11-5 lead. Between the two clubs, however, nine more runs were yet to be scored.
Seven of Pienette's nine strike-outs came in those opening innings, but he eventually took the loss.
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The 11-5 lead Kansas built
dwindled down to one, but the team poured on four runs in the top of the ninth to end all thoughts of a Libscomb comeback.
In all, 12 pitchers were used and 25 runs were scored at Marsh Stadium. Senior right-hander Ricky Fairchild (5-1) picked up the victory for Kansas. Senior Don Czyz locked up the game and tallied his fifth save of 2006.
"I don't think that was our plan," Price said. "We had a chance to blow the game open, but we let them back in a little bit."
— Edited by Lindsey Gold
Baseball
get a hit until the top of the ninth against Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt decided to change the scenery on the mound and went with senior Matt Buschmann (1-1). The right-hander threw a solid performance, pitching a complete game. Buschmann allowed just a pair of earned runs and another two unearned against
40 Jayhawk batters. But those four runs he was charged with were enough for the loss.
or Kansas. He finished the day 2-5 and highlighted the Jayhawks' four-run fifth inning with a double to left, knocking in Simpson and fellow senior Ritchie Price. The shortstop's 11-game hitting streak ended Saturday, but restarted yesterday. Price drew a pair of walks against the Bisons, but failed to
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