SPORTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 2006
6B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Also similar is the highly talented freshmen that each team will be playing.
Stanford freshman third base man and right-handed pitcher Austin Yount performed well for a rookie against Cal State Fullerton last weekend. In games one and two, Yount was 3 for 7 and blasted a home run while manning third. On the mound, the nephew of former Major Leaguer Robin Yount allowed no runs and just one hit in two innings of relief in the last game of the series.
Kansas will bring freshman talent, too.
Freshman designated hitter Preston Land mashed in his first collegiate weekend. Land drove in four runs, hitting two home runs, and batted. 444 in the Hailo-Hilo series. Despite his success, Land said that he knew better pitching and tougher teams laid ahead.
"I've never faced anybody like that," Land said of No. 19 Stanford's pitchers. "We'll just see what happens when we get out there and I get my first at bat to see how I react."
The first pitch goes out at 7 p.m. at the Sunken Diamond.
PROJECTED STARTERS
Kansas State
4 Game Grip
Left hander Sean Lord (3
0, 1.80 ERA) vs.
Right-hander Greg Reynolds (0-0, 1.35 ERA)
- Edited by John Jordan
**Game Two**
Right-hander Ricky Falchild (1-0, 1.80 ERA) vs.
Right-hander Matt Manshi (0-0, 10.80 ERA)
◆Game Three:
Right-hander Kodik Quick
(1-0, 1-29 ERA) vs. TBA
Guard
My plea to Mario Chalmers is to listen to Self and score at will. I've seen the type of player Chalmers has been since the beginning of conference play. He's an offensive explosion waiting to burst out. Much like Redick, Chalmers can score whenever he wants, with a wide variety of shots.
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He can pump fake and drive to the basket. He can jump-stop in the lane and elevate over tall defenders with his floater. He has the shot that beat Oklahoma. He used a tear-drop over Nebraska's Aleks Maric in the second half of Wednesday night's victory. He has the coveted three-point shot, and he's shooting it at 41 percent in conference games. He's got everything.
All season long, fans have
tagged Brandon Rush as the superstar on offense. I love Rush, but I see offensive brilliance in a 6-foot-1 guard they call Super Mario. Though he might not ever match J.J. Redick's career points, in a couple seasons, Chalmers will be in the thick of things for a National Player of the Year award.
Shooting down the track
Hall is a Woodbridge, Va., senior in journalism.
Shiva Keshavan from India slides down the luge track during an Olympic Luge practice session in Cesana Pariol, Italy, Thursday. The Torino 2006 Winter Olympics Games open today.
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