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Freshman
"Preston has the chance to be a huge guy for
us with the way he swings the bat." Price said.
Afenir is unique from the rest of his freshman class, because he is the lone freshman starter. Although he may share time with junior Dylan Parzyk throughout the season, the California-bred catcher is carrying a heavy load.
"Buck Afenir has the most difficult job," Price said. "He has seven returning starters around him, and he's replacing one of the best players from our conference last year in Sean Richardson. He's a talented young man."
Afenir did not record a single error in the four of five games he started last week. He threw out the first runner who attempted to steal on him, and he also hit a solid .333 for the series.
"I was pretty happy with myself but I've got to get the mental part of the game down a little better," Afenir said.
Does he feel like the odd man out of the freshman crowd?
Afenir said he looked to senior center fielder Matt Baty and sophomore third baseman Erik Morrison for help and advice.
"Yeah, but I kind of welcome it," he grinned. "I like it."
"That's my biggest fear right now."
He already looks like he's comfortable carrying the weight that comes with being the starting catcher. He does admit, however, that he's still working toward being the leader that the catcher's spot requires. Despite being one of two major contributing freshmen. Afenir said he looked forward to becoming the anchor of the defense.
"I just have to start playing like it's my team," Afenir said. "Being the young guy, it's something I've got to get used to and take the team over a little bit — being the catcher."
Edited by Cynthia Hernandez
K-State coach undergoes neck surgery
Kansas State men's basketball coach Jim Wooldridge underwent surgery to remove a bulging disk in his neck Wednesday. No timetable has been set for his return to the team.
Assistant sports information director Tom Gilbert said Wooldridge had been hampered by the bulging disc for several weeks.
The Wildcats played Iowa State on Wednesday, the first time in 164 games that Wooldridge was not on the sideline. Assistant coach Jim Elgas coached in his absence.
The Associated Press
Kansas fell to 3-7 in conference. Oklahoma improved to a perfect 10-0 and has emerged as the team to beat in the Big 12.
Courtney Paris, a candidate for the Wooden Award given annually,to the nation's outstanding players, led the way for the Sooners with 18 points and 12 rebounds.
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Henrickson said she expected a big game from Paris, but was discouraged that three other Sooners also reached double-digits.
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"We felt like she was a tough match-up, but the rest of those kids are defendable," Henrickson said.
Freshman guard Ivana Catic struggled all night on the defensive end. She received just 18 minutes of playing time, with the rest going to freshman guard Sophronia Sallard.
Oklahoma shot 51 percent from the field during the game, including 21 points off of Kansas turnovers.
After the game, Henrickson said it was Catic's worst performance of the year. It came after she enjoyed a big game against Iowa State at Allen Fieldhouse last Saturday.
Kansas found a bright spot in big performances by two seniors, forward Crystal Kemp and guard Erica Hallman.
Hallman made 4-of-7 threepoint attempts, and her 18 points were second only to Kemp's 21.
"I thought Erica hit some big
shots offensively," Henrickson said. "And I thought Crystal was very poised."
On a night when Kansas struggled to play defense, the coach commended Kemp's defensive effort, saying it was something she had been working on in practice.
Oklahoma pulled away with a 10-0 run midway through the first half, something the Jayhawks were never able to bounce back from.
"We gave them too many easy shots early and let them feel good about themselves," Henrickson said.
Women's basketball notebook:
Sparsely attended game by OU standards:
With a showdown against defending national champion Baylor looming Saturday, many Oklahoma fans chose to skip last night's game. There were 5,839 tickets sold, but the crowd was estimated at just more than 4,000. Saturday's game will likely be a sellout in the 12,000-seat arena.
Kansas signee in attendance:
Sade Morris, a senior forward at Norman High School, attended the game last night. She will be in Kansas next fall as one of Henrickson's seven new players.
The Tigers lost to the Iowa State Cyclones 66-60 in Ames, knocking their Big 12 record down to 6-4. Kansas will visit Missouri on Saturday for a 3 p.m. game.
Missouri loses on road:
— Edited by Timon Veach
OLYMPICS
Italian skier injured before Games
BY ERICA BULMAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SESTRIERE, Italy — It's not the symmetry Kristina Koznick wants. The top-ranked U.S. women's slalom skier is hoping that her Olympic career doesn't end the way it started — on the injury list instead of the slopes.
Koznick partially tore ligaments in her right knee while warming up for a World Cup race in Germany last weekend, and she doesn't know if she'll even participate in Friday's opening ceremony, much less the women's slalom on Feb. 22. She said she won't march if she's on crutches.
"I'm at least working toward a chance, which is better than nothing," she said by phone Wednesday on her way to be fitted for a brace.
Koznick said she should know more Thursday, when she expects to meet with U.S. Ski Team doctor William Sterett.
attached, Stripp said, her bone was bruised and the doctor probably will share the decision. Meanwhile, it's rehab and a dose of hope.
Then she could face an unhappy choice: Race injured or surrender her spot to another U.s. hopeful.
Nathan Bilow/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Right now, as far as competing, we don't know whether that's going to happen," said Koznick's coach and boyfriend, Dan Stripp. "If she feels like she can't, she's going to say, 'I can't do it.'"
It's not the first time Koznick, 30, has confronted hard luck and hard decisions.
A more severe injury to her other knee kept her from what would have been her first Olympics in 1994. Frostbite sidelined her for part of the 1995-96 World Cup season.
While Koznick's ACL is still
This is her final season as a World Cup skier and her final Olympics, the last chances for that elusive big win.
As the only independent racer on the World Cup circuit, she first left the U.S. Ski team after her relationship with Stripp led to his firing as a U.S. coach in 1999. She rejoined the U.S. squad in 2003 but returned to independent status last year.
Koznick admits that main-
taining her own tiny team
— with only a handful of staffers — can be a challenge. Everything becomes a worry, from denting the rental car to an illness on the staff. That constant struggle makes her latest setback even more poignant.
Kristina Koznick of Buck Hill, Minn. bends a slalom gate during the women's U. S. Alpine National Championships at Mammoth Ski Area, Mammoth Lakes, Calif. in this Sunday, April 3, 2005, photo. Koznick is in her final season as a World Cup skier.
The Minnesota native hasn't won a World Cup race since
2003, but she had two second places and a third last winter. This season, she has been in the top 10 in four of the five World Cup slaloms she entered and twice brushed the podium, finishing fourth both in Maribor, Slovenia, and Lienz, Austria.
In a career that includes six slalom victories but no major championships, "Koz" was hoping Sestriere would be a defining triumph.
Currently eight in the World Cup women's slalom standings, she is the country's best chance for a women's slalom medal.
because she is ranked seventh on the World Cup Start List, she would be the only U.S. woman with the advantage of starting in the first group, before the course gets chopped up.
The U.S. team is ready with a replacement should Koznick scratch.
"She's a great slalom skier and the U.S. needs to have the best team possible," said U.S. women's technical coach Trevor Wagner. "But we'll be racing four women in every event. If she can't, there are other athletes who would go instead."
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