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Emilv Cressv dribbles the ball during a game last year. After sitting out the first two games, she returned to the field this weekend.
Cressy returns following absence
BY JACKSON DELAY
jdelay@kansan.com
The leading scorer from one year often plays a valuable role in the next. For the Jayhawks, junior forward Emily Cressy finally has the opportunity to play this year. Cressy returned over the weekend after sitting out the first two games for an undisclosed reason.
Although she was eager to get back on the field, sitting on the bench did offer a different viewpoint than playing.
"When I'm on the field I'm so into the game, we don't realize you take yourself away from the
field and realize what is going on,"
Cressy said.
"The whole week last week I was hoping I could travel and I was really excited when I found out I could go," Cressy said. "When I put on the jersey to go on the field I was just so excited."
Cressy led the team last year with 12 goals, the second most in women's soccer history at the University of Kansas. She scored her first goal of the year in Sunday's
game against Illinois State, the lone goal that the Jayhawks had in a 2-1 loss.
Cressy played all 90 minutes against Northwestern and Illinois State, on Friday and Sunday respectively.
"I just worked hard the whole entire game and did whatever I could to help us win." Cressy said.
Fellow forward Kaitlin Cunningham, a senior, labeled Cressy as a goal scorer, but also recognized the effect she could have on others.
"To be able to have her out there is either creating chances for herself, or she is helping the other people on the field to create chances
Coach Mark Francis saw good things from Cressy's first action this weekend.
for them," Cunningham said.
"She has a lot of confidence and a lot of composure on the ball," Francis said. "I think it's something we really needed up front."
In Cressy's eyes, the team's goal is to win the Big 12 Championship, and she wants to help her teammates in reaching that goal.
"I want to be the one to push everyone to the best of their abilities." Cressy said.
Edited by Lisa Curran
Howard's six-RBI night leads Phillies to a victory
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PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Howard homered and had six RBIs and the Philadelphia Phillies backed Cole Hamels with a rare burst of the run support he had been missing most of the season in
a 10-6 win over the Florida Marlins on Wednesday night.
Howard hit his 28th homer of the season and the NL East-leading Phillies had a season-high 18 hits.
streak to 25. He struck out five and won his third straight start.
Hamels (10-10) tossed four-hit ball over seven innings and extended his consecutive scoreless innings
His record would be well over .500 if not for receiving the fourthlowest run support (3.18 runs per start) of any starter this season entering the game.
He got plenty in Philadelphia's
third straight win.
Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins left with tightness in his right hamstring. He is day-to-day.
Gaby Sanchez hit a three-run homer for the Marlins as part of a six-run eighth of Nate Robertson.
Swisher walk-off carries Yankees
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NEW YORK — Minus their star catcher, the New York Yankees waited at home plate in a merry pack of pinstripes as Nick Swisher circled the bases following his game-winning home run.
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Jorge Posada was missing but he could be back soon.
Swisher hit a two-run homer off Koji Uehara in the bottom of the ninth inning Wednesday to give New York a 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles that was soon tempered by news of Posada's aching head.
footowing the game, Yankees manager Joe Girardi revealed that Posada felt concussion symptoms Tuesday night after getting hit by a foul ball. The switch-hitting slugger sat out Wednesday and was sent to New York-Presbyterian Hospital during the game to see a neurology specialist.
"Obviously, it's a concern," Swisher said.
A little while later, the Yankees announced tests came back negative and Posada was cleared to play. He is day to day and is expected to travel with the team on its upcoming road trip.
"He's a big part of our ballclub and hopefully he'll be back in the lineup in a couple of days." Yankees outfieldier Brett Gardner said before the results were announced.
Losing Posada would be a major blow to the AL East leaders, trying to repeat as World Series champions. Several big league stars have been sidelined by concussions for extended stretches this season, including Minnesota slugger Justin Morneau and New York Mets outfielder Jason Bay.
With the Orioles closing in on their first three-game sweep in the Bronx since 1986, Alex Rodriguez opened the ninth with a single on the first pitch from Uehara (1-1). Robinson Cano flied out and Swisher, hobbled by a stiff left knee, drove a 2-0 pitch to the opposite field and into the Baltimore bulpen in left-center.
It was Swisher's 26th home run of the season and his third career game-ending shot. The previous one came exactly a year before, against Tampa Bay's Dan Wheeler.
"I guess it's my day" Swisher said. "It a monster won for us."
Swisher began the day in an 0-for-14 slide before getting two hits. He raised his arms as he rounded first base in the ninth and tossed his helmet high in the air as he approached a mob
of jubilant teammates waiting for him at home plate.
Moments later, Swisher took the familiar whipped cream pie in the face from pitcher A.J. Burnett.
"Was the whipped cream fresh? They hadn't done it in a while," Girardi said.
Matt Wieters hit a tworun homer and Brad Bergesen pitched 61-3 impressive innings for Baltimore.
The resurgent Orioles, with the worst record in the AL but gaining fast on Seattle, fell just short of their first five-game winning streak since June 2009. They are 21-14 under Buck Showalter, who managed the Yankees from 1992-95.
I'm proud of our guys. This one stings a bit right now, but you can't think of what could've been," Showalter said.
New York got a solid start from rookie Ivan Nova and ended a three-game skid that followed a season-best eight-game winning streak. The Yankees are the only team in the majors without a four-game losing streak this year.
New York has never been on the wrong end of a three-game sweep in its new stadium, which opened last season. The only time the Yankees were swept this year was in a two-game series May 19-20 against Tampa Bay.
"That was the one thing I didn't want to give up — a home run," Uehara said through a translator. "I'm not feeling good about it."
Joba Chamberlain (3-4) struck out two in a hitless ninth. Slumping shortstop Derek Jeter went 0 for 4 with a throwing error, dropping his batting average to .262.
Playing before an unusually sparse crowd, the Yankees finished 7-3 on their longest homestand of the season. They were 4-3 during a seven-game stretch that included six day games.
New York has 22 games remaining, 15 on the road.
With the Orioles trailing 1-0, Adam Jones beat out an infield single to open the fifth. Turned loose on 3-0. Wieters hit an opposite-field drive that sailed wind-aided deep into the left-field stands.
Bergesen held the Yankees to three hits through six innings. Curtis Granderson drew a leadoff walk in the third and stole second base. He scored from third on a one-out double to left by Gardner, who was cut down trying to stretch it into a triple. Felix Pie started a crisp relay.
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