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MEN'S GOLF
Mike Gunnoe/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Sophomore Alex Gutesha chips the ball onto the green during the Kansas Invitational last year on the Alvamar Golf Course. Men's golf will travel to New York this weekend for a tournament.
Young team aims to topple Mizzou
ETHAN PADWAY
epadway@kansan.com
The men's golf team looks to start the season off strong this weekend, as it prepares to compete in its first tournament, the Turning Stone Tiger Intercollegiate. The University of Missouri, last year's champion, will host the competition in Verona, N. Y., Sept. 5-6.
Kansas' young squad will rely heavily on the skills and leadership of senior captain Nate Barbee. Barbee participated in the NCAA Southwest Regional last season and tied for 39th place.
"We are really excited for this weekend," Barbee said in a press release. "It will be a good test. They played a PGA tour there (Turner Stone) this summer, so it will be fun to play there. I think we have a good chance to win."
Making their KU debuts at the tournament are freshman David Catt and junior Doug Quinones, a transfer from New Mexico Junior
College. Quinones won the Scratch Match Play at Centennial Golf Club this summer, where he used to work part time.
Coach Kit Grove has been emphasizing the short game to his team as a means to help his athletes perform at their highest level.
"We just beat the short game to death," Grove said. "You can mask a lot of weakness by having a strong short game."
Other teams in the field this weekend include Missouri, Purdue, Binghamton, Niagara, Connecticut and George Washington. Despite the team's inexperience, Barbee remains optimistic.
"As a team, we want to win as many tournaments as we can," Barbee said in the release. "We've been on a dry spell for about three years now. I think we are really going to surprise some people this year though."
Edited by Dana Meredith
PGA
Tiger Woods ranked No.65,listed first
NORTON, Mass. — A chart of FedEx Cup standings at the Deutsche Bank Championship shows Tiger Woods at the top, not unusual considering he has won the cup and its $10 million prize every year he has played.
This chart is different.
It lists the 10 players on the bubble at the TPC Boston, starting with Woods at No. 65 through Josh Teater at No. 75. Only the top 70 after this week advance to the third round of the playoffs at the BMW Championship, where Woods is defending champion.
Associated Press
SOCCER
Team travels to Northwestern
BY MIKE LAVIERI
mlavieri@kansan.com
The soccer team continues its five-game road trip tonight as it travels to Illinois to face Northwestern.
Kansas (1-1) comes into the weekend after losing to Georgia on Aug. 29.
Coach Mark Francis said it was good that the Georgia game was early in the season.
Freshman midfielder Madi Hills pushes past two Eastern Kentucky defenders during the second half last week. The Jayhawks defeated the Colonels 3-0 on the season opener.
Jerry Wang/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
The game allowed the layhawks to see how they needed to improve.
In order to prepare for Northwestern (2-1-1), the team focused on picking up the pace of play and having a better build-up in the midfield. They also worked on being more physical and stronger on the ball.
"We focused on winning balls in the air," sophomore midfielder Sarah Robbins said.
Francis said during Media Day that the defense needed to improve, and he was pleased with its performance on Sunday. Francis said that the goals came because Bulldog players were not being covered properly. He thought that the defense played well and that sophomore goal-keeper Kat Liebetrau had a strong showing in goal.
The layhawks will need another strong performance from Liebetrau if they want to win against Northwestern.
The Wildcats, who come into the game ranked No. 14 in the Soccer America Poll and also received votes in the NSCAA poll, are led by freshman forward Kate Allen, who has three of the team's four goals.
The coaching staff watched film of Northwestern on Thursday and Francis thinks he has a good game plan.
The team needs to stay healthy as it enters the middle of its road trip.
"We need to take every opportunity to rest our bodies." Robbins
said.
The Jayhawks will travel to Normal, Ill., to face Illinois State (2-2) on Sunday.
The redbirds will come into Sunday's game well-rested because they did not have to play a Friday night game.
Junior forward Jessica Carlson and freshman forward Kyla Cross lead the attack for ISU with 12 and 11 shots, respectively. However, neither has been able to find the back of the net.
The team cannot look ahead to Sunday until Friday's game is
finished.
"We need to keep sight of our goals," freshman midfielder Caroline Kastor said. "We need to take it each game at a time."
NFL
— Edited by David Cawthon
Lions take out Buffalo Bills in Detroit, 28-23
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT — Matthew Stafford had an interception returned for a touchdown, but third-stringer Drew Stanton threw a pair of second-half touchdown passes to lift the Detroit Lions to a 28-23 win over the Buffalo Bills in their preseason finale Thursday night.
Stafford's second pass was picked off by Drayton Florence and Detroit punted on his second and last drive.
Trent Edwards was 4 for 4 for 66 yards — including a 50 yard pass to Lee Evans — on his only drive that set up Rian Lindell's first of three field goals.
Buffalo's Marshawn Lynch had 2 yards rushing on five carries after missing two games with
an ankle in injury
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Stafford's first pass was deflected and the second ... was picked off by Florence, who returned it 40 yards for a score.
The Bills led the Lions 16-0 late in the second quarter, but began to lose their cushion when Brian
game because of a broken left hand.
Brohm's pass went off tight end J.P. Foschi's hands and Ashlee Palmer made a diving interception and 39-yard return.
Jerome Felton's 1-yard run with 10 seconds left in the half pulled
Detroit opens at Chicago, and Buffalo hosts Miami in Week 1.
the Lions within nine.
After Shaun Hill was just 2 of 6 for 21 yards, Stanton entered and threw a short pass that DeDe
Dorsey turned into a 25-yard TD late in the third quarter and a 16-yard pass to Derrick Williams early in the fourth to put the Lions ahead — for the first time — 21-17.
Dorsey fumbled at the Lions 23 to give the Bills a chance to retake the lead, but they blew it when rookie Levi Brown threw a pass that wasn't close to a teammate in the end zone. Paul Pratt made a diving interception, got up and returned it 102 yards to seal the win.
The Lions, though, couldn't have been thrilled because they were hoping Stafford would have a brief and productive tuneup for the regular season.
He didn't.
Stafford's first pass was deflected and the second — a short pass to the flat intended for Calvin Johnson — was picked off by Florence, who returned it 40 yards for a score.
He helped Detroit drive to the Buffalo 28, but receiver Nate Burleson was called for holding and pushed the team back to a second-and-20 at midfield and Stafford didn't attempt to make a big play to get a first down.
Stafford was 3 of 6 for 21 yards and an interception. The No. 1 pick of the 2009 NFL draft was much more effective in his first three preseason games, completing 74 percent of his passes for 332 yards, three TDs and an interception.
Edwards was very efficient and made coach Chan Gailey proud by taking a calculated chance deep downfield, connecting on a long pass to a leaping Evans.
Lynch was lackluster in his return, while Spiller, who has been spectacular, watched on the sideline in football pants, a jersey and baseball cap.
Chad Simpson's 1-yard run pulled the Bills within five with 16 seconds left. Buffalo then conceded the exhibition by kicking deep instead of attempting an onside kick.