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SPORTS / TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Recovered guard back in the game
BY KATHLEEN GIER
kgier@kansan.com
Sophomore guard Angel Goodrich was medically cleared in mid-July for full participation after tearing her ACL in her right knee.
The injury came 15 games into her freshman season. Goodrich had surgery in late January and
had six months of rehabilitation after the injury.
Goodrich started all 15 games and led the conference in assists before
her injury, adding 7.1 assists to her game. She finished her season with 106 assists, averaged 6.8 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.1 steals. Goodrich scored a season-high 20 points against Creighton, which was one of four double-digit scoring games.
Goodrich missed the entire 2008-2009 season after tearing her ACL in her other knee at the second practice of the season. This left
her eligible for a medical redshirt season.
Goodrich will return along with seven letter winners and three starters from last season's team, which made it to the quarterfinals of the WNIT.
Coach pleased with final scrimmage
Mike Gunnoe/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
SOCCER
Junior midfielder Kelsey Clifton makes a move during an exhibition match against Creighton last week.
Players stand out while preparing for season opener
BY MIKE LAVIERI
mlavieri@kansan.com
The Kansas soccer team had its final pre-season practice game Sunday afternoon, playing an inter-squad scrimmage in preparation for the season opener on Friday.
The Blue team defeated the White team 4-1. Sophomore forward Whitney Berry succeeded for the Blue team win, scoring one goal and assisting on the other three.
Junior forward Emily Cressy, who was unable to play in the preseason game against Creighton, played for both the Blue team and the White team. Her status for Friday's game against Eastern Kentucky has yet to be determined.
"Emily has team responsibilities that she must fulfill before she earns playing time," said coach Mark Francis in a statement.
Cressy assisted the first goal of the game after freshman midfielder Caroline Kastor scored off a corner kick for White. Blue tied the game later in the first half when senior midfielder Erin Lewis put the ball past freshman goalkeeper Kattlyn Stroud.
Francis wasn't pleased with the first 30 minutes, but thought both teams improved by the end of the match.
"After we talked about it at halftime, we did a better job of creating scoring chances and playing simpler." Francis said in a news release.
Berry scored a goal moments
after the second half whistle. Soon after, Berry assisted Cressy with another goal.
Junior midfielder Kelsey Clifton added the fourth and final goal for the Blue team in the 50th minute on a rebound from a shot by Berry.
Overall, Francis said he was happy with the performance.
"We had a lot of people play well today and put themselves in a position to be starting for us," Francis said in a news release.
"We got what we wanted out of the scrimage."
- Edited by Leslie Kinsman
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COLLEGE BASEBALL
WICHITA — A Wichita State baseball player has died in a traffic accident in Iowa.
Baseball player dies in traffic accident
West Des Moines, Iowa, police say 21-year-old Mitch Caster was killed early Monday in an accident on Interstate 35. Police say he was driving south on the interstate when his car crossed the center line and hit a northbound semitrailer truck head-on.
The truck driver, from Buffalo, Mo., was not injured.
Caster was an outfielder and pitcher for the Shockers. KAKETV reports that the Wichita State baseball office says Caster's car crossed the center line apparently after it blew a tire.
Caster was playing in a summer league in Minnesota with the Rochester Honkers.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Texas' Gilbert steps up as quarterback
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
AUSTIN, Texas — To this day, Aaron Williams can't exactly recall what Garrett Gilbert said during the seven-on-seven drill during Texas' summer workouts.
The important thing to
His father, Gale, played quarterback at California and in the NFL for eight seasons, reaching the Super Bowl five consecutive seasons as a reserve with Buffalo and San Diego in the 1990s.
Gale Gilbert remembers his son choosing a favorite player at age four: John Elway.
Williams and the other veterans on the field, was that Gilbert said something in response to Williams' taking a shot at the offense. It might have
"He was always destined to be a quarterback."
terback position at a young age.
GALE GILBERT father of Garrett Gilbert
been trash talk or just a bunch of angry unconnected syllables, Williams joked. The specifics hardly matter. Gilbert showed he had the fire to follow Colt McCov.
"Finally, he's here," Williams said, remembering his reaction. "Finally, he said another word instead of walking away and being quiet."
But he learned. When McCoy got hurt, Gilbert briefly panicked because he couldn't find his helmet. Now, no baseball caps on the sidelines.
That one exchange might have been every bit as important as his crash course in the college football spotlight in January. He went from McCoy's season-long understudy to the featured role against Alabama in the BCS title game. Four interceptions and a costly fumble overshadowed two second-half touchdown passes in a 37-21 loss.
He also searched for more important lessons, reviewing the
In the process, Gilbert took one more step toward making Texas his team for several seasons to come. No one doubts the arm, the athletic potential or the bloodlines, everything that screams "star."
of times since.
"The whole game was a bit of (a) blur," Gilbert said. "I tried to look back on it and say, 'What can we do differently, so something like that doesn't happen again?'
T h e
"He's still got the posters in his room." Gale Gilbert said. "He was always destined to be a quarterback."
"We couldn't get him to look at another college," his father said.
younger Gilbert began attending Texas camps in grade school. By the time he led Austin's Lake Travis to back-to-back state titles and rewrote the state's high school passing records, he already picked his next school.
Few can relate to Gilbert's situation better than Missouri quarterback Blaine Gabbert.
Similar to Gilbert, Gabbert was a highly recruited high school player who fit the prostyle quarterback mold perfectly. He sat out his freshman season, watching campus legend Chase Daniel. By the end of last season, Gabbert had emerged from Daniel's shadow.
"I wouldn't have it any other way," Gilbert said. "It's a real blessing to even be able to be mentioned in the same breath with those guys . . . It's a lot of fun to be in their shoes."
Now his son must step into a situation where pressure is inevitable as he follows a line of succession that includes Major Applewhite, Chris Simms, Vince Young and McCoy.
Coach Mack Brown said Gilbert learned the right lessons. When Brown apologized for putting Gilbert in a difficult situation, the coach got the response he wanted.
"Colt McCoy and Chase... the things they did for their
Gilbert gravitated to the quar
You don't want to taste a loss so close to being the national champions."
"Coach, that's not a problem," Gilbert told him. "The problem was I turned the ball over, or we would have won the national championship."
GARRETT GILBERT Texas quarterback
"It's a real blessing to even be able to be mentioned in the same breath with those guys."
programs were unbelievable," Gabbert said. "But my advice to him (Gilbert) is just be your own player, do your own thing and write your own history." Nobody
not even Texas' arch-rival, has claimed an advantage based on Gilbert's inexperience.
"No, because when they changed from Vince, we got happy, and then they gave us Colt." Oklahoma linebacker Travis Lewis said, laughing. "So with a school like Texas, you're expecting greatness. You're expecting them to replace Colt with a great player.
"I watched the national championship game, and he looked like a darn good quarterback."
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