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monday, february 16, 2004
'Hawks swing and miss
By Ryan Colaiani
rcolaiani@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The Jayhawks' trip to California did not go as planned, as they lost all three games to the fourranked Stanford Cardinal and dropped to 7-7-1 for the season.
The team dropped a heart-breaker in the final game yesterday as the Cardinal hit a walk-off grand slam to take a 10-6 victory. The Jayhawks had a 6-3 lead going into the bottom of the ninth, but Clint Schambach loaded the bases with one out.
Junior pitchers Jacob lean and Ken Livesey were brought in to try and stop the Cardinal run, but were unsuccessful as the Cardinal tied the score at 6-6. Sophomore pitcher Tyson Both of came out to try to extend the game, but Stanford's Brian Hall blasted Bothof's first pitch out of the park for a game-winning grand slam. The victory moved Stanford to 8-1 for the season.
The Jayhawks were leading for
nearly the entire game. They took a quick, 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning with RBI from junior Sean Richardson and senior Matt Tribble.
In response, Stanford replaced starting pitcher Matt Jecem, who recorded just one out, with reliever David O'Hagan. The Jaya-hawks took advantage of an O'Hagan wild pitch, scoring their final run of the inning.
O'Hagan was able to control his pitches after the first inning as he went 7.2 innings and struck out five. Kansas' starting pitcher, junior Mike Zagurski, walked two batters to start the third inning and gave up three runs as Stanford closed the gap to 4-3. Junior Travis Metcalf hit a homerun in the top of the eighth to give Kansas a 5-3 lead.
For the game, eight Jayhawks had hits, but none of the players had multiple hits.
In Saturday's game, Metcalf hit two homeruns, but the team combined for just seven hits overall, falling to Stanford 6-3. Metcalf had three homeruns during the
series and lead the team with four homeruns on the season.
Starting pitcher Chris Smart lasted just 2.2 innings on Saturday, giving up four earned runs and throwing three wild pitches. The loss moves Smart to 2-3 for the year.The 'Hawks also fell in Friday's game, 7-1.
Senior Ryan Knippschild started the game and went 6.1 innings. Knippschild gave up four earned runs on ten hits and took the loss, moving him to 1-2 on the season.
The team's only run, which allowed it to briefly take the lead, came in the top of the first inning with a single by Jared Schweitzer, which scored sophomore Matt Baty from second base.
The Jayhawks had three errors in the contest, which led to three of the Cardinal's runs.
Sean Richardson went 4-4 in the game and was the only Jayhawk with multiple hits in the contest.
Richardson leads the team in batting average at. 400.
—Edited by Collin LaJoie
By Michael Phillips
mphillips@kansan.com
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Track successful in 2 states, 3 runners qualify for NCAA
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas track team had another successful weekend, with three runners making the provisional qualifying time for the NCAA.
The team split up and went to two events. Some members competed at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark. while the rest of the team went to Ames, Iowa for the Iowa State University Classic.
In Arkansas, senior Leo Bookman finished second in the 200 meter dash with a time of 20.82. It was Bookman's second fastest time of the year.
Team scores were not kept at either event, but the Jayhawks still have plenty to celebrate.
He qualified for the NCAA at the Arkansas Invitational earlier this year.
Three Jayhawk runners are
poised to join Bookman after their performances in Iowa.
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Freshman Benson Chesang finished the 3,000 meter run in 8:06.56 junior Jeremy Mims placed second in the 800 meter run with his time of 1:49.15,and
senior Laura Lavoie finished the 1 mile run in a time of 4:47.24
All three did well enough to make the provisional NCAA qualifying mark.
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Coach Stanley Redwine was with the team in Iowa. After the meet,
Mims
"If we could be better, I would be pleased. But overall I'm happy with where we are at."
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he said he was happy with the performances of Chesang, Mims and Lavoie, and that the rest of the team also performed well.
However, there was still work to be done.
"If we could be better, I would be pleased," he said. "But overall I'm happy with where we are at."
Next week the Jayhawks will compete in the Sooner Invitational in Norman, Okla.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. triumphs in Daytona 500 race
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. celebrated his first Daytona 500 victory with his crew yesterdav.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —
Daddy would have been proud.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., taking a page from the old man, barreled past Tony Stewart and won the Daytona 500 yesterday on the same track that claimed his father's life three years ago.
Junior showed the impatience of youth, needing only five tries to win the race that bedeviled his late father for 19 years.
"He was over in the passenger side with me," the 29-year-old Earnhardt said during a jubilant celebration in Victory Lane. "I'm sure he was having a blast."
time champion and its most famous driver.Well, the next generation is in good hands.
The race was attended by President Bush, launched the Nextel Cup era and came six years to the day that the Intimidator won his first _ and only _ Daytona 500 on his 20th try. It's still one of the sport's most cherished scenes: the black No. 3 car rolling down pit road while every rival crew lined up to congratulate Earnhardt before he pulled into Victory Lane.
In a move that must have been borrowed from the Intimidator, Junior dipped to the inside without any drafting help and went past Stewart in the trioval with 20 laps remaining.
"I can't believe I passed him by myself," Junior said. "I don't know what was going on. It was like a magic trick."
Stewart tried valiantly to catch up, briefly pulling beside Earnhardt coming out of turn two. But Junior showed his muscle on the backstretch, keeping Stewart in the rearview mirror.
That's where Stewart stayed the rest of the way. Earnhardt pulled away on the final lap, winning by about four car lengths while the crowd of 180,000 many of them wearing Junior's red and white colors — erupted in celebration.
Chevrolet, turning doughnuts in the grass — just like his father after the 1998 race.
Three years later, he was killed on a last-lap crash in the 500, depriving the sport of a seven-
"I was taught so many lessons by this place before I ever got behind the wheel," Earnhardt said. "I'm glad I don't have to worry about (winning the 500) anymore. That's awesome."
Earnhardt came back around and stopped his car at the checkered finish line. He pumped his fist and jumped into the arms of his crew, who lifted him on their shoulders for all to see. Then he climbed back into the No. 8
Stewart led 97 laps — nearly half the 200-lap event — but he didn't have enough to hold off Earnhardt, who set the pace for 59.
"It's nice to see him get his victory, too," Stewart said. "I think his father is proud today. I wanted to win the race. Trust me, if I could have held him off, I would have.
"But there was no holding that kid back. Today was his day."
A frightening crash on lap 72 took out defending race winner Michael Waltrip, whose car flipped at least three times and wound up landing on its roof in the backstretch. He wasn't injured.
Rookie Scott Wimmer held on for a surprising third-place finish. He briefly held the lead after gambling on his final pit stop — taking only two tires — but he didn't have enough grip to hold on.
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Missouri beats UNLV by 34-point margin
It was the type of performance expected all season from Missouri, which was ranked No. 5 in the preseason and as high as No. 3 in mid-December but has stumbled since then.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — For one game, puzzling Missouri put it all together.
The Tigers scored on 21 of 22 possessions in a dominating first half, and got a season-best 23 points from Arthur Johnson and a career-best 20 from freshman Thomas Gardner in a 94-60 victory over UNLV on Sunday.
"A game like this, and they'll be walking a little taller tomorrow on campus," coach Quin Snyder said. "And that's good for them."
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"They deserve that right now and that's something we can build on."
The Tigers (11-10) played their most complete game of a mostly discombobulated season, taking a commanding 54-27 lead and hitting a season-best 13 3-pointers.
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