Monday, May 7, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 3
'Hawks sweep Wildcats into litterbox
Ryan Malashock
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The rain finally stopped, and the Kansas baseball team finally won a close game yesterday.
In a contest marred by three hours of rain delay, Kansas rallied from five runs down and completed a thrilling 8-7 ten-inning victory against Kansas State at Hoglund Ballpark.
With their wins yesterday and Saturday, the Jayhawks won their first Big 12 Conference series of the season and potentially might have prevented Kansas State from qualifying for the Big 12 Tournament.
"This was our first come-from-behind victory and our first one-run victory in conference, and we've scuffled all year to win those games and haven't won them," Randall said. "Close games have been our Achilles' heel, and it was great to see our team come back like they did today."
Down 7-5, Kansas junior Ryan Klocksen kicked off the ninth innight with a bloop single into right field. Senior Jessel Gremminger then
drove a 3-1 pitch over the wall in center field for a game-tying two-run home run.
"He had thrown a few pitches to the backstop, so I knew he was going to try to throw it right over the plate," said Gremminger of his fourth home run of the season. "I knew it hit it good, but I wasn't sure if it was going to go out."
Kansas eventually put runners on first and second with two outs in the ninth, and senior John Nelson smacked a rocket to deep center field. But Kansas State centerfielder Nick Sorenzen made an amazing diving catch on the warning track, which sent the game into extra innings.
Jayhawk junior Randy Strann put the Wildcats down in order in the tenth, and sophomore Jason Appuhn scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the imminent, helping the Jayhawks's dramatic win.
"It was such a great feeling when I scored," Appuhn said. "This was such a great way for our seniors to go out in their last Big 12 game."
Kansas got outhit by Kansas State on Saturday night, but a combination of Wildcat errors, timely
Jayhawk hitting, and a surprisingly smooth Jayhawk relief performance helped a Kansas 7-3 victory for a season-high 1,734 fans at Hoglund Ballpark.
Gremminger tripled and doubled in his first two at-bats while Kansas jumped out to a 2-0 lead. Tied at two in the fifth inning, Gremminger stepped to the plate with one out and runners on second and third. Instead of facing a hot hitter, the Wildcats decided to intentionally walk Gremminger and face sophmore Kevin Wheeler. Wheeler proceeded to knock the first pitch off the left field wall, scoring all three runners.
"Obviously, when they intentionally walk to get to you it kind of makes you a little bit mad." Wheeler said. "But I was just thinking he's not going to want to walk me so I thought he'd give me a good pitch to hit, and he did."
Junior Doug Lantz surpassed the 100-pitch mark for the seventh time this season in earning his third win of the season. Senior Eric Thompson relieved Lantz in the seventh and threw three scoreless innings, recording his second save
Senior Pete Smart's hard-luck season continued Fridays as Kansas State edged the Jayhawks 2-1 at Frank Myers Field in Manhattan. In giving up only two runs for his second straight start, Smart once again fell victim to a lack of run support.
of the season.
Edited by Jay Pilgreen BOX SCORES
Kentucky
**Kansas State** 010 501 000 -7 9 1
**Kansas** 100 012 202 -8 14 3
**WP. Stran, R. 21, L.P. Smith, B. 1,2-BU KU;**
**Spanish, C. (9); KSU: Castillo, O. (13), Cavender,**
**J. (12), Maloney, P. (7), Soto, T. (14), HR. KU;**
**Greminger, M (14), Gravener, J. (7)**
Saturday
Kansas State    000 200 100  -3 13 4
Kansas        200 130 01x  -7 10 4
WP. Lantz, D.  3-6. LP. Meicher, K. 3-3. S.
Thompson, E. (2), 2B-KU: Gremminger, J. (9),
Wheeler, K. (8): KSU: Cavender, J. (11). 3B-KU:
Gremminger, J. (7): KCRone, B. (2).
Friday
**Kansas** 000 001 000 -1 5 1
Kansas State 000 002 00x -2 6 1
WP. Robertson, L, 7-5 LP, Smart, P, 8-4, 3B-KU:
Apphun, J, (2); KSU: Loudabarger, J, (1);
Sorensen, N, (3) HR: KU-Saint, C, (3).
Matt Bowles, Naperville, IL, sophomore, does a butterfly-twist with a weapon called the kamas. The kamas event was one of the six divisions that Bowles competed in at the American Karate Association Grand Nationals in Chicago last year. Contributed photo
Sophomore black belt a quiet champion
Members of the KU baseball team remove the tarp from the infield of Hoglund Parkbasket yesterday. The game was called because of thunderstorms. Photo by Justin Schmidt/KANSAN
By Sarah Warren
sports@kansan.com
Kansas sportwriter
When Matt Bowles sat down to pose for his KUID picture, he smiled wide, with two black eyes and a newlyhealed broken nose aimed at the camera.
Bowles is a fighter, and black eyes and broken noses are part of the business for the Naperville, IL., sophomore. But Bowles didn't get his injuries in a boxing ring, he got them on a karate mat.
Bowles is a black belt in two different martial arts forms, and because of his dual training, he has competed in six divisions of the martial arts, winning national and/or world titles in each division.
"I want to win all six at the same world games," Bowles said. "I consistently place in the top three in each division, so I think I could do it."
His national acclaim on the karate circuit started with a dream of being a martial arts master.
Infact, since being at the University of Kansas, Bowles has won two National Black Belt League circuit world titles. He has also become the fourth person to win the "triple crown" of the American Karate Association, winning the weapon, forms and fighting divisions at the national competitions.
"I just was always interested in it, I wanted to start it when I was 5, but no karate studio in the area would start anyone until they were 6." Bowles said. "So my parents enrolled me in gymnastics so I could gain flexibility,
so I did that and then I started."
Because of his father's job, Bowles moved around the Chicago area as a kid, and each time he moved, he had to find a new place to train or a new form to practice.
"I started off in a style called American Karate—it wasn't very traditional," Bowles said. "Now I'm a first-degree black belt in tang soo do, Korean form and a second-degree black belt in a Japanese form called shorei-ryu."
Although he was competing on the
national level his junior year of high school, Bowles' classmates hardly knew about his participation in the sport.
"I really didn't talk about it much," he said. "Mo'st people didn't even know until I was on the front page of The Chicago Tribune for winning my first world title."
Bowles' girlfriend, Jessica Barrand, Omaha, Neb., sophomore, said even now Bowles was hush-hush about his martial arts prowess.
"This was the third year he's been to
the World Games, and he hardly says anything," she said.
She said his frequently-bruised body and workout habits showed more than he could tell. Indeed, Bowles likens his workouts to a part-time job.
"Generally, Itrain seven days a week and sometimes twice a day." Bowles said. "IfI include the weightlifting and running and everything, it's about 20 hours a week."
But the training pays off — literally. Recently, his competition earnings bought him a 2001 pickup, which gets him to different flight locations.
Unfortunately, different competitions force him to split time between his friends on the competition circuit and his friends and girlfriend in Lawrence.
Although his social and school time can be cut short, Bowles said he knew it could all be worth it when he competed at the World Kickboxing Association world games in Vienna, Austria, in August.
"An Olympic committee will be coming to decide if they want to make karate a demonstrational sport at the next Olympics, and then it could be an official Olympic sport," Bowles said.
Bowles said that may help determine how long he will stay competitive.
"If it becomes an Olympic sport, then I will definitely stay in it and try to go to the Olympics," Bowles said. "But otherwise, I don't really have any goals as long as I will compete. But karate will be part of my life forever. I'm going to do it as long as I would enjoy it, and I can't myself not enjoying it."
Track teams place fourth at Husker Invitational
ine Kansas track and field team finished fourth in the men's and women's divisions at the Husker Invitational Quadrangular Meet on Saturday. The meet, in Lincoln, Neb., was the team's final regular season competition.
Nebraska won the men's and women's titles this weekend.
Although the Jayhawks lacked depth entering the meet, coach Stanley Redwine said he thought there were some strong performances at the meet.
Edited by Leita Schultes
"Points-wise, we didn't have the depth we needed to score big points," he said. "We are excited for those individuals that did well. I only see us getting better in the weeks to come."
Junior Ryan Speers won the shot put with a 58 foot, 5 3/4 inch toss, while junior Jeremy Hull recorded his best career performance and a victory in the pole vault with a jump of 16 feet. 8:34 inches.
Sophomore Benaud Shirley and junior Alex Thomas had personal bests, too. Shirley recorded a triple jump of 50 feet and finished second in the event. Thomas gained a personal best in the hammer throw with a 171-foot, 9-inch heave, which was good for fifth place.
"I had a lot of adrenaline in me because this was my first meet," Hackler said. "Now I've seen what I can do, and I just have to try and get better from this point on."
One of the more pleasant surprises came from a late-season addition to the team. Sophomore Tim Hackler, who also plays football for Kansas, placed second in the high jump with a 6-foot, 11 3/4-inch leap. The competition was Hackler's first since high school, he said.
On the women's side, the 4x40-relay team won its event with a time of 3:46.6, and freshman Stacy Keller finished second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 56.5.
Junior throwers Jennifer Foster and Andrea Bulat also enjoyed some success on Saturday. Foster won the disc event with a toss of 158 feet, 9 inches, while Bulat placed second in the javelin with a heave of 150 feet, 6 inches.
The Jayhawks' next competition will be at the Big 12 Championships on May 17-20 in College Station, Texas.
Kansan staff reports
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