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Vince Carter scored 35 points, including Toronto's final four, as the Raptors stole homecourt advantage from Philadelphia with a 96-93 victory last night in Game 1 of the second-round series.
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Inside: The Kansas baseball team beat Kansas State 8-7 in 10 innings yesterday.
MONDAY, MAY 7, 2001
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Inside: The Kansas rugby club is sponsoring a volleyball tournament tomorrow.
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Seniors sizzle at NBA camp
By Chris Wristen
Kansan sportswriter
The 90-degree Phoenix heat had nothing to do with Eric Chenowith and Kenny Gregory's sweating last week. The Kansas seniors spent last week on a grill known as an NBA draft mini-camp.
Both returned to Lawrence yesterday saying they had good workouts, and Chenowith said he hoped the stress of the week-long camp would pay off.
On the meat scale, both talked as if they were Kansas City Strip Steaks rather than Oscar Meyer wieners during the May 1.5 mini-camp. Each said he thought
they weighed and measured us, and we did all of these interviews and stuff, so it's kind of like you're a piece of meat," Chenwith said. "But that's fine because if I find out I'm a good piece of meat, then I'll have a good job."
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his draft stock rose during the week.
"My 17-foot jump shot — I shot that very
well during the week,
and I think that will help me." Chenwith said.
"I didn't miss any open shots; I blocked some shots, and I rebounded well.
I felt I had a good week."
Chenowith camp team garnered a second-place finish
Chenwish measured in at 7-feet 1/2 inch tall at the camp and said his size was an advantage because other big men had trouble containing
him and were forced to foul. He helped his team to a 2-1 record during the week and a second-place finish behind camp MVP Jeff Tregnagier's team.
"A lot of the big guys had a tough time
guarding me on the block because I could score and get fouled on the block."
Chenowith said
Gregory; said he made some skeptical scouts believers
"Whenever we needed a basket throughout the week, coach (former Celtics assistant Rick Carlise) would say, let's get the ball inside."
Gregory was pleased with his week too, although his team finished 1.2. He said he made some skeptical scouts believers in his jump shot, and he said they were also not.
"I proved to a lot of people that I could shoot better than they thought," Gregory said. "Everyone knows I'm athletic, but I showed better play defensively and that I
pleased with his athleticism.
could knock down the open shot. I think I helped myself."
Insidersreport.com, an NBA scouting Web site, projects Gregory to be picked 46th by the Minnesota Timberwolves and Chenowith to be taken with the 47th pick by the Denver Nuggets in the June 27 draft.
Gregory's best game at the mini-camp was a 17-point performance in 21 minutes on Wednesday. He sank eight-of-14 shots and led his team to an 86-81 win against a team that included Iowa State senior Martin Rancik and Oklahoma senior Nolan Johnson.
Chenowith's best game was the same day when he scored 10 points on five-of-seven shooting and grabbed seven rebounds in 17 minutes as his team thumped Nebraska senior Kimani Ffriend's team, 95-83.
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Tiffany Marquart, senior varsity rower, is licensed to pilot a high wing, single propeller craft such as this Cessna 152 two-seater. Marquart, the highest ranking Air Force ROTC cadet at the University of Kansas, will go to flight school in June at Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. She said she hoped one day to fly F-15 fighter jets. Photo by Joshua Richards/KANSAN
Rower glides through water and air
Bv Jav Mullinix
By Jay Monfrix sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Most college athletes are expected to excel on the playing field. To do so in the classroom is often an added bonus.
Senior Tiffany Marquart takes it a step further.
A senior on the rowing team, Marquart is enrolled in 21 hours and has held a 3.0 grade point average during her college career.
Marquart hasn't just proven her abili
ties on water and land, but in the air as well. A licensed pilot, Marquart also serves as a cadet colonel in the Air Force ROTC program.
She has ended up doing much more than that. Marquart started the season rowing with the varsity four boat, which is ranked No. 5 in the Midwest Region, before being promoted last weekend to the second varsity eight boat.
Joining the rowing team three years ago as a walk-on and coming off an injury plagued previous spring, Marquart had modest goals for her final season on the water.
"I was blown away by that," Marquart said of coach Rob Catloth's decision. "When Rob read the seat assignments for the second boat and I heard my name, my mouth literally dropped open."
"Having been hurt last year, I really wasn't sure what to expect at the start of this season," she said. "So I came in just wanting to hold down a spot on the traveling team."
Assistant coach Heather Galvin credited Marquart's move up to her uncommon drive.
"Tiffany has an unbelievable work ethic, and her conditioning is pretty stellar," Galvin said. "She knows how to put in the work to attain the highest level she's capable of."
Marquart credits much of that work ethic and drive as coming out of her time spent in ROTC. She has served this semester as the cadet wing commander, the highest possible rank for an Air Force cadet on campus. As such, Marquart is responsible for organizing weekly Air
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Softball team ties for third in conference
By Brent Briggeman
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas softball coach Tracy Bunge held her hands a few feet apart after watching a Christi Musser line drive slice foul in the seventh innning of Saturday's second game against Nebraska.
That's how close the Jayhawks came to sweeping the No. 10 Huskers before a crowd of more than 450 at Jayhawk Field.
"When she hit it I just thought, yes," Bunge said, referring to Musser's shot down the left field line with two outs and the bases loaded. "But you could just see it twisting foul. I tried to help bend it back in, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be."
A hit would have given the Jayhawks (31-25 overall, 10-8 in the Big 12 Conference) a victory.
The weekend, which started with a 6-4 Kansas win against the 'Huskers (46-11, 15-2), concluded with a 4-3 loss to Missouri (30-26, 7-11) in Columbia yesterday.
The weekend started on a high note for the 'Hawks. They came from 4-0 down in the first game against Nebraska, winning by the final tally of 6-4. The comeback was against a 'Husker squad that had won 17 in a row and 35 of its previous 36 games.
The losses dropped Kansas to a third place tie with Texas Tech in the final Big 12 standings. The Red Raiders hold the tie-breaker between the two teams and will receive the third seed in the conference tournament.
rnowever, Musser took a third strike on the next pitch as Nebraska w1-0.
a two-run single by Kansas
shortstop junior Courtney Wright cut Nebraska's deficit in half in the fourth inning. The 'Hawks then posted four runs on just two hits in the fifth inning, taking advantage of two Nebraska errors.
"The they definitely opened the door for us," Bunge said. "But we made the most of it. That's what good teams have to do, because a team like Nebraska isn't going to give you many opportunities like that."
Freshman Kara Pierce picked up the win for Kansas as she settled down after surrendering four runs in the third inning. She gave up only two hits in the final four frames — retiring 11 in a row at one point.
The second game brought impressive pitching performances from both teams.
Kirsten Milhoan held Nebraska
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The home-plate
umpire calls
Kansas junior
Megan Urquhart
out for what
would have been
the try run in
the final inning
against
Nebraska. The
Jayhawks split a
doubleheader
Saturday at the
KU Softball Field,
beating Big 12-
leader Nebraska
6-4 and dropping
the second game
1-0. Photo by
Laurie Sisk
/KANSAN
Sports Columnist
Amanda Kaschube
sports@kansan.com
'Hated' writer remembers good and bad sports events
It's been three roommates, two hair colors, one defunct piercing and a few body shots last, but I've finally made it.
And through it all, sports have been a guiding light. I can tell you where I was when Roy Williams stayed, Paul Pierce left, Wilt Chamberlain died and a new era of White Sox baseball was born.
But while the road hasn't always been smooth — a Dallas cab ride when a slightly drunk associate showed me what he ate for dinner enters my mind — or friendly, I think I've been berated in the Free for All far too many times this semester — it's been interesting.
August 1997 — Boo-yah.
But these sports-related events, all the way from freshman year to the present, are the most memorable.
October 1998 — What is a Hoosier, anyway?
that would be broadcast. Too bad the Swami couldn't have predicted Carrie moving to Milwaukee for graduate school. Now I need a new roomie and a new ESPN partner.
August 1997—BOYDAN
Since I'd grown up in a cable-free atmosphere, my freshman roommate Carrie was instrumental in my exposing me to ESPN and SportsCenter. We used to watch the evening SportsCenter and any Yankees' games — for Derek Jeter highlights — or Mariners' games — for A-Rod
I know a Jayhawk isn't the toughest looking or realistic mascot, but Indiana takes the cake in the non-mascot department. After cheering for the Hoosiers and Bobby Knight for two years because my icky boyfriend went to Indiana, I finally got rid of the hot-headed coach and my less-than-ideal boyfriend. But watching them lose in the first round of the tournament the next two years in the first round was sweet revenge.
November 1999 — What's with all those Broncos' fans?
I won free tickets to the Chiefs/Broncos football game — too bad it was in the Denver section. Too bad my three guy friends didn't realize beer and anti-Broncos statements don't mix. But luckily, my words of wisdom and my loud Chicago voice averted a disastrous clash that would have been uglier than the final score — Denver 30, Kansas City 7.
September 2000. So is where all
September 2000 — So this is where all the magic happens.
Yippee, I'm 21. Now I can drink —legaly—and mingle with all the beautiful people at the Yacht Club. From volleyball players to big offensive linemen to alum Scot Pollard, I've seen them all.Now, if only most of them were of legal age like me.
October 2000 - Oh, the power of the pen.
Ever since I was a wee girl growing up, I thought sports columnists could change policy and actions through their words. They tackled hard subjects like coach firings, athlete's arrests and why Brian Boitoan always skates with a chair. But never did I think my XFL column, where I asked for some "booty," would get such a positive reaction — and me some new friends.
February 2001 Hi, I'm the most hated woman in the Kansan circulation area.
I write one little column about how NASCAR isn't a real sport and the next thing you know, I've received 28 anti-Amanda letters. I never knew I was so popular.
After being told that my writing should be labeled as an opinion (this is an opinion column), and that I was just "another rich kid that has had Daddy pay for everything" (if you find him, tell him I said hl), I came to an assumption. NASCAR fans' comments about me are just as ill-informed and looney as their "sport."
With all that behind me and only one final left — I'm hoping for an A. Professor McAllister — I'm outta here. Even with all the hate mail, bad mug shot and frantic column ideas, it's all been worth it.
Now if I could only find a job.
Kaushke is a Fiossemoor, M., senior in journalism.
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