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Jayhawks will take on division rivals this weekend
BY BLAKE SCHUSTER
bschuster@kansan.com
After a three-week hiatus the lacrosse team returns to action tomorrow at Lawrence High School against division rival Nebraska (3-5).
The Jayhawks (5-4) last played a two-game home stand against St. Cloud State where Kansas went 2-0 and combined for 35 goals
"We were a little rusty at first, but at practice on Wednesday we started to pick it up again and by the end we were looking crisp," Tyler Cauble, a freshman from Libertytville, Ill., said.
for, and 10 goals against. Leading scorer for the Jayhawks Francis Enright, a senior from Winnetka, Ill., tallied 15 points in the games to raise his season total to 42 points, which is the second highest in his career at the University. Enright's record is the 53 points he put up last season.
The layhawks won the past two regular season games against the Cornhuskers. Kansas also played a
tail league game against Nebraska earlier this year, where they topped them once again. After that game the Jayhawks got a pretty good idea of what team they would be dealing with in the regular season.
Nebraska game, and it took some time for everyone to return to midseason form.
With spring break over, the Jayhawks needed to get back to practice to start preparing for the
"They had a tough time settling the ball on offense, and played pretty much disorganized the whole time," Tim MacArthur, a freshman from Tallahassee, Fla., said.
Nebraska comes into Lawrence riding on a March 27 10-9 victory against Iowa State. The Cornhuskers match with the Jayhawks is their first conference game this season.
game this season.
Enright had three goals and two assists in a Jayhawk victory last season against Nebraska. If Kansas is able to win this game then it will be undefeated this season. This will guarantee them a Great Rivers
Lacrosse Conference division 1AA title and a spot in the playoffs.
After Nebraska, Kansas will face off against Oklahoma University to end their home stand. They will then travel to Colombia, Mo., for a border showdown on April 22 in what is shaping up to be a battle of two first-place teams.
Edited by Samantha Collins
Kansas City falls to Los Angeles in opener, 4-2
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Torii Hunter and Jeff Mathis homered, helping Jered Weaver and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 4-2 Thursday in a chilly season opener.
Weaver allowed two harmless singles to Melky Cabrera over 61-3 innings, improving to 3-0 in his last four starts against Kansas City. The 2010 major league strikeout leader fanned six and walked two as the Angels won their opener for the seventh win in the last eight years.
Hunter and Mathis, on his 28th birthday, hit solo shots off Luke Hochevar, who pitched 5 2-3 innings and gave up four runs in his first opening-day start.
Kansas City had a chance to go in front in the eighth and ninth, but the Angels got out of it both times.
with three strikeouts and left five runners.
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Mike Aviles' leadoff drive off Kevin Jepsen trimmed Los Angeles' lead to 4-2 in the eighth. The Royals went on to load the bases on three walks, but Michael Kohn, the angels' fifth pitcher, struck out Jeff Francoeur and retired Alcides Escobar on a fly ball to end the inning.
Weaver (1-0) had faced the minimum until Cabrera flared a single into left with one out in the fourth. The right-hander, the Angels' pitcher of the year the past two seasons, then retired six of the next seven, allowing only one walk, before Cabrera singled up the middle with two out in the sixth.
Hunter, on a 3-2 pitch, cranked a 446-foot shot over the center-field fence leading off the fourth. It was his 27th homer against the Royals, the most he's hit off any club. Vernon Wells and Erick Aybar followed with back-to-back doubles.
With runners at the corners and two out in the ninth, Alex Gordon barely missed a home run before Fernando Rodney struck him out for the save. Gordon was 0 for 5
The Royals committed three errors. After Mathis homered in the sixth, Peter Bourjos bunted and wound up at third on throwing errors by Hochevar and second baseman Chris Getz. Maicer Izturis ended up driving him in with a single.
Hisanori Takahashi replaced Weaver and allowed Francoeur's two-out drive in the seventh.
Kansas City Royals' Chris Getz, back, is tagged out by Los Angeles Angels second baseman Howe Kendrick as he tries to steal second in the third inning of an opening day baseball game Thursday in Kansas City, Mo.
Third baseman Aviles was booed when he ran toward the left-field dugout chasing a high pop off the bat of Bobby Abreu but let it fall in. It was called a no-play, but boos echoed again when Abreu then singled with two out in the fifth. But Aviles made a nice play on Wells grounder to end the inning.
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BASEBALL
Player celebrates birthday with game
WASHINGTON — Coming off major knee surgery, and coming up on his 39th birthday, Chipper Jones came back to baseball in a big way.
At the plate in a real game for the first time since August, the Atlanta Braves third baseman doubled for the first hit by anyone in the 2011 season. He legged it out, even, beating a throw from new Washington Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth.
"I was busting it out of the box," Jones said. "Didn't necessarily want to slide, but I had to"
He went on to score the season's first run, Jason Heyward
added a solo shot, and Derek Lowe allowed three singles in 5-2-3 innings on a chilly, damp opening day, helping the Braves beat the Nationals 2-0 Thursday to make Fredi Gonzalez a winner in his debut as Atlanta's manager.
The Braves played their first regular-season game since Bobby Cox retired at the end of 2010 after two decades — and 15 playoff appearances — as their skipper.
Welcome back, Chipper. Nice way to start, Fred.
"I'm wearing this uniform and, hopefully, I'm wearing it for a long time and get a lot of wins," said Gonzalez.
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