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KANSAS BASEBALL
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wasn’t enough to help out the Kansas bats Friday night against Kansas State in a 2-0 loss at Tointon Family Stadium. A long rain delay forced the Wildcats to take out dominant starter Kayvon Bahramzadeh after 5 2/3 innings, but the Wildcats relievers — who entered with a 7.93 earned-run average in Big 12 play — held the Jayhawks scoreless the rest of the way. KU was shut out for the eighth time this season. “The whole focus of the series was to win it,” KU coach Ritch Price said. “Now we’re behind the eight-ball after dropping the first night on Friday. We’ve got to find a way to come back at it tomorrow.” Bahramzadeh was dominant from the start. The senior right-hander didn’t allow a hit until the
— Kansas University baseball coach Ritch Price fifth inning, striking out eight while walking just two in his 5 2/3 innings. “He mixes pitches well,” KU junior third baseman Jordan Dreiling said. “He got ahead with that curveball, threw it for a strike and kept us off-balance all game. He wouldn’t leave too many fastballs over the plate.” Bahramzadeh was replaced by Matt Applegate following a one-hour, 34-minute rain and lightning delay in the top of the sixth. The righty allowed just one baserunner with two strikeouts in 1 1/3 innings, and Gerardo Esquivel protected a 2-0 lead for the save after pitching the final two innings. The ninth wasn’t easy.
Alex DeLeon led off with a double to right center, and Dreiling’s single to right put the tying run on first with no one out. The two runners wouldn’t move from there, as Jake Marasco and Michael Suiter both struck out before pinch-hitter Chris Manship lined to second base to end the game. KU’s hitters finished with 12 strikeouts in 34 plate appearances. Kansas State took the lead in the second. R.J. Santigate led off with a bloop single to center, and after a Matt Giller sacrifice bunt, KU starter Frank Duncan struggled to keep the ball down against the next two hitters. Blair DeBord lined a single to left to put runners at the corners, and nine-hole hitter Jake Brown followed with an RBI single to make it 1-0. The Wildcats tacked on another run in the bottom of the sixth after KU reliever Robert Kahana
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“It was just a little bonus to change it up a little bit, I guess,” Anderson said. The Free State girls finished second in the standings behind Olathe East, with some top-five finishes. In the 1,600, Lynn Robinson took third and Bailey Sullivan was fourth. They were back-to-back in the 800, too, with Robinson taking fourth and Sullivan placing fifth. Khadijah Lane placed fourth in the 400 and Gabbi Dabney was fifth in high jump. The LHS girls, which took seventh place, had some top finishers, too. Caitlin Broadwell finished just seven hundredths of a second behind 300 hur-
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FREE STATE’S ALEXA HARMON-THOMAS VAULTS over the bar in the high jump on Friday at the Sunflower League track meet at ODAC in Olathe. dles champ Saleena Bouvilom of Olathe Northwest (51.15) and took fifth in the triple jump. Another runner-up for the Lions
was freshman Matia Finley, who took second in the discus (127-10) behind champion Whitney Harvey of Shawnee Mission
issued a leadoff walk to Wade Hinkle. Following a sac bunt and a flyout, pinch-hitter Mike Kindel singled just under the glove of KU second baseman Ka’iana Eldredge to bring in Hinkle. Bahramzadeh picked up his first victory in Big 12 play, while Duncan took the tough-luck loss, allowing just the one run in five innings. He struck out two while walking one. Kansas State (23-27, 4-15 Big 12) snapped a 10-game conference losing streak, picking up its first league win since March 31. KU (19-30, 4-14) will Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Photo start freshman left-hander Wes Benjamin in the sec- CHICAGO WHITE SOX’S ADAM DUNN, LEFT, HEADS ond game of the series at FOR HOME after hitting a home run off Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Felipe Paulino, right, during 6:30 tonight. the first inning on Friday in Chicago. Kansas State 2, Kansas 0 Kansas Kansas State
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W — Kayvon Bahramzadeh. L — Frank Duncan. Sv — Gerardo Esquivel. E — Tanner Witt, KSU. DP — KU 1, KSU 1; LOB — KU 8, KSU 11; 2B — Alex DeLeon, KU. HBP — Blair Debord, KSU. SH — Kevin Kuntz, KU; Jon Davis, KSU; Matt Giller, KSU. Time: 3:28. Attendance: 1551.
North. Her sister, Rebecca Finley, placed fourth in the discus, while LHS shot putter Natasha Barhum also took fourth. The LHS boys, who finished fourth (OEHS took the boys points title), nearly had a league champ in the javelin. Manny Romero’s throw of 172 feet was 1 foot, 2 inches behind Shawnee Mission Northwest champ Eric Pinkleman. Gari Jones placed fourth in the 200 and fifth in the 100. Noel Fisher took fifth in the 300 hurdles. For Free State’s boys, who finished tied for eighth with Olathe South, Stan Skwarlo took fourth in the 800 and fifth in the 1,600. Both Lawrence and Free State will compete at a Class 6A regional Friday at FSHS.
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MAIZE — Lawrence High’s Thomas Irick won his opening singles match Friday at the Class 6A boys tennis tournament. Irick defeated Blake Stucky of Garden City, 6-1, 6-1, before falling to Shawnee Mission West’s Vinh Pham, 6-1, 6-0. The Lions’ doubles team of Matt Grom and Pace Leggins fell to Derby, 6-1, 6-1, and Garden City, 7-0. Free State’s Andrew
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spring game and I have friends who went to Cal’s spring game, and no one goes. No one cares. It was so cool just to see that amount of KU people there and see everyone into it. Just the excitement that’s surrounding the program is huge, and I think that will really help us.” Asked to recall the spring game plays that stood out most, Baty, like most, pointed to sophomore running back Tony Pierson’s big day. “Obviously, Tony Pierson had that break-away run,” Baty said of Pierson’s 88yard touchdown run. “That was sweet. Not only that, but (senior wide receiver) Kale Pick did an awesome job. He looked awesome. I’m a little bummed that he has my number and I have to wait a year to get number 7, but he’s a stud.”
Craig lost his opening singles match to Shawnee Mission East’s Brooks Kendall, 6-1, 6-1, then defeated Garden City’s Sebastian Kyaw, 9-0, in consolations, to conclude his action at state. The FSHS doubles team of Nick Pellett and Richard Lu lost in the opening round to Blue Valley Northwest, 6-0, 6-3, then defeated Washburn Rural, 9-3. Pellett and Lu are scheduled to play three matches today in the consolation round.
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I’m counting down the days. I’m working hard out here at my training facility, doing lots of two-a-days, watching a lot of film, studying my playbook the best that I can, but I’m excited to just be out there.” — Kansas University junior college transfer quarterback Turner Baty Instead of wearing No. 7 next season, which he has worn his entire life because of his fondness for and his father’s connection to former Stanford and Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway, Baty will wear No. 6. “(Quarterbacks) coach (Ron) Powlus just told me I’m gonna be No. 6 and he said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll get you No. 7 again next year, but you’re gonna have to wear 6 this year,’” Baty said. “It’s OK, though. I’m a big LeBron (James) fan, too.”
BOX SCORE White Sox 5, Royals 0
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going to get off my approach. I’m still trying to look for something to drive, whether it’s 2-0 or 0-2.” Floyd gave up five singles. The 6-foot-6 righthander has given up just four earned runs in his last 28 2-3 innings. “I’m really honestly just trying to be aggressive with whatever I’m throwing,” Floyd said. “Try to let the team field the ball. That’s about it. I’m trying to simplify things, go out there and attack guys.” The White Sox added a run in the third when Alejandro De Aza singled, stole second and scored on Gordon Beckham’s two-out single. Alex Rios’ two-out, tworun triple off the wall in right-center in the sixth made it 4-0 and chased Paulino (1-1). “That was the killer,” Yost added. “You get 3-2, he had struck him out twice before, still throwing the ball well. He got to
3-2 and he still needed to make a pitch, kind of like Floyd did on Billy there. Floyd made it, Paulino didn’t. But when you don’t score any runs, that’s not what kills you.” Paulino, who pitched six shutout innings against the Yankees in his first start of the season six days ago, allowed seven hits, struck out six and walked one.
BRIEFLY
CLASS 6A STATE TENNIS
LHS’ Irick, FSHS duo fall to consolation
Royals
KU thrower wins title at Big 12 MANHATTAN — Kansas University senior thrower Alena Krechyk broke multiple records and claimed her second career conference title in the hammer throw on Friday at the 2012 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships on the campus of Kansas State University. Krechyk’s win propelled the Jayhawks women’s team to second place after the first day of competition. The KU men’s team sits in sixth place. Krechyk, who won the same event in 2010, threw for 69.02 meters, which improved upon her own KU
Baty, like most of KU’s incoming class, will report to campus on June 3. He has spent the past couple of months working out, going over his playbook and watching film of the New England Patriots’ offense. None of those three has taken as much of a toll as his least favorite part of the past few months — waiting. “I’m counting down the days,” he said. “I’m working hard out here at my training facility, doing lots of two-a-days, watching a lot of film, studying my playbook the best that I can, but I’m excited to just be out there.” The biggest reason? What he saw at the spring game. “You can’t say a lot from the spring game because it was mostly ones against mostly twos,” he said. “But I think what you can say is that, just by watching it, you know we have talent. Whether that’s at O-Line, wide receiver, running back, on defense, whatever; I know we have the talent here to win.”
record and set new Big 12 meet and K-State facility records. The distance was the third-best mark in the NCAA this season. Other KU athletes to place in the meet included Heather Bergmann (second place, women’s javelin), Johann Swanepoel (third place, men’s javelin), Jesse Vaughn (fourth place, men’s javelin) and Allison Mayfield (seventh place, women’s javelin). KU’s Lindsay Vollmer sits in third place after the first four of seven events in the heptathalon. Vollmer took first place in the event’s high jump competition. The Big 12 Outdoor Championships continue today with track, shot put, pole vault and long jump
events before wrapping up on Sunday.
Class 6A state champion, Wright-Conklin is one of 96 wrestlers nationwide to make the team. He will be featured in the May 30 issue of Wrestling USA Magazine and on the magazine’s All-American poster. The first LHS wrestler to be honored on the team, Wright-Conklin’s career record as a Lion was 140-10.
Wright-Conklin honored nationally Wrestling USA Magazine has named Lawrence High senior Reece WrightConklin to its 2012 AllAmerica team. A three-time Kansas
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