Sports > Sports in brief

Posted on Fri, Oct. 23, 2009

e-mail	print	RSS	reprint
AIM	Digg it	del.icio.us	Facebook

baseball

Wichita State's season will begin Feb. 23 at Kansas and include 30 home games. The scheduled was released by WSU on Thursday. WSU plays home nonconference series with San Jose State and Washington State, as well as two games against Oral Roberts and single games against Kansas State, Kansas and Oklahoma State. Full schedule, 5C.

Motorsports

81 Speedway will host the final race of the season for the O'Reilly/NCRA Sprint Car Series. Garry Lee Maier, a three-time champ, leads by 20 points over Zach Chappell, who is eyeing his first national championship. Racing begins at 7 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for children.

Rowing

The 18th annual Frostbite Regatta will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday on the Little Arkansas River between the 11th Street bridge and the Wulz Riverside Tennis Center. Collegiate teams from Wichita State, Kansas State, Kansas and other regional schools are scheduled to compete. Races start in 10-minute intervals with a lunch break from noon to 12:45 p.m.

cross country

Newman's Melissa Ortiz was named Heartland Conference runner of the week. She bettered her own school 4-kilometer record, finishing in 14 minutes, 39 seconds last week in El Dorado.

Football

The Wild indoor team re-signed quarterback Dixie Wooten, a late addition who led the team to a late-season surge into the playoffs and conference championship game. Donta Moore, who started every game last season, also re-signed.

GOLF

Australian Nick O'Hern cruised to a career-low 63 and the Frys.com Open lead in Scottsdale, Ariz. O'Hern, who finished at 7 under, putted only nine times while posting a 28 on the par-35 back nine at Grayhawk. Eight of O'Hern's nine birdies came in that stretch. Bob Heintz and Heath Slocum were one stroke back at 64, and D.A. Points, Rory Sabbatini, Greg Owen and Rickie Fowler shot 65s to finish two shots off the lead.

* Defending champion Sergio Garcia shot an 8-under 63 on his home course to take the lead during the suspended first round (wind) of the Castello Masters in Castellon, Spain.

BASKETBALL

ESPN.com is reporting that Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive says there are questions regarding the eligibility of highly touted Kentucky freshman John Wall. Slive says that there are "amateur issues" surrounding Wall. ESPN.com reported that Wall's issues stem from his relationship with AAU coach Brian Clifton, who was a certified agent between 2007 and 2008. Wall made at least two unofficial recruiting visits to Kentucky during that period.

* A fight over the shoes Michael Jordan's son will wear at Central Florida could cost the school financially. Freshman guard Marcus Jordan is refusing to wear shoes made by adidas, the brand the university has a five-year contract with for all its sports that runs out on June 30, 2010. He says he will only wear his father's Nike Air Jordan shoes because they hold special meaning to his family. There have been media reports that UCF is negotiating a new deal that could be worth up to $3 million and last up to six years.

VOLLEYBALL

St. Mary's overcame 14 kills from Newman's Angie Bennett to defeat the Jets 3-2 (25-23, 14-25, 27-25, 22-25, 15-11) in Wichita.

SOCCER

The No. 10-ranked Hutchinson Community College women clinched their first outright Jayhawk Conference title with a 10-0 win at Coffeyville. Leilah Saadi and Victoria Koehn led the Blue Dragons with two goals apiece in the win, which improved Hutchinson to 15-0-1.

* The Emporia State women lost 2-1 in double overtime to Northwest Missouri in Emporia. Amanda Penney scored the Hornets' only goal.