Sports Brief: May 8, 2006

By By Asher Fusco, Evan Kafarakis

Monday, May 8, 2006

Difficult season makes postseason uncertain

The Kansas men’s golf team is sitting on the edge of postseason eligibility.

The team will find out Monday morning when the NCAA makes its selections for regionals.

The Jayhawks have endured a rough spring, but were able to bounce back from their early-season struggles to finish eighth in the Big 12 Championship last month. The team comes into the selection process ranked 107th in the golfweek.com national rankings.

On the individual side of golfing, junior Gary Woodland will likely make the trip to regionals. Woodland finished in a tie for seventh at the Big 12 Championship and was named to the All-Big 12 team last week.

The NCAA regionals are split into three sites, meaning the players would travel to Florida, Ohio or Arizona to compete from May 18-20.

— Asher Fusco

Three ‘Hawks qualify for NCAA regionals

Three Kansas track and field athletes ran NCAA regionally qualifying times this weekend at the Ward Haylett Invitational in Manhattan, Kan.

Senior Angela Pichardo qualified in the women’s 800-meter run with a time of 2:09.77 as she placed second in the event. The winning time was 2:06.45.

In the men’s 800-meter run, sophomore Matt Baysinger got under the qualifying mark with a time of 1:49.83. The winning time was 1:49.01

Junior Janiece Gatson hit the qualifying mark for the Midwest Regional Championships. She placed second in the women’s 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:00.74. The winning time was 1:00.73.

— Evan Kafarakis

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