Monday, April 16, 2007
Sunday’s game between Kansas and Texas A&M will quickly be forgotten by the Jayhawks — and for good reason.
Stevie Crisosto, sophomore shortstop, swings at the ball for a basehit during the game against Texas A&M on Sunday afternoon. The Aggies had sixteen hits against the Jayhawks. Kansas was unable to score any runs and lost 13-0.
The Aggies, ranked No. 5 in the nation, pounded the Jayhawks 13-0 in Kansas’ worst loss of the season.
The Aggies notched 16 total hits, including three doubles, one triple and a home run, as the Jayhawks could produce only one hit the entire game.
“We’re going to forget about it,” senior first baseman Nicole Washburn said. “A&M is the best team we’ve played this year.”
With nothing seeming to go right for the pitching staff, defense and bats, coach Tracy Bunge said the best thing for the team to do was regroup and move on.
“This group of kids care, but right now they’re going through a bad stretch,” Bunge said. “We can approach it many ways, but we’re choosing right now to move on.”
The Kansas pitching staff gave up hits to 11 different Texas A&M batters.
Senior pitcher Kassie Humphreys started the game for the Jayhawks, but after giving up four runs on four hits in three innings, Humphreys was pulled.
Freshman pitcher Sarah Vertelka threw for 3 1/3 innings giving up eight runs on 10 hits and was then replaced by sophomore Valerie George, who finished the game for Kansas, allowing one run on two hits.
“We can analyze this game to death and say’ yeah, we didn’t look very good, we didn’t do a lot of things well,’” Bunge said.
This isn’t the first time the Aggies have come to Arrocha Ballpark and put a beating on the Jayhawks. Two years ago they swept the Jayhawks 13-1 and 7-1.
Washburn said that the Jayhawks went to regionals that same year, so the loss, though painful, shouldn’t cause panic.
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We’re trying way too hard and we have to get back to relaxing. This team is a much younger group and in some way are still searching for their identity at this point of the season. At this point in time, we just didn’t get it done today.
-coach Tracy Bunge
“This doesn’t end our season; this doesn’t make or break our season up to this point,” Washburn said.
The Jayhawk bats have been hit or miss recently and were a definite miss against the Aggies, totaling one hit.
“We didn’t do a lot of things well, and a lot of the offensive struggles was that Amanda Scarborough was that good,” Bunge said of the Aggie pitcher.
Scarborough pitched a complete game one-hitter and struck out 10 of the 24 Jayhawk batters she faced.
She had a no-hitter going through the bottom of the seventh inning, but was broken when freshman first baseman Amanda Jobe hit a single to shortstop.
The Jayhawks hadn’t played a game this entire week because of a postponed game against Missouri. Because of Lawrence weather conditions, the team had a difficult time practicing in game-like conditions.
The team practiced outside on Thursday and inside Anschutz Sports Pavilion on Friday.
“It’s not fun to practice inside Anschutz because you can’t take groundballs well in there,” Washburn said.
Bunge said that the team was putting in the effort, maybe a bit too much.
“We’re trying way too hard and we have to get back to relaxing,” Bunge said. “This team is a much younger group and in some way are still searching for their identity at this point of the season. At this point in time, we just didn’t get it done today.”
The team looks to regroup and move onto their Border Showdown match-up this Wednesday at home against the Missouri Tigers.
Kansan sportswriter Evan Kafarakis can be contacted at ekafarakis@kansan.com.
— Edited by Jyl Unruh
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