Spring Break
What a difference a day makes. The UMKC men's golf team found themselves at the top of the leader board on day two of the 2008 Summit League Championship. Twenty four hours later, however, the squad finished the tournament 10 strokes down to host and champion Western Illinois University (WIU).
Time flies when you're having fun. It's hard to fathom how quickly the past three semesters have come and gone for this sports enthusiast. There have been grueling soccer matches, hard-slapping volleyball games, a couple softball slugfests, some scintillating rounds of golf, a few bounces around the tennis court and a lot of fast runners, high jumpers and long throwers.
The UMKC men's tennis team traveled Friday, April 25 to Fort Wayne, Ind., for their fourth straight and 13th overall appearance in the League Championships. The Roo effort was stymied though 4-1, by the reigning conference champions, the Oral Roberts University (ORU) Golden Eagles.
The Kangaroos made a nice run but fell short in a two-game series against a Big XII Conference nemesis. Tuesday evening the Roos (8-24) faced the University of Kansas (KU) Jayhawks (31-15) in a doubleheader at Cleveland Park in the final home series of the season.
Following a strong showing in Warrensburg, Mo., last weekend, the Roo tracksters hit the road Friday afternoon for the Bob Laptad/Bill Williams Invitational, in Joplin, Mo. The Kangaroos cracked double digits with top-five finishes for the second straight week, posting 11 to go with one title and four second-place finishes.
People close to 5-foot-8-inch senior first baseman Monica Canisales are saying she is having the best season of her collegiate career. It's a feat that, for Canisales, has not come easily. She has been playing all season with an injury. "It was just an open field day and I was playing catch and I threw a ball and all of a sudden I got this sharp burning pain in my elbow and my fingers were tingling," Canisales said.
