The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 47

SECTION DAILY wwwkansascitycom TAR Friday October 18 Perfect Drift in Cup Kansas City 3-year-old (right) will face older horses for first time in his career 3 Home not so sweet home Districtwide stadiums sometimes force high school teams to wear road jerseys on home fields 6 UM NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE 29 PITTSBURG STATE 7 TIM BARCUSThe Kansas CityStai Morten Andersen (bottom) and Michael Husted will continue to team up to handle the place-ldckingkickoff duties love it? -Mf Husted gets a kick working with Chiefs 1 u- By IVAN CARTER The Kansas City Sta A large Division II crowd of 26695 at Arrowhead Stadium watched Northwest Mitch Herring (left) score despite a tackle by Pittsburg Levi Neville Northwest Missouri pounds Pittsburg State By DAVID BOYCE The Kansas City Star If you dosely examined fliie' sideline Sunday at Qualcomm Stadium you might hqve caught a glimpse of this raffier strange sight: Chiefs kickoff man Michael Husted added to the roster only that morrijg g-pumping his fist in excitement when something went the way Af Never mind that Husted had been a Chief for only a few hours or that most of his teammates probably know who he was And never mind that there was no guarantee he would be with the team when the game finished "I guess you get out there and just fall into that feeling of being a part of a team said Husted who placed five OfhlS Steven kickoffs inside the Shh'DKto 10-yard line the gamtHs going on you are a player forftfat team and you want to win: Yofrfe always a competitor first fgtfcs you just feed off the emotion Arid the energy I was caught up In it' experience illustrates the precarious nature of a life As recently as two Wfidfe igo he thought strongly aboufMirjnt Sunday against the QigQBjf? there was a real chance ffeSPftid See CHIEFS D-4 COMMENTARY be merits a big crowd like this 1 oo bad Northwest Missouri State and Central I Missouri State meet at Arrowhead Stadium JL on Nov 2 and decide the MIAA championship The Chiefs are off that weekend And that clash should be worthy of the atmosphere enj oyed Thursday night at Arrowhead when the fifth-ranked Bearcats 7-0 slapped bitter rival Pittsburg State 29- yin front of a crowd of more than 26000 The of was a first-class event all the way around too bad everyone involved says this is a onetime event The Bearcats agreed to move the game to I ft Arrowhead only because their stadium is being renovated and hold a crowd of more than 10000 The MIAA elite deserve this kind of showcase And Kansas City football fans deserve the opportunity to take a oneea-year look-see at the best Division II foo ball has to offer was something special something I 'll never forge Northwest Missouri quarterback John McMenamin See WHITLOCK D-9 The of the Champions" turned into a coronation of Northwest Missouri football program From the opening kickoff to the end Northwest Missouri dominated Pittsburg State in shinning fashion In front of 26695 fans Thursday night Northwest Missouri punished Pittsburg State 29-7 causing the menacing Gorillas to depart Arrowhead Stadium like tamed monkeys crowd was something else" Northwest Missouri senior quarterback John McMenamin said crowd was amazing for both sides I would like to thank all the people who put this together" McMenamin had a game to remember He completed 29 of 38 passes for 313 yards with one touchdown and oneinterceptioa It's been the passing attack that has turned the rivalry between the top two programs in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association into a onesided affair Northwest Missouri has won the last six games against Pittsburg State and the Bearcats didn't need fourth-quarter dramatics to pull out the win in this one 1(Au in i i A ft 1 1 1 Northwest Mike Sunderman (right) sacked Pittsburg State quarterback Neal Philpot on Thursday HIM standings See BEARCATS D-9 On the grow: Kansas Speedway expandi A trade the Angels nixed put Erstad on cloud nine Track will add 1500 seats for next By BOB DUTTON The Kansas City Star The vs Francisco built into the earthen grading between the west end of the tiiurefit grandstands and the pedfestrfcrn tunnel to the infield The seats will be bench-style with seatbacks painted in tile track's existing color scheme- 83 will be good Kansas Speedway president Jeff Boerger said "They will have an oxceUqpt view of the pits And even with ux torhomes (in the infield) you vyjll be able to see the back stretph (from the lowest nli jv) As with the old seats njpyv ones must be purchased as garUif the speedway's plan Tfyt is they will be available only as part of a season-ticket program tftai The Angels caught in a continuing budget squeeze by Disney their corporate owner believe they could keep Erstad once he became a free agent after the 2002 season Their baseball people reasoned it was better to get something now even if it involved a below-market exchange than risk getting nothing but a draft pick after the season Word leaked out of a trade with fire White Sax that needed only a few small details hammered out The By JIM PEDLEY The Kaneai City Star Good newts for those who have been shut out of racing at Kansas Speedway the facility will add more grandstand seats in time for the 2003 racing seasoa Speedway officials will officially announce today that 1500 additional seats will be added to the facility Construction will begin as soon as a bid is accepted and will be completed by the June weekend of racing The addition will raise the number of grandstand seats at Kansas Speedway to 80187 The new seats will be located on the front stretch toward the turn-one end of the track They will be ANAHEIM Calif -Anaheim Angels as they prepare for the first JlMorid Series in their 42-year history are proof that meddling from above always a bad firing Thumb back the calendar to last December and 'fire winter meetings in Boston It was there that the Angels cooked up a deal to send center Adder Darin Erstad to tire Chicago White Sax for a package of question Anaheim San 7 pm at Saturday Anaheim D-4 Th Kansas City Stii See ANGELS D-4 See KANSAS D-5.