SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, December 5, 1994
3B
Men claim meet victory, team gains NCAA berths
By Jenni Carlson
Kansan sportswriter
It was the Kansas men's swimming and diving team's turn to be giant killers this weekend.
The Jayhawks, ranked 20th nationally, defeated No. 18 North Carolina and No. 21 South Carolina in the Speedo Cup East in Chapel Hill, N.C. The team outdistanced their closest competition, Wisconsin, by 150 points.
"The team really pulled together as one," said Erik Jorgensen, sophomore freestyle. "This meet awakened us to how good we can be."
Earlier in the season, the women's team knocked off No. 4 Michigan and No. 17 Colorado State. However, the women fell short of defeating another ranked team this weekend, Michigan, No. 18 South Carolina, No. 21 Wisconsin and No. 15 North Carolina placed first through fourth in the Speedo Cup East. Kansas placed fifth in the eight-team meet.
Though the women's team did not pull off another upset, Rebecca Andrew, sophomore butterflier, said the team was not too disappointed.
Andrew said many of the Kansas
team members had season-best times, if not career-best times, in the meet.
Andrew joined freshman breaststroke Kristin Nilsen in provisionality qualifying in three events for the NCAA Championships next spring. With a provisional qualifying time, swimmers will be considered as a participant in the NCAA meet.
Nilsen recorded her qualifying times in the 200-yard Breaststroke and the 200-yard and 400-yard Individual Medleys. Andrew's times qualified her for the 100-yard Butterfly and the 50-yard and 100-yard Freestyle races.
The women'steam also provisionally qualified three other individuals and the 400-yard Freestyle Relay team.
The men's team had its share of provisional qualifiers, with five individuals and one relay队 meeting the consideration standards. Jorgensen and Eric Burton, sophomore freestyle and backstroker, qualified in two individual events. Jorgensen met the standard in the 500-yard and 1650-yard Freestyles, placing third in both races.
"Thev were good swims for this
time of the season," Jorgensen said.
In the 200-yard and 400-yard Individual Medleys, Burton met the provisional qualifying time. He also captured first place in both events.
The men's 800-yard Freestyle Relay team, which consists of junior Dan Philipps, Jorgensen, senior Marc Bontrager and senior Marc Hensel also had a provisional qualifying time. The team's time of 6:38.30 was also good enough for first place.
Even though they had no additional qualifiers, the Kansas men's and women's diving team turned in a good performance, said Kansas diving coach Don Fearon. In the men's one-meter and three-meter diving competitions, all three Jayhawk divers placed in the top seven.
After 13 first places out of 14 competitions, junior Michelle Rojohn placed fourth on the three-meter board and sixth on the one-meter board. Fearon said Rojohn was just a little bit off his normal performance.
Not far behind Rojohan was freshman Kenzie Zeller, who placed sixth off the three-meter board and seventh off the one-meter. "I know that she's got it," Fearon said. "She's just starting to pull it all together."
Junior guard Brenda Moffite shoots over Illinois State player Stacy Griffin. Kansas beat Illinois State University Saturday 79-54.
...More from the'Hawks' Dial Classic victory
Sean R. Crosier / KANBAN
Kansas 95, Illinois State 74
Player ftm/fta ftm/fta tp
Aycock 14-26 3-7 31
Halibbleb 8-16 2-4 24
Sampson 5-11 6-8 16
Dixon 5-6 0-1 10
Canada 2-5 0-0 4
Gracey 2-3 0-1 4
King 0-1 2-2 2
Trapp 0-4 0-0 0
Scott 0-1 0-0 0
Dieiterch 0-0 0-0 0
Thalmann 0-0 0-0 0
Totals 38-78 6-17 95
**Minnesota State**
Ward 8-10 2-2 19
Griffin 5-10 3-4 13
Schroeder 5-7 0-0 10
Valdez 3-8 2-3 8
Vickrey 2-6 3-5 5
Vossel 3-11 1-2 7
Walsh 2-3 0-0 4
Harper 1-1 0-0 2
Stewart 1-2 0-1 2
Trame 0-1 2-2 2
**Totals** **30-61** **13-19** **74**
Men's soccer club wraps up championship season
By Kent Hohifeld
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's soccer club will remember this season as one of the most successful in team history. The team finished with a 10-1-3 record.
Coach Mark Salisbury said that the team's players had exceeded every goal they had set before the season.
Salisbury attributed much of the team's success to a change in the formation the team used. The change was necessitated by a two-game stretch in which Kansas went 0-1-1.
Kansas won the Great Plains Conference Championship in late October by defeating Iowa State and Kansas State in the conference tournament held in Lawrence.
"In the middle of the season we were playing as individuals," said center defender Joel Buffington. "Our coach made some changes that got us to playing more as a team."
The change in formation also led to a more defensive game style.
One of the key tests of that style came in the last game of the regular
"We were using a more attacking style," Salisbury said. "We gave up some scoring punch for better defense because we were better suited for that style."
season against intrastate rival K-State. Kansas won the game 1-0, which started a string of seven consecutive games in which they would hold opponents scoreless — not including overtime shootouts.
"We needed to beat them to prove we could do it," Salisbury said of the K-State game. "It was the biggest win of the year."
The team did just that by typing three-seeded University of Texas at El Paso
That momentum propelled the team to victories in the conference tournament against Iowa State and a match against K-State two weeks later. With the conference championship came a second straight bid to the National Club Soccer Association
Championships on Nov. 19.
Salisbury said that he thought the key to advancing beyond first round pool play was to focus on the first game.
Myers said he knew the team would face a tough challenge to improve on last season's 0-3 tournament performance.
"Beating Iowa State helped us," said goal keeper Brandon Myers. "They were one of the strongest teams in the conference. We definitely needed to know we could beat that kind of team."
0-0. Kansas went on to beat Middle Tennessee State and Wisconsin Lacrosse 1-0. The 2-0-1 record was good enough for Kansas to win group D and advance to the single-elimination quarterfinals against Baylor.
The Jayhawks suffered a blow to their hopes 20 minutes into the Baylor game when midfielder Will Stelle suffered a mild concussion after a hard collision with a Baylor player.
Kansas lost to Baylor 3-2 in a shootout after playing a scoreless overtime.
Myers, Buffington and Fetsi Ngoepe were named to the all-tournament team.
Soccer summary
Kansas record: 2-0-2
Pool D results:
Kansas 1.
Kansas O, UTEPO
Wisconsin-Lacrosse 0
Middle Tennessee State O Kansas wins Pool D
Quarterfinals:
- Kansas O, Baylor 0 (tie)
(Baylor wins 3-2 in a shootout)
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