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Tuesday, April 27, 1976
University Daily Kansan
KU beats Ottawa with no sweat
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
Mark Hosking defeated Mike White, 6-1, 6-2
Soccer club wins Big 8, outscores opposition,18-2
By STEVE CLAR
Sports Writer
The University of Kansas soccer club took almost an entire season to get its act together.
Last weekend in Boulder, Colo., KU put on a fine performance the 1976 Big Eight soccer championship.
It was almost too easy.
ON SATURDAY, KU waltzed on three preliminary games. The Jayhawks blanked Nebraska 6-4, Oklahoma 4-0 and Kansas State, the defending champions, 4-0.
Then in Sunday's title contest KU belt Missouri, 4-2, to bring the University its first men's conference championship of the 1975-76 school year.
The victory also helped erase some of the painful memories of the 1975 tournament, which KU had been expected to win. Sporting an unblemished 14-record KU breezed into last year's tourney only to finish a disappointing fourth.
THIS YEAR IT WAS different. So different, in fact, that the KU players were almost happy when they found themselves trailing Mauro-1, 0 in the title match.
“It’s superstition,” player-coach Bernie Mullin said yesterday. “It goes back to Britain, where in about 11 of the last 13 FA (Football Association) Cup finals, the team that’s scored first has lost. So, no, we weren’t too worried.”
They didn't need to be. Within five minutes of the Missouri score, KU's Felipe Santos, who scored four times during the tournament, knocked in a goal to tie the game.
THEN, A FEW MINUTES before intermission, Felipe's ciao-in-Crafael Santos—headed a ball into the back of the net to KUUP 2-1.
"Rafael's goal couldn't have been timed
any better, "Mullin said. "It was just before the half, and it really gave us a lift."
But Missouri had beaten KU twice during the season, and Mullin said he was ready for a challenge.
"I expected Mizuza to come at us in the second half," he said, "but they didn't have an answer."
KU did. Just 10 minutes into the half, Ratelin Santos scored one of his six touches. And he hit a long shot.
MISSURI NARROWED the gap to 3-2 with about 15 minutes left in the game, and that's when Mullin made a move that eventually secured the championship.
He took Mohsen Miri, the team's scorer, out of the game. Miri had scored six times Saturday, but his ankle, injured earlier in the week, had taken all it could.
"Kansas State clobbered on Saturday day," Mullin said. "And he really hadn't done that much with the ball against him." Kyle Rasmussen speed. He was double teamed all weekend."
SO INTO THE GAME came Juan Damasco, last year's leading soccer whorl, who didn't care at all.
He hadn't been in the game five minutes before he headed in a goal that扑了 the game.
"Juan was our kiss of life," Mulin said. "We'd been standing around and not getting much done before he inched in. But he played with it, and the minutes were actually our best of the game."
KU's tennis team didn't get much of a workout in its 9-0 victory over Ottawa University yesterday. The Jayhawks had the brisk weather—hardly probe a sweat.
Mullin's praise extended to all 17 of the squad members who made the trip.
"CERTAINLY, MOHSEN was Mohsen,
except for the last game," he said. "And the
team was very good."
"But you don't win a championship over a
weekend. It takes an entire year." Over a
weekend, it takes an entire year.
Kirkland Gates, Kansas head coach, wanted to make sure his team didn't leave the Allen Field House courts with too little room. The other end, which ended he ordered his team out for more.
BY STEVE SCHOENFLED
Associate Sports Editor
That was how difficult Ottawa was for KU.
"THEY WEREN'T too good," said Bill Clarke, the Jahawks no.1 player, "but the match didn't use any harm because we got to work on our game."
With a team like Ottawa, it was hard for the netters to work on their games during the season.
KU lost only one set the entire day. And that was in the No. 3 doubles match by two players—Jim Singleton and Tom McNeil—who rarely play for the Jayhawks.
Associate Sports Editor
FROM TOP TO bottom, it was a slaughter. Clarke, who had lost his last three matches after winning his first 17, got the winning track by crushing Mike Borke. 6-2, 6-1.
No. 2 man Tim Headkite followed suit in his single match and so did Mark Hosking, Joe Ruysser, Jeff Thomas and O. J. Thomas.
THE NEW COMBINATIONS were in doubles where KU rested its top three player, David Garrison, 6-4, 6-2. 1-6, 6-2, Lonnie Taylor teamed with Jeff Thomas at No. 2 and they whitewashed their opponents. 6-0, 6-0. Singleton and McNeil came back after dropping their first set, 3-6, 6-4.
"We got a chance to use a lot of people."
Clike said, "and try some new com-
bination."
But it won't be as easy for the Jayhawks tomorrow when they meet Big Eight
"We have been talking about this match for a long time," Clark said. "If we play the same team, I'll be there."
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The University of Kansas baseball team invades enemy territory today when it plays a doubleheader against Missouri in Columbia.
Missouri's lineup boasts seven players with a batting average over .300, ranking them fifth on the NCAA's hitting average list. Tiger second baseman Jack Kruse, who got those two hits off Sligue in the home game, leads Missouri battles with a .396 average.
MU hosts KU seeks revenge
By KELLY SCOTT
Earth Writer
The Jayhawks beat Missouri twice earlier this season during a wild but well-played three-game series at Quigley Field. KU won, 7-0, and 10-7, before losing, 64.
ROB ALLINDER OR Mike Love probably will start the nightcap of today's doubleheader. Temple said he'd rather use his right-handed pitchers against the predominantly left-handed Missouri lineup. lineup.
Pete Wood (7-4) and Rob Pietroburgo (5-
3) are today's startling MU pitches.
MISSURI WILL BE LOOKING for revenge over right-hander Roger Slaghe, who propelled the Jayhawks to their two-hit shutout over the Tigers. Slaghe, now 5-2 after a loss to Nebraska last weekend, will start the first game, but Flood Temple, head baseball coach, said yesterday Slaghe wouldn't pitch the entire game.
"We've got our big Eight tournament rotated work out now, and since Roger's got to pitch against K-State this weekend we want to have a more intimate with him the whole game," Temple said.
Missouri is 39-17 for the season. They took three of four games from Bradley University in Illinois this weekend, but last week heieder yesterday to Murray State, 1-0, 7-3.
FIRST BASEMAN CARL Heinrich, who had one of the two RBI's in the 4-2 loss to Nebraska last weekend, leads the Jayhawk lineup with a .396 average.
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