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Wednesday, March 24.1976
University Daily Kansan
Javhawk bats blitz Baker twice
By JOHN HENDEL
Sports Writer
The University of Kansas baseball team discovered something yesterday it didn't know it had as it swept a doubleheader from the Baker University Wildcats.
What the Jayhawks discovered was hitting. The team had a total of 27 hits and 27 runs in the 18-3 and 9-4 victories over Baker. In the nine games KU hitters could only 16 hits.
"I was pleased with our hitting and the ability to push runs across the plate," coach Sean Cunningham said.
In the first game, KU scored in every inning but the first. The barrage was highlighted by an eight-run fifth inning when the Jayhawks sent 12 battles to the
Third baseman Mark Hannifan had two hits in the inning, including a grand slam home run that went over the left-center field fence.
Randy Trout, KU's designated hitter,
provided the additional punch with six runs
batted in. Trout also reached base each of
the five times he hit.
"I was impressed with Trout's hitting, he's always been a good RH man. Hamifan hit well, too," Temple said. "We need different people to knock the runs in for us."
The hitters picked up in the second game where they left off in the first. The first five Jayhawks to hit reached base and scored before baker had recorded an out.
Staff photo by JAY DOSLZER
Shortstop Ice Ice and left fielder Tom Kramlii provided the big hits in the inning, each contributed a run-scoring triple. Brian Moyer, Andy Murray and Theo Johansen were winners in the first.
KU's center fielder Monty Hobbs had two
DH Randy Troutt spent the day on the basepaths
KU hopes to regroup outdoors
By GARY VICE Sports Writer
Although they continue to train running around in circles, the University of Kansas track team has moved from the tight 20-20 yard indoor track in Allen Field House to the 40-40 yard Hersberger Track under the sun in Memorial Stadium.
At the onset of the new season, head coach Bob Timmons said, "I think the whole team feels a whole lot better to get out. The atmosphere is great, just great, and I feel that we have got the track and field is the Olympic track and field, and it is outside where it ought to be."
To successfully defend their conference outdoor title, the Jayhawks will have a task similar to those following the 1972-74 indoor seasons in which they failed to win the indoor title but came back to win an outdoor championship. KU has won the conference outdoor title each of the past nine seasons and 18 of the past 21 years.
"We'll be strong," Timmons predicted. "We'll have a very fine team on the conference level, but we'll have to make a great difference." The national competitive nationally as we were last year."
The transition to the outdoor season from the indoor season could revive the Jayhawks, who concluded their indoor competition with a disappointing tie for 20th place at the NCAA indoor championships during spring break.
The mile relay team of Clifford Wiley, Jiley Wagner, Randy Benson and Waddell Smith won the Jayhawks' only points with its time for second place behind Tennessee.
The outdoor season will allow the Jayhawks to better display the talents of the team.
While competing indoors, the sprinter were limited to the 60.2 mile and relay in events using a standard running tape.
of sprint events includes the 108, 200, 440
quarter-mile, half-mile and mule relays.
The emphasis on the sprint events in outdoor competition should benefit KU and weaken the rival Kansas State Wildcats, the most successful conference title earlier this month. The Wildcats are strongest in the middle-distance, but Kansas State is 1,000 and are not run during the outdoor season.
Leading the Jayhawk skintriers will be sophomore Wiley who owns personalests of 9.4 in the 100 and 20.8 in the 220. Senior Larry Jackson, who missed most of the 1970s, is a member of the bandamstring, recorded times of 9.5 in the 100 dash and 21.0 in the 220 last year.
Quarter-milers Benson and Smith both qualified for national competition last year
Moving the competition out of the field houses means adding the javelin competition, and Timmons is all smiles when he talks about his talented javelin corps of Roger Hammond, Mark Kostek and Brian Todd.
Smith, a senior All-American from Los Angeles, said, "In the Big Eight, all the best sprinters are at Kansas. So, if you can beat them, they'll be likely to be the conference champion."
"The javelin throwers are going to be very, very good," Timmons said. "We'll have one of the best mid-land javelin corps around."
Hammond, a senior, is the defending Big Eight champion in the javelin and has a lifetime best of 248-1 feet. Kostek, a junior, had a throw of 233-1 feet at the Kansas Relays last year and Todd was the Kansas high school champions last year.
Timmons said one of his biggest concerns would be the development of the discus
After watching the catches men's first
tosses of the season, Timmons lauded the
team for its excellence.
"I think he's going to have a good spring!" Timmons said. "I'm really pleased with his work."
The Jayhawk pitcherds didn't fade in the hitter's glory though.
Roger Stingle pitched the fist game and didn't allow any earned runs while increasing his record to 3-0. Stingle struck out nine Wildcat batters; he has struck out 28 batters in the 25 innings he has worked this season.
doubles and a single in the second game.
Hobbe reached base seven times in the
second game.
Kerven Kerschen started the second game and picked up his first win allowing only two goals.
Rian Bodes carne in relief in the sixth inning and pitched two shutouts to ice in a 3-0 victory.
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