SPORTS
University Daily Kansan, April 19. 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Baseball team to play K-State
The Kansas baseball team will travel to Manhattan tomorrow to face Kansas State in double-headers Saturday and Sunday at Frank Meyers Field.
The Jayhawks have a record of 15-17-1 and a 3-5 record in the Big Eight. The Wildcats are 22-22, 1-9 in the conference. They have lost 10 games in a row.
Sunday, Kansas is expected to start Charlie Buzard, 4-4, and Jon Steiner. 3-1 The Wildats' probable players are Wally Bramlage, 4-4, and Robbie Guinn, 4-3.
Probable starting pitchers for KU on Saturday are Paul Henry, 2.2, and Scott LaRue, 2.2-K. State will start Tom Smith, 5-3, and John Careleso, 3-5.
Tulane abolishes basketball
NEW ORLEANS - Tulane University's
BOARD of Administrators yesterday abolished the school's scandal-plagued basketball program after 65 seasons and more.
Kansas leads the series 131-102-1.
Maureen Kelly, women's golf team co-captain, sinks a putt at the Alvamar Golf and Country Club. Kelly has assumed a leadership role both on and off the course on a team that has been strung this spring
Elimination of the team will make Tulane the nation's only university with a football squad and no basketball team this fall.
"I am saddened and disappointed by the events that have taken place and the necessity of taking this action," Tulane president Eamon Kelly said yesterday.
All 21 administrators voted to abolish the basketball program, but Board Chairman Boatner Reilly II refused to do so. The group will be reinstated some day at the school.
"This university plays by the rules." Reilly said. "We are going to set an example that we are going to play by the rules at Tulane University."
The administrators also voted to form a blue-bribon panel to study all aspects of Tulane athletics, including the recruiting, academic training and counseling of athletes. The panel also will discuss whether Tulane should drop its participation in NCAA Division I sports and adopt a less intensive athletic program.
Student Government president Ed Heferman, who presented a resolution opposing the abolition of basketball to board the board, said that an informal student protest against the decision.
"IT'S A SAD day for Tulane basketball, but it's not a sad day for Tulane University. It is a happy city itself is going to go on. I'll go on to my English class tomorrow morning at 10."
Kelly hopes to help team out of slump
Compiled from Kamson staff and United Press International reports.
Maureen Kelly hopes not giving up will help her and the rest of the women's golf team break out of their slump.
By TONY COX
Sports Writer
Kelly, a junior, is co-captain of the team along with Junior Brenda Sanders.
Head coach Kent Weisher chose Kelly and Sanders to be captains because they are more experienced than the rest of the players. Kelly said.
"There's no star on our team," she said. "Kent expects us to share the things we have learned in the past with the younger players who've gone through the process for three years."
Kelly said she enjoyed her leadership role not only on the course, but also helping the younger players adjust to the University.
"WE KIND OF help bridge the gap between the younger players and Kent," she said. "They don't know what to expect when they get older, or tell them what Kent expects from them."
The team has struggled through the first part of the spring season. KU placed last in a 14-temple field at the team's first tournament, the South Carolina Invitational, March 29-31.
Kelly, after averaging 82.3 strokes per
minute, hit the South Carolina rounds of 86, 90
and 84 at the South Carolina
"I THINK OUR first big problem came with South Carolina," Kelly said. "It was our first tournament of the year. We had great weather, but being our first competition and playing against those players that you read in Golf Digest, we were kind of intimidated."
"That carried over into the rest of the tournaments and we've been questioning our ability. Kent has been great in saying, 'we did terrible, but what did we learn?' You cann't learn something from everything you do, nor can you not do it. Kent is really on or on philosophy."
Weiser said Kelly's play and leadership could help the team to play up to its potential for the first time this spring when the team played against the Baylor women, on beginnings Monday in Manhattan.
"I don't think I need to ask a whole lot more of her right now," he said. "She has done everything expected of her. The idea of having captains is communicating to the young players and setting an example to the young players. Maureen has certainly done that."
In the fall season, her highest finish was fifth at the Susie Maxwell Invitational in Norman, Okla. That tournament featured the strongest field KU faced in the fall. Weiser
AT THE BIG Red Invitational in Norman,
April 8,9. she led the team with a three-round total of 246, including a 77 on the second round as the Jayhawks finished sixth in a seven-team field.
Kelly hopes persistence will help the team start winning.
“It’s really hard to come back from a start like that,” she said. “We can only improve. We’ve played so poorly that there’s nowhere to go but up.
Kelly is optimistic the team's season will turn around.
just have to smile and try to get it in the hole
sometimes it goes down and sometimes it does
grow up.
"You can't hang your head because when you play bad, you have to come back. If you play well, you can stay."
"You've got to let the good things happen," she said. "Life is great, you can't get to out and do your best. You don't always win, but you have to give it your best."
'IT'S EASY FOR PEOPLE to look at that optimism and say, 'what an idiot. She ought to be embarrassed and mad,' but that's not the way to do it.'
Mahaffy out of KU lineup after wreck
By MIKE BRENNAN
Sports Writer
Head tennis coach Scott Perelman was looking forward to having two healthy teams for this weekend's tournaments against Iowa State and Nebraska. But that all changed for the men's team Wednesday afternoon.
Tim Mahaffy. No. 4 singles player, separated his shoulder in a motorcycle accident at about 5:30 p.m. on Ermoy Road. He wounded himself and slid the hike down the street on its side.
A witness took Mahaffy to Watkins Hospital for treatment. Officials there notified Pereiman, who took Mahaffy to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
While at Lawrence Memorial, doctors tried five times to pop the shoulder back in place. None of the attempts were successful so they called it a "massacre" and the shoulder was put back into place.
THE INJURY LEFT the No. 4 singles position and one spot in the No. 3 doubles vacant for today's match against Iowa State in Ames. The women will start at 9 a.m and the men will start at 1 p.m. Tomorrow, the teams will play Nebraska in LineIn.
Perelman decided yesterday to put Mark Macy in the N 4 numbering position. Filling the list was easy, but time was expensive.
"Obviously I am disappointed," Perelman said. "But I have total confidence in the guys."
"McLaine has played No. 4 singles before
and is canable of playing Bieigh Eiighth
ennis."
Perelman added that Greg Brown has played off and on all season for the Jayhawks. McLine and Brown haven't together recently, leaving Perelman worried.
"I'll sit with them all weekend and work out some of the kinks," he said.
PERELMAN HOPES THAT they don't have many things to work out because KU needs to win as many matches as they can to keep pace with Oklahoma State.
The Cowboys played Oklahoma Wednesday and defeated the Sooners 9-0. That victory gave Oklahoma State 41 points out of 45 matches in 45 matches with one match to play.
Kansas has 29 points in four matches and will play its fifth and sixth matches this weekend and Perclman said it was important that Jayhawks to sweep the weekend matches.
"We cannot be concerned with them," plea-
ment, "think we've got to be con-
cerned with our plans."
Oklahoma State is also in the lead in the women's division with 42 points in five matches. Kansas has **point**s in four matches, but Oklahoma would keep the team in the conference race.
KU soccer club hosts Big 8 teams
By TONY COX
Sports Writer
The KU Soccer Club will need teamwork when the team competes in the 10th annual Big Eight Soccer Tournament Saturday at 23rd and Iowa streets and Sunday at Memorial Stadium, Club Manager Jim Neal said.
The Jayhawks are coming off a 3-1 victory over Nebraska on Saturday in Lincoln.
Neal, Wichita senior, scored the team's first goal in the victory over Nebraska. KU also got goals from Scott Thompson and Tony Vincent on two penalty kicks.
The Nebraska game was a good indication that the tittle will be playing well in the Big Eight Tournament.
"I think in general the key for us will be playing as a team and getting everyone together."
skills as individuals aren't as good as some of the other teams, so it's really important for them to be good.
KU will have an advantage in being the home team. Neal said
TEAMS THAT HAVE to travel to the tournament will be able to bring only their most dedicated players because of expenses and time away from school and work. Most visiting teams bring about 14 players who are filling a full squad of 18 KU will have. Neal said.
It will be particularly advantageous in this tournament because it is a round robin tournament, meaning each team will play at least four games, Neal said. Injuries and fatigue could cause problems for a team without a lot of substitutes.
Soccer is played with 11 men on the field so most of the teams will be left with only three players.
"1 THINK WE'RE going to be in the
Colorado and Iowa State are also traditionally strong teams in the tournament. Neal Seah
finals," he said. "Missouri is always really strong because of all the people that come out."
The games will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday. The eight teams are split into two divisions. Each team will play the other three teams in its division to establish division rankings.
Sunday, the top team from Division I will play the No. 2 team from Division II at 8 a.m. The No. 2 team from Division I will play the top team from Division II at 9:45 a.m. Winners from those games will play for the championship at 3 p.m.
The fifth place game will be played at 11:30 a.m. The third place game is at 1:15 p.m.
DIVISION I WILL consist of KU, Iowa State, Colorado and Oklahoma State. Division II will consist of Missouri, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Nebraska.
John Lollar, Adams State, hurls the javelin 49.23 meters, good for second place in the javelin competition.
Screaming "It's my best time ever!," Martha Caflisch of Colorado State reacts to her time of 2:34.9 in the 800 meter run of the women's heptathlon yesterday at the Kansas Relays.
Tyma finishes second in Relays heptathlon
By DAVE O'BRIEN
If Jaci Tyma's second-place finished yesterday in the Kansas Relays heptathlon surprised anyone, it wasn't assistant coach Cliff Rovello.
Sports Writer
"I'm not surprised at all," said Rovello, who coaches KU's heptathletes and jumpers. "Jaci's a great athlete. She'd only competed
KANSAS RELAYS
in one beathapth before, so that's probably why people might not know who she is."
"She was only about 10 points behind Rosie (Wadman) indoors in the pentathlon." Rovelo said of Tyma. "The two of them are going to be tough to beat now."
Kathy Romsa of Wyoming won the two-day event with 5,093 points. Tyma was second with 4,977, just ahead of teammate Rosie Kubiak with 4,958. KU's jule Hall was fourth with 4,929.
Tyma and Wadman, sophomores, each broke the school record in the heptathlon. Rovello said The forster was a graduate of Montmartre at the 1982 Relays, was computed on the old heptathlon
"I converted the old marks to the new tables." Rovelto said, "and both them beat it."
Rovetto said Hall's fourth-place finish was the highlight of the day
scoring tables. New tables were put into use this year by the National Collegiate Athletic
“Her best event is the half.” Rovelto said.
“If she would have PR'd in that, it would have been suer-human.”
Hall had personal records in the first six events of the seven-event competition. The 800-meter run, the metric equivalent of the half-mile run, was the final event.
Hall's 2:38 time, though not a personal best, was still good for fourth place in the
Tyma, who was in fourth place after the first day of the heptathlon Wednesday, picked up 780 points in the long jump with a score of 62.9, and his mark was the best in the day's first event.
Wadman scored 600 points in the javelin
Heer 133 foot throw was the second-best in the
invitational.
KU'S ANDREA SCWARTZ, a late entry in the heptathlon, finished seventh with 4,320 points. Patty Shadowens was 12th with 3,821
North Dakota State's Tom Leuzon won the decathlon with 7.088 points. John Schweker of Southeast Missouri State was second with 6.451, placed in Place of Northern Iowa was third with 6.454.