University Daily Kansan, April 10, 1985
SPORTS
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NEWS BRIEFS
UMKC basketball coach quits
KANSAS CITY, Mo — Bruce Carrier
resigned yesterday as the head basketball
coach of the University of Missouri-
kansas City.
Carrier, 36, quit as coach after posting an overall 50-22 record in his two-year stint at the NAIA District 16 school. His team recorded a 27-9 record last season and finished second in the NAIA in defense with an average yield of 51.5 points per game.
"My reasons for resigning are personal." Carrier said. "I wish to keep them myself, and my family. I’ve had a two years and I leave UMKC with high regards. I’m confident that I leave the program in good shape for future success."
Spring football ends Friday
The Kansas football team went through a controlled scrimmage yesterday in its last regular practice of the spring. The Jayhawks will prepare today and tomorrow for the blue-white intra-squad game on Friday night at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Kangaroos were 10-16 the season prior to Carrier's arrival and he promptly turned the program around in his first season, posting a 23-13 record.
"Now Tommy Liggins and Mike Dickens will draft players for Friday night."
"This is the culmination of our preparation for the intra-squad game," head coach Mike Gottfried said yesterday. "New Tommy Liggins and Dickens
Laggins, who normally coaches the KU running backs, will be in charge of the blue team. Dickens, who is the receivers coach, will head the white team.
Gottfried will watch from the press box.
Assistant coaches Vince Hoch and Bob Valentez will work with the television crew taping the game. Sunflower Cablevision will tape the game and show it on Channel 6 Saturday and Sunday evening.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
'Hawks 23-7 after 2 wins over Barton
By SUE KONNIK
The women's softball team defeated Barton County Community College 4-2 and 10-0 yesterday at Jayhawk Field, raising its record to 23-7.
Sports Writer
KU's fielding percentage this season is .90. The team has committed less than two errors per game, but in the first game of the doubleheader yesterday, KU committed
A Barton County base runner leads off third base, while KU ted pick-off. Downs was playing third in the 31st game of a third baseman Kelly Downs waits for the throw for an attemp- double header yesterday at Jayhawk Field.
"I don't mind glove errors." head coach Bosta Stancliff said, "because some balls take bad hops and are not at all routine. But I do handle on the girls if they make mental errors."
Although Stanclift would rather see a glove error than a mental error, one glove error nearly cost KU the first game.
WITH THE SCORE tied 2-1 in the top of the eighth imminent, KU shortstop Cherie Wickham mishandled a ground ball, giving Barton County a 3-2 lead.
"Cherie has been making a few more errors lately, but I worked with her between games and she did a lot better job in the second game." Stancift said.
The entire team regrouped in the second game, playing error: free ball
Tracy Bunge picked up her 11th victory of the season, allowing two hits while walking one and striking out nine batters in the first game. Her record is one 11.6
Barton County scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning. Kansas tied the score 2-2 in the bottom of the seventh. Left fielder Jill Bormis and Wickham both reached base on errors
FIRST BASEMAN LAURA Cramer beat out a bunt to lead the bases. Burge's sacrifice fly to deep center field scored Williams and
an RBI single by catcher Gayle Luedke gave KU its second run.
The softball team plays seven-inning games. If extra innings are needed to break a tie, a runner is placed on second base at the start of each extra inning.
A passed ball by KU catcher Luedke sent Barton County's runner to third, and she scored on Wickham's error to put Barton County on top 3-2 in the top of the eighth
off the bottom of the eighth on second base. She advanced to third on a bunt by right fielder Kelly Knott. Barny County pitcher Tommy DeGraw bounced the dunt and Knott continued to second.
Williams singled to score Noble, tying the game 3-3. Knott moved to third on the play and scored the winning run on a wild pitch by Johnson.
KU second baseman Reenie Noble started
KIM TISDALE GAVE up two hits and no
kims as she pitched KU to a 10-4 victory in
the second game. Tisdale's record now is 192.
Barton County's record drops to 9-11 with the losses. KU now is 23-7 overall and 3-1 in Big Eight. The team will travel to Wichita today to face Wichita State.
Bunge, hitting for Tisdale in the lineup, rapped two doubles and a single in three trips to the plate to lead KU. She had four RBIs. Bunge is leading the team with a .397 batting average. Cramer went two-for-three and drove in two runs.
Two plead guilty early in Tulane scandal case
By United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Senior guard Bobby Thompson and another Tulane University student implicated in the basketball point-shaving scandal entered surprise guilty pleas yesterday, court officials said. "They weren't even on the docket," a court clerk said. "They apparently wanted to plead guilty and get it over with as fast as possible."
Thompson and David Rothenberg of Wilton, Conn., both had been charged with conspiracy to commit sports bribery – the mildest of the indictments returned by a grand jury against eight people last week. THOMPSON PLEADED GUILTY to one count of conspiracy and Rothenberg to two counts. Rothenberg also pleaded guilty to one count of cocaine possession, a new charge, the clerk said.
Judge Alvin Oser said he would sentence the two July 9. Conspiracy carries a maximum sentence of 2½ years in prison for failing to drug charge five years and $5,000.
Attorney Russell Schonekas of New Orleans had said earlier he would ask that Thompson be allowed to plead guilty to a charge of misconduct as prosecutors. Thompson testified to the
grand jury last Thursday just before indictments were returned.
Lawyers for the others players  John "Hat红" Williams and David Dominione
Hot rod Williams and David Dolphinne — have said their clients would plead not guilty at the arraignment scheduled Monday.
THE TWO ARE charged with sports bribery and conspiracy on grounds they manipulated the point spread in at least 15 Conference games in return for $19,500.
Two of Rothenberg's fraternity brothers
were involved in both two suspected
New Orleans barkers.
Lawyers for Williams and Dominique yesterday asked Tulane to turn over all the game film in which the players appear. Oser said he would rule on the request Monday but ordered Tulane not to destroy anything that might serve as evidence.
When news of the point-shaving allegations first broke in late March, Coach Ned Fowler said the game films revealed no truth about players were missing shots deliberately.
WILLAMS ALSO REPORTEDLY told prosecutors he was paid $10,000 in a shoebox when he signed to play for Tulane in 1981. That money allegedly came through an assistant coach before Fowler joined Tulane.
Mets win on 10th inning homer
By United Press International
Gary Carter made his debut in a New York uniform a memorable one yesterday by belting a one-out outher in the 10th inning to give the Mets a 6-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the season opener for both clubs.
Carter, who earlier had committed a rare passed ball to help the Cardinals score a run, connected off Neil Allen and made a winner of Tom Gorman. Carter an All-Star player who was in the offseason for 2-for-4 and twice was hit by pitches in his bid with the Mets.
A Shea Stadium crowd of 46,781, including Vice President George Bush and Ecuadorian President Leon Feebles/Cordero, watched the game with opening day victory in their last 11 tries.
JACK CLARK, AN off-season acquisition of the Cardinals, homered and also drove in the tying run in the ninth when he drew a bases-loaded walk from Deliver Doug Sisk.
Dwight Gooden, the National League Rookie of the Year last season, started for the Mets and went six innings, allowing six hits, three runs and striking out six.
George Foster also homered for the Mets and Keith Hernandez had three hits and knocked in two runs. Tom Herr had three hits for the Cardinals.
IN OTHER NI. games, Chicago edged Pittsburgh 2-1 and San Francisco nipped San Diego 4-3.
combined on a six-hitter and Keith Moreland drove in two runs to lift the Cubs.
Sutcliffe, last year's NL Cy Young Award winner, won his 15th straight game over two years, breaking the Cubs' record set by Ed Reubach, who won 14 straight in 1999. Smith relieved after Sutcliffe permitted a run in the outfield and retired the Pirates in the ninth for a save.
Moreland had an RBI single in the first and belted a solo honer off starter Rick Rhodes to lead off the fourth for the defending NL, but he was out of bounds. Braves 34-weather for the opener.
AT SAN FRANCISCO, Chris Brown
attends the game with one out in
the ninth to hit the Giants.
At Chicago, Rick Sutcliffe and Lee Smith
Brown's hit made a winner of veteran Vida Blue for the first time since 1982. Blue, out of baseball for over a year after a drug conviction, entered in the top of the ninth to squech a San Diego uprising after the Padres had tipped it 3-3.
Jeff Leonard led off the Giants' ninth with a single off losing reliever Luis DeLeon and moved to second on a sacrifice by Bob Brendy through with his game-winning hit to left.
In night games, Atlanta was at Philadelphia and Los Angeles at Houston.
IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE, Tom Seaver proved too strong yesterday for the Milwaukee.
Seaver, 40, made a major league record 12th opening day start and allowed only five hits.
"Sure it's nice." Seaver said about breaking Walter Johnson's record for most opening day starts, "but now that we've won, it's much more significant.
The victory was the 289th for Seaver and raised his opening day record to 7-1.
White Sox to a 4-2 victory over the Brewers in the season opener for both teams.
"It doesn't matter if you do something outstanding and wind up losing the game. When you do something no other pitcher ever has, it's terrific."
SEAVER STARTED HIS first opening day game with the New York Mets in 1968 and started every opening day for them through the 1977 season. He was traded to the Chicago White Sox on June 15, 1977, and was the Reds' opening day game in 1978 and 1979 and again in 1961.
Seaver returned to the Mets after the 1982 season and was their open day pitcher
Bob James picked up the save, pitching the last 21; innings for the White Sox.
Rookie Darryl Boston drove in one run and scored another for the White Sox.
Seaver's record-setting performance spoiled the return of George Bamberger as the Brewer manager before an opening day crowd of 33,027.
The Brewers committed five errors and three of the White Sox's runs were unearned.
Richardson takes Arkansas spot
--dropped as various coaches took their names out of the running.
THE WHITE SOX jumped to a 2-1 lead in the first off loser Moser Haas. Rudy Law was safe when second baseman Jim Ganttner pitched for him, but third baseman Todd walked. Law scored on Greg Walker's single
By United Press International
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Nolan Rich arison, whose arrival at Tulsa University made the Golden Hurricane a national power, moved 90 miles east Tuesday to accept the head basketball coaching job at the University of Arkansas.
The selection of Richardson was announced at a news conference in Fayetteville by Arkansas athletic director Frank Royle, following a week long search to replace Eric Eadie Sutton Sutton left the Rorobacks job to coach the University of Kentucky.
THE MORE AND more I thought about it, the more I wanted to become a Razorback." Richardson said. "It's a great challenge to me At Tulsa University, the challenge was different. The challenge here is to lead it all the way to the top At Tulsa, the challenge was to build it first."
The appointment made Richardson the first black head coach in any men's sport in the Southwest Conference.
BROYLES COMBED THE country for a week to find a replacement for Sutton, flying out of Fayetteville to meet some candidates and not want to be seen on the Arkansas camp.
Broyles said Richardson, like Sutton and Razorback football coach Ken Hatfield, received a five-year contract that will be extended at the end of each season.
Richardson used junior college players to build the Tulsa program, but he had not recruited the junior colleges for the last two years and probably would not at Arkansas.
Speculation had run rampant on who would get the job, with new names suggested and
"The search was not just for someone who would maintain the excellent program that Coach Sutton built here, but someone that would have the potential of raising it to even greater heights." Bryles said. "That was the test I used in making this decision, and I am convinced that Nolan Richardson is the man for the job."
Despite rumors of offers that were rejected by other coaches, Broyles said Richardson was not a candidate.
SUTTON'S TEAMS WERE known for tough defense and an often deliberate offense. Richardson said his background, including playing in college under Don Maskin, had also led him to stalk defense. He said there would be differences from Sutton's style.
Richardson said a factor in his decision was the medical facilities in Fayetteville. Richardson's 13-year-old daughter, Yvonne, is receiving chemotherapy for leukemia. He said he had been assured that the medical facility in Fayetteville would be as good as in Tulsa.
Oakland A's pitcher arrested again
"I'm also an up-tempo type basketball coach." Richardson said. "I like fast breaks. I like presses. I like changing up the defense, which does not mean that I'm not defensive well or well." He points out that we might be a little bit different in the style and philosophy on the offensive end."
Arkansas players said that, after a week of speculation, they were happy to have a head
H United Press International
BERKELEY, Calif. — The occasionally-brilliant baseball career of Oakland A's pitcher Mike Norris may have reached its final mating after the pitcher's second arrest for driving under the influence in less than a month.
University of California-Berkley officials reported late Monday that Norris was booked by campus police early Sunday morning for driving under the influence after his car was spotted weaving with its bright lights on.
NORRIS' ARREST WAS his second in nearly a month. On Feb. 13, the pitcher was stopped by San Leandro, Calif., police after leading them on a high-speed chase down a car with a stolen car and arrested and booked with possession of cocaine and charged with several misdemeaners.
Authorities said Norris was stopped and a field sobriety test was given, which the pitcher failed. The righthander was released and ordered to face arrest on April 26.
Three days after the arrest, Norris entered a San Diego rehabilitation clinic and was
able to later join the A's in spring training, where he showed some encouraging signs that he had recovered from shoulder surgery that sidelined him for the 1984 season. The San Leandro authorities have yet to take action on the charges.
Last May, Norris was arrested by Oakland, Calif., authorities after a raid of a hotel room that he was sharing with a woman friend turned up a quantity of cocaine and manjiana. However, those charges were dropped after the authorities could not prove that Norris was in the room while the drugs were there.
High school, juco players commit to schools today
By United Press International
Only one Kansas high school player, Ty Walker of tiny Ingalls, is assured of a dotted line to sign with a major college today, the first day high school and junior college players may sign national letters of intent.
Although Walker has not confirmed his choice, he is expected to sign with Kansas State on the national signing date. Walker averaged 24.6 points, 12 rebounds and five assists a game and is projected as a shooting guard at Kansas State.
The state's major colleges appear to be going out of state to find high school talent, although many state junior college players are being recruited heavily not only by state schools but by major colleges across the country.
KANSAS STATE and WICHITA State are the two Kansas schools needing the most help, while Kansas has only two scholarships to offer to new players.
Wichita State, which this season made its first trip to the NCAA tournament in four years, must replace the nation's
During the November early signing period, Kansas State inked 6-foot guard Rodney Hurd of Detroit, a shooting guard who averaged 30 points a game.
Kansas State coach Jack Hartman, whose team went 14-13 while Hartman was recovering from heart bypass surgery, has said that his team needs help in rebounding, but hasn't said where he plans to play. From Little Rock, Arkansas, considered to be one of the top players in Arkansas, also is expected to sign with the Wildcats.
The Shockers, during the early signing period, signed 6-10 Ted Williams of the Red Sox.
scoring and rebounding leader, Xavier McDaniel, standout guard Aubrey Sherrod and Karl Papke Wichita State Coach Gene Sproat says he plans to offer five scholarship.
HOWEVER, SMITHSON SAYS this might be his finest recruiting year ever. He is expected today to sign 6-foot-7 guard Steve Grayer of Macon, Ga., and 6-4 point guard Lew Hill of San Jacinto, Texas, Junior College.
Smithson also may land Dwight and Dwayne Praylow, 6-2 twins out of Flora High School in Columbia, S.C., McDaniel's high school
Kansas is expected to land 6-7 forward Jerry Johnson of Omaha, Neb. and the other scholarship has been offered to 6-2 point guard Kirk Lee of Baltimore, Md.
Among Kansas high school players, Kansas City Wyandotte will Harvard and Leavenson's Mike Colmil appear to be the best candidates for chances for a major college scholarships
Davis has been sought by Central Missouri State, while Collins has visited Iowa.
San Diego State and Navy.
Another player, Danny Kingcannon of
Toppea Highland Park, has received some
recompense from Kansas State.
But the junior college scene appears to be where most of the recruiting action is in.
THEMAYBE MOREtalent than ever before coming out of Kansas junior colleges this year, with as many as 24 students selected to go on to the major college wars.