University Daily Kansan, April 10, 1985
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SPORTS
EWS BRIEFFS
MKC 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 Kangarooos posted a 27-9 record last season and finished second in the NAIA in defense with an average yield of 51.5 points per game.
"I my reasons for resigning are personal," Carrier said. "I wish to keep them myself, and my family. I've had a wonderful two years and I leave UMKC with the regards. I'm confident that I leave the program in good shape for future success."
Spring football ends Friday
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.
The Kansas football team went through a controlled scrimmage yesterday in its last regular practice of the spring. The Jayhawks will prepare today and toorment for the blue-white intra-squad game on the Friday night at Arrowhead Stadium.
Liggins, 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.
"This is the culmination of our preparation for the intra-squade game," head coach Mike Goffried said yesterday. "New Tommy Lignigs and Mike Dickens."
Gottfried will watch from the press box. Assistant coaches Vince Hoch and Bob Valleeson will work with the television crew taping the game. Sunflower Cablevision will tape the game and show it on Channel 6 Saturday and Sunday evenings.
Compiled from Kansas 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 .960. The team has committed less than two errors per game, in the first game of the season yesterday, KU committed seven errors.
"I don't mind glove errors" head coach B Stancliff said, "because some balls take bad hops and are not at all routine. But I do get down on the girls if they make mental
A Barton County base runner leads off third base, while KU ted pick-off. Downs was playing third in the first game of a third baseman Kelly Downs waits for the throw for an attempt. double header yesterday at Jayawhaw Field.
Although Stanclift would rather see a glove error than a mental error, one glove error nearly cost KU the first game.
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WITH THE SCORE tled 2-1 in the top of the eighth ingim, KU shortstop Cherie Wickham mishandled a ground ball, giving Barton County a 3-2 lead.
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 now 11-6.
"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," Stanclift said.
Barton County scored two runs in the top of the seventh innning. Kansas tied the score 2-2 in the bottom of the seventh. Left fielder Jill Stiles and Wickham both reached on errors.
FIRST BASEMAN LAURA Cramer beat out a bunt to load the bases. Bunge's sacrifice fly to deep center field scored Williams and
The entire team regrouped in the second game, playing error- free ball.
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 Lueke 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. Barton County pitcher Mitchell lumped the bunt 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
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 RBs. Bunge is leading the team with a 397 batting average. Cramer went two-for-three and drove in two runs.
KIM TISDALE GAVE up two hits and no walks as she pitched KU to a 10-4 victory in
Barton County's record drops to 9-11 with the losses. KU now is 23-7 overall and 3-1 in the Big Eight. The team will travel to Wichita today to face Wichita State.
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 PLEADED GUILTY to one count of conspiracy and ROTHBERG to two counts. Rothberg also pleaded guilty to 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 and a $1,000 fine, the drug charge five
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.
Attorney Russell Schonkeas of New Orleans had said earlier he would ask that Thompson be allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge if he cooperated with prosecutors. Thompson testified to the
grand jury last Thursday just before indictments were returned.
Lawyers for the others players — John "Hot Rod" Williams and David Dominique
— 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 19.500 Conference games in return for $19,500.
Two of Rothenberg's fraternity brothers are also charged, along with two suspected New Orleans bookmakers.
When news of the point-shaving allegations first broke in late March, Coach Ned Fowler said the game films revealed no evidence that players were missing shots deliberately.
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.
WILLIAMS 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
Carter, who earlier had committed a rare pass ball to help the Cardinals score a run, connected off Neil Allen and made a winner of Tom Gorman. Carter an All-Star acquired from Montreal in the off season, which was hit by pinches in his debut with the Mets.
Gary Carter made his debut in a New York uniform a memorable one yesterday by belting a one-out horner in the 10th inning to take the lead. In the final Cardinals in the season opener for both clubs.
A Shea Stadium crowd of 46,781, including Vice President George Bush and Ecuadorian President Leon Febres/Cordero, watched a group of 10 opening day victory in their last 11 tries.
George roster also homered for the Mets and Keith Hernandez had three hits and knocked in two runs. Tom Herr had three hits for the Cardinals.
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.
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 reliever Doug Sisk
IN OTHER NL 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.
Moreland had an RBI single in the first and belted a solo homer off starter Rick Rhoden to lead off the fourth for the defending NL, but the Giants beat the Mets 31-24. Mr. Braves 45 degree weather for the opener.
Sutcliffe, last year's NL Cy Young award, won his 15th straight game over two years, breaking the Cubs' set by Ed Reubach, who won 14 straight in 1990. Smith relieved after Sutcliffe permitted a run in the fifth and retired the Pirates in the ninth for a $89K
At Chicago, Rick Sutcliffe and Lee Smith
AT SAN FRANCISCO. Chris Brown
delights in single song with one out
in the lift to hit the *Sugar Bowl*.
Jeff Leonard led off the Giants' ninth with a single off loser relieving Luis DeLeon and moved to second on a sacrifice by Bob Brentley through with his game-winnning hit to left.
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 squeak a San Diego uprising after the Padres had tied it 3-3.
IN THE AMERICAN League, Tom Seaver proved too strong yesterday for the Milwaukee Brewers.
In night games, Atlanta was at Philadelphia and Los Angeles at Houston.
Seaver, 40, made a major league record 15th opening day start and allowed only five hits in 63 innings while pitching the Chicago
White Sox to a 4-2 victory over the Brewers in the season opener for both teams.
The victory was the 289th for Seaver and raised his opening day record to 7-1.
"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.
"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 Cincinnati Reds on June 15, 1977, and was then traded to a pitcher in 1978 and 1979 and again in 1981.
Seaver returned to the Mets after the 1982 season and was their opening day pitcher
Bob James picked up the save, pitching the last 28 innings for the White Sox
Rookie Darryl Bystone 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 53,027.
The Brewers committed five errors and three of the White Sox's runs were unearned
Richardson takes Arkansas spot
three in the line.
THE WHITE SOX jumped to a 2-1 lead in the first off loser Moose Haas. Rudy Law was safe when second baseman Jim Gantner dropped his pop fly and, after Harold Baines walked, law scored on Greg Walker's single
By United Press International
--dropped as various coaches took their names out of the running.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Nolan Richardson, 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 Broyles, following a week long search to replace 16-year veteran Edith Sutton Sutton left the backpacks job to coach the University of Arkansas.
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 is to build it first."
The appointment made Richardson the
must black head coach in any men's sport in
the country.
Broyles said Richardson, like Sutton and Razorback football coach Ken Hattfield, 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 said he had not recruited the junior colleges for the last two years and probably would not at Arkansas.
"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 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, Bryelles said Richardson had been a part of the lineup.
BROYLES COMBED THE country for a week to find a replacement for Sutton,飞出 of Payetteville to meet some candidates who don't want to be seen on the Arkansas campus.
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 he had been assured that the medical care of Fayetteville would be as good as in Tulsa.
SUTTON'S TEAMS WERE known for tough defense and an often deliberate offense. Richardson said his background, including playing in college under Don Haskins, a pupil of him, also led him to believe he said there would be differences from Sutton's style.
Speculation had run rampant on who would get the job, with new names suggested and
"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 defensively minded because we try to score points. We might be a little bit different in the style and philosophy on the offensive end."
Oakland A's pitcher arrested again
BERKELEY, Calif. — The occasionally-billiant baseball career of Oakland A's pitcher Mike Norris may have reached its final inning after the pitcher's second arrest for driving under the influence in less than a smooth
Arkansas players said that, after a week of speculation, they were happy to have a head coach.
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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.
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.
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 highway south of Oakland. He was arrested for assault and charged with several misdemeanors.
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 marijuana. 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 rebuilding, but hasn't said where he plans to get. Benny Henson, a former little rock, Arkansas, considered to be one of the top players in Arkansas, also is expected to sign with the Wildcats.
scoring and rebounding leader. Xavier McDaniel, standout guard Aubrey Sherrod and Karl Papke Wichita State Coach Gene Shippey he plans to offer five scholarships.
The Shockers, during the early signing period, signed 6-10 Ted Williams of Chester, Pa.
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, 6-5 twins out of Flora High School in Columbia, S.C., McDaniel's high school.
Nassau 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 Wandylotte's William Davis and Leavenworth's Mike Collins appear to have the best chances for a major college scholarships.
Davis has been sought by Central Missouri State, while Collins has visited Mississippi.
Another player, Danny Kingcannon of Toppea Highland, has received some
But the junior college scene appears to be where most of the recruiting action is in.
THERE MAY BE more talent than ever before coming out of Kansas junior colleges this year, with as many as 25 players expected to go on to the major college wars.