University Daily Kansan, April 10. 1986
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 Kangaroo 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.
"My reasons for resigning are personal." Carrier said. "I wish to keep them to myself and my family. I've had a wonderful 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 Kangaroo's 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 tomorrow for the blue-white intra-squad game to be held Friday night at Arrowhead Stadium.
"This is the culmination of our preparation for the intra-squad game," head coach Mike Gottfried said yesterday. Now Tommy Lignigs and Mike Dickens
will draft player jayne Jaggers, a normally coaches the KU rugby 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
Vulentez will work with him.
The golfers will walk in Sunflower Cable-
cation will tape the game and show it on
vision 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
record to 23-7.
KU's fielding percentage this season is .960. The team has committed less than two errors per game, but in the first game of the double-header yesterday, KU committed seven errors.
"I don't mind glove errors," head coach Bob Stancilf 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 errors."
Although Stanclift would rather see a glove error than a mental error, one glove error nearly cost KU the first game.
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 Jayhawk Field.
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.
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.
The entire team regrouped in the second game, playing error-free ball.
game. Her record is 14-5.
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 Williams and Wickham both reached base 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
an RB1 single by catcher Gayle Luedke gave KJ! its second run.
its second run.
The softball team plays seven-inning games and their innings are needed to break a tie, a runner is placed on second base at the start of each extra inning.
start of each extra innings. A passed ball by KU catcher Luedeke sem 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 inning.
KU second baseman Reenie Noble started
off the bottom of the eighth on second base She advanced to third on a bunt by right fielder Kelly Knott. Barton County pitcher Pam Johnson mishandled the bunt and Knott continued to second.
continued to seize
William wanted to score Noble, tying
the game. Knott moved to third on the play
and scored the winning run on a wild pitch by
Johnson.
KIM TIRDALE GU up two hits and no wins as she pitched KU to a 10-0 victory in
Bunge, hitting for trade in the muggy rapped two boots 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.
the second game. Tisdale's record now is 121.
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 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 PLEASED 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.
charge, the cork was
Judge Alvin Oser said he would sentence
the two July 9. Conspiracy carries a
maximum sentence of 2½ years in prison
and a $5,000 fine, the drug charge five
years and $5,000.
years and $3,000
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. John
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.
Monday
THE TWO ARE charged with sports
bribery and conspiracy on grounds they
manipulated the point spread in at least
two Metro Conference games in return for
$19,500.
Two of Rothenberg's fraternity brothers are also charged, along with two suspected New Orleans bookmakers.
New Orleans-based lawyers for Williams and Dominique yesterday told Tulane to turn over all the gamed game in which the players appear. Said he would rule on the request. Monday but ordered Tulane not to destroy anything that might serve as evidence.
anything else.
When news of the point-shaving allegations first broke in late March, Coach Ned Fowler said the game films revealed no evidence the players were missing shots deliberately.
WHOMS ALSO REPORTED TLE to 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 homer in the 10th inning to give the Mets a 6-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the season opener for both clubs.
Cardinals in the NBA, 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 acquired from Montreal in the off season, went 2-for-4 and twice was hit by pitches in his debut with the Mets.
A Shea Stadium crowd of 46,781, include Vice President George Bush and Ecuadorian President Leon Febres/Cordero, watched the Mets notch their 10th 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 reliever 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 NL games. Chicago edged Pittsburgh 2-1 and San Francisco nipped San Diego 4-3.
Sutcliffe, last year's NL Cy Young Award winner, won his 158 straight game over two years, breaking the Cubs' record set by Edd Reulbach, who won 14 straight in 1909. Smith relieved after Sutcliffe permitted a run in the eighth and retired the Pirates in the ninth for a save.
a save.
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 East champions. A selftown crowd of 34,551 braved 35-degree weather for the opener
combined on a six-hitter and Keith Moreland drew in two runs to lift the Cubs.
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At Chicago, Rick Sutcliffe and Lee Smith
AT SAN FRANCISCO, Chris Brown delivered a run-scoring single with one out in the ninth to lift the Giants.
Brown's hit made a winner of veteran Vida Blue for a 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 tied 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 Brendle before Brown came through with his game-winning hit to left.
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IN THE AMERICAN League, Tom Seaver proved too strong yesterday for the Milwaukee Brewers.
game-win and high games, Atlanta was at Philadelphia and Los Angeles at Houston.
awwers.
Seaver, 40, made a major league record 15th opening day start and allowed five hits in 63 innings while pitching the Chicago
White Sox to a 4-4 victory over the Brewers in the season opener for both teams.
"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.
"It doesn't matter if you do something outstanding and wind up losing the game. When you do something no other pitcher ever buss, it's terrife."
has, it's terrifying
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 the Reds' opening day pitcher in 1978 and 1979 and again in 1961.
Seaver returned to the Mets after the 1982 season and was their opening day pitcher again in 1983.
Bob James picked up the save, pitching the last 2 picks innings for the White Sox
Rookie Darryl Boston drove in one run and scored another for the White Sox
last 2^31/8^7 years the record-setting performance spawned 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
THE WHITE SOX jumped to a 2 lead in the first off loser Moose Haas. Run law was safe when second baseman Rumpert Gantner dropped his pop fly and, after Harold Baines walked, Law pop scored on Greg Walker's single
Richardson takes Arkansas spot
By United Press International
FAYETTRVILLE, Ark. - Nolan Richardson whose arrival at Tuva University made the Golden Hurricane a national move 90 miles east Tuesday to accept the head basketball coaching job at the University of Arkansas.
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 it year veteran Eddie Sutton. Sutton left the lockerbacks job to coach the University of Kentucky.
"Southwest Conference"
"The MORE AND more I thought about it, more I wanted to become a Razorback," hardson said. "It's a great challenge to At Tulsa University, the challenge was艰. The challenge here is to lead it all away to the top. At Tulsa, the challenge to build it first."
cottucky. The appointment made Richardson the red head coach in any men's sport in Southwest Conference.
BROYLES COMBED THE country for a week to find a replacement for Sutton, flying out of Fayetteville to meet some candidates who did not want to be seen on the Arkansas campus.
wrote that "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." Broyles said. "That was the test I used in making this decision, and I am convinced that Nolan Richardson is the man for the job."
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.
Despite rumors of offers that were rejected by other coaches, Broyles said Richardson was the only coach that was offered the job.
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.
Speculation had run rampant on who would get the job, with new names suggested and
Oakland A's pitcher arrested again
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 Henry Iba, also led him to stress defense. He said there would be differences from Sutton's style.
"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."
out of the running.
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 care in Fayetteville would be as good as in Tulsa.
Arkansas players said that, after a week of speculation, they were happy to have a head coach.
United Press International
ERKELEY, Calif. — The occasionally- hint baseball career of Oakland A's伯Mike Norris may have reached its ninning after the pitcher's second arrest driving under the influence in less than a
University of California-Berkley officials retired late Monday that Norris was booked a campus police early Sunday morning for being under the influence after his car was "rodden with its bright lights on.
dropped as various coaches took their names out of the running.
Authorities said Norris was stopped and a field sobriety test was given, which the pitcher failed. The righthander was released on bail and ordered to face arraignment 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 him on a high-speed chase down a highway south of Oakland. He was arrested and booked with possession of cocaine 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 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 deluge line to sign with a major college today, the first day high school and junior college players may sign national letters of intent.
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.
shooting guard at a golf course. The state's major colleges appear to be going out of state to find high school talent, although the state junior college players being recruited heavily not only by state schools but by major colleges across the country.
scoring and rebounding leader, Xavier McDaniel, standout guard Aubrey Sherrod and Karl Papke. Wichita State Coach Gene Smithson says he plans to offer five scholarships.
scholarships.
The Shockers, during the early signing period, signed 6-10 Ted Williams of Chester, Pa.
is expected.
During the November early signing
signing, Kansas State inked 6-foot guard
Rodney Hurd of Detroit, a shooting guard
who averaged 30 points a game.
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.
ships to offer to new players. 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 get it. Benny Green, a 6-foot 3 guard from Little Rock, Arkansas, considered to be one of the top players in Arkansas, also is expected to sign with the Wildcats.
Wichita State, which this season made its first trip to the NCAA tournament in four years, must replace the nation's
Chester, Pa
HOWEVER, SMITHSON SAYS this might be the finest recruiting year ever. he is expected today to sign 6-7 tool-7 guard Stacey Grayer of Macon, Ga., and 6-4 point guard Lew Hill of San Jacinto, Texas, Junior College.
Johnn' Cowen
Dunia also may land Dwight and
Dwyryne Pawlty, 6-5 twins out of Flora
High School in Columbia, S.C., McDaniel's
high school.
school. Kramers is expected to land 6-7 forward J.J. Johnson of Omaha, Neb., and the other scholarship has been offered to 6-2 point guard Kirk Lee of Baltimore, Md.
poin't guard Kansas high school players, Among Kansas high school players, Kansas City Wyandotte's William Davis and Leavenworth's Mike Collins appear to be two players with good chances for a major college scholarships
Davis has been sought by Central Missouri State, while Collsons has visited San Diego State and may visit Penn State.
San Diego State Another player, Danny Kingcannon of Topeka Highland Park, has received some interest from Kansas State
rest from Kansas. But the junior college scene appears to be where most of the recruiting action is in Kansas.
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.