University Daily Kansan, April 5. 1985
SPORTS
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NEWS BRIEFS
Baseball team travels to MU
The Kansas baseball team will face the Missouri Tigers tonight in the first of four games in Columbia.
KU is 1-1 in Big Eight play and has a 11-11-1 overall record. The Tigers, 24-8,
have been ranked in the top 20 most of the
season, but dropped out last week after a
trip to the west coast. Tonight's game will be
Missouri's conference opener.
KU pitcher Charlie Buzard, 3-2, is expected to start tonight's game, which will be a nine-inning contest. In tomorrow's double-header, Jon Steiner, 2-2, is expected to start the first game and Henry, 1-1, should start the second game.
Head coach Marty Pattin said that he was confident about his team's chances.
The series will conclude with a nine-inning game on Sunday and John Heeney, who is playing second.
"We have to go out and be aggressive and play good baseball," Pattin said. "They score a lot of runs and good pitching would stop that. I be happy with a split."
Wilson goes 5-5 in K.C. loss
Missouri and Kansas have played 225 times, making it the oldest series in the conference. The Tigers hold a commanding 136-89 edge.
FORT MYERS. Fla. — Rick Dempsey, Floyd Rayford and Wayne Gross slugged solo homers yesterday to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 7-5 exhibition victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Willie Wilson went 5-5 for the Royals,
scored twice and drove in a run.
The Royals traded Brewer, who was hitting .370 this spring, to the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named later or cash considerations.
General Manager John Schuerohl announced that pitcher Dennis Leonard, who missed the entire 1984 season after a back sprain, was on vacation on the 60-day emergency dislisted list.
The Royals also sent four players to their minor league camp: infielder Jim Scratton, first baseman Pat Putnam, catcher Dave Leeper, and catcher Tom Niemann.
After yesterday's game the Royals sent right-handed pitchers Mark Haismann and Renie Martin to their AAA farm club.
Holmes savs he'll fight again
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Undefeated heavyweight champion Larry Holmes says a contract for a Michael Spinks fight was signed today, the Las Vegas Sun reported.
Holmes, who announced his retirement before his March 15 title bout with David Bey, told the newspaper Wednesday that he is working out the final details for another fight with promoter Butch Lewis and Ridges Production of Palm Beach, Fla.
Holmes, 35, the International Boxing Federation champion, said the bout with Spinks, the undisputed light heavyweight title-holder, probably would be held in late May or early June at a sight to be determined.
Reagan meets Villanova team
Holmes, with a record of 47.0 with 34 knockouts, said he would like the fight to be held in Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan paid tribute yesterday to Villanova University, "Cinderella" winners of the NCAA basketball tournament, and seemed chagrined to hear himself described as a Bova fan by coach Rollie Massimino.
In a Rose Garden ceremony honoring the collegiate champions, the president protested after Massimino said, "Even if you want to be like to make you an honorary Wildcat."
When he returned to the microphone, Reagan — who earlier this year posed on the cover of Sports Illustrated with Georgetown coach John Thompson and star center Patrick Ewing — said, "I can't be a fan of anyone."
Villanova of Philadelphia defeated the No. 1 ranked Georgetown Hoyas of Washington 66-64 Monday night, thanks to record-breaking 78.6 percent shots.
"I was beginning to think it was 100 percent the way it looked on TV." Reagan said. "That's better shooting than I used to do in one of those western movies."
2 Reagan noted the presence of the NCAA tournament's most valuable player, Ed Pinckney, telling him, "I don't know what I should do." He insisted against (House Speaker) Tip O'Neill, but I understand exactly what it's like to be up against an awesome opponent. "
Oklahoma City leaving NCAA
ORLAKOMA CITY — Oklahoma City University officials said they would withdraw from the NCAA and Midwestern City Conference because of the financial problems of running a large athletic department.
OCU president Dr. Jerald Walker, at a news conference Wednesday, said the school will compete in the NAIA next year and will eliminate several sports programs. He said the move would save the school more than $1 million next year.
The NCAA requires schools to compete in six men's and six women's sports to quality for Division I status. Walker said the move would allow the Methodist-affiliated private school to drop volleyball, cross country, fencing and track.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Tulane president vows to cut basketball
By United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A grand jury returned a 29-count indictment against three basketball players, three students and two suspected bookmakers yesterday in a point-shaving scandal that drew a vow from the president to terminate Tulane basketball.
The indictments ended a day in which the school, widely known for its academic excellence, received one traumatic shock after another as the grand jury heard testimony into a scheme in which players allegedly received cash and drugs for fixing the point spread in three Metro Conference games.
Should the parties named be convicted and serve their maximum time, they would face
THE INDICTIM CHARGES that five Green Wave players received at least $36,500 for manipulating the point spread in the three games. Two of the players were granted immunity from prosecution for their testimony to the grand jury.
The indictment charges that the five players received $7,000 for shaving points in the Feb. 2 game against Southern Mississippi, which Tulane won 64-13, and $29,500 for point shaving in a 60-49 loss to Memphis State on Feb. 20.
The indictment states the players fixed Tulane's Feb. 16 loss to Virginia Tech, 66-65 in addition two games previously reported — Southern Mississippi and Memphis State.
A few hours before the indictments were announced, Tulane President Eamon Kelly said he would propose that men's basketball be abolished and that he expected the school's Board of Administrators would ratify the proposal.
KELLY SAID HE was taking the action because of the criminal charges and because of a school investigation that had concluded that he made to players by head coach Ned Fowler.
"The only way I know to demonstrate unambiguously this academic community's intolerance of the violations and actions we have uncovers is to discontinue the program in which they originated," Kelly said.
Kelly said he also had accepted the resignations of Fowler and two assistants after learning they paid cash to players in direct violation of NCAA rules. He said that Fowler was not connected with point shaving.
The indictments name John "Hot Rod" Williams, 23 and sophomore guard-forward William Ward.
bribery and three counts of conspiracy to commit sports bribery.
Sports bribery carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Conspiracy is $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ years and $5,000.
SENIOR GUARD BOBBY Thompson, who testified to the guard junior earlier in the day, was charged with two counts of conspiracy and assault against the guard in the point-shaving with the other players.
The most serious charges are against Gary Kranz, a junior business major from New Rochelle, N.Y. He faces a maximum prison sentence of 332½ years on nine counts of possession of cocaine, and the amount of possession of cocaine, 10 counts of sports bribery and three counts of conspiracy.
Two of Kranz's fraternity brothers were also charged. Mark Olensky of Fair Lawn, N.J., faces 10 counts of sports bribery and three counts of conspiracy. David Rotherberg of Wilton, Conn., was indicted on two counts of conspiracy.
Suspected bookmakers Roland Ruiz, 48, and Craig Bourgeois, 23, both of New Orleans, were each indicted on five counts of sports bribery and one count of conspiracy.
NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT Attorney Connick said he would arraign the eight as soon as possible. He also said the investigation would continue and may involve suspects in other states.
"we have reason to believe there are some
our people out there who deserve to be servi-
ted."
Williams received $8,550 for his part in manipulating the point spread in games against Southern Mississippi and Memphis who had been credited said in an article published yesterday.
Williams, an NBA prospect, also received $10,000 in a shoebox when he agreed to play for Tulane in 1981, according to The Times-Picayune States-Item.
This past season, Fowler gave him an envelope containing $100 every week, the
WILLIAMS ADMITTED TO the cash payments — which were unrelated to the point-shaving scheme — in a taped state of affairs priorities after his arrest, the newspaper said.
The school president said the Board of Administrators was to vote on doing away with a student-led board.
Fowler and assistants Mike Richardson and Max Pfeifer resigned just hours before they were called to testify to the grand jury under a grant of immunity. Although they not suspected in the point-shaving scam, they refused to answer some questions.
Charles Stearns, Topeka senior, practices on the Allen Field House courts. Stearns was working his ankle back into shape yesterday after an injury on the team's spring break trip to California. The tennis teams will play Oklahoma State today and Oklahoma tomorrow at the Allen Field House courts.
Golfers look to recover form at Oklahoma meet
By TONY COX
Sports Writer
The women's golf team will be back in more familiar territory when the Jayhawks compete in the Big Red Invitational in Norman. Okla. Monday and Tuesday
After playing in the South Carolina Invitational last week against teams Kansas hadn't faced in recent years, the Jayhawks hadn't. They face the host school, the University of Oklahoma.
"These are excellent teams around here, but we'll feel a little more comfortable," KU head coach Kent Keiser said yesterday. "I don't think we'll be in as awful as
"We're used to playing these teams. We'll feel more comfortable because we know the teams, we know the players and we know the coaches."
KU will be up against Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas State, Iowa State, Nebraska and North Texas State in the Big Red Invitational.
THE TOURNAMENT WILL be three
"She's been doing really well all spring," he said. "She was real close to making the trip to South Carolina. I'm looking forward to see her play. I think she'll do really well."
Helleberg is the only golfer competing in Alabama that didn't make the South Carolina team.
Competing for KU will be senior Jane Helleberg, junior Maureen Kelly, sophomore Marlile Scheid and freshmen Tina Gnewuch and Ann Braymen.
rounds played in two days. The teams will play 27 holes each day.
The Jayhawks will not be back in Lawrence until Tuesday night and will then leave for a tournament in Illinois on Thursday morning. Because any golfer who competes in both tournaments will be able to attend only one day of school next week, Weiser has adjusted the lineup for both tournaments.
The only golfers going to both tournaments are Gnewchuck and Helleberg. The rest of the team going to Illinois will be junior Toni Shockley and Nauce Pekar, Toni Shockley and Sandy Morris
Tennis teams to play big weekend matches
By MIKE BRENNAN
Head tennis coach Scot Perelman wanted to have ready by yesterday both his men's and women's ladders for this weekend's Big Ten tournament. After Perelman to take each day one at a time.
Sports Writer
Today, Kansas will face Oklahoma State, which finished first in the conference last year, and tomorrow will meet last season's second place finisher. Oklahoma. Both matches will be played at the Allen Field House courts.
The women start play at 9 a.m. both days, and the men will start after the women, at 10 a.m.
Charles Stearns, who suffered a severe ankle sprain during a tournament in California over spring break, has been hospitalized for two weeks. He was back to 100 percent. Mike Wolf, who has been suffering from a sore shoulder, said he was ready to play.
"HAYEN't PLAYED in a month." Wolf said yesterday. "At this point and time, you have to play hard. It doesn't matter who I play."
For the women, Cindy Bregin also has a shoulder injury and is not expected to play. Tracy Treps, who sat out Tuesday's match because of an illness, is expected to play.
"Health is not one of our strong points, but will be all right," Peremah said. "It just should be the priority."
Perealman is in his third season as the Jayhawk's coach and thinks this is the first time the men have a real chance to defeat both the Cowboys and the Sooners.
"YOU KNOW, THIS is the month you gear up for." Perelman said. "We are looking forward to the challenge, and it will be a challenge."
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State have dominated the conference for as long as Perelman can remember. Michael Center, the No. 2 singles player, who is from Manhattan, has followed Big Eight tennis for years and said the Cowboys and Sooners
have dominated the conference for almost 20 years.
"It will be the biggest weekend for Kansas tennis in recent history," he said. "Stears and I have been here a while. We would like to knock them off."
Stearns has played against both teams for three years. This is his last year at Kansas, which makes the matches more important, he said.
"THIS IS THE year for KU to beat Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. We've got a solid team and everybody is psyched," Stearns said.
Sophomore Mark McLaine may be more excited about the match than anyone else. McLaine played for Oklahoma for one year and had a shot in the game he will win his比赛 against the Sooners.
"I told coach that I might not win any match this year," he said, "but I'll win that one, guaranteed."
The men may be the favorite going into the matches, but the women could be considered
Laura Runnels said Oklahoma and Oklahoma State think they have the advantage to win.
"I play better against people that play better than I." Rumnels said.
KU DEFEATED THE Sooners and Cowboys in individual matches earlier this season, Perelman said. Those were not team matches, however, and Perelman said he thought team play was an entirely different story.
Tennis is a physical game, but Perelman thinks being mentally ready to play is more important. The women had their first mental test Tuesday when they defeated K-State 8-1.
"We have to go out and play well as a team," Perelman said. "I know we can battle and are capable of beating them at every position."
Pereman would not like to have to deal with any adverse conditions, but he knows he can.
"They know what's going on." Perelman said. "The key is to be able to stay calm and see the problem."
"We have to stare adversity right in the eve and deal with it."
Football team holding scrimmage in Topeka
By DAVE O'BRIEN
Sports Writer
The Kansas football team is scheduled to hold its second scrimmage tonight under the lights at Shawnee Heights High School in Topeka.
INJURIES CONTINUE TO be a problem with the Jayhawks. Wide receivers Richard Estell, Tom Quinn and Joey Heinsohn in Ohio State, are out with knee injury. Quick and Ray are scheduled to
Head coach Mike Gottfred moved the alyshawks indoors during practice yesterday before a game against the Rockets.
"The temperature dropped so darn fast that we just thought we'd move inside and work on a few things," he said. "I just hope we can get it (the scrimmage) in tomorrow."
undergo arthroscopic knee surgery this week.
Gottfried said he didn't expect any of the injured players to return to practice next week.
"I think the guys that are out now won't be back this spring," he said.
Estril has missed almost all of the spring drills after injuring a knee during the first week of practice. He is not expected to require surgery.
gottried said the team would work with new formations in tonight's scrimmage.
The Jayhawks will enter the final week of spring practice next week. The annual spring intra-squad game will be held first Friday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.
Gottfried said the coaches would "draft" players to determine blue and white teams in that game.
LONDON — Oxford, with two Americans in the crew, rates a slight favorite to beat Cambridge Saturday and bring home its 10th straight University Boat Race title.
By United Press International
Going into the race Oxford has a weight advantage of nearly four pounds per man and an age advantage of two years per man for the annual duel over the choppy waters of the River Thames. The Dark Blues have four men with Boat Race experience, but Cambridge appears to have the manpower for an upset.
Bruce Philip, who gained his colors for
Cambridge and will become the first man in the 157-year-history of the race to have rowed for both universities, has a seat in the Oxford boat. The craft will also have two teams — ox Seth Lesser and stroke Francis Gramee and Australian Grace Jones.
CAMBRIDGE, WITH CANADIAN Olympic coach Neil Campbell helping in its preparations, have three men with race experience, including Olympians John Garrett and John Pritchard. Canadian Geoff Barnard adds to the power stroke.
Cambridge also is breaking new ground with its first woman cox. She is Henrietta
Shaw, the daughter of Britain's Home Affairs Minister Giles Shaw.
The Light Blues, who lead the series 68-61 with one dead heat, are looking for their first win since 1975 in the annual 4 mile 374 yard race. They were also top-ranked. And they have looked impressive in training.
REININGER, A 25-YEAR-OLD oarsman from Seattle, Wash., who in 1983 stroked the United States coxed four to victory and gold
Campbell is a tough uncompromising motivator who led the Canadian eight to the Olympic title in Los Angeles and had the Light Blues under a rigorous training regime during the winter.
medal honors, is not worried about Campbell's return to the arena.
"Campbell has given him an initial boost," he said. "He will certainly give them a psychological boost again, but it is the rowing that counts. If they are notrowing well on the day there is actually nothing he can do for them."
Oxford is coached by Dan Topolski who has led Oxford to its nine successive wins and aims to equal Cambridge's record run of 13 straight wins between 1924-36.
The Dark Blues won comfortably last year when the race was delayed by a day after Cambridge rammed its boat on a barge just before the start.