University Daily Kansan, April 3, 1985
SPORTS
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NEWS BRIEFS
Sutton named to Kentucky job
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Eddie Sutton, who took Arkansas to the NCAA Final Four in 1978 and compiled a 280-75 record in 11 years as a head coach, was named yesterday as a replacement for retiring Kentucky Coach Joe B. Hall.
Hall, 56. retired March 22 following Kentucky's season-ending loss to St. John's in the NCAA tournament semifinals of the West Regional. Hall, the successor to Kentucky dynasty-builder Adophi Hall, crowned a 291-70 mark in 13 years at Kentucky.
Sutton's name was mentioned early as the search for a replacement began, but reports said Sutton, a 1959 graduate of Oklahoma State, was not interested in the
Early speculation centered on Arizona coach Lute Olson, who was unable to come to contract terms with Kentucky officials. Others mentioned prominently for the job were former Kentucky assistant Dick Parsons, Alabama-Birmingham coach Gene Bartow and South Florida coach Lee Rose.
Arkansas' 13 losses this season were the worst since Suton's arrival in Fayetteville in 1975. In his previous 10 seasons, a Fazack team coached by Sutton had lost no more than nine games in a single year, doing so twice in his first two years.
The UPI Coach of the Year in 1978, credited with bringing basketball to equal footing with Razorback football. Sutton played for the 260 varsity and 75 losses in his 11 years.
Arkansas season ended this year with a 68-65 loss to St. John's in the second round of the NCAA Western regionalals. The Razorbacks finished their Southwest Conference season tied for second place behind champion Texas Tech.
A native of Bucklin, Kan., and a graduate of Oklahoma State in 1958, Sutton played under and coached with OSU's Henry Iba, from whom he gleaned his basketball theories of pressing man-to-man defenses and patient, high-percentage shot offenses.
Errors hurt K.C.; Phillies win
CLEARWATER. Fla. — Garry Maddox langed three hits yesterday as the Philadelphia Phillys took advantage of a hot day in City Royals on their way to a 4-2 win.
The Royals scored first with two runs in the fourth inning of Shane Rawley on singles by George Brett, Darryl Motley and White a and double by Jim Sandberg.
The Phillies went on top in the fifth, scoring three unearned runs off loser Mark Gubizke. A run came after winning pitcher Pat Zachry reached base on a two-out error by shortstop Onix Concepcion.
Jeff Stone followed with an RBI single, then Samir singel and Madden drove in.
ne Phillies scored an insurance run in the eighth oninning on a wild pick off attempt by Joe Beckwitt, allowing Maddox to score from third.
Leachy, Bill Campbell and Don Carman,
three pitchers trying for the final two spots
on the Phillies' pitching staff, pitched five
scoreless innings.
The win was the fourth straight for the Phillies and upped their record to 12-9. The Royals dropped to 11-13 in spring play.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Tennis team overcomes wind, illness
By MIKE BRENNAN
Sports Writer
MANHATTAN — Gusty winds made yesterday's tennis match against Kansas State a little more exciting than Kansas wanted it to be.
The wind blew shots wide of the court and kept some shots from going out. The Jayhawks adjusted better to the windy conditions than the Wildcats and defeated KState 8-1 in the opening match of the Big Eight season for both teams.
When the Jayhawks arrived at the courts in Manhattan, the wind was calm and it looked as if the day would be perfect for tennis. But when the rain fell, the grass matched, the gusts of wind began to blow.
THE WIND WAS tough to handle, especially for Barbara Inman, who played No. 1 singles. Inman was playing on the first pitch and did not have a wind screen to break the wind.
"It was the most frustrating day of tennis I've played in my life," Imman said. "But you've just got to go out there and play. You can't let yourself get frustrated."
Coleman was supposed to be the alternate for the match but was forced into the No. 2 singles spot when Tracy Treps became ill minutes before the match. Coleman won the first set 6-2, but had problems during the rest of the match.
Inman was able to adjust to the wind and defeated Judy Miller, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2. But Debbie Coleman was not as fortunate.
"The wind really started picking up then," Coleman said. "I was nervous. I've never had the big jump from No. 8 singles to No. 2 singles."
CARLY MADELEN, COLEMAN'S opponent, won the second set 6-3 and led 5-3 in the third. Coleman was able to take advantage of the tiring Madelein and tied the set at 5-5.
Madeen won the next game, but Coleman forced the match into a tiebreaker. Madeen came on strong and won the tiebreaker, giving the Wildcats their only victory of the day.
"Once I realized that Treps couldn't play, there were three of four things I could have done and could not. Coleman you can't fault her effort." Perelman's options included moving everyone up one position on the ladder and inserting Coleman at No. 6. But Perkelman wanted to give each player a win at the position they would be playing in the Big Eight championships in Kansas City, Mo., later this month.
MONDAY, PERELMAN TALKED to Coleman about being ready to play even if she knew she wouldn't be in the lineup. Before the match, Coleman warmed up just like the rest of the players and found out she would be in the lineup 10 minutes before the match.
Coleman's match lasted about 2½ hours, which made it the longest of the day. The shortest singles matches was at No. 3 singles. In a game defeated Susan Peugh 6-0, 6-0 in 45 minutes.
Parr and Coleman wasted little time in their doubles match, defeating Erica Anderson and Nancy Scaferer in 40 minutes.
"The competition was not as great as the other teams in the Big Eight," Parr said. "I just went out there and concentrated on each shot."
Hibbard, who won her No. 6 singles match 6-1, 6-0. Hibbard was in Homeover Park last week, suffering from a respiratory tract infection
WHEN SHE RETURNED to Lawrence,
she prepared for the matches carefully
by taking practice and avoiding a lot of
movement. Hibbard also prepared mentally.
Concentration was also important to Marie
"I tried to keep the same mental attitude as I had when I was in California," Hibbard said. "The mental frame of playing a match and playing to win."
Each match victory was worth one point in the conference for the Jayhawks. KU will go into the weekend matches against Oklahoma and Oklahoma, but points, but Perelman would have liked nine.
"I don't like to lose any points in the conference when we have a chance to win." Perelman said. "It may not mean anything at the end or it may mean the difference between first and second or second and third."
the matches against the Sooners and Cowboys will be played this weekend in Lawrence.
Prep star says she'll play basketball for Jayhawks
By TONY COX Sports Writer
The women's basketball team is nearing the end of its recruiting season as the April 10 signing date approaches, but at least one team has agreed to a long-term commitment to the University of Kansas.
KU's biggest needs are a player who can score from the outside and a player who can boost the Jayhawks' inside game, KU head coach Marian Washington said Monday.
KU may get help in filling both of those needs from Jill Killen, a 5-foot-10 forward from Southeast Saline High School in Gypsum.
KILLEL, WHO WAS named All-State on the strength of her 19 points and 11 rebounds a game her senior year, said. "I went to camp at KU last summer and I really liked Coach Washington. I decided I wanted to go, so when they gave me a chance, I just went ahead with it."
Killen was also recruited by Wichita State and Kansas State, but there was no doubt in her mind she would choose Kansas if offered the scholarship, she said.
Killen played center in high school because she was the tallest player on the team, but she expects to play small forward for KU, she said.
Jim Campion, Killen's coach at Southeast Saline, said, "Jill was primarily an inside scorer and rebounder for us. As far as KU, she is the best scorer in which it is going to change her game a little bit.
"SHE CAN HIT consistently from 20 feet. She did quite a bit for us. If not the best high school player in Kansas, she's one of the best. She always had a knack for the ball in rebounding. She's just an outstanding leader out there on the floor."
Killen scored over 1,100 points in three seasons at Southeast Saline, a 4-A school. During her freshman season she started playing the 50-point game a game to lead Saline to a 17-4 record.
In her sophomore year she suffered a season-ending knee injury in the first game of the season. Her junior year, she averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds a game as Saline
finished at 13-8. She led Saline to a 19-5 record with her All-State performance this year.
Killen said she expected to make the adjustment to college basketball and fit in well with the team.
"I KNOW I have a lot of learning and improving to do," she said. "They play disciplined and they run a lot. I think that will be fun."
Washington said the loss of seniors Mary Myers, a guard, Barbara Adkins, a forward, and center Philicia Allen would be heavy.
The team's young players benefited greatly from working with the three seniors in their first year.
"The year, as well as we did with such a young group, I did see a few areas that we could have been helped with and obviously those areas in mind in recruiting," she said.
THE JAYHAWK'S EIGHT freshmen contributed greatly this season, Washington said. They got a lot of playing experience, particularly before Adkins and Allen returned. The playing time they got this season was much stronger players next season, she said.
Washington said she hoped next year's freshmen would be as talented as this season's group.
Recruiting is a year-round job for the Jayhawks, KU assistant coach Kevin Cook
"This time of year is what makes a December night fun or longe." he said.
Washington said that the team's recruiting was going well this year.
"WE HOPE TO SIGN three, no more than four." she said. "We have some specific needs and we're going after them. We won't count the number of numbers with so many players returning.
"We've got a lot of fine players who will be giving us a visit this month and we've already had a couple come in. We know at least that we're one of the five choices for them so we're hoping that we can impress them with our program.
"We just hope that we can make a good enough impression about what Kansas is like," she said. "I think it will be a great place."
Kim Tisdale, Kansas pitcher, fires a softball during practice yesterday. The Jayhawks will play a double-header today.
Assistant promoted to replace Frederick
By CECILIA MILLS
Sports Writer
Richard Konzem was promoted yesterday by the Athletic Department from assistant director of the Williams Fund to executive director of the Williams Fund.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson announced the promotion in a prepared speech.
Konzem, 27, was hired as assistant director of the Williams Fund two years ago by Bob Frederick. Frederick will leave his job June 1.
"I want to be an athletic director someday," Konzem said. "That's why I got my degree in it. I am fortunate to have come back to this school."
KONZEM EARNED A bachelor's degree in business in 1980 from Kansas and a master's degree in athletic administration in 1983 from Southern California.
"I can't imagine that at 27 I'd be an assistant athletic director at another university."
"It's difficult to get into athletics and it's hard to be at a school that I know. Konzerz was one of my favorite teachers."
ects for the athletic scholarship fund. As an assistant athletic director he will also oversee at least three of the non-revenue sports.
Baseball and men's and women's tennis currently report to Frederick.
Konzem said assistant athletic directors sign travel vouchers for the coaches and staff.
KONZEM WAS MANAGER for KU track and field from 1976 to 1980. He said he could be better qualified to handle some of the programs and any problems in track, but he was not afraid to handle any of them.
Kozem said he could not have asked for a better man to work for than Frederick.
"His being a former coach has given me insight to dealing with coaches and their problems, since I've never been a coach," Konzem said.
"Bob's given me four years worth of wisdom," Konzm said. "He's taught me the values and philosophies about athletics and training programs and working with coaches."
Four years in the Williams Fund office prepared him for the job, Konzem said.
Heptathlete competing today at Texas Relays
Sports Writer
By DAVID O'BRIEN
KU's Rose Wadman will travel to Austin Texas, to compete in the Texas Relays heathaton today and tomorrow. The heathathon kicks off the prestigious four-day track and field meet on the University of Texas at Austin campus.
"the competition's going to be tougher this year," head coach Carla Coffey said yesterday. There will be heathatletes from all over the country. Rose's bowling to qualify for national."
Wadman, a sophomore from Niles, Ill. finished fifth in the event at last year's Texas Relays. Twelve women will compete in the heptathlon this year.
THE HEPTATILON CONSISTS of seven events contested over a two-day period. Today's events are the 100-meter hurdles.
Wadman is the school record holder in the pentathlon, the indoor equivalent of the heptathlon. She set that record this winter at the Nebraska Pentathlon.
high jump, shot-put and 200-meter dash. Tomorrow's events are the long jump, javelin and 800-meter run.
Several other KU women will compete in Austin this weekend, including Stine Lerdahl, who won the shot-put last season at the relays, and Ann O'Connor, a freshman who finished third in the nation and earned a medal in athletics during the indoor season.
Wadman will also compete in the javelin and high jump events during the regular portion of the meet Friday and Saturday.
Most of the women's team will compete this winter in a meet at Southeast Missouri in St. Louis and in Iowa.
SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE KU men's team are also expected to compete.
Tisdale takes 8-0 record into games against KSU
By SUE KONNIK Sports Writer
Sports Writer
The batter steps up to the plate. She digs her cleats into the dirt, swings her bat back and forth, and looks straight into pitcher Kim Tisdale's eyes.
"The batter comes up to the plate and glares at me, trying to psyche me out." Tisdale, pitcher for the KU women's softball team, said.
Some pitchers get mad and glare back, and some wish they could run off the mound.
"I don't even look at the batter," she said.
"I stare at the catcher. She's back there smiling at me, just trying to get me through the inning."
TISDALE'S PHILOSOPHY HAS worked well so far. The sophomore from Omaha, Neb., is 6-0 going into today's doubleheader with Kansas State. She has given up 44 hits, struck out 17 and walked seven with a 1.72 earned run average.
Tisdale has not always pitched so well. She first started pitching when she was in eighth grade. Her father coached a softball team and needed a pitcher, and she was the likely
Tisdale isn't breaking windows any longer. Her control has gotten her out of many tough situations.
She said she didn't pitch because she liked to.
"I worked in the backyard for a year before I ever got on the mound," she said. "I did it because my father really needed a pitcher."
"I didn't want to attack at all," she said. "I wasn't fun. All I did was break windows."
"KIM IS VERY consistent at what she does," head coach Bob Stancill said. "She doesn't throw hard, but she is effective, especially throwing behind Tracy (Bunge)."
Bunge is the other half of KU's dynamic pitching duo. She goes out throwing drops and fastballs. Tisdale comes in the second half, double-headers with her riser and archer.
"We're very different, but that's good." Tisdale said. "I need hiters to chase my pitches. If they don't, I end up with a full team. And if we lose, just gets up and blows it by them."
Tisdale doesn't have Bunge's fasebell, nor does she have Bunge's bat. When Tisdale is pitching, her spot in the lineup is usually taken by designated hitter Bunge.
"There is no way I could hit that well, so Tracy just DH's for me," Tisdale said.
BUNGE IS CURRENTLY on a six-game hitting streak and is leading the team with a .431 batting average and a .690 slugging percentage.
Both Bunge and Tisdale will see action today when the softball team plays K-State at Jayhawk Field. The first game of the double-header will begin at 2:00 p.m.
The games will not count toward KU's Big Eight record. Kansas State is 4-5 coming into today's game.