University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1985
SPORTS
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NEWS BRIEFS
CU players suspended for '85
BOULDER, Colo. — Three University of Colorado football players suspected in a break-in last month were suspended yesterday for the 1985 season.
Head coach Bill McCartney said the players include Dave DeLine, the Buffs' leading kicker last season. Others suspended were Tom Stone and Joe Thompson, both freshmen who did not see varsity action last season.
The three were charged with misdeanor crimes for allegedly breaking into the building.
McCartney said he regretted suspending the players. But he said the action was necessary under his "philosophy of education" and an evident approach when standards are broken."
"We look forward to having them with us again in 1986," he said.
MISL commissioner named
McCartney said the suspensions do not include a withdrawal of financial aid.
PHILADELPHIA — Francis Dale, the publisher of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, was named yesterday to be commissioner of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
A spokesman for the league said he expected Dale, 63, who previously served as president of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, would step down as publisher of the Herald-Examiner, a post he has held since 1977.
"His contract with the Herald-Examiner goes through December 1984," said MISL spokesman Jeremiah Enright, adding that the commissioner's job is a task to keep an eye on what he leave the Herald-Examiner and become the commissioner of the MISL."
Dale, in Los Angeles, was not available for comment.
Enright said Foreman's contract with the league extends through the end of the season but it is expected he will step down and serve as commissioner emeritus and work jointly with Dale for the rest of this year.
Dale became MISL commissioner, a job that sources paid says about $200,000 yearly, by getting more than two thirds of the league's 13 teams, which met in Chicago.
Dale's selection was announced through the MISL's headquarters in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb.
Louisville wins NIT game
LOUISVILLE, 21. — Manual Forrest scored 21 points last night to lead Florida in the 68-0 victory over South Florida in the 68-0 road game of the National Invitational Tournament.
Forrest, a 6-foot-6 senior forward, scored 15 of his points in the second half as Louisville improved to 18-16 and advanced to the third round Sunday at Freedom Hall. The Cardinals are assured of their 41st winning season.
Billy Thompson had 11 points and 10 rebounds, Jeff Hall 11 points, Mike Abram 10, all in the first half, and grabbed 8 rebounds for the Cardinals.
Abram hit a 30-foot shot at the buzzer to gain Louisville a 34-13 lift at intermission.
South Florida was held scoreless the first 5:45 of the second half while the Cardinals had 14 points to build a 48-31 advantage, their biggest lead of the game.
Umps don't show; Royals lose
South Florida's William Conner hit a basket with a just over five minutes to cut the deficit to 56-47. The closest the Balls got after that was 62-35 with 1:48 left.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Paul Zuvella singled home two runs yesterday to power the Atlanta Braves to 3-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals in an exhibition game that had been delayed because the American League umps failed to show up.
Zavella singled in two runs in the second inning off the loser pitcher Danny Jackson. Rick Cerone had three hits for the Braves, who smacked 11 hits and were aided by second-inning errors by George Brett and Willie Wilson.
Rams start Ethiopian fund
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Los Angeles Rams offensive linemen will send money to Ethiopia for each yard record-setter Eric Carver, guard Dennis Harris said yesterday.
"We're (each) to give to a dollar for every yard Eric makes next season to feed the kids in Ethiopia," said Harrar. "And everybody else must have that a challenge to everybody in the NFL."
Harrah said that the idea for an Ethiopian fund was conceived by center Doug Smith.
Dickerson's NFL-record 2,105 yards last season would have raised $25,260 total
The running back Tuesday presented commemorative rings — featuring two dozen diamonds each and the number 2106 on his jersey. The team's blockers who helped him set the mark.
Besides Smith and Harrah, Dickerson presented rings to Bill Bain, David Hill, Mike Gunan, Barber Kusuma, Barbara McDona, Sheila Irvanky, Jackie Slater and Kent Hill.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Baseball team picks up loss, ties nightcap
By MIKE BRENNAN
Sports Writer
Head coach Marty Pattin slowly walked down the dugout steps yesterday and heaved a deep sigh.
Pattin had just watched his team battle Northwest Missouri to a 1-1 tie in the nightcap of a double header. Kansas lost the first game 3-2 and the Jayhawks record dropped to 5-9.1.
Jerry Mikusa, third baseman for Northwestern Missouri, is caught between Kansas first baseman Dan Christie and cat-
The day ended just as bad as it had begun for Pattin.
The Jayhawks were supposed to remove the tarp from the infield yesterday at 8 a.m., but some players didn't show up. Pattin benched those players, but refused to name any of them.
"You hate to do things like that to key people." Pattin said. "You feel bad when you have to ask the visiting team to help get the tarn off of the field."
Then the Jayhawks ran into problems.
tarp off of the head.
Despite the problems in the morning, KU jumped into the lead in the first inning of the first game. John Hart, KU right fielder, led off the game with a single but was thrown out when he tried to steal second.
THE SECOND BATTER, shortstop Gary Lang, got on base on an error by Northwest Missouri's shortstop Greg Symns. Rob Peters popped out, but Rob Thompson, KU catcher, did his job as the clean up hitter, bringing a home run to give the Jayhawks a 2-0 lead.
In the top of the third, KU pitcher Charlie Buzard walked second baseman Mike Biggs. One out later, Syms hit a sharp grounder to Peters at third. Peters made a wild throw to first and Biggs moved to third. Biggs scored on a single by Jerry Mikusa, Northwest
Missouri's third baseman, cutting the Jayhawk lead to 2-1.
Northwest Missouri tied the game in the top of the fifth Buzard walked Todd Morgason, who scored on a triple by Mikusa.
Kansas had a chance to regain the lead in the fifth and sixth innings but couldn't get anyone across the plate, thanks to two double plays by the Bearcats.
IN THE FIFTH. Hart led off with a double and Lang laid down a bunt single. But a double plav stooned the scoring bid.
cher Rob Thomson. Mikusa was called out, but the Northwestern team finished with a 3-2 win in the first game of yesterday's double header.
"I don't know how many double plays we hit it. I don't know Patten said, 'I thought Buzzer bird we hit it.'"
KU got men on base in the sixth, but another double play ended that scoring
Steiner had not allowed a hit through the first three innings, but Northwest Missouri touched him for one hit and a run in the fourth. Steiner walked Mikusa to start off the inning and scored on a single by Miller after a sacrifice bunt by Jeff Sykes.
The Jayhawks got Steiner the lead in the bottom of the third on singles by Chuck Christenson, Lang and Hart.
THE GAME WAS still tied when KU came to bat in the bottom of the seventh. The inning started off with a ground out by Peters, but then the fireworks began.
Mike Ingram doubled and Christenson was intentionally walked. Lang came to the plate
and hit a perfect double-play ball to Symens at short. Symens reacted to the ball quickly by knocking it down, but he couldn't pick it up and the bases were loaded.
Hart then hit a line drive that third baseman Mikusa picked off just above his stooestrings. Mikusa then stepped on third, forcing out Icaram.
"We had enough opportunities in the second game." Pattin said. "We hit the ball hard. These line drives will have to start打 sometime.
"We are in a team; it takes a team to win. We are trying to build a positive attitude."
The Jahyawks return to action tomorrow when they face Fort Hays State in a day-night battle.
Heptathletes start outdoor season
By DAVID O'BRIEN
Sports Writer
Four heptathelites on the Kansas women's track team will compete in the Arizona State Heptatlion today and tomorrow in Tempe, Ariz.
Rose Wadman, Julie Hall, Jaci Tyma and Ann O'Connor will start the outdoor season with the heathpatron, competing in the Arizona State Triangular Saturday. The rest of the Kansas team will join them in Tempe for the triangular with Arizona State and Texas-El Paso.
All four athletes competed in the pentathlon during the indoor season. The pentathlon, the indoor version of the heptathlon, includes five events and lasts only one day. The heptathlon includes eight events and lasts two days.
"The heptathlon is more of an emotional drain than the pentathon," assistant coach Cliff Rovello said yesterday. "That's the big difference."
"IF YOU HAVE a good first day in the heptathap, you're anxious for 24 hours, and if you have a bad day, you tend to dwell on it."
Wadman set a new school record in the pentathlon during the indoor season and is one of four Olympic medallists.
"Rosie's goals for the meet total up to be just shy of the national qualifying standard," said Rovelto, who coaches the Kansas heptathletes. "Rosie and Julie (Hall) competed in a couple of heptathlon last year, so it's not new to them."
O'Connor, a freshman, set a new school record in the high jump and finished third in the event at the indoor national championships to earn All-America honors. O'Connor
is also a strong hurdler, and the high jump are the first two events in the heptathlon.
"AFTER THE FIRST two events, she'll be a long way ahead of Rosie," Rovello said. "If Ann has real good throws in the shot put and the javelin, she could come close to qualifying (for the NCAA outdoor championships)."
Tyma is another strong high jumper, while Halle is expected to score well in the 800-meter.
"The good thing about the four of them is that they all have different strengths." Rovetto said. "They all help pull each other along."
The four probably will not have anyone else to pull them along today. Rovelo said ASU doesn't have any athletes entered in the heptathlon, and UTEP probably won't either. The only other entrant at this time is a junior college All-American from Arizona.
Network folding will cost coverage
The Big Eight Conference will lose exposure for non-revenue sports when a regional cable sports network makes its final broadcast on March 31., the Big Eight service bureau director said yesterday.
Sports Time, a cable network based in St. Louis, covered several Big Eight events through a contract with KATZ Sports Inc., negotiator of television rights for the big
Eight. KATZ is a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis.
By CECILIA MILLS
"It's going to mean the Big Eight is going to lose exposure, exposure that we cherished," said Tim Allen, Big Eight service bureau director.
Allen said KATZ had also sold the television rights to Sports Time for about 20 Big Eight men's basketball games this season, but he did not know the details of the contract.
Sports Writer
Aneheuer-Busch Sports Inc. is also one of the owners of Sports Time.
Telecommunications, Denver, and Multi-Media Sports Productions Inc., Cincinnati, are part owners of the cable network, which began broadcasting in April 1984. Sports Time broadcasts to 16 states in the Midwest.
Allen said the network had covered Big Eight wrestling, women's volleyball, indoor track and the finals of the women's basketball tournament. Broadcasts of softball and baseball games had also been scheduled.
New course takes its toll on golf team
The men's golf team batted a tough course and finished in a three-way tie for ninth place out of 17 teams in the Wildcat Invitational at the LaPaloma Country Club in Tucson, Ariz. Monday and Tuesday.
"The scores seemed high because the course was so hard," head coach Ross Randall said yesterday. "I'm sure none of them have played a course this hard."
The three-month-old course was designed by Jack Nicklaus. The Wildcat Invitational was the first tournament played on the course and did much to reveal its difficulty.
The greens were the toughest part of the course, Randall said. They had many slopes, which were hard because the course is new. Randall said it was difficult to get the ball to stop on the green.
"The course was an unusual design cut out of hills with cactus and boulders." Randall said. "It's a spectacular golf course, as pretty as you can imagine or very hard.
"We got eaten alive by the golf course, but everybody else was playing the course the same way. We didn't adjust well. Less than 20 percent of the field broke 80."
KU's team score of 657 tied the Jayhawks with Nebraska and Grand Canyon College for ninth place.
Cherie Wickham, freshman shortstop, receives help stretching at practice from freshman teammate Reeen Noble. Wickham led the women's softball team during spring break with a 420 batting average.
Good first impression made by young player
By SUE KONNIK
Sports Writer
In the nine years that Bob Stanciflift has been coaching women's softball at KU he has earned the title of the national
But Cherie Wickham, KU's newest short-ston, may be the best yet.
"She can turn into the best player I've ever had at that position." Stancliff said yester-
"Cherie is already making that transition," he said. "For a freshman Cherie is mentally very tough and displays a good deal of confidence in herself."
The freshman from Swink, Colo., has already shown she can produce at the plate. She led the team in batting over spring training and 21 hits in 30 times at bat for a .420 average.
During most of the 14 games, Wickham batted in the leadoff position. She reached a home run on the fifth.
ball and gaining the confidence they need in order to do well.
Although she was on base 26 times, Wickham scored only eight times. The team hit well during the week, Stanciflift said, except with runners in scoring position.
Gaining confidence in themselves is the first step to becoming a better hitter, Stancill said. Players usually spend most of their freshman season adjusting to college
WITH ONLY ONE senior on the team,
Stancliff attributed the poor run production to the pressure that younger players face early in the season.
"When the hitters are coming up with runners in scoring position, they are putting too much pressure on themselves," he said. "The mental aspect is 70 to 80 percent of hitting. Players can't get this confidence from a chalkboard."
CONFIDENCE MAY BE beneficial, but it is not easy to maintain throughout the long period.
"I want to excel," she said. "I want to motivate the team and always improve. When I'm doing well, I feel like I have the ability to succeed and it will be a chore. But I will stick it out."
The biggest challenge facing Wickham this season is Judith Phillips. Phillips played shortstop last season. A knee injury has put the sidelines for the first part of the season.
KU has several players who can perform well anywhere in the infield. The battle over these positions is something that will be an asset to the team. Stancift said.
"YOUNG PLAYERS ARE always trying to earn positions," he said, "and if they don't do well they know someone else is right there breathing down their neck, ready to take control of the kind of self-imposed pressure is going to make both Cherie and Judith better players."
Wickham has already gone to great lengths to become a better player. Mid-way through her senior year she transferred from Swink City High School to Northampton City West High School in Bethany, Okla.
"Colorado is not that strong in softball." Stanciflack said. "She moved to gain the exposure and experience and face good competition."