University Daily Kansan, March 8. 1985
SPORTS
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Brown may need to juggle lineup against ISU
By MIKE BRENNAN Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas was the only team to practice at its scheduled time yesterday afternoon at Kemper Arena, but not of all the Jayhaws made the trip.
Greg Dreiling, 7-foot-1 center, had a temperature of 102 degrees and stayed in Lawrence. He also did not practice Wednesday, and head coach Larry Brown said he wasn't sure Dreiling would play in tonight's Big Eight tournament semifinal game at 9:30 p.m. against Iowa State.
If the Jayhawks win tonight, they will play in tomorrow's championship game at 1:10 p.m. against the winner of tonight's Oklahoma-
Missouri game, which starts at 7:10 p.m.
If Dreiling is unable to play, Brown said, a couple of line-ups may be tried.
ONE POSSIBLE COMBINATION would be to start Danny Manning, 6-11 forward-center, in the center position and start Mill Newton, 6-4 guard-forward, or Tad Boyle, 6-4 guard-back. Any of our possible Brown suggested was to put Chris Piper, 6-8 forward, in the middle.
Mark Pellock, 8-8 forward, would represent the other option, but yesterday was Pellock's first practice since Saturday and Brown didn't think he would be ready for the game. The practice at Kemper marked the first for Mark Turgeon, 5-10 guard, since Saturday.
THE REST OF THE line-up is relatively healthy. Calvin Thompson, 6-4 guard, still is recovering from the flu, but Brown said he should feel much better by game time. Newton and Alionio Campbell, 5-11 guard, still are suffering from wisdom牙 problems.
Brown said, "Hopefully, we can adjust.
"The flu has hit us pretty hard. The bench will be a really important factor the next few days as it will the rest of the season."
But the other starter, K Ronellke,
6-5 forward-ward, is healthy and his match up with Iowa State's Barry
Stevens should be the one to watch.
This season is the first time the Cyclones have won 20 games in one season, including a 72-70 victory over KU in Ames, Iowa. Part of the credit
for the record-breaking season goes to Stevens, who ranks second on the conference all-time scoring list with 2,118 points.
"This is the first year he has been recognized," Iowa State head coach Orr said yesterday. "He did well in 2013, but he's had some great years here."
STEVENS SCORED 47 points in the game against Morgan State and scored more than 30 points in two other games. Kellogg did not hit the 40-point mark, but he did score 39 against Nebraska. He also scored at least 30 points in four other games this season. Those performances helped him score a total of 556 points so far this season, making him 18 on the KU all-time single season scoring list.
offense was geared to getting the ball to Stevens. He said that Kansas was not always looking to get the ball to Kellogg.
"Kellogg gets his within the framework of the team," Brown said. "He likes Kemper.
"We've obviously played well in this building. This place has supported the tournament so well."
THE JAYHAWKS HAVE won 21 of 28 games played in Kemper, a building some call KU's second home. In last year's conference tournament, Kansas defeated Kansas State in the semifinals and Oklahoma in the finals. This season, the Jayhawks defeated Wichita State 90-83 at Kemper and Kellogg scored 30 points.
The game also will be a short
homecoming for Thompson, who is from Kansas City, Kan.
"There is no place like home," Thompson said. "The crowd will be great. We want to come out and have some fun."
THE NCAA WILL announce the tournament seeds at 4:30 p.m. Sunday in Kansas City. The first-round games will be played March 14 and 15, and the sites will be announced. Second-round sites also will be second-round Sunday, and those games will be played March 16 and 17.
The West Regional will be March 22-24 in Denver. The Southeast Regional will be on the same dates in Chicago. The Midwest Regional will be in Dallas. 21-23. The East Regional will be on the same dates in Providence, R.I.
Melvin Hunter, 30. Lawrence High School senior, reaches for the ball after it was tipped from the Olathe South Falcons by Marvin Hunter, 15, also a Lawrence High senior. Todd Jenkins, 33, Olathe South senior, gives chase. Lawrence beat Olathe South 67-65 yesterday in the first round of the 6A State Basketball Tournament held at Allen Field House.
Bunge looks for challenges at Roadrunner Invitational
By SUE KONNIK
Sports Writer
Sports Writer
Tracy Bunge loves a challenge.
"I love to be in the middle of the action, I feel left out when I play other positions," she said.
The junior pitcher for the women's softball team will face her first challenge of the season at the Roadarunner Invitational in Las Vegas. The tournament began yesterday and will continue today and tomorrow.
Bunge said she started playing softball when she was 9 years old. At 14 she started pitching and has been ever since.
She established herself her freshman year as one of the top pitchers in
the country with her 23-8 record. Her
victories rank sixth among
NCAA players.
Bunge had a disappointing year last season, but not because of her pitching, Bob Stanclift, head coach, said.
"TRACY FELT A lot of press last year because of our you team." Stancill said. "Part of B development is learning to deal we pressure and not let it hamper B game."
Each spring break the team travels to New Mexico to compete in the three-day tournament, and nearly every year the girls face teams that have 20 games or more under their belts.
Kansas weather isn't so kind.The women usually don't practice outside
before they attend the Roadrunner Invitational, Stanclift said.
"What makes this sport so unique in this climate is that we must prepare players in conditions differer- ent in the weather, face in New Mexico," he said.
Although the team does practice in Allen Field House, it isn't the same as getting on the diamond.
"IF NOTHING ELSE, it makes a psychological difference," Bunge said.
This year was a little different. A warm spell last week allowed the team some time outside.
Tennis teams won't be left in the cold for spring break
The team will travel to Arlington, Texas, March 11 for the University of Texas Tournament. The team will head north to Chicago next week for the Sooner Invitational.
By DAVID O'BRIEN
PERELMAN SAID THAT he liked to schedule a long trip every year to allow the team to play in warm conditions against high-caliber competition.
Head coach Scott Perelman, and the Kansas tennis team won't be left in the cold when students leave Lawrence today for the sum or slope.
"Plus it's a little reward to the players to take a trip of this nature." "It's an expense-paid trip, and a lot they have never been to California."
Sports Writer
This morning, the Jayhawk tennis teams boarded a jet headed west for a 10-day trip to feature sand, sea and oh, yes, plenty of tennis.
The KU men will play seven dual matches in seven days, beginning
'But they can also get a lot of enjoyment out of swimming and the other things, too.'
Our philosophy is that it's a
tessera trip. Perelman said yes
to this.
Sunday with Texas Tech in Irvine
The Jayhawks will face California
Irvine in Irvine on Monday, U.S.
International in San Diego on Tuesday
and Pepperdine in Malibu on
Wednesday.
From there it's back to Irvine for matches with New Mexico on Thursday, Yale on Friday and Richmond on Saturday. It will fly back to Kansas City March 17.
UC-Irvine, Pepperdine and New Mexico have been ranked in the nation's top 20 during the year, Perelman said.
"This is a fringe top 20 team," Perelman said, "and if we win some matches out in California, we'll be a top 20 team."
THE MEN'S TEAM has a 8-1 record going into the California trip. The only loss came against No. 12 Arkansas earlier this season.
Mike Wolf, last year's Big Eight runner-up in No 1 singles, has led the top 10 in all competitions.
"We've gotten outstanding play from Wolf," Perelman said, "His
"I don't think there an easy team in the schedule," he said.
game has improved, and a year of maturity has also helped."
Pereiman also singled out the play of Mike Center and Charles Stearns.
"That's what has really tickled me," he said. "They've both really improved and developed into national-caliber players."
THE WOMEN WILL begin play Monday in Santa Barbara against California-Santa Barbara. From there they will travel to Irvine to face on Wednesday, Utah on Thursday, and New Mexico State on Friday.
Beer and baseball still mix
A terrible trend may be starting in the world of sports. I don't mean high salaries, drugs or crime. I mean bad players, bad players, and lack of access for the fans.
On March 16, the women will travel to San Diego to face U.S. International and then they'll go back to Irvine Sunday to play Yale. The women's team will fly back to Kansas City March 18.
The Detroit Tigers announced yesterday that they would offer only low-alcohol beer at their home games.
The women's team is currently riding a six-game winning streak.
"The they started off with two losses, and I was frustrated." Perelman said. "So we had a two-a-day practices, and they started to work hard."
Executive vice president Bill Haase apparently wants healthy families at Tigers games, not drunken college students who can yell louder for the home team than any family.
"The whole thing is starting to come together now."
CHRIS
LAZZARINO
Associate Sports Editor
"We want people to be able to enjoy a cold beer while watching a ball game but we also think that this kind of family atmosphere, family intimacy," Hesae said.
It sounds as if Tiger Stadium now is a day care center, a healthy place to raise the kids while the parents are at work.
I am not saying that the only good
baseball fan is a drunken baseball fan; far from it. The point is that hall of the fun of a baseball game is the atmosphere in the stands. That atmosphere comprises all sorts, all types. One of those types is the person who enjoys a good beer or two—or ten.
Imagine watching a Cubs game on WGN this summer and seeing the bleacher bums all holding low-alcohol beers. It just doesn't work. If the mindset of Tiger management leans in Wrigley Field may sound sad at a family discount. See how healthy that would be for the kiddies.
appreciate the gesture, and the fans could have a beer during the fourth quarter while listening to the game on the radio.
The bronzed, beer-bellied fans spending hot summer afternoons getting toasted at a ball game may be only a fond memory. Just as the films showing fans in coat and ties are from days gone by, the days of fans' having what they want to drink in the stands appear to be numbered.
Football fans, you are not out of the woods, either. The Denver Gold organization has announced that it no longer will sell any beer after the third quarter. Granted, what the Gold does may not concern anyone, but it may catch on elsewhere. Richmond, the Gold's general manager, appears to have the decision to avoid lawsuits that could affect fan were in a car wreck after polishing off a few too many at Mile High Stadium.
All of you who find this sickening, write to your home team. Tell them that it is time your opinions were taken into account, not just what is good for third-graders. Tell them not to go to the kids, they should check the I.D. of anyone attempting to buy beer who can't see over the counter.
"This orange juice is for you!" may soon be the add pitch we hear during ball games. The standard apparel for summer games will be golf shirts and deck shoes, not cut-offs and Chuck Taylor high tops.
If you don't, you may find yourself in a station wagon, heading for the stadium with the neighbor kids for an afternoon with the family.
Personally, I would rather not make mine L.A.
Women play Sooners today
By TONY COX Sports Writer
The Cornhuskers outscored the Jayhawks 12-2 to tie the game 72-7. KU获领的 lead at 81-72 with 3:29 remaining and Nebraska began fouling the Jayhawks in a late comeback attempt.
The women's basketball team had fought through 36 minutes of push-and-shove basketball and Nebraska was coming back in Tuesday's first matchup of the Big Eight Post-Season Tournament at Allen Field House.
Nebraska may have had a good idea, but the Cornhuskers picked the wrong player to foul. senior guard Mary Myers, responded with 12 passes in the final 3:29 that KU pulled away to 104-80 victory.
"I GUESS it was a time when we needed some leadership and I just happened to come through." Myers said yesterday.
Marian Washington, KU head coach, said, "I'm glad they fouled Mary. She responded well."
In the win over Nebraska, she finished with 16 points and 11 assists.
Myers has been providing leadership all season to a young KU team. The Jayhawks have eight freshman.
She is the team's second leading scorer with 12.6 points a game. Myers leads KU in assists and steals. She scored a career high of 28 in a game against Drake on Jan. 9 and 10. She scored 25 in a win over Colorado on Feb. 9.
The win pushed KU into the semi-finals of the tournament at
Kemper Arena. The Jayhawks win play Oklahoma today at 1 p.m.
Since that game, KU has won three straight games by a total of 47 points.
On Feb. 24, the last time the teams met, Oklahoma beat the Jayhawks 78-77 in overtime at Allen Field House.
"A lot of teams in the Big Eagle are kind of fizzing out and not really playing well," Mr. Myers said. "A lot of coaches around the Big Eagle are worried about us."
OKLAHOMA IS NOT a team that brings back pleasant memories for the Jawahar. The Sooners have won six games, eight times over the last two seasons.
"It's hard for a team to stop us because we have a lot of people that can score. We don't rely on one star player."
"OKLAHOMA HAS BEATEN us the last five outings and I think that has given us enough incentive because we know we have a better chance than they. We've lost too many times to them, we have something to prove."
There will be no lack of intensity for the Oklahoma game, Washington said.
"I think Mary's ready up for this game," she said. "She wants it as much as she's ever wanted anything." And even though most of the players are really inspired
“It's a matter of going out and playing to win now. We're aware of some of the things they've done against us. It's not a matter of OU beating us, but us not doing the things we need to do to beat them.”
Probable starters for KU are Vickie and Barbara Adkins at forwards, Philicia Allen at center.
and Myers and Sherri Stoecker at guards.
THE TEAM BEGAN using that lineup in the Feb. 27 win over the first game of the Jayhawks' current three-game winning streak.
"It's very comfortable because we've played together a lot." Myers said. "It's not always the best players who win, but the players who can play together. We've been going with this starting lineup and we've been responding well."
In the tournament situation, every game can mean the end of a career for the three seniors if the team loses. The winner of the tournament gets an automatic berth in the 32-team NCAA tournament.
The current starting lineup is working very well because it puts a lot of experience on the court, Myers said. It includes the team's three players, Myers, Allen and Barbara Adkins, and only junior, Vickie Adkins.
"THERE'S NO TOMORROW if we don't play today." Myers said. "We feel we can make the NCAA's, but now, we have to get past Iowa. We need to find a potential to get there. We know it's just how we play, not who we play.
"The only one that can stop us is KU. The toughest thing will be getting out of the Big Eight.
"We don't have anything to lose. I guess we're the biggest surprise in the Big Eight, having eight freshmen. We're peaking now. It will be the best confidence boost in the world if we can pull this one out."
The end of the season and her playing career will be a positive experience, Myers said.
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Michael Center, a member of the KU men's tennis team, eyes the hall carefully during practice yesterday. Both the men's and women's tennis teams left today for California where they will have a full schedule of matches during spring break.
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