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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 29, 1992
SPORTS
Kansas takes fourth in Big Eight golf
By Cody Holt
Kansan sportswriter
Alan Bratton of Oklahoma State became the second consecutive freshman to win the Big Eight Men's Golf Championship, following in Kansas golfer Matt Gogel's shoes. However, Oklahoma snapped the Cowboys' string of seven straight team titles yesterday at the Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson.
Kansas entered the day in a third place tie with Iowa State but slipped to finish fourth, six strokes behind the Cyclones.
In the women's conference tourna
ment, at the Manhattan Country Club in Manhattan, heavily favored Oklahoma State lived to expectations by whipping second-place Oklahoma by 21 strokes and winning its 11th team title but its first since 1989. Kansas finished third, 37 strokes behind the Cowboys.
On the men's side, Oklahoma became just the third team to win the conference championship since Oklahoma State joined the league in 1958. The Sooners won the NCAA championship in 1969.
For the tournament, Oklahoma shot 866, followed by Oklahoma State's 868. IowaState posted its best league finish
since 1968 with a 901. Kansas was fourth at 907, followed by Colorado, 915; Kansas State, 919; Nebraska, 922; and Missouri, 938.
The Sooners, who last won the Big Eight crown in 1957, placed three golfers in the top five. Oklahoma was paced by Patrick Lee, who shot a final-day 69 for a 212 total. That placed him second to Bratton, who shot a 210.
The Sooners took a 5-stroke advantage into the final round of the tournament and with nine holes remaining held a nine-shot lead. However, the Cowboys rallied before falling short by two shots.
Gogel led the Jayhawks again this
Freshman Tom Sim Entered yesterday's final round in an eight-place tie with Gogel but slipped to 16th after a round of 80, 227 for the tournament.
year with a 12th-place finish at 224,14 strokes behind the new first-year sensation, Bratton.
Kansas' other golfers were: junior Brad Bruno, who finished tied for 17th at 228; sophomore Casey Brozek, in a tie for 175. Sophomore Jeff Moeller, tied for 374th at 245.
In the women's conference final, Oklahoma State redshirt freshman Arantza Sison defeated her teammate Stephanie Martin and captured the individual title with a three-round
total of 220.
The Cowgirls, paced by the top two tournament finishers, fired a 914 team score, second-best in tournament history behind the 1987 Cowgirl squad that shot 912.
Sophomore Holly Reynolds led the Jayhawks by finishing the two-day tournament in a sixth-place tie at 235. Senior Laura Myers was one shot behind Reynolds in a ninth-place tie at 236 and senior Shelly Triplet finished tied at 11th with a three-round total of 228.
Senior Laura Martin, 245, and freshman Michelle Uber, 251, rounded out the Kansas squad in ties for 23rd and
29th, respectively.
Kansas' men's and women's squads will now wait for invitations to NCAA tournaments. The men look to receive a bid for the NCAA Regional Championship, the qualifying tournament for the NCAA Championship. Regionals begin May 21-23 at the Stonebridge Country Club in McKinney, Texas.
The women await word on an NCAA Championship bid, which runs May 27-30 at the Karsten Golf Club in Tempe, Ariz. There is no women's regional tournament.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Women's tennis team revives
By Lyle Niedens
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's tennis program didn't have much to brag about when Michael Center arrived as the Javhaws head coach in 1989.
That first year, Kansas struggled to a 7-14 loss and a fourth-place finish in the Big East.
Just two years later, however, Kansas is ranked No. 19 in the country with a 19-4 season record. The Jayhawks plowed through their conference schedule with a perfect 7-0 record, tapped that off by winning their first conference tournament since 1979, and are preparing for the first-ever appearance by a Kansas women's tennis team in the NCAA Tournament.
"I'm just really proud," Center said. "For us to come from the middle of the region to the top of the region in a couple of years is a great accomplishment."
The success has been a mixture of several different ingredients.
Center did not arrive at Kansas to find the cupboard bare. He built the program around the first All-American in Kansas women's tennis history, Eveline Hamers.
Center said that the differences this season consisted of an improved atti-
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"We had a group of girls this year
Michael Center Women's tennis coach
who were really motivated," he said. "We just had an outstanding group that stuck together all the time."
But he didn't overlook the contributions of freshman Rebecca Jensen and Nora Koves, who have combined to produce a 72-15 record.
"I don't know if there is any other program in the country that had two players come in and win that many matches." Center said. "It's incredible"
Add that combination to Hamers, who Center said may be the best player in the country, and Kansas had a formidable 1-2-3 punch.
Hamers agreed with Center's statement that added motivation and better players have put Kansas in the position to compete for a national championship.
"I think a lot of it had to do with recruiting," Hamers said of the turnaround in the Kansas program. "But this year we had very good chemistry, too."
Center said the NCAA tournament appearance would help the program for years to come.
"It can go a long way in recruiting and building continuity in the program," he said. "It puts us in the upper echelon of college tennis."
But Center said he didn't want the team to be satisfied just with going to the tournament.
"It's not like we haven't seen this level of tennis before," he said, adding that he thought the Jayhawks had a chance at doing well at the tournament.
Nevertheless, Kansas will be a definite underdog when the tournament begins May 13 in Palo Alto, Calif. The Jayhawks will not be one of the top eight seeds in the 20-team tournament and will be among eight teams that will draw for a first-round opponent.
with a duo or a first ballop but.
But that doesn't bother Hamers,
who has competed individually in the
tournament for each of the last three
"We can do very well there," she said. "We have a strong program and we're going to keep getting better."
Royals win second consecutive game
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Wally Joyner picked an opportune time and a familiar spot for his first home run with the Kansas City Royals.
Joyner won it with his first homer since Sept. 1, when he homered in Milwaukee.
"I think I'm seeing the ball well and hitting the ball hard, and when you do that, you have a great chance of getting the ball to drop for you," said Joyner, who extended his hitting streak to nine games.
Joyner met reliever Jesse Orosco with a home run to lead off the 11th inning last night, and the Royals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 for their second consecutive victory.
Orosco, 0-1, relieved Bill Wegman,
who held the Royals to two runs on five
hits for 10 innings. Joyner hit a 1-0 pitch
over the right-field wall.
"I was trying to go on the outside corner, but the ball just took off on me,"
Orosco said. "I'm sure he went up there to hit the best pitch available. If I get that one for a strike, then I could show him some other stuff."
Neal Heaton, 2-1, pitched 2 2-3 perfect innings, and Jeff Montgomery worked the 11th for his second save. Heaton relieved Mike Boddicker with the bases loaded and one out in the eighth and retired Franklin Stubbs and Kevin Seitzer.
"In a situation like that, you just want to come in and throw strikes and give us a chance to win the game," Heaton said. "Wally Joyner got the big hit, and Monty came in and got the save, and that was all she wrote."
Milwaukee scored in the seventh against Kevin Appier and tied the game at 2:2. Greg Vaughn drew a lead-off walk, stole second, moved to third on Franklin Stubbs' bunt single and came home on Seitzer's force play.
Kansas City took a 2-10 in the second. With no outs, the Royals loaded
The Brewers got an unearned run in the second when Vaughn opened with a triple off the glove of center fielder Brian McRae and catcher Macfarlane dropped a popup.
the bases on a double by George Brett,
a single by Kevin McReynolds and a walk.
The runs scored when Mike Macfarlane was hit by a pitch and Rico Rossy grounded into a double play.
Notes: Brett's double was the 603rd of his career and tied him for ninth on the all-time list with Paul Waner. The hit also tied Brett for 30th on the all-time hit list with Brooks Robinson at 2,848. Wegman tied a team record by hitting three batters. He plunked Macfarlane in the second and seventh innings and Rossy in the 10th. He matched the markset by Pete Broberg against Oakland on August 17, 1975.
The Royals began the season by losing 16 of 17 games.
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Fouled away
Practicing for today's doubleheader against Wichita State, Erin Wahua, Kansas catcher, hits a ball offduring batting practice. The Jayhawks, ranked 10th in the nation with a 38-6 record, practiced briefly yesterday afternoon at Jayhawk Field.
Stars finds way to catch America3
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO - The routs are off in the America's Cup regatta.
Dennis Conner pulled yet another rabbit out of his year-old Stars & Strips yesterday and evened the best-of-13 defender finals with Bill Koch's America3 — America Cubed — at 4-11.
Stars & Stripes, battered in the first three races of the finals, has come roaring back in the light, shifty wind that Conner has mastered.
Stars & Stripes beat America3 by 1 minute, 47 seconds for their third straight victory and fourth in the last five races. Stars & Stripes has led America3 at every turning mark in each of its victories.
Stars & Stripes made significant gains on the three windward legs.
Conner, the defending America's Cup skipper, led at the start by 1 second. America's took an early lead, but 20-degree wind shifted Stars & Stripes out on the right side of the course and it went ahead by four lengths. America's had to make two extra tacks approaching the mark, either because of the current or a wind shift, and Stars & Stripes led by 1.17.
After Conner took a 2 106 lead at the third mark, America3 made its usual helm change when Buddy Melges relinquished the wheel to Koch.
With Koch steering, American cut
side surfaces can be half through
the greeningshell.
America3 made most of its gain on the fifth leg when Stars & Stripes was slowed by using a stayysail in between the mainsail and gennaker. Stars & Stripes went fourth mark to 12; at fifth the fourth mark to 12; at fifth By the sixth mark, the lead went down to 10.
But Stars & Stripes it all back and more mailing into the wind for the final time, leading by 2:03 at the seventh mark.
Italy's I'Il Moro di Venezia, which has bitterly contested New Zealand's use of a bowsprit, beat the Kiwis by 53 seconds, best-of-nine challenge at 3-3.
New Zealand led the series 4-1 after winning on Saturday, but the jury — acting on a protest by Il Moro regarding the bowsprit controversy — annulled that victory. Il Moro came back and won Sunday's race.
The bowsprit is used to set the gennaker, a large headsail, on downward runs.
Knicks top Pistons; Nets stun Cavaliers
The Associated Press
After all the pushing and shoving, the banging and bumping, Patrick Ewing was just too much for the Detroit Pistons.
In a game that featured a first-period skirmish and often looked more like Roller Derby than basketball. Ewing hit the game-tying shot with 13.4 seconds left in regulation, then followed John Stark's time-opening 5-pointer with a pair of baskets that kept the Knicks ahead.
Ewing scored 12 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter and added four more in overtime to lead New York to a 90-87 win over the Pistons at The Palace, giving the Knicks a 2-1 lead in their first-round playoff series.
"I got off to a slow start," said Ewing, who scored just eight points in the first half. "But I was doing other things. I was rebounding, blocking shots."
He and Xavier McDaniel each had 13 rebounds as New York won the battle of the boards for the third straight game. 49-43.
In other playoff action, New Jersey stayed alive with a 109-104 victory over Cleveland, which still leads that series 2-1. Later, Golden State was at Seattle and Uah visited Los Angeles.
Three other series resume Wednesday night: Chicago is at Miami, Portland visits the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix is at San Antonio.
Thomas, heid to only six points, missed a jumper in the lane and Dennis Rodman was called for a foul with 14.3 seconds left. But Joe Dumars picked off Charles Oakley's inbounds pass and called time with 13 seconds remaining and New York ahead 88-87.
The Knicks blew a nine-point third-quarter lead, then made up a three-point deficit in the final minute, tying the game on Ewing's turnaround jump in the lane. The Pistons held for the last shot, but Thomas was forced into a despair hook shot that missed badly.
Starks' 3-pointer to begin the overtime gave the Knicks a lead they never lost — not that Detroit didn't have chances.
When play resumed, Dumars' pass for Thomas was picked off by Mark Jackson, who drew a foul from Thomas and made both free throws. Bill Laimbeer's desperation 3-pointer missed as time ran out.
Knicks 90. Pistons 87
Chicago, Edmonton advance in Stanley Cup quest
The Associated Press
The Chicago Blackhawks and Edmonton Oilers moved on in the NHL playoffs. The Detroit Red Wings and Vancouver Canucks got even.
The Blackhawks defeated the St. Louis Blues 2-1 last night and advanced to the finals of the Norris Division playoffs. The Oilers, meanwhile, stopped the Los Angeles Kings 3-0 and moved into the Smythe the finale.
The Blackhawks will play the winner of the Minnesota-Detroit series, which was tied 3-3 after the Red Wings' 1-overture victory last night.
The Oilers will play for the Smythe championship against the winner of the Vancouver-Winnipeg series, which was tied 3-3 after the Canucks routed the Jets 8-3.
Jeremy Roenick scored both of Chicago's goals as the Blackhawks wrapped up their first-round series.
The Blackhawks won three straight and took the series four games to two and have won seven of eight playoff series against St. Louis.
Blackhawks 2, Blues 1
Roenick, who was second in the league with 53 goals, got his third
fourth of the playoffs. His second goal was his first at even strength since March 5 and gave the Blackhawks a 2-0 lead at 7:40 of the second period.
Nelson Emerson scored his third goal of the playoffs for the Blues.
Oilers 3, Kings 0
The Oilers' present put their past to rest as they won their Smythe Division semifinal series from the Kings in six games.
Bill Ranford stopped 26 shots as the Oilers ousted the Wayne Gretzky-led Kings for the third straight year.
Martin Gellinas, who came to the Oilers in the trade that sent Gretzky to Los Angeles four years ago, got the third goal 2:41 into the second period.
While Ranford and the Oilers' checkers shut down Gretzky, rookie Josef Berenak and Joe Murphy gave Edmonton a 2-0 lead after one period. Berenak beat Kelsey Kludey just 1:39 into the game, and Murphy connected at 17:13.
It was the fifth time in seven playoff meetings that the Oilers have beaten the Kings.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Shockers top 'Hawks
The Wichita State Shockers beat the Kansas Jayhawks 10-3 last night at Eck Stadium in Wichita.
Junior David Soult and freshmen Josh Igou and Brent Wilhelm all had two hits for the Jayhawks. Kansas committed six errors in the contest, played before a crowd of 2,684.
The No. 2 Shockers jumped out to an early 5-lead and never looked back in improving their record to 39-8. Kansas fell to 24-24.
Junior pitcher Todd Bretfogle, 0-1,
started the game for the Jayhawks,
and allowed five runs on five hits in 2
2/3 innings of work. Wichita State's
Joel Bradberry pitched seven innings,
allowing two runs on three hits and
striking out four. Bradberry improved to 4-1 on the year.
The two teams will play each other again at 7 tonight at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Softball plays today
The Kansas softball team will play a doubleheader against Wichita State today in Wichita. The games will be at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
The Jayahwks take a 38-6 record into
the NCAA and are ranked 10th in the
NC.
Sophomore pitcher Stephani Williams, who pitched a perfect game last week against Southwest Missouri State, will start the first game for Kansas. Junior Jill Bailey will start
Team Uncas wins 2-0
the second game
Kansas will travel to Oklahoma City after the game to prepare for the Big Eight conference tournament, which will begin Mav 1.
The Jayhawks are first in the Big Eight with a 5-1 conference record. The only conference loss came at the hands of Iowa State. Kansas lost the game 2-1 in a five-inning game. The game was ended early because of rain.
Team Uncas won the University Hill Championship in floor hockey yesterday with a 2-0 victory against the Sons of Elvis.
Team Unacs advanced to the finals after Delta Upsilon fraternity forfeited in the semifinals. The Sons of Elis reached the final round with a 4-3 victory against the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Panel approves bowl
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — An NCAA panel conditionally approved yesterday a new bowl game to be played indoors in San Antonio after the 1993 season.
The Alamo Bowl will be played on New Year's Eve.
The bowl will be played in the Alamodome, a covered arena under construction that will seat 65,000 for football.
From staff and wire reports