SPORTS
University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 6, 1992
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Baseball team heads to Florida
By Jerry Schmidt
Kansan sportswriter
While most of the college students in Florida next week will be taking in the sun and the sights, the Kansas baseball team will be there hard at work.
The Jayhawks will travel to Daytona Beach and Jacksonville over spring break with hopes of improving their 8-2 record, their best start since 1972, when the team started 10-2.
"When we're going to go on a spring break trip, we want to make it like an NCAA Tournament-caliber type of series," head coach Dave Bingham said. "That's what we're getting in this trip."
Kansas will play Stetson University 7 p.m. tomorrow at Daytona Beach. The Jayhawks will then travel to Jacksonville to play South Carolina at 7
p. m. Monday and Jacksonville University at noon Tuesday. The Jayhawks will return to Daytona Beach on Wednesday to play George Mason University at 7 p.m.
The trip will be anything but relaxing. The four teams that Kansas will play have a combined record of 28-19.
Stetson University, in De Land, Fla., has an 8-record this year, with victories against Jacksonville University and third-ranked University of Miami. The Hatters are led by All-American shortstop candidate Wes Weger. Stetson has made three NCAA Tournament appearances in the last four years.
South Carolina, ranked 12th by Baseball America and 24th by College Baseball, has a 9-2 record. The Gamecocks have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 12 times since 1975
and have advanced to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., five times.
Jacksonville is 9-7 this season after posting a 43-21-2 record last year. The Dolphins were the No.3 seed in the NCAA East Regional and were 19-16 against ranked teams.
George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va., is 2-4 this season. Edson Hoffman, a transfer from Garden City Community College, has a team-leading 1.64 ERA for the Patriots.
Bingham said the trip would enable his team to leave the pressures of school behind in Lawrence and focus solely on baseball. Bingham said he was not concerned about his team losing its focus with the many distractions Florida offers this time of year.
"Maybe with other teams, but it doesn't bother me that much with this
club," he said. "We will be alerted to it, but this club is very mature in what they want."
For junior shortstop Arturo Ayala, the trip will be special even before the Hawks hit the sunshine state.
Ayala said that his family had considered traveling with the team to Florida but that their plans had changed.
"We have a layover in Houston and that's where I'm from," Ayala said. "I'll get to see my family and my little brother for the first time since Christmas break."
"They'll come up for the Oklahoma State series since it's pretty close to Houston," he said.
The next home action for the team will be against Colorado State with a doubleheader March 14 and a single game on March 15.
Divers to compete in regional meet
By Chris Jenson
Kansan sportswriter
Two members of the Kansas diving team will be spending their spring break in the water, but they won't be anywhere near a beach.
Sophomore Tom Davidson and freshman Amy Graham will participate in the National Zone Diving competition March 13th and 14th in Lincoln, Neb.
Diving coach Don Fearon said Davidson had a legitimate chance at qualifying for the NCAA championships which will be held the last two weekends in March.
"Look out for Tim," Fearon said.
"The competition will be tough, but I think he could qualify."
Davidson qualified for last year's competition, placing 29th in the three-peat.
Davidson finished third in the Big Eight Championships in February, but injured his arms in the competition
Fearon said that the country was divided into five zones for the competition and that the top eight men and top ten women are eligible to qualify for the NCAA championships.
when he hit the board on a dive.
"He's real tough." Fearon said. "When he hit the board, he bruised his arms. But it hasn't affected him psychologically. He's diving as well now as he was before the conference meet."
Fearon said Davidson's best dives were twisting dives.
"Tim is best at the back twister on both the one and three-meter boards," he said. "He can twist really fast."
One of the toughest dives Davidson does is a back 2/12twist. Fearon said,
"Not many people that we have competed against do that dive," he said.
The dive carries a 2.9 degree of difficulty. The highest degree of difficulty
Fearon said that Graham would use the meet as an educational experience and that if she had a great day she could take some people by surprise.
"Hopefully she will have a good meet," Fearon said. "Never discount anything, but I think she's about a year away."
Davidson and Graham will be competing against divers from Big Eight and Southwest Conference schools, as well as independents, Fearon said.
No.4 Arizona claws California,100-75
The Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. — Sean Rooks scored 16 points and Chris Mills added 15 more as fourth-ranked Arizona continued its quest for a fifthstraight Pacific-10 Conference title, defeating California 100-75 last night.
Arizona, 23-4 overall and 12-3 in the Pac-10, used defensive pressure and superior height and experience to crunch the Golden Bears, 8-17 overall and 2-13 in the conference, who started three freshmen.
The Wildcats trailed league co-leaders UCLA and Southern Cal by one game entering the contest. The Wildcats finish their Pac-10 schedule at those schools next week.
The Wildcats, with six players in double figures, led by as many as 26 points in the first half, during which they shot 61 percent, and were ahead 57-33 at intermission.
They held 29-point leads three times in the second half before going up briefly by 30 when Deron Johnson's la-seup made the score 98.
58 with 1:52 remaining.
Arizona set the tone right away by making its first five shots, including 3-pointers from Mills and Matt O'Dick, establishing a 13-5 lead.
Lamond Murray's 3-pointer brought the Golden Bears to within 3, making the score 21-18. But the Wildcats scored 12 straight points in an 18-5 run in which they hit four 3-pointers — one by each Ofthic and Khalid Reeves and two by Damon Stoudamire, for a 39-23 lead.
To show the kind of night Calhad, late in the first half coach Lou Campanelli was called for a technical foul after objecting to a call made when rooks was fouled. The officials inadvertently let Otkh take the technical foul shots first, which he made. They then realized their mistake and disallowed the shots. They permitted Rooks to take his two foul shots, which he hit, and then allowed Otkh to try again. He made both shots.
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