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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday. August 30.1993
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Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
Jackie Vogel, Chicago graduate student, tackles London Seely, Chicago senior. The Kansas Women's Rugby practiced yesterday at Shenk Complex, the playing fields at 23rd and Iowa streets. The drill was designed to teach skills required for the rugged sport.
Women tackle game of rugby
By Anne Felstet
Kansan sportswriter
Rugby, defined as a form of football in which forward passing, substitution of players, and time-outs are not permitted, usually does not connote women.
Yet women are participating in this traditionally rised sport.
Kansas's first women's rugby team formed last year under the direction of graduate student Jackie Vogel, a former player with the Boston Women's Rugby team, and senior Mendell Frohlin, a newcomer to the sport.
Vogel contacted Norm Chase, a 16-year rugby veteran, to coach the team.
"I've loved what I've gotten out of the game," Chase said about why he was coaching. "And I wanted to give back what I've gotten out of it."
Chase played rugby at Kansas State.
Yesterday's practice at Shenk Complex
the playing field at 23rd and Iowa streets, was the team's second practice of the new season. Chase had the 10 players doing drills for ball handling and conditioning.
One drill was similar to the child's game "duck-duck-goose." One player would toss the ball to the next person in the circle, then take off sprinting to return to her spot before the ball could be tossed around the whole circle.
Another drill focused on tackling. Chase would call out a player's name in random order to have her run straight across the circle of players. The player in the middle had to take the runner down and recover before the next runner bound across the circle.
Frolio said this year's team had about five or six returning players. She said some of the new players had experience and some had no clue about rugby.
"I know I had no clue when I started." Frol-
io said. "They just threw me in a game and said 'go.'"
First year player DaVonne Zentner learned about the team through its information booth set up at the Kansas Union during Hawk Week. She said had never played rugby before.
"I always wanted to play football," said the almost 6-foot tall junior. "But not with men because I thought I would get killed."
She said she enjoyed the game because it was the only women's contact sport.
Chase characterized a woman rugby player as someone fit — not big and bulky, very athletic and a woman dedicated to self and group improvement.
The women's rugby team practices Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 p.m. The team will take on Northeast Missouri State and Kansas State in the Heart of America Select Side Tournament Sept. 11 in Kansas City, Mo.
Seles makes appearance at U.S. Open festivities
Tennis stars honor Ashe
NEW YORK — Monica Seles made her first public appearance at a tennis event since her stabbing in April, returning yesterday to the scene of her 1911 and 1922 U.S. Open triumphs to join the tennis world in remembering Arthur Ashe.
The Associated Press
Seles, smiling at court side the day before the Open began without her in the draw, waved to 13,000 fans who gave her a standing ovation. She sat beside Ashe's widow, Jeanne, and daughter, Camera, signed autographs and, at one point, leaned over a railing from the president's box to exchange a kiss and hug with Jennifer Capriati.
"It's a very special day," said Seles, who asked Saturday to attend this exhibition. "I wanted to be here because I love Arthur and I want to support his Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS."
Still unable to practice because of the back wound from her attack in Hamburg, Germany, by an obsessed Steffi Graf fan, Seles was interviewed shortly afterward at Vail, Colo., where she has been undergoing physical therapy. She also appeared in a televised interview last week. But this appearance at the National Tennis Center marked the first time she has come back to the crowd, back to a court and back to public life.
"New York loves Monica Seles," Alan King, master of ceremonies, said after the crowd's long ovation.
"I thought she showed a lot of guts coming here," said J. Howard "Bumpy" Frazer, chairman of the U.S. Open committee.
Seles, who flew up from her home in Sarasota, Fla., sat in a United States Tennis Association office until the exhibition began. Then as she started up the stairway in the stadium, she hesitated a moment as if afraid of going further Tournament director Stephen DeVoe reassured her.
"I said to her. 'Monica, there are a lot of people up there who want to pour a lot of love on you.'"
DeVoe said.
Men's No. 1 Jim Courier and No. 2 Pete Sampras played the first 12-point tie breaker exhibition but won't start for real until tomorrow or Wednesday.
As Seles stepped from the stairway shadows into the sunlight, gaily dressed in a cherry-red blouse, a white ribbon in her dark hair, fans shouted her name and applauded warmly. She smiled,iggled and appeared almost embarrassed. And she looked, even in sunglasses, as if that applause was some of the best therapy she has received.
Seles plans to hold a news conference today, shortly after her successor at No.1, Graf, begins play against Robin White.
When Ashe won the U.S. Open 25 years ago,
the disease that would lead to his death last February wasn't even known. Yesterday, some of the game's greatest players gathered in his name to help wipe out the virus.
The exhibition, which raised $114,000 for the Ashe Foundation for the Dreat of AIDS in its inaugural last year, drew retired four-time champion John McEno and Andre Agassi among other players, plus New York Mayor David Dinkins, heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe and former champ Evander Hollyfield.
"Arthur Ashe was a great man and someone I always looked up to," Sampras said, summing up why all the players appeared in the televised exhibition.
"I think in the past the players could have done more in their support of charities," said McEnroe. Ashe's longtime friend who is helping to lead one of Ashe's other charities. "It's really sad that it took Arthur Ashe dying to do something. But if that was where it started, maybe it'll all be worthwhile for everybody."
Among today's featured U.S. Open matches are four-time champion and No. 8 seed Martina Navratilova against Gloria Pizzichini; No. 4 Conchita Martinez against Sandrine Testud; No. 9 Anke Huber against Karin Kschwandt; men's No. 9 Per Korda against Wayne Ferreira and No. 14 Alexander Volkov against Jonathan Stark.
McEnroe, a television commentator at this year's Open after 16 straight years as a player, said he thought only five men — Courier, Sampras, Agassi, Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker—have solid shots at winning.
"Stefan is probably the longest shot of those five," McEnroe said. "He's won it two times in a row and the pressure builds up."
McEnroe was one of only three players to win three in a row, along with Ivan Lendl and Bill Tilden, winner of six straight during the 1920s.
"To me, it's a great opportunity for Andre and Boris," said McEnroe, who is close friends of both. "Jim and Pete are fighting for No. 1 in the rankings. It would make it so much more exciting if Andre or Boris won."
Agassi has been training with new coach Pancho Segura, a former great player and a pivotal figure in Jimmy Connors' career. The switch from longtime coach Nick Bollettieri has given Agassi more confidence and a stronger sense of what he should be doing on certain points.
"There's no question that since Wimbledon I've made some big improvements," said Agassi, who has gone back to his old full-swing serve instead of the tomahawk chop style he branded at Wimbleton while recovering from tendinitis in the wrist. "I feel very solid about my game, about my match play, my competitiveness.
"The serve is not determined by your backswing, it's determined by your execution. But using the full range of motion gives me more of a rhythm, something I can count on as the match progresses."
Winning Braves stay close to Giants
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves have made a habit this season of getting into trouble and then escaping
David Justice hit two-run homer, his fifth in five games, and Ron Gant drove in three runs with a pair of singles yesterday to back seven strong innings by Glavine as the Braves kept the pressure on the NL West-leading San Francisco Giants with an 8-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
The victory, Atlanta's seventh in eight games and 16th in 18 contests, kept the Braves four games behind the Giants. San Francisco beat Florida 9-3 at Joe Robbie Stadium later in the day.
The Braves, idle today while the Giants and Marines close out a three-game series, play host to the Giants for a three-game set beginning tomorrow.
The Braves, 10 games behind the Giants five weeks ago, have suddenly caught fire, making a race of it by sweeping three games from San Francisco earlier in the week.
"I don't think many people realistically a week ago — 10 days ago — gave us a chance," Glavine said. "But we took care of business in San Francisco to get back in this thing."
"It's going to be a big series, but there's still a lot of baseball left when that series ends." Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox said. "It doesn't stop there."
Glavine, 16-5, pitched seven innings for the win, giving up seven hits and five walks and striking out three batters. Glavine was helped by his teammates who made three double plays as he won for the sixth time in his last seven decisions.
"My best pitch was the ground ball when I got in trouble," Glavine said. "I've had the uncanny ability this year
to get into trouble and with one pitch get out of it."
The Braves turned the three double plays in the first four innings as Glavine struggled with his control.
"He put some runners on base, but the thing about Glavine is he knows how to get out of jams." Chicago manager Jim LeFebvre said. "He had the double-play pitch going today, and that's all he needed."
Atlanta broke open a scoreless game in the fourth off Greg Hibbard, 10-11, with four runs, keyed by Gant's two-run single and Justice's two-run homer, his 34th.
The Braves added three runs in the fifth on Jeff Blauer's third hit, an RBI triple, Gant's run-scoring single and an error by right fielder Glenallen Hallen.
The Cubs scored twice in the fifth on a solo homer by Hill, his second, and an assist by Kane. Justice drove in his third run of the game with an RBI single in the eighth.
Tar Heels bury Trojans in Pigskin Classic
The Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Two players named Johnson boosted North Carolina's football fortunes with a 31-9 victory over Southern Cal in the Pigskin Classic on last night.
Leon Johnson and Curtis Johnson helped the Tar Heels. No. 20 in the preseason poll, spoil John Robinson's return as coach of the No. 18 Troians after a 10-year absence.
Leon Johnson carried the ball 10 times for 94 yards and caught four passes for 35 yards. Curtis Johnson gained 78 yards on 17 carries.
Coach Mack Brown won his fifth season opener in six years at North Carolina, and the Tar Heels have won 20 of their last 24 opening games.
Robinson's plan to reinstitute the Trojans' famed running game ran
into an immediate snag. Dwight Mfcadden, the team's best rusher, broke his left ankle late in the first quarter. The sophomore gained 44 yards on seven carries.
His backup, Scott Fields, managed just 16 yards on seven carries. Converted tailback Deon Strother caught five passes for 50 yards and rushed for 13 yards on four carries.
Another Trojan left the game in the first quarter. Safety Mike Salmon, California Angels outfielder Tim Salmon's brother, brushed his left shoulder and did not return.
After the Trojans dominated the first quarter behind MFadden, the second half was all Tar Heels. Fields fumbled on a hit by Ray Jacobs, who recovered. Marcus Wall then scored a touchdown and the Tar Heels led, 21-3.
Trip Pignett kicked a 26-yard field goal on the first play of the fourth quarter and William Henderson scored from 8 yards out as North Carolina took a 21-13 lead.
Tyler Cashman gave Southern Cal a late touchdown when he caught a 5-yard pass from Rob Johnson. Cole Ford's point-after was blocked by Troy Barnett.
Leon Johnson scored from 19 yards out early in the second quarter for a 7-0 lead.
The Trojan loss was reminiscent of Robinson's debut as Southern cal coach in 1976. Missouri trounced the heavily favored Trojans, 46-25, resulting in immediate criticism. Robinson eventually had the last word when Southern Cal went on to win their remaining 11 games and the Rose Bowl.
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