UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 18, 1993
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Douet Hesse / KANSAN
A sign football season is near
Gary McManness, left, and Les Rolins, both of Lawrence, change light bulbs in the Memorial Stadium scoreboard sign. Facilities Operations was preparing the sign for the coming football season.
Sports tickets in demand
Kansas success spurs students to buv passes
By Anne Felstet
Kansan sportswriter
Thanks to successful basketball, football and baseball seasons, all sports tickets and nonstudent season tickets have become hot items.
Season ticket sales this week are approximately 22 percent above sales levels at this time last year. Bernie Kish, director of ticket operations and sales, said the winning sports seasons had a tremendous impact on ticket sales.
An all-sports ticket, $85, allows the holder to attend all home football and basketball games and the Kansas State. Students hoping to purchase tickets now must do so during enrollment or wait until next year. Students who have purchased their tickets must wait until after enrollment has been completed to receive them.
A season ticket for reserved seating costs $111. South bleacher tickets are $36 and north bowl seats sell for $54. Season tickets for families
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for $84. Season tickets for families — two adults and four children — cost $180. Kish said a lot of younger families were buying the family package.
Kish said he expected student turnout at the games to reach full capacity. Media attention and students returning from summer break should keep season ticket sales on the rise.
A student committee is looking into a system for allocating all sports tickets if the demand surpasses the supply of seating. Kish said.
Mike Enenbach, Overland Park sophomore, bought an all-sports ticket again this year. He said he probably would buy one every year.
"Buying a ticket helps support the teams at KU," Enenbach said. "And everyone has one, so it's fun to go with a bunch of people."
However, not everyone purchases a ticket. Gretchen Koetterheinrich, Olatte junior, said she had bought a ticket in the past but didn't this year because she was too busy and she did not like going hours before basketball games to get a good seat.
Koetterheinrich said she probably would attend a few games, though.
Kish said the athletes appreciated the students' support.
"People like to be associated with winning teams," Kish said. "Therefore, more people are buying the tickets."
Kish said the winning seasons had made his job a lot easier.
"We still do marketing, but now people are calling us," Kish said. "It's fun to be a part of Kansas athletics.
"The students, with all their loud cheering, made a big difference in some big games last year."
Anyone interested in purchasing season tickets can contact the ticket sales office at 864-3141.
Cheers meet Ojeda's return to pitching
The Associated Press
Bob Ojeda has become a starting pitcher in the major leagues all over again.
Five months after he nearly died in the Florida boating accident that killed two teammates, Ojeda joined the Cleveland Indians' rotation Monday night in a guts 4-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.
He pitched five innings and allowed three runs and seven hits, striking out one and walking none. The numbers mattered little to him.
"I want good results, but the fact that I was out there was weighing heavily on my mind," he said. "And the way the people responded has been great."
Ojeda, 35, received standing ovations from the crowd of 25.546 when he walked to the bulpen for pregame warmups and again when he took the mound for the first inning.
Ojeda was added to the Indians' roster 10 days ago and appeared in relief in Baltimore and Milwaukee before manager Mike Hargrove gave him the starting assignment at home Monday.
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