SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Wednesday, March 30. 1994
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Tom Leininger / KANSAN
Kansas sophomore infielder Dan Rude tagged up at first base while Iowa State senior first baseman Brad Mangler attempted to get him out. The Jahwaves won last night's game 10-9.
'Hawks blow past early Cyclone lead
By Andrew Gilman
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas baseball team could not have been happier to see Iowa State pitcher Matt Ruess leave the game.
Ruess, a senior, walked to the dugout after throwing seven solid innings of one-hit ball. He gave up three runs, two of them earned, and exited with the Cyclones leading 9-3. With the departure of Ruess, the Cyclones also seemed to leave Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Too bad there were still two innings of baseball left.
The Jayhawks scored four runs in the eighth and three more in the ninth and stole a Big Eight Conference victory away from the Cyclones 10-9.
Kansas improved to 20-6 overall and 6-2 in conference play. Iowa State dropped to 1-6 and 0-5.
"When we're given 27 outs to play a baseball game, we have a chance," Kansas coach Dave Bjngham said. "I always believed that we could come back and win."
It was the second time that the Jayhawks have won a conference game in their last at bat. Kansas defeated Oklahoma 2-1 Saturday in Lawrence.
Early on, the Jayhawks did not look like a team ready to play. They were on their way to committing five errors.
Sophomore pitcher Clay Baird gave up four ruls and three hits in the first inning before an out was recorded. Junior third baseman Brent Wilhelm also contributed to the Cyclone advantage by committing two errors in the frame.
"This team was not ready to play." Bingham said. "That was the coach's fault."
Ruess had retired 11 consecutive batters throughout the middle innings and had not allowed a hit until junior shortstop Dan Rude connected for a double into right center field. By
Iowa State tallied two more runs in the sixth before Kansas struck back with two of its own in its half of the inning. Wilhelm drove in senior center fielder Darryl Monroe, who reached on an error, with a fielder's choice. Senior right fielder Ron Oelschlager added a fielder's choice RBI, as well, driving in junior left fielder Josh Igou.
that time, the Jayhawks were down 6-1.
Meanwhile, the Kansas relief pitchers kept the Jayhawks in the game. They were highlighted by freshman Jason Schreiber.
Schreiber faced just two batters in the Cyclone ninth inning. He struck them both out and gave Kansas a chance to win the game.
"After the loss to Oklahoma on Sunday, we sat down with the whole bulpen," Bingham said. "They named themselves the nasty boys and said they would get it done. I'm really happy for these guys."
After Baird left the game, Kansas relievers sophomore Scott Tittrington, freshman Tim Lyons and Schreiber combined and limited the Cyclones to two runs in five innings worth of work.
The Jayhawks rode a furious ninth-inning rally to victory.
Monroe started the inning off after being hit by a pitch. After Igou struck out, Wilhelm singled to right field, moving Monroe to second. A double-play ball by Oeelschlager was dropped, and junior pinch hitter Alex King grounded a two-run single to right that bounced off Cyclone senior second baseman Mark Elsinger's glove. Sophomore Clint Hardesty then singled to right and scored the winning run.
"Once King got the hit, it took the pressure off me," Hardesty said. "The guys showed some guys tonight. It would have been easy to quit."
Kansas will play host to Iowa State again at 3 p.m. today. Senior Chris Corn, 4-0, will start for the Jayhawks.
Golf team's hopes get blown away
By Matt Siegel
Kansan sportswriter
Men lose possible first-place finish
The Kansas men's golf team went to California during Spring Break to escape the cold weather. Ironically, it was the weather in California that denied the Jayhawks a possible team victory at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Tournament.
The last round of the tournament in Santa Barbara, Calif., was canceled because of thunderstorms even though most of the teams had finished the round. After Kansas finished the final round, it was in contention for the lead, senior golfer Matt Gogel said.
Instead, the round was canceled, and the Jayhawks finished fifth in the tournament out of 21 teams.
"It was a very unusual ending to a golf tournament," Gogel said. "I guess you just have to take what you can get. We felt like we were going to win the tournament. If it was a conference championship, they would have finished it."
Most college golf tournaments play 36 holes the first day and a final 18 holes the second day. Kansas was in fifth place after 36 holes. Stanford, ranked No.2 in the nation, was leading the tournament.
Kansas finished the tournament under 45 mph winds. Gogel said that it had been the worst conditions in which Kansas had ever played but that the team had thought the golf tournament would be completed. Other teams, he said, were about 30 minutes from finishing.
But those 30 minutes were never played. Tournament officials suspended play for three hours and decided that the course was unfit and that play could not be resumed. So the officials decided that the third round would be completely wiped out and that the final scores would be based on the two completed rounds.
"If they would have waited another 20 minutes, they probably could have resumed play," Gogel said. "A lot of politicking was involved. They decided to cancel the last round, so I lost winning the individual championship outright."
However, Gogel said, players and coaches were not that upset about what occurred because it was early in the season and more important tournaments were coming up. Gogel said the team should start showing signs of improvement because the weather was improving.
Instead, Gogel finished as co-champion of the tournament, and Kansas placed fifth instead of a possible first.
"It is starting to warm up in Lawrence, and we are enabled to compete and practice like the kids in the south and the west." Gogel said. "When you are in this part of the country, you can't expect to play well until April 1. You are just at a disadvantage. It's time for us to start rolling."
The Kansas women's golf team is already on a roll. Behind senior Holly Reynolds' first-place finish, the Jayhawks won the San Diego State Invitational on Thursday and Friday. Reynolds shot a 227 for the tournament.
"It was a fun trip," Reynolds said. "Aside from golf, we did a lot of sightseeing. The team has become a lot stronger, a lot more competitive."
Senior golfer Matt Gogel practices his putting at Alvamar golf course. He finished as co-champion at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Tournament in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Martin Altstaedten / KANSAN
Blue Devils sharpen horns for Final Four
The Associated Press
By Tom Foreman Jr. The Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. — Tony Lang's third trip to the Final Four is turning into the best ride of all.
of what Duke was hoping for.
When the NCAA semifinals begin Saturday in Charlotte, N.C., senior forward Lang and teammates senior guards Grant Hill and Marty Clark will be aiming to earn what few college basketball players have even approached — three national championships.
The Blue Devils face Florida Saturday, after Arkansas plays Arizona. The title game is Monday night.
"I think it's more sweet than the previous ones," Lang says. "Especially after last year and how things went."
It was especially frustrating because of the string of success. Duke finally had answered the critics who questioned it in the big games, winning national titles in 1991-92.
Duke was one of the upset victims in the 1993 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. Then, after beating Southern Illinois and beginning their quest for a third straight title, the Blue Devils were stopped by California. The season finished at 24-8, far short
"I think we had a great year, but we didn't do as well as we felt we could have done in the tournament," Lang said. "Injuries had a lot to do with that."
Hill missed six games late in that season because of a toe injury. Center Cherokee Parks was hurt in the second-round game against California and missed most of the action. Lang had a fractured eye socket earlier in the year.
This year's team has played virtually free of aches and pains.
There was concern that, without Bobby Hurley and Thomas Hill, the team would be unable to make a true run at the championship. Duke answered with Lang, Hill and Clark; along with sophomore guard Chris Collins and his long-range shooting, and Jeff Capel, a freshman who has taken some of the backcourt responsibilities.
Then there was North Carolina, which won the 1993 national title and returned much of the same team that beat Michigan in New Orleans. The Tar Heels did beat Duke twice, but the Blue Devils still topped the ACC at the end of the regular season.
"A lot of people didn't believe that we were going to get this far." Lang said. "I think that makes it feel a whole lot better, and it's more gratifying because of that."
He is part of a starting lineup that is 20-3 and is one of four players scoring in double figures, averaging 12.4 points a game. When the ACC tournament ended for Duke in a loss to Virginia in the semifinals, Lang picked up his game.
Lang has had a big hand in that gratification.
In the NCAA tournament, Lang is hitting 66.7 percent of his shots and averaging 6.8 rebounds a game. He tied Capel's 19 points in Duke's 69-60 victory against Purdue in the Southeast Regional championship and is averaging 15 points a game.
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