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The University Daily KANSAN
University Daily Kansan, April 24, 1984
Page 16
Heeney hot as 'Hawks capture series from K-State
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
Kansas shortstop Joe Heeney tucked off on the Kansas State pitching staff and broke out of his Big Eight Conference hitting slump as the Jayhawk baseball team took three of four games from the University yesterday and Sunday at Quincy Field.
KU, 23-19 overall and 4-10 in the conference, swept a double-header from K-State on Sunday, 13-2 and 7-3, and won yesterday's first game, 15-13, before losing 18-2 to the Wildcats in the nightcap.
Heeney, who was three for 28 in conference games coming into the series, raised his conference batting average to 372 by going 13 for 15 in the series, with five home runs, ten runs scored and 12 RBI.
"I wasn't doing anything different up at the plate." Heeney said. "I did talk
with the KU sports psychologist (Andy Jacobs), and he helped me out with my concentration."
Heeney went five for five with three home runs in yesterday's first game, in which the Jayhawks collected 22 hits, their highest total of the year. Hugh Stanfield went four for five with a home run. He raised his conference batting average to .434 by going nine for 17 in the series.
Eleven home runs were hit in the game. In addition to Heeney and Stanfield, Chuck Christenson, Steve Meyer and Rob Thomson hit homers for KU. K-State had four homers, including three-run shots by Cary Colbert and Otto Kafus off KU starting pitcher Dennis Coplen.
The Jayhawks had leads of 5-0, 9-4 and 12-8, but K-State came back each time and eventually tied the game at 7-6. The hosts off Jon Steinler in the eighth inning.
Heeney scored the go-ahead run in
the bottom of the eighth with his third home run of the game, an inside-the-park shot that sent K-State center field Scott Graves crashing into the wall. Thomson followed with another home run. Steiner, 5-1 this season, retired the Wildcats in order in the ninth and picked up the victory.
"The wind was blowing out everything that was hit straight away." Heeney said "Whether or not the first two homers would have been taken I don't know I do know the inside-the-parker would have been a normal pop-up."
A 10-run third inning by K-State in yesterday's second game spoiled KU's chances of a sweep. The game was tied at 22 going into the inning, but then the Wildcats scored five runs off KU starter Duke Lohr, 4-3, who took the loss, and five more runs, none of them earned, off Chris Ackley.
Colbert, the leading home-run hitter in K-State history, hit two homers in
the game and drove in six runs, giving him 11 RBI for the day.
KU, which averaged 13 hits a game in the first three games of the series, had only eight hit K-State starter Scott Lichliter. 2.3, who gained the victory.
Kevin Kroeker, 2.4, started Sunday's first game and picked up his first conference victory. He went the distance, striking out five and allowing 15 while hitting his overall earned run average at 1.15 and his conference ERA at 1.23.
Kroeker, who got only two runs from his teammates in his last three starts, was staked to the victory by a nine-run KU fifth inning. Key hits in the rally were a two-run double by Bill Yelton and a two-run homer by Heeney who added his seventh strike of the season, breaking the KU single-season record.
Phil Doherty gave KU a 2-1 lead in the third inning with his second homer
of the season. He went three for four in
the game, which was scheduled for nine
innings but was called after seven
because of the ten-run rule.
K-State was leading 3.2 in the bottom of the fourth inning of Sunday's second game when Christenson belted a two-run home, giving KU the lead to stay. KU starter Charlie Buzard, 2.3, shutout the Wildcats the rest of the way and picked up the victory.
"K-State's pitching wasn't up to par to the rest of the conference." Heeney said. "They had some guys who threw the ball hard, but they weren't overpowering and they didn't trick you. They were like a good NAIA team."
Tomorrow the Jayhawks travel to Emporia State to take on the Hornets in a double-header. They finish their conference season this weekend against nationally ranked Oklahoma State in Stillwater.
KU's Johnson, Baeraas capture firsts at Relays
By GREG DAMMAN Sports Writer
Clint Johnson captured first place in the shot put and discus and Anne-Grette Baeraas won the javelin for the girls. The team played Saturday at the Kansas Relays.
Johnson won the shot put Saturday with his best mark of the outdoor season, 62 feet 5 inches. In Friday's discus competition, Johnson battled the traditional Relays wind and rain, but his throw of 177-4 was the second best in the men's tournament enough for first place in the men's university division. Scott Lloquist, competing unattached, won the open discus with a throw of 185-5.
"I'd thrown against most of them before," Johnson said. "I knew it was going to be hard to beat Scott. It wasn't the optimal conditions, that's for sure, but I was real pleased with my performance."
Johnson has yet to reach the Olympic Trials qualifying mark of 65-0, but the junior from Shawnee Mission South High School said that he thought he could reach that mark before the Trials in June KL assistant coach E迪Bielk said that one of Johnson's pats at the game was about 65 feet, but was a scratch.
Baeraa, a freshman from Norway and the Kansas record-holder in the
javelin, also competed in the rain Friday. Her throw of 166-2 was nearly 15 feet farther than Penn State's Marilyn Senz's throw of 151-7.
"Anne-Grethe had a pretty good meet, coffee, and burgers." Mrs. Brunet had to hurt some.
The KU women also received a second from Lisa Bossch in the discus, who threw a personal best 158-1. Bossch was narrowly defeated by Julie Jones of Brigham Young, who won the event with a loss of 158-5.
"one got beat on her last throw," Coffey said of Lerdahl. "All of the girls wanted to win because it was our home meet. You really can't blame the weather conditions because it's been like this most of the season."
Highlights of the meet included Iowa State's Nawal Ei Moutawakel's women collegiate record of 55.69 in the 400 hurdles and Arkansas State's Steve Stubblefield's Relays pole vault in the 200, but Hogan qualified for the finals in the 200, but pulled a muscle in the finals and was unable to finish.
The Jayhawks *Stine Lerdahl*, 1982 KU Relays champion in the shot put, finished third this year with a put of 48.6½. Penn State's Elaine Sobansky set a KU Relays record with a mark of 53.4, eclipsing the old record by just one-fourth of an inch. Grace Apiafi of Woming was second at 48.9½.
Date Hainin
Mike Vanatta of Southeast Missouri State sloshes through the water barrier in the 3,000-meter steeplechase during the Kansas Relays. Vanatta did not place in the event, which was won by Wyoming's Dermont Bradshaw.
Manning cut from Olympic trials; Woodard among final 17
From Staff and Wire Reports
KU basketball signe Danny Manning fell victim to the first of two cuts over the weekend at the U.S. Olympic trials in Bloomington, Ind.
In Colorado Springs, Colo., former KU star Lynette Woodward was one of 17 players to survive the cuts for the women's Olympic team.
The 6-foot-11 Manning, who led Lawrence High School to the finals of the 6A championship, was cut Friday along with 38 others. Fourteen more players were cut yesterday.
The cuts left coach Bobby Knight with 20 survivors in camp.
the five All-America players at the trials survived the cuts and the exhausting week of practices.
Patrick Ewing, the center for NCAA champion Georgetown, and Michael Jordan of North Carolina, the Player of the Year, were joined by Sam Perkins of North Carolina, Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma and Chris Mullin of St. John's.
"These 29 players by far and away were beyond everyone else in the trials," Knight said. "No one else was remotely close. Another group of
coaches would have picked another team."
Yesterday's cut was to have narrowed the squad from 34 players to about 18, but Knight said that there was good reason for increasing the number.
The 20 will return to the Indiana University campus May 10-15 for more practices. The roster must be trimmed to 12 by July 14, two weeks before the Olympics in Los Angeles.
"The play at guard was so strong that rather than try to establish the guards through debate, we wanted to establish the guards through play," he said.
Besides Jordan, nine other guards to qualify were Steve Alford of Indiana.
Johnny Dawkins of Duke, Vern Fleming of Georgia, Lancaster Gordon of Lousville, Maurice Martin of St Joseph's, Terry Porter of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Alvin Robertson of Arkansas, John Stockton of Gonza and Leo Wood of Fullerton State.
Perkins, Tisdale and Mullin were chosen at forward with Charles Barkley and Chuck Person of Auburn and Jeff Turner of Vanderbilt.
Accompanying Ewing at center were Joe Klee of Arkansas, Jon Koneck of Southern Methodist and Tim McCormick of Michigan.
Seven women were cut Sunday and four more yesterday in trouts at the
The other 16 players who survived the cuts were Cathy Boswell of Illinois State, Patty Joe Hedges of Kentucky, Anne Donovan of Old Dominion, Laitaumya Pollard of Long Beach State, Cheryl Miller of Southern California, Jance Lawrence of Louisiana Tech, Cindy Noble of Tennessee, Kim Mulek of Louisiana Tech, Denise Curry of UCLA, Pam McGee of Southern California, Lea Henry of Tennessee, Tresa Spauding of Brigham Young, Joyce Walker of Louisiana State, Carol Schaudt of Oregon State, Teresa Edwards of Georgia and Kamie Ethridge of Texas.
Olympic Training Center
Tennis teams nab victories over ISU, NU
Big 8 tourneys on tap this week in Kansas City
By JEFF CRAVENS Sports Editor
Both the KU men's and women's tennis teams came away with two victories over the weekend, but while the women's team gained ground on second-place Oklahoma, the men's performance knocked them out of a battle for first place.
The women beat Iowa State 8-1 Friday, then edged Nebraska 5-4 Saturday, leaving them in a tie for third place in the Big Eight going into the conference championships, which begin today at the Woodside Racquet Club in Westwood in Johnson County.
The Jayhawks are tied with Nebraska with 34 points each. Both are one point behind second-place Oklahoma.
"The girls were amazing," Perelman said. "They have come so far in the last three weeks. It is a classic case of a young team coming together at the club."
Pairings for the tournament were to be announced last night. Perelman said he was confident the women could do well.
He said that Christine Parr at No 4 singles and Debbie Coleman at No 6 singles were in good positions to win their flights going into the tournament.
Perelman said the No. 2 doubles team of Parr and Barbara Inara and the No. 3 team of Cindy Bregin and Stefanie Fink played well enough to win at Woodside.
Last season, the women's team finished fifth in the Big Eight.
"We didn't play with enough intensity or enthusiasm." Perelman said. "It is good that we won, but in this conference, it is not only that you win, but how you win."
Both Oklahoma State and second-
place Oklahoma beat Iowa State 9-0
and Nebraska 8-1 earlier in the season.
By playing two close matches, KU fell
from second to third place, one point
behind Oklahoma.
The men's team beat Iowa State 63 on Friday and Nebraska 5-4 on Saturday. However, the Jayhawks lost ground on first place Oklahoma State, all but eliminating KU's chances for a conference championship.
The men's pairings will be announced tomorrow night and play will begin Thursday at Woodside. The finals will be Friday.
"Right now, second place is a realistic goal." Perelman said.
"With the exception of Mike Wolf and John Cochrane, the guys have all been here before. They know what to expect and they are very eager."
He will be the heavy favorite to win the encore single title in his first year of career.
Wolf. KU's freshman No. 1 singles
player played the Big Eight regular
weekend.
Perehlman also said that Charles Stearns at No. 4 singles had a good chance to win a conference championship as well as all three KU doubles teams.
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