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The University Daily KANSAN
University Daily Kansan, April 20, 1984 Page 14
KU edges Washburn in twinbill
'Hawks to play against K-State for playoff berth
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
The Kansas Jayhawk baseball team prepared for its weekend series with Kansas State by sweeping a doubleheader in games 7-6 and 6-4, yesterday at Quincy Field.
KU, 20-18 overall and 1-9 in the Big Eight Conference, will face the Wildcats in double-headers starting at noon on Saturday, 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Quincy Field.
Yesterday's first game was tied 6-6 at the end of the scheduled seven innings. KU pitcher Jon Steiner, 41 on the rebuilt Washburn in order in eighth.
In KU's half of the eighth, Nick Zych doubled with one out. After Mike Ingram and John Hart walked, loading the bases, Joe Heeney hit a sacrifice fly to center, bringing in Zych with the game-winning run.
STEINER PICKED up the victory in relief of starting pitcher Chris Ackley, who gave up five earned runs in $5% innings. Ackley gave up three runs in the first inning, then shut out Washburn through the next four innings.
KU scored one run in the second on Phil Doherty's double, and tied the score on a two-run double by Bill Yelton in the third. John Hart put KU ahead with a three-run triple in the fourth, his third hit of the game.
Steiner relieved Ackley in the sixth with one run in, two outs and runners on first and second, and allowed one more run before getting the side out. He played the game in the seventh on Rust Kastner's double and Derrick Hames 'single'
IN THE SECOND game, KU starter John Heineck gave up seven hits and four runs, three earned, in six innings and picked up the victory, pushing his record to 2-3. Drew Hosman retired the second in the seventh and got his first save.
Heeney, who had a 3-0 record with a 3.32 earned run average last year, hasn't made it through the second inning in three of his seven starts this
He said his inconsistency this year came mainly from a lack of concern over the climate.
"Earlier in the year, I just wasn't concentrating enough." Heeney said. "My concentration was a lot better today and I was trying to use the inner and outer thirds of the plate and stay away from the middle. Earlier in the year, I was throwing it down the middle and getting jacked."
HEENEY GAVE UP one run off a single and a double in the first inning, giving Washburn the early lead, but KU came back with a three-run rally in the second, the big blow being a two-run double by Yelton, the team RBI leader with 34. He was two for four in the game with two RBI.
After Washburn regained the lead with two runs in the third and one in the fourth, KU responded with another run, but Washburn scored fourth, providing the margin of victory.
Zych and Yelton led off the inning with singles. Consecutive walks by Chuck Christensen and Joe Heeney forced in one run. The next batter, Rob Thomson, grounded to third baseman JW Johnoe, who forced Christenson at third and then tried to throw out Yelton at home. The throw arrived in time, but Yelton scored the go-ahead run by jarring the ball loose from catcher Tim Berry. Dan Meyer singled in Heeney for the last run of the inning.
"WASHURUN WAS A solid bal-club," KU assistant coach Skip James said. "When we originally scheduled them, we did it with the idea that it worked out better than as it worked out it wasn't. We needed a couple of ballgames like this."
Colorado State's Jim Steigerwald lets go of the javelin during the decathlon competition in the Kansas Relays. Steigerwald finished sixth in the competition yesterday. Gary Gefre won the event after former KU decathelle Owen Buckley withdrew after the pole vault.
Despite ranking, decathlete withdraws from competition
By GREG DAMMAN
Sports Writer
Former KU decathlete Owen Buckley withdrew from competition yesterday in the KU Relays' Jim Bausch decathlon after failing to score in the pole vault. Buckley, competing stretched, was in second place at the time, male Gary Gerre of the Southwest Stars Track Club.
IN THE HEPTATHLON, Nebraska's Deb Clark placed first with a score of 5.69 points. Val Lemoigan of Murray State finished second with 5.479 points, while KU's Conne McKerran, Rosie Wadman and Julie Hall finished third, fourth and fifth.
McKernan won the long jump yesterday with a leap of 18 feet 3 inches and finished with 5,600 points. Wadman had 4,989 points and Hall 4,637 points.
Buckley, who has a personal best of 16-0 in the pole vault, passed until the bar was placed at 14-2. His first two tries were not close, but on his final try he nearly cleared the bar, but knocked it off on the way down, eliminating himself from contention.
"If the standards were moved forward, I might have made it," Buckle said.
THE POLE VAULT was the third event of the day. In the first event, the 110-meter hurdles, Buckley hit a hurdle and injured his ankle. The ankle didn't bother him in the next event, the discus, but before the pole vault it was swollen and had to be treated with an ice pack.
"I didn't get any warm-ups because of my ankle, but I'm not using my ankle as an excuse."
Buckley said. "It didn't bother me running down the runway. I learned a lot from this deca尔特."
Buckley said that part of his problem with the pole vault, which depends upon calculating one's weight in order to get the proper bend from the pole, stemmed from misjudging how much weight was applied.
Buckley said he lost about five pounds the first day.
BUCKLEY WAS ATTEMPTING to score 7,725 points to qualify for the Olympic Trials and was on pace with a score of 5,509 points after seven events. Despite not qualifying, he said that he hadn't given up yet and that he would try one more time in May.
1 : was worried about getting fat," he said.
2 : when I compete I drop down to eating hardy!
Gefre, who has already prepared for the trials, won the decathlon with a score of 7.819 points. Jay Novicecek of Wyoming was second with 7.615 points and Tom Leutz of North Dakota State was third with 7.428 points. Gefre he now would concentrate on preparing for the Olympic Trials.
"First I'll recover from this, and then I'll gradually build up to it." Geffe said.
Of the 10 events, Gefre won three, demonstrating his strength by winning the shot put, javelin and discus. Buckley won three events, the 100, long jump and 400, and Leutz won three events, the hurdles, 1,500 and the high jump. Navacek won the pole vault with a vault of 16-4.
The morning session began today at Hersberger Track at 8 a.m. The afternoon session begins at t.p.m. Tomorrow's events begin at 7 a.m. with the men's and women's open marathon and 10,000 meters and conclude at 5 p.m. with the Chuck Cramer mile relay.
Mills welcomed back to Lawrence
By GREG DAMMAN
Sports Writer
Billy Mills, the United States' only Olympic 10,000-meter run champion, returned to Lawrence yesterday in preparation for tomorrow's induction ceremony in the KU Hall of Fame.
"I was expecting to start at Triple-A this season," Saberhagen said of his
Rovals' rookie Saberhagen stops Detroit's winning streak
members of the audience asked Mills questions about his career, which began at Haskell Indian University.
Mills was introduced to a crowd of about 75 people on the stadium's artificial turf by KU players.
Mills said that as a young boy his father encouraged him to participate in athletics. At Haskell, Mills went out for football but later switched to cross country. He said that his first workout was with the Haskell record holder in the mile, who trained by running 11 miles a day.
"My first workout came very close to being my last workout." he said.
By United Press International
DETROIT — A year ago Bret Sahbagen was a fifth starter with Fort Myers of the Class A Florida State team on Monday he was the talk of Kansas City.
Detroit pitching coach Roger Craig also had a few good words to say about the youngster only eight days removed from his teens.
"He's one of the best-looking young pitchers I've seen," Craig said after Sabermann七 six innings of six-hit pitching that hit his first loss of the 1984 season, 5-2.
Kansas City's triumph snapped Detroit's nine-game winning streak.
"He's got as much poise as any young pitcher I've seen," Craig said. "I've seen guys with better stuff, but not many with as much poise."
Saberhagen, making his first major league start after three long relief appearances, got three innings of relief from Dan Quinnessberry that was pitched by Vick Gibson's third home run of the season. Quinnesberry earned his five save.
"I had a good feeling I would win today," the rookie right-hander said. "We lost a close game last night and were down three to one well. We just didn't get the key hits.
"This time we got the key hits," said Saberhagen, drafted as a stopshort to the Royals in June of 1982 but switched to the mound after he threw 23 innings of shutout ball in high school playoffs, including a no-hitter.
It was in the Instruction League where the 6-foot-1, 160 pound pitcher really caught the attention of Royals' officials. He allowed one earned run and walked only three batters in 47 innings.
Saberhagen, who was 10-5 with a 2.30 ERA at Fort Myers, then moved to Jacksonville where he posted a 6-2 record with a 3.29 ERA.
spring training expectations. "But I had a good spring
"I showed them I could throw my curve ball and slider for strikes," he said.
"He don't open your eyes with pop on the ball. He has got pitches, but if he hits one he can win."
"You see a lot of pitchers come along with good arms," Craig said, "but you don't see too many come along with good arms. You can throw the ball where they want to."
Saberhagen struck Darrell Evans out with runners on first and third and nobody out in the first and famed Howard Johnson on a changeup with a runner on third and one out in the fifth to take two dangerous moments easier.
"I'm trying to make our kids understand that it's not life or death out there," Kansas City Manager Dick LeMieux said of the team and of two performances isn't so do it.
"Once we made the decision to bring them north with us, we're going to use them. There was more pressure on him in spring training than is there now."
Frank White hit a two-run homer with two out in the eighth to the ice decision after consecutive RBI singles by Jorge Orta and Hal M McRae in the third had enabled Kansas City to overcome a 1-0 Detroit lead.
Saberhagen gave up a run in the first on singles by Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell and Lance Parrish's infield out but stopped the Tigers on only four more hits until giving way to seven hits, the seventh Quinseen notched his despite giving up a solo homer to Gibson, his third, in the ninth.
Dan Petry, 2-1, gave up a single to Greg Pryor to lead off the third and one-out singles to Pat Sheridan, Oral and as the Royals went in front to stay.
DETROIT — Kansas City outfielder Jorge Orta and second baseman Frank White strain for Chet Lemon's pop fly, which fell for a single. White hit a two-run home run and Orta added an RBI-single as the Royals snapped the Tigers' winning streak with a 5-2 victory.
United Press Internationa
Silent Knight tough in Olympic tryouts
By United Press International
For three days Knight, the Indiana coach, and his staff have placed 72 of the nation's top college players through three-a-day workouts in an effort to represent the United States at the Olympics this summer in Los Angeles.
"They told me it would be physical," Michigan center Roy Tarpley said yesterday, "but not as physical as it is."
"I NEVER GOT myself up for twice-a-day workouts, let alone three," Davton swingman Roosevelt Chapman
said, "But in this world, the strong survive."
Following double-headers at Assembly Hall tomorrow and Sunday nights, the squad will be reduced to 14 to 20 players. The squad must be trimmed to 12 by July 14, two weeks before the Olympics.
At a news conference yesterday, Knight said he now is concentrating on five-on-five drills, emphasizing the transition between offense and defense
The first test of survival comes with tomorrow's initial cut of some 30 shirts.
The U.S. Olympic coach added that he has yet to speak to any player concerning his progress.
"WHEN I WATCH I see how they change at the enda of the floor.
"They've got to show us what they
can do," he said. "We'll take it from there."
Two players did not practice yesterday morning — Kenny Walker of Kentucky had an Achilles' heel problem and Tarpley suffered from back spasms. Wayman Tisdale, Oklahoma's All-America forward, practiced yesterday after missing the previous day because of an Achilles' heel problem.
For the first time at the trials, the players have been insured against injury with a $250,000 permanent disability policy with Lloyd's of London. Those ultimately selected for their policies have their policies hiked to $1 million.
The players in have undergone drug training in accordance with Olympic rules.
"Sometimes you look over." DePaul forward Tyrone Corbin said. "But you don't want to find yourself staring at the tower."
FOR ALL OF THE distance Knight has kept from his players, the specter
of the coach has been much in evidence.
During practice, like a lord looking over his manor, Knight is perched on a scaffolding tower.
"I've heard about Bobby Knight so long," Gonzaga guard John Stockton said. "You look up when you hear him speak, you look in his eyes. He's a big figure."
Another big figure, in an entirely different way, has been Charles Barkley, a 6-foot 6, 284-pound center from New York, something of a force during workouts.
"Sometimes I listen," Fullerton State guard Leon Wood said. "And when I hear the rim rattle I know it's Charles Barkley."
SPORTS ALMANAC
BASKETBALL
New Jersey leads East Carolina.
Apr. 21 - Philadelphia 101.
Apr. 20 - New Jersey at Philadelphia, 7 ppm.
Apr. 22 - Philadelphia at New Jersey, 12 ppm.
Apr. 24 - Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7 ppm.
Washington vs. Boston
Apr. 17 — Boston 91, Washington 85
Apr. 18 — Boston 91, Washington 85
Apr. 21 — Boston at Washington 2:00 p.m.
× Apr. 24 — Boston at Washington, 7 p.m.
-apr 24 Boston at washington, 7 p.m.
x-Apr 26 Washington at boston, 6:30 p.m.
Philadelphia vs. New Jersey (New Jersey leads series, 1-0)
Apr. 19 - New York 49, Detroit 90
Apr. 17 - Detroit 113, New York 105
Apr. 20 - Detroit at New York 7 p.m.
Apr. 22 - Detroit at New York 7 p.m.
R.A.P. 27 - New York at Detroit 7 p.m.
p.m.
x.Apr. 26 — New Jersey at Philadelphia, 6:30
n.m.
Milwaukee vs. Atlanta
Detroit vs. New York (Series tied, 1-1)
(Milwaukee leads series 2-10)
Apr 19 - Milwaukee 108, Atlanta 19
Apr 26 - Milwaukee 115, Atlanta 24
Apr 31 - Milwaukee at Atlanta; 2 p.m.
x Apr 24 - Milwaukee at Atlanta; 2 p.m.
Utah vs. Denver
(Series 1,iod. 1)
Apr. 17 - Utah Ute 12, Denver Ute 12
Apr. 17 - Utah Ute 12, Denver Ute 11
Apr. 22 - Utah at Divergent 8, p.m
Apr. 22 - Utah at Divergent 9, p.m
× Apr. 28 - Denver at Ute 8 or 9 p.m
× Apr. 28 - Denver at Ute 8 or 9 p.m
(Phoenix leads series, 1.0)
Apr. 18 - Phoenix Portland 106
Apr. 18 - Phoenix Portland 106
Apr. 22 - Portland at Phoenix 4, p.m
Apr. 24 - Portland at Phoenix 8, p.m
Apr. 24 - Portland at Phoenix 8, p.m
x-Apr. 26 — Phoenix at Portland, 9:30 p.m.
bahia vs. Seattle
(Series tied, 1-1)
Jellie 96 Seattle 96
Apr. 17 — Dallas 88, Seattle 86
Apr. 19 — Seattle 86, Dallas 82
Apr 21 — Dallas at Seattle, 2:30 p.m.
Apr 24 — Dallas at Seattle, 9:30 p.m.
Apr 26 — Dallas at Dallas, 2 p.m.
Los Angeles vs. Kansas City
Apr. 18 - Los Angeles 116, Kansas City 105
Apr. 29 - Kansas City at Los Angeles, 9:30
n.m.
Apr. 22 — Los Angeles at Kansas City, 12 p.m.
x-Apr. 24 — Los Angeles at Kansas City, 7 p.m.
x Apr 24 — Los Angeles at Kansas City, 7 p.m.
x Apr 26 — Kansas City at Los Angeles, 9:30
p.m.
x-if necessary