SPORTS University Daily Kansan, October 27, 1983 Page 14 KU club engages game of trust Frisbee is the Ultimate sport By JOHN UNREIN Sports Writer During a recent competitive game of Ultimate Frisbee, Mark Cernay, Lawrence senior, dived for a pass in the end zone, catching the disk as his momentum carried him out-of-bounds near his own team's bench. As Cerney and his opponent rose from the hard ground, neither knew whether the pass had been complete. There were no referees on hand to make the call because in Ultimate, a game of team Frisbee becoming popular across the country, players make their own calls. Ordinally, those directly involved in the play would decide, but in this case it was up to Cerney's teammates because neither player had seen clearly what happened. And Cerney's teammates called him out-of-bounds. "In any other sport, like football or basketball, everyone on your team would have called you in," said Miley, a member of the KU Frisbee Club. "BUT IN OUR SPORT we have no referees, because we believe in the Ultimate spirit — that players can make calls with honesty on their own. One of the big drawbacks to other sports is that there is always a lot of arguing going on about controversial calls. In Ultimate, when a person makes a call, even if it's wrong, we respect it." Respect is a big part of Ultimate Frisbee, Cernay said, and the sport has grown because of it. About 50 students regularly play on the KU Frisbee Club, which practices Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoons behind Oliver Hall. Now that winter is approaching, members have decided to practice indoors at Robinson Gymnasium starting next week. Ultimate Frisbee is a game much like soccer — only faster — with football end zones. Two seven-man teams oppose each other and trade off passing a 165-gram Frisbee down the 70-yard playing field. The defense stops the 'I've played a lot of basketball and football. But in Frisbee, for the first time, I've felt like I don't have to win to have fun.' Brad Westmoreland Frisbee Club president offense from progressing and forces turnovers either by intercepting the disk or knocking it to the ground, at which time play immediately resumes. THE OBJECT of the game is to have a player catch the disk inside the end zone, which scores a point for that team. The first team to score 15 points wins the game. dale, III. The season, in which the team had a 17-3 record, was the most successful in the seven-year history of the club. Cernay said that the fall season for the HorrorZontals, the name of KU's Ultimate team, concluded Oct. 23 at its regional tournament in Carbon- "This is the third consecutive year we've made it to regionals, but the first year we've ever won a game there," Cerney said. The Ultimate Players Association, the national organization of Ultimate Frisbee, divides the United States into five regions. The HorrorZontals play both university clubs and city teams in the Central region, which includes Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio and Illinois. "I DON'T THINK people take Frisbee seriously," said Heidt Schitz. Leavenworth senior "People don't realize how demanding the sport is." Schultz is one of about 10 women Frisbie players on the KU Frisbee Club. The women also have an Ultimate team, the Grasscarp. Brad Westmoreland, Lawrence junior and Frisbee Club president, said that because ultimate players need to be in top condition, they needed to be in top condition. "It's an extremely demanding, fun sport," Westmoreland said. An important aspect of the sport, Cerney said, is having fun. He said that above anything else he played Frisbee to enjoy himself. "I consider Frisbee to be one of the best sports around," he said. "I've played a lot of basketball and football. In Frisbee, for the first time, I've felt like I don't have to win to have fun." KANSAS CITY. Mo. — They have not played much like kings in recent years, but the Kansas City franchise of the National Basketball Association figures to at least make an entry into the royal court this season. By RICK GOSSELIN United Press International Kings a strong team despite lacking superstar The Kings open the season at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Kemper Arena against the Mets at 8 p.m. The Kings were one of 11 teams that failed to qualify for the 1983 NBA playoffs but have brighter prospects this season with the expansion of the team from 12 to 16 teams. Kansas City might not need that sort of help, however. The Kings, quite simply, are a good basketball team — may not in a class with the Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics — but a good basketball team none the less. KANSAS CITY WAS a good basketball team last season, too, although no one seemed to notice. The Kings finished 45.37, a record as good or better than three of the 12 teams that did qualify for the playoffs, and had at least one win over every team in the NBA. The only team that were the only队 in the NBA to beat every team at least once. The Kings still lack the arena-filling superstar — that player has been absent since 1971 when the franchise traded Oscar Robertson to the Milwaukee Bucks — but have thrived on the shrewd platooning of their coach, Cotton Fitzsimmons. And they figure to do so again this winter. FITZSIMMONS WILL HAVE bigger, better players to platoon this season as the Kings pursue the franchise's first championship since 1961 when they played victorious in a seven-game series with the New York Knickerbockers. The Kings have a solid scoring nucleus of guards Larry Drew and Mike Woodson and small forward Eddie Johnson. They were John's team when Duke was averaged 20.1 points, Johnson 19.8 and Woodson 10.2. In addition, only six NBA players logged more playing time than the 2,933 minutes of Johnson and only three averaged better than the 8.1 assists-per-game of Drew. THE KINGS MADE FOUR significant offseason moves that figure to make the club a force in the Midwest Division. The Kings traded for power forward Mark Olberding and off-guard Billy Knight, signed free-agent guard Don Busie and made a man out of LaSalle Thompson by sending him to the Southern California Summer League. Thompson, the club's first-round draft choice in 1982, was a big disappointment last winter when he averaged only 5.4 points and 5.3 rebounds during a foul-plagged rookie season. But he was a terror in California this summer for the Kings, averaging 23.7 points, 12.0 rebounds and 4.2 blocked shots to win league MVP honors. "We weren't picked by anyone last year and no one has picked us for anything this year." Fitzsimmons said. "We're not going to the NBA - we can't get no respect." 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