University Daily Kansan
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KU Splits With Buffs For First League Win
By SAM JONES
Kansan Sports Writer
A chilly May day was warmed somewhat as the Kansas baseball team split a double-header with Colorado, 1-3 and 11-10, and won its first conference game yesterday.
Going into the afternoon with a 10-3 season record, the Buffers were highly favored to add two wins. And until the sixth inning of the second game, there wasn't much doubt.
Ahead 9-0 going into the bottom of the fourth inning of the second game, the Buffs' pitching unwound and lost control of the game.
Leading off, KU's Don Steinmeyer smacked a single into center field for his first hit of the day. He moved to second when Gary Padgett singled to short right. Buff second baseman Jim Nylund muffed the throw from right field, allowing both runners to advance.
The bases were loaded when Rodley Budrich was walked by Duff pitcher Cris Schmidt, Steinmeyer and Padgett scored when Loren Martin singled to left. KU's pitcher Gary Fenity was walked, loading the bases again.
With Fenity on third and Dixon on first, first baseman Bill Heitholt filled to deep right field, with Fenity scoring after the catch. Forrest Hogland was then walked moving Dixon to second.
The Buffs then changed pitchers as Bob Weber came on in relief. Center fielder Don Dixon singled to left-center, driving in two more runs.
With the bases loaded again,
Steinmeyer came up for the second
time and was walked, forcing
home Dixon with the seventh run
of the inning. Conn was forced at
third when Paddget hit to the
base, and the inning ended as
Steinmeyer was forced at home
even Buff catcher Charles Parker
ropped Martin's third strike and
touched home plate.
Bobby Conn, KU center fielder, was safe at first on a grounder to short when the Buff shortstop threw into the dirt at first.
The Buffs picked up their tenth run in the top of the sixth when centerfield Carrol Hardy smacked a home run into centerfield. The ball hit in front of Conn and took a wild bounce away from him, and rolled to the fence.
In the KU sixth, Don Steinmeyer led off with a sigh to left
field. Padgett went to first on a fielder's choice. Then Budrich singled to short right moving Steinmeyer to third and Padgett to second.
Steinmeyer was forced at home when Martin grounded to Buff second baseman Nylund who threw to the catcher for the out.
KU's third pitcher, Wayne Tiemier, singled to short right sending home Padgett. Budrich scored when Dixon was walked. Martin scored when Buff first baseman Bruce Klass dropped the ball, allowing Heitholt to get to first.
Tiemeier scored the winning run when Hoglund popped to deep left for a sacrifice fly.
Columbia, Mo. — (U.P.)— Missouri defeated Kansas State 15-2 here yesterday for its second win over the Wildcats in two days.
The Buffs couldn't come back in the last frame of the seven inning game, giving the Jayhawkers their first league win.
Gene Gastineau scattered only seven hits while his teammates collected 15 hits. Jim Rhoades was the losing pitcher.
Wayne Tiemier pitched a four-hitter in the first game but lost to the two-hit pitching of Coloradan Hal Sprehe. Tiemier was given credit for the win in the second game, giving him a 1-1 record for the day. With the win, KU brought its season record to five wins and eleven losses.
MU Beats K-State 15-2 in Baseball
Outfielder Jerry Schoonmaker hit two two-run homers. K-State's only runs came on a two-run four-baser by Larry Hartshorn.
The KU golf team journeyed to Manhattan today to meet Kansas State in a Big Seven golf match. The Jayhawks have a 6-2-1 season record, and are slight favorites in today's meet.
Kansas Golfers Meet K-State
The most talked about shoe on the Hill
KU Freshmen Top Colorado
The Kansas freshman track squad took 10 first places and tied for another out of 15 events to defeat the University of Colorado track freshmen, 85 to 46, in a postal meet held last week.
The Jayhawks were strong in the field, hurdle, and distance events while Colorado took points in the dashes, half mile, and mile relay. KU shut the Buffaloes out in the mile, two-mile, and discus events with CU taking all three positions in the 440-yard dash.
Competing and placing in four events for KU was Dave Freeman, who led his team with 17 points. Freeman placed first in the low and high hurdles, tied for first in the 220-yard dash, and placed second in the 100-yard dash.
Al Oerter scored 10 points for the Jayhawks in the weight events, throwing the discus 171 feet 6 inches for first place and putting the shot 50 feet $8\frac{3}{4}$ inches for another first. Kent Floker加nine more points for Kansas, placing first in the broad jump, second in the 220-yard low hurdles, a n d third in the high jump.
Jerry McNeal scored two firsts in the long races posting a 4.26.2 in the mile run and running the two-mile in 9:33.4. Other first place winners for the Jayhawks were Bob Cannon who took the high jump with a leap of 6 feet $3\frac{1}{2}$ inches, Dave Tams who cleared 13 feet $6\frac{1}{2}$ inches in the pole vault, and Jim Londerholm with a javelin throw of 212 feet 2 inches.
Yesterday's Star—Gene Freese of the Pirates for his grand-slam homer that helped Pittsburgh to a 9-6 victory over Milwaukee.
Wednesday, May 11, 1955
Two slug-fests and three tight games marked yesterday's intramural softball competition in the Fraternity "A", Independent "A", and Fraternity "B" divisions. There were no forfeits.
5 Teams Win Softball Games
INDEPENDENT "A"
FRATERNITY "A"
FRATERNITY "A"
Sigma Nu 5-Theta Chi 1
Theta Chi got off to a one run lead in the first inning but could not manage to score again off the six-hit pitching of Whittaker, the Sigma Nu pitcher. Croyle was the losing pitcher.
Downbeats 18-Sterling-Oliver 0 The Downbeats scored five runs to jump to an early lead over Sterling-Oliver. Drake shut out Sterling-Oliver with a 1-hit pitching performance. Sobelka was the losing pitcher.
Hernando's Nine 7-Pol. Science 3 Bob Clawson pitched Hernando's Nine to a 7-3 victory over the Political Science team. Clawson pitched a 6-hitter
Jim Beam 11-Jolliffe 2
Jim Beam smoothered Jolliffe 11-2 in a slugfest in which Jim Beam jumped off to an early six run lead and was never threatened.
FRATERNITY "B"
Delts 9-DU 7.
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