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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 27, 1988
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Offensive lineman accepts anonymity
By Jeff Euston
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas center Chip Budde realizes that offensive linemen don't usually get much recognition.
In fact, the only time they're really noticed is when they make a mistake. But Budue, a sophomore, said he was bothered by the lack of recognition.
He played every offensive series in season and probably will do the same in next season, playing at the playing time. Budde said he would like the luxury of at a best four or five.
Budde, who was redshirted in 1866 has become the anchor of the Jay hawks' offensive line.
"You don't play the position without realizing there's a certain amount of anonymity coming with it," he said. "You have to have a high self-esteem because you get yellied at just like the other players and you get dugged by the press. So you have to be confident and self-esteem, and a good self-esteem."
"I want to get to so far ahead that somebody else goes in," Burdice said, laughing. "But it also depends on our numbers. Our number backside is Dewar Grattan, the starting right guard. Our third string center is Chris Perver, who is the startning jacket. He is an interim player in his uniform for every span this year."
Budde's durability and hard work are two of his assets, said offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Pat Ruel
"He's got great durability." Ruel said. "We keep our fingers crossed on that. But it's only going to make him better.
"His attitude's been excellent. He has good work habits. He's done everything we've asked."
The 6-foot-2, 294-pound Buddie, like many Kansas players, said coach Glen Mason's conditioning program had been tough.
"It cracks me up - all of these guys who said they left the team because of mental cruelty," he said.
"Physically it does take a toll, and it does a little mentally, too. But I've never known anything else."
"I ofc coach Mason had a reason to be murderally cruel to anyone it was me because I'm not the best runner on team by any stretch of the map."
Nevertheless, the conditioning had helped, he said.
"We've run more this year than I ever have since I've been playing football," he said. "But I think it helps. I've improved since coach Mason has come. I think it's better condition. I play longer better."
Another thing that has helped Budde improve is the playing time he has gotten early in his career.
"Last year I played as a rebadfish, Joshman," he said. "I had to grow up in an environment where the pressure on me early on in my career. I think it helped me mature a lot."
"I'd like to think any success I have playing here at KU would be attributed to coach Mason, his condition and his philosophy to plaid hard."
After Saturday's game at Californi-
Buddle received some recognition,
and he was one of the team's
one from the Cal 44, the snap from
Budie to quartback Kyle Donovan
to backstop Jake Roethlisberger.
Despite the mistake, Ruel was pleased with Budde's performance so far this season and was optimistic about Budde's future.
"There's no excuse for it," Buddle said, "as much as couch Mason and Kelly try to take the blame, it was completely my fault. If we didn't fumble that snip, we probably were seceded, and they wouldn't have
"We had gone two years without having a bad snap in practice or in a game. Then we have two Saturday that probably cost us the game."
"Chip has the potential to be a very fine football player," he said. "I think his physical abilities are quite good for that position. His improvement is already, and if he continues on that pace, he'll be an excellent center."
Kansas sophomore center Chip Budde hopes to get some rest in this week's game against New Mexico State — if the Jawhawks are far enough ahead.
Coaches reassure kickers
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — It's console-your-kicker time in the Big Fight.
Bboth Woody Widenhofer of Missouri and Jim Walden of Iowa found themselves giving a reassuring
pat on the back of youngsters
they could have kissed
died victory
had they sailed true.
in losing 10-3 Saturday to Iowa. Walden's normally reliable
Jeff Shadkid missed four kicks. In Missouri's 28-28 tie with Indiana, freshman Jeff Jade missed a 24-yard shot and added to Addie's distress was the fact that it was his first attempt at a game-winning and a college win.
"I gave him a big hug and kiss to him to get his head up and let's get on with it." Widenhofer said of the group. "We're working closely, weekly news conference."
Walden was quick to point out that Shudak was not exactly taking chip shots.
"He hit a 51-yarder and it almost grazed the bar into the wind." Walden said. "A 45-yarder with the wind came down, and I had one bad kid. He hit his one bad kick, the only ball I've seen him hit bad in two years. Well, my goof, after a thousand kicks, he's not a machine. I have great confidence in Jeff Shu."
At the same time, however, Widehofer does not sound like a man whose patience in these matters is endless.
"How much pressure is it? You've got to make the kick," Widenhofer said.
New KU baseball players find a hit is as good as a walk-on
By Ken Winford
Kansan sportswriter
When the Kansas baseball team took the field for yesterday's practice at Hogwild-Maupin Stadium, three new faces were on the roster.
Freshmen pitchers Scott Taylor and Pierre Burris, along with sophomore shortstop Kevin Marcos beaten the odds, and 49 other with pitches, earned spins to the trouties conducted last week.
The addition of the three walkons brought the number of players on the team to 40.
Although he said his first love was the outfield, Taylor, a Prairie Village native, said he could adjust to being a pitcher.
"I knew they didn't really need anybody in the outfield, so I wanted to throw him." I said. "I didn't throw as well as I thought I should have, but they
Taylor, who played at Shawnee Mission East High School, was recruited by other schools included the Southern and several junior colleges.
"I wanted to go to a school that could provide me with a good education," Taylor said. "I knew it wasn't a sure thing coming here, but I thought I could make the change, really it was a hard decision."
Kansas freshman pitcher Scott Taylor made the baseball team last week as a walk-on.
Kansas assistant coach Wilson Kilmer said the three walk-onss showed that they had the potential to win a World Series baseball at last week's tryouts.
"Pitching was a position where we could use some extra depth," Kilner said. "With the pitches, we were looking at their arm strength. We always like them to be able to throw in the 80-mile range. There weren't very many pitchers who could do that in the trouts."
Maroras, from Beloit, played his freshman year at Washburn University. He said now that he had been given the chance to concentrate on improving his skills.
"I need to work on both my defense and offense," Marazos said. "Once I get my time going to school, I won't be the coach. The teachers think I have the potential to do some good things. I'm not where I want to be, but I feel like I can hold my breath for some extra depth to the infield."
The experience Marozas gained by playing for Washburn worked in his favor. Kilmer said.
"Kevin has a year of experience
playing college baseball and that helped him a lot," Kilmer said. "I think it gave him a physical and mental advantage. He is a good fieldier. We knew about him before he was the best, well when he laughed against us."
Although Burris said he didn't get very many chances to pitch during last week's trysts at the Raytown, M. right-hander still
"I didn't throw a lot but when I did they saw I had a good arm," she said. "I always had chance to make the team and I gave it everything I had. I have a lot of high expectations for myself, and I'm confident that any role you want me to fill."
stood out enough to earn a spot on the roster.
Louganis wins gold medal in platform diving contest
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — Great Lougains became the first man to two dive gold medals in consequence of their team's performance on last night's final platform dive, the toughest in the sport, and won a dramatic battle with Chinese teenagers.
Lougain, 28, who won his first Olympic metal when Xiong was 2 years old, needed 85.57 points on the last attempt to overtake Xiang, who needed 84.16 points on the limit with an outstanding 82.38 on the next to死 dive of the day.
Lougans did a reverse 3½ somersault in the tuck position. Its degree of difficulty is 34, the highest in platform driving. He received 86.70 points from the enhancement of U.S. dive coaches O'Brien and burst into tears.
Louganis finished with 636.62
Louganis won the springboard event one day after he banged his head on the board and needed five stitches to fix it.
The 10-meter platform event completed the Olympic diving competition.
The other U.S. diver, Patrick Jefr of Madison, N.J., finished 128 and last with 483.34 points after a challenging yachting in a qualifying round.
With two rounds left, it was Xiong with 470.76 points and Louanis with 468.75
Lougain, who won a platform silver medal in 1976, is twice as old as Louise Blais, who records the record of Klaus DiBiasi of Italy, the only other duo to win five Olympic golds.
In the ninth round, Xiong again
outcured Iannouis at 45 to 82 in 16
Louganis has 47 national titles.
Wrestling
finished lower than second just seven times in 143 meets since 1972 and has never fallen below it since 1976, although he didn't compete in Moscow in 1890 because of the Russian attack.
John Smith, Jim Scher and Tim Vanni got the U.S. Olympic freestyle wrestling team off to a winning start yesterday with first-round victories.
Smith, the favorite to win the 616 pound weight class, easily hardened from the training. Canada defeated Canadian Doug Cox 10-7 and 189 pounds and Vanni shut out Alfredo Maricuno of Spain 16-4 on 16 of them. They each six-metre match at 10 matches.
Boxina
U. S. boxers Michael Carbajal and Romaliis Ellis advanced to the Olympic boxing semifinals yesterday.
Carbajal, of Phoenix, counter
parched and jabbed his way to a 5-0 win over Scott Olson of Canada in a 16-out bout.
Ellis, of Elenwood, Ga., kept constant pressure on Emil Tchipuleti of Bulgaria and eked out a 3.2 victory at 139 pounds.
The victories assured the two U.S. boxers of at least bronze medals.
The decision victories had to please Couch Ken Adams, who was becoming annoyed at his knockout-concious team.
After Ridick Blowed to biped Kobo Batowangam of Austria in the second round of a super heavyweight match, Mr. Dongnep neglected to use his excellent left job.
"I was going for a quick knock-out," the said, 21-year-old from Brooklyn, N.Y. "I should have cormewarner to my cornerner. I will从
"But I bet $100 on the quickest knockout."
Adams eyebrows rose in astonishment as Bowe explained that each of the 12 U.S. nurses had bet $100 on who could quickest knock out in the tournament.
Adams, who earlier expressed concern that his boxers had knockout fever, said. "I wasn't aware they had any bets on either.
"It does kind of explain certain things."
What about it? Bowe was asked,
"That's what the boss said," he replied.
What about it? Bowe was asked.
Asked at a news conference if all bats were off, Adams snapped: "Yes, they better be."
Until Bowe revealed the bet, the quickest knockout of 14 was shared by Kenneth McKinney, who boxes at 19, and Roy Jones, who attacks at 15.
Also reaching the quarterfinals Monday night was Jones, 19, of Germany. He finished third for Franck of Czechohovskia to take two standings 8-counts and won a 5-0 victory.
Women's basketball
The United States advanced to the women's basketball gold medal game by defeating the Soviet Union 102-88 last night.
The U.S. jumped to a 50-93 lead at dime and was never seriously injured, while the team led Cooper of Southern California led the U.S. with 27 points, while Katrina was behind.
McClain added 15 rebounds, while former Georgia teammate Teresa Williams made it to the NBA assists. The United States will play Yugoslavia in tomorrow's gold game.
DODGERS CLINCH WEST: The Los Angeles Doggers clinched their fourth National League West title in eight years as Mickey Hatcher's RBI single broke an eight-hime tie in a game against the San Diego State last night.
After reliever Jay Howell got Marwell Wynne on a pop out to second, ending the game, the Dodgers rushed to the mound, mobbing him.
Sports Briefs
Los Angeles will meet the New York Mets in the National League playoffs, which start at Deddage Hooker Stadium. The team has of their 11 regular season games to
the Mets and were 0-6 at Los Angeles
RAIDERS BEAT BRONCOS: Chris
Bahr kicked a 35-yard field goal with
12.35 exp in overtime after a four
interference to of John Ekwley,
lifting the Los Angeles Raiders to a
no.6? NPL victory over the
hometown Denver Broncos last night
The Raiders, moving into a first-place tie in the AFC West with Seattle Seahawks, have completed a 24-24 halftime deficit, giving Jay Schroeder a victory in his first start for Los Angeles and Coach Mike Shuebera a decision over his former team.
BUGIZCIA GETS NO. 20. Mark Guizcaio shut out on three hits in the top five, and was a seasonless season and pitching the Kansas City Royals past the Mariners 5-0.
TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
Plenty of tickets are still available for the Los Angeles Clippers-New York Mets with NBA exhibition game, featuring Mike Kornsas. All American Danny Manning, OD, 20 in Dainty Field House.
Ticket Manager Diana Wehneyner said yesterday that approximately 3,000 tickets had been sold.
Student tickets are $10 and tickets for the general public are $15.
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