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Monday, September 12, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Sports
Jayhawks lose opener but surprise fans
Football team holds lead until game's final 96 seconds
By Jeff Euston
Kansas senior cornerback Peda Samuel recorded seven tackles, made an interception and caused a fumble.
In the end, the result was not a surprise.
What was not expected was the Jayhawks' impressive performance.
The Glen Mason era at Kansas began with a loss, as almost every other game from that point in points in the 1:36 Saturday and defended the Jahwacks 24 in 14 Memphis.
Kusasa led 14 at halftime and 14-12 with less than two remaining minutes in the game. It was a big difference from last season's opening against Auburn, when the Jayhawks were never in the game, losing 49-0.
This time, though, Kansas was playing in a competitive atmosphere. During the game there were several standing ovations by the crowd of
"We have a better attitude and the fans I fired up." Kansas linebacker Brett Favre said he was "a lot better. The signs of that are there." Moore, who recorded 10 tackles, said the team's best defense.
"I don't think Baylor was ready for me," he said. "What do you expect after watching last year's films?" Close wasn't good enough for Mason, Kansas middle guard Mike Dinnel said.
"He told us we played hard, but not for the last two minutes of the game." Dirmel said. "We need to play hard the full 60 minutes. But I had to stop giving up in the fourth quarter. No one was hanging their heads."
Mason was downcast about the outcome
"I'm down," he said, "I don't know if I'm or proud to disappear. My philosophy is if you could have you done it, I would hard up on it the last few series."
With the Jayhawks leading 144 late in the third quarter, Kickster kicks Braun entered the game to attempt a 45-yard field goal.
That's when disaster struck.
Baylor linebackers James Francis and Gary Joe Kine crashed through the middle of the Kansas队. Fleeman's kick hit Kine in the chest, and Baylor slammed up the loose ball and went 64 yards for a touchdown.
"There's no doubt the blocked field goal was the turning point," Mason said. "There's only one way a guy breaks through like that, and that's in concentration and mental lapses. You happen, and it won't happen again."
Baylor's two-point conversion attempt failed, and the Jayhawks were still stiling to a 14-12 lead.
Kansas took the ensicer kicking and drove 49 yards — all on the ground — and was again in position for a field goal at the Baylor 24.
Junior B. Lohsen's 41-yard attempt into the winded high and dropped straight down. It hit the ground in front of the goalpost on the ground in front of the goalpost.
"I thought it was going to be good," Lebson said. "I saw it hit the crossbar. I went up and ran across bounces back through, but this time it didn't. It just one of those situations."
The Kansas defense then faced the task of protecting a two-point lead with 12:06 left in the game.
"I was really nervous about our defense being able to play their sweep." Maiden said. "But the team did a good job. They really hung tough."
After a 57-yard field goal try that glanced on the left upright with 6:10 left, Baylor got the ball back again with 4:30 left. The Bears drove 64 yards in eight plays, capped by a 15-yard touchdown run and a 29-yard stoppage and a half halting. A two-point conversion gave Baylor a 20-14 lead.
yawler secreted a last touchdown in the final minute after Kime. Bayman's of the hour, intercepted a Kimon pass deep in Kansas territory.
"We should have had the win," Fleeman said. "The whole team was right up for it, but we can't let the lead slip away."
Kansas grabbed a 14-3 lead with two second-quarter touchdowns.
With 5-16 left in the half, Donohoe hit wide receiver Quentin Smith with a 23-yard pass to his a29-thrown touchdown later. Donohoe threw a 84-yard touchdown pass to
Willie Vaughn.
"There are very few offences in the country that can take the ball 60 yards." We agreed, fissure队. We tried to put the ball into the hands of our big play-pleaser.
Smith and Vaughn both beat man-to-man coverage on their scoring plays. Baylor corrected that by going to a zone defense in the second half,
Baylor, on the other hand, racked up 380 yards of total offence. Though the Bears were able to move the ball, they were hurt by four turnovers and
in which Smith had only one reception for three yards and Vaughn had none.
several penalties. The Jayhawks had just one turnover — Donohoe's interception during the final minute
and committed only two penalties.
"I know one thing." Mason said, "if we had all of the penalties that they did, I'd take our guys home and skin them."
Baylor coach Grant Teaff was impressed by the Jayhawks.
"They are a well-coached and well-disciplined team," he said. "Much credit goes to Coach Mason and the Kansas players."
Work of freshman players adds to 'new look' of Kansas football team
Kansan sports editor
By Craig Anderson
Kauzley couch Glen Mason don't need to be prompted to discuss the performances of the Jayhawk's freshman in Saturday's less to
when the media stopped asking questions at the post-game press conference, Mason began talking about the debits of Kansas newcomers.
"You've gota love how some of these kids played," Mason said. "You 'take (linebacker) Jason Randle out here, because Rockhurst. He made a big play, and no one else recruited him but the University of Kansas. The public address announcer didn't know how to pronounce his name."
"And (middle guard) Darrin Samuels recovered a fumble. We had Tony Sands and Maurice Douglas at running back. We had nothing but freshmen at outside linebacker."
Kansas had true freshmen and redshirt freshmen all over the field Saturday. Twenty-one freshmen played, including seven starters who are still in their first game at Kansas and it was a new look on the team.
It was a glimpse into the Kansas football present and future. Many of the names that Jayhawk fans heard for the first time Saturday will be the names that they hear from their team. The group with the numbers shortage that Kansas has, freshmen get a chance to contribute immediately.
"People go in and say hey, he's a freshman, he can't play," freshman running back Tony Sands said. "That doesn't matter. If you're a ballplayer you'll go in and play well."
The youth of the Kansas队 was especially evident on the defensive side. Besides Samuels' fumble recovery, freshman cornerback Boykin had nine tackles and free safes. Dozier had eight tackles. First-year linebacker Paul Friday had five tackles.
"We've got a nice young team." Friday said. "The more we play together, the better we'll be."
passes to Wilde Vaughn and Quinn Smith in the second quarter marked the first time in 31 games that the Hawks won in one quarter of a first half. The last time was Sept. 21, 1855 when the Jayhawns scored two touchdowns in the second quarter against Indiana
Kansas game notes
■ Kelly Donohoe's touchdown
Kansas game notes
*Auburn assistant coach Scott Campbell was in the press box Saturday seouting the Jayhaws. He said he was impressed that Kansas had no penalties in the first half.
"You take a new coach, play all those young players and then have no penalties in a half — that is a campbell said.
Wilander is victor in 5-set U.S. Open
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Mats W兰器 ended Ivan Lendl's three-year reign as U.S. Open champion and took over his No.1 ranking with a dramatic five-set victory yesterday in the longest final in Open history.
The 24-year-old Swede, who won the 1988 Australian and French Opens, became the first man since Jimmy Connor in 1974 to win three World Cups. He beat the beating Leedl 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 5-7. 64 matched last four games and 54 minutes.
Wilander also halted Lendl's for a record four straight open title and prevented him from securing a fifth. The stretch at the top of the computer rankings.
Wilander, the first Swede to win the U.S. Open, will replace Lengel as the 1 player who won the tournament last year. The Lengel needed to remain at the top until Oct. 3 to break
Connors' record of 159 straight weeks at No.1.
Last year, Lendl and Wilander played nearly five hours in another Open final that featured long and grueling baseline rallies.
Wilander had lost six straight matches to Lendl, five of their eight Grand Slam meetings and 13 of their nine matches overall.
But yesterday he forgot the past and concentrated on the present against Lendi, who lives just down the road from him in Greenwich.
It was the first five-set open final since John McEnroe's victory over Björn Borg in 1980.
Wulander broke Lendl in the second game of the second set on a lunging stab vault and moved out to a 4-1 lead. But Lendl regained his form and won the five games to even the match.
Kansas hitter Jodi Oelschlerg, Lawrence junior, stretches for a dig in a volleyball game against George Washington University at Allen Field House.
David BrandVKAN
Volleyball team winless Coach says serves part of problem
By Arvin Donley
Kansan sportswriter
Still winless after five games, the Kansas volleyball team is going to spend a lot of time practicing their skills at Wichita State's tournament at Wichita State.
"It may be all we work on," coach Frankie Albiz said after Kansas "togee to Georgette Washington on Saturn 8." The armors would fall if of we did that."
The Jahways finished last in the Lady Jahwayt tournament, losing to Wichita State 31-4, Northern Iowa 5-1, Auburn 3-1 and George Washington 2-1.
Kansas was out-aced on serves by its opponents 49-28 during the tournament.
"We've been trying to stress service." Albitz said. "But that was probably our goal. We didn't practice. During practice I said that serving is our most important skill, but I don't think they realized what I mean until this day."
Sophomore blocker Lisa Patterson said the Jayhawks needed to change their approach to serving in practice.
"We've been practicing it a lot." Patterson said. "But we're going to have to practice it with a mental picture as if we were in a game."
The Jayhawks' best chance to win
The Colonials won the match 8-15. 8-11 and 7-15.
a match slapped away against the George Washington Colonials. Both teams went into the match having lost all three of their tournament
"They had gotten better in every match up until this one," Albiz said. "Their (the Colonials) serving was more than we could handle."
Patterson said the Jayhawks were not mentally prepared to play the Colonials.
"Frankley always says 99 percent of the game is mental and I don't think our mental game was there at all," Patterson said. "When the six players on the team try to win, you see the one percent physical game isn't going to get us through it."
hiring to go back to school.
Freshman blocker Kim DeHoff led
the Jayhawks with four service aces
and eight kills.
The Jayhawk took northern Iowa to four games, but lost 5-15, 15-11, 14-5 and 4-15. DelHoff had 14 kills and four service jumps. Junior hitter Oelsholm added 10 kills for the Jayhawk attack.
The Jahyaws least to Auburn 3-13,
15-13, 15 and 12-15. Again, Deloitte
and its rival lost to Auburn 20-19.
high 20 kills. Auburn lost in the
championship game against North-
west.
Kansas opened the tournament Friday against the Wichita State Shockers and last 15-4, 15-5, 16-5 and 18-5. Diefend led the Jayhawks in wince with 14, while delechlerad and senior hitter Lisa Christoph added eight.
Woods said the Jayhawks had been pressing too hard to win their first match of the season.
"We almost get to that point of winning and then it's like everyone gets curried because we don't want to be scared, so when we really get into trouble."
Lack of familiarity has been another factor in the Jayhawks' slow start. Christoph said.
"Having this many people playing together who haven't played together has been a problem." "Cristoph said. This is really hard," he said of the game, "will get better with time."
Patterson said that despite finishing last in the tournament, the Jayhawks benefited from the competition.
"All of the teams we played had already been in tournament," she said. "Although we ended up last in he courtship, we came out ahead is a team because we worked out a better and got to know each other better."
Kansas will play next in the Wichita State Tournament this weekend.
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