University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 6, 1988
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Jayhawks getting ready for tough opening game
By Jeff Euston
Kansan sportswrite
The Baylor Bears will provide a stiff challenge in Kansas' opening football game Saturday.
Kansas coach Glen Mason sonn defensive coordinator Jim Hillens to Waco, Texas, over the weekend against New York game against Nassau-Las Vegas.
Baylor defeated UNLV 27-3 Saturday.
"They were impressive," Mason said. "They're big, they're physical and experienced."
The Bears' defense, which has nine returning starters, limited the Rumin' Rebels to first two downs against the Bears' defense, including 11 rushing rushes.
The Jayhaws practiced more than two hours yesterday in preparation for Saturday's game. Mason emphasized the kicking game.
Mason said sophomore walk-on Brad Fleeman was now the man to beat for the place-kicking job.
but it the place making up "Fleman's the man," he said. "But everything is still wide open."
"I feel good right now," he said.
"I think I'm kicking pretty well.
Fleeman has been battling junior Louis Klemp this fall for the place-kicking duties.
"This has been the most competitive situation I've been in. The competition is good for all of us, and we are still pretty much wide open."
Klemp said he was pleased with his performance.
Mason has said that junior B.J. Lohsen would probably handle kickoffs and long field goal attempts.
Lohsen kicked a 49-yard field goal in Friday's scrimmage at Memorial Stadium.
Mason also said sophomore Mike Whitaker, who has missed two weeks due to the effects of heat, would be out three or four more weeks.
Whitaker, who was the starting middle guard entering fall practice, will be moved to a tackle position when he returns.
Freshman linebacker Paul Friday, who missed three practices last week with a neck injury, returned to practice yesterday.
Mason said senior Chris Nielsen probably would miss the first three games of the season before offensive tackle behind he prepaired a knee in practice last week. Redshirt freshman Chris Perez will start in
"It will be awhile." Mason said of Nielsen's recovery. "We'll be fortunate to get Nielsen back for the fourth name."
Mason said the Jayhawks would practice hard today before easing up for the remainder of the week.
Kansas senior offensive tackle Chris Nielsen watches practice on the fields behind Oliver Hall yesterday. Nielsen nrained his left knee last week in practice and will not play in the Jayhawks home opener Saturday against Baylor University.
Rugby team has revenge; dominates Air Force 18-4
By Arvin Donlev
Kansan sportswriter
It was sweet revenge for the Kansas varisity rugby squad, which opened its season by defeating Air Force at Sheikh Amrullah at Skincare in Lawnerville.
The "Jayhawks" were denied a final four appearance last season when Air Force took a 7-6 decision in the Western Territorial Championship.
For Jayhawks All-American Paul King, Saturday's victory was especially enjoyable.
"It was great," King said. "Last year I missed a drop-kick that hit the goal post and would've won the game. I made two in the game."
King led Kansas in scoring with 10 points, while Jeff Hoobler and Jeff Paxton added four points each.
Jayhawks captain Pat Roberts said he was pleased with the team's performance and thought the key to victory was the play at the backline.
"Our backline played really incredible," Roberts said. "We were going against a strong wind in the first half and stayed at 4-4. We played down with the wind in the second half and that's when Paul King really helped us. He's got one of the best foot in the nation. He kept us in them and the field most of the time, and we really capitalized on that."
It was great. Last year I missed a drop-kick that hit the goal post and would've won the game. I made two in this game, which was a little sweet revenge.'
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Paul King
Rugby player
Both King and Roberts said they had expected Air Force to be more competitive.
"We were expecting a real battle," King said. "It was a tough game, but they didn't show us as much as I thought they would."
Encouraged by the performance against Air Force, Roberts said that he expected a good year.
"We've started the season with a full head of steam. The schedule is tough, but I don't expect to lose a game." Roberts said, "I think we have a shot at the final four, this is the year."
This weekend, the Jayhawk varsity will play in the Kaw Valley Cup in Topeka. Eight teams, including the top three compete in the round-robin tournament.
Roberts said the tournament would be used to give Kansas' less-experienced players more playing time, which would benefit the Jayhawks.
"We won't be so worried with winning it, as with getting our less experienced players more playing time, which will help our depth."
later in the season.
HOUSE IS SAVED The Kansas club side team opened its season Sunday by defeating the Chicago Blaze 7-4.
The Jahayks jumped to a 7-4 lead at the half and despite a strong wind that was blowing in their face, held the Blaze to only four points in the game.
"We had a lot of heart and defense the last 30 minutes," club captain Steve Zamora said. "It's hard to protect a seven to nine margin, but we managed to hang together."
Harris said that he expected the team to be more competitive this season because of increased emphasis on the team.
"Last year our club was kind of second fiddle." Harris said. "This year we're taking somewhat of a different attitude toward the club team. We have a real opportunity to win a couple of tournament factions this year."
The club will play the St. Louis Falcons at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets
"We haven't lost to the Falcons in the last eight games. We don't anticipate having any problems." Harris "id."
Graf advances at U.S. Open
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova, moving a step closer to a championship showdown, overcame skaky starts to steamroll into the U.S. Open quarterfinals yesterday.
Graf, losing more games than she had in her three previous matches, beat Patty Fennick of the U.S. Women's Team and won the first tennis Grand Slam since the 1970s.
Gent stretched his Open winning streak to 24 matches with a 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Scott Davis of the
Naviattiva, who took a nap just before the match, appeared to be sleepwalking as she hit the ground of South Africa. But the two-time defending champion awoke in time to win 10 straight games en route to a 6-4, 4-2 victory.
In men's play, top-seeded Ivan Lendl, No 4 Andre Agassi and No 6 Jimmy Connors breezed into the fourth round.
Second-seeded Mats Wilander
advanced to the quarterfinals with a
6.3, 6.2, 6.2 victory over Mark Wood.
Third-seeded Joel Embiid won John
McEnroe in the second round.
U.S.; Connors eliminated Piter
Adluth of South Africa 6-3, 6-2, 6-3;
and Agassi beat Johan Kriek 6-3, 6-1,
2-6, 6-0.
The No. 7 women's seed, Helena Sukova, was beaten by No. 14 Katerina Maleva 6-1, 6-3. Joining Maleva in the quarterfinals were fifth-seeded Gabriela Sabatini and No. 11 Zina Garrison.
The swirling winds on center court at the National Tennis Center nearly made Navratliya blow the first set.
"I couldn't tell which way the wind was blowing," said Navratilova, who is seeded second behind Graf. "If blew, then it stopen for a little while, then it blew again. I hit some lobe and then drag. I just could indulge the wind."
"but money shouldn't tell you this, but I took a nap before the match and I want it quite awake at the beginning," she said. "So how does it work, it takes time to wake up."
Navratilova literally had a hard time waking up for the match.
Graf, who lost four games in her first three matches, equaled that total in the first set against Fendick
"I shouldn't have lost that game, the West German said. "I was impa
tient. It was the only game where I didn't concentrate.
"The first week is very easy. Now comes the work."
All the work daydied was in the first set. After Fendick went up 40-30 in the 10th game, Graft ended by winning 15 straight points.
"You never know what she do." Graf said. "She's a serve-and-volleyer and she has a strange form for her hand. You never know where she is coming with it."
While Lendl played before a sparse crowd in the 20,000-seat stadium, fans fled [to watch Cwmns in a landing] of 6,000-seat grandstand court.
The main contrast between the Lendl and Connors matches was in the stands.
It's much different from the other court." Connors said. "It's a little smaller, which I don't mind. It also is smaller than it see and to see it a little softer court."
Connors, who turned 36 Friday, has lost only one set in his first three matches.
Sports Briefs
GIANTS BEAT REDSKINS: Tom Flym returned a blocked punt 27 yards for one score and Jair Bantu another within 2:13 of the fourth quarter as the New York Giants defeated Washington Redskins 27-20 last night.
The Giants were outplayed and outfitted for the first quarter and a half. Washington took a 1-3 lead in the first 18 minutes on two field goals by Chip Lolliner and a 29-yard pass from Williams to Ricky
REDSKINS TRADE QUARTER-BACK: Disgruntled Jay Schroeder finally got his wish and was traded from the Washington Redskins to the quarterback starved Los Angeles Raiders.
The Redskins unloaded their unhappy quarterback early eyster day morning in exchange for often overrated players and several conditional draft choices.
BROWNS Q BSIDELINED. Cleveland Brown brows start quarterback Berne Hunt to eight weeks because of an injury to his throwing arm suffered in Sunday's season-opening Coach Marty Schotttenheimer said.
The trade was announced shortly before 1 a.m. red.ksm officials said the draft choices in the deal were dependent upon the Raiders' final position this season in the AFC West standings.
Lacey, who was acquired by the Raiders from the San Diego Chargers earlier this summer, is scheduled to join the Redskins today.
Kosar and Schottenheier said that John Berghold of the Cleveland Clinic made the prognosis after Kokar examinations. Mon to morning.
Gary Danielson, who replaced Kosar in Sunday's game, will take over as sheffield schoenfheimer said. Mike Pakel will serve the back up.
DYKES DOESN'T REMEMBER:
Wide receive Hart Lee Dykes says doesn't remember receiving $2 million in state State, as is reportedly by the National College Athletic Association
The NCAA also alleges in the newspaper that Dykes received a $17,000 car after his freshman year at UCLA. The university once thrived through hisophomore year.
CZECHS CHECK LENDL: A congressional bid to grant tennis staff ivan ILANl immediate U.S. citizenship so he could play in the U.S. Olympic team failed because Czechoslovakian officials refused to provide the necessary waivers for their son, lawmakers said yesterday.
In Sunday's edition of the Tulsa
Journal, a allegation that $100 buil-
dings were诚然被盗 bills was
Texas, residence about the time
he signed a letter of intent with the
Dykes initially refused to comment on the newspaper's report when he was reached at his Stilwater apartment Sunday morning.
When asked whether the $5,000 was delivered to his home, he said: "If it doesn't ring a bell to me, I don't know they're getting their sources
Lendl, the world's No. 1 tennis player, has played in Greenwich, Conn., since 181 and wanted to adopt a home-and-adapted home in Seoul this month.
"I'm disappointed," Lendl said after winning a match yesterday at the U.S. Open in New York. Referring to the Czechoslovakian federation, he said, "I would have thought that after all I've done for them in the past, they wouldn't give me the respect, the kind people, it doesn't surprise me."
Tim Mayotte and Brad Gilbert will be the U.S. men's singles players in Seoul.
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Chiefs lose opener
Cleveland wide receiver Webster Slaughter tries to tackle Kansas City free safety Doron Cherry after Cherry's interception. The Brownts beat the Chiefs 8-1 in the season opener Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium. It was the first season opening loss for the Chiefs in five years and the first season opening victory for the Brownns in five years.
North Korea pledges peace
The Associated Press
TOKYO — North Korea pleaded yesterday that it would not disrupt the Olympic Games and said that any incident marring the Games would be part of a U.S. South Korean plot to create an excuse to invade the North.
"If anything happens in South Korea during the Olympic Games, it will have nothing to do with us, and we don't want to lose our Korean authorities themselves should be held responsible for it." Korean Foreign Ministry officials said.
"We hereby make it clear that we do not have the slightest intention to obstruct the program of war by force of arms," said officials in the statement carried by the state-run (North) Korean Agency and monitored in Tokyo.
It said various military exercises planned by South Korea, the United States and Japan were designed to create tension on the troubled Korean peninsula and provide an invasion of North Korea.
The joint maneuvers and exercises are designed to "cause a shocking incident and start another war in Korea in case the Games do not go to you (South Korea and the United States) wish," according to the statement.
The United States maintains 42,000 troops in South Korea and is planning to station naval ships off the Korean peninsula during the Games to deter any attacks from outside. The Games open Sept. 17 in Seoul.
Japanese naval and coast guard ships will patrol waters between Japan and South Korea to prevent smuggling of weapons, and some of the U.S. forces involved in the exercises are based in Japan.