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University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 13, 1989
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Kansas fullback Maurice Douglas takes the ball to the end zone.
'Huskers run over KU defense, 51-14
Unlucky kicking game spotlighted in loss
Bv Gene Kina
KU strong safety Jason Priest and middle guard Matt Nolen wrap up Nebraska tailback Ken Clark.
Kansan sportswriter
LINCOLN, Neb. — For a game where the outcome was not too surprising, the course of events that led to it was bizarre.
The outcome, a 51-14 Nebraska victory, was just seven points off the predicted margin. Even the 172-yard kick by tailback Ken Clark was expected.
The biggest surprise came on Kansas' second possession of the game.
After stopping the Cornhuskers on
after taking a few shots, Kansas
took control at its own 22.
Twelve plays and 78 yards later, Kansas was leading 7-0 with 7:01 remaining in the first quarter in front of Noebro and a sold-out Memorial Stadium.
Starting in just his second game at tailback, Maurice Douglas took the ball down and scored.
"At that point I was looking through the rule book trying to find away to call off the game," Coach Glen Mason said. "We should have just left for the buses. I would have been the only coach ever to leave Memorial Stadium and Lincoln, Neb., with a lead."
Quarterback Kelly Donohoe went four of five on that drive, throwing for 36 vards.
besides Douglas on that drive was tailback Tony Sands, who gained 44 of his total 86 yards right then.
The only person to run the ball
"That is probably our best drive all year long," Donohoe said, "combining the pass and the run."
The Jayhawk lead was brief, though.
It took the Cornhuskers just two runs by Clark to go 71 yards in 39 seconds to close the gap for good.
Things still were not out of reach for Kansas when Nebraska went up 14-7 with two minutes remaining in the first half, until the bizarre happened.
Nebraska kicked off to Kansas deep man Maurice Hooks. Hooks caught the ball at the 2 but his carum carried him into the end 2008.
He stood, as if stalemated, 2 yards deep in the end zone.
Hooks finally decided to run out, took one step and changed his mind, and then knelt down for an apparent touchback.
After some deliberation with his colleagues, the referee ruled that Hooks had stepped on the goal line, thus stepping out of the end zone. The result was a safety and two points for the Cornhuskers.
Leading 16-7 late in the first quarter, Nebraska got the ball back on the
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"We fought and played really well," Scott Perelman said. "It was rightful."
Kansas beat Southern Illinois on Friday before defeating Nebraska on Saturday in Wichita. Kansas was the top state to win a regional region to qualify for the national.
The Kansas men's tennis team qualified on Saturday for the Rotok National Indoor Championship after the Jayhawks defeated Nebraka 5-4.
In one of the decisive matches in Kansas' victory, Carlos Fleming and Paul Garvin won 12 straight points to win the game 6-4, after they were down 4-3. The pair won the match 6-3.
6-7 6-4. At that time, Kansas and Nebraska were tied 4-4 in the doubles.
In other games, John Falbo and Rafael 'Rangel defeated Matthias Mueller and Ken Feuer 6-2, 6-3.
Also, in the singles, Jeff Gross beat Feuer 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in an important victory that tied the score 3-3.
The women's team lost its dual
women's teams against Kansas
State in Memphis.
Despite the team results, Eveline Hamers defeated Marijke Nel 6-1, 6-4 and in the doubles, Hammers and Page Goins defeated Nel and Valerie Rive, 0-6, 6-2, 7-6.
Both Hamers and Goins said that they played well and that this victory was important because they showed
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that they could play well together.
Goins said, "It was a little frustrating at first. They came out really strong and just beat us in the first game. But we just fought back."
Hamers also said she was happy for the doubles.
"It was good denn," she said.
But Kansas lost the two games played. Sara Hancock and Helen Schildknecht defeated Stacy Stotts and Susan Noftgerd 6-2, 6-0; and Theresa Burcham and Angie Gover defeated Laura Hagemann and Renee Raychaudhuri 6-3, 6-2.
In the singles, Rive of K-State defeated Goins 6-2, 6-3 and Hancock defeated Raychaudhuri 6-4, 7-6. Stotts defeated Burcham 6-3, 6-4.
OU TRIAL TO BEGIN: Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the trial of three former Oklahoma football players charged with raping a woman in the football dormitory.
Bernard Hall of Detroit, Nigel Clay of Fontana, Calif., and Glen Bell of Muskegon, Okla., allegedly raped the city woman Jan. 21 in Clay's room.
The trial originally was scheduled to begin in September, but was postponed because the sister of the alleged victim was due to have a baby. The sister testified at the trial, and the lawyer testified to be called to the stand during the trial, which the attorneys say should last a week.
DAVIS IN COMA: Swimming champion Victor Davis, in a coma after being struck by a car outside a suburban bar, has been given 48 hours to show signs of life before doctors consider his case hopeless, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
he was in such excellent physical condition that he has survived this long," said Jacques Charbonneau, spokesman for Notre Dame hospital in Montreal.
"They are giving him another 48 hours before making a final decision. That's when they would ask the family about organ donations to see if he can help save other lives."
Davis, 25, was hit by a car early Saturday morning outside the Brasserie Belle-Vue in suburban Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue after what his girlfriend, Donna Clavel, said was an altercation with three young men.
According to Clavel, 22, the men, who had been drinking heavily, drove straight at Davis and hit him, throwing him head first into a parked car.
Davis, a gold and silver medalist at the 1984 Olympic Games, former world record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke and a member of the Order of Canada, suffered spinal injuries and fractures to the skull, a shoulder and a finger, Charbonneau said.
Harriers headed to nationals
The Kansas men's cross country team is headed to the NCAA championships for the first time in 10 years, after finishing third at V Regional championships on Saturday in Terre Haute, Ind.
By Paula Parrish Kansas sportswriter
"It was a great day for the University of Kansas," Coach Gary Schwartz said. "The team wanted to go to annapolis badly, and that was probably the major contributing factor to our win."
The top three teams from last weekend's district championships will go on to the NCAA nationals Nov. 20 in Annapolis, Md.
"We knew going in it was going to come down to every single person on the team doing something." "It really was a team victory."
The Kansas men finished third with a score of 98, behind Nebraska, with 90 and Iowa State, with 33. Iowa State and Nebraska are ranked first and second in the nation.
Schwartz said there were some nerve-wracking moments after the race ended until the official results on team finishes were announced.
"At the end of the race, they give out a quick (team) score, which isn't totally correct until they pull the individuals out," Schwartz said. "We thought we had it, but we made a 10-15 minute wait until the officiant said. We didn't tell the team anything until we knew for sure."
Kansas was paced on the course by Steve Heffernan, who placed ninth in the 10,000-meter course with a time of 31:03.57. The top time on the course was 30:03.45, run by John Nuttall of Iowa State. Kansas runners placed ninth, 15th, 21st, 28th, 27th, 31st and 51st.
The Kansas state victory knocked Illinois State, which finished one point behind, out of the champion's roster and teams competed in the regionals.
Heferran finished 13th at Arkansas and fell at the Big Eight Championships two weeks ago, finishing 20th.
"He came back and beat a lot of the people that beat him at the Big Eight," Schwartz said. "Because of his place, he would have made it to the championships whether the team did or not."
"Steve did a superb job, rebounding from a disappointing race at the Big Eight and at Arkansas," Schwartz said.
The top 10 individual runners are automatically slated for the championships.
"I thought getting into the rankings at midseason helped our program a lot." Schwartz said. "I think we have a real shot in the arm."
The men were ranked as high as 20th in midseason.
Kansas women also did well, placing fifth in a field of eight and led by senior Tricia Brown, who placed 22nd with a time of 18:21.41. Brown just missed making it to the championships as an individual.
"The doctors said it is only because
"Tricia was the fourth individual and they take the top three for nationals, so she just missed it," Schwartz said.
Faster, sharper 'Hawks swim to victory over Illinois teams
The top time on the 5,000-meter course was 16:46.04, run by Heather Garrett of Oklahoma State.
By Andres Caveller
Kansan sportswriter
Swimming coach Gary Kempf proved to be right when he said that Kansas was swimming faster and sharper and that the meet against Illinois and Southern Illinois was going to be a tough one.
The swimmers agreed, saying this was a step forward for a team that was trying to increase its speed for the Arkansas Invitational, Dec. 1, 3, which Kemof said was the most important meet of the fall.
The women's team, which also beat Missouri in Columbia last Thursday, went 3-0 on the road for the weekend when it beat Illinois 74-38 and Southern Illinois 78-39 Friday in Champaign, Ill.
The men's team went 2-1 when it beat Missouri 69-37 and Illinois 78-31 but fell short to Southern Illinois 64-49.
Junior John Easton, who took second place in the 100- and 200-yard freestyle events at Champaign, said that the men's team looked good and that 'anything starts and turns could be fixed before December.'
He also said Kempf had decreased the training schedule because the team was concentrating on speed.
last week, the men's squad eliminated morning practices after practicing three mornings the week before. The team is doing less yardage and aerobic work, and more sprinting. Easton said.
Freshman Aimee Brainard said that the women's team came together really well and swam more as a team than as individuals.
In the 400-medley relay, made up of junior Jeff Stout, freshman Zhawn Stevens, sophomore Bob Sturman and Easton, Kansas won in 3:29.36.
In diving, senior Andy Flower won the three-meter dive with 441.5 points and finished second in the one-meter dive with 398.7 points.
The same principle of increasing speed applied to the women as well. Brainard said Kempt wasn't looking at results right now but at performances later in the season.
Kansas dominated in the 200-yard backstroke, as Stout and freshman Tim Corzine took first- and second-places. in 1:53.42 and 1:57.11.
"We did much better in Illinois than in Missouri," she said. "Everyone had a goal to succeed there."
Freshman freestyler Kristie Taylor, winner in the 1,000-yard freestyle, said that last week the team had started practicing only one morning a week and that the swimmers weren't as exhausted as they were a week ago against Colorado State.
"I can never be satisfied," she said. "You are always here to reset your goals. But we're on our way."
In other races, sophomore Kelly Redden won the 200-year individual medley and the 500-yard freestyle.
Sopomone Barb Pranger and team captain Jennifer Carani took first and second in the 200-vard butterfly.
KU to take on New Zealand
Women's basketball team prepares for first pre-season game
By Paula Parrish
Kansan sportswriter
After almost four weeks of practicing and scrimmaging against each other, the Kansas women's basketball team will play tonight in its first exhibition game of the season against the Auckland Women's Nationalists.
"They're really big." Coach Marian Washington said. "They're older, and they have a lot of six-footers on their team."
Washington and two members of her coaching staff traveled to Manhattan Friday night to watch the Auckland Nationals play the Kansas State Wildcats, who beat the New Zealand team 69-55.
This is the first time the Auckland Nationals, whose players are in their mid-20's, have traveled to the United States.
"They seem to get up and down the court well," Washington said. "I thought when they moved into a zone,
But no matter the age or the size of the opposition, Washington said her team was eager for some outside competition.
they were able to make a run at it. But they may not be able to keep up the intensity."
"It will allow us all to see what we
have learned from you," the girl
gotta get to know each other too well.
"we're ready for a game," she said. "We're more than ready to see someone else's face."
Washington said that tonight's game also would be a good first test for her relatively young team, which offers five freshmen and six sophomores.
Washington said the exhibition should provide some insight as to how her team was developing.
"They do enough things right that it will force us to do a lot of things right to beat them," Washington said.
Washington's recruiting class.
rated 12th in the country by college basketball expert Dick Vitale, is still working on blending with the older players.
Julla Yeater, assistant coach, commented on the development of the
"I think they realize Coach's concept of a team now and are working toward it," she said. "They're still trying to see where they can count."
Washington said that she hoped the game would help work out some of the problems with which the team has been dealing in practice.
"We want to get better on our passing and blooming on the earth."
The only negative point for Washington in tonight's game is forward Sandra deBruin, who has been hampered in practice by a sore
"But Sandra is recovering, and we do plan on her playing," Washington said.