Sports
University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 6, 1989
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Cowboys win 37-24 over KU
Final home game disappoints 'Hawks
Umpire J. C. Leimbach shows where the ball crossed the goal line while OSU quarterback Mike Gundy, center, waits for the decision.
By Gene King Kansan sportswriter
A lot of people thought the Kansas football team could come up with a victory Saturday, but turnovers and a healthy opposing quarterback were too much to handle.
"I really thought it would be a lot closer," Kansas coach Glen Mason said. "I thought it could go down to the wire. I wasn't happy with the way we played at all."
The 37-24 game was the Jayhawks' 13th straight loss to Oklahoma State.
Saturday was All America day, as well as the final home game of the season for the Jayhawks. Kansas' 11 Americans were honored at halftime.
The game was played in front of 28,500 people, the smallest home crowd this season.
The play that put Kansas down and out was not either of the two Cowboy touchdowns in the second quarter. It began with the three plays into the fourth quarter.
The backbreaker came two plays later on a short swing pass to Cowboys tailback Gerald Hudson on sechon and nine from Oklahoma State's 8-1.
Kansas had just scored on a 77-yard pass from quarterback Kelly Dohonohe 'to wide receiver Kenny Drayton, on the first play of the fourth period, pulling the Jayhawks closer and the score to 31-17.
Hudson was hit in the backfield by linebacker Dan Newbrough, but escaped his grasp and turned a potential loss into a 84-yard gain to the Kansas 7.
"I had him," Newbrough said. "He just made me look silly."
Hudson exalted himself and his 84
vard effort.
Mason cites that play as the biggest of the game.
"I'm surprised I got loose on the play," Hudson said. "If I would have been 100 percent, I don't believe I would have been caught."
"If we could have held them at that point, and forced a punt to take it over close to midfield, we could have punched it in again." Mason said. "Then, it is a whole different ball game. That really hurt us."
A Kansas touchdown at that point would have put the Jayhawks within 25 yards.
But instead of the gap closing, it only got wider.
Kansas held the Cowboys to 2 yards in injuries plays forced a 22-yard line.
It was that same play, the swing pass, that produced so many yards for the Cowboys all day. That play also enabled quarterback Mike Gundy to throw for an Oklahoma State single-game record and third-best passing day in Big Eight Conference history with 429 yards.
The Cowboys' opening drive that ended in a touchdown was perhaps indicative of their game plan. On the second play of the game, Gumby hit Hudson on the swing pass as Hudson picked up 8 yards and a first down.
Gundy had only two passes that were more than 20 yards.
The short pass, coupled with the running game, picked apart the young Kansas defense.
Kansas linebacker Wes Swinford, who grew up 12 miles outside of Stillwater, Okla., said that it would have been a totally different ball game without Gundy.
"In the first half, we rereacted to the swing pass," Newbrough said. "We made some adjustments at halftime that helped a little."
Quintin Smith, wide receiver, reflects on KU's performance.
See COWBOYS, p. 12
Seniors finish season with 37-24 OSU loss
Bv Paula Parrish
Kansan sportswriter
Senior quarterback Kelly Donohoe passed for the last time at Memorial Stadium on Saturday but said his presence on the field next year probably wouldn't be missed.
"I've had a lot of ups and downs," Donohue said, smiling. "I think these Lawrence people will be glad to see me go."
Donoho was one of nine seniors who finished their careers this weekend in a 37-24 loss to Oklahoma State at home.
"All summer long and all year long, I wanted to go out against Oklahoma State with a win, to finish off my career," Donohoe said. "It didn't happen."
Donohoe completed 17 of 26 attempts for a total of 253 yards and
two touchdowns. But his checkered career continued as he fumbled once, was intercepted once and was sacked three times.
Although Donohoe the fans may not miss him, Coach Glen Mason said Donohoe had been an asset to the team.
"I've said repeatedly that Kelly Donohoe's done a fine job for us," Mason said. "We're going to miss him next year."
Donohoe, who has started at quarterback since the last three games of his freshman year, has a career total of 5,003 yards passing, placing him third on Kansas' list of career passing leaders and eighth in the Big Eight Conference. But Donohoe has played in five winning games since his career began.
See SENIORS, p. 12
KU All-American player wins regional tennis championship
Kansan sportswriter
By Andres Cavelier
Karen andrewler
Although Eveline Hamers' season has been full of ups and downs, the Kansas All-American won the TCA/Rolex Regional Championships this weekend for the second year in a row.
Hamers, the No. 3 seed in the tournament who captured the championship after winning six matches, defeated No.1 seed Mary
Beth Young-of Brigham Young 6-4, 6-4 in the final.
"I didn't really play well. It wasn't a beautiful match," Hamers said. "But I was concentrating."
She said she was too nervous in the final and that it was a difficult atmosphere for her.
regional championships throughout the country. There are 10 states in the central region, including Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. There were 15 teams at the tournament, including Colorado, Kansas State, Nebraska and Wichita State.
The regional championships, an inrode tournament played this year at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, is one of eight
After winning the semifinals, Hamers immediately qualified for the National ITCA/Rolex championships in the spring. She said she was happy about that.
Hamers, who has had a hard time this
season staying on top of her game, said she just hoped "to keep the good level for the rest of the season." She said she needed to be more consistent because sometimes she could go to higher levels or just tumble down.
Earlier in the fall, Hamers won the Converse Classic in Bloomington, Ind., but a week ago fell in the first round of the Riviera All-American championships in Los Angeles.
"It's been the craziest semester I've had," she said.
Hamers, 16th in the Volvo rankings, said she played well in all of her matches except in the final.
Three other Jayahawks played in the regional-
ies. Junior Stacy Stotts and sophomore Renee Raychaudhuri both lost in the first round, while sophomore Page Goinws won in the first round before losing in the second to Jackie Booth of Oklahoma State 6-4, 6-2.
But she said she came to the net more often than normal and that it worked out fine.
Emotional last game at Kansas
By Dan Perkins Kansan sportswriter
"I was a lot more emotional thm I thought I would be," Oelschlager said. "I didn't think I'd be as upset. I would have liked to go out with a win, but we went out all right."
Seniors Jodi Oelschlager and Shelly Jorgensen played their last home volleyball match Saturday night, but the emotion was not enough to carry the Jayhawks past Colorado.
The Jayhawks began the first game of the match by jumping to a 5-0 lead over the Buffaloes. But Colorado settled down and scored the next six points to gain the lead.
Kansas lost the match to the 11th- ranked Buffaloes, 15-8, 15-4, 15-12 falling to 12-15 overall and 3-6 in the Big Eight Conference.
Jodi Oelschlager, Lawrence senior, spikes the ball as Colorado's Michelle Kohler tries to block.
"We started out serving real tough," Coach Frank Albizt said. "Then we tried to do a little too much and started forcing things.
"We didn't play real well tonight. I don't think we were mentally ready. They still don't think they can compete against a top 20 team."
Oelschlager echoed Albitz's concern about the team's lack of mental preparedness Saturday night.
The loss leaves Kansas 1% games behind Iowa State for fourth place in the conference. The top four teams quality for the Big Eight tournament,
"I don't think we were into the match mentally," she said. "We have been mentally better this year, but we weren't tonight."
Nov. 24-25 in Omaha, Neb.
Nov. 24-25, in Omaha, Neb.
Kansas' next match is tomorrow night against third-ranked Nebraska,
18-1 and 8-0.
Basketball team set for exhibition game
By Dan Perkins
Kansan sportswriter
Although Kansas has never played a team from Australia, Coach Roy Williams and two of his players know what to expect from the Brisbane Bullets.
"They handled us easily during the Big Eight Conference Select Team tour this summer," Williams said. "We know that our competition will be difficult."
competition was the first of
two exhibition games before the
season opens Nov. 15, is scheduled
for 7:35 tonight at Allen Field
House.
Another major difference is that Kansas has been practicing as a
Williams coached the Big Eight Conference Select Team, which included Kansas' Rick Calloway and Mike Maddox, that traveled to Australia last May.
Brisbane won the first game of the four, 102-89, but several things have changed since that match-up.
For one, several members of the Bullets will not make the trip because of previous commitments, and Brisbane's leading scorer, Winston Crite, is doubtful game, despite last nights' tight losses last Tuesday. Crite scored 39 points in the victory against the Big Fish team.
team for almost three weeks, rather than a group of players from several different schools.
Williams sees the exhibition games as a chance to see where the team is before starting the regular season.
"Our goal is to play against someone other than ourselves and see how we look against a team that knows what to expect." Williams said.
Senior Jeff Gueldner said the team was ready to play someone besides themselves.
Williams doesn't know what to expect from his own team with its lack of experience, nor does he know what his starting lineup will be.
"We have only six guys who have over played a minute of NCAA Division I basketball, so I would imagine our starters will come from that group." Williams said. "That's not a promise, however."
The six players with Division I experience are Calloway, Guelden, Maddox, Kevin Pritchard, Mark Randall and Freeman West.
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