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University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 27, 1989
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It's a Sunflower showdown Kansas, K-State battle for Governor's Cup
By Gene King
Kansan sportswriter
Bragging rights are on the line this weekend in Manhattan as Kansas meets Kansas State in the annual Sunflower State showdown at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at the KSU Stadium.
"This game has added importance to me for a couple of reasons," Kansas coach Glen Mason said.
"We're both in the state of Kansas, and there is no love lost between the two schools, which is typical with universities from the same state.
"The other thing is that people seem to take great joy in making fun of our two programs. I resent that," Mason said.
The Jayhawks, 2-5 overall and 0-3 in the Big Eight, and the Wildcats, 1-6 and 0-3, are tied for last place in the conference.
The winner of Saturday's game will claim the Goverty #1's Cup, which was established by Gov. Robert Docking in 1969, and the loser will take sole possession of last place in the conference.
"What happens to Kansas and Kansas State is what college football is all about." Mason said. "You have a group of kids going to school and getting an education and working hard. They're going to go out and play, but they're not in it — it's wrong with that? What is there to be embarrassed about that?"
In the 87-game series, the 15th longest in Division I football, both teams have had difficulty winning on the road.
Kansas had the last road victory in
1980 when the Jayhawks won 20-18 in Manhattan.
"I have never played in their yard." Mason said. "Some coaches get more involved in that, or they think that is a bigger factor."
Mason said he would be playing an improved K-State football team.
"The easiest thing to do is to measure progress in the wins and losses." Mason said.
"You also have to look at how hard the players are playing." he said.
But Mason looks at more than the records.
K-State's defense is ranked sixth in the Big Eight under first-year coach Bill Snyder. Their passing defense is the league and fourth in the country.
"We're not talking about the third or fourth game of the season. We're going into the eighth week. They're really impresses me." Mason said.
In total defense, K-State has given up 389.9 yards a game. Kansas ranks 100th nationally in total defense, allowing 462.4 yards a game.
The Wildcats have allowed just 998 passings in seven games.
Saturday could be the battle of the Smiths: Kansas wide receiver, Quintin, and K-State receiver, Michael. Michael had 116 yards receiving last week against Missouri. He is first in the big Eight and sixth in the country. He scored 30 points in the Smiths has 542 total yards and ranks second in the conference.
"I was really impressed with some of the catches he made holding onto the ball," Mason said. "I watched the
film, and I was clapping for him. He is a fine receiver."
Kansas' Smith has been on the receiving end of long passes from quarterback Kelly Donohoe and connecting for big scoring plays.
"They have had some success with the big play," Snyder said. "It just takes one or two of those to put you in a hole."
"Kansas can hurt you a number of different ways," Snyder said. "Their offense is so balanced. They have three capable running backs plus their receivers.
Coach Mason isn't too quick to rely on the big play, however.
Both coaches think that the teams are matched equally. The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.
"We big play in our offense is like the IRS. You know when it might show up." Mason said. "Sometimes it does; sometimes it doesn't."
Quarterback Carl Straw will lead, the K-State offense. He completed 26-45 passes for 322 yards last week against Missouri in a 21-90 loss.
"Our offense is getting better every week. They're learning a new system under a new staff," Snyder said.
Last year, K-State won no games, and Kansas' lone victory last year was in Lawrence against K-State.
"We both would put a great value in a win," Snyder said. "But a loss is not the last straw."
A victory would be important to both coaches at this stage of their respective programs, the two said.
Game 8
Kansas Jayhawks Coach Glen Mason 2-5 Conference 0-3
Kansas State Wildcats
Coach Bill Snyder 1-6
Conference 0-3
WR-86 Kryan Daugherty, 6-0, 175, So.
LT-77 Chris Perez, 4-8, 253, So.
LG-68 John Fritch, 8-2, 250, So.
OL-61 Chip Biddle, 8-2, 265, Jr.
RG-83 Maviro Vidillo, 8-2, 245, So.
RT-76 Hill Hundet, 8-6, 260, Sr.
TE-68 John Hammel, 6-3, 245, Sr.
OB-Kelly Donohue, 6-0, 180, FrB-4 Maurice Hooke, 5-11, 205, FrB-4 Tony Sandy, 6-5, 175, FrB-4 O'Mairn Smith, 5-11, 175, FrB-4 KP-90 Fleeman, 5-8, 172, Sr.
SCB-17 Lanne Flashbastch, 6-1,25, So
ST-78 Gary Calls, 6-1,25, Jr.
MG-69 Mark Koncz, 6-4,26, Sr.
RT-82 David Gordon, 6-3,25, Jr.
RCL-84 Dan Newbrough, 6-1,25, Sr.
RIL-34 Roger Robben, 6-0,22, So
SIL-58 Wav Swnford, 6-1,22, Fr.
CC-7 Haean Bailey, 6-11,19, Fr.
WC-10 Doug Tarry, 6-11,17, Se
WS-14 Paul Friday, 6-3,19, So.
DS-8 Denal Boykin, 5-10,19, So.
P-97 B.J. Lohn, 6-3,218, Sr.
Probable Starters:
Offense
Probable Starters:
Defense
FL-88 Michael Smith, 5-160, Soe,
L7-Will McCain, 6-42, 7rs, Brs
LG-70 Cade Failurner, 6-2, 270, Soe
-C8-Paul Yinguzue, 6-3, 265, Brs
GR-61 Rick Henrick, 6-3, 260, Fr
-RT-77 Mike Orr, 6-2, 650, Fr
TE-84 Alan Friedrich, 6-4, 235, Brs
QB-10 Carl Straw, 6-2, 205, Brs
FB-40 Curtis Madden, 5-11, 255, Soe
RB-3park Jackson, 5-9, 175, Brs
SE-83 Frank Hernandez, 6-0, 185, Brs
PK-17 David Kruger, 5-11, 195, Brs
Facts:
L4-94 Ram Dawneport, 6-2,15 Jr., J7 L5-Jody Killian, 6-1,20 Jr., NT 51 Edwental Griffith, 6-2,05 Jr., J9 John Brawler, 6-2,25 Jr., RE 89 Elijah Alexander, 6-2,15 So, ILB-44 Brooks Bartar, 6-2,00 Jr., MB-5 Matt Hennett, 6-1,25 Sr, LCB-7 Ytrees Herds, 5-11,25 Sr, EC-6 Erick Harper, 6-1,25 Jr., FS-32 C.J. Masters, 6-1,195 Jr., RC-16 Marcus Miller, 5-11,18 Sr, or 20 Dimitre Scott, 5-11,17 Sr, P-9 Chris Cohn, 6-4,190 Jr.
Coverage: The game at Manhattan will be broadcast on KLZR 105.9 FM and KLWN 1320 AM.
s: Glen Mason is in his second year as coach for the Jayhawks. Snyder is in his first year as the Wildcats' coach.
Kansas beat K-State 30-12 last year in Lawrence.
Kansas leads the series 58-23-5. This is the 15th longest series in Division I football at 66 games. This year's meeting is the 87th in the series.
KANSAN Graphic
Swim team plays host to Big 8 invitational
By Andres Cavellier
Kansan sportswriter
Swimming Coach Gary Kempf said the main concern of the Jayhawks going into today's Big Eight Invitational would not be the team's scoring.
"I'm not really concerned about the final outcome of the meet," Kempf said. "I'm more concerned about how we perform. It's the kids' performance as a whole that we are looking at."
Today and tomorrow, Kansas will be the host for the invitational. Both the men's and women's squads will meet Iowa State and Missouri. Nebraska was invited but will not attend.
The two-day meet starts today at 6 p.m. and will run through 9 p.m.
it will continue from 12 to 1 p.m.
I will eat *Robinson* at Natatorium.
On the men's side last year, the Jayhawks finished second to a strong Nebraska team.
The women Jayhawks, the defending conference invitational champions, won last year's invitational in Ames, Iowa. Nebraska State and Missouri finishing third and fourth, respectively.
This year, both Kansas squads have different faces on their rosters. On the men's side, the squad, which had a strong senior class that finished 13th at the NCAA championships, is now replaced by a young group of swimmers.
At last week's intranquid meet, freshmen won several events. In the 200 medley relay, three freshmen made up the four-man winning team. Also, freshman Zhawne Stevens of Enid, Ola’k, won the 900-yard individual medley and the 900-yard breaststroke.
Stevens said that Kansas should be able to win and that Kempf wanted each member of the team to perform well personally.
"This year, I have worked harder than I ever had," Stevens said. "I feel confident about the season."
Other men who did well at the intrasquad meet were junior Jeff Stout, who won the 200-yard fielding championship. The rivalry conference champions.
Junior sprinter John Easton won the 100- and 200-yard freeze style. Sophomore Mike Soderling won the 500- and 1,000-yard freeze style.
Volleyball team's seniors lead the way
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Gary Kempf
I'm not really concerned about the final outcome of the meet. I'm more concerned about how we perform.'
Kansas swim coach
On the women's side, junior transfer Lauri Hill won the 200-yard freestyle. Freshman spinner Aimee Brainard won the 50 and the 100-yard freestyle.
Kempf said the invitational would be a good chance to see the conference competition and the progress the team had made since last weekend.
Sophomore Kelly Redden won both the 200-yard and the 500-yard freestyle. Returning All-American Barb Prenger won the 200-yard butterfly.
Kempf said that all the swimmers had been swimming hard this week.
"They just didn't feel like it would fit into their meet schedule," he said. "They are swimming in a meet up in Lincoln, but this is the Big Eight Invitational. I wished they were here."
"We need to swim well," he said. "There is no reason for us not to swim well."
Nebraska, one of Kansas' rivals in the conference, will miss the meet. Kennf said.
By Dan Perkins
Shelly Jorgensen hopes the entire Kansas volleyball team will spend the weekend after Thanksgiving in her hometown.
The best way for the team to accomplish that is to qualify for the Big Eight Conference Volleyball Tournament, November 24-25 in Omaha, Neb.
"I'd like to make it to the Big Eight tournament," Jorgensen said. "I think we can go 7-2 or 8-1 the rest of the way. If we do, it will probably come down to who wins the match between us and Iowa State."
Unlike the Big Eight basketball tournament, which allows all eight teams to participate, only the top four conference teams qualify in volleyball.
Kansas, 10-12 overall, is in fifth place in the Big Eight standings with a 2-5 record. Iowa State is fourth at 4-2.
Kansas opened the conference season with a victory against Missouri but since then had lost five straight games and been beating Missouri again last night.
Jorgensen said that the team needed to make only a few adjustments to keep winning and qualify for the tournament.
"We opened up with a tough Big Eight schedule," Jorgensen said. "I think this team can compete with ours, just have to keep our heads up."
As team captain, much of that responsibility falls on Jorgensen. Coach Frankie Albitz said Jorgensen does a good job with the队.
"She is very serious in practice," Albitz said. "She gives her best effort all the time and deserves to be captain."
Albizt said that the difficult thing for Jorgensen was to balance what the coach wanted and what the team wanted.
After going 5-24 last season, the
Team and Jorgensen are not getting
their way up.
"I'm ten times happier this year than I was last year," said Jorgensen. "We're much further along. We're more consistent and we have more players who can perform.
"Anybody on our bench can go out there and play. It puts pressure on me to do well." It's nice to know people don't do well. We all believe in our bench."
At the same time, the rest of the team is looking up to the two seniors.
Jorgensen and Jodi Oelschlager.
"Everyone is looking up to me, except for Jodi," Jorgensen said. "It's nice to know that I have an impact on the rest of the team. I think of them as my kids. Sometimes I want to say to them, 'C'mon kids.'"
Jorgensen and Oelschlager are the only seniors on this year's team, but Jorgensen doesn't have much more experience than a lot of the sophomores.
Jorgensen sat out the 1987 season after transferring from Chapman in California, she decided to transfer to injure an ankle during her freshman season.
"We didn't know anything about her," Albitz said. "She tried out and looked good enough to hang on to. She has made the most of the opportunity since then.
"Shelly is one of our most consi-
sistent players and our strongest
passer."
Jorgensen leads the team in digs with 259 this season and has racked up 189 kills and eight solo blocks.
"I'm much happier with my offense this year," Jorgensen said. "I'm hitting much better. Ive
"I didn't even know about it until my roommate called and said she saw, it in a paper in Texas," Jorgensen said. "I don't know who votes on it, but it's an honor to be acknowledged."
Last season, she was named to the academic all-Big Eight team after earning a 3.62 grade point average in exercise science.
always enjoyed defense because it comes naturally to me."
Schoolwork also comes easy to Jorgensen.
After she graduates in May, Jorgensen plans to get her master's degree in physical therapy, but she hasn't decided where.
"I think it will be nice just to have some free time," she said.
However, Jorgensen isn't planning to stop playing volleyball after receiving her degree. In fact, she doesn't think she could.
"I'll have to play on some ree teams or something. I don't think there is any way I could just quit playing," she said.
"We'll miss both seniors next year," Albiz said. "Jodi is our big hitter and Shelly is our stability right now."
Sadhusha, 75, SSC GESTED; Paul Taglialbe, the NFL's Washington lawyer, was elected the new NFL commissioner yesterday morning, breaking an impasse that has existed since July 6 when a group of dissidents blocked the election of Jim Finks, the sole candidate proposed by the first of three committees that had a hand in the selection process.
sport briefs
Tagliabue, who succeeds Pete
KANSAS TENNIS: Kansas tennis player Evelyn Hams lost yesterday in the first round of the Riviera All-American Championships in Los Angeles. Hamers, ranked 16th nationally, was defeated 6-1, 6-2 by Danielle Scott of Arizona State, ranked 32rd.
Hamers also lost in her consolation match to Anya Kochoff of South Africa.
"The truth of the matter is that the 48-year-old Taglilabus is as much 'Old Guard' as anyone," said Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell, one of the members of the committee that first recommended Finks. Modell was one of the principal targets of the insurgents and one of the two Finks supporters — Wellington Mara of the New York Giants was the other — who switched their votes to come up with Taglilabus.
Rozelle, became the candidate of those dissidents. But in reality he is a league insider, close to the so-called "old guard" that had backed Finks, the president of the New Orleans Saints.
Tagliabue sounded a lot like Rozelein in his position on issues. That's not unusual — league officials say that Rozelein often asked when
confronted with a major issue:
"What does Paul think?"
Tagliabue reiterated, for example, that there can be no expansion without a new collective bargaining agreement, and there hasn't been one since 1987. That was also Rozelle's position.
The union reacted to Tagliabue's election with guarded optimism.
"I find him to be very straightforward and be wants to solve problems. He understands things have to be done and he's never been opposed to taking actions," Gene Upshaw, the NFLPA's executive director, said.
"I'm glad to see the process is over. It gives us some certainty as to who will be leading the league in the future.
ROYALS REVIEW CONTRACTS:
The Kansas City Royals said yesterday that they had informed pitcher Floyd Bannister and centerfielder Willie Wilson that the team would not pick up their options for next year.
General Manager John Schuerholz told agents he was interested in negotiating new contracts for both players. Bannister and Wilson could declare themselves free agents at the end of the World Series.
Wilson was one of three players who signed so-called lifetime contracts with the Royals. Wilson and reliever Dan Quisenberry, who was released last year, signed in 1985 and George Brett signed in 1984.
Wilson's four-year contract had options through 1994 and also included provisions for real estate investments with Royals co-owner Avron Fogelman that would yield payments past his playing days.
Kansas runners to race with the Big Eight
By Paula Parrish
Kansas' top cross country runner Steve Heffernan said that second place was a definite possibility tomorrow for a Kansas team ranked 21st in the nation.
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas cross country team will head to Ames, Iowa, to participate in the cross country Big Eight Championships.
"I think that Iowa State will probably be the team champion," Heffernan said. "Nebraska's tough, but on a good day, I think we can run with them. I think they are a little overrated."
Other teams competing in the meet with national rankings are Iowa, Kentucky and Florida rated second. Teams are ranked each week by the NCAA Division I
Cross Country Coaches Association Poll. Kansas was ranked 20th two weeks ago but dropped back to 21st after finishing third at the Arkansas Invitational.
"The team members have been very into their preparations for the Big Eight," Coach Gary Schwartz said. "I think most of them feel they've worked too hard all fall to let them lead." The really well-heated heads into the race."
"We don't feel our place last year was really representative of what we could do," he said. "I'll be really glad to have faith in you and I think they will be too."
The Kansas men's team placed sixth at last year's competition, and Schwartz said he expected more this year.
If the team runs well, Schwartz said, third place is a definite possibil-
I think they're ready for their best race ever. I think they have a chance to improve at least one or two places from last year.'
Gary Schwartz Kansas track coach
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it, but Kansas could finish as low as
sixth if the team has an off day.
Individually, Heffernan has an excellent chance of placing high for Kansas, although some of the competition he'll be running against is the best in the nation. Schwartz said.
the Big Eight Championships and took tenth place overall at the meet. As a sophomore two years ago,
Heffernan placed ninth.
"I think I'm capable of finishing in the ton five this year," he said.
Big Eight men's 'teams will run on
Big-kilometer course and women
will run on short-course.
Schwartz, said Tricia Brown, Fairway senior, would be a standout for Kansas on the women's side.
"I think they're ready for their best time ever," Schwartz said. "I think they have a chance to improve at least one or two places from last year."
As a team, Kansas women finished last at the Big Eight meet in 1988, but Schwartz said he expected at least a sixth place finish this year.
Brown has set personal records in her past two meetings and done exceptionally well in practice. Schwartz is going to do rest well this week."
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Kansas runners Daniela Daggy, Heffernan and Brown practice.