University Daily Kansan, November 13, 1981
Sports
Young, struggling Buffs resemble past 'Hawks
By TRACEE HAMILTON Sports Editor
There are rough times in Boulder.
The Colorado Buffalooes have been the Big Eight doormat for the past several seasons, although this year they are struggling with Kansas State for that honor. The battle of the Big Eight cellar between the two teams will take place Nov. 21.
BUT FIRST. Kansas faces Colorado tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium.
The Buffs bring a 2-7 record to Lawrence, along with a team that is at times discounted.
Colorado will find at least one sympathetic ear at KU-the Buffs are undergoing a rebuilding process much like the one Kansas began two seasons ago.
Head Coach Chuck Fairbanks will start nine seniors, two juniors, 10 sophomores and a freshman against Kansas. Overall, there are 21 seniors and juniors in the black and gold this season, compared to 34 freshmen and sophomores.
"THEY ARE very similar to our football
team." "They've got a lot of young football players."
"They've got a lot of young football players."
"I think Colorado might be the most improved team in the conference. They are much better."
All of which bodys well for the seasons down
But the Buffs, like Kansas had to,
must wait.
Colorado started the season with a decisive 45-27 victory over Texas Tech, then followed with a close 14-10 loss to Washington State and a 41-20 defeat at the hands of Brigham Young to UCLA 27-7; before suffering their first real rout, 59-40, to perennial router Nebraska.
Colorado then upset Oklahoma State in Boulder, 11-10, the weekend after the Cowboys defeated Kansas' 20-7. Then came a narrow 17-10 loss to Iowa and a route by Oklahoma, 49-0. Last weekend, after leading 14-0, the Buffs fell to Missouri, 30-14.
BUT THEIR 2-7 record may be deceiving in this case. Colorado traditionally gives Kansas a hard time. In the last 16 years, Kansas is 41-14 league winners and the Jachwins have won Boulet last year, the 42-33.
The Buffaloes, also a team with nothing to lose. Colorado and Kansas State are really the only two Big Eight teams that are entirely out of the bowl picture. So the Buffs can take the enviable role of spider—an upset of Kansas to eliminate the Joyhaws from bowl contention.
Fambrough has been worried that the team will look beyond Colorado to the season finale.
such an oversight. Fambridge has been
the next two games and downplaying
bowl possessions.
"EVERYONE SEEMS to go ape about goals," he said. "We're no different. That was a goal of ours—to have a winning season. Our first was to win more games than a year ago, and we've lost every game, and we have that one. We still have a couple of goals and they are Colorado and Missouri."
The Buffs' offense has accumulated 2,829 total yards this season, an average of almost 300 yards a game, but they average only 13 points a game.
The offense is led by quarterback Randy Essington, a sophomore for his temp team. The Rams score 17-0.
Essington beat out senior Scott Kingdom for the job. Kingdom became miffed during preseason practices when Essington was given more playing time, and he left the team. Essington's other contribution is Steve Vogel, a national coach of several games when Essington bruised his ribs.
VOGEL LED the Bufs to their 11-10 victory over Oklahoma State, then directed Colorado to
—Don Fambrough
'I think Colorado might be the most improved team in the conference. They are much better than anyone anticipated.'
two road losses to Nebraska and Iowa State. Essington then announced he was thinking of changing schools if he didn't play more. He started the following week.
In seven games, Essington has completed 79 of 161 passes for 1,023 yards and six touchdowns. He has also thrown eight interceptions. He recorded 43 of 63 passes for all 43 yards and one touchdown.
Against Missouri, Essington completed 12 of
28 passes for 127 yards and three interceptions. Of the 17 drives he led, two ended in touchdowns and one in a goal field. Five were stopped by turnovers, the Buffs punted six times and twice the Buffs were thwarted on fourth down conversions
"I thought Randy Essington played fairly well," Fairbanks said of his Missouri performance. "I thought the second interception he threw wasn't a very good play. On the first interception, however, the throw went through receivers' hands and he should have caught it."
COLORADO'S LEADING running back, freshman halfback Lee Rousson, has picked up 434 yards on 98 carries this season, but averages only 54.3 yards a game.
Derek Singleton is close behind, averaging a single game with 236 net yards. Singleton was the first when the
Buffs visited Ames. Of the Buffs' touchdown this season, Rouson has scored five, Singleton one and Richard Johnson the other,.
The Colorado offense is further buoyed
winkback and all-purpose man, Walter Stanley.
Colorado's defense has particularly impressed Fambrouh, however.
At the wingback position, Stanley averaged 5.8 yards a carry. As a receiver, he has caught 12.7 yards and scored two downhill. He also returns kicks, averaging 23.7 yards and puts, averaging 9.8 yards.
"The biggest improvement as come with their defense," Fambrough said. "They do a lot of different things on defense that can give you more control. We'll have to be read for about anything."
THE BUFFS have a young defense—six of the two players, two more are juniors and 11 have backs.
One or two seniors, end Pete Perry, the team in tackles against Missouri with 20. Perry has 99 tackles for the season. Sophomore safety Jeff Donaldson is behind him with 67 tackles.
The Jayhawks will counter that toughened defense with their newly juvenated offense. Sophomore quarterback Frank Seurer will lead the 'Hawks, and the tailback question also has been decided. Fambrough said yesterday he would start Garfield Taylor, who played in the second half against Iowa State and gained 91 vards.
Taylor replaced senior Walter Mack, who had 66 yards in the first half against the Cyclones, but who fumbled late in the second quarter and was benched.
"Taylor's had a good week of practice," Fambrough said. "We try to be fair to all of them. He deserves to start, but that's not taking anything away from anybody."
The Jayhawks will put their 6-3 record on the line against Colorado, their first winning record since 1976. For the fifth-year seniors on the team, the Jayhawks will be atton at 1:10, that mark is especially rewarding.
"I've been here five years and it is finally evident that our program is moving somewhere and in a positive direction," offensive guard David Lawrence said. "We're going to be working at beginning to show. This is truly the greatest thing that has happened to me in my career here."
JAYHAYW NOTES: Offensive guard Paul Fairchild and reserve defensive tactic Guy Neighbors both will miss tomorrow's game against Colorado.
Fairchild sprained an ankle this week in practice and Neighbors suffered a strained
Receiver Russ Bastin, who was hospitalized after scrapes on his arm became infected, was released from the hospital yesterday and will play tomorrow, Head Coach Don Fambrough
"He'll be ready to play," he said. "We also have a lot of depth at that position."
Fambrough named Jim Bouska and Darren Green as oggile replacements for Bastin.
Predictions
| | Hamilton | Haggatrom | Schaad | Leibengood | Richardson | Parker |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Colorado at Kansas | Kansas 28-7 | Kansas 31-17 | Kansas 21-7 | Kansas 24-14 | Kansas 21-10 | Kansas 21-14 |
| Iowa State at Nebraska | Nebraska 42-10 | Nebraska 35-14 | Nebraska 35-10 | Nebraska 31-16 | Iowa State 14-7 | Nebraska 41-7 |
| Oklahoma at Missouri | Oklahoma 21-19 | Oklahoma 28-20 | Oklahoma 17-13 | Oklahoma 28-21 | Oklahoma 45-21 | Oklahoma 24-21 |
| Kansas State at Oklahoma State | Oklahoma State 10-9 | Oklahoma State 24-14 | Oklahoma State 21-10 | Oklahoma State 20-17 | Kansas State 21-19 | Oklahoma State 20-10 |
| Southern Cal at Washington | Southern Cal 35-23 | Southern Cal 24-17 | Southern Cal 27-13 | Southern Cal 28-24 | Southern Cal 21-7 | Southern Cal 21-17 |
| Iowa at Wisconsin | Iowa 30-27 | Iowa 21-20 | Wisconsin 14-10 | Wisconsin 15-14 | Wisconsin 16-15 | Wisconsin 21-14 |
| Alabama at Penn State | Penn State 27-24 | Penn State 20-17 | Penn State 18-15 | Penn State 21-20 | Penn State 16-15 | Penn State 15-14 |
| Arizona State at UCLA | UCLA 28-27 | Arizona State 24-21 | Arizona State 21-18 | UCLA 17-14 | UCLA 16-15 | UCLA 28-24 |
| Brigham Young at Hawaii | Hawaii 33-31 | Hawaii 35-28 | Hawaii 17-13 | Hawaii 42-35 | Brigham Young 69-3 | Hawaii 31-28 |
| Southern Mississippi at Florida State | Florida State 14-10 | Florida State 17-14 | Florida State 21-10 | Florida State 10-7 | Florida State 16-15 | Florida State 28-21 |
| Season Totals | 57-30-3 | 62-25-3 | 53-34-3 | 51-36-3 | 53-34-3 | 58-29-3 |
The predictors are Tracee Hamilton, sports editor; Ron Haggstrom, associate sports editor; Bob Schaad, managing editor; Larry Leibengood, business manager; Earl Richardson, photographer; and Tim Parker, sports writer.
Kings trade Lacev to New Jersey
By United Press International
KANAS SITE, City, Mo. — The Kansas City Kings yesterday traded 12-year veteran center Sam Lacey to the New Jersey Nets for forward-guard Mike Woodson and a 1981 first-round draft pick.
Lacey had been splitting playing time at center this season with rookie Steve Johnson, the first team starter.
The 6-foot-5 Woodson is a second-year player from Indiana University who played in 18 games with the New York Knicks last season as a rookie. He went to the Nets this summer in a loss to the Clippers, and after Nets, he has averaged 11.9 points a game with a high game of 19 against Detroit Nov. 5.
Woodson was the 12th player chosen in the 1980 draft after leading Indiana to a National Invitation Tournament championship his senior year.
The Kings will receive the better of the two first-round picks the Nets acquired from Los Angeles and Phoenix, while New Jersey retains its own pick.
"With free agency necessitating a change in our balletcub and our style of play, I felt it was a
"It gives us the opportunity to get a young player who can shoot the ball and also get a first-round draft pick. We're more committed to our core-ball-court game and more low post than high post.
"Those people who might think we are giving up for the season don't know me. Far from it. Personally I feel badly losing Sam. He brought to this franchise a lot of excitement and winning for 11 years. In the last three years with us, we've won Division and gone to three straight playoffs.
deal we should make," Kings Coach Cotton Fitzsimons said in explaining the trade. "We just don't have the people to cut off the wings anymore as we did in the past.
"Anytime someone is with a ballclub 11 years, you don't make a trade like this lightly. As long as I'm coaching at Kansas City, no one will wear number 44 again."
Both Lacey and Woodson are expected to join their new teams for weekend contests. Kansas City plays at New Jersey tomorrow. Lacey and Woodson will play against Kansas City against Woodson, the King's newest acquisition.
Basketball
etc.
Hockey
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Washington 95, Atlanta 87
Detroit 130, Cleveland 91
San Diego 129, Portland 115
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
national Hockey League
illegible 3, Quagmire 2
leonton 5, Edmondson 1
helflett 4, Philips 3
Los Angeles 6, Los Angeles
Soccer
KU women w/ Drake, Sunday, 11 a.m. and 2pm, toowa
KU men w/ Iowa State, tomorrow, 4 p.m. and 2pm, towa
KU women w/ Minnesota, tomorrow, 4 p.m. and 2pm, towa
Track
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Buffalo all-purpose wingback Walter Stanley returns a kick during Colorado's 41-20 loss to Brigham Young.
KU volleyball team faces "ifs"
Sports Writer
Rv.JAN ROUTTE
Despite KU's fifth-place seeding, Lockwood said, "If we can play well at the Big Eights, we are."
Coach Bob Lockwock looks at the Jayhawks' chance of winning the Big Eight volleyball tournament.
Lockwood has a long list of ifs, most of them involving injured players.
IF KATHY KENNEDY, a freshman spiker
him tiring and plays full force, then "maybe
his team will win."
“This was the best day she’s had in practice,” Lockwood said Wednesday. “If she can come through and attack the ball and block at the net, then we’ll be stronger.”
And if Susie Quirk's final exam that will complete a summer course is recorded by the registrar by this afternoon, the 4-foot-2 student will be able to play for the first time this year.
Lockwood added a new if to his list Wednesday, when Kim Cobb, a freshman who caught for the softball team this fall, was added to the volleyball team's roster.
Cobb, who was recruited to both the softball and volleyball coaches, chose to play softball but was promised a chance at volleyball if she wanted to try out. She worked with the team this week, and the players decided Wednesday to let her join the squad.
LOCKWOOD COMPARED Cobb to senior Jill
good all-ground player who could well gate.
Lockwood said that Cobb would be a contender at a starting position but that she must battle it out. He said the team's best defender was
Two of Lockwood's big ifs have already been resolved. Senior setter Shelly Fox, who injured
ner ankle and wasn't expected to return this season, is back in the lineup. Lockwood said that she played well last weekend in a tournament at Iowa State.
"Having Shelly in the lineup makes all the difference," Lockwood said.
The other if fell through Wednesday when freshman spiker Amir Price, out with a broken foot bone, was told that it had not healed enough to play this weekend.
Two weeks ago, the Big Eight教练 seeded KU fifth of the six teams in the Big Eight. A year later, Big Eight added a
"Second, third and fourth just don't matter. Everyone there is trying to win first." Lockwood said.
THE JAYHAWKS have accumulated a 25-28-1 record during the injury-plagued season, but Lockwood said that what happened during the season was wiped out once the tournament began. Regardless of season record, the winner of the Big Eight tournament is the only team from the Big Eight to progress into the national tournament.
But Lockwood, who dismissed the ranking, said, "The team that we're going to put on the field has been doing it wrong."
When the seedlings were announced, only half of KU5's present starting six were playing, and the other four were not.
NEBRASKA, THE perennial winner of the Big
Ball game, will lose to you if you lose a patch to big Big Ball team (the Bulls).
Kansas will open this afternoon against Nebraska at 1:00 and play K-State at 3 p.m. If they lose, KU will play at 7:30 p.m. if they win, KU will play at beginninq tournament play tomorrow.
Missouri, Iowa State and Kansas State are also seeded above Kansas, which lost games to all of Wisconsin.
Swimmers to face Sooners in dual
The KU women's swim team will face Oklahoma tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Robinson Natatorium in a preview of the fight for first place in the Bia Eight.
The men's team will also face the Sooners in the dual.
The Oklahoma women finished second last year behind the Jayhawks at the Big Eight
"We look for them to push us the most," Head Coach Gary Kempt said. "We're going to have to watch out or get knocked off sometime. People swim better at the best."
The men's team, which finished a "dismappointing third" in the Big Eight last year, according to Kempf, faces an Oklahoma squad that is not as good.
"They're not as good," Kempf said. "Their coach is in the same position 'm' from him. He just took it."
This will be the first big meet of the season for both the men's and women's squads. The women's team won the Cyclone Relays two years ago, but the individual races were not swum.
"Relays are pretty low-key," Kemp said. "We need a meet. Practice has been going really well, and everyone has done a nice job, but we need a meet."
“Basically, we're looking for stress performance. You can only train so long. Work up to a certain edge. Our attitude is excellent, we need to schedule to fulfill our goals—Big Eight champs.”
The Jayhawks learned about achieving goals in a psychology seminar last weekend and Kempt has instituted some of the techniques he has taught it to practice, such as relaxation techniques.
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"We're working on that and trying to have them work it," he said. "You'll never be able to finish."
The Jayhawks have also been working on sprites, which Kempf said was a weakness.
"The spirits look better," he said. "We need a need to see where we are and judge conditioning."
The only injury for the Jayhawks is Sally burger, women's co-captain, who will miss the game.