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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 12, 1989
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Jayhawk spikers lose to Nebraska
No. 5 Cornhuskers dominate Kansas
By Dan Perkins
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas volleyball team faced a difficult task last night playing the undefeated Nebraska Cornhuskers in Allen Field House, and knew it.
"In games against teams like Nebraska, you don't think about winning and losing, you just try to do what you can." Coach Franklin Albitz said. "In 9, 15-0, 11-15, 14-2 loss to Cornhuskers who are ranked fifth nationally."
The one game Kansas did win in a match was a significant one for both.
With the loss, Kansas fell to 8-9 overall and 1-2 in the Big Eight Conference. Nebraska improved to 13-0 and 4-0.
Hitter Shelly Jorgensen, who led Kansas with 16 digs said, "That one win was great. In the three years I'd win, he didn't have a game against them."
"I think it nice we took a game off them," Albizt said. "Nebraska is very good this year and their program is wag ahead of us."
In the first game of the match,
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Kansas closed the gap to 11-9 after Jorgensen scored three straight points. But the Cornhuskers came right back with four straight points of their own, taking the game 15-9.
"I'm glad we came back," Albiz said. "I'm glad we played competitive volleyball. It wasn't great volleyball, but I think smart plays let us get by a lot of the time."
The four points Nebraska scored to end the first game were just the
"We need to be steadier." Albiz said. "I never know how we'll play. Our serve is hot and cold and you have to serve tough in volleyball to be successful. It's hard to get points without tough serves."
"We went back to our old ways," Bella said. Bella had six kills, the second-highest number on the team behind Kris Kleinschmidt's nine. Kleinschmidt also added 14 digs.
Middle blocker/hitter Mary Beth Bella had an easier explanation for Kansas' play in the second game.
beginning. g. The Cornhuskers picked up right where they left off and shut out the Jayhawks, 15-0, in the second game.
The two teams traced points until a kill by hitter J油 Oelschlager, with Kansas leading 11-10, sparked the Javhawks.
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Nebraska began the third game of the match as if it were going to be its
After breaking Boli's serve, Kansas answered Nebraska with seven straight points, with middle blocker Anril Chavev serving.
Nebraska's Becki Bolli jumped preserved the Cornhuskers to a 5-0 lead with two service aces, but Kansas wasn't through.
Kansas scored the next two points for a 13-10 lead before Bolli reentered the Cornhusker lineup to serve.
Bolli gained just one point, and after a timeout, Kansas scored the winning goal.
Shelly Jorgensen jumps for a block against fifth-ranked Nebraska.
Kansas will play at Tulsa on Saturday and at Oklahoma on Sunday before returning home to play Oklahoma at 8 p.m. Oct. 20 in Allen Field House.
KU softball won't lose shape in off-season
By Liz Hueben
Kansan staff writer
mentally to improve their games.
The team finished its fall season Sunday with a 16.3 record.
Kansas softball has a few months before the next competition, but the team and coaches will not stop working — mentally or physically.
Coach Kalum Haack said that because of an NCAA rule, under which the team cannot play or practice more than 26 weeks a year, the team would not practice daily again until mid-January.
But during this interval, he said, the team members will talk about what needs to be done
After Sunday's doubleheader against the College of St. Mary's, Omaha, Neb., Haack said he would like to see the team get more aggressive. The team lost the first game 1-0 in extra innings.
Senior pitcher Roanna Brazier said, "There were very few games when we came out and pulled everything together well. We need to work on that."
Senior second baseman Kim Doyle said she thought the team could have been undefeated if they had been more successful at clutch hitting.
Haack said that in Sunday's loss, the team left runners in scoring position in seven of eight innings
"We need to work on hitting with runners in scoring position." she said.
Besides working on the mental aspects of the game, the team will be keeping in shape.
Doyle said they would build their strength and stamina by lifting weights and running.
"We'll be getting in good condition since we don't pick up a ball until January," she said.
Braizer said, "Our main goal is to get stronger, quicker and faster."
Both Doyle and Brazier said they were happy with the fall season and confident about the spring.
Tribia Brown, captain of the women's cross country team, hopes to finish in the top 10 at Saturday's Arkansas Invitational.
Runner leads team by setting example
By Stacy Smith
Kansan staff writer
People often claim running is an addictive activity that can turn into a passion.
"I really didn't enjoy running at Arizona because I couldn't reach my potential," Brown said. "I felt burned out. It wasn't fun. The coaches just had a poor attitude. They didn't communicate with their athletes."
Brown, Fairway senior, is captain of the Kansas women's cross country team and the top returning runner this year. Although she was a member of the cross country team, she never planned to join the Kansas team when she transferred here three years ago.
For Tricia Brown, running has become a way of life.
"If I had to give it up, I think I go crazy," she said. "You become so used to doing it daily that it becomes a part of your life."
"If it weren't for him, I probably wouldn't have started running again," she said. "I liked it here because they were a new coaching staff, and we had a really small team.
Brown said she practiced every day, including weekends, for two-and-a-half hours and ran an add-ons four miles three mornings a week.
"Having that amount of people on the team and having a combined team of men and women it like a family. It made it fun."
Coach Gary Schwartz changed her mind about joining the Kansas team.
During the Southern Illinois Invitational in Carbondale, IL., on Sept. 9, Brown dropped out of the team to heat exhaustion due to heat exhaustion and fatigue.
During the next weekend at Jayhawk Invitational, she finished eighth with a time of 19:50.38, better than Brown, better said the problems
"I was thinking too much about who's in the race and, once we started, where they were," she said. "I wasn't thinking about me.
she had encountered at the first few meets this year have since been resolved.
Brown said she felt confident about Saturday's Arkansas Invitational at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Last year, she placed 17th with a rate of 18:22.5. This year, she said her goal was to place in the top 10 and break the 18-minute mark.
Last week atend the Michigan State Invitational in East Lansing, Mich., Brown finished seventh with her best time of 18.03.
"I've been pretty disappointed up until last weekend," she said. "I came it to the season in good shape, so I knew I was ready to roll."
"I didn't want to fail. I was going out there wanting to win, and I was putting too much pressure on myself. Now I'm going out there to have fun."
"I'm really looking for improvement in my time," she said. "We're coming up against some good teams, and I think everyone will give it their all."
Schwartz said he expected Brown to perform well in the Arkansas meet.
"I think she's coming off her best cross country performance ever last week. I predict she'll have a good meet," he said. "She's been very frustrated because she doesn't think she's doing as well as she can. That's the mark of a great athlete."
Schwartz said Brown's greatest assets to the team went further than just her ability as a runner.
"She's a good role model because of her ability but also because of her personality," he said. "She's interested in doing well, but she's also team-oriented."
Event's new concept forgets about students
Late Night, or Later, or Mid Night Court, or whatever it's called, has a new look to it: musical entertainment, and not the kind the players dished out in past years.
There's also a catch to all this — a price tag to get in. This year, for the first time in its five-year history, the athletic department will be charging admission, $3 in advance, $5 at the door.
Elaine Sung Sports editor
"We felt it was losing its excitement. The atmosphere was dying somewhat, an offshoot of Danny leaving." Vance said.
Besides that, they said, there is no football game this weekend, and it's a Saturday, which may justify a concert to draw people.
The money from the tickets, by the way, will be used to cover the cost of the event and to pay for the two bands, including the promotions and advertising. Vance said that the practices were staffed and staged like real basketball games and that they cost about $1,800 each year.
That's a lot of dough. Since there never was an admission charge before, the athletic department absorbed the cost. That's not so easy to do anymore, considering Kansas is not getting a lot of revenue because of the recent dearth in tournament appearances by Big Eight teams. It doesn't help when both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State football are on probation, and God knows who else will be soon.
But two bands?
I was outraged at first by the whole concept of musical entertainment that wasn't the players'. Danny Manning, Scooter Barry and everyone else may not have had the most glamorous or pleasant-sounding singing voices, but the whole point of the thing was that it was for the student body. It was their chance to see all the players and get a good look at them in a fun atmosphere before the real games begin.
Vance said basketball coach Roy Williams had been insistent on two factors: that the basketball team be trained, and that the price of admission be kept low.
And $3 to $5 is not much of an admission charge by itself, but if the event is supposed to attract students, charging money for two bands isn't going to do it. As Vance said, once an event that used to be free suddenly costs money, there's going to be an outcry.
To me, the whole concept of this late-night practice party is that it's for the benefit of the students. Adding a band detracts from the attention that was originally directed to the team.
I don't think this music-basketball team combination is going to work. Students haven't bought all of the $75 All-Sports ticket packages, so why would they go to this?
"We're not married to this concept," Vance said. "If it doesn't work, we won't do it again. We don't want it to die. That's been our concern, and we decided to try this."
I guess I'm still bothered by the fact they're going to charge admission for something that used to be free, an event that was designed for students. I excited about the new basketball season and it didn't take two bands to do it.
I hope everyone goes to this event instead of invading the bars and drinking; I hope my suspicions are proven wrong, but I get the feeling we're not going to be seeing any bands next year.
Elaine Sung is a Rochester, N.Y., senior major in journalism.
The Associated Press
NFL still without new commissioner
"There wasn't enough compromise to do what I care about, which is to elect a commissioner," Rozelle said in limousines from the airport hotel.
GRAPEVINE, Texas — In what Pete Rozelle conceded was the worst split between owners in his 29 years as NFL commissioner, talks to choose his successor broke off yesterday with the owners deadlocked between Jim Finks and Paul Tagliabue.
dates than between two blocs of owners. Generally, it's the newer owners against the older group.
The owners will meet again in Cleveland in two weeks to try again to break a deadlock that is less over differences between the two candi-
The older group favored Finks, the president of the New Orleans Saints; the newer group favored Tagliabue, consulting lawyer for the NFL.
Rozelle said that the split was at least partly over league politics rather than the candidates themselves. Finks was originally the only candidate recommended by a search committee but this election was blocked on July 6 when a coalition of 11 newer owners abstained.
No votes were taken yesterday, but there were four Tuesday, reportedly ending 13-13 with 2 abstentions.
KU rugby club's tour attracts British player
By Andres Cavelier
Kansan sportswriter
Not many Britons come to Kansas to play rugby, but Paddy Delargy did.
Delargy, London junior, came to the University more than two years ago, partly to play rugby and partly to get a business degree. He heard of Kansas' rugby program, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and it then travelled through in 1987 on one of its traditional tours abroad.
Since 1977, the club has traveled to 12 countries, including Great Britain, the home of rugby, France, New Zealand, and Netherlands, Belgium and Canada.
Delargy said that last spring, he traveled with the collegiate team to Canada and played Victoria University and the University of British Columbia, two of Canada's best collegiate teams.
He said that the quality of the game had improved and that now freshmen starting to play in college were much more serious about the game than they were 10 years ago.
The club started Sept. 25, 1964, when George Bunting, a graduate student from Dartmouth, founded the Kansas University Rugby Football
Today, members of the club are playing a more developed game than that of 25 years ago, yet the basics remain the same, said Louie Riederer of Lawrence, who has played with the team for 13 years.
In 1975, the team had only 15 to 20 members. Today, it has about 55 players divided into two categories: the collegiate, in which only undergraduate students can play, and the
club. which is open to everyone.
Practices are more organized, and coaches and players show up more frequently.
"Before it was more social," he said. "But now people are getting more into the game."
Head coach Dominic Barnao said that the players made many long-term friendships.
"They come out here and play with a great snirt." he said.
Riedereer said Kansas had one of the best teams in the United States. Kansas won the collegiate championship, and the Cyclones won a side win in 1981, 1982, 1984 and 1984.
In July 1983, 55 players of the collegiate side went to New Zealand to play in the FIFA World Cup Argentina, where they played five vames against national teams.
was similar to European rugby.
"In Argentina they start playing
Reiderer said rugby in Argentina was similar to European rugby.
Delargy said the game at Kansas was different but still enjoyable.
"Here, they don't kick as much because they are afraid of giving up their position," he said. "Instead, they run with it."
Barnao, who came to Kansas five years ago from Wellington, New Zealand, has set a goal to improve the coaching and playing standards.
He agreed that the team had improved its game in the past five years. Last spring, the collegiate team was ranked 12th in the country as the Jahyhaws played in the final 16 in the Western championships, losing to the Air Force Academy, the eventual national champion.
Kansas belongs to the Western Union, one of the four regional territorial unions in the United States.