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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 5, 1989
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KU's fast-pitch phenom Shortstop blazes path for Jayhawk softball team
Christy Arterburn. Kansas shortstop, works on her fielding during practice.
By Gene King
Christy Arterburn would be lost on a fast-pitch softball field without speed and quickness. However, these two assets were not as important to her two years ago.
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"I never thought about not making the team," Arterburn said. "I was pretty confident about coming up here."
Arterburn came to Kansas from Florida, where she played slow-pitch.
Arterburn, Kansas sophomore shortstop, has only been a fast-pitch player for the past two years.
Arterburn's arrival at Kansas is as odd as her success.
Coach Kalum Haack said that a reporter for a Florida newspaper, who was a Kansas alumnus, conferred the University about Arterburn.
Arterburn said that while attending a wedding in the Kansas City area, she was contacted by a coach and came to campus for a visit.
"Coach Haack then kept in contact with me over the summer," she said. "He said he would give me the ticket to walk on and prove what I can."
Haack said that he was pleased that she came to Kansas, but admitted that she was not recruited the usual way.
Although she has had only two years of experience batting against fast-pitch pitchers, she is the lead-off hitter.
One change she made from slow-pitch to the college game, was moving to the left side of the plate to hit.
"We just sort of stumbled onto her," he said. "She has been our starting shortstop ever since."
"She is able to just slap the ball and put it in play," Haack said. "She can then use her speed to beat out the throw."
As the lead-off hitter, she is batting above 450.
"The strategy is for her to get on, steal second, be bunted over to third and then driven in," Haack said.
"She has such good bat control now that she can put the ball where she wants to."
Haack said that not only does her speed help on defense, but it also helps her on the base paths.
"She is one of the fastest I've seen in the conference." he said.
Arterburn said that the first time she stole second was one of the most exciting times that she has had on a softball field.
Massengale conceded that the presidents were certain to face stiff opposition on reducing the basketball
"All my brothers played baseball and they got to steal, and I always wanted to steal." she said. When I said so, she said, "You are allowed to steal." It was great.
NCAA seeks to cut a month from basketball season
As a sophomore on a relatively young team with only two seniors, Arterburn has high expectations for the squad.
"I would really like to see us make it to the World Series all three years," she said. "Position by position, we can top anyone else in the Big Eight.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The NCAA President's Commission will seek to reduce the basketball season by almost a month, amend freshman academic requirements to make scholarship money available to kids from poor backgrounds and force schools to discline athletes' graduation rates, chairman Martin Massengale said yesterday.
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"No one is out here just to go through the motions."
"My belief is these measures will pass at the NCAA convention in January," Massengale told a news conference at the end of the Commission's two-day meeting. "But there could be things happen between now and the convention to change that."
season. In addition to starting the season almost a month later, the commission will sponsor legislation to reduce the number of games a school can play each season from 28 to 25.
The reduced schedule would include men's and women's basketball and take effect in 1991. Presently, practice starts Oct. 15, and competition can begin the fourth Friday in November. Under the new proposal, practice will start Nov. 15, and the regular season will not begin until Dec. 20.
One argument certain to be used against the reduction will be financial. Many schools will stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in television and gate revenue if three games are removed from the sched-
Massengale said the presidents' action was spurred by a report that many student-athletes have come under attack when time is demanded by their sport.
"I think the commission's first and foremost consideration is the welfare of our students, the academic training of these young people," said Massangele, chancellor at the University of Zurich. "You will be dialogue, differences of opinion. But they will have to be ironed out at the convention."
The changes would be effective in 1991 and would not include conference tournaments and the NCAA Tournament.
The January convention is expected to contain a number of amendments to the controversial Proposition 42 passed last January to
take effect in 1991. Under Proposition 42, freshmen who have an overall 2.0 high school grade point average but fail to meet other requirements will not qualify for any scholarship aid. Presently, such non-qualifiers cannot play or practice their freshman year but can receive scholarships.
"The commission has decided to recommend that a partial qualifier would be eligible for need-based nonathletic financial aid, the kind that is available to any other member of the student body," Massengale said. "Also, if a partial qualifier receives aid and is a recruited athlete, that would count against the number of scholarships you're permitted for that year as well as against the total number."
Proposition 42 was especially criticized by many Black coaches and
educators because of their belief that standardized college entrance exams, part of Proposition 48 requirements, are discriminatory. Massengale said allowing need-based aid would address that concern directly.
"If you recall, Proposition 42 would not make any kind of aid available. Now, if they come from a low-income family, they would perhaps be able to qualify for the maximum aid," he said. "If they do not have need, they will not be eligible. For example, if they come from wealthy families."
Kids from middle-class families, Massengale said, "might be eligible for some financial aid, but probably not a full-ride scholarship."
scholarships in the past three years. Massengale said he did not know how many of those 600 would have been helped, or to what degree, under the commission's new proposal.
"I would assume that a significant number would be eligible for some aid," he said. "It could be anywhere from $1,000 to a full ride. The needy student, whether he be low- or middle-income, would get some form of financial aid."
An NCAA staff report estimated that Proposition 42 would have kept about 60 athletes from receiving
The graduation disclosure amendment is meant to head off legislation proposed in Congress to force schools to publish the ratio of their student- athletes who get their degrees.
The commission's amendment to Proposition 42 is expected to be one of many brought to the convention floor.
'Hawk spikers maul Tigers Victory kicks off Big 8 conference volleyball
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By Dan Perkins
Kansas' used strong passing and middle blocking to defeat Missouri in its Big Eight Conference volleyball opener last night at Allen Field House.
About 350 people watched Kansas, 8-6, split the first two games of the match before overpowering the Tigers, 15-8, 15-8, 15-4. Missouri is 4-11 overall and 0-2 in the Big Eight.
"This is the best we've played all together this season," team member Adrian Powell said. "The first Big Eight match is important for us. We needed to get this one."
Powell led Kansas with five serving aces and 24 digs to go along with her eight kills.
Coach Frankie Albitz said one reason for the improved play was the amount of flexibility her team had given her this season.
"The girls are real flexible," Albiz said. "I can move people around and they still do the job. I couldn't do that last year."
Powell said that the team had been working on middle blocking and passing all week.
"We worked hard on them all week," Powell said. "She (Albitz) didn't give us a day off this week."
The key person in KU's passing is settler Jule Wooldruff. Woodruff had 39 set assists against Missouri and leads Kansas with 495 for the season.
April Chavey led Kansas with six blocks (three solos and three assists). Mary Beth Bella and Shelly Johnson each added five blocks each.
"I'm supposed to get every second hit, so every one is counting on me," Woodruff said. "If I don't get to the end, the beginning begins to break down."
"Our passing is getting better," Woodruff said. "I worked hard on it
during the off-season, and it's paying off."
In the first game of the match,
Kansas trailed Missouri 5-3 before
running off 12 of the last 15 points
 scored to get the victory.
After losing the second game, Kansas never trailed again in the match, by opening up big leads in both games.
Woodruff said the team would have to keep working hard if it wanted to reach its goal.
"We want to get into the Big Eight Tournament this season," Woodruff said. "We know we're capable of doing it."
Kansas will get a taste of what it will take to win the Big Eight Tournament when they play Colorado and Nebraska. Colorado is currently ranked 14th in the NCAA poll and Nebraska is ranked fifth.
Kansas plays at Colorado on Saturday and Regis College, Denver, Colo., on Sunday before returning
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Jodi Oelschlag returns a series in the second game of the volleyball team's match against Missouri. The Jayhawks lost the second game 15-8.
home to play Nebraska at 7 p.m.
Wednesday at Allen Field House.
Phillips' glove holds Jays at bay as A's win
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Tony Phillips gave Oakland a big assist yesterday — eight of them to be exact.
The eight assists, tied Manny Trillo's mark set with Philadelphia in Game 1 of the 1980 National League playoffs. The AL record was seven by Willie Randolph of the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the 1981 playoffs.
Phillips tied a playoff record with eight assists as the Athletics beat Toronto, 6-3, and took a 2-1 lead in the American League series.
Phillips, who hit .203 last season, rebounded in 1989 and became a valuable member of the team.
"This was a big year for me," Phillips said. "We went to the World Series last year, but I was disappointed with my contribution. This year, I feel I have done a lot to help the team in a lot of different ways."
Phillips played first base, second base, third base, third base, and right field.
It was the job he did at second base that saved the A's in Game 2, though.
With Oakland leading 2-1, the Blue Jays threatened in the fifth inning when Nelson pitched to Lloyd Moseby his sharp grounder to right with one out, but Phillips made a diving stop on the lip of the outfield grass, got to his feet
Headache sidelines Canseco, but A's get along just fine
The Athletics' offense didn't miss him, but Canseco hopes he can get through the rest of the season without wails without a painful recurrence.
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A last-minute scratch from the starting lineup after experiencing nausae and dizziness before Game 2, Canceso entered the game in the sixth吟唱 and played right field. He received and struck out, extending his strike until futility to 22 straight postseason atbats without a hit.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Jose Canseco's year of misadventures took a new twist yesterday when he was sidelined by a migraine headache.
"Whenever you get a serious migraine, your vision is impaired," he said after his team's
Canseco was 0-4 in Tuesday night's opener, striking out his last three times up in what he called "one of the worst games, period of my life." He said on his telephone hotline that he didn't feel well all day and thought he might be catching a virus.
6-3 victory. "I had trouble even comprehending a baseball. There was no way I could hear her and hit a 64-mph fastball."
Yesterday, he said he told team trainer Barry Weinberg on Tuesday night that he had a migraine for the first game but played through it.
Cancuso said he has had the problem since high school. He missed two games last year against the Angels and had a CAT-scan performed after a dizzy spell.
into a dark room and relaxed during the game until he felt ready to pinch hit for Stan Javier in the sixth.
"Nobody knows exactly when a migraine headache is occurring." Pont said. "In some cases, this can take on a sense of flashing lights, nausea or a tingling sensation. In Jose's case, he experienced nausea and dizziness."
"This morning, it just got worse," he said. "My vision got a lot worse."
Causece hasn't had a postseason hit since his grand slam off the Los Angeles Dodgers' Tim Belcher in the opening game of the 1986 World Series. He hit seven home runs in September.
Team physician Allan Pont prescribed a vascular headache preventive, and Canseco went
Starter Mike Moore then got Mookie Wilson to ground out to second to end the inning.
Designated hitter Dave Parker moved to Canseco's No. 3 spot.
and got the out.
"That was a key play," Moore said. "If Tony doesn't make that play, the game is tied."
"It was a great one." Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston said. "He made several of them."
victories of the season, Phillips hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning July 31 to beat the Chicago White Sox.
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The Blue Jays have been struggling offensively, and Phillipe' play was a killer.
"I've worked on my hitting a lot," Phillips said. "I can hit it out once in a while, too."
In one of the A's most dramatic
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unough the women's golf team won the Shocker Fall Classic on Sunday and Monday at Wichita State, their coach was not satisfied with the team's play.
"We never got fired up," Lisa Luigs said. "The competition wasn't as good as in previous tournaments. I think the girls sort of sank to the other teams' level instead of playing how they were capable of playing."
Kansas topped its competition with a three-round score of 977. Kansas State placed second, shooting 1,016. North Carolina state took third with a score of 1,022.
Getting top-medalist honors was
"We didn't play well at all," Luigs said.
Kansas golfer Shelly Triplett, who shot 240. Teammate Marissa Harichison finished one stroke in second place. Donna Miller placed fourth.
The conditions were unfavorable because it was cold and wind most of the time.
The women's team will take a break from competition until November. Luigs said the队 would work on their mental conditioning during this time.
"It will be a good break for us," she said. "It will be good to work on some things for more than a week and then go to a tournament."
Clark drove in a record six runs, going 4-for-1 for two homers, including a grand slam, and overhawed Mitchell's three-run shot as San Francisco routed the Chicago Cubs 11-3 in the opening game of the National League playoffs.
Pitching may dominate the postseason, but it didn't this time. Clark's slam off 19-game winner Greg Maddux landed on Sheffield Avenue beyond the right-field bleachers and made it 8-3 in the fourth inning. By then there had already been four home runs and 13 hits.
Clark set a playoff record for RBI and tied the all-time postseason record set by Bobby Richardson for the New York Yankees in the 1960 World Series. Clark hit his only big-league grand slam this season against Mike Maddux, Greg's brother.
CHICAGO — Will Clark spent all season in the shadow of Kevin Mitchell. In the spotlight at Wrigley Field last night, he finally moved ahead of his teammate — barely.
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Mark Grace hit a two-run homer in the first inning for the Cubs, and Ryne Sandberg, who had three hits,
Scott Garrelts, the league's ERA champion, struggled early but lasted seven innings for the victory.
Mitchell, who led the majors with 47 home runs and 125 RBI this season, contributed his homer and a single to the Giants' 13 hits. Clark, who batted .333 and had 28 home runs and 111 RBI, walked just before Mitchell hit his home run onto Waveland Avenue in left field.
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Clark, facing the team that has given him the most trouble throughout his career, hit an RBI double during a three-run first inning and a solo home run in third. With the bases loaded and two outs in the fourth, Cubs manager Don Zimmer went to the mound to talk to Maddux and Clark hit the next pitch out of the park.
Clark, a .407 hitter with runners in scoring position this season, tied the NL playoff mark for hits. He hit .360 for the Giants in the 1987 playoffs, a seven-game loss to St. Louis.
homered in the third.
Neither Clark nor Mitchell likes to hit it at Wrigley Field or against Chicago. Going into the game, Clark had hit just two home runs in 141 career at-bats versus the Cubs, his lowest total against any team, and had no homers and just five RBI in 49 tries this season. Mitchell hit only 109 against Chicago this year.
Game 2 is tonight with Chicago's Mike Bielecki (18-7) facing Rick Reuschel (17-8).
That was all the 39,195 fans, not including those packing the adjacent rooftops, had to cheer about on a warmer-than-expected night. There had been frost warnings the previous evening, but the game-time temperature of 55 degrees and light winds even had home-plate umpire Doug Harvey in short sleeves.
That wasn't evident this time. Mitchell, the league leader in total bases, and Clark, the runner-up, went wild.