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University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 11, 1989
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Punting hinders 'Hawks
Kenny Dravton struggles to escape Ricky McFadden's tackle.
Louisville defeats Kansas 33 to 28
By Gene King Kansan sportswrite
Kansas wide receiver Quintin Smith set two school records Saturday, but they were not enough to overcome two unsuccessful punt attempts that contributed to Kansas' first loss of the season. 33-28.
The kicking game and poor coachin-
cation cost Kansas the game, Coach Glen
The Louisville Cardinals capitalized on one of the failed punts and scored on a one-yard touchdown run two plays later. The touchdown put Louisville on top for good, 24-21, in the fourth quarter.
"I take full responsibility. It is my job as head coach to see that the kicking game works," he said.
The first of the two failed puns occurred in the third quarter when the punting team discovered it was short one player.
The missing man was wide receiver Kemmy Drayton, a replacement for Jim New, who sustained a mild concussion earlier in the game. When he should have been on the field in New's place, Mason said, "I was coached about the third-down pass that he had missed the play before."
Punter B.J. Lohsen heard fullback Maurice Hooks yelling not to snap the ball.
"I heard him yelling and started to walk up to the line to make sure (long-snapper Dave) Marcum wasn't going to snap it," Lohsen said.
But Marcum did, and the snap went off Lohen's thigh.
"You hear of the transition game (from offense to defense) in basketball being so important," Mason said. "It is just as important in football.
"You have got to know when to stop coaching offense and start coaching the kicking team."
The second failed attempt came in
the fourth quarter with Lohsen standing on his own 1-yard line. The snap was low and bounced to the side, where Lohsen fell on it.
"I tried to get into the end zone for the safety. I just didn't make it far enough," he said.
Marcum said that on the second snap he was thinking so much about his previous errant snap that it caused him to snap low.
Kansas quarterback Kelly Donohoe connected with Smith on four touchdown passes, setting a school record for the most touchdown receptions in a single game. With his four scoring catches, Smith caught seven more passes for a total of 221 yards, another single-game record.
Smith's 11 receptions tied the 1966 record of 11 catches held by Willem Eckhart.
Both Donohoe and Smith said they
would rather have had the victory instead of the records.
"We should have won the game," Smith said. "I consider this a step backward because we had this game won. It is very disappointing."
The first score of the game came with more than three minutes left in the first quarter. Louisville drove 60 yards, and after being stopped by the Kansas defense on the third-and-11, placekicker Ron Bell kicked a 41-yard field goal, giving the Cardinals a 3-0 advantage.
Kansas then took just four plays to move ahead 7-3 with a 32-yard touchdown pass to Smith, his first of the day.
With less than six minutes to play in the firt half, Donohoe connected with Smith on a 71-yard scoring pass, putting the Jayhawks on top 14-3 at halftime.
The last scoring catch by Smith came in the fourth quarter, but it was too late. The 23-yard pass gave Kansas only 28 points to Louisville's 31.
Kansas opened the third-quarter scoring / with the third touchdown pass from Donohoe to Smith. The pass play covered 55 yards and gave the Jahyawks a 21-6 lead, the biggest of the game.
The Cardinals started their comeback with a 21-yard field goal, a 1-yard touchdown run and then the two-play, 1-yard plunge by running back Carwell Gardner after the failed punt.
The last score was a safety when the Cardinals sacked Donohoe with :29 left in the game.
The performances by Donhooe and Smith were overshadowed by the opposition. The Cardinal offense gained 524 total vards, averaging 5.9
yards per play. Kansas gained 328
yards and averaged 6.8 per play.
There also was a difference in rushing yardages. The Jahayhaws had 32 net yards on the ground, while the ville ran for more than 280 net yards.
"The field position hurt our defense," linebacker Lance Flachsbarth said. "We have a small team, and Louisville wasn't expecting us to come out as hard as we did. We did." The team didn't win, but we probably would have given up.
Louisville coach Howard Schnellenberger had nothing but praise for the Javahaws.
"Kansas showed a lot of improvement, a lot of poise and a lot of character. They have a lot of wins in front of them," he said.
"We have improved without a doubt." Mason said.
KU football longs for a victory
Record-breaking performances can't soothe Saturday's loss
Quintin Smith, right, gets a congratulatory hug from Maurice Douglas.
By Paula Parrish
Quintin Smith's record-breaking performance in Saturday's 33-28 loss to Louisville was small consolation to the wide receiver, who would have preferred a victory to being a record holder
Kansan sportswriter
"It means something," Smith said.
"But winning would've meant more."
Smith scored the team's four touchdowns on passes from quarterback Kelly Donoho, the longest for 71 yards, breaking the school record by 369. Impacts by the same player in a same game — formerly held by Seth
Smith's 11 receptions for a total of 221 yards tied former wide receiver Wille Vaughn's previous record of 11 in the playoff game inrado in 1986 and the Bie Eight record.
"I did have one drop," Smith said.
"It don't know how I知 that."
His receiving yardage breaks Bob Johnson's record of 208 yards against Kansas State in 1983.
Smith, Houston senior, stepped forward this year to take the place of Wille Vaughn but he doesn't feel as though he's shadowed by Vaughn's past accomplishments.
Smith was named National Player of the Week yesterday by The Sporting News.
"We don't talk about making up for Willie," he said. "I guess you could say that his leaving opened up a few doors for me."
"It was the same play versus the same coverage," Smith said. "They just didn't adjust until the last play of the game. We knew coming in that we could throw the ball against them. The kicking game is where we failed."
Smith said the team was well prepared to use the passing game against Louisville, something Coach Browder had not done against Montana State a week ago.
ahead, 14-3.
Smith referred to two botches punting attempts, one of which eventually allowed Louisville to take the lead from Kansas in the second half. Kansas went into the second half
"We had them down and had them beat," he said. "We should've had a wet."
Donohoe's four touchdown passes were a feat unaccompiled by a Kansas player since 1986.
"We'd go into the huddle and he'd 'say Give me the ball,' so I did," the Harrisonville, Mo., senior said. "I've got a lot of confidence with him."
Donohoe passed for a career high of 294 yards but for him, as it was for Smith, the records didn't mean as much as the game.
"It probably doesn't mean anything," Dohoe said. "We lost."
Mason said that he and his players probably would have traded all the individual accomplishments for a victory.
"We're in this for the team accomplishments," he said.
Smith is already looking to the future for vindication.
"Next week is Kent State," he said. "We'll come out and we'll play well enough to win. Records are nice but victories are better."
My friend, whom I was arguing with at the time, is a die-hard Baltimore fan (to him, anything from Baltimore is sacred, including the Colts, who, the last time I checked, were nowhere near the city).
Elaine Sung
Sports editor
I found myself screaming at the top of my lungs outside Lippincott Hall last week — about the Orioles, of all things.
My friend insisted that the Orioles, now in second place and dropping fast, were "awesome." I tried to drown out his voice and explain (yell) to him that the Orioles climbing back on top and winning the division this year was a pipe-dream. They have an unsteady pitching rotation, a bunch of experienced players and . . . well, now they're just holding on to hope more than anything else.
Then again, the whole season has been an unbelievable dream for Baltimore. These were the Orioles that started last season 0-21 and finally managed to squeeze out a grand total of 54 victories.
They surprised me and everyone else this year. Ignominian no more. In fact, I had such faith in them in May that I bet another friend a case of soda that the Orioles would finish the season above .500.
See ORIOLES, p. 12
Granted, baseball may not be worth the anxiety or the pain, but the joy is real.
But it was nail-biting time as I watched the Orioles lose a seven-game lead in August, watched the Toronto Blue Jays get hotter and battered with Baltimore finally and its first-place grip two weeks ago.
It's the feeling I get when there's a really good scary movie on television, but it's so scary I turn to it every time. It's time for the happy ending. It's kind of what I want to do with the American League Ease race.
I now get this ulcerous feeling as I listen to the 10 p.m. news each night and find that the Orioles have lost a player who will not have won. But the Blue Jays win too.
Die-hards continue dreaming
MEN'S SOCCER TEAM WINS:The Kansas men's soccer team beat Pittsburg State 5-0 Saturday in its first league game of the season at Pittsburgh.
Sports briefs
The Jayhawks tied Iowa State 1-1
vesterday
HEFFERNAN TAKES FIRST Steve Heffernan took first place in the men's 8-kilometer at the Southern Illinois Invitational cross country meet Saturday in Carbondale, Ill. Heffernan came in with a time of 25:08.7. Kansas men took the first five places against Southern Illinois as the Javhawks won the meet.
Twins pitching kills Royals streak as opportunities keep being missed
In the women's 5-kilometer, Danielle Daggy placed fourth with a time of 19:01.2. Amy Koontz of Purdue was first with a time of 18:26.8. Trisha Brown, a leading hope for Kansas, dropped out at the two-mile marker from heat and fatigue.
Bv Dan Perkins
Kansan sportswriter
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Randy Bush homered and drove in two runs yesterday as the Twins pounded out 14 hits in an 8-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Bush and Brian Harper combined for seven hits, four runs and three runs batted in. Bush was three for four and Harper four for five in the Twins attack.
we had a bunch of guys swinging well today." Twins manager Tom Kelly said. "We had a good ballgame."
The loss ended a two-game winning streak for the Royals and left them $4\frac{1}{2}$ games behind the Oakland A's. The Royals will finish the four-game series with the Twins at 7:35 tonight.
Twins starter Allan Anderson, 15-
10, got his sixth victory in his last
For the Royals, the game was one of missed opportunities. They got at least one hit by a single inning, injuring him and scored single runs in the ninth and eighth.
seven decisions as the Royals left nine men on base.
"Anderson got us out when he had to." Royals manager John Wathan said. "We weren't able to bunch our hits together. We had a lot of runners on base. We had a lot of hits, and normally that's enough to win."
All three hitters who faced Luceen reached base as the Twins scored two more runs, opening up a 6-2 lead.
Doug Baker doubled off Gordon to start the inning and scored on a one-out single by Rush. Rick Luecken博士 but he couldn't stay the Twins.
Danny Tartabul drove in Be Jackson for both of the Royals runs, Jackson was three for four in the game with two singles and a double.
The Twins led 3-1 before erupting for three runs off of Tom Gordon, 16-7, in the seventh inning.
The Twins opened a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a single by Harper and a two-out double by Chip Hale. The Twins scored again in the fourth
inning on singles by Kent Hrbek and Harper, ahead of Terry Jorgensen's ground-out.
Bush's 13th home run of the year gave the Twins a 3-0 lead in the fifth.
The Twins added two final runs in the ninth on a bases-loaded error by third baseman Kevin Seitzer.
Other baseball scores
American League:
Detroit 6, Chicago 5
Toronto 5, Cleveland 4 (10)
Texas 6, Baltimore 1
Milwaukee 7, Seattle 1
California 2, Boston 1 (14)
Oakland 6, New York 2
National League:
Los Angeles 14, San Diego 8
Pittsburgh 5, York 1
Philadelphia 4, Montreal 2
Cincinnati 5, Atlanta
Chicago 4, St. Lords 1
San Francisco 5, Houston 3
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Andrew MorrisonKANSAN
Rovals shortstop Kurt Stillwell tags Brian Harper during the second inning