University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 5, 1989
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Javhawks basketball team roster is 1-3
6-9 center signs but three players no longer eligible
By Andres Caveller Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's basketball team gained one player this weekend, but three other players were declared ineligible, Kansas athletic officials said.
Two recruits, guards Adonis Jordan and Byron Daye, were declared academically ineligible for the entire 1989-90 basketball season.
Redshirt forward Alonzo Jamison
will be ineligible during the first semester of the season.
Pekka Markkonken, a 6-foot-9 center from Helsinki, Finland, signed a scholarship agreement with Kansas State. He was also the director Doue Vance said yesterday.
Markkonen, 22, and his wife arrived on campus Saturday night. Vance said Markkonen already was enrolled at the University.
"It is hard to judge what his actual role will be because we have only seen him on tape and not in person," Coach Roy Williams said in a prepared statement.
"He is not a dominant player by anv means," Williams said.
A friend of Williams recommended Markkonen, but Williams did not want to reveal the friend's name,
markkonen will have two years of eligibility, according to NCAA rules. Vance said.
Vance said.
Markkonen, the only foreigner on the team, competed with Finland's national team in the 1888 Olympics and played for Finland last week at the World University Games in West Germany.
Markkonken and junior Mark Randall, both 6-9, are the tallest players on the Kansas roster. Randall also competed at the World University Games, playing for the U.S. team, which won the event.
Vance said that Jamison, a red-shirt sophomore, would be ineligible this fall. Jamison, a 6-6 guard from Santa Ana, Calif., will sit out the first semester of the season because he
Jamison was enrolled in the summer session, but no other details about his status were given.
did not fulfill the NCAA academic standards. Vance said.
Jamison signed a scholarship agreement with Kansas in May 1988, but he did not compete the entire 1988-89 season because he did not meet the Big Eight Conference junior college transfer requirements while at Rancho Santiago (Calif.) Junior College.
As a freshman at the junior college, Jamison was named California co-player of-the-year, averaging 19.5 points and 12 rebounds per game. He also was named Rancho Santiago's most valuable player for the 1987-88 season, leading the team to a 25-8 record.
Yesterday, Vance also confirmed that Adonis Jordan, a 6-foot point guard from Cleveland High School in Resedia, Calif., is academically ineligible.
"He has never been 'eligible,' Vance said.
Jordan, who signed during the early signing period last November, averaged 24.3 points and 13.4 assists a game during his senior year.
Byron Daye, a 6-3 guard from Chabot Junior College in Hayward, Calif., will not enroll because of academic ineligibility, Vance said. No other details were available.
Daye was voted California coplayer-of-the-year in the junior college ranks and averaged 21.8 points a game at Chabot during the 1988-89 season.
Above: Dwayne Chandler, left, Doug Terry and Quentin Smith watch a play, during the first half. Smith has just scored a touchdown on a 48-yard pass from Donohoe. Left: Kansas defensmen Jason Priest, left, and Tim Hill, haul down Montana State tailback Mark Rinehart in the third quarter, holding Rinehart to a six-yard gain.
Wave the wheat!
Jayhawks' 41-17 season-opener victory tackles low-scoring trend at KU
By Gene King
Kansan sportswrite
In just one football game this season, Kansas scored almost as many points as in the first three games of last year.
Saturday's 41-17 victory against Division I-AA Montana State marks the first time since 1985 that a Jayhawk football team scored more than 40 points in a single game. Last year's squad didn't score its 40th point until the third game against California-Berkle.
After going 1-10 last season and 1-9-1 the season before, the victory also marks the team's first win since the start of the season.
It is the first time the Jayhawks have won
the season opener since 1985, when Kansas
drove out Oklahoma 20-7.
But the victory does not mean the coaching staff or players are ready to lie down and expect to win all the time.
Center Chip Budde said, "There are some high schools out there that could beat us if we don't play our best."
"We made a lot of mistakes," Coach Glen Mason said. "The team was just sitting in the locker room after the game. I think they realize they could have played better."
Quarterback Kelly Donoho engineered the first touchdown drive of the season. He took the team 62 yards on 13 plays and used up 6:23. The drive ended on a two-yard plunge by tailback Tony Sands.
"we needed a big win." Donohoe said. "I felt comfortable. It was just a great effort today (Saturday)."
The debut of the "12th-man" kickoff team was a success. The Montana State return man managed to get only to the 25-yard line.
"I was a little nervous at first (about the new kickoff team)," Mason said. "But they did a great job the whole game."
The Bobcats gained only nine yards on their first possession of the game and were forced to punt.
It then took Kansas only four plays to put another six points on the scoreboard. The touchdown came on a flea flicker called by Mason.
Donohoe handed to off ToSs, who then pitched back to him. Donohoe unleashed a 34-yard pass to a wide-open Kenny Drayton in the end zone.
With less than 10 minutes expired in the season, the Jayhawks had already scored 14
Montana scored its first points of the game on kicker, Juv.Juy's 42-yard field goal.
The first quarter belonged to the Jayhawks. Kansas maintained possession for more than nine minutes, racking up 129 yards to 58 for the Bobcats.
Last season, the Jayhawks led only twice after the opening period.
The next scoring drive came with less than four minutes remaining in the first half. Wide receiver Quintin Smith caught his second pass for 46 yards, putting Kansas up 21-3.
Montana State ended the first half with a 1-yard downrun.
The Bobcats scored the first points of the second half and cut the Jayhawk lead to
four. 21-17.
The third quarter, like so many third quarters last year, belonged to the opposition. Last season, the Jayhawks were outscored 133-21 in third quarters. Although Kansas matched the Bobcats' touchdown in the third period, Montana State out-performed the Jayhawks in every other category.
By the end of the third quarter, Montana State had out-rushed Kansas 169 yards to 135. The Bobcats had surpassed the Jaynes total yardage, with 113 yards to 301 for Kansas.
Unlike last year, when Kansas was out-scored 125-24 in the last quarter, Kansas responded by shutting out the Bobcats while scoring 13 points.
The Jayhawks scored only 45 points in the second half last year, while their opponents scored more than 250. Kansas stopped that trend Saturday, posting 20 points in the last half to Montana State's seven.
"Our offense did a good job," Mason said. "Kelly (Donohoe) did a good job running the club. We executed the big plains well."
Offensively, the Jayhawks gained 227 yards on the ground, while Donohoe went 10 of 15 with one interception for 165 yards.
Sands led all rushers with 102 yards and two touchdowns, averaging 5.1 yards per carry. Maurice Hooks was second with 75 yards on 13 carries. Twenty-two of his yards came on a breakaway run up the middle in the first quarter.
Sands' 102 yards was the third time he rushed for more than 100 yards in a game.
The first time was against Kansas State last season, when he rushed for 122 yards.
Even though the point margin was greater than three touchdowns, the Bobcats gained just eight total yards less than Kansas.
Kansas' defense, which last season allowed an NCAA record for total yardage, gave up more than 380 yards on Saturday. Kansas allowed the Bobcats to gain 201 yards in the air and another 183 on the ground.
Montana State averaged close to five yards per play against the young Jayhawk defense.
"the heart and soul of the defense is the linebackers." Mason said.
That heart and soul is an inexperienced one. Freshman Wes Swinford started in his first 11-man football game. Standing alongside him was Roger Robben, who started every game last season as a fullback, not a linebacker.
"I thought I started out well," Robben said. "The biggest problem I had was taking on blocks. I seemed to be getting cut-block a lot."
Robben admitted there was room for improvement.
"We made some mistakes, but with every play, hopefully we'll get better," he said.
One highlight of the passing defense was a 78-yard interception return by strong safety Deral Boykin. His run back, which Mason described afterward as leaving nine to 10 guys lying on the ground, was the third-longest interception return in Jayhawk history.
Royals lose to Tigers; 2 homers boost Detroit
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Bret Saberhagen's winning streak was ended yesterday at eight games by the Detroit Tigers, and the Kansas City Royals pitcher knew why.
"I left my curvabelle in the hotel."
Saberhagen said. "It's tough to get by on just my fastball and change-up, especially in a small park."
"It if you got three off of Berekhagen, you've got to win," Detroit manager Sparky Anderson said. "I never dreamed and I get more than three and bip."
Saberhagen, who had won 14 of his last 15 decisions, allowed four runs and nine hits in seven innings as the Tigers beat the Royals 5-1.
Saberhung was tagged for a pair of borne runs.
Fred Lynn hit his 3000 career
homer, and his third in three games,
while rookie Doug Strange hit his
first.
Doyle Alexander, 6-16, outdued Saberhagen, 17-6, getting his first victory since July 25 and snapped a
personal six-game losing streak
"In a season like this, it is probably the lone shining star." Lymn said. "I never had any goals like that when I was young. It just kind of creep up on me."
Lynn, who also had an RB1-single in the first inning, hit his milestone homer, and his 11th of the season, in th seventh to put Detroit ahead 4-1.
Strange's home run went into the upper deck in right field in the second inning, giving Detroit a 2-0 lead. Strange, who went into the game hitless in his last 17 at-bats, went 3-for-4, including a run-scoring bunt single.
Detroit added a run in the fourth on a triple by Rob Richie and a bunt single by Strange, then closed its scoring on Mike Brunley's run-scoring single in the eighth.
The last-place Tigers have won four in a row after losing 12 straight, while Kansas City lost for the fourth time in its past 20 games.
The Royals scored in the third rating on Willie Wilson's two-out play.
Tigers 5. Rovals 1
Tigers         ab r h rh b
Pettis cf        3 1 0 0
Lusader rf       4 0 0 0
Ward lf          1 0 0 0
Whalaker 2b      5 0 2 0
Lym db          4 1 2 2
Lymba ib         4 0 0 0
Richle f         4 1 2 0
Williams ls     0 0 0 0
Strange 3b       4 2 3 2
Heath e         4 0 2 0
Brumley ss      4 0 1 1
Totals         37 5 12 5
Royals     ab r h r hpl
Seitzer 3b    4 0 0 0
Wilson cf    4 0 1 1
Eisenreich lf   3 0 0 0
Jackson dh    4 0 0 0
Tabler 1b     4 0 0 0
Winters rf    4 0 1 0
Stillwell ss   4 0 0 0
Boone c      3 0 2 0
Palacio c     3 0 2 0
Buckner ph    1 0 0 0
White 2b      2 1 1 0
Tartabull ph   0 0 0 0
Thurman pr    0 0 0 0
Wellman 2b    0 0 0 0
Mac Farlane ph   0 0 0 0
Totals       23 1 5 1
Kansas City 081 000 000 — 1
Detroit 116 100 11x — 5
Detroit: Alexander (W - 60.1), Hemenawan
(Chipper) (W - 59.7), Marquis McWilliams, E. — Salakobgen
Whalzer, LOB — Kansas City 9, Detroit 10.18
Wilson — Strangue 1 (Lynn) 11.4, Albion
I42.14, T3 - 7.
Chiefs trim roster release Paul Palmer
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Paul Palmer, a No. 1 draft pick in 1987, was one of 10 players released yesterday by the Kansas City Chiefs.
Palmer was the second-leading rusher and pass-receiver for the Chiefs last season, but he had seen less action than expected during the preseason. He started at halfback the first two games after Herman Heard suffered an injury early in training camp, but his playing time has tapered off since then.
Palmer finished the preseason with 68 yards in 26 carries, behind Heard's 76 yards on 22 carries.
yards and second-leading rusher with 134 carries for 452 yards.
Even on kickoff returns, where Palmer was the AFC leader his rookie season, the Chiefs looked at other players, including safety Danny Copeland, who had two kickoff returns of more than 50 vards.
Last season, Season starred in 11 of the 15 games he played, finishing as the team's second-leading pass receiver with S3ceptions for 611
Earlier this week, Palmer called the preseason disappointing.
But most of those yards came in the first five games, when Heard was on the injured list.
"It it didn't quite work out the way I wanted it to. I have to say that," he said. "I can't really say it hasn't gone well. It just hasn't gone as well as I hoped it would. In most cases, when opportunity permitted, I think I ran fairly well."
Palmer was the runner-up behind Vinny Testaverde for the 1986 Heisman Trophy in his senior year at Temple, when he ran for 1,868 yards.
The Chiefs waived nine other players as they moved to meet the 47-man roster deadline. Those players were wide receiver Darren Chandler, linebacker Anthony Griggs, guard Bryon Ingram, tackle Dave Smith, and nose tackle Stensrud, all of whom signed with the Chiefs as free agents.
Pot shots may help recovery
Kansas football has had nine win-
ning seasons and earned 160.
inimitable during the past 50 years.
The last winning season was in
1981.
Alan Morgan
Not the most impressive record in collegiate football when presented in that light, but it is only one side of the program. Unfortunately, this is the side that has dominated sports stories about the Kansas program in past years.
Associate Sports Editor
But then there is the hapless Kansas State football program.
Football statistics, however, are like paint. You can coat them on to make a decent team look dilapidated, but not the same as team look like an "ideal fuxer-up."
For example, only 20 years ago, Kansas played Penn State in the Orange Bowl. Since then, Kansas has played in three other bowl games, including the Liberty Bowl in 1973, the Sun Bowl in 1975 and the Hall of Fame Bowl in 1981. Kansas appears to be on the right track once again, after Saturday's 41-17 victory over Montana State.
In the Sept. 4 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine, the magazine covered, or should I say buried, the program in an article titled "Futility II."
Unlike Kansas, which has a history of bowl games and appears to be in the process of turning the program around, the K-State program has shown no positive attributes since World War II.
All right, they did go to the Independence Bend in 1982. Even then, K-State lost to Wisconsin 14-3.
The Sports Illustrated writer took an unnecessary shot at the town of Manhattan, however, by calling it, "a wonderful little town in which cars still angle-park on Poyntz Ave, the main thoroughfare. . . yes, they have electricity and talking movies."
But the worst shot came from a State player when comparing themselves to Oklahoma.
"I look at Oklahoma and I see three major differences. They look bigger, they look faster and they look better."
That comment sounds like it should have been made by a Kansas or KState fair-weather fan, rather than a
See HAPLESS, p. 10
Volleyball team third in tourney
By Dan Perkins Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's volleyball team may have lost its first two matches of the season this weekend, but no one was talking about those losses.
All Coach Frankie Altiz and her players could talk about Saturday afternoon was their victory against Drake. 15-5, 11-1, 8-15, 17-15.
Kansas, 1-2, finished third in the Jayhawk Early Bird Tournament this weekend at Allen Field House.
"We really needed to get one with one on our team," she said. "This should really help the girls."
Senior outside hitter Jodi Oelschlager agreed with Albitz that the team needed to win.
Kansas opened the four-team round-robin tournament Friday night with a loss to Tulsa, 15-11, 3-15, 18-9, 15-10. On Saturday morning, the Jayhawks fell to tournament champion New Mexico, 3-15, 4-15, 11-15.
"This win will really help our confidence." Oelschlag said.
Although Albitz said her team needed to make some improvements,
"I still think we are ahead of where we ended last year," she said, "but we still need to work on our passing and serving."
Gelschlager said one reason for the team's improved play this year was experience.
"The team is mentally used to the system this year," Oelschlag said. "We don't try to do different things on the court."
April Chavey, junior middle blocker/hitter, said the team was also communicating well on the court.
See VOLLEY, p. 10