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University Daily Kansan Thursday April 16, 1959
Undefeated MU Squad Here Friday, Saturday
By Jim Trotter
The Kansas baseball team will play host to defending champion Missouri here Friday and Saturday with three conference games scheduled.
Missouri missed picking off its second national title in five years Last June in Omaha, when Southern California nudged the Eengals 8-7 in a 12-inning championship finale. The Tigers ended the season with a 22-7 record.
Missouri is currently riding at the crest of a 9-game winning streak including three easy victories last weekend over Kansas State at Manhattan. All of the nine games played
by MU this season have been won by decisive margins.
Kansas has a 3-2 record to date. All three losses were in conference play against Oklahoma State last weekend. The Cowboys downed the Jayhawkers by scores of 9-0, 13-2 and 6-5 last weekend at Stillwater.
Roger Hill spoiled a perfect game for Oklahoma State in the last game of the series with a base hit in the ninth inning.
Frior to the three game trip to Stillwater, the Jayhawkers won a pair over a Forbes Air Force Base nine and had scored a victory over Washburn University of Topeka.
Missouri lost two front-line pitchers and five other regulars off its
1958 NCAA baseball finalist team but Coach John Simmons is none- the-less optimistic, especially after nine straight smashing wins.
Three starters dominate the MU roster along with five other lettermen. Ralph Hochgrebe, shortstop; Gary Starr, second bicee; and Bob Haas, left field are the returning regulars. Other lettermen who will probably see some action here are infield Steve Lewis and pitchers John O'Donoghue, Bud Harbin, Ben Cooner and Don Miller.
The first contest is slated to be played Friday afternoon starting at 3:15 p.m. A doubleheader is scheduled Saturday with the first game getting underway at 1:00 p.m.
Wichita Downs Tennis Team
By Tom Clark
A much-improved KU teni team made a determined bid to defeat a strong Wichita squad yesterday on the home courts before bowing 5-2.
The Jayhawkers trailed by only 3-2 after losing the top three singles matches, but dropped both doubles matches to the same Wheatshockers who pinned a 7-6 opening defeat to the Jayhawkers three weeks ago.
Couch Denzell Gibbens' pennin posted two points against the Wheatshockers on outstanding performance by Dave Coupe and Solvin Lekagul Coupe won an uphill battle from Fate Piper for his second straight singles victory. Smash-stroking Lekagul posted his third straight win the hard way.
Holding two match points, Leka-
gut relaxed, and allowed his Wichita
foe to win four straight points for a vital service break. But the patient backcourt artist from Thailand quickly recovered and broke through Bob Blackwell's service in five points for the match. Blackwell had previously defeated Lekagul at Wichita.
Despite losing, Lynn Steverling again made one of his trademark "belated valleys" in the first set, Trinling 4-1 in the opening set, the KU senior reeled off five straight games for the set, but Jim Carter regained his stride and won the next two sets.
Gibbons leads his team against Washburn next Tuesday afternoon on the home courts.
The results:
Singles:
Jim Carter, Wichita, de'ceived
Lynn Sieverling, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1.
Norris Barker, WU, defeated Jerry Williams. 6-1. 6-3.
Bill Potter, WU, defeated Pete Block, 6-4, 3-6, 8-6.
Dave Coupe, KU, defeated Pete Piper, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Sal Lekagul, KU, defecated Bob Blackwell, 6-3, 6-4.
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Phi Gams Whip Triangle,21-1
Phi Gamma Delta whipped Triangle 21-1 in the only fraternity A scheduled for yesterday. The 21 runs were scored on good hitting as all but one Phi Gam collected at least one hit. Triangle hit well but could only manage one run.
In the independent A division the Vipers, scoring four runs in the last three innings, defeated the Hilltopppers 4-3. Joe's Pro's tropped Carruth 13-8 in the other independent A game.
In the independent B class Pearson downed A. Ph. A. 3-1 and the Chemistry Engineers won over Burro's 7-4. No games have been scheduled for tomorrow in any of the softball leagues.
W. B. Taylor rowed on the Harvard crew in an intercollegiate regatta in 1875 and next day won both the seven-mile walk and the three-mile walk.
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