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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 15, 1990
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Jayhawks attract top recruits
By Derek Simmons
Kansan sportswriter
if everything went as planned yesterday, the first day of the NCAA's early signing period for basketball. Kansas will have one of the top five recruiting classes in the nation for fall, Van Coleman said yesterday.
Coleman, of the National Recruiter's Cage Lett, said Kansas' four oral commitments placed the program on the outer fringes of the top ten recruits considering Kansas staff will have a top-five recruiting class.
guard/forward from Kansas City, Kan.; Calvin Rayford, a 5-8 guard from Milwaukee, Wis.; and Sean Garnett, forward from La Grange Park, III.
Considering Kansas are Ben Davis, a 6-9 forward from Mouth of Wilson, Va., and Jason Walton, a 6-4 forward from Dallas, Coleman said.
"As far as we are concerned, they've got the top point guard in the country in Rayford, a great shooter in Gurley, and an NBA-level center in Osteringt." Coleman said. "Pearson can play at guard or small forward, and all they need is a power forward."
Davis may be the missing key Coleman said.
"He's narrowed it down to Pittsburg and Kansas," he said. "I think he'll decide late this week or early next week."
Walton also is expected to make a decision within the next week.
Gurley averaged 21 points, 7.6 rebounds and 5.2 assists a game while leading defeated Shawnee Mission South to the state championship last season. Gurley selected Kansas instead of the University of Southern California, Notre Dame, Nebraska and Oklahoma State.
Rayford, ranked in the top 50 high school seniors by most recruiting experts, averaged 15 points, 10 assists, and five steals a game for the High School. He chose Kansas instead of Arkansas and Marquette.
Pearson averaged 23 points and 10 rebounds for Nazairth Academy last season, and selected Kansas instead of Michigan and Marouette
One recruit considering Kansas announced yesterday that he would sign with Duke. Erik Meek, a 6-11 center from Escondido, California chose Duke instead of Kansas, Vanderbilt and Stanford.
Doug Vance, Kansas Sports Information Director, said Roy Williams would announce the signings today.
A championship plan
Kansas cross country coach Gary Schwartz discusses strategies for the NCAA Championships at a recent press conference in Parrott Athletic Center. Junior Stewart Gillin, left, and senior
Donnie Anderson are co-captains of the men's team, which placed 10th at the championships last year. The team placed third at last weekend's regional championship in Springfield, Mo.
'Hawks warm up for opening night
By Juli Watkins
Kansas to face 5-0 Australian team
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team opens its season tonight with an exhibition game against a team with a 5 record this season.
The Jayhawks engage in international competition for preseason play because it does not count against the team and it provides experience before the regular season starts, Washington said.
Washington said she would be looking to all of the team members to be key players in tonight's game.
"The fact is they're a very fine ball club," she said. "They're going to be a very, very quick team. They like to be three or four strong players."
Washington said the test would be which team was the quickest and most agile.
"Their center is 6-5 and ours is 6-3. "Washington said." They have two forwards at 6-foot and 6-2 compared to the defense at 6-foot. The guards is 7-fight while we have the 5-10."
Washington said the Australian players had played together for a long time and knew each other very well.
"I hope to see a lot of the players get some playing time in," Washington said.
"It'll be a real good test for us to see how we match up with them, see what we need to work on," she said. "I think it will be a positive thing."
Women's Basketball
Washington said Kansas was too intimidated by the Australian team's record.
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Washington said that Kansas' height would not match up to Australia's.
The Australian Junior National team has defeated one of its opponents this season including Big Eight Conference teams Nebraska and Colorado. Both teams were ranked behind Kansas in a Big Eight preseason conference coaches' poll. Coach Marian Washington said the Aussie队 also defeated Creighton, Colorado State and Wyoming
She said to look out for forwards Misti Chenmault and Sandra deBruin
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It'll be a real good test for us to see how we match up with them, see what we need to work on. I think it will be a positive thing.
Coach Marian Washington
Proposition 48 states that any incoming freshman athlete must have had a 2.0 grade point average in high school as well as a minimum score of a 15 on the ACT or a 700 composite on the SAT. If these requirements are not met, the athlete will be ineligible to compete his or her freshman year. Once the athlete completes and passes 24 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 1.6, he or she regains eligibility.
Tate said that she was not nervous and that she was ready to play. She said that the opposing team's height did not intimidate her and that she was used to playing against tall players.
and guard Shannon Kite, who is expected to effect the Jayhawks' scoring.
Tate said her individual goal was to play the best she could to help the team.
"For the team (we want) to just play the game and not let them set the tempo," she said.
"We'll be looking for her to take those three-point shots," Washington said. "She's really coming along in
Probable starters will be junior Kay Kay Hart and sophomore Stacy Truitt in the guard positions. Juniors Danielle Shareef and Terrilyn Johnson or Martha McCloud will sophomore Lisa Tate will play the center position. Tate was a Proposition 48 casual last season.
Washington said that the game would help prepare the team for the regular season which starts with the Amana Classic on Nov. 23 in Iowa City in a quadrangular against Iowa, UCLA and Louisiana State. The Jayhawks will play one more exhibition game this Sunday. They will face former Kansas players in the Alumni game at 1 p.m. in Allen Field House.
'Hawks try for 4th in Big 8
Kansan sportswriter
By Rob Wheat
Football
It seems almost fitting that senior defensive lineman Gary Oatis, a Lawrence native, should play his last game Saturday against Missouri.
For as long as Oatts can remember, Lawrence residents have hated the Tigers, he said. But he thinks the rivalry was stronger for him.
For Oatis and the rest of the Jayhawks, a victory against the Tigers would mean more than bragging rights. The Jayhawks will be playing for the fourth-place position in the Big Eight Conference.
Missouri has several players that Oatis played against in high school, but he never was recruited by the team. Oatis said he hadn't forgotten that
This will be, Oatis said, the biggest game of the season.
"Getting fourth place is really important for building up the program and creating some tradition," he said. "I don't want to go out with a loss, especially against Missouri. I want to go out with a bang."
With a victory Saturday, Kansas could tie Iowa State for fourth place, despite having a schedule ranked
If Oklahoma State beats the Cyclones Saturday in Ames, Iowa, and the Jayhawks win, then the Jayhawks will be the fourth place position to themselves.
10th most difficult in the nation.
Although a strong season finish would please Oats, he said he would miss his friends on the defensive line.
Oatis also said that if the Jayhawks won, it would help Kansas' recruiting efforts.
The past two seasons, recruiting coordinator R.D. Helt has brought recruiting classes ranked within the top 35 in the nation to KU.
Helt said that in Missouri, the layhays recruited mostly out of the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Springfield areas. But the day would help Kansas nationally.
"We beat Missouri, then players everywhere in the nation will see that we won and finish in fourth place where we won and out of our last four games," he belt.
Although medicine had kept his
heartbeat under control for years, the dosage finally became ineffective. Fette will have new medicine that will last him until April, when he is scheduled to have surgery to correct the irregularity.
WBA approves next Holyfield bout
Fette said that the surgery was not dangerous and that he was hoping to be able to work out a few days after the operation.
"It kind of seems that Kansas and Missouri are at about the same level right now," Fette said. "I think they'll remember who won. I think they'll remember what was the biggest one there is around her period. Even bigger than K-State."
Tight end Chad Fette, of Parkville, Mo., said that although he was approach by Missouri recruiters, he had been a Jayhawk fan for years.
He said high school kids in Missouri would be watching to see who won Saturday.
Fette will be sidelined during the game against the Tigers because of an irregular heartbeat caused by a reaction he has had since he was a child.
Kansas coach Glen Mason said that he didn't know whether a victory against the Tigers would help Kansas in the contest. He just wants to beat them.
"I think recruiting is based on your whole program instead of one game, and believe it or not, a victory can work against you," Mason said. After we beat Michigan at Ohio because some kids to Michigan because they had their chances to play there were better at State. But (a victory) is very important to the perception of the program."
NEW YORK — Evander Hollyfield will not surrender the World Boxing Council's piece of his heavyweight championship without a fight.
"The fight is happening April 19 because Evanier Hollyfield is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, and there's nothing (WBC president) Jose Suliman can do to stop Hollyfield's promoter, said yesterday.
The Associated Press
Holyfield, who won the undisputed title from James "Buster" Douglas Oct 25, is scheduled to defend it a year-earld George Foreman April 19.
Duva said the WBC sanctioning fees for the Hollyfield-Douglas fight were more than $300,000, with $150,000 coming from Hollyfield. The WBC paid nearly $240,000 in sanctioning fees $100,000, and his share of the IBF fees was $80,000.
Dva spoke at a news conference called to officially announce that the World Boxing Association had its stance and will sanction the match.
The WBC, WBA and International Boxing Federation all ruled that Holfyfield's first defense had to be
At the news conference, James Binns, counsel for the WBA, read a letter from WBA President Gilberto Mendoza to Holfyield in which Mendoza said the WBA would sanction the fight with Foreman "upon the condition that the winner must defend the title against the then leading available contender, by no later than June 11, 1901."
The IBF Executive Committee reportedly is leaning toward sanctioning the match, and President Bob Lee said by telephone that he would have an announcement by the end of the season. The coach, Lede said, the winner would have 30 days to negotiate with the leading contender for a defense by
against Mike Tyson, who lost the title to Douglas.
Tyson, who is to fight Alex Stewart Dec. 8 in Atlantic City, N.J., is currently the No. 1 contender of all three governing bodies.
Duva threatened court action against the WBC and to take his case to the public and to advertisers who sponsor WBC fights on television, saying, "I believe the WBC is going to box this fight or get out of boxing.
Asked why he would press for WBC recognition although the fight will happen even if WBC approval is withheld, Duva said, "Why it is important is Evander Holyfield earned it."
"I see the possibility of a congressional investigation into boxing if they steal Holyfield's title," he said.
Jayhawks fall prey to Tigers
By Chris Oster
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas volleyball team last night became the first Big Eight Conference team to lose to Missouri
Volleyball
since the 1988 season, losing in four games to the Tigers in Columbia.
The defeat puts Kansas' season record at 5-6 in the conference and 15-13 overall. Missouri raised its
record to 1-10 and 8-19.
On Tuesday night, Missouri was defeated by Kansas State in five games.
Kansas was led by Lily Patterson, who had 11 kills, and Adrian Powell, who recorded 19 digs. Powell's dig was her Big Eight-leading total to 378.
The Jayhawks won the first game of the match 15-11 and were tied 14-14 with the Tigers in the second game, but Missouri took the next two points
and the game. Kansas dropped the last two games of the match, 10-15,
11-15.
Kansas, which has already qualified for the Big Eight's postseason tournament, will close out the conference against Colorado in Boulder.
In their meeting earlier this season at Allen Field House, the Jayhawks made quick work of Missouri in a three-game victory.
Drabek first Pirate in 30 years voted National League Cy Young winner
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Doug Drabek, who pitched the Pittsburgh Pirates within one step of the World Series, came within one vote of unanimous selection as the National League Cy Young Award winner yesterday.
Drakeb, who led the league with 22 victories and six losses and his team to its first division title in 1986, went on to win the award in 30 years to win the award.
He received 23 of 24 first-place votes and 118 of a possible 120 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Ramon Martinez (29-6), the Los Angeles Dodgers' 22-year-old fastballer, was second with one first
Ballots were cast by two writers in each National League city.
place vote and 70 points. Frank Viola of the New York Mets was third with two second-place votes and 19 points.
Drabek, who had never won more than 15 games before this season, said he was never worried whether he would win the Cy Young.
"Because of the pennant race and the playoffs, I never allowed myself to even think about this," said Drakebee, the first Pirate Cay Young winner since Vernon Law in 1965. "The pennant was pushed aside. I didn't think about it, even after the season. I was just wishing we were in the
Drabek was 1-1 in the Pirates' six-game NL playoffs loss to Cincinnati, winning 2-1 in Game S. He scored two points per innings for a 1.65 postseason ERA.
World Series."
Henry won his 19th last 22 decisions, had a 2.76 earned run average and a 3.85 ERA for complete games, including two shutouts. He barely missed joining the majors' no-hit club, pitching 8 in innings Aug. 3 against Philadelphia.
"I've had two Cy Young Award winners and six or seven 20-game winners, but I've never had anyone pitch as consistently in big games as Drabek," said pitching coach Ray Miller.
Sports briefs
Tennis player's defeat ends long win streak
Kansas tennis player Paul Garvin ended his season-long winning streak when he was eliminated from the tournament qualifying tournament yesterday.
Garvin, a junior, defeated Greg Anderson of Fresno State in the first round 1.6-4, 6-4. Anderson is ranked No. 43 in the Volvo Tennis/Collegiate Rankings and was seeded in the top four for the tournament. Four players were seeded in no particular order out of the 32-player draw.
Garvin was defeated in the second round by Laszlo Vago of Campbell University 6-0, 6-2.
Two other Kansas players competed yesterday but were eliminated after the first round.
Senior Jeff Gross, who was also a top four seed, lost to Lavante Nandori of Campbell 4-6, 3-1, 6-1.
Hamers leaves to play in clay court tourney
Freshman Rhain Buth lost to Michael Gavellin of Arkansas-Little Rock 6-3, 6-1.
Hamers, ranked ninth in the Volvo Tennis/Collegiate Rankings, will
Kansas All-American tennis player Eveline Hampsen left this morning to compete in the DuPont National Clay Championships in Pamanga City, Fla.
compete in the 32-player singles draw. The tournament is the second leg of the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association Collegiate Tournament will have a big effect on the rankings, will be released in early December.
There are four legs to the grand slam. The first was the Riviera All-American that took place Oct. 25-28. Hamers made it to the quarterfinals before she was eliminated by Emilia Vieirae of California-Berkley.
The Rolex National Indoor Championships to take place Feb. 7-10 in Milwaukee will be the third, and the championships in May in Palo Alto, Calif.
From staff reports