University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 14, 1990
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Kansas volleyball player Adrian Powell practices passing. Kansas will take on Missouri tonight.
Coach wants to see team improve offense ranking
By Chris Oster
Kansan sportswriter
Although having the fifth-ranked defense in the nation is something she is proud of, Kansas volleyball coach Frank Albizt would trade that position down a few spots to get a little offense into the program.
Volleyball
"We've been in the top 20 in digging ever since we've been here," she said. "I want to see us a little higher in other areas. Maybe not in the top 20 in digging, but let's be in the top 40 in hitting and blocking."
Heading into tonight's 7:30 match against Missouri in Columbia, the Jayhawks lead the Big Eight Conference in digging, but are fifth in hitting percentage and blocks per game.
Although Kansas is consistently among the nation's leaders in digging, Albiz said they have spent little time honoring the skill.
drills all year," she said. "We never do defensive drills, and we’re fifth in the nation on defense. And we’re way down the list in hitting and blocking, even though we work on that all the time.
"It is our system that enhances our defensive strength. We put the best diggers where most of the balls are hit."
"We've done maybe two defensive
One of Kansas' best diggers is Adrian Powell, who led the conference with 350 dugs. Powell has topped all five of his teams in the rear and for two weeks led the nation.
Junior Kris Kleinrachmidt, third on the team with 260 digs, said the Jayhawks less than dominant block number was responsible for the high number of digs.
"I think because we don't have the strongest block, we have to dig a lot of balls," she said. "But we also have really good athletic ability and are a smart team that reads hitters very well."
Albitz said that the work being done to improve the hitting and
blocking had not gone without reward.
"It's a difficult battle, but we're starting to pull up the other end some," she said. "We're fighting like heck to get out of our defensive orientation. But we are getting better. It used to be that we were dead last in the conference in hitting and blocking."
Heading into the Missouri match, Kansas, at 5-5 in the conference and 15-12 overall, has already qualified for the Big Eight's postseason tour, with a win over that. Albizu said the Jayhawks are in the ball better in practice.
"I think qualifying for the tournament has given them some confidence," she said. "Our arms are a bit more flexible." We seem to be hitting more freely.
Albitts, who did some experimenting in some of Kansas's matches early in the season, said the Missouri team was too important to allow for experiments.
4'Hawks make academic team
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Four KU players made the academic All-Big Eight first team that was announced yesterday.
A total of 62 players were selected to both teams, 12 more than last year. To quality, athletes had to have a 3.0 grade point average in the previous academic year and be a first or second-team player. Eight were first-place winners. Eight were second team based upon their play status with their home teams.
Other KU players named to the first team on offense were running back Maurice Douglas and offensive tackle Chris Perez. Linebacker Curtis Moore was named to the first team on defense.
Kansas offensive guard Smith Holland was the only player with a 4.0
GPA. Colorado offensive tackle Jim Hansen had a 3.99 GPA.
Other Big Eight players named to the first team on offense were: quarterback Kent Kiefer of Missouri; wide receiver John Glofeltio of Iowa State; tight ends Craig Mahoney of Iowa State and Russ Campbell of Kansas State; offensive guards Holland, James Wanek of Nebraska and
Mike Sawatzky of Oklahoma; offensive tackle Jeff Miller of Oklahoma; center David Eideal of Nebraska and kicker Jef Shudak of Iowa State.
Named to the first team on defense were; defensive tackles Kenny Walker of Nebraska and Stacy Satir of Iowa. A defensive tackle Pat Engelbert of Nebraska, linebackers Brook Barta of Kansas State, Tom Reiner of Missouri and Mike Petko and Pat Tyrance of Nebraska; defenses back David Eder of Iowa and Dave McCouloughan and David Midge and panter Mike Stige of Nebraska.
Knee problems cause
Sports briefs
LOS ANGELES — Forward Danny Manning, who has played in only two games this season, was placed on the Los Angeles Clippers.
Manning to miss games
Manning, who has been diagnosed as having patella tendinitis in his right knee, has averaged 11.5 points and he will miss at least five more games.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — URUGINAN defensive tackle Scott Evans and Iowa State kicker Jeff Shudak were named the Big Eight Conference's defensive and offensive players of the week Monday.
The Clippers also said that forward Cedric Ball is expected to join the team Wednesday. Ball, 22, was a member of the Clippers during training camp before being waived on Oct. 27.
2 Sooners named
players of the week
Evans, a 251-pound senior, had eight tackles in the Miami's 347 victory over Kansas State and helped win two of their 31 juries rushing on 32 attempts.
Ball played 37 minutes in five preseason games and averaged 3.8 points and 2.0 rebounds.
Shudak set an Iowa State record with five field goals; including a 36-yarder in the final seconds that lifted him to come to a 27-25 victory over Missouri.
Sudak won the offensive honor in a split vote over Colorado wide receiver Mike Pritchard.
Oakland's Welch takes AL's Cy Young Award
NEW YORK — Bob Welch had the success, if not the stats, of Roger Clemens and Dave Stewart. Yesterday he won the Cy Young to go with
Welch was the American League's biggest winner in 22 seasons, going 27-6 for the Oakland Athletics. And Welch also won the award for the best pitcher.
The KU Hockey Club won its first game of the season Sunday, defeating Missouri 4-3 at the King Louis West ice rank in Overland Park.
The Associated Press
In a split vote in which no one was named on all 28 ballots, Welch won 15 first-place votes and a total of 107 points. Clemens, with an earned run against Welch, was second with eight first-place votes and 77 points.
Scoring for Kansas was Matt Mortillo, Chesterfield, M., mo., junior. Willie Zimberoff, Wilmette, Ill., sophomore, Mark LeVine, Glenville, Il., senior and Jim Biggs, Webster Groves, M., senior.
On Saturday, Kansas and Missouri tied 6-6. Benji Schwartz led Kansas with two goals.
Kansas is now 1-0-1 in Central States Collegiate Hockey League play. The club will not play again until after Thanksgiving.
Stewart, Welch's teammate, won 20 games for the fourth straight season, but again failed to win the Cy Young. He was third with three first-place votes and 43 points, followed by record-setting Chicago reliever Bobby Thigpen, who received the second first-place votes and had 20 points.
From staff and wire reports
Clemens, meanwhile, went 21-6 with a 1.93 ERA at Boston's tiny Fenway Park — just the second Red Sox pitcher in with the anta of under 2.00. He missed all of the final month with tendinitis, although he did complete seven innings including four shutouts, in 31 starts.
Two members of the Baseball Writers Association in each AL city voted, and balloting was completed before the start of the playoffs. The National will be announced Wednesday.
Clemens, a two-time Cy Young winner, pitched 228 1-3 innings and strucke out 209, walked only 45, gave up just seven home runs and allowed
Before this season, Welch had been one of baseball's most consistent pitchers for 12 years, although he had never won more than 17 games. But bolstered by Oakland's outstanding defense, the Athletics' excellent relief corps and the benefits of playing at the spacious Oaklion Coliseum, he set a club record for victories as his team won the West championship. He helped himself by never losing two straight decisions.
Welch's victory total was the highest in the AL since Denny McClain won 31 in 1968. Not since Steve Carlton won 27 for Philadelphia in 1972 had a major league won that many.
Welch did it with a 2.95 ERA while pitching just two complete games; pitched 45 starts 282 innings; he walked 171 out 127, gave up 26 home runs and 214 hits.
Stewart finished third in the CY Young voting in 1967 after going 20-13, was fourth in 1988 after being 21-12 and was runner-up last season after going 21-9. If anything, at least Steward helped prevent Clemens, his long-time rival, from winning this year — but he did not meet meetings with Clemens; without those games, Clemens was 21-3 with a 171 ERA.
Weleh had 10 second-place votes, three third-places and was left off one ballot.
Bowl game switch affects scheduling
The Associated Press
The Fiesta Bowl has decided how to fill its program on New Year's Day, setting off a chain of events that means trouble for some other bowls.
"Who would have thought the Fiesta Bowl would have affected the Independence Bowl?" It is a strange world of competition, an interruption from Giants gift-selling.
Fiesta Bowl) officials announced yesterday that 20th-banked Louisville (9-1) will play the Southeastern Conference runner-up. That team maybe either No. 14 Tennessee (5-2), No. 25 Mississippi (8-1), No. 24 Auburn (6-2) or unranked Alabama (5-4)
Top-trank Notre Dame and No. 8 Virginia already turned down the Fiesta Bowl because voters in Arizona defeated a referendum that would have made Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. The Fiesta Bowl is played on New Year's Day in Tempe, Ariz.
The SEC champion goes to the Sugar Bowl, also on Jan. 1, and will play Virginia (8-1). That leaves the Jan. 1 Gator Bowel and Dec. 29 Peach Bowel with the third and fourth place finishers in the SEC.
The Gator Bowl will match the Michigan Ohio State winner against the SEC's N. 3 while the Peach Indiana against the SEC's N. 4 team.
There is a possible catch, though. Some Mississippi players have said they didn't want to play in the Fiesta Bowl because of the politically explosive atmosphere when the NFL said it would move the 1980 Super Bowl of Phoenix.
"Our seniors expressed reservations about playing in the Fiesta Bowl, but no decision has been made." (noun) athletic director Warmer Allard.
The school has decided to wait until after Saturday's game against Tennessee before taking a stand, if it's necessary.
"Our goal is to play in the Sugar Bowl." Alford said.
Bowl invitations can't officially go out until Nov. 24, but a lot of schools already have made their intentions clear
No 25 Southern Mississippi stepped in to fill the All American Bowl on Dec 12 and creating a 37-26 victory on Bowl on Dec. 15 at Shreveport, La.
Louisville's decision to play in Tempe became known on Monday when the Cardinals told All American bowl officials in Birmingham, Ala., they were withdrawn from an oral agreement with them. Louisville's bowl earnings immediately jumped from $600,000 to $2.6 million.
Southern Miss (83) probably will play North Carolina State (65) in the All American. The Independence Bowl now plans to invite Baylor (53-1) to play against Louisiana State (45) or South Carolina (54).
the other Jan. 1 bowls: No. 22 Illinois (6-3) vs. No. 17 Clermont (8-2) in the Hall of Fame Bowl, No. 4 Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. No. 11 Nebraska (9-1) in the Citrus Bowl, the Southwest Conference winner vs. No. 3 Miami (6-2) in the Cotton Bowl, No. 10 Washington (8-2) vs. the Big Ten winner, probably Iowa, in the Rose Bowl and No. 1 Notre Dame (8-1) vs.
National College Sportswriters Football Poll
1. Notre Dame (21)
3. Miami
6 Texas
5. Brigham Young
4. Georgia Tech (1)
6. Texas
7. Florida
8. Washington
9. Virginia
10. Florida State
1. Nebraska
13. Houston
15. Mississippi
14. Tennessee
16. Michigan
17 Clemsor
18. Penn State 19. Louisville
20. Ohio State
Writers from the following schools participated in the poll: Texas, Kentucky, Miami (Fla.), San Diego State, Colorado, Clemson, Notre Dame, Illinois, Syracuse, North Carolina State, Florida State, Purdue, Brown, California, Utah, Southern Methodist, Penn State, Indiana, Auburn, Kansas, Ball State, West Virginia.
KANSAN
No. 2 Colorado (9-1-1) in the Orange Bowl.
Budde to play final game Saturday against Missouri
By Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswriter
The first time six-year-old Chip Budde went to see a Kansas football game,the Jayhawks played Missouri.
Budde said that as a junior high school student, he sold gallons of soda at Memorial Stadium during football games. His favorite games to watch were those against the Tigers.
After the Jayhawks upset a bowl-bound Missouri team 37-27 in 1983, Budde then a Lawrence High School team, helped tear down the goalposts.
This Saturday, after starting every game of his college career as a center, Budde will play his first game as a Jayhawk against Missouri.
Budde said that what he would miss the most about Kansas football were his friends on the offensive line.
"They are the best friends I could ever have in college," Budde said. "Our group is tighter than our class, but we don't have with these guys, you bleed with these guys. You got Black and White guys, guys from rich and poor families. It's the most diverse community they're bonded together the tightest.
"That's what I'll miss most about football. If I go out there in practice, they'll say 'Hey Chip', but I won't be one of them. Once they start winter conditioning, I won't be part of the team anymore.
I won't be one of the guys.'
Offensive tackle Chris Perez was that he and Budde were like brothers and that Budde would always be "one of the guys."
"I've played in more games with
Chip than anyone and we like
two brothers," Perez said. "We
have little jokes. We fool with each
other. I'll name a book right on the
cover." He says, and he'll call
out the author."
As a senior on the offensive line next year, Perez will have to act as a leader, he said. He said he worked with his teammate, Jade, this year's offensive captain.
Perez said that when he was a freshman he wanted to be just like Budde.
"Chip is more of a watch-what-I-do-and-follow-me leader," Perez said. "I like that too, but on the phone, it's better to guess I'm more of a ragh-rah guy."
Budde shares a room this season with center Scott McCabe, who could inherit Budde's position next year. McCabe said he hoped he could do as good a job at center as Budd did.
"That was my goal because I saw what he did after his redshirt year and how he started," Perez said. "I wanted to do the same thing. I practically lived in his room my freshman year."
McCabe said he would especially miss Budde on Thursday nights because he and Budde ate Chinese food together every Thursday.
Kansas coach Glen Mason said
because Budde was so durable, it was no surprise that he made the All-Big Eight Conference team two years in a row.
Last season, Budde's consecutive snap streaked end with 2:59 remaining in the Colorado game. The fourth and final Budde's consecutive downs over 24 games
Budde, a member of the Ironhawks, a competitive weightlifting club, won the superheavyweight division at the National Collegiate Weightlifting Tournament last year in Phoenix, Arizona, after he lifted 350 pounds and squatted 600 pounds, and clean and pierced 342 pounds.
Budde was recruited by Harvard and Colorado, but decided to attend Kansas after meeting former Kanter coach Bob Valente and assistant coach Bob Valente.
Budde quickly fit in on the offensive line his first season and earned the nickname "young" after a coach commented on how a older defensive player got leveled by that "young Chip Budde."
Over the years Budde said had had many nicknames, including "Barney Bubble" and "senator"; because his teammates always saw him shaking hands with people.
Last summer, Budde worked for Senator Bob Dole in Washington and said that he hoped to use that experience one day to become the governor of Kansas or an athletic director.