Sports
University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 5. 1990
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Fullback Robben rambles 90 yards in Jayhawks' win
Bv Chris Oster
Kansan sportswriter
Football
STILLWATER. Okla. — Before Saturday's Oklahoma State game, Kansas fullback Roger Robben put on a pair of low-top, wet-wear shoes to replace his customary high-tops.
When center Chip Buddie asked him about the change, Robbie said he needed them to get his breakaway speed.
"I told him that he'd better worry about his break-through speed," Budde said.
Robben, making his first start of the season, did just that, pounding the Oklahoma State defense for 90 yards on 17 carries. He also caught one pass for seven yards. None of his runs was longer than 11 yards.
"The holes were there," Robben said. "The offensive line did a great job. Every time we ran that play, it was open. It really surprised me because I figured they would have stopped it sooner or later."
Robben, who said he was surprised by the starting assignment, had his number called on the first two plays again, rushing for nine and six yards.
"It just builds your confidence so much." Robben said of the early success. "Even when there isn't a hole, you just drive through there to pick up the two or three extra yards."
It was the first offensive start for Robben since his freshman season, when he topped the depth chart at
He also started every game of last season, but those games were spent on defense at inside linebacker. Robben led the Jayhawks in tackles with 68.
fullback for the entire year, rushing for 178 yards on 48 carries.
"Roger's one of those good, old-fashioned guys." Coach Glen Mason said. "He might not look pretty doing it all the time, but he's tough. I've always said that he's as tough as they come."
Junior offensive lineman Chris Perez also praised the fullback's toughness.
"Roger has no wheels," Perez said. "He's not going to break away and beat anybody, but Roger plays well." The rest of the team's an inspiration to the whole team.
Robben's banging was particularly important to a Kansas scoring drive late in the third quarter.
With the ball at the Kansas 37 and less than 2 minutes left in the period, he carried the ball on consecutive plays for gains of nine, 11 and 10 yards, putting the ball on the Oklahoma State 33-vard line.
On the next play, Robben's block-
led the way for freshman running
back Chaka Johnson's 33 yard touch-
down run.
Robben said the win was the biggest of his career at Kansas.
"I would have to say it is," he said. "It was the most dramatic, the most exciting. The offense was doing a great job, and the offensive line was really coming off the ball. It's a big confidence builder and it's a game we needed. The team really came together for the victory."
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Roger Robben looks for a break in the Oklahoma State defensive line during Kansas' 31-20 victory.
Kansan sportswriter
Bv Rob Wheat
Lisa Patterson says she takes losses harder than other members of the Kansas volleyball team.
Volleyball
As team captain, she said she had to take more responsibility for the team on and off the court. She often is called on to make a key serve, and her teammates look to her to generate the enthusiasm and inspiration needed to carry the Jayhawks to victory.
Saturday night, the Jayhawks won
their first two games against Iowa
State but lost the next three and lost
the match.
Patterson said they lost because of mental mistakes and some tentiveness in attacking the front part of the wall. The floor felt partly responsible for the loss.
"It at times I feel pressure because I'm captain," Patterson said. "Everyone kept making mistakes, and instead of forgetting about them and going on, we let them get to us and affect us the rest of the game."
Patterson finished the match with 14 kills, 19 digs and one block.
She was second on the team in kills behind Kris Kleinschmidt, who had 15 kills and 21 digs.
Kansas dominated the first two games of the match, winning 15-13 and 15-8, but then the Cyclones began to take control of the net.
Iowa State, which was able to use nearly the same rotational throughout the match, was able to block the ball with its kill shots, more successful with its kill shots.
Kansas City back in division quest after slipping by L.A. Raiders, 9-7
The Associated Press
Lisa Seile said she noticed the momentum changing in the third game when Iowa State pulled away to a 14-10 lead.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The game that put the Kansas City Chiefs back in the AFC West race was something of the leather-heltet era.
Kansas coach Frankie Albritz said that she saw the momentum change in the third game as well and that the Jayhaws stumbled at the end.
At least one of the scripts was something out of "Grimm's Fairy Tales"
After losing the first two games, Iowa State won the next three 15-11, 15-4 and 15-6.
The Chefs beat the Los Angeles Raiders 9-7 yesterday on Nick Lowery's three field goals and moved to 5-3. The game was played in rain, sleet and gusty wind. Three of the four scores came off turnovers, and two players scored 42 yards. That drive set up Lowery's last field goal with 11:58 left.
"Iowa State came out in the third game, and we just joked," Albizt said. "I think the girls forgot their game plan. But we have more conference games ahead of us, and we hopefully play stronger in them."
But the most dramatic circumstance came late in the first period. Kansas City was leading 3-0 after Lowery's 36-yard field goal, which was set up by Kevin Porter's blocked punt, the Chiefs' fifth of the season.
Two players came onto the field: Bo Jackson, the Kansas City Royals outfielder who spends his off-season with the Knicks and Deron Cherry, the Chiefs four-
Albiz said losing the match meant Kansas probably would be matched with No. 1 seed Nebraska in the Big Eight Conference tournament.
time All-Pro safety who was making his first appearance since Dec. 17, when he injured his left knee.
But the Chiefs came back for their only drive, gaining 42 yards in six plays and setting up Lowery's final field goal, a 41-yarder. One of those plays was a 14-yard run by Barry Word, who came in for Christian Okove and rushed 15 times for 85 yards.
On the first play, Jackson burst through the Chiefs line for seven yards and Cherry burst into Jackson, knocking the ball loose at the Los Angeles game. The three plays later, Lower Kewdy had a 4-yard field goal and it was 6-0.
"Could there have been any more fitting circumstance than what he did?" Chief coaches Marty Schottenheimer said. "When you get a player back from an injury, you wait for the first hit. What a hit that was."
On the first play of the fourth quarter, following a 17-yard pass to Wilke Gault, Smith went in to give the Raiders a 7-6 lead.
Jackson, who gained 40 yards in 10 carries, said, "I was surprised on the first play to get a hole like that. He put his helmet right on the ball. There's no way for a person to get hit the ball when you get hit like that."
The Chiefs totaled minus-eight yards in offense on the possessions
That made it likely that the division title will be settled when the teams meet again Nov. 25 in Los Angeles.
The fumble caused by Cherry was the most dramatic thing about the game.
Cherry said, "Kevin told me before the game that I would hit Bo and that he would fumble. As we came off the field I went to the locker room. Didn't I tell you? Didn't I tell you?"
preceding Lowery's first two field goals. The team had minus-one yards in the first quarter, 32 yards in the first half and 67 yards in the first three quarters. The Chiefs finished with 169 yards in offense.
And it was all because of a little eerie foresight by Porter.
The Raiders totaled 234 yards. Chiefs quarterback Steve DeBerg was 10 of 21 for 59 yards for the game and Raiders quarterback Jay Schroeder was 10 of 31 for 139 yards. Each overthrew wide-open receivers for what would have been touchdowns.
fumbled punt by Naz Worthen recovered at the 26-yard line by Elvis Patterson late in the third quarter
Raiders coach Art Shell said, "The weather conditions were such that we dropped some passes that we nor-
ced to take a break. Nobody could open up the office."
Schroeder said, "There were some balls that I threw that I had no idea where they were going. They just shipped out of my hand. Early in the game, the ball was extremely wet, so it cold, it was hard to handle."
The 6-0 Kansas City lead held until the Raiders got their turnover. a
Jayhawks find way, beat OSU
"We started playing their game plan instead of ours." Seigle said. "They used a different serve on us, and that hurt us too. But mostly it was just us making mistakes with missing and missing and a missed kew servers."
Three years ago, at the end of our first workout with Coach Glen Mason, he called four players forward. He then set up three tucking drills before the players played. After some seat rolls, the players took off for the bags. The man without a bag had to do extra running. We had been introduced to
by CHIP BUDDE
To stop the Cowboys, we had to control the ball. In the beginning, we did. In the first quarter, our offense held the ball for all but six plays. The only problem, however, was one we have seen before. When we got in close we couldn't get in the end zone. That's why we were down 13'9 at the end of the game; we only had two breakdowns late in the second quarter.
Offensively, we did just about anything we wanted to. We were having a lot of success with the running game. So when we did pass, it worked. They couldn't stop the full back dive. We must have run it four times in a row and got seven yards each time.
Saturday in Stillwater, we found a way to win.
Curtis Moore gave a tremendous effort. In the third quarter, he reinjured his broken thumb that he had been playing with for the past three weeks and had to be taken to the locker room. But he still came back to finish the game. Curtis is one tough sucker.
The defense played a solid game. We knew it would be hard to control the Cowboys' running game, but we had to make sure we could make something happen it did.
Throughout the entire game, we knew we would win. No matter what happened, we believed in ourselves. In years past, if we would have been down by seven points with just over five minutes left, we would have found a way to lose on the 77-yard drive.
That's an attitude you can't coach. You can have great offense and defense, but if players don't believe, you're not going to win many games. Slowly but surely, the Jayhawks are becoming believers.
And so are our fans. There were a couple hundred fans who followed us down to Stillwater. At times, it seemed they were loader than the rest of the stadium. They even ran out onto the field after we won. It was great support, and people support of support. It really fires us up. The whole team appreciates it.
Saturday, we would not be denied.
Not a man on the team wanted to
kick the extra point for the tie. We
went to Stillwater to win.
This week, we host the Big Red Machine, Nebraska. They lost Satur day to Colorado 27-12.
Chip Budde is a co-captain on the Kansas football team.
Handshake deal settles baseball collusion suit
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — San Diego first baseman Jack Clark, Detroit pitcher Jack Morris and 14 other players will be make new-leak free agents during a six-to eight-week period that probably will begin in January, baseball union leader Donald Fehr said yesterday.
The others who will be made newlook free agents are Atlanta pitcher Charlie Liebrand, Boston pitcher Larry Andersen, California outfitier Chili Davis, Detroit catcher Mike Heath, Houston pitcher Danny Darwin and Dave Smith, Minnesota pitcher Juan Berenguer and third baseman Gary Gaetti, Montreal pitcher Dennis Martinez, New York pitcher Dennis Bender, Mike Witt, Oakland outfitier Dave Henderson, and San Francisco outfitier Brett Bullet and pitcher Mike Lacoss.
Baseball owners have agreed to settle the collusion cases with a payment to the players' association that will total $280 million Jan. 2, several agents and lawyers familiar with the game's deal as part of the deal, the players will be given the chance to leave their teams and become free agents again.
Fehr, who is in Tokyo on baseball's postseason goodwill tour, confirmed that certain understandings had been made. In cases, but he did not go into details.
A source involved in the deal confirmed that the sides settled on the $280 million figure and the new-look
free agency in a handshake agreement between the lawvers Oct. 26.
For instance, the sides have not agreed when the payment actually will be made. If it is not made Jan. 2, the sides will have to agree on an interest rate to be charged between then and the date of the payment.
The source said that all other details of the agreement will have to be worked out before it can be presented for ratification to the 20th edition of the executive board of the Major League Baseball Players Association.
In addition, a mechanism must be determined to break down the total into payments to individual players. The payments to players are involved in the cases.
Also, the union wants owners to agree on guidelines for salary arbitration this winter that would take place in 1987. The unions caused by collusion. For example, they could agree that for purposes of arbitration, salaries should have been a certain percentage in 1990 than they actually were.
"We've thought about it a lot and that's a lot of what the settlement discussions will entail." Fohr said.
Under new-look free agency, players can keep their current contracts and move to new leagues deals and sign a new agreement with any team. This is the method Kirk Gibson used to leave the Detroit Redwings in 2015 and then Los Angeles Dodgers after the 1987 season.
Sports briefs
Lacrosse club wins two; freshman scores 7 goals
The Kansas lacrosse club posted two victories Saturday, raising its record to 62.
Kansas defeated Missouri 7-5 and Kansas State 14-6. The Kansas team was the best in the game, Maine freshman, who scored seven goals in the two games. Dave Glatt, Wilmette, Ill., senior, had five goals in the contests and Jason Rosenberg,
Kansas was supposed to play Creighton yesterday, but the game was canceled because of bad weather.
Freshman tennis player loses in Rolex Qualifier
Kansas freshman tennis player Abby Woo made it to the third round of the consolation bracket before being eliminated in the Roxley Indoor Regional Qualifier in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Thursday, Woods defeated Kelly Ward of the University of Tulsa 5-7,
6-2, 7-4 in first consolation round.
In the second round, Woods defeated Michele Rinker of Kansas State 7-6, 2-6, 7-6.
Woods lost to Renee Marshall of Colorado 7-5, 6-3 on Friday in the third round.
In the doubles main draw, Woods and freshman Chris Bowers lost to Nancy Tyggum and Nikki Collins of Nebraska 6-1, 6-1 in the second round.
From Kansan staff report
KU beats Haskell in alumni match
Bv Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
People of all ages came out Friday night to see former Kansas and Haskell basketball players compete in a charity basketball game at Haskell's Coffin Sports Complex.
KU's alumni team won the game 112-105.
Game proceeds will be donated to the Haskell Indian Junior College athletic department, said Brian Bendelhall, coordinator of the game.
Mendenhall said Haskell had been losing government support that had been used for programs such as the athletic department.
"Next year it will be larger, and we will also have a major surprise," he said.
He did not specify what the surprise would be.
Friday's game was the first alumni game that has been played between Kansas and Haskell Indian Junior College to raise money for the college's athletic department. Mendenhall said.
"They haven't been fulfilling their promise to the people who gave up so much and asked for so much — a quality education," he said.
Bud Stallworth, former KU All-
American, was the leading scorer with 39 points for the dayjayhawk alumni队. He scored five three-point baskets.
Stallworth, who played for KU from 1970 to 1972, said he did not have trouble getting in shape for the game.
"I try to work out a couple times a week," he said.
Stallworth said he enjoyed playing in the game because his efforts were for a good cause.
Milt Newton, who played for Kansas from 1986 to 1989, was the second leading scorer for the Javahays with 34 points.
Steve LaCour, who played for Haskell from 1977 to 1979, was the leading scorer for the Indians with 35 points.
Most of the players said they were not in shape for the game, but they enjoyed playing to raise money for the athletic department.
Mendenhall estimated that 1,000 people attended the game. Tickets were $10.
"I don't know if we made a profit," he said. "This was the first event, so it was experimental."
Mendenhall said the crowd's size proved that Haskell was not ignored by the Lawrence community.