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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 25, 1990
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Jayhawks prepared to take on K-State
Coach and players think game is crucial because of rivalry and mid-season slump
By Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswriter
Football
People used to joke that the Kansas-Kansas State game would decide who would end up being ranked ninth in the Big Eight Conference.
The annual rivalry between the two schools would be named the "Toilet Bowl" by a few jeering fans.
But Kansas coach Glenn Mason doesn't think any of those jokes are the least bit funny he prepares for with the wildcat season. The wildcat season Saturday, against the Wildcats.
It's a game that Mason and many players hope will leave the Kansas offense and defense with the last laugh, after they find that spark that will help dispel the team's mid-season blues.
"It is a sad state of affairs when people want to make fun of the Kansas-Kansas State game," Mason said. "I think the last two games between us have been healthy for college football."
Mason said that as far as the players were concerned, the rivalry with K-State was just as big as the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry.
"You've got a bunch of kids getting and playing their hearts out, just for the sake of playing," Mason said. "If we have accomplished anything, I now see very little of that." I wonder if any of us anymore and I think that's good."
Safety Charley Bowen, a Lawrence native, said he had competed against Manhattan teams for years and that he game much more intense for him.
"I can't wait to play them, because the rivalry for me started way back in high school when Lawrence High would play Manhattan". Bowen said. Baum said playing the Wildcats was playing a backyard football game.
"It's almost like playing your friends on a Saturday afternoon," Bowen said. "You know a lot of the guys who don't talk, talking it up for the rest of the week."
Bowen is one of many players who said Saturday's game against the Wildcats was one of the biggest games of the season because the team needed something to fire them up.
"I think the game is coming at a perfect time," Bowen said. "Our team's (feeling) kind of blue right now."
with the two bad games, but we're all excited about playing K State. I think that excitement is going to carry over to the next game in Chaska and end up with Missouri."
Mason said that although tough competition would make the Jay hawks better in the long run, his team needed victories to gain confidence.
"We're like the salesman that keeps knocking on the door and doesn't make a sale." Mason said. "It's hard to sell yourself as a better person, but when it all said and none people are going to ask you how many you've won."
'You've got a bunch of kids getting together and playing their hearts out, just for the sake of playing.'
— Glen Mason
KU football coach
KU football coach
Quarterback Chip Hilleary said the earn fail as if they had taken a couple of steps backward in the last touchdown. "We know game to be the return of the offense."
"It didn't even feel like we were playing last Saturday because of the emotional tempo of the game." Hilary said. "Everybody was just there, and we weren't in the swing of things. I were gone. game things. they didn't feel right
Dana Stubblebell said the defense needed to improve its game and create more enthusiasm, something the team couldn't generate the last
"I think if the defense plays well, then the whole team will," Stubble field said. "I think it starts with me and Gilbert (Brown)
"Against Miami most of the players were too relaxed for that game. When we got to playing in the Orange vs. Red game (in us), and we were not, clickting.
Stubblefield said that Saturday's game was much bigger than all of Kansas' other games, because the Jawgays needed a victory that would carry over into other Big Eight games.
"We they got all that talent, but we'll see who's better Saturday at one." Stubbiefeld said. "No matter what the records are. They'll have them. They'll have our fans. They'll have their best 11, and we'll have our best 11."
'Hawks lose to Jennies despite leads
Team, at 3-3 in conference, travels tomorrow for match with Sooners
By Chris Oster Kansas sportswriter
The Kansas volleyball team lost in three games last night to Central Missouri State in a match that brought Kansas coach Frank Albizt to doubt the Jayhawks' killer instinct.
Kansan sportswriter
"I just don't think we're mean enough," Albitz said after the 13-15, 3-15, 11-15 loss in Allen Field House. "We were kind of sure that no one is able to finish off them."
Volleyball
The leads she referred to have been built and lost by Kansas in numerous matches this season. Against CMSU, she came in the first and third game.
Senior April Chuvey, who led KAN in digs with 21, said the loss may have been because of the Jawahiers. The group is planning a Big Eight Conference for Oklahoma.
In the first game, Kansas came back from a 3-7 deficit and led the Jennies 13-10. After a CMSU timeout, the Jennies rallied to take the game without allowing the Jayhawks another point.
In the third game, Kansas took the first three point lead of a tight game at 13.8 before again shutting down offensively and failing to score another point. At 11.8, Kansas had an opportunity to serve opportunities that went wide.
"We get a lead and hit two or three servers out." Albatz said. "It's not like we're acing them. When we pass the door, they are just passing them around."
"We looked too far past them because they're not a Big Eight
team," she said. "They're a good team and they played well."
With the loss, Kansas record fell to 12-10. The Jayhawks are fourth in the conference at 3-3 and travel tomorrow to Norman, Okla., for an important meeting of the Sooners. Oklahoma is 2-4 in the Eight and currently ranked fifth.
Chavey said that although the Jayhawks were defeated last night, their hitting had been a bright spot in the match.
Albitz found no such consolation.
"We're not hitting hard enough," she said. "No one has confidence to go ahead and hit away.
'I just don't think we're mean enough. We get those leads, and then no one is able to finish them off.'
Albizt said she tried to fire the Jayhawks up by bringing in freshman setter Shelby Lord to replace junior Julie Woodruff. Lard finished the match with 21 assists. Woodruff had 18.
"I told them in practice that if we lost the first game again I would do something drastic," she said. "If they threw it, they would fire up and play better."
Junior Adrian Powell led the Jayhawks in kills with 14 in seven attempts. Kansas had a total of 46 kills, while CMSU's totaled 50.
Albitz was unable to find reason for the defeat in the play of the Jennies.
"They didn't even play that well," she said. "I'tmired of losing."
Kansas blocker Kim DeHoff, Tonganoxie sophomore, spikes.
Hamers leaves for national tournament
By Juli Watkins
Kansan sport$writer
Hamers will compete this weekend in the Riviera All-American Championships at the Rivera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. The tournament is an invitational for returning All Americans.
Kansas tennis All-American Eveline Hamers, ranked ninth in the nation, left yesterday to compete in a women's singles match, played by singles players, ranked in the top 10.
Kansas coach Michael Center, who accompanied Hamers on the trip, and the tournament for the elite
"It is a 32-person draw," Center
Hamers was also invited to last year's tournament. She was eliminated in the first round and lost her consolation match.
"Yeah, last year was pretty bad," Hamers said. "This time I'm more confident. I just hope I'm hitting the ground." He added, "I hope I have a good first round."
said, "You must be a returning All-American, and they also select one player out of each region. Eveline fits both of those criteria."
A qualifying tournament was this week to find eight more players for the championships because there weren't enough returning All-Americans.
Center said he did not put any pressure on Hamers to perform.
The field is competitive, with players ranging from the No. 1 ranked player to the 52nd. The winner of the tournament traditionally receives the No. 1 ranking in the preseason Volvo Tennis Collegiate Rankings which are released in early December.
"I don't set any expectations, but I think she can do very well," Center said. "I see in her that she expects to win at the national level now. She is expecting more than to just show up at these national tournaments."
There will also be a doubles field, but Hamers will not play. Doubles teams must have members from the team that won the tournament was the only Jayhawk invited
Hamers said she was a little concerned about playing in the warmer weather. She said she had been practicing for so long in the cooler temperatures that she hoped the game would not affect her performance.
Hamers' ranking is the highest any Kansas tennis team member has ever received, and her All-American member of the Kansas women's team
Future stadium site for Olympics worries some residents in Atlanta
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Residents near the proposed site of a 85,000-seat Olympic stadium said yesterday they have asked the Atlanta Organizing Committee to put the facility elsewhere.
Columbus Ward, president of the neighborhood planning unit that represents the mostly Black, low-income community of Summerhill, said much of the neighborhood was being redeveloped. County Stadium was built in 1965.
forcing the relocation of more than 100 families.
The initial AOC plan was to build the proposed $145 million Olympic arena on the existing stadium's parking lot, leaving nearby housing intact. Ward said the community decided to ask the AOC to look elsewhere for a contracted two-story citizen housing company that would be moved to build the stadium.
"I don't think we need to have two stadiums in a low-income community that has already suffered." Ward
said yesterday
"We didn't say point-blank we don't want (the stadium) at all. We just don't want anything destroyed in our community."
Jack Pinkerton, the AOC official who worked with the venue plan, said it was too early to tell exactly what would happen.
AOC officials have offered to meet with Summerhill representatives next week. The organizing committee is calling all of its venue plans in early 1991.
Cross country team members run warm-up drills on the field at Memorial Stadium before their daily workout. The team was preparing yesterday for the Big Eight Championship meet this weekend in Lincoln, Neb.
A hop, skip and a jump
Evans' contract not renewed
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Dwight Evans, a mainstay in right field at Fenway Park for almost all of his 18 season baskets with the Boston Red Sox in 1991.
Evans is one of the most popular Red Sox and has one of the most respected throwing arms in baseball. Evans found out yesterday that Boston was going to exert pressure on the pitching attack at $1.3 million for next season.
"I have many great memories of my Red Sox years," the eight-time Glove winner said. "The fans
were always terrific with me and I want to thank all of them for their support.
Evans, who turns 39 on Nov. 3,
has been plagued by a persistent
lower back problem for about a
year and it limited him to a design-
ation as a team season.
He batted .249 in 123 games with 13
home runs and 63 RBI.
General manager Lou Gorman, who met with Evans, manager Joe Morgan and other team officials yesterday morning to discuss the move, said money was not a question.
"Dwight was a terrific player for the Red Sox for a long time. He had a lot of clutch hits and was one of the game's greatest right fielders." Morgan said, "However, we were very good when he way for some of our minor league prospects who are about ready to make the major league roster."
Evans' 2,565 games played with Boston is second only to Hall of Famer Carl Vastremzski Evans logged 8,726 at-bats with a .272 lifetime average and played in three All-Star games.
Texas Rangers to get
new open-air stadium
The $165 million project will keep the club in Arlington for at least the next 40 years. The team unvelled the model for a new open-air hallpark that队 spokesperson Tom Schiffrich will carefully be ready by opening day 1994.
The Texas Rangers announced yesterday that they have reached an agreement with the city to build a new ballpark near Arlington Stadium, ending speculation that the team would move to downtown Dallas.
The Rangers, who moved to Arlington from Washington in 1972, had hoped to begin play in a new stadium by summer 1983. But Schieffer said opening day of 1994 was a more likely target date.
The baseball-only stadium is to have natural grass and be built on what is now a parking lot about one quarter mile southeast of Arlington Stadium. Its seating capacity will be 45,000 to 50,000.
Schieter said the project included a road called "Nolan Ryan Expressway."
The city must pass a one-half cent sales tax issue Jan. 12 for construction to begin.
The project will cost Ranglers fans $1 extra a ticket next year, with the money being used to help retire the bond debt.
Sports briefs
Big Eight reinstates suspended officials
Each of the seven will be assigned to games for the rest of the season, John McClintock, supervisor of league officials, said Tuesday.
The Big Eight has reinstated the seven officials who mistakenly allowed Colorado to score the winning touchdown on fifth down against Missouri, but they will not work again as a crew.
The crew was suspended Oct. 6 after Michigan's chance for an upset was lost when Colorado finished off a drive in the closing seconds with a two-yard scoring run on fifth down and won 33-31.
The Big Eight suspended the officials after reviewing tapes of the game.
"We have determined the seven will be assigned to officiate," McClintock said. "In keeping with conference policy, no advance meeting is permitted respect to which games any big Eight officials will work."
The officials were Terry Turlingan, Kennett, Mo.; J.C. Lounderack, Arkansas City, Kan.; Ron Demaree, Oklahoma City; Willie Weibosch, Lincoln, Pa; Paul Brown, Nock, York, Paul Brown, Paul Brown, and Frank Gaines, Lincoln, Neb
Royals will not offer Boone a new contract
The Kansas City Royals said yesterday that they would not offer 42-year-old catcher Bob Boone a contract next season.
Boone, who holds the major league record for catching in 2,225 games, was the Royals Opening Day pitcher last year but ended up playing just 40 games after suffering a broken finger May 16. He hit .239 in 11 at-bats.
"I've talked with Bob and explained our situation." General Manager Herk Robinson said. "It wasn't a surprise.
"Bob wants to catch a lot of games, and that isn't the direction we'd go. He understands completely that it is very hard. We had a very amicable parting."
Boone made $1.9 million on a one-year contract last year.
Mike Macfarlane took over after Boone was injured and will go to spring training as the starter, Robinson said.
Rookie Brent Mayne, who caught at Class AA Memphis last season, will back up Macfarlane.
Last year's No. 3 catcher, Rey Palacios, had shoulder surgery during the season and was removed from the Kansas City roster. He will become a free agent if he refuses to accept a minor league assignment.
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From staff and wire reports