Sports
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 25. 1990
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Homers help 'Hawks sweep twin bill
Bv Rob Wheat
Sonhomore first baseman,Jim Hanna,right, holds a runner at first base. The play was yesterday during the baseball team's practice.
Kansan sportswriter
First baseman Jim Hanna had to fight to keep his excitement down. It was always harder to hit after a player had hit a home run.
Baseball
During the sixth inning, outfielder Denard Stewart hit a home run to centerfielder right before Hanna came to the plate. Two batters before Denard Stewart and basseman Jeff Børbinger had a home run to almost the same spot.
Hanna said he didn't even see the pitch because it came in fast, and thought it was a sure out as the ball kicked to centerfield.
Instead the ball soared out of Holund-Maupin Stadium and contributed to a 16-4 victory Saturday for the Kansas baseball team over Coeville Community College in the first game of a double header.
The Jayhawks won their second game against Coffeyville 11-4.
"I was just concentrating on hitting the ball back to the pitcher." Hanna said. "That's what we're always working on in practice to, and I guess good things happen after that."
Hanna was part of the teams' first back-to-back home runs since April 7 against Kansas State, and finished the day scoring three other runs.
Hanna started off the scoring for Kansas in the second innning when he reached home on a wild pitch. He made two saves. Jayhawks in hitting, going 4-1 for 5.
we came out real excited and then died down." Hanna said. "Sometimes when you get way ahead you coast a little, and we can't do that. When you get a team down, you've got to keep them down."
Hanna, an Emporia native, was named the Gatorate Player of the Year in baseball by USA Today his senior and senior years in high school.
Kansas coach Dave Bingham said he thought before the game that the Jayhawks would have to score a lot of runs because of the inexperience of the pitching staff. Half of the pitcherstheir numbers, and only one was an upperclassman.
“It’s a good indication of what’s happened to us hitting-wise,” Bingham said. “I think our swings are improving and our mentality is getting better, but I’ll well be a much better hitting ball club than we have been by a while.”
game
The Jayhaws scored in all but two innings and scored five runs in both the third and eighth innings. All but two players scored during the first
Next to Hanna, Stewart and Berlinger were the scoring leaders with three runs a piece. All three of their home runs came with nobody on.
Bingham said he was more disappointed in the hitting during the second game, because the hitters didn't seem as focused. More than half of the runs in the second game were unearned.
Though run production was the key to Kansas sweeping the doubleheader the pitching staff also contributed to the dayhawk victory.
Three pitchers rotated every three innings, and walk-on right-hander
Joel Bacon was one walk away from pitching a perfect game during the first Kansas victory.
During his first collegiate start in the second game, freshman picker Dave Mciver picked a one hitter and scored three points where the hitter was caught looking.
Meyer, a Tulsa, Okla. native, was named all-city in high school and all-regional this summer when he played for an American Legion team which almost made it to the high school World Series.
Meyer said he was down 3-0 in the count, but then fought for the strike out. He said he liked to power hiters, but said it had been hard because the
coaches have been working the pitchers a lot.
Meyer will also pitch tomorrow against Hutchinson Community College at 4 p.m.
"I was kind of nervous for the first inning, until I got those first three outs." Meer said. "I felt pretty good after my first strike out."
Meyer said he wanted to show the coaches his composition by going after hitters. He said aggressiveness on the mound was his whole game plan.
You have to show the hitter you're in command, and put fear in his eyes just by him looking at you. Meyen can't be scary without beingicky whoever you are or not.
Area courses provide challenges
Kansan sportswriter
By Chris Oster
As students settle into the semester and budget their time and money, a select group of them has an added benefit - they mark their golf games into the picture.
The main outlets for student golfers in Lawrence are two public golf courses, Alvamar Public Golf Course or the Orchards Executive Golf Course.
Erick Arroyo, Garden City senior,
said the par-31 orchards course was
perfect arrangement for the college
golfer
"It's a really good par 3 course," Arroyo said. "The fairways are nice
and tight. It tests your accuracy like a par-3 course should. It has an advantage over a course like Alva-Chevrolet for playing a quick round for a chonex price.
Green fees on weekdays at the Orchards, 300 West 15th St. are $6.75 for nine holes and $9.75 for 18 holes. On weekends, those rates go up to $8 and $12, all 18 holes at The golfer's gallery to play the same nine holes twice
George Corn, who works in the pro shop at The Orchards, said the course was popular with students.
"It's convenient for them, and the fees are reasonable." he said.
Corn said many of the people who
played the course were still learning the game.
Although people who have never played before are welcome to come and try the game, Corm said he liked it more than they could move them to a driving range first.
The only driving range in town is at Alvamar, Lawrence's other public golf course It is at 1800 Crossgate Country Club. The country Club, a private course.
Green fees during the week at the par-72 Alvamar course are $10 for nine holes and $15 for 18 holes. On weekends, the fees are $12 and $20.
KU's golf team also practices at Alvamar.
Clemens gets clearance to pitch Friday's game
The Associated Press
BOSTON  Boston's Rogers Clermen, sidedefined with a sore right shoulder since Sept. 1 was given the ball Tuesday at fridays against the Toronto Blue Jays.
"He plans to throw on Tuesday and he's looking forward to pitching on Friday," Arthur Pappas; the Red Sox' doctor, said yesterday at a news conference at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester.
"Roger feels he has pitched through more than this in the past."
Pappas said after examining the two-time Cy Young Award winner. "Roger wants to pitch and he feels he can pitch Friday night."
Clemens, 20-6 with a 1.98 earned run average, was stricken with severe tendinitis on Sept. 4 when he lasted just 5 1-3 innings and had an eight-game winning streak snapped by Oakland.
Pappas said that Clemens, who left the hospital as Pascal began the news conference, would throw today a game before a night game with Cleveland.
Joseph J Lies/Special to the KANSAN
Breaking speed
Lawrence police sergeant Ed Brunt, assistant instructor for the KU Tae-Koen-Do class, jumps over three volunteers on his way to
breaking a two-inch-thick pine board. Brunt led a Tae Kwon Do demonstration last night at Oliver Hall.
Royals give apology to civic group
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals apologized yesterday to a civic group for not starting veteran second baseman Frank White on a day he was being honored by the group.
The Key Coalition, an inner city group, planned a series of events culminating Sunday in Frank White Day at Royals Stadium. A softball stadium complex had been named in honor of White and five community leaders were given Frank White Beacon Awards before the stadium
White delivered the lineup card to the umpires, but did not start the game.
A member of the Key Coalition was upset that White did not start and complained to the Royals, said Dean Dearer, director of public relations.
Vogelaar said Manager John Wathan was not aware that White was being honored.
Is probation stiff enough punishment?
Brent Maycock
Sports editor
Probation.
Lately, it seems like the cliquish thing to do in college athletics.
Kansas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri,
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and
UNLV. These are just a few of the
programs that got caught and have
paid, are paying or will pay for it. Not bad company, but not the kind of institution to be.
It also makes you wonder how many schools are still out there ducking the long, but usually forgiving, arm of the NCAA.
My question is, does it really work? When the Kansas mens basketball team was put on probation after its first season, I thought it was the end of the world. Especially when I found out how close the Jayhawks were to receiving the death penalty, which doomed the basketball football for a couple of years.
However, last season, when we were supposed to start feeling the ill effects of limited scholarships and no television appearances, the Jayhawks put together one of the best seasons in Kansas history. If this is the aftermath of the dark hand of probation, then that should be good news for the reigning champions of the college hoop, UNLV.
The Runnin' Rebs finally were caught by the NCAA and received basically the same penalties that Kansas did. Demoned the chance to repeat as kings of the roundtable, but because they had hit by the dark side of the NCAA.
Despite the severity of the sanctions against some schools under investigation, other schools seem to charm the NCAA Committee on Intransit and receive unusually severe seals for the severity of their allegations.
Florida's recent slap on the hand from the NCAA really leaves me perplexed. Here's a school where both the basketball and the football programs were being investigated, and not for petty infractions. And yet the football team received two years of probation and is ineligible from postseason play this year. The basketball team was hit with two years of probation and a loss of three scholarships.
How can a school that has been under investigation twice in the last six years get off so lightly? I thought the point of probation was to force the schools to reform their programs, not rebuild them. If rumors of the death penalty are released in probation, a full-fledged execution may have come up at Florida's.
Speaking of executions, I'm still waiting for the verdict on Missouri's basketball allegations. It seems like eons ago that I first heard the Tigers' 28-year-old guard still nothing. I feel cheated. When the Jayhawks were put on probation, I didn't even know about the investigation. The fact that there are 17 allegations against the Tigers' immediate attention from the NCAA.
Maybe when the infractions committee hears the Missouri case Friday, some light will be shed. For eager Jayhawk fans, this news is long overdue. However, considering the longer time Missouri has been in now, they really care how they decide to punish Doug Smith and the nobodies?
Like Missouri, Illinois still has a pending hearing by the NCAA. However, unlike the Tigers, the decision could be fatal to the NCAA, whose football team was on probation in the early '80s.
The question is, what is the purpose of probation?
Brent Maycock is a Branson, Mo. senior majoring in journalism.
Sports briefs
Royals down Oakland;
Brett fails to get a hit
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City defeated the Athletics 10-3 last night, keeping Oakland's magic number at two.
In the seventh, Kurt Stillwell hit an inside-the-park home run with two runners on, his second inside-the-hole this year and his third homer.
Brett was 4-for-3 and had his AL-leading average fail to .30. Rafael Palmeiro of Texas was 1-for-3 and is one of the best pitchers in Athletics at 1-for-5 and fall to .320.
Nebraska and Colorado have players of the week
Nebraaska quarterback Mickey Joseph was voted the Big Eight Conference's offensive player of the week yesterday. Joseph completed three touchdowns in Orchards and three touchdowns in the Camhaskers' 59-9 rout of Minnesota.
The media panel selected Colorado linebacker Alfred Williams for Big Eight defensive honors. Williams had a career college's 28-22 victory over Texas.
From staff and wire reports
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