Sports
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 19, 1990
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Tennis teams psyched for fall's coming tournaments
Page Goins, Tulsa junior, returns the ball during practice.
By Juli Watkins
Kansan sportswriter
Although the Kansas men's and women's tennis teams will not compete in a tournament for the first time since 2013, he been on the courts since Aug. 37
Coach Scott Perelman said the men's team will play its first tournament Oct. 4 at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic.
Perelman said he had great expectations for this year's squad.
"I've been here for nine years," he said. "I think this is the best team we've had."
Kansas will see four men's team captains, all seniors, returning this fall.
John Falbo, Jeff Gross, Chris Walker and Craig Wiley lead a team of 16 players that is larger than usual. Perelman said the average number of players was about 10.
He said that the team had maintained its practice schedule throughout the recent heat wave and that he thought that had conditioned the team more quickly than usual.
"I think we have a tremendous amount of depth," Perelman said. "We have three guys in their fifth years who have redshirted along the way."
All of last year's players on the women's team will return, women's coach Cameron Center, Stotts and PeelZelz and Stotts are co-captains this year.
"As a team, I think we're going to do a lot better." Pelz said. "We have a lot of new freshmen, so that will make the team a lot more competitive and make the team work harder."
There are five freshman recruits in addition to the six returning women
Junior Eveline Hamsers, one of the highest-ranked returning women, will be competing in the 2014 NCAA Division Iassist Sept. 27th in Austin, Texas.
Center said Hamers, a two-time All-American, was invited to play in the tournament against some of the best players in the country.
Hamers was ranked 15th in the nation after last season, and Center said he expected her to be ranked in the top 10 this season.
Hamers, a native of Meerssen,
The Netherlands, said that she
came to the United States for
the combination of school and
tennis and that she is looking forward
to participating in next weekend's
tournament.
"In this tournament in Texas, there's a lot of good players out there, and I'm hoping I'm in my
best form," she said.
The rest of the women's team will play in a quadrangular tournament Oct. 5-6 in Manhattan, Center said. He will select eight players to play against Kansas State, Wichita State and Tulsa. Which eight players will go will be determined after they challenge each other to win. George said he would make the final decision as to who would play.
Tennis fund-raiser set for Saturday
The second annual Jayhawk Jamboree fund-raiser for the tennis teams will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at Teepee Junction, located at the junction of Highways 24 and 40.
Women's coach Michael Center said it would be different from last year's fund raiser because ticket prices would be considerably lower. Last year the event was a party and tickets cost $55 each.
This year tickets cost $5 for students and $10 for the general public. They are available at Dillen Hall, Country Club and at the door.
"This year we're trying to attract more people, particularly students," Center said.
The event features The Michael Beers Band, and various door prizes will be awarded, including tickets and an all-trail bicycle.
Florida anticipates penalties announcement
The Associated Press
John Lombardi said the university expected to receive the NCAA's letter of findings tomorrow.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — NCAA penalties against the University of Florida will be disclosed tomorrow, culminating a two-year investigation into the football and basketball programs, the school's president said yesterday.
Punishment could range from the death penalty to a loss of scholarships and television appearances to a sentence as light as a reimprim.
The Gators' football and basketball programs were charged collectively last May with 10 violations of NCAA
rules, including the lack of institutional control, improper cash payments to players and improved salary supplements to two football coaches.
In July the university admitted to seven of those charges but took exception to the NCAA's contention that the university lacked control of the athletic program. The charge, considered one of the most serious, essentially was dropped during a hearing in August.
The blame for the infractions was then placed on former football coach Galen Hall and former basketball coach Norm Sloan.
Hall currently is a graduate assistant coach at Penn State, and Sioan is coaching a professional team in Greece.
Hall admitted to making improper payments to two assistant coaches and aiding a former player in paying child support. He repeatedly has had his case settled with cash to the same player, Javis Williams, now with the Miami Dolphins.
Sloan has denied any knowledge that he broke NCAA rules, such as improperly providing an airplane at a football game in Boston Celtics summer camp.
During the past two years, the university has cooperated fully with the NCAA.
National College Sportswriter's Football Poll
1. Notre Dame (23)
2. Florida State (4)
3. Auburn (1)
Sports briefs
3. Auburn
4. BYU (1)
5. Southern Cal
5. Southern C
6. Tennessee
11. Oklahoma
7. Michigan
12. Texas A&M
14. Colorado
10. Nebraska
15. 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
PORT CRANE, N.Y. — A Detroit bar owner, who had said he was not behind the wheel of the pickup truck in the Christmas Day crash that killed Billy Martin, was found guilty yesterday of driving with a blood-alcohol content above the legal limit for intoxication.
William Reedy, 32, a close friend of the former major league manager, was cleared of a lesser charge of driving while impaired by a Town of Fenton Court jury that deliberated over two hours before reaching a verdict.
The Associated Press
Driver in Billy Martin crash is guilty
Reedy was fined $350 and had his driving privileges in New York state revoked for at least six months.
Reedy and his wife were celebrating Christmas at Martin's 150-acre farm eight miles north of Binghamton. Reedy and Martin were return-ing after running errands and stopping at drinks when the accident happened.
BALTIMORE — Roger Clemens tested his ailing right shoulder by throwing 80 pitches yesterday, and afterward Boston manager Joe Morgan said the 20-game winner will start for the Red Sox in New York on Sunday if his arm is determined to be physically sound.
driving with 0.10 percent or more blood-alcohol content, a misdemeanor.
Wewada was driving Martin's pickup truck Dec. 25, 1989, when it crashed into a culvert near the entrance to Martin's farm north of Binghamton.
Reedy was convicted of a charge of
Police testified during the trial that Reedy's blood alcohol level was over the state's legal limit of 0.10 percent the state's living intoxicated.
Clemens may return to Boston line-up
The Associated Press
Martin, 61, died of head and neck injuries.
game since Sep. 4 because of seven-
tendinitis of the shoulder. Yesterday
he took a step toward returning to the
game, but he threw hard for nearly a half-hour.
Clemens (20-6) hasn't pitched in a
Morgan said Clemens would return to Boston for an examination today or tomorrow and if he was sound he will watch Sunday against the Yankees.
Rugby club loses 3 during weekend
Kansan sports report
The KU Rugby Club dropped three matches last weekend in the Aspen Rugby Fest in Aspen, Colo. in the second half of the national champions, the Denver
The KU Rugby Club will be on the road this weekend to Springfield, Mo.
Barbarians. Then they lost 12-7 to the Albuquerque Aardvarks in the second round in third round action. Pittsburgh, Pa. Rugby Club, 8-4.
Minnesota beats Royals 10-4
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS - Dan Gladen started Minnesota's six-run fifth inning with a triple and ended it with an RBI single last night as the Kansas City Royals bleed a three-run lead and lost 10-4, moving within three games of the Twins in the race for last place in the American League West.
It was the second victory in 10 games for the Twins, who have been alone in the basement since Aug. 6. The twins had been in last from June 24 (J) to August 7.
most effective pitcher since being called up June 21 from Class AA Orlando, gave up five hits and struck out five in seven innings.
Scott Erickson (6-4), the Twins'
Tom Gordon (11-11), who now face 30 against the Tornos this season, had yielded only three hits and one earned run until being knocked out in the fifth. The Twins, who scored one or fewer runs in five of their previous eight games, had eight hits and sent 11 batters to the plate in the inning.
Gladden tripped under left fielder
Bojackson x Backs jacket and scored on
Nelson Liriano s grounder. Kirby
Puckett doubled, Kent Hebek had
RBI single and Gary Gaetti singled.
After Randy Bush billed out, Pedro Munoz singled in Hrbek.
Andy McGaffigan relieved Gordon and gave up RBI singles to Junior Ortiz. Al Newman and Gladden.
Miami coach orders end to excessive bragging
After Hrbek's RBI double put Minnesota up 1-0 in the first, the Royals scored three times in the third and once in the fourth, edging a 4-1 lead. Rockies Same Berry, Brent Mayne, Brian McDae drove in all four runs.
The Twins scored an unearned run in the fourth and two runs in the eighth.
The Associated Press
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Coach Dennis Erickson, who last week told his Miami Hurricanes to temper his coaching cracked down on excessive brasing.
At least two Hurricanes "crossed the line" of good taste with dancing, prancing and posing after big plays in last Saturday's nationally televised 52-24 victory at California, Erickson said yesterday.
"I wasn't very proud of it, and our team wasn't very proud of it," he said. "There's a point where it's embarrassing to the program."
Erickson said that players guilty of excessive celebrating in the future would be benched for the rest of the game and possibly longer. Following an opening-game loss at Brigham Young, he ordered the Hurrancites to
stop making degrading comments about opponents.
Erickson declined to spell out guidelines as to what kind of celebrating he would permit.
Celebrating by several Hurricane players drew boys from the California fans and a shower of postgraduate students. The show's TV showers and on Miami radio talk shows
"We are going to play hard, and we "are going to be excited about playing the game, and we are going to jump up and down," he said. "But there's a problem with that. We can't be at the University of Miami. If they do, they're not just going to play."
Tauming and gloating are nothing new at Miami, but the reaction to Saturday's anties was unprecedented.
"Some things were accepted three
Even before the crackdown was announced, the negative response from fans and the media had convinced the ninth-ranked Hurricanes to tone down their act, linebacker Michael Barraw said.
years ago that aren't accepted now by the public," Erickson said.
Before the season, Erickson said that improving Miami's reputation was one of his goals. And some players say the program's national image is better than before Erickson became coach last season.
Erickson, however, has grown weary of the controversies about Miami's taking and dancing.
"Did we win Saturday?" he asked.
"I get confused sometimes around here."
Miami's next game is Sept. 29 at home against Iowa.
Kansas women golfers place fifth in season's first tourney
Kansan sportswriter
By Chris Oster
Coach Brad Demo said the tournament was the first of three highly competitive tournaments in which the team would compete this fall.
Led by a trio of experienced juniors, the Kansas women's golf team during the weekend entered its fall season placing fifth in the Diet Coke-Roadrunner Invitational tournament in Las Cruces, N.M.
"We're absolutely getting thrown into hot water," Demos said. "Our fall schedule is outstanding."
He said the fall competitions were among the top 15 in the nation.
The team's remaining tournaments this fall will be in Seattle and Hilton Head. S.C.
Demo said the Seattle tournament would expose the team to some tough Pacific 10 opponents, teams the Jayhawks do not face often.
He said the Jayhawks could be the only team at the Hilton Head tournament not ranked in the ton 20.
The team Demo sends into these competitions is led by three juniors who each have two years of tournament experience.
"She's an incredible student athlete,"Demo said. "When my younger players want to know what it means, I make it, tell them to watch Laura."
The team's captain is junior Laura Myers. She made the all-Big Eight Conference team and all-conference team in her sophomore season.
The team's top performer from the weekend's tournament was junior Shellv Triplett.
Demo described Triplett as a steady roller
"She's kind of a quiet person," he said. "She sneaks up on you. She does the same thing on the golf course."
Triplett said she approached her golf game intelligently.
The third junior on the team. Laura Martin, is a player Demo considers someone special.
"She's a leader," he said. "All my juniors are. If ever have a problem, it's taken care of. They're very easy to coach."
"She's my hero," he said. "She's done an absolutely incredible job."
Demo said that Martin did not travel with the team much as a freshman but that she had improved treaty.
Martin finished in a tie for 12th in 'ast weekend's tournament.
She narrowly was beat out in a playoff to make the traveling team for last weekend's tournament. Demo said.
Cathy Reinbeck is the lone sophomore on the team.
Demo said she had a strong first tournament.
He said she had a good chance to make the squad for future tournaments.
Hollv Revnolds. Morrisville. Vt., freshman, practices her putting.
"She's so easy to coach." Demo
The new player making the earliest mark was Holly Reynolds, who finished in a tie for 21st last weekend.
newcomers to this year's team are four freshmen, two of whom made the recent trip to New Mexico.
said. "We expect big things from her."
"I was nervous for the first couple of holes," she said. "But once you get out there, it's just another round."
The other scholarship freshman is Anne-Marie Huizinga.
Pam Weininger and Tracy Belisle are both walk-on freshmen.
Demo said that Huziga had quite a bit of tournament experience and that she was adjusting well to college golf.
Triplett said he expected the freshmen to help the experienced players.
"They're really pushing the rest of us pretty good," she said. "Last year we had five players who went to most major leagues and became定理 because nobody was pushing us."
Despite the loss of two seniors from last year's team, Tripplet said the team should not lose any ground.
Demo said the Jayhawks probably would not win any of this fall's tournaments.
"But I see us being extremely competitive," he said. "We may surprise some people at these tournaments."