University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 17. 1990
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Kansas defeated by Cardinals,28-16
By Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswriter
LOUISVILLE — For Marc Ettrick it was almost like old times.
Recruited by Kansas as a tight end, the linebacker caught a bullet pass from Louisville quarterback Browning Nagle, giving the Jayhawks their fourth interception of the game with 13 punts. He was on the line and 11 ruttles left in the game.
Though Kansas was down 28-16, the Jayhawks finally seemed to have
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momentum going their way. However, it quickly disappeared after the first play when running back Tony Brown was knocked for a loss of six yards.
The comeback drive ended with Louisville taking over on their fiveyard line, and then running down the clock to post a 28-16 victory against the Jayhawks Saturday at Cardinal Stadium.
Kansas coach Glen Mason said he wished he could have gone back to the first play of the Jayhaws' drive from the 14 yard line. He said it was a coaching mistake that started the drive off wrong.
"I felt in my heart, when we had it on the 14-yard line, we could have punched it in. That would have been difference in the game," Mason said.
Kansas' Gilbert Brown tackles Cardinal Ralph Dawkins. The Jayhawks played Louisville on Saturday
Trailing 21-7 in the second quarter, Kansas started catching up when place-kicker Dan Eichloff kicked a 34-yard field goal. But the rally picked up after Eichloff booted 47 yards of field goals in the third quarter.
But the Jayhawks' enthusiasm took a serious blow after Cardinals hulffack Joey Smith returned a Kansas pennants 44 yards to the Kansas seven yard line. That return set up Louisville's final touchdown, a three-yard touchdown run by fullback Ralph Dawkins.
Though Naught passed for more than 300 yards, he was intercepted four times by a Jayhawk secondary that lacked depth. Starting defensive
backs Jason Priest and Doug Terry both had to miss the game because of injuries.
Cornerback Hassan Bailey and safety Paul Friday had to play the entire game, and Friday, recovering from an ankle injury, had his first career interception in the third quarter.
About 10 minutes later, cornerback Tim Hill recorded his first collegiate interception when he caught a pass on Kangas' 10-ard line.
Not wanting to be left out, safety Charley Bowen also posted his first career interception, robbing the Cardinals of a touchdown by grabbing a pass on the one-yard line with 1 second remaining in the third.
Bailey was the only starter in the secondary who did not record an interception, but said that there would be plenty of other opportuni-
"There are still eight other games to go, so right now I'm just happy for my friends," Bailey said.
The Jayhawk defense boasted to broken-up passes, and both linebacker Pat Rogan and defensive end Jeremy Field had sacks for losses of 8 vards.
On the offensive side, quarterback Chip Hilleman completed 14 of 27 passes for 200 yards, including a 41-yard pass to tight end Chad Wette.
Fette was the Jayhawks' leading receiver, gaining 105 yards on five catches. He said his 41-yard reception from the Jayhawks' six-yard line could have been a touchdown if he had missed the defensive back right behind him.
"It's a little hard for a tight end to beat a D-back." Fette said. "But Chip made some good decisions today. It was a disappointing loss, but Coach Mason has a way of always getting us fired up to come back."
The only Kansas touchdown of the day came on the Jayhawks' second possession when fullback Maurice Douglas capped an 80-yard drive with a two-yard touchdown run with 4:31 remaining in the first quarter.
Hilleary said the team would need
especially by Washington (Louisville's 300 pound defensive lineman). Hilleary said, "But I have to give the
Volleyball team wins two weekend matches
By Chris Oster
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas volleyball team won two of four matches during the weekend at the Western Illinois Tournament, raising its season record to 12.
son-long winning streak to eight games.
The Jayhawks won their first two matches of the tournament Friday, defeating DePaul 15.12, 15.40, 13.7-9, 13.6-8, 13.2-10, 12.9-12, 12.2-12, two victories pitched Kansas 's Isaac
On Saturday, Kansas had that streak snapped by Ball State, 8-15,
14-16, 15-13, 10-15. They also lost an
Illinois, 10-14, 15-12, 12-15, 4-15.
15-10, 14-10, 12-15, 12-15, 4-15
Coach Frankie Albitz said she was disappointed by the losses.
"I think we could have won the tournament," she said. "The team just played real hot and cold. We just
turned off at the wrong time." Albitz said inconsistency had
"Even when we're winning, we're winning kind of joy," she said.
Albrough the Jayhawks suffered their first losses of the season. Albiz said they could take something from the tournament.
"We had some real nice hitting late in the tournament," she said. "We looked pretty strong. That kind of
consistent hitting will help later in the year."
Senior captain Lisa Patterson said the team had wanted more.
"It's a big disappointment," she said. "We were hoping to come back 10-0."
Patterson said the team tried to change its attitude toward the opponents during the Ball State match.
"We need to start concentrating on the other team's weaknesses and taking advantage of those."
Patterson said the team showed it was not a problem of being overmatched.
"We were concentrating too much on our side of the court." she said.
"We played the third game of the Ball State match really tough," she said of the 15-3 game. "H proved to us that we were better in stuff together, we unstoppable."
Tough loss doesn't feel any better
I don't, Granted, you can find more positives in a close game, but the "what's" drive you crazy. You don't have the embarrassing feeling that comes with a blowout and the feeling doesn't seem to last as long; but when that feeling is there — boy, does it drive you nuts.
It seems that whenever I've lost a close game here at Kansas, people say, "Well, you almost had 'em. You've got to feel good about that."
I agreed with Coach Mason when he said that our defense played well enough to win. Four interceptions should equal more than six points. Our defense had some success moving the ball, it could not do so when it counted.
The defense, on the other hand,
produced when it counted. Three of
the interceptions came at critical
times. Two were made just as Louis-
ville was threatening to score. The
last one was made at the beginning of
the game. Louisville was offense
in a position to continue the moment
the defense had created.
We failed, however, to convert, and the Louisville offense mounted a 10-minute drive to run the clock out.
That last effort by the offense, however, would not be what I would call the turning point of the game. The thing that got us in the most trouble was the series following Charley Bowen's interception on our own one- yard line. We couldn't move the ball and had to punt. Louisville returned the punt to inside our 10- yard line.
Louisville's touchdown put them up by 12 points with a quarter left to play. It squelched the momentum that we had developed during the third quarter with Dan Eichloff's superb field goals.
At that point, we had to play catch up. We had time, but we had to be sure to capitalize on every opportunity. We didn't.
This week, we get a Saturday off before we travel to Oklahoma to begin our Big Eight schedule. Last week, we traveled thirteenth-ranked Pittsburgh. 32-10.
Chip Budde is co-captain of the football team.
Sports briefs
KU women's golf team gets fifth in tournament
The Kansas women's golf team placed fifth during the weekend in the Seventh Annual Diet Coke-Road runner Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M., which was won by host-team New Mexico State.
Kansas finished with a three-round total of 951, 27 strokes behind New Mexico State. South Florida finished second with 936, and Georgia and Oklahoma finished fourth.
This was the third straight year that New Mexico State has won the tournament.
Kansas junior Shelly Triplette placed eighth in the tournament, six strokes behind first-place finisher Pia Tatermastro of Georgia.
Paternosroto won a playoff against Emma Rundle of Florida State and Jane Egan of New Mexico State for the title.
Triplet's three-round total of 213 included an opening round of 74, which tied her for the tournament lead. She was in second place after the second round, one stroke off the pace.
Laura Martin, South Brookings
S.D., junior, tied A.J. Nely of New
Mexico State for 12th place with a
total of 235.
KU soccer team wins Maverick Invitational
The Kansas soccer club won the Maverick Invitational soccer tournament in Omaha, Neb., during the weekend.
The second and third victories came against the home team, the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Kansas won the first game 10 to 4, while Louisville was while goals Scott Schaffer and Andy Nordquist logged the team's first
Kansas opened the tournament with a 3-2 victory against Iowa State. Dan Stoke and Chris Roberton scored goals in the first half, and Kevin Kirchner headed in the win. Dan Kirkman had an 2 minutes remaining in the game.
shutout of the year
Because of the double elimination format of the tournament, Kansas faced Nebraska again in the championship game. Schaffer and Nordquist victory, set out in shutout history, a Duke Christoffersen and Kirchner scored.
Kansas will look for its second tournament championship of the year when it hosts the Jayhawk Fall Classic this weekend.
KU varsity rugby team defeats Pittsburg State
The KU Rugby Football Club defeated the Pittsburg State University Rugby Football Club 44-0 in Merit Table nlay Saturday
The Kansas reserve team was defeated by the Kansas State reserve team 18-13. The Kansas club team was defeated by the Open Huggerfest during the weekend.
The varsity and club teams will travel Saturday to Springfield, Mo., for Merit Table competition. The varsity will play South Missouri State and the club will face the Springfield Rugby Football Club.
Drew Elder, Phil Olsen and Paddy Delargy each scored three trys for Kansas.
The Merit Table is similar to a conference. The Kansas varsity team is now 1-0 in Merit Table play.
The club team is for members of the community, and the varsity team is restricted to KU students. The team at the Ruggerist were not available.
The KU Racquetball Club defeated Wichita State in its first tournament of the year during the weekend at Robinson Center.
Racquetball club beats WSU in first tourney
Kansas won 18 singles matches and six doubles matches and lost only three in each division
The club will travel to Springfield, Mo., this weekend, to challenge Southwest Missouri State, the No 2 collegiate club in the country.
Kansas' Eichloff showing kicking power
47-yard field goal with yards to spare leaves no concerns about his strength
Kansan sportswriter
LOUISVILLE — After the Jayhawks' 59-10 loss to Virginia two weeks ago and last week's 38-12 Kansas' 26-16 loss to the Louisville Cardinals on Saturday did not pick a picture of consistency.
Although KU coach Glen Mason said he was worried about the kicking game before the start of the season, Eichloff, a true freshman, seems to be just what the doctor ordered.
Except kicker Dan Eichloff
Saturday, Eichloh was perfect, hitting three of three field goal attempts and one PAT. His 10 consecutive points equaled the team's Louisville's two previous opponent, San Jose State and Murray State.
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Eichloh had hit two field goal attempts and six extra point kicks for 12 points going into the game. Saturday's performance made him the game's leading scorer for Kansas.
Eichloh's first four points came easily, on a PAT after fullback Maurice Douglas' touchdown and on a 34-yard field goal late in the second quarter that left Kansas trailing 21-10 at halftime.
In fact, Eichloch is now the Jayhawks' leading scorer for the season with 22 points. Quarterback Chip Hilleary has scored 18 points, passing for two touchdowns and running for one.
The other six points required some concentration.
Eichloh kicked his longest goal of the year, 47 yards, with 8:49 left in the third quarter and one for 12 yards just over two minutes later.
Both cleared the bar by 10-15
feet.
How far can Eichloff kick the ball?
"I kicked one in practice last week that was 60 yards," he said after the game. "I don't know how far I could kick it. I would rather walk home, not to windows anyway, because touchdowns are worth more than field goals."
Eichloch is the first player since Mike Huback in 1980 to perform all the kicking duties for the Jayhawks in its teams, field goals, kickoffs and punting.
'I'm definitely starting to get some confidence.'
Dan Eichloff KU place-kicker
"I'm definitely starting to be some confidence," Eichloff said Saturday. His statistics so far would give confidence to a manic
While extra points and field goals have been perfect — 5-for-5 and 7-for-7, respectively — and kickoffs have been consistent, a punt was the only tarnish on an otherwise sterling performance Saturday.
At the end of the third quarter, free safety Charley Bowen intercepted a pass and was tackled on the Kansas one-yard line. After two plays by Heinley, Eichloh was forced to punt from his own end zone.
"What can I say?" Eichloff said. "It was a bad bump. I was kicking into some wind, and I wanted to keep it from blowing back. I should have pushed higher to give the guys more time to get downbeat and cover it."
The punt was low and straight to the 50-yard line, and Louisville halfback Joey Smith returned it 43 yards.
Kicker Dan Eichloff had a perfect record in Saturday's game.
Eichloch has punned 15 times for 594 yards, an average of 39.6 yards. He said he concentrated especially on punting during practice, because more variables were involved than with his other duties.
"I usually work on them about the same," he said, "but my pounting could use more practice. Timing, placement and where the receiver is make every punt different."