University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, August 28, 1990
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Women lose pitcher to knee injury
Coach Kalum Haack gives pointers to pitchers Stephani Williams, freshman, left, and Stacey Mays, junior.
Full burden falls to new members
By Derek Simmons
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas softball team will be without the services of pitcher Bill Bailey when the season opens Sept. 16, Coach Kalam Haack said yesterday.
Bailey injured her knee during a plyometric workout Wednesday. Plyometrics is a form of training that increases strength on and off various sizes of boxes.
"I landed on my left leg, and I heard this pop," Bailey said. "I wailed my kneecap out of place, and then back in. I thought once it popped back I was OK, but the doctors told me not to cry or curcitate and some other muscle."
Haack said Bailey was scheduled to have reconstructive surgery on her left knee. Sent 4
Bailey said she could be back in six months if she worked hard
"I've heard of people coming back in "for one and a half, but that's not healed," Bailey said. "If I work hard, I will be able to see months and start throwing again."
Haack said he wanted her to return totally healthy.
'When she gets her medical release, we'll sit down with her parents and discuss it', he said.
Haack said a medical redshirt for this season was one possibility.
"She'll be out for six months, and it would take her another month to get into shape." Haack said. "It might just be better to redshift Jill this year and then she would have three years of eligibility left. I don't know if it will be possible to bring her in pitch for one tournament. I guess we'll wait and see."
The full burden of pitching now
falls to two of the newest members of the team. Haack said freshman Stephan Williams and junior college Stephan Stacey would be up to the job.
"Our pitchers looked good today." Haack said of the first day of practice. "They're nowhere near as good as they were, be, but I could see the potential today."
"We'll have to see where we are once we get into the season. We might have Shelly Sack pitch if we need to."
Sack, a junior, pitched for the Jayhawks her freshman year, finishing 10-5 with a record setting .093 win. The Jayhawks first base for most of last season.
"I pitched a couple of times last year, off and on, but not consistently." Sack said. "I walked into Coach's office three days ago and he said. We may have to reactivate your arm."
Sack said she wasn't certain whether she would pitch at all.
"That depends on how our new
pitchers pan out," Sack said. "I've never seen them pitch, Stephen has never pitched from 43 feet before, and I'm not sure if Stacey has."
High school pitchers throw 40 feet from the mound to the plate, three feet closer than the college distance.
Sack said she was ready to play either position.
"I don't care where I play. I've been pitching since I was a little girl, and I had never played first base to do whatever we help the team most."
Swim team looks ahead to new season
By Juli Watkins
Kansan sportswriter
Although practice hasn't started for the Kansas swimming and diving teams, Couch Gracy Kempt is already looking forward to the new season.
"We have good depth, good talent,
good leadership," Kemp said. "If all three continue to progress, it should be a good year."
Practices begin Sept. 4 and will consist of running, swimming and weight lifting. Kempi said the team would eventually move into two practices each day after about four weeks.
"We were very disappointed at nationals last year," he said.
Kempf said he hoped that this year's squad would improve on last season's performances.
Both the men's and women's teams placed second at the Big Eight Conference Championships. However, Kansas sent only three men and seven women to the NAACP Championship. The men did not place and the women finished 2nd.
Kempf was reluctant to call last season a rebuilding year.
"I don't believe in rebuilding years," he said. "The team was young and just not good enough to be winning."
With so many athletes returning to the team, Kemp said he hoped that the depth and experience would provide the leverage for a winning season.
"We're looking forward to an excellent year," Kempf said.
The Jayhawks lost only two senior women, Jenni Grabielson and Marcia Oits, and three senior men, Scott Berry, Jeff Rodgers and Kevin Toller. Kempf said everyone else was returning.
Kempi said that faces to look out for included senior Jeff Stout who qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 100-yard backstroke last year, and sophomore Zhawn Stevens, who was the conference champion in the men's team last year. She was the only conference champion on the men's team last year. Junior
Eddie Riddle was injured for most of last season, but Kempel expected him to be a front runner on this year's team. Top newcomers include freshman Jordan Johnson and Dan Querciagrosa and Chris Seeger, both distance swimmers.
The women's team has eleven returning seniors, a group that Kempt said was the largest number of players could remember having at one time.
the top returning women include senior Lauri Hot, freestyle; junior Kelly Redden, the conference champion in the 200-yard backstroke last year; and sophomore Michelle Wilde, who was the conference champion in the 1500-yard freestyle last year.
Freshmen who Kempf said he expected top performances from are Krista Cordsen, Michelle Rifell and Marsha Trachi, who Kempf said was the fastest breast strooker Kansas has ever recruited.
Returning for the men's diving team are junior Mike Martz and
sophomore Jeff Mix. Freshmen Tim Davidson and Brian Eichler also join the incumbent Jayhawk divers.
Kempf said senior Kelley Kauzlarz was expected to lead the women divers. Also returning for Kansas is senior Tricia Powell. Freshman Missy Allen will join them on the team.
Joining Kempf's coaching staff is Sue Spry, who will serve as an assistant coach. She has previously worked in Colorado Srings, Colo. at the Olympic Training Center. Spry will join assistant coach Brad Wells, who is returning for his fifth year. Ciara Stark, 19, year as a graduate assistant and Don Fearon, who is entering his second season as the diving coach.
Kansas' first competition will be an interschool meet for both men and women in Wichita on Oct. 20. The regular season begins for the men Oct. 26 at home against Air Force. The women will be competing at home on the same date against Colorado State.
Seles coasts to victory in first round of Open
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Monica Seles kept her eye on the ball yesterday, much to the detriment of Elena Pampoula.
"This place has a different feel about it." Seles said of the canyon-like Lion Armstrong Stadium at the National Tennis Center. "Each Grand Slam is unique. You look up and it's so high that you can't see the end of it, and you think to yourself, 'Wow.'"
She wowed Pampoulova, taking only 45 minutes to crush the Bulgarian-6-0, 6-0 and move into the second round. She then defeated and final Grand Slam tournaments.
"This is a better court than any other Grand Slam tournament," Sales said of the concrete-and-steel court. "You see the ball better here."
In men's singles, six-seeded Thomas Muster of Austria advanced when Aki Rahunen of Finland retired while trailing 5-7, 6-4, 6-0. 3-0.
Other men to first-p round victories included Fabrice Santoro of France and South Africa's Gary Muller over Roberto Arzag of Argentina.
Other early opening day winners were Dinky on Hensburg of South Africa, Natalia Medvedeva of the Czech Republic and Julie Halier of France.
Pampouloa's eyesight apparently wasn't as good. She won only 23 points in the match, six in the second set. Seles won 54.
Seles is one of the favorites, along with defending champion Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova, to win the women's title.
Last year, Seies was eliminated in straight sets by crowd favorite Chris
Evert in the quarterfinals.
"The stadium court — that's what killed me," Seles said of last year's Open. "It was the first time it was full and I could see all the famous images in the magazines, I feel like it wasn't me out the way I plued."
This Open is a start of sorts for Mats Wilander. Two years after he won the Open, Wilander may be happy just to get past the first round, where he meets No. 8 seed Brad Gilbert tonight.
"Right now, I feel if I play my game at the Open, somebody will have to play great to beat me," she said before her opening match. "A year ago I was just a young kid. Now I feel can I do much better because I have more experience. It doesn't matter if I go to a stadium or planes (from nearby LaGuardia Airport) come overhead. I feel I'm prepared for the Open."
This year, Seles said, is different.
"Six months from now I want to top 20, top 10," said Winder, who in 1988 won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments and was ranked No. 1 in the world. "If that doesn't work, then I've got to think about things."
In an exhibition tournament last week, LWander lost to Todd Martin, who will begin his junior year at Northwestern University next
"I'm worrying about my own game so much I don't have enough space in my mind to worry about the big thing," he said. "I'm trying to keep the ball in play."
The Swedish right-hander, who took five months off this year, is ranked 58th in the world — and falling fast.
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Trvouts
Danny Hoffman, Detroit senior, practices a cheerleading routine during trouts for the KU cheerleading squad.
Tight end uses rituals and skills to help team
Bv Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswriter
Before every game Chad Fette has a ritual: left ankle wrapped with tape, then the right ankle, left ankle wrapped and the right wrist, now the yellow shirt.
Fette will probably make sure this rite is performed Saturday against Virginia when he makes his first college start for Kansas. He is filling the tight end and has any three-year starter John Baker.
Fette said the most important part of his superstition was his lucky shirt.
"It is a Detroit Lions shirt that I've been wearing since about eighth grade, which I got from my father who used to wear it as his lucky shirt when he played at William Jewell College." he said. He was about 14 years old and working as a ball boy for the Chiefs'
Fette said he been waiting for his first start for Kansas since he was a kid growing up in Parkville, Mo.
"It's the type of thing that ever since I was a boy, I've dreamed about it," he said. "Now it's finally here. I grew up on Big Eight football, and always watched the jachaws."
Fette said that when he was a child he and his father played catch and that his father was the coach who taught him how to play football.
Fette was recruited from Parkville High School after he was a three-year letterman in football and track. A capable tight end in a run-oriented offense, he was named the "blocker" by Super Pro Magazine.
"Even before I was ten, my father and I would play games together that developed quickness in me," he said. "He taught me how to catch a football, but we would play other things like dodge ball or whatever. We're real close."
Fette's grandfather, Jack, was a line judge for 23 years in the National Football League and went to five Superbowl. He is now a instant replay judge who plays night on Monday Night Football.
Fette played in nine games last
season and had one catch for 14 yards against Iowa State. Tight end coach Tim Philips said that with the extra weight Fette had added, he should do even better this year.
"I think the thing that will help him most is that he's gotten a lot physically bigger than last year," Philips said. "Last season he was 215 pounds and now he's playing about 240 pounds. He has a lot more confidence going into the Big Eight."
Phillips said that although Fetoe was a good receiver who ran his routes well, he would probably be shot as a blocker again. Viratinia.
He said some of Fette's inspiration came from former tight end Baker.
"That seems like forever ago, but now it will be his turn," Budde said. "I'm sure he'll be a little better." I nodded and I know he'll get right into it.
Center Chip Budde, who is the offensive captian for the Jay hawks, said Fette, who will turn 20 two days after the season ends, would be the youngest guy in the huddle, a position Budde used to have when he first started for Kansas.
Fette said he was a little nervous before every game anyway, but running plays over and over during practice, as well as one-on-one work with the coaches, would help him play his best Saturday.
"He really looked up to John, and I think it helped him a lot last year." Phillips said. "But now the offensive line is going to get used to someone else in the huddle, and I know Chad can do a great job."
"I've been thinking about it since the first spring practice," he said, "but not to the point where I scared or anything. I'm pretty
Buddde said Fette was a quiet guy, but his roommate, backup tight end Mark Smith, said that the game was played always played practical lakes.
One of those jokes left Smith a little wet.
"One day Mark dropped his football out the fourth floor window. Dette said. "While he was on the court," he said. "I had 44 cup of water." on him.
The Associated Press
Jury clears Cardinal players of disorderly conduct charges
The Kenton County District Court jury deliberated a half-hour after the one-day trial before acquitting Nagrozi and pitcher Frank Dipino.
COVINGTON, Ky. — A jury cleared two St. Louis Cardinals ballplayers yesterday of disorderly conduct in a May 19 brawl at a service station.
Judge Steven Jaeger dismissed charges against former Cardinals pitcher Greg Mathews during the trial, saying prosecutors failed to present enough evidence for a jury to decide whether he broke the law.
"We believed we were not guilty the whole time," Pagnozni said. "I tried to do the right thing, and we felt we did do the right thing."
The three had faced up to 90 days in jail if convicted.
Covington police officer Antonio Browning testified that he saw Paganos throwing punches into a crowd of people. Officer Anthony Williams said the saw Djima holding a man in a headpool and punching him in the face.
The incident happened in suburban Cincinnati, after a game with the Cincinnati Reds. The ballplayer said they went to the aid of a woman who had been attacked. Police officer Mike Craft testified that the three told the same story on their ride to jail.
According to police, Mathews was arrested when he opened the door of the police cruiser to speak with DiPino and Pagnozzi after they were arrested. Mathews, who no longer is with the Cardinals, was sent to the Class AAA Louisville minor-league affiliate at mid-season.
Defense lawyer Kurt Philips said he believed a man who was attacking the woman at the service station was an off-duty police officer.
Pagnozzi, DiPino and Mathews rejected an earlier offer to settle the charges because they wanted their lawyers deceived. lawyer James Kidney defense
"We brought it to trial so the jury could find out what we did was correct," she said. "But I thought something happening again. I'm sure I'd run over there again."
Dodgers settle assault case
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Charges of simple assault filed against two Los Angeles Dodgers after a scuffle with a bartender at a night club were withdrawn yesterday after an out-of-court settlement.
None of the parties involved in the settlement would discuss specifics of the agreement between the players — Juan Samuel and Alfredo Griffin
Jam Schmidt and Jr. and Wilson Sturgeon Jr., the bartender.
At a City Court hearing before Magistrate Edward Borkowski, Assistant District Attorney Bernard Kelly asked that the charge against each player be dropped because Sturgeon did not wish to prosecute.
Attorney Rex Gary, who represented Samuel, and attorney Sam Fernandez, general counsel to the Dodgers, declined comment.
Burkowski approved the motion without comment.
Attorney Thomas McGough, who represented Griffin, would say only that the dispute was "resolved amicably." The settlement was reached in about 10 minutes.
Sturgeon, who has worked at
Chauency's night club for the past 18 months, said the players' attorneys approached his attorney, Arthur Bloom, before the hearing. Sturgeon would describe the settlement only as fair.
Police said shortly before 2 a.m. July 21, a few hours after the Pirates and Dodgers played at Three Rivers Stadium, the two players were in Chaney's fine film intervened in Chaney's dispute involving two identified customers.
The report said Sturgeon saw Griff pin push a man against the bar, so the bartender grabbed the player and told him to let go of the other man.
At that point, Sturgeon told police. Samuel swung at the bartender, missing him, and he swung back, striking the player with his forearm.
Sturgeen told the two players and an unidentified third person then began beating him until the security personnel and him by security personnel and police.
"I not even sure you'd call it a fight." Sturgson said after Monday's settlement. "It was a disagreement pushing and shoving more or less."