SPORTS
November 26, 1984 Page 10
The University Daily KANSAN
'Hawks finish 2nd in tourney
By United Press International
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Steve Mitchell made a 3-point play off a drive with 28 seconds left last night to carry Alabama-Birmingham to a 50-46 victory over 20th-ranked Kansas for the championship of the Great Alaska Shootout.
It was Alabama-Birmingham's second upset of a ranked team in two nights. The Blazers defeated No. 2 Illinois 59-52 Saturday night to reach the final.
Earlier, Doug Altenberger scored 33 points and Tom Schafer made three foul shots in triple overtime, carrying No. 2 Illinois to a 75-60 loss over Oregon for third place at the fourteenth.
Len Bias scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Maryland past Tennessee 72-49 for fifth place. Brett Olivier hit a basket with five seconds left in overtime to lift Idaho State over Alaska-Anchorage 73-72 for seventh place.
With Alabama-Birmingham trailing 46-45 in the final 30 seconds, Mitchell drove the lane for the go-ahead basket. He was fouled by Green and made the foul shot for a 49-46 lead.
The Tajahwens then had a chance to tie it,
but Cordic Hunter missed a shot in the
Jerome Mincy, who finished with 15 points, and Anthony Gordon each added a free throw in the closing seconds for UAB.
The Jayhawks took 36-39 lead six minutes into the second half. Kellogg had 14
KU lost center Greg Dreiling midway
through the second half when he was ejected
from the game.
Manning had 14 points and 11 rebounds to pace Kansas;
Mitchell, a 6-foot-1 junior guard, led Alabama-Birmingham with 18 points and was named the tournament's outstanding player.
Manning, Kellogg and Dreiling made the all-tournament team for KU. Kellogg led the Jayhawks in scoring in the tournament with 43 points in three games. KU advanced to the finals with victories over Maryland and Oregon.
In the game for third place, Oregon forced the first overtime when Anthony Taylor made a basket with four seconds left in regulation to tie it 51-51.
The Ducks led during each of the three overtimes. They almost won at the end of the second overtime, but Chris Harper's 18-foot bounced off the rim at the buzer. Altenberg made two foul shots with 41 shots left in the second overtime to tie it 68-68.
Taylor put the Ducks ahead 70-68 35 seconds into the final overtime with a long jumper. But Illinois took the lead for good on a free throw by Schafer and a layup by Bruce Douglas to make it 71-70 with 1:45 left. Schafer then made two free throws with 31 seconds remaining, boosting Illinois' lead to 73-70.
Alberger connected on 14 of 20 shots.
Hippen scored on Rasmussen scored 15
hit putts for Oregon.
In the fifth-place game, Maryland har
assed Tennessee with man-to-man and zone defenses and the Volunteers to hit just 39
Maryland scored the last eight points of the half to take a 28-15 lead. Tennessee never reached that point.
Keith Gallin added 14 points and Adrian Branch 13 for Maryland. Tennessee guard Tony White had 12 points.
in the seventh-place game, Idaho State needed an inside basket from Chris Blocker in the final seconds of regulation to force overtime.
Alaska-Anchorage used baskets by Kevin Smith and Tyrone Jones to take a 72-71 lead in overtime. But Olivier hit a short jumper with five seconds remaining to give Idaho State a 73-72 lead. Alaska-Anchorage's Gerald Brown bounced the ball out of bounds before the Sea Wolves could put up a shot in the closing moments.
Idaho State's Bruce Gaitor scored 16 points. Alaska-Anchorage was led by Smith with 20 points, while Jones added 17 points and 14 rebounds.
ALABAMA-BIRMINGHAM (50)
Murray 3.19 5.1 15, Gordon 2.3 1.2 15, Clowes 2.0 0.4 0,
Johnson 2.6 0.0 4, Mitchell 1.8 1.1 14, Bartow 1.4 0.0 2,
Charles 0.2 0.4 0, Ponder 1.4 0.0 2, A, Johnson 0.0 2.2 2,
Karol 1.3 0.0 6, Totals 20-55 10-21 15
*Manning 6:14 12:13, Kellogg 7:14 6:04, Drewing 1.2 4:15,
Tormean 6:4 10:06, Boyle 2:1 4:04, Newton 6:0 10:06, Hunter
8:3 9:17, Brown 7:14 6:04
Halftime - Kansas 28 Alabama Birmingham 26 Foul-out - nose total - Texas Birmingham 13 Kansas Birmingham 9 Kansas Kansas 40 Manning 11 Assists - Alabama Birmingham 6 Charles Mitchell 16 Kansas 16 Targonge 4
Kansas City wide receiver Stephone Paige steals the ball from New York Giants defender Kenny Hill for a 26-yard touchdown catch in the second quarter of the Chiefs-Giants game in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Giants won the gainer yesterday, 28-27.
KU upsets Vanderbilt places first in tourney
By CHRIS LAZZARINO
Sports Writer
The women's basketball team pulled off a big upset Saturday evening and won the Oil Capital Classic in Tulsa, Okla., with a 65-61 victory over the 12th-ranked team in the nation, Vanderbilt.
KU advanced to the finals with an 84-77 overtime victory Friday night over the host team, Oral Roberts University.
Against Vanderbilt, the Jayhaws were led by junior Vickie Adams, a 6-foot 1-center, who had 20 points and was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.
Freshman Mesho Strongter had four points, two of which were free throws with 13 seconds left in the game that sealed the victory. He was assistant coach Tracey Mays and yesterday.
KU's next three scorers were all freshman Kelly Jennings, a 6-4 center, had 17 points. Luis Dougherty, a 5-8 forward, had 11 points. Rochelle Martin, a 5-10 forward, had six points.
Mays said one of the keys to KU's victory was the defense the Jayhawks played on Vanderbilt's point guard, Donna Atkinson.
"Vanderhilt had a good point guard who was really shooting well, so we put constant pressure on her. That forced others to shoot at him, and the rebound was as well. We boxed out and got the rebounds."
"Since we began practice this year, our basic feeling has been to stress defense," Mays said. "We want to create trouble for the enemy." We can't realizing that defense was our first concern.
Jennings was named to the all-tournament team along with Adkins, but Mays said that no one freshman could be singled out as the most valuable for KU.
"All of the freshmen played key roles." Mays said. "We just had a tremendous effort by the whole team, especially with so many freshmen. We had three or four freshmen on the court most of the time. Our enthusiasm and effort, did it for us.
"We never considered the possibility that we couldn't beat Vanderbilt. They were bigger than us, but we knew we might be better off than we were in a real well, which might be why the freshmen
showed more poise than a lot of freshmen might have."
senior guard Mary Myers, who had five points against the Commodores, said that although she didn't score many points, her team was very strong and the team made her an important floor leader.
"It was up to me to maintain my composeur," Myers said. "In our first game, we had a lot of bad calls against us. We had all the mistakes we have the others follow me and not get down."
"In the second game, our inside game was killing them. So I had to keep the ball moving from side to side, so we could get the ball inside to Vickie. It was up to me to motivate the team and Coach (Marian) Washington and I responded well to what she asked of me."
Mays said the Jayhawks were down by 10 points against Oral Roberts with only nine minutes left in the game, but they came back and took the momentum into overtime.
"We team had a big boost after realizing that they came back from being 10 points down," Mays said. "Vickie had two key layups in overtime. We knew we had to play good defense and had to take our shots. The team was very strong." That was true against Vanderbilt as well.
Myers said the first game was important for the Jayhawks because it was their first of the season, and the other three teams in the moment had already played at least one game.
KU may have a chance to knock another highly ranked team, Louisiana Tech, when the Jayhawks host the Lady Jayhawk Dial Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at Allen Field House.
"We just got the jitters out." Myers said
"It was important because we stuck together
and pulled it out. It was a good victory
because we had games for us on Friday
from our must-hats."
Besides Louisiana Tech and KU, Southwest Missouri State and Stephen F. Austin State University will also be in the tournament. KU will be in Missouri State in the second game on Nov. 30.
Myers said the overtime victory was a good confidence booster going into game against Vanderbilt, and the Commodores may have underestimated the Javhawks.
Lawrence wins 6A state crown
The Lawrence High School Lions captured the Kansas Class 6A state football championship Saturday afternoon with a 29-3 victory over the Manhattan High School Indians.
The previously unbeaten Indians were held to only 23 yards of total offense and one first down — that by a penalty — by a dominating Lawrence defense.
Lawrence finished the season with a 12-1 record and its first state championship
The Lions' rushing attack was led by Reggie Demby, who had 115 yards in 27 attempts. Mark Wentzel was Manhattan's topusher with 34 yards in 11 attempts.
Lawrence quarterback Bill Miller completed four of seven passes for 70 yards.
Other Kansas state championships decided Saturday were (at Lawrence) Class 5A - Paola 38. Wichita Kapuim-Punt 18. Tulsa 20. Topeka 14. A&ndower 14. Atchison Maur Hill 11.
Giants defeat Kansas City behind passing of Simms
By United Press International
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Phil Simms shook off three first-half interceptions by throwing two touchdown passes in the final seven and a half minutes of the game yesterday, keeping the New York Giants in a first place tie in the NFC East with a 28-27 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Giants improved to 8-5 and kept pace with Washington and Dallas in the division race. The Chefs lost their fourth straight and despite three touchdown passes by Bill Kenney.
Simms led New York on scoring drives of 90 and 80 yards in the final quarter, hitting Zeke Mowatt five times for 96 yards, to overcome a 27-14 deficit. He capped a 90-yard, five-play drive with a 22-yard touchdown pass to former Kansas wide receiver Bobby Johnson with 7:30 remaining in the game.
On the Giants' next possession, Simms found Mowatt with a three-yard touchdown pass. The tight end, finished with seven touchdowns, completed 24-41 of all for 343 yards.
The Giants also scored on one two-yard runs by Rob Carpenter. Kenney threw touchdown passes of 26 yards to Stephone Paige, eight yards to Willie Scott and 34 yards to Carlos Carson. Nick Lowery added field goals of 14 and 52 yards for Kansas City. Kenney's touchdown pass to Carpenter put Kansas City ahead 27-14 with 9:18 left.
Following Simms' two touchdown passes, the Chiefs had one last chance, but running back Theotis Brown fumbled after catching a recovered 47. New York's Mark Haynes recovered
Kenney completed 18-of-36 passes for 290 yards and one interception Carson caught two.
Award not first for KU's Gottfried
Simms set season club records with 243 completions, 451 attempts and 3,409 yards.
Being named the Associated Press Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year was a first for Kansas head football coach Mike Gottfred, but it wasn't the first time the second-year Jayhawk coach had attained that honor.
He was named Metro Conference Coach of the Year in 1981 after his Cincinnati University team improved its 2-record in 1980 to 6-5 in 1981. In 1979 he was named Ohio Coach of the Year after his Murray State队 improved from 4-7 in 1978 to 2-1 in 1979.
The difference between this year's honor and the previous ones, according to Gottfried, was the fact that this year the road to the award was a little rougher.
"We had probably a little more to overcome here," Gottfried said yesterday. "We never had this kind of situation at the other places.
"It's a nice honor for the players and the assistant coaches. It includes everybody. It's a group of people and not just an individual honor."
most of the starters from the 1983 team,
which finished the season with a 4-6 record.
In the pre-season, the Jayhawks were picked
to finish last in the conference.
To make matters worse, 10 players were deceived academically ineligible for the national team.
Gottfried's job looked difficult before the 1984 season began. The Jawhacks had lost
GREG
DAMMAN
Sports Editor
Jayhawks had to overcome the loss of several key players to injuries, and the suspension of running back Robert Mimbs and wide receiver Richard Estell.
But Kansas surprised the rest of the conference by finishing in fourth place with a 4-3 record and 5-6 record overall. Gottfried was named United Press International
National Coach of the Week after the Jayhawks upset No 3 Ohioa 28-11
"I thought the OU game was a win," he said. "But coming back the next week against Colorado and winning was a big game for us, as was closing with the win over Missouri. I think we closed with some momentum."
The Jayhawks won three of their last four games, with victories coming against Oklahoma. Colorado and Missouri, while the only loss was to Nebraska.
Gottfried said he thought the momentum his team gained by winning three of its last four games would help in spring practice and improve the strength of the teams in the Big Eight Conference.
"I think it's going to help us, but there are some great teams in the conference," he said. "I saw two of them yesterday on television (OU and Oklahoma State) and they have everybody coming back. Our next level is to have a winning season. That's our goal."
As far as recruiting for next season is concerned, Gottfried said, "Some defensive line help is needed, and a key for us is to get back the players we lost this year."
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