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November 12, 1984 Page 14
The University Daily KANSAN
Early attack by NU dooms 'Hawks
By GREG DAMMAN Sports Editor
The third-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers began Saturday's game against Kansas in Memorial Stadium knowing one thing the Oklahoma Sooners, rained on. It two weeks ago, before we played they played the Jayhaws.
The Cornhuskers knew that Kansas was capable of upsetting the nation's No. 3 ranked team. With that in mind, the Cornhuskers went to work early, scoring 21 points in the first quarter, on their way to a 4-17 victory and avoided a repeat of the Jayhawks' upset of the Sooners.
"We were fortunate against Oklahoma." Kansas coach Mike Gottfred said after the game. "We were able to get ourselves in position to score. Against Nebraska and Oklahoma we were not done; did I have very good Gift position?
"IFFLTIKE any given week you have a chance to win. The thing Nebraska did is not turn the ball over in this game, so you get in a situation to be scored on."
Kansas won the coin toss and decided to kickoff to Nebraska,
hoping to shut down the Cornhusker offense as it tried to move the ball into a stiff 30 mile an hour wind. However, the Huskers reeled off an 81-yard, 15-play touchdown drive on their first possession of the game to take a 7-1 lead. The Huskers passed just once during the drive.
Kansas ran three plays for minus four yards on its first possession and then punted. Nebraska took over on fourth and half. Kansas plays later, making the score 14-0.
On the ensuing kickoff, Jayhawk running back Robert Mimbs mishandled the kick, which was held up in the wind, and Nebraska recovered his fumble at the KU five-yard line. Mimbs plays later, makes the score 21-0.
"THEY RAN RIGHT up and down the field," Gottfred said. "They did that to us, and then we let the kickoff go." We can't make those kind of mistakes.
Gottried said that his team's poor field position against the Huskers, who have the nation's No.1 ranked team, was a key factor in the game.
"They're a strong defensive foot ball team," he said "To go the length of the field is asking a lot out of us.
We were able to move the ball, and I'm sure we got a lot of yards, but we weren't able to establish anything early when it was important that we
At halftime, Nebraska led 28-0 and had limited Kansas to 44 yards of total offence, 33 passing and 11 rushing. But in the second half, the Jayhawks came alive for 202 yards of total offense and their only touchdown game, a skyward pass from No. 2 quarterback Mike Ortek to Skippee.
"I thought that coming out in the second half like we were it would be easy to fold the turtl," Gottfried said. "But we did not fold it. It would have been easy for us to come out in the second half and die, and not play very well in the cold, behind 28-0, but we came out and played pretty well."
Petee, who entered the game as the Jayhawks' leading receiver with 30 catches for 311 yards, caught five passes for 81 yards.
Of the touchdown catch, Peee said, "I was supposed to find the open area between the defenders, and I was able to split them. They were playing a man-to-man underneath, and the safeties were patrolling the deep halves of the field."
THE NEBRASKA DEFENSE sacked the KU quarterback five times for a total of 33 yards, but center Bennie Simecka said the Husker defense was not as good as Oklahoma's.
The game was the last in Memorial Stadium for Jayhawk seniors Simkea, Harvey Fields, Pat Connor, Pat Kelley, Quintin Schonewise and Dodge Schwartzburg. Defensive back Dino Bello, who is in his fourth year on the team, but is a junior forward for the season, has indicated that he will not return to the team next year in order to work toward his degree.
"I know that for their defensive line, the first five plays of the game were their best of the ball game." Simecka said. "Defensively they wouldn't match up with Oklahoma. They're a good football team, don't get me wrong, but I feel defensively, Oklahoma has the better team."
"We've done a lot of things this season," Fields said of this year's KU team. "We want to show that KU is on the upswing. We were supposed to finish in last places, but here we are in the middle of it. That in itself says a lot."
THE JAYHAWKS SUFFERED several injuries in the game. Tail back Lynn Williams, KU's leading rusher this year with 689 yards, reinjured his shoulder and did not play in the second half. Williams was held to 14 yards on eight carries.
KU defensive linemen Jon Stewart (with back to camera) and Phil Forte try to bring down Nebraska tailback Doug DuBose. DuBose rushed for 117 yards Saturday as the Cornhuskers downed the Jayhawks 41-7 at Memorial Stadium.
Defensive lineman David Smith injured his hip and also did not play in the second half. Wide receiver C.J. Eanes suffered an abdominal contusion on the Jayhawks' final series of the game.
THE KANNS DEFENSE was once again by linebacker Willie Pless, who had 17 tackles. 11 tackles and 20 tackles had "hodd the line of scrimmage."
"We just went out and our best," Pless said. "But they did what they needed to do to win. They came out and got the lead and got the momentum. We couldn't get anything going for ourselves."
The loss dropped Kansas record to 4-6, but the Jayhawks remain in fourth place in the conference with a 3-3 record. The Jayhawks will play Missouri next Saturday for a chance to clinch a first division finish. Michigan is in the conference after losing to Oklahoma State Saturday, 31-13.
"IVE PLAYED HERE for four years, and Missouri has been a very game for us every year." Singing for us, we always play well, and we get up for the game. We're going to look up on a good not next week."
Steiner places second in district meet
Sports Writer
By CHRIS LAZZARINO
Brent Steiner is finally in position to achieve his goal. To become an All-American.
Steiner finished second individually at the NCAA District V championships Saturday at Springfield, Mo., which qualified him to run in the national championships Nov. 19 at University Park, Pa.
Yobes Ondieki, a junior from Kissii, Kenya, won the meet and powered his team, Iowa State, to the team championship with 66 points.
KU finished sixth in the 14-tme meet with 178 points, behind Colorado. 78 points. Oklahoma State, 88 points. Kentucky, 86 points. Nebraska with 117 points.
Other Jayhawk finishes included Greg Leibert, 27th with a time of 31.45.3; Joe Manuel, 47th, 32.18.6; Kyle Rose, 51st, 32.18.7; Gordon Way, 57th, 32.52.1; and John Des Rosiers, 59th, 33.00.2
Steiner finished with a time of 30 minutes, 17.3 seconds, a little more
than four seconds behind Ondieki who had a time of 30:13.1.
"We were together the whole race." Steiner said, "but at the end, he had more of a kick than I did. I just don't have the leg speed he does. It felt good, though. He was ranked number one in the nation."
Steiner will be named an All-American if he finishes in the top 50 among the Americans at national. That means a finish in the top 70 or 75 would probably be good enough to become an All-American because there are a lot of foreign runners, Steiner said.
"My goal is to finish in the top 10."
Steiner said, "but my number one goal is to become an All-American Bunyan, (Chris, Southern Illinois runner that Steiner beat by 10 seconds) finished 17th last year, so hopefully, I will be able to be in the top 17."
Men's head coach Bob Timmons said, "This late in the game, all Brent can do now is maintain. He has a bit of a cold, so I hope he can overcome that. Other than that, he needs to just maintain his conditioning level
where it is and make sure he is rested and ready to go."
Caryne Finlay was the top fincher for the KU women finishing 23rd with a time of 17.51 Susan Glatter was 37th with a time of 18.14 Heather Sterbenz was 47th with a time of 18.31, Tracey Keith was 53rd with a time of 18.39, katie Willey Audley with a time of 19.15 and Trish Allaire was 60th with a time of 19.54
The women's team finished seventh among nine teams with a score of 183. Kansas State won with 52 points. Missouri was second with 62 points. Nebraska was third with 65 points. Colorado was fourth with 96 points. Colorado was fifth with 96 points and Drake was sixth with 156 points.
Coach Cliff Rovello said many teams didn't field a complete team to avoid the embarrassment of a low team score.
"That bothers me quite a bit," Rovello said. "We have coaches afraid to go and compete. Three of our top five gals weren't in the meet." A few months later, a question of going and running with whoever it took to comprise a team.
Rovello said if teams such as Oklahoma and Oklahoma State had fielded entire teams, Nebraska would have finished second instead of Missouri because Missouri's weaker teams would have finished farther back.
Finlay said she was pleased with her finish because she broke the 18 minute mark and her split times at the mile marks were consistent.
"I ran a relaxed race," Finlay said. "I beat people that have beaten me before. I was impressed with my race."
Glatter went into the race with an inflamed tendon in her right foot, which gave her a lot of pain. She said she set a personal goal of 17:40, which she thought she could have met if her foot was healthy.
"At the mile and a half mark, I really started limping." Glatter said. "I started limping more and more and probably for the benefit of my foot, I should have stopped. But I just didn't have the nerve to do step. I thought to myself that this was the last cross country race of my collegiate career and I had to finish, no matter what."
Stearns paces outnumbered team to sixth place at tennis tourney
Because of illness, injuries, and academic conflicts, men's (ennis coach Scott Perealman couldn't field a full team, but the Jayhawks still won games at the Southern Illinois Edwardsville Tournament this weekend.
Charles Stearns came away with a big victory in the No. 2 singles division. Normally KU's No. 3 singles player, Stearns won all three of his games against Martinique in a 7-6, 7-6 victory over Martin Gibert of Northwestern in the finals.
"Stearns had an outstanding week end." Coach Scott Perleman said, "His win at No. 2 was impressive. Hampe, the man he beat in the finals, was probably the third or fourth best player at the tournament. He (Stearns) played real well in both of his tiebreakers."
Stearns and his teammates were forced to move up in singles because of the absence of Mike Wolf, normally KU's. No. 1 player. Wolf's out for the fall season because of a shoulder injury.
Dave Brody lost his first two matches at No 3 singles, then won a playoff for seventh place. Dave Owens lost his first match at No 4 where he conlusted a consolation match, then lost a playoff match for fifth and sixth slice.
Michael Center, normally the No 2 singles player, played No.1 singles. He finished fourth with a 1.2 record Perelman said Center was at less than full speed because he'd been sick for the last week and a half.
Brody normally plays No. 5 sin
gles, and Brown usually mans the No. 6 spot.
"I called our guys the four warriors," Perelman said. "Everyone else had six singles and three doubles players and we had four and two. In my own personal opinion, we would have had a good opportunity to win," he added. "I had had everyone there. But, we need to chalk this one up to experience."
Center and Stearns teamed up for a fifth place finish at No. 1 doubles with a 2-1 record after losing their first-round match. Owens and Brody finished sixth at No. 2 doubles with a 2-1 sixth.
Osborne has van towed
Also missing from the regular lineup besides Wolf were No. 4 singles player Larry Pascal and No. 3 doubles player Fred Owens.
Nebraska Cornhusker Coach Tom Osborne suffered a loss in Lawrence for the first time on Saturday.
He lost $16.
Osborne paid an $11 towing fee and a $5 parking ticket after his red and white van was towed by Jayhawk Tow and Storage, 501 Maple St., said Fon Lafer, owner of the tow company
According to Faler, Osborne said he hadn't seen the no parking sign because a motor home was parked in front of it.
"It itd look like a revenge deal, but there was none of that involved," Faler said. "We towed several cars that day."
Faler said that Osborne was nice about the incident "He didn't say much. He got in his van and left."
Thompson's play fires Blue victory
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
Calvin Thompson and his Jay hawk teammates spiced up the pre-game warmups for Saturday night's annual Crimson and Blue scrimmage with an impromptu dunk contest during lujv drill skills.
Thompson, who had incurred the wrath of Brown during pre-season workouts because he reported overweight, led all scorers with 22 on 16-of-14 shooting from the field and on two of two free throws.
Thompson, a member of the Blue team, followed up his pregame performance with what kanna Coach Larry Brown called his best performance of the team's Blue team scrummenimages. The Blue team tied the White team 87 48 at Allen Field House before a crowd of 6,300.
"WHEN EVERYTHING GOES right, you just want to do more and more." Thompson said. "You just need to run and run and not let up."
Thompson weighed in at 211 pounds after the scrimmage. Brown wants him down to around 200
Brown wasn't yet ready to reserve a place in the starting lineup for Thompson, who was a regular starter last year and was one of the most accurate shooters in the Big Eight conference.
KU begins its regular season at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Allen Field. House with an exhibition game against the Chinese national team.
Brown said that point guard Cedric Hunter, center Greg Drewing, forward Danny Manning and probably forward Ron Kellogg had earned starting spots. However he said that he was really looking for regular players and wasn't worried about selling on a starting five
Brown attributed the lopsided score of the scrimage to the better team play the Blues exhibited.
"THEY PASSED THE ball better, they defended better and
played together as a team," he said. "The White team didn't have as much poise. Cedric's team has won every game now."
Hunter, a 6-0 sophomore who sat out most of last season because of academic ineligibility, led all players with 10 assists and scored 15 points. Other double-figure scorers for the Blues were Dreiling with 17 points, Milton Newton with 15 and Jim Pelton with 11.
Tad Boyle led the Whites with 16 points and was followed by Manning with 14 points, Rodney Hall with 12 and Mark Pellock with 10. Pellock had a game-high 12 rebounds.
Boyle, who led the Whites in scoring in Thursday night's scrimmage in Hutchinson, once again showed that he will be shooting more this year than in the past.
"IT'S JUST SOMETHING I've decided to do myself, being as I'm the only senior on the team, and I feel I should assume more of a leadership role, he said. 'I feel more comfortable out on the court now. I've passed up some good shots while I've been here, and I've just decided that I'm going to take those shots this year.'
Now that the pre-season scrim-
images are over, Brown said that
the team needs to regroup.
"We've got to revitalize some stuff and get used to playing together. We have to get where we are now. We have to offer a little bib better," he said.
Thompson said the team needed a break from playing each other.
"NONE OF US HAVE had a good rest for awhile," he said. "Tomorrow, we'll take a rest and get ready to come back next week. We were a little sluggish tonight. We're really tired of playing each other, and we're really looking forward to opening up the season. We still have a lot of work to do, but the effort's been great so far."
JAYHawk NOTES: Mark Turgeon, last year's regular starting point guard, missed the scrimmage because he had the flu. His place on the White team was taken by freshman Altonio Campbell, who switched over from the Blues.
Chris Piper of the Blue team attempts to block a shot by Altona Campbell of the White team. Piper had five points and Campbell had eight as the Blues defeated the Whites 87-68 Saturday at the Crimson and Blue basketball scrimmage at Allen Field House.