November 8,1984 Page 12
SPORTS
The University Daily KANSAN
Jayhawks to field young team
By GREG DAMMAN
Sports Editor
The coach stood at courtside and explained how this year's team would be young and experienced, with only one senior and eight freshmen on the roster.
The coach could easily have been Larry Brown. Instead, it was women's basketball coach Marian Washington, whose team also has the senior and eight freshmen on the roster.
it're very young, but they're got great intensity." Washington said at the team's media day at Allen Field House yesterday. "This year's team is probably the closest knit to our weakness is definitely going to be inexperienced, but the foundation is set for the future."
Kansas finished the season at 11-16 overall and in fifth place with a 7-7 record in the Big Eight Conference last year. The team will conduct an intra-squad scrimmage at 7 p.m., Nov. 12 at Wichita North High School, and open the season Nov. 23 against Oral Roberts University at the Women's Oil Capital Classic in Tulsa, Okla.
On Nov. 30, the Jayhawks will play host to Stephen F. Austin, Louisiana Tech and Southwest Missouri State in the Lady Jayhawk Dial Classic.
Washington said the tournaments early in the season would provide excellent competition.
traditionally been one of the top women's teams in the nation.
"It is good to bring them here," Washington said. "They're going to be ranked fourth or fifth, probably. They lost some good players, but they still have an awful lot of talent."
The youth movement on this year's team was brought on partially by the unexpected departure of several players from last year's team. Seven lettermen from last year's team
Two of them, Angie Snider, the team's leading scoring at 21 points a game, and Cindy Patterson, who scored
But Barbara Adkins, who would be a senior this year, did not return to school because of a family tragedy. She might return for the second semester. Juniors Ann Schell, Valerie Stern, and Danielle Zucker not to play basketball this year. Sophomore Renée Page transferred to a junior college.
"We're waiting for Barbara to decide what she wants to do." Washington said. "She may change her mind I was really looking forward to it, but this might be the year she came into her own."
Washington said that rebounding would be a problem area for her team, but that it would be quicker and had shown a lot of intensity this year.
"They really go after it," she said. "They're consistently intense. They just work very hard. This year I hope we can play more player to player defense."
Although the team is inexperienced, the senior point guard Mary Myers and junior center Vickie Adkins would provide experience, Washington said.
"Right now, Mary has the most experience," she said. "She's looking the best that I've seen her. She's very acquainted with my system."
Myers said, "It's a big challenge. But I feel I qualified because I've been four years old."
Adkins, who has suffered several injuries during her career, is healthy this season.
"I'm just so thankful she's healthy," Washington said. "You'll see Vickie playing both inside and outside this year. She's looking real good."
Adkins said, "I feel good. I've had some minor injury, but it feels good not to have a major injury. I'm praying because I don't want to get hurt."
Washington picked Missouri as the top team in the Big Eight, and mentioned Oklahoma State and Kansas State as two teams that could challenge them for the Big Eight title.
"I think after Missouri it will be inter-
eating," she said. "I definitely give the edge
This year, the women will be playing with a smaller ball. Myers said the smaller ball would make the game more exciting this season.
"This year the biggest challenge will be the smaller ball," she said. "It should make your shot better and your floor game better. The challenge will be controlling it. I think it will make the game more exciting. We might even get to see a few dunks this year by somebody."
Lisa Dougherty, a freshman guard and forward, is instructed by women's basket. ball coach Marian Washington. The Jayhawks open the season Nov. 23 in the Oil Capital Classic in Tulsa, Okla.
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'Hawks' top rusher Williams is probable for Husker game
Head football coach Mike Gittorf said yesterday that tailback Lynn Williams, the team's leading rusher with 657 yards, would probably play this Saturday against third-ranked Nebraska. Gittorf said he would be how much Williams would be able to play.
Williams missed Tuesday's practice because of a shoulder injury, but he practiced without pads yesterday. The rest of the team practiced in shorts and pads at Memorial Stadium, where Saturday's game will be played.
Defensive end Marvin Mattos, who missed Tuesday's practice because of the death of his grandmother in California, practiced yesterday and will play Satur-
Gotttied said his team would have to play a near-perfect game to beat Nebraska KU has turned the hall over only twice in the past two games.
"We've been doing a better job at that, and that's important if you're going to win," Gottfried said.
Nebraska, 8-1 overall, stands atop the Big Eight conference with a 5-0 record, leading Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, both of whom have 3-1 conference records.
"To tell you the truth, until I see Nebraska on the field I really can't compare them with the other two," he said. "When those teams are playing each other there isn't that much difference between the three."
Earlier this week, Gottfried said, "They are just an awesome football team both on offense and defense. They have no weakness as far as I can see."
In other games this Saturday in the Big Eight. Oklahoma plays at Colorado while Kansas State is at Iowa State and Oklahoma State faces Missouri
Big Eight holds off on OU ruling
KANSAS CITY, Mo  - Faculty representatives of the Big Eight yesterday granted the University of Oklahoma an exception from the forfeiture required by conference rules for using an ineligible player in a September game against Kansas State.
The ninthrated Sooners used quarterback Mike Clopton, a fifth year player, for three plays at the close of the 24.6 victory in that Sept. 29 game against the Wildcats.
Oklahoma was apparently unaware that Clopton had played two games with Cal Poly Pomona prior to the start of the 1979 school year. Because he never attended any classes at the school, there was no transcript to forward to the Big Eight school
After sitting out the 1980 season, Clopton attended Mt. San Antonio Junior College in 1981. After playing two seasons there, the team went on to win the state championship Oklahoma in 1983. He completed 12 of 25
passes for 207 yards and a touchdown as the back quarterback last season.
His appearance against Kansas State marked the fifth season in which he had played a college or junior college football game.
Big Eight rules require the forfeit of a game or games in which ineligible players participate but the rules also provide an opportunity for appeal by the institution involved, said Bob Snell, the chairman of the league faculty representatives.
"Clopton has been found uninformed because he had completed eligibility prior to 1904. Snell said, "The conference will conduct additional investigations of the matter to determine whether rule violations are involved, calling for enforcement action."
The report on the additional investigations cannot take place before the next conference.
Former Jayhawk killed in wreck
Kerry Bruno, 21, who transferred to Texas Tech after his sophomore year at KU, died at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday at Lubbock General Hospital. He was 64. He lived in 2-36 a.m. at a city intersection, officials said.
A former University of Kansas football player was killed and another man seriously injured in a two-car accident early Sunday, authorities said.
Police said two cars, each carrying three people, were involved in the wreck. Bruno was a passenger in the front seat of a car traveling eastbound.
Bruno, 21 was riding in a car with Tech teammates Gerald Bean of Houston and Roland Mitchell of Bay City, Texas, when the accident occurred. Beam, Mitchell and two passengers from the second car were treated for minor injuries and released.
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