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October 22,1984 Page 12
The University Daily KANSAN
Perelman's talk motivates team in WSU match
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
With his team down 4-2 after the singles portion of Friday's match with Wichita State, men's tennis coach Scott Perelman thought it was time for a talk.
"Coach Perelman brought us together after the singles were over," said team captain Charles Stearns. "He told us, 'You guys have dug yourselves your own grave, and it's up to you to dig yourselves out. You guys are better a girl than we are.' But they never proved it.' So us seven just sat there for a while and psyched ourselves up."
The Jayhawks then proceeded to win all three doubles matches for a 5-4 victory over the Shockers at the Wood Valley Racquet Club in Topeka. Wichita State has been the top team in the area for the past several years and was ranked 18th in the nation last year.
Stearns, a native of Topeka, and Mike Wolf were involved in the pivotal match of the day, the No. 1 doubles match, KU's Dave Owens and Jake McKinney in a backhand with a 6-2, 6-2 victory in No. 3.
After Michael Center and Larry Pascal won in No. 2 doubles, 7-6, 2-6, the jam-packed crowd focused its attention on the No. 1 doubles match, where Stearns and Wolf were down 3-2 in the third set to Wichita State's Andy Kastle and Jeremy Grubi. KU had lost the first set 4-6, but had won the second 7-6 on a tie breaker.
Stearns said he felt they had the match won after they extended the second set to a tie breaker, even though they were on the defensive for most of the third set.
Woll and Stearns once again extended Wichita State to a tie breaker in the third set, breaking four match points in the process. Then steering the breaker 7-5, giving them the set and the match.
"I felt the only way we could win the match was by breaking them," he said. "We had the confidence factor going for us. There's just something between me and Wolf and the way we work together that made me think we had the match won."
He captured one of KU's singles victories, defeating Grubi 6-2, 7-6 in the 2. spot. Freshman Dave Brody won 6-3, 6-2 in No. 4 singles for KU's other singles victory.
Assistant coach Bret Perelman said Center, making good use of his serve, played the most impressive tennis of the day for the Jayhawks.
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"I played at Wood Valley before and knew the courts were fast, so I knew before the match that if I served well I could control the match," Center said. "The guy I was playing was kind of small and liked to stay back. I had really good rhythm. It was probably the best match I ever served, and one my best matches this fall overall."
Center, a junior, said Friday's victory was the biggest he'd been involved in since he's
"The difference between a couple of years ago and now is that now we-really believe we can win the close matches," he said. "Before matches we're a lot more relaxed and confident."
Stearns, a senior, said. "It's just another of play he've advanced to. We just keep plain stuff."
KANSAS 5, WICHITA STATE 4
at Wood Valley Racquet Club
Friday in Tonka
Doubles. W. Wall Stearns, KU, def. Kustle, Krush,
46, 7, 4.7; Center Pascal, KU, def. Braaten
Hounds, 74, 2.6; Owens, Greg Brown, KU,
def. Rosenfeldt, 63, 6.2.
Singles, Andy Kaskie, Mike Welfolt 6.7, Michael Center, KU del Jeremy Grassi 6.2, Michael Sawyer, KU del Jeremy Grassi 6.4, 6.4,
Kansas defensive backs Alvin Walton, left, and Milt Garner two Kansas defenders failed to tackle Zachary, who went so attempt to catch Oklahoma State fullback Ken Zachary. The yards for a touchdown on the play.
Gottfried calls for aggressiveness after OSU trounces the Jayhawks
By GREG DAMMAN
Sports Editor
Sports Editor
STILLWATER, Okla. — There was no snow on Lewis Field in Westridge Saturday when Kansas played the 12-ranked Okla. at the outfit, in a sense, there was one huge snowball
"A lot of times when you get behind it's hard to stop a snowball from rolling downhall," receiver Tom Quic said in the Kansas locker room after the Cowboys rolled over the Jayhawks. 47-10 "Once it gets rolling it takes everything with it."
Jayhawk morale was one of the things the Oklahoma State snowball took down the hill with it during four straight touchdown drives on their first four possessions of the game.
"I was telling our guys we've got to be more aggressive than we were today." Kansas coach Mike Gottfried said. "It was like we weren't emotional and intense enough."
Quick, who caught a 32-yard pass and a 1-yard pass in the second half, also said the catch was on a pass to Rivers.
"WE CAME OUT flat." Quick said. "Especially at the start of the second half. Usually when we're down we do a little bit of damage and put them in a firepuff — and slap each other on the back."
"Today we played not to get beat any worse than what we were getting beat, instead of trying to get back and win the game."
Defensive lineman Robert Tucker said, We were a little sluggish. We did come on later.
Tailback Lynn Williams, who rushed for 79 yards on 13 carries, said, "I just got myself ready to play. It did seem like we were a little more comfortable than we were or enthusiasm we normally come out with."
Gottfried said, "They're a good team, and you've got to give them credit. There's an intensity level you have to play with when you're playing on the court to play the best. We've got to play better."
OklaState led 7.3 at the end of the first quarter, but scored 24 unanswered points and lost to St. Louis.
an 87-yard run by fullback Ken Zachary, and led 31 at half.
"WHEN KENNY FITS air, it's a different dimension entirely." Cowboy coach Pat Jones said of Zachary, who won the 100 meters at last year's Kansas Relays.
Defensive lineman Phil Forte said, "Their tailback and running backs really did a good job. We were where the play was going, but they'd cut back and find the hole."
The Kansas players also mentioned the speed of the Oklahoma State defense, which
Rhonda Stroble, Kansas City, Kan.
senior, and Kansas cheerleader, tries to bear the discomfort of the cold weather and the Jayhawks [loss to Oklahoma]
has had at least one interception in each of its last 17 games
"They reacted very quickly," wide receiver Skip Peete said of the Oklahoma State defensive backs. "If you beat them you'd only be beat them for a moment, and then they were right back on them. They're the best we've faced so far this year."
The Oklahoma State defense intercepted one Kansas pass, and sacked quarterback Kyle Rudolph.
back Mike Orch once. Nevertheless, on its first possession of the game the Kansas offense put together a 74 yard, 16-play drive in a field goal by Dodge Schwartzburg
"That proved to us we could move the ball on them and gave us a little confidence. Peete said, 'I wish we could have gotten three points better than getting three points is better than getting nothing."
Quick said, "Oklahoma State has a very good defense. Look what they did to Nebraska, and we took it right down the field on them."
"THEY HAVE THE best secondary I've ever played against in my life," he said. "And I'm sure it was the best I'll see in a long time."
Orth was impressed with the Cowboy secondary.
The game was played in a steady drizzle, with a temperature in the 50s. Peete said that "it was hard to see".
"We practice on the turf when it rains, so we should be pretty well adjusted to when the field is wet," he said. "You always hear that we need a mosaic on a wet field. Today we sure did!"
Gottfried said, "That's one thing about the field. It slowed us down, but it slowed them down too. It was an equalizer both ways. A lot of guys are very confident, and they feel under them to mask their cubs."
Freshman tailback Mike Rogers scored Kansas' only touchdown on a 14-yard run in
"LATE IN THE game some of the freshmen came in and played pretty well," Gottfried said. "Mike Rogers ran the ball well several times today. It will be a memorable day for him, scoring his first touchdown."
The Jayhawks suffered one injury during the game, a knee injury to freshman Johnny Johnson.
Gottried said, "We've got to play above ourselves to beat Oklahoma State. The same thing next week against Oklahoma. We're going to have to play sky high."
The Jayhawks play the second-ranked Sooners Oct 27 in the KU Homecoming game in Memorial Stadium. Oklahoma slipped by Iowa State Saturday, 12-10.
Volleyball team suffers through losing weekend
The women's volleyball team came away empty from a full weekend of action, losing four matches and winning none.
Friday night the Jayhawks打15-11, 16-14 and 15-4 to Missouri at Allen Flood House. Susan Rupl strained a muscle in her right hand and dropped it to the patch and was lost for the rest of the weekend.
KU traveled to St. Louis Saturday and faced Xavier of Ohio and Dayton. The Jayhawks won the first game 15-12, but lost the next three 15-7, 15-7 and 15-11. KU also lost three of four games to Dayton by scores of 13-7 and 15-12 while winning one game 15-3.
Yesterday St. Louis University defeated Kia in two twelfths, 15-10, 15-7, 15-13, with the Jets winning 62-47.
Coach Bob Lockwood said he was somewhat disappointed at the Jayhawks effort this weekend because they expected to win all three matches in St. Louis.
He attributed their problems to having to make up for the absence of Rupf and Kristin Conway, who missed Saturday's and yesterday's match with a foot injury.
"We were trying several different combinations of players and the bottom line is that we don't get any money."
The Jayhawks, 3-23 this season and 6-7 in the Big Eight conference, were in position to win their first two games Friday night against the Tigers. They trailed 12-11 in the first game, but the Tigers scored the last three points of the game. In the second game, the teams were tied at 13-13 and 14-14 before the score turned. The Tigers scored Missouri on its way to completing the sweep.
"What happened to us is very typical of a freshman team." Lockwood said. "We played real exciting volleyball in the second game and had a good chance to win. In fact, I think everybody in Allen Field House expected us to win. In that three-minute span between the second game and the third game, we had an emotional letdown."
Judy Desch and Julie Ester totaled nine Friday night, and Kilee Schwartz had 7.
Lockwood said Rupi and Conway are questionable for Tuesday's match with Wichita State, which begins at 8 p.m. in Allen Field House.
USFL meeting ends with talk of team mergers
By United Press International
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — The United States Football League cut short an owners meeting with optimistic statements about its future, but shifting reports of mergers and moves indicated the league may not yet be ready for the 1965 season.
The meeting, originally scheduled to last through yesterday, end abruptly Saturday when New Jersey Generals owner Donald Trump said negotiations had ceased and "several interesting announcements" would be made.
Sources already leaked word of as many as four possible mergers in the 18-team league
four possible mergers in the 19th team league. In the news conference, USFL commissioner Chet Simmons did unveil the site of the 186champion game — Jacksonville, Fla. — and a new owner for the Los Angeles Express — Denver developer Jay Roulier.
But Simmons, after introducing Tampa Bay Bandits owner John Bassett for a rambling USFL pep talk, skipped over the subject of merger negotiations by promising a definitive news conference Nov. 7 in New York
Kenney makes first start as Chiefs fall to New York
By United Press International
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Pat Ryan threw three downpass passes, including a 44 yard flea-flicker to rookie Bobby Humphery, and Mark Gastineau recovered a fumble in the end zone for another score, lifting the Kansas City Chiefs factory over the Kansas City Chiefs yesterday.
Ryan also threw touchdown passes of 16 yards to Mickey Shuler and 39 yards to Cedric Minter as the Jets raised their record to 6-2 and took over sole possession of second place in the AFC East, two games behind unbeaten Miami.
The Jets, playing without their two top offensive threats — AFC Rushing leader Freeman McNeil and wide receiver Wesley Harper — resorted to trick plays early in the game.
Kansas City's only score came early in the final period on Bill Kenney's seven-yard pass to Ken Lacy. The Chiefs fell to 4-4 as they lost to New York for the second time in three games.
Ryan hit two key third-down passes on the Jets' first possession of the game to move New York to the Chiefs' 44-yard line and the stage for the flea-flicker touchdown pass.
Ryan handed to running back Johnny Hector, who began to sweep left end. Hector wheeled around and passed back across the field to Ryan, who lobbed the TD pass to Humphery going down the right sideline. It was Humphery's first pass reception as a professional.
New York lined up for an apparent 30-yard field goal attempt by Pat Leahyer after a jet touchdown was nullified by a holding penalty. Ryan, the holder, spun out and threw into the end zone to Rusty Guilbeau, but the linebacker dropped the ball.
Russell Carter's first pro interception at the Kansas City 39-yard line with 1:53 left in the first half set up New York's second score. Ryan hit Minter and Shuler on third-down passes to move to the 16-yard line and then fired his touchdown pass to Shuler over the middle. It was Shuler's sixth touchdown reception of the season.
Gastineau and rookie defensive tackle Tom Baldwin combined to build New York's lead to 21-0 just 3:38 into the second half. Kenney dropped back to pass from his 16-yard line in the first half, ball loose into the end zone. Gastineau pounced on it for his second career touchdown.
Ryan completed 21 of 31 passes for 260
yards and the three touchdown passes
Kansas City, plagued by poor field position throughout the first half, went 84 yards in seven plays to score its only touchdown. Kenney hit Henry Marshall for 15 yards and Willie Scott for 14 yards. A roughing the passer penalty against Joe Kleko put the ball at the Jets' seven yard line. Kenney scored on the left sidein for the touchdown.
But the Jets came back to ice the game on a 93-yard drive capped by Ryan's 93-yard touchdown pass to Minter, who broke out of the backfield and sprinted down the right
sideline to catch the ball. It was the first National Football League touchdown for Minter, a former Canadian Football League player.
Kenney, a Pro Bowl selection last season,
was making his first start this year after
breaking his thumb in training camp. He hit
12 of 25 passes for 124 yards and was sacked
in the game, three were by Gastineau,
who pushed his league leading to 14. In
other NFL games:
Miami 44, New England 24
Dan Marino tossed four touchdowns pass to set a team record with 24 for the season and lead the undefeated Miami Dolphins to a victory Sunday over the New England Patriots.
Miami, the only unbeaten NFL team at 8-0 had lost 7 of its 8 previous games at Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. The Dolphins won 12, however, and ran up 548 cards on offense.
Marino threw two scoring strikes to Nat Moore and one each to Mark Clayton and Dan Johnson. He hit 24 of 39 attempts for 316 yards.
St. Louis 26, Washington 24
LA Raiders 44, San Diego 37
Neil O'Donoghue, who earlier missed an extra point and a 40-yard field goal, kicked a 21-yard field goal with three seconds remaining Sunday to kick the Cardinals into a tie. Both teams are 5-4 after Washington's five game winning streak was snapped.
Chicago 44, Tampa Bay 9
Marc Wilson three five touchdown passes and the Raiders survived a last-minute Chargers' rally to improve to 7-1. Malcolm Barnwell caught two TD passes and Chris Bahr kicked three field goals for Los Angeles.
Denver 37, Buffalo 7
Jim McMahon passed for three touchdowns and Walter Payton ran for two to lead the Bears to their second win of the year over the Bucs. The victory improved the Bears' record to 5-3 and gives them a two-game lead over the Bucs, 3-5, in the NFC Central
John Elway threw two touchdown passes and Rich Karlis kicked three field goals to lead the Broncos over the winless Bills. The Cowboys were tied with the Raiders at the AFC West.
Joe Montana threw for 353 yards and three touchdowns to lead the 49ers over the winless Oilers. The 49ers improved to 7-1 and extended their lead in the NFC West to $2^{1/2}$ games over the Rams.
Seattle 30. Green Bay 24
Dave Krieg threw two touchdown passes and Terry Jackson intercepted a pass in the fourth quarter.
Detroit 16, Minnesota 14
Seahawks win. Seattle improved to 6-2 while the Packers lost their seventh straight and fell to 1-7.
Eddie Murray kicked a 41 yard field goal with 43 seconds left to lift the Lions, who lost running back Hilly Sims with a knee injury in the fourth quarter, winning touchdown was his third of the game.
Philadelphia 24. NY Giants 10
Ron Jaworski threw for three touchdowns, including an 11 yard strike to Melvin Hower for the go ahead score with 6 13 left to help Iowa avege a season opening loss to the Giants.
Indianapolis 17, Pittsburgh 16
Ray Butler caught a tipped pass and carried it into the end zone with 15 seconds left to lift the Colts Butler caught Mike Pagel's 54-yard pass after cornerback Sam Washington tipped it and scored to lift Indiana in a AFC Central leadoff. Pittsburgh fell to 4-4.
Cincinnati 12, Cleveland 9
Jim Breech snapped a 9.9 tie with his fourth field goal of the game — a 33 varder on the final play — to lift the Bengals in a sloppy game in which there were no touchdowns scored.
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