University Daily Kansan, October 15, 1984
SPORTS
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The University Daily KANSAN
Tigers defeat Padres, take World Series crown
By United Press International
DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers set Motown rock'n'tenday, rolling behind a two-home run, five-RBI performance by Kirk Gibson to defeat the San Diego Padres 8-4 and win the World Series for the first time in 16 years.
In winning the series four games to one, the Tigers made Sparky Anderson the first manager in history to win a World Series championship in both leagues. Anderson also won with the Cincinnati Reds of the National League in 1975 and 1976.
The victory touched off a wild celebration in the city that was bound to last into the wee hours of the morning. Thousands of people
began gathering outside of Tiger Stadium midway through the game to participate in the festivities.
Many of the stadium crowd of 51,901 tried to get onto the field but were restrained by a cordon of at least 200 policemen. The policemen formed a semicircle around the perimeter of the stadium to prevent the adoring fans from getting to the pitch, ripping up the field. Several hundred fans, who got onto the lower level of the stadium.
The police had to escort the players to the dugout. They formed a circle around the infield but could not stop the fans from getting on and celebrating and ripping up chunks of ice.
Gibson, the Most Valuable Player in the
American League playoffs, got the Tigers started on the way to their fourth World Series title by belting a two-run homer in the first inning off Mark Thurmond, and he climaxed the Tigers 'offense with a three-run blast off reliever Rich Gossage in the eighth.
He also used his legs to manufacture the tie-breaking run in the fifth. Gibson led off that inning with a single off loser Andy Hawkins. He moved to second on Lance Parrish's fly to left and scored later in the inning on a bases-leaved sacrifice fly by pinch hitter Rusty Kuntz that was caught in right field by second baseman Alan Wiggins.
Parrish chipped in a solo homer in the seventh off Gressage.
Aurelio Lopez also starred for the Tigers in
the clincher, retiring all seven batters he faced in relief to notch the victory. Lopez took over for reliever Bill Scherzer with the tying run on second in the fifth and struck out Kurt Beevacque, ending the innning. He struck out Marvin Martinez before turning things up over Hirsch Hernandez.
Hernandez gave up a solo home run to bevaquin in the eighth but the last six out of 16.
The Tigers, sensing the kill, collected five hits in the first inning and took a 30-lead.
Lou Whitaker led off with a single to right after Alan Trammell hit into a force. Gibson then homered into the upper deck in right field
the Tigers have scored in the first inning.
It was the fourth time in the five series games and the 60th time overall this season
The Padres threatened in the half of the first inning when Wiggins singled and stole second. While Tony Gwynn was striking out, Wiggins moved to third on a throwing error by catcher Parrish. Starter Dan Petry got out of the jam when second baseman Whitaker threw out Wiggins at the plate as he attempted to score on Steve Garvey's hard grounder. Graig Nettles grounded out, ending the threat.
The Padres got a run back in the third when Bobby Brown beat out an infielt hit and moved to third on two infield outs. He scored when Garvey grounded a single to deep short Trammell, voted the series. Most Valuable Player, got his glove on but couldn't hold.
Williams cuts loose,but KU loses to'Cats
By GREG DAMMAN
Sports Editor
MANHATTAN — Not being a native of Kansas, Lynn Williams had trouble approaching Saturday's KU-K-State football game in Manhattan as more than just an opponent.
to motivate himself for the annual intra-state clash he did a little reading.
"I'm not from Kansas, so I didn't really catch up in the hoopla of the K-State KU game." Williams said in the KU locker room after the game. "But you read the articles about what they're saying. How they're going to do it and do that. It makes you mad."
So Williams took his anger out on the K-State defense by rushing for a career high 119 yards on 17 carries. He scored Kansas only touchdown on an 18 yard run in the first quarter. Despite his performance, the Jayhawks lost to the Wildcats, 24-7
Normally a fullback, Williams played tailback Saturday because starting tailback Robert Mumbs, along with starting wide receiver Richard Estell, had been suspended by Kansas coach Mike Gottried for breaking curture Thursday night.
Williams said that his career-best performance was not the result of the position
"This was the kind of game where you're high and you're ready to play no matter where they put you," he said. "I probably don't want a high game even if I was played fullback."
Gotttried praised the efforts of Williams and Jeff Long, who started in place of Estell.
"It's just like when you have somebody injured." Gottfried said. "Somebody has to come in and do it for you I thought Lynn Williams played extremely well, and I thought the other guy, Jeff Long, played well."
With Estell out, No. 3 quarterback Tom Quick, who began his career at KU as a
receiver, was moved back to his old position. Quick had two receptions for 20 yards against
"It's been a while." Quick said. "I know the patterns. All I had to do was execute them and run them."
Kansas will play Oklahoma State at Stillwater next Saturday. The Cowboys, ranked No. 13 by United Press International, did not play Saturday.
"I know they're a very strong football team," center Bennie Simecka said. "We're going to go to out and give it all we've got again and hope things go our way."
A key play in the Kansas State game, according to Gottfried, came in the third quarter when the Wildcats, leading 10-7, were faced with fourth and two on the KU 26-yard line. End Guy Gambie nailed Wildcat back. James Witherows for no gain. The Wildcats scored first, out and out of bounds for the first down. Kansas State went on to score and take a 17.7 lead.
"The bounce of the ball." Gottfried said.
"Sometimes you get it, sometimes they get it. That was an extremely important drive."
Williams said that the Jayhawks were not able to run the ball as much after the Hawks' loss.
"It's a lot different coming back when you're losing 17.7 instead of 10.7," he said. Early in the fourth quarter, with K-State leading 24.7, quarterback Mike Norseth threw a long pass to Skip Peece, who was wide open in the middle of the field. The ball bounced off Peece's helmet and was intercepted by Kansas State
"It it was just a lack of concentration on my part," said Peete, who entered the game at eight in the nation in receiving. "I guess I was the best player. I was a perfect pass. I should have caught it.
Gottried said. "There's a guy who's made so many catches for us, I mean he catches them behind him, under him and anywhere it's possible. It's one of those things that happen. He's one of the best, if not the best, in the league catching the football."
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sara McAee, lett. of Topeka, cheers for the Jayhawks during the KU K-State though her boyfriend is a K-State graduate. At right, KU quarterback Mike game, McAee is not a student at KU, but said that she is a big KU fan, even Norseth gets sucked by Kansas State's Jeffery Hurd.
Smaller Jayhawks suffer on defense against KSU
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
It took Willie Pless some time to collect his thoughts.
It was a long, hard afternoon for Pless and his teammates on defense. They came out strong, shutting down the Wildcats on their backs, and went in at halftime down only 10.4.
"I can't think right, my head's hurting," the junior linebacker said in the KU locker room after the Jayhawks' 24-7 defeat at the hands of Kansas State Saturday.
But lack of size and lack of help from the KU officers eventually took its toll. The KU officers, including Mr. Dawson,
"A lot of times we spent too much time taking them on and didn't get out of our blocks soon enough," said defensive tackle Phil Forto, who led the defensive line with nine tackles, including KU's only sack of the day. "I don't think they (the offensive line) any course or better than any other offenses I have played." He said they'd come off the ball and stay after it. They kept coming at us until each play was over.
pounds a man on the line, took control of the game with two time-consuming touchdowns.
DESPITE CONSTANT ATTENTION from the Wilddeats all day, Pless still came up with 2 tackles, six unassisted
"I think they had someone assigned to me on each play," he said. "I seemed like they always had someone chopping down on me or double teaming me."
Pless said a key play in the game came on the Wildcats' first drive of the second half, when Wildcat halffback James Witerspoon fumbled on fourth-and two from the KU 26. After defensive end Guy Gamble stripped the ball, it rolled out of bounds on the 19, giving K-State a first down. The Wildcats went on to score from there.
"We couldn't get them to turn the ball over, and when they did it wouldn't go our way." Pless said. "Everything went their way. It was their day."
backhacker David Smith said the KU
defense was exhausted by the end of the game.
"WE WERE PULLIN." he said. "We were together, and we were hanging in there, but we were tired."
Smith and Forte said the Jayhawks came out of the game with their spirit intact despite the tough loss KU must now face a doubleheader. The undefeated Oklahoma in the next two weeks.
"I think we be OK," Forte said. "Like the coaches were saying, we've got to come out some week and win a game we're not supposed to win. We can't get down."
Smith said, "There's always good things coming out of a loss. Every game you learn something. We're getting a lot of experience, and that's going to pay off in the long run."
Women's golf hosts tourney at Alvamar
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
The women's golf team will be back in action for the first time in two weeks when it hosts a 54-hole tournament today and tomorrow at the Alvamar golf courses.
Play starts at 8:30 a.m. both days on the Jayhawk and Quail Creek courses. Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas State, Wichita State, Stephens College, Northern Iowa and Southwest Missouri State will compete.
Maureen Kelly, Brenda Sanders, Tina Gnewchwu, Susan Pekar and Marielle Scheid will make up KU's top five Janie White, Toni Shockley, Sandy Morris and Jane Helleberg will also compete, but their scores won't be used in team standings. Ann Braymon won't compete because of conflict conflicts.
Women's golf coach Kent Weiser said Nebraska and Northern Iowa would be the teams to beat in the tournament. He said that although the Cornhuskers had played better than KU so far this fall, he thought they had a legitimate chance of beating them.
Kelly, Gnewchw, and Pekar have been KU's most consistent players this fall and should be the Jayhawks' top contenders in the tournament, Weiser said.
Weiser said he had been warning his players not to fall into a trap of an not concentrating on their game because they're playing on their home course.
Weiser is in his first year as the coach of the women's team. Previously, men's coach Ross Randall headed the women's team as well, and Weiser assisted with coaching the women's team. (For the women's team to have a regular coach had helped the team tremendously.)
"It's almost like you fall asleep because you're so familiar with the course that you don't concentrate the way you should," he said.
"It itches in so many areas," he said. "Now they know that they'll have someone who'll be working with them every day and be going with them on all the trips. As I tell them, I've got you and you've got me where we're going and we've been whereas before they might have Ross going on one trip with me and me going on the next. I hardly know who's playing on the men's team now, but that's all right, because that helps the women."
Volleyball team gets fifth place in ORU tourney
By CHRIS LAZZARINO Sports Writer
Until Friday, the volleyball team had won just two matches, both against Oklahoma.
West Texas State defeated KU in the first match of the tournament on Friday, 7-15, 7-15, 15-12 and 13-15. Texas Lutheran then defeated KU 3-15, 8-15 and 13-15, KU then defeated Tulsa, 13-15, 15-8, 15-8, 10-15 and 15-7.
Saturday, KU was defeated by Texas E) Paso 7-15, 9-15 and 12-15. KSU then defeated KU 13-15, 12-15 and 6-15. The Jayhawks' last match was a loss to the tournament host and winner, Oral Roberts. The scores were 7-15, 6-15 and 7-15.
That changed when it beat Tulsa in the Oral Roberts University Tournament in Tulsa, Okla. That was the team's only win and finished in fifth place out of seven teams.
Although West Texas State beat KU on Saturday, KU finished above West Texas State because West Texas State lost to Tulsa. That caused a three-way tie for last place. The standings were then decided by the number of points scored.
Texas Lutheran finished second, followed in order by Texas El Paso, Kansas State.
Coach Bob Lockwood said that he was encouraged by the fact that his team showed excellent conditioning in the tournament, no apparent let down after six grueling matches.
He also said the team's court movement, one of the areas he was looking for, the team would be going forward.