SPORTS
October 12, 1984 Page 16
The University Daily KANSAN
Jayhawks to play struggling Wildcats
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
KU senior center Bennie Simecka remembers the game well.
"It was very embarrassing," he said of KU's 36-7 thrashing at the hands of Kansas State University two years ago in Manhattan. "We just didn't play good football and they just beat us. Anytime you get back to the K-State at Manhattan, it's going to linger in the back of your mind."
Simecka returns to Manhattan tomorrow when the Jayhawks take on the Wildcats at 1:30 p.m. at K-State's stadium. All permanent seats in the stadium have been sold out, and KU's allotment of tickets seating for Wednesday Temporary seating in the north end zone is still available.
Although the game two years ago brings back bad memories for Simecka, he said he wasn't out for revenge because of it.
"It's a big game, but they're all big games in the Big Eight," he said. "I
don't prepare any differently for it."
don't prepare any differently for it." Safety Wayne Ziegler went along with Simecka in playing down the significance of the game.
"IN A LOT of ways the pride factor is involved, mainly because of the fact that I come from, there are a lot of K-State fans," he said. "And for less treat it as another game. I think is mainly a big rivalry for the fans."
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"I think I've already done that for myself," he said. "It's more a matter of playing for your friends, the community and the school. It's not an individual thing."
While native Kansans Ziegler and Simecka are well acquainted with the KU-KState rivalry, imports such as junior cornerback Dillon Bell, who from California, have to grow into it. Bell said he's noticed the more intensive nature of KU-KState games compared to others.
Center Bennie Simcea gets ready to snap the ball during a drill at yesterday's practice. Simcea remembers the 36.7 thrashing the Wildcats gave the Jayhawks two years ago in Manhattan.
"You can especially see it among the Kansas kids," Bell said. "This year, we have a lot of young people so I don't know what it'll be like at the beginning of the game. But once they see how fired up for the game KState is, I think they get a feel for how big a rivalry this is."
BESIDES THE BEATING KU took from KState two years ago. Bell said he also remembered the rude reception the Jayhaws received from the KState fans.
"Anytime you play K-State, you can expect their fans to get involved in the game," he said. "They came out strong and that tired up their fans even more. Hopefully, we can come out strong Saturday and not let their fans be a factor and be a 12th man on the field."
Although the Wildcats have a 1-4 record, the combined records of the four teams they've lost to 15.2. One of these teams, Vanderbilt, defeated K-State 26-14. KU lost to the Commodores 41-6.
"They're a good team," cornerback Sal Lewis said of KState. "They're better than their record shows. They'll run the option, but they can spread it out and throw too. They can do it all."
a wishbone offense in last week's 49-17 loss to South Carolina.
At the hub of the Wildcat offense is quarterback Stan Weber. He leads the team in rushing with an average of 52 yards a game. He ranks seventh in the Big Eight conference in total offense.
"IT'S SOMETHING ELSE we have to prepare for." Ziegler said. "We're really kind of unsure which they'll try to do with the children, but kind of hard to prepare for them."
"He's always a threat, especially on passing plays because he can take off and run with the ball. Ziegler knows how to use his key to stopping their offense."
K-State has the size advantage on the line of scrimmage. The Wildcat offensive line averages 264 pounds a man, while KU's offensive line averages 235 pounds a defense. K-State's line averages 243 pounds. KU's averages 200 pounds.
The Wildcats have capable receivers in wide receiver Mike Wallace and tight end Eric Bailey, but have had trouble getting the ball to them in games. They were able to pick two years ago, has caught 11 passes. Bauer has caught in
"THEY'VE PROBABLY GOT the biggest defensive line we'll face this year, but I'm confident we can do a good job against them." Simecka said. "I feel like we've got a good offensive line."
Simeka, a three-year starter, could easily have found himself on the other side of the ball tomorrow.
"My whole background — the town I came from, my family — is made up of K-State fans," he said. "I had a brother who went to K-State and pitched there, in fact. Everybody I know thought I was going to go to K-State and wanted me to go there, but I'm the one that had to make the decision and I was the one that was going to live with it."
If all goes right tomorrow, he'll be able to live with himself a little more and forget what happened two years ago.
KANSAS (2-3)
Offense
SE–Richard Estell, 6, 4-19 jr.
LT–Jim Davis, 6, 4-25 fr.
LG–Paul Swenson, 6, 4-24 jr.
C–Bennie Simecka, 6, 5-25 scr.
RG–Dong Certain, 6, 4-26 jr.
RT–Rob Pieper, 6, 5-25 so.
TE–Jeff Anderson, 6, 3-22 jr.
FL–Skip Peete, 6, 0-18 jr.
QH–Mike Norse, 6, 3-20 jr.
PB–Lyn Williams, 6, 2-20 jr.
RF–Mimbis, 6, 0-19 rd.
K–Dodge Schwartzburg, 8, 1-65 rd.
Defense
K-STATE (1-4)
LE - David Smith, 6.21, 215
LE - Phil Forte, 6.32, 220
NG - Jay Hager, 6.3, 250 jr.
RT - Robert Tucker, 6.3, 240 jr.
RE - Guy Gamble, 6.3, 223 jr.
LB - Walter Pless, 6.0, 215 jr.
RB - Rick Bredesen, 6.1, 210 jr.
LB - Milt Garner, 5.10, 175 jr.
SN - Arnold Fields, 6.1, 190 jr.
FS - Wayne Ziegler, 6.2, 190 jr.
RB - Alvin Walton, 6.0, 185 jr.
P - Tom Becker, 6.2, 165 jr.
Defense
Offense
LB—Grade Newton, 6-1, 221 so.
LT—Les Miller, 6-2, 180 so.
NG—Mark Newton, 6-2, 259 rp.
RT—Renneth Reed, 6-2, 252 rp.
DR—Dwayne Castle, 6-0, 214 rp.
LR-Bob Daniels, 6-3, 237 rp.
LC—Jefery Jeffre, 6-2, 232 so.
LC—Brad Lambert, 5-10, 170 rp.
JS—Jack Epps, 6-0, 224 rp.
FS—Barton Hundley, 5-11, 190 rp.
RCB—David Ast, 6-0, 188 jr.
P—Scott Fulhage, 5-11, 191 rp.
SE-Mike Wallace, 6-1, 170 sr.
LT-Tim Stone, 6-6, 274 jr.
LG-Jerry Poole, 6-3, 254 jr.
C--Andy Harding, 6-3, 243 jr.
G--Calvin Switzer, 6-1, 250 rd.
RT-Eric Johnson, 6-6, 290 rd.
TR-Eric Eailey, 6-5, 255 rd.
FL-James Witherspoon, 5-7, 142 rd.
QB—Stan Weber, 6, 120 scr.
QB—Steenn James, 5, 99-194.
TB—James Rickets, 6, 200 scr.
K—Steve Wills, 6, 210 scr.
KICKOFF: 1:30 p.m. at K-State Stadium SERIES STANDING: KU leads 30-10-2, KU defeated K-State 31-3 last year in Lawrence.
KU, Tigers race today
By MIKE BRENNAN
Sports Writer
Men's track coach Bob Tirmons
sat down and slowly shook his head.
"I can't tell you much about Missouri," Trimmons said. The Jayhawks face the Tigers in a dual cross country meet today in Columbia
"I know that they have a team that runs close together," Timmons said. You just keep preparing as if it were happening and I worry about anything in between.
"I think it will be a close meet. It all depends how close the rest can be to our lead two or three," Timmons said.
THE JAYHAWKS LEAD runners are Brent Steiner, who placed first in all three meets the Jayhawks have on Sunday, Greg Lebert and Joe Manuel
Leibert, who finished 10th in a field of 80,000 in the Bata Breakers road race in San Francisco last summer, said he was ready for the meet.
"I feel like I'm running well. I really want to watch Brent. I want to
run and follow him for as long as I can,
Leibert said.
Rounding out the field for the Hawks are John Des Rosiers, Dan Owens, Kyle Roste. Gordon Smith and Justin McCormick will first meet in two weeks for KU
The women's cross country team is also in action this weekend. The women will run in a five kilometer race at Haskell, which is an open race.
HASKELL WILL BE the only other collegiate team participating, according to Cliff Rovelo, assistant women's track coach.
"Running on the road will be faster than running cross country." I lovelove it.
Everyone on the team will be involved in the race. Members of the team are Susan Glatter, Caryne Finlay, Paula Bera捕捉, Trace Keith, Trisha Mangan, Kelly leaidley, Cindy Blakeley, Angie Helmer, Heather Sterbenz and Kelly Wood.
The women's track team will be competing in a heptathlon Friday and Saturday in Memorial Stadium.
The heptathlon consists of seven events spread out over two days.
Only members of the KU team will compete. They are Rosie Wadman, Andrea Schwartz, Julie Hall, Jaci Tyma, Ann O'Connor, Kris Pilgrim and Patty Shadowens. Wadman and Hall participated in last year's event. Tyma and Pilgrim competed in a heathlation during the summer. The rest are freshman, and this will be their first competition of the year.
"WE STARTED AT the end of August, and December is our first meet situation." Rovello said "We do this to see what it is like. These girls work hard. This is kind of their reward for the fall."
The men's track team will also hold his first event of the fall, the
The decathlon is ten events spread out over two days. The first five are on Friday, and the final four today at Memorial Stadium. The final five events will be tomorrow.
Competing for the Jayhawks will be Craig Branstrom, Stuart Burleson, Chris Kalone and Dave Greenheck.
Series goes to Motown for game 3
By United Press International
DETROIT – Right-hander Milt Wilcox will pitch for the Detroit Tigers and left-hander Tim Lollar will take the mound for the San Diego Padres tonight in the third game of the World Series, which so far has been dominated by outstanding pitching.
Although the weather has been cloudy and rainy the last several days in Detroit, the forecast for tonight's game, which begins at 7:35 p.m., was for a clear sky with temperatures in the 60s.
Detroit's Jack Morris defeated the Padres, 3-2, in the first game of the best-of-seven Series. San Diego came back to win the second game, 5-3, on a three-run homer by Kurt Bevaquel and the comeback pitching over 95 innings by Andy Hawkins and Craig Leffess.
Unversed a bit by the noisy crowd at San Diego Stadium, the Tigers were looking forward to playing the next three games on some hurt where they posted a 31-29 record during the regular season.
"We've played well at Detroit all season long," the Tigers' Darrell Evans said. "It'll be good to go home and get back in front of our fans, but this is a World Series and regardless of what city you are in, we will play the game here, you take the field. You can bet the home crowd will harm us."
Although the Padres are a much better team on their home field, shortstop Garry Templeton said the emotional hit the club hard had been "too great" for Tuesday night's come-from-behind victory would carry over to Detroit.
"Our guys have played well on the road when we've had to," Templeton said. "The main thing is we've shown people that we're not going to quit even when we're facing a team like Detroit. Sure it's going to be tough playing three games in their home park, but we're on a roll now and I don't think anything will bother us."
Templeton said the Padres felt much more comfortable playing the Tigers now than they had done in the first game.
"We've learned how to play their batters. In the National League you know how a ball is going to off a guy's bat. But when you see someone for the first time, everything is kind of strange." Templeton said. "I think we were all comfortable Wednesday night and I think we'll be more relaxed when we go to game three."
If Wilcox performs the way he did in the third game of the American League playoffs against Kansas City, he will certainly be troublesome to the Padres. Wilcox, who posted a 17.8 record during the regular season, allowed only two hits over eight innings in defeating the Royals, 1.0, to clinch the pennant for the Tigers.
It will mark the second World. Series appearance for the 34-year-old Wileo.
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