October 5,1984 Page 16
SPORTS
The University Daily KANSAN
San Diego stays alive in playoffs
By United Press International
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres remained alive in the National League playoffs last night by defeating the Chicago Cubs 7-1. The Padres effort was highlighted by Ed Whitson's five-hit pitching and an 11-hit attack that featured a three-run homer by Kevin McRovin.
After a day off, the best-of-five series resumes tomorrow night. The Cubs need one victory to capture their first pennant in 39 years.
Geared to an emotional pitch by a record-setting San Diego Stadium crowd of 58,346, the Padres crushed Cubs starter Dennis Eckersley and reliever George Frazier and gave newly renewed hope in the series.
The Padres rocked Eckersley for four hits and three runs in the fifth and took the lead in a game for the first time in the series.
Chicago took a 1-1 lead in the second inning on a double by Keith Moreland and a single by Ron Cey, but that was all they would get. Whitton blanked the Cubs on two hits way to Rich Gossage in the ninth.
Terry Kennedy and McReynolds started the inning with back-to-back singles. After Carmelo Martinez popped out, Garry Templeton ripped a double into the left center field gap, scoring both runners. Eckersley retired Whitson on a pop to second, but Alan Wiggins ripped a single to center that scored Templeton with the third run of the inning.
In the sixth, Steve Garvey singled in Tony Gwynn for his record-tying 18th RBI in playoff competition. McKeynolds brought Garvey and McKeynolds with a three-run homer to left field that brought the crowd to its feet
John Trombold, above, shows he hasn't lost his hitting form. At right, Jim Shanks, center, enjoys a laugh with his old battery mate, Steve Renko, right. Trombold played for the Jayhawks in the early 1960s. Shanks and Renko played in the mid-1960s. They all played yesterday at KU's 5th annual old-timers baseball game.
Among the many former Jayhawks gathered at Quigley Field yesterday for the KU old-timers baseball game was a man whose ties to KU athletics extend much further than the baseball program.
Renko adds professional touch to alumni game
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
Steve Renko not only pitched for the baseball team during his years at the University of Kansas, he started at quarterback on the football team and at forward on the basketball team.
Following the old-timers game, the current KU team defeated a team of recent KU players 5-3. Sophomore John Hart led the way for the Jayhawks with an RBI double and a three-run homer.
Renko pitched two shutout innings for the White team in yesterday's "vintage" old-timers game. The White team won, 3-1, on a two-run triple by 1954 graduate John Trumbo and 2017 former physician in San Diego, Cal., is one of only four All-American KU has hard in baseball.
RENKO RETURNED FOR the
first time to the old-timers game. He retired this spring after a major league career that lasted 16 years.
"I talked to a several clubs this spring, but the interest they showed wasn't that much," he said yesterday. "I'm old enough that I didn't want to go down and have to try to make the club in spring training."
Renk oku to know the various aspects of personnel moves in the major leagues. He pitched for seven
"The way it works, if you're with the same team down there till the last part of spring, it's too late for any other club to pick you up."
different teams. He was a mantray on the pitching staff of the expansion Montreal Expos from 1969 through 1975 and finished his career with the team.
He signed with the St. Louis organization after his junior year at KU in 1965 His 0.99 ERA in 1964 is a KU record for a single season.
RENKO SAID HE didn't think his triple-treat sport at KU could be duplicated now because of the time needed to deviate to each sport.
"I had a lot of cooperation from the coaches while I was here at KU," he
sard. "In the spring, when we didn't have a game I'd come over here" Quigley Field! each day and do what I needed to do for baseball, then I'd go put on the pads and work out with the football team."
Renko now lives in Overland Park and plans to take his real estate exam soon. Two weeks ago, he paired visit to the KU football team and talked to the Jayhawks before practice.
Now that his playing days over and
he's settled in the area, Renko said
he plans to return annually for the
old-timers game.
Gottfried looking for winning edge
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
Mike Gottfried is through with moral victories.
"I don't enjoy them at all," the head football coach said earlers this week. "I never have taken any consolation from them. When they look back at your record, they don't see whether you played anybody close, they just see a win or a loss."
Gottfried's Jayhawks played North Carolina close last week, but a second-ball comeback came up for the Cats. The third-dead record fell to 1-3 with a 23-17 defeat
Gottried hopes the Jayhawns can carry that second-half effort into their Big Eight conference opener with Iowa State tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in Memorial Stadium. The Cyclones enter the game with a 2:2 record.
GOTTERIED MIGHT HAVE expected his team's slow start, given the difficulty of its nonconference schedule. The Jayhawks had to face two teams currently ranked in the Top 20 Florida State and Arizona. The State队 and Arizona had four inexperience 19 of KU's top 44 players are in their first year of major college competition.
Each week Gottfried has expressed satisfaction with the team's effort and improvement.
But it hasn't been easy for Gottfried to accept the losses.
"It's still tough losing," he said. "You don't expect to lose and you don't play to lose, and that's the toughest part of all. We're going to play four quarters this week, but you bid for that in stages."
In an effort to put his team in a winning frame of mind, Gottfried had the Jayhawks practice all this week at Memorial Stadium and work on game situations more than they have been.
"WHEN YOU'RE AS young as we are, you don't really have a home-field advantage unless you get used to the place," he said.
KU's secondary will be the put to the test tomorrow. Iowa State leads the conference in passing, and wide receiver Tracy Henderson leads the nation in pass receptions with an average of 9.2 a passer since he passed at Iowa State's 38-35 victory over Kansas last year at Ames.
Iowa State's defense, ranked fourth in the conference, has improved since last year, when the team outscored anyone in the conference.
The Jayhawks had trouble defending the pass against North Carolina and Vanderbilt, but Gottfried said the secondary wasn't necessarily at fault.
"We've got to find a way to put more pressure on the quar terback," he said.
Coach Mike Gottfried had his team practice most of this week at Memorial Stadium to become familiar with the home turf. KU opens its Big Eight conference season tomorrow against Iowa State at Memorial Stadium.
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Coordinator plays many positions in academic program for players
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
The new academic coordinator position for the football team is a must. Mike Gottried, head football coach, said this week.
Tina Sohn, the academic coordinator, said, "For a long time the rest of the University thought the athletic department was too isolated, and maybe that was because there was no one person to stick his head out and let everyone know what was going on."
As academic coordinator, Sohn said she worked with the office of academic affairs, the Supportive Educational Services, which now provides tutoring for athletes, and as a public relations officer for the university. She also monitors the evening study halls for the football players.
Freshmen players are required to attend the study halls each evening, Sohn said. Upperclassmen attend at the coach's recommendation, but she said she made it clear to all athletes they were welcome any time.
is a graduate assistantship and not a full time position, John said
The academic coordinator position
Gottried said that Sohn was hired to supervise the academic progress of the athletes. He said this was more important since the new NCAA rules for athletes' academic progress took effect in August.
Lonny Rose, assistant athletic director, said the new rules required that an athlete declare a major after his fourth semester of college. Once an athlete has declared a minor or he is enrolled in another program, he toward his degree to remain eligible.
Sohn said her work had become more difficult since 10 (football players had been declared academically ineligible for the season.
"There are nights when I wonder, 'Maybe this is not for me,'" she said, "and then the next day one of the students will tell me they did really well on a test or I'll read a good interview one of them gave."
Sohn said that although she was not an academic adviser for the athletes, she spent most of her day in one-on-one sessions with athletes. She said that she helped them arrange to meet with advisers, work out their schedules and presented
them with ideas for possible majors.
She taught at two private high schools in New Jersey for 10 years and served as athletic adviser, she said. After that she earned a certificate in athletic administration from St. John's University in New York. She also worked as an assistant to Larry Brown, who was then head coach of New Jersey Nets, a professional basketball team.
Brown is now KU's head basketball coach
When she decided to return to school to work on her masters degree in higher education administration, Brown introduced her to Gottfried.
Gottried said that he thought the team needed someone to help the players academically and that was offered to the position and offered it to Sohn.
Sohn said she had worried that the athletes might not accept her as an academic coordinator because she was a woman, but she said she had it down.
"They've been doing anything and everything Ive asked to improve their academic performance," she said.
Women's tennis team heads for Oklahoma
By CHRIS LAZZARINO
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The women's tennis team travel to Stillwater, Okla. today to play seven of the best teams in the region at the Oklahoma State Invitational.
ALTOUGH THE JAYHAWKS top
singles player, Tracy Treps, is out for six weeks after undergoing knee surgery Tuesday morning. Perelman the team to be very competitive.
Head coach Scott Perelman said the eight teams in the tournament will play four dails each.
"The idea is to bring together some of the best teams in the region, have them play among themselves on a team, learn from each other and tennis as possible." Perlman said.
The Jayhawks, 4-1 this fall, will play one match Friday, two Saturday and one Sunday.
"Several teams, including us, are capable on any given day of beating anybody," Perelman said. "We hope to be among the top teams. We are going to make it a point to show everyone that we are capable."
The other teams in the tournament are Oklahoma State, Oklahoma. Texas Christian, Texas A&M, Wichita Baptist, Brigham Young and Arkansas.
Perelman said he hasn't decided on a set No. 1 singles player since Treps
confidence in the girls that will pick up the slack. "Pereman said. 'We are still constantly involved in challenge matches. The line-up is not set in cement, it is changing week by week."
Pereman said the top players since Treps' injury have been Barbara Iman, Laura Runnels, Cindy Grey and Christine Parr.
"SHE WILL BE missed, but I have
Parr will be trying to maintain an undefeated fall record in Stillwater.
"I AM GOING TO try hard to go underated." Parr said. "That will be hard though because there will be a lot of good players there
"I don't think I am playing as well now right as I have in the past, but I am a competitive player. We all want to win," Parr said.
Volleyball team takes on I-State at home
By TONY COX Sports Writer
The women's volleyball team has one major goal as it prepares for its match against Iowa State tomorrow — improvement
"Basically, this week we've tried to work on some of the glaring errors that were evident in the Tula Tournament last week and correct them," head coach Bob Lockwood said.
The Jayhawks, 2-11, have already faced Iowa State once this season. Iowa State won that of best five match 3 on Sept. 21 at Ames.
Lockwood said the match would be a good test to see how much the team had improved. The match will be played at 7:30 p.m. in Allen Field
In practices this week, the team has stressed serve reception, controlled serving, blocking assignments on the front line, foot movement for defensive position and
"On spikes, we've been working on hitting to opponents' weak areas instead of just hitting away," he said.
spike control, Lockwood said.
"The youth will help us in the long run, but sometimes it's hard to be patient," she said
Beth Vivian, one of two seniors on the team and a co-captain, said, "This weekend marks the halfway point of the season, and now that the young players have had a chance to get some experience, there no
Sports Writer
Tennis team traveling to Ball State
By MIKE BRENNAN
Sports Writer
The men's tennis team hopes history doesn't repeat itself when it starts play in the Ball State Invitational today in Indiana, Inc.
Last year, after finishing first in the KU Invitational, the Jawahires traveled to Ball State and finished fourth.
This year the team again enters the tournament after winning its own invitational, but changes have been made to ensure a better impact. Roll State.
'last year we drove and the arrangements were not conducive for a winner,' said tennis coach Scott Perciman, who attended Ball State. 'This year we are flying to Europe, which will be an interesting weekend.'
KU. FAVORED TO win the tournament, will face the top two teams in the Mid/American Conference in Ball State and Western Michigan. The Jayhawks will also play Indiana. Ohio State and Nebraska, who KU defeated two weeks ago.
"We have a lot of pressure on us to play well and that's fine," Perelman said. "Other coaches feel that KU is one of the schools that has shown improvement. We've come to the point where we will be picked as the favorite. Now it's up to us."
Competition for starting positions and individual improvements are the reasons for the team's fall success. Perelman said.
Sophomore Mike Wolf, ranked 37th in collegiate polls last spring, moved into the top 25this fall. Perleman said. Wolf said that the experience he gained when hePat McKinsear last month has helped
"I did not know how to react
when I played in front of 11,000
people. A lot of it was positive."
Wolf said.
ANOTHER PLAYER WHO has shown improvement this fall is freshman David Owens, who fought his way through the cranks to earn a starting singles and not for this weekend's tournament.
"I have confidence in him," Perlman said. "He's worked so hard, you're happy to give him an opportunity like this."
Owens said he has improved his game this summer by working out with Wolf in Washington, D.C.
"I feel I'm playing pretty well," he said. "The KU invitation gave me a lot of confidence getting over the first couple of matches.
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