Monday, Nov. 18, 1985
Sports
University Daily Kansan
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Tickets are available for holiday tourney
Tickets for the BMA Holiday Tournament Dec. 27-28 in Kemper Arena, which features Wichita State, Louisiana Tech and Arizona State, are available at the KU Ticket Office in Allen Field House.
Doug Dvance, sports information director, said the tickets, which permit attendance on both nights, and those on level and 818 or the upper level.
A Big Eight spokesman said that fans who had tickets for the tournament last year would be given the option of renewing the same seats for this year's tournament. The deadline for renewal is Dec. 1.
Vance also said tickets for the Big Eight Conference rost-game tournament in March were sent to the Big Eight office in Kansas City.
Tickets for the tournament,
March 7, 8 and 9 in Kemper, are
$40 for upper level seating and $52
for lower level. The tickets allow
entrance to all seven games.
The tournament will be divided into four sessions. There will be two games each during the afternoon and evening sessions on March 7, two games during the afternoon session on March 8, and one game during the afternoon session on March 9.
If there are still seats available, single-session tickets will go on sale at the Kemper box office on March 5.
Rugby season ends
All-American Peter Knudsen scored two tries to lead the Kansas rugby club to a 38-3 win over the Kansas City Rugby Football Club in a Merit Table Match Saturday in Kansas City, Mo.
It was the last match of the fall season for the club side, which will carry a 6-1 overall record and a 3-1 Merit Table record into the spring season.
The men's cross country team competed at the NCAA District V Championships in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, but none of the KU runners qualified for the NCAA Championships.
KU runners return
BEN Welch was the top runner for Kansas. He finished 21st in 32 minutes, 14.6 seconds. He was followed by Gerald Harder, 43rd in 33:37.6; Craig Watcke, 45th, in 33:45.5; Matt Bell, 52nd, in 33:57 and Kyle Rose, 62nd, in 34:31.2.
Arnold Fields, Kansas fullback, runs for a gain of six yards as Jeff Jamrog, Nebraska defensive end, attempts the tackle. Fields was the leading rusher Saturday for Kansas, gaining a total of 76 yards for the Javhawk in their 56-6 loss.
From staff and wire reports.
NU programmed to destrov
By Chris Lazzarino
Sports editor
LINCOLN, Neb. — The Nebraska Cornhuskers ran over, over, around and through the Kansas Jayhawks Saturday in Lincoln. What Nebraska wanted, Nebraska got. No questions asked.
By the time 30 seconds had ticked from the game clock, it was obvious that No. 2 ranked Nebraska was a winner whose only intent was to destroy
Destroy, annihilate, humiliate and hurt. The Machine did all of that and more in it's 56-6 thrashing of the hapless Jahwhaws.
The Machine fumbled the opening kickoff, which was recovered by KU's C.J. Eanes on the Machine 2.yard line. Four plays, two quarter- and 50 seconds later, the Jayhaws had three points on the board.
More than 75,000 fanatical fans, clad in what had to be millions of dollars, marched through the city second of it. No one seemed to care that the kieckoff was fumbled. All that
meant was that they would see their awesome defense before they saw their awesome offense. They wanted their gladiators to toy with the Jayhawks before they would give the thumbs down, signalling time to kill
But when the second quarter began, play time ended. The Machine delighted the Polyesters by thrashing them at a spacious field, showing not one iota of mercy.
Machine wingback Von Sheppard and touchdown receptions of 35 and 41.
When the bloodshed of the first half was over, the Machine had amassed 38 points. The Jayhawks still had three. Machine fullback Tom Rathman had 144 yards and a touchdown in six carries, and that was with eight minutes left in the second quarter.
Kansas had 144 yards of total of offense and six points. That's right — in 21 minutes of play one Machine took five minutes of play by an entire offense.
The Machine finished the game with 639 yards with an average gain per play of 9.1 yards. Kansas was 0-17
on third down conversions and was caught for two safeties.
One month ago, Kansas was 5-2.
Now, Kansas is 6-5 and 1-5 in the Big
Eight and must win Saturday against
Missouri in Lawrence to finish .500.
And he does so, winning touchdowns. Now, Kansas is losing by going 15 consecutive quarters
— most of four games — without a touchdown.
Kansas head coach Mike Gottfried wanted to hold quarterback Mike Norseth out of the game for at least one series so he could see the defensive formations from the sidelines with the coaches. Gottfried has said that they had been ready before, but redshirting Mike Orth has left a sort of void behind Norseth.
Tom Quick, who is also a wide receiver, started the game at quarterback, as was Gottfried's plan. But Gottfried didn't plan on the Jayhawks being so close to the end zone so early. Norseth was in the game for good on play No. 2, although it probably didn't matter who the KU quarterback was against the Machine.
Two recruits sign basketball letters
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff
The Kansas men's basketball team received two signed letters of intent and got an oral commitment from another recruit Friday, the sports information office said.
Kansas signed Keith Harris, a 6-foot-4 forward from Santa Monica, Calif., High School, and Jeff Guelder, a 6-5 guard-forward from Charleston, III., High School. The Jayhawks also received an oral com- ment from Robert Cone, a center from Denver West High School.
High school seniors who want to sign basketball letters of intent have until Wednesday, or they will have to wait until April to sign with a college.
Harris' teammate, Carrick DeHart, who has orally committed to Kansas, has not signed a letter of intent with any college vet.
Head coach Larry Brown said Friday that he was thrilled that Harris and Gueldner were coming to Kansas.
"These are great kids who come from great programs," Brown said. "They should be a real asset to our program."
Harris averaged 17 points a game during his junior season at Santa Monica, which is rated as one of the top four teams in the Los Angeles League. He scored 35 rebounds and averaged 4.5 assists a game. He was named by Street and Smith magazine as an honorable mention All-American last season.
Santa Monica head coach Cliff Hunter said Harris could play two positions in college. Because of his leaping ability, Harris can play close to the basket, or 20 feet from the goal.
"Pound for pound, Keith had to be one of the top players in the nation." Hunter said. "He would be rated by all. He's been ranked if he had gone to summer camps.
"He's got a great attitude and is one of the hardest workers I have ever had. Keith's an excellent dribler and a great leaper. He has the potential to be one of the best players I have ever coached."
Instead of attending a summer basketball camp, Harris competed for Santa Monica on a team that finished 35-2.
Guelder averaged 13.5 points and nine rebounds last season. Steve Simons, Guelder's head coach, said Guelder was a big guard with good court vision and he loved to give the assist. Last season Charleston High School finished 24.3, and Guelder scored 1.7 grade point average on a 8.0 scale.
Like Harris, Coyne was named to Street and Smith's honorable mention All-America team last season. He was also named to the first team All-Denver metro team.
Denver West head coach Bob Caton said Coyne, who averaged 23 points and nine rebounds a game last year. Cohen was not alone outside depending on the team's needs.
"Like most high school kids, he needs to work on his rebounding and defense, but he has the talent."
NU, OU steadfast in changing world
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In this fickle word of unending change, give thanks for the steadfast Big Eight football race.
Volcanoes and governments may blow their tops. And technological advancement may double and re-double every couple of years.
But the Big Eight never changes. It
already has Oklahoma, Oklahoma,
Oklahoma and New York.
This Saturday in Norman, the Sooners, ranked No. 7 last week but certain to move up this week, will meet the No. 2 Huskers at home in what will likely be the Big Eight title game.
True, Oklahoma State is still alive in the 1985 title chase. But after mopping up on the opposition Saturday, the perennial powers in Lincoln, Neb., and Norman, Okla., seem no closer than ever to being dislodged from their positions of dominance.
Oklahoma State's lone conference loss was back in October to Nebraska. And the Cowboys could claim a share of the title if Oklahoma beats Nebraska and then loses to Oklahoma State a week later.
Nebraska applied its annual thrashing to the inexplicably inept Kansas Jayhawks Saturday, finally settling for a 56-6 trumpb.
Oklahoma's overpowered defense gave Colorado a taste of Top 10 football by recording a 31-0 shutout of the Buffers.
Tennis team beats Arkansas
Of the Kansan sports staff
Bv Heather Fritz
Last year, thanks to a little bad weather, the Kansas women's tennis team lost to Arkansas twice in two days.
Kansas and Oklahoma were to play dual matches against Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark., but because of the weather, the Sooners didn't show. Arkansas' coach asked the Jayhawks to play a second time, and for some reason, KU coach Scott Perelman agreed.
Kansas lost 4-5 twice.
"We couldn't have been more depressed with life at that moment." Perelman said vesterday.
On Saturday, the Jayhawks got their revenge. Kansas beat Arkansas 5-4 for the first time in the four years Perelman has been here, leaving Oklahoma State as the only team in
the midwest region that Kansas has not beaten at least once.
Kansas also beat Southwest Missouri State 9-0, losing only one set along the way.
"To beat Arkansas really means we're going places," said KU's Tracy Treps, who won two singles and two doubles matches this weekend. "This has given us a boost to say we can beat these teams regularly."
Marie Hibbard also won two singles and two doubles matches for Kansas. Treps and Hibbard won the three sets in three sets after going up 6-0, 5-3.
After leading 5-3 in the second set, Treps and Hibbard lost 6-7. In the third set, the Arkansas team pulled even at 4-4 before the Jayhawks broke their serve and won the set 6-4 and the match.
Kansas led 4-2 after the singles matches but foundered in doubles
"Everyone played the singles matches with a lot of intensity," Hibbard said. "The doubles were a different story."
Against Southwest Missouri State, Parr and Inman lost a set in doubles to Helena Olin and Tracy Williams but won 2-6, 6-2, 6-1. In six singles matches, Kansas lost only 19 games.
Perelman called the doubles the worst he had seen the team play.
"Our doubles was terrible," he said. "We played the best singles as a team that I've ever seen. I could not understand the letdown we had in doubles. We know how to play doubles and it has usually been our strength."
In singles against Betsy Meacham of Arkansas, Christine Parr saved two match points to pull out a 2-8, 7-6, 6-3 victory. Barb Inman also won in singles, defeating Helana Norrby 6-2, 2-6, 1-
Other NFL scores p.11.
The defending 49ers' victory, combined with the first-place Los Angeles Rams' second straight loss, moved San Francisco, 6-5, within three games of the Rams.
49ers defeat Kansas City 31-3
Team vies for place in top 20
United Press International
The Kansas women's swim team strengthened its case for a top 20 ranking with two victories in dual meet the weekend in Robinson Natoratum.
The most convincing evidence came Friday night when the women easily defeated No. 5 Southern Illinois, 67-46. Saturday the Jayhawks completed the sweep by swimming past Wyoming 64-39.
"The Rams helped us by losing once again. They still have to play us and the Raiders. Six-and-five is not a great record, but we have a lot of games left."
"Hopefully, this will help make us competitive again," he said. "The season isn't over yet. There are still five games left."
San Francisco coach Bill Walsh also was talking confidently about the future.
"Anything can happen now," 49ers wide receiver Drew Clark. Said
San Francisco quarterback Joe Montana threw two touchdown passes and ran for another. Montana, who has struggled this season, completed three of his touchdowns and two touchdowns before leaving the game early in the fourth quarter.
The Chiefs lost their club-record seventh straight game and fell to 3-8.
San Francisco wasted little time increasing its 17-3 halftime advantage. On the 49ers' first drive of the second half, Montana directed the team 72 yards to a score on a 22-yard pass to Clark.
"I don't know if concerned is the right word." Kansas City coach John
Mackovic said, "I don't know if frustration is the right word. We are a team that has had a lot of things go against it."
Lendl edges Becker to win tournev
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff
LONDON — Ivan Lendl upheld his No. 1 world ranking against the latest challenger to the crown when he edged past West German Boris Becker in the second round of a four-day win to the $75,000 Grand Prix tournament at Wembley Arena.
"We are a top 20 team, there is not a shadow of a doubt," head coach Gary Kempf said of his unranked team Saturday. "I don't care if anyone else thinks so, just as long as we know it."
Lendl, the U.S. Open champion,
took three hours 46 minutes to beat
the 17-year-old Wimbledon title
holder, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, in an
exhilarating match that brought out
United Press International
He admitted that he missed a golden opportunity when he was ahead 4-3 in the fourth set and had Lendl at 0-30 on his serve.
"I had a big chance, and maybe I got tired in my head," the West German said. "I had my mental down at the end of the fourth set. He was
"I think it was a great match over the five sets, my best match so far. I don't think he can play any better than Jake. He's better. Becker, ranked fifth in the world."
the best in both players.
The 25-year-old Czech's hot streak started with an overrule by umpire Richard Kaufman of Seattle, Wash. He gave Lendil a—his sixth and last of the match — against the line judge's call, and Lendil then took the next seven points.
down, but he somehow got 4-4 and broke me and started to fly.
"He played three games like I never saw a guy play before to go 6-4 and 1-0 (in the fifth set)."
The victory over Southern Illinois was the first ever for Kansas. The Jayhawks have never lost a dual meet at home in Kempf's 10 years as coach.
Kempf said he reminded the women of those two facts during the week, and Susan Spry, who won the 200-yard freestyle and anchored the medley relay team, said the talk definitely inspired the swimmers.
"It it put a lot of pressure on me when I found out we had never lost a dual meet at home." Spry said. "But it also got me excited to swim."
Kempi said the rankings came out once a month, and wins over Southern Illinois, No. 15 Texas A&M, and Nebraska and a narrow loss to No. 8 Southern Methodist should propel the Jayhawks into the top 20.
Kansas won nine of the 13 events, including the first five against Southern Illinois. Tarn Gaulen won three events for the Jayhawks while Tammy Pease and Marcie Herrold each won two.
Kempf also said the men's team continued to make progress as the team became stronger.
"Taryn swam the best 200 fly I have seen in a long time," Kempf said.
Gaulian swain the third leg of the winning 400 medley relay, and she collected individual winn in the 200 medley compete Medley and the 200 butterfly.
Erin Waugh/KANSAN
KU's Lori Spurney executed a reverse dive off the three-meter springboard Saturday during the dual meet with Wyoming and Drury College at Robinson Natatorium.
by winning both ends of a double dual Saturday over Wyoming and Drake. Wyoming defeated Drury in the third portion of the double dual. Friday the Jayhawks lost to No. 7 Southern Illinois 61-33.
"We're becoming a better team by swimming against teams like Southern Illinois and SMU." Kempf said. "I still need to get something in our back yard, so we got two wins and that should help our progress."
Mike Prangle won the three-meter diving with a score of 310.95 and qualified for the Zone D National Diving Qualifying meet next spring.
The top four divers from each zone in both the one and three-meter events advance to the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships.
"I think it's good to qualify early because the pressure is off of me, and I can work on new dives." Prangle aid.
In addition to Prangle, Kemp said Kansas also got strong performances from Chuck Jones, Chris McCoal, Chris Cook, Glenn Trammel and Brian Sanders against Wyoming and Drury.
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