Monday, Oct. 28, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
Yanks fire Martin; Piniella takes over
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In a move they decided a month ago, the New York Yankees dismissed Billy Martin as their manager for an unprecedented fourth time Sunday, and was replaced by Lou Pinella as his replacement
Steinbrenner turned the final decision on Martin's fate over to Yankee General Manager Clyde King several weeks ago.
The firing officially made the Yankees long and rocky relationship with the controversial Martin a unique one for baseball annals. No other major league manager has ever been fired four times by the same club.
Pimina rises to the helm as the tourteenth managerial change for the Yankees since George Steinbrenner joined the team in 1973 and ship of the team from CRS in 1973.
King said he called Steinbrenner earlier in the day and told him of the decision.
Piniella also was happy, and sad, too.
Steinbrenner said he was "very happy" about his new manager.
"I'm happy the organization gave me the opportunity to manage this team, and at the same time I'm sad that I's taking it over from a lot who taught me a whittle lot," he said.
The final score on the scoreboard at Saturday's Crimson-Blue intrasquad basketball scramble was 113-109 in favor of the Blue squad. The final score as tallied in the box score was 113-79. Making up the difference were 30 points spotted to the Crimson team.
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Thompson scores 31
"Coach Freidinger had a 30 point game," head basketball coach Larry Brown jokingly explained the points given to assistant coach Mark Freidinger's Crimson squad. "One game was over and we wanted to get out of the last 11 minutes."
Forward Calvin Thompson led all scorers with 31 points for the Blue squad Also for the Blue squad, guard Cedric Hunter scored 25 points and forward Danny Manning scored 24 points.
For the Crimson team, center Greg Dreiling scored 22 points, forward Archie Marshall had 16 and forward Chris Piper had 14.
Guard Mark Turgeon suffered minor ligament damage in his left knee during practice last week and should be back at practice by Tuesday.
Tourney starts today
The Men's Independent and Greek Rec-A football tournaments will begin at 3:30 p.m. today on the fields at 23rd and Iowa streets. The tournaments are sponsored by Recreation Services.
Competition will continue throughout the week, with the Greek Rec-A finals set for 3:30 p.m. Monday, November 4, and the Greek Rec-A championship set for 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 5.
The men's and women's Greek and Independent Trophy football tournament will begin Sunday.
JV team plays today
The junior varsity team will meet Baker University today at 3 p.m. in Memorial Stadium. It will be the JV team's last game of the season, and admission is free
KU rugbv teams win
The Kansas Collegiate Rugby team defeated the University of Missouri-Rolla 29-10 Saturday at the fields at 23rd and Iowa streets. Also Saturday, the KU Collegiate Reserves defeated the Emporia State University Rugby club 11-4.
From Kansan wire reports.
It's not even close—Royals win!
United Press International
KANAS S CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals completed one of baseball's great comebacks last night by embarrassing the St. Louis Cardinals 11-0 to win their first World Series behind a 14-hit attack and the five-hit pitching of Bret Saberhagen.
Everybody from platoon player Darryl Motley, who drove in three runs with a homer and a single, to All-Star George Brett, who went 4-for-5 after taking 15 minutes of extra batting practice before the game, moved to the Royals. first world championship in their 17-year history
The defeat was so humiliating and frustrating for the Cardinals that manager Whitey Herzog and pitcher Joaquin Andujar were ejected from the game for arguing balls and strikes during the Royals' recordying, six-run fifth inning.
Cardinal anger also extended to losing pitcher John Tudor, who
lacerated his finger by punching a metal fan in the clubhouse after his removal from the game in the third inning.
The Cardinals also suffered the final indignity of finishing the Series as the worst-hitting team ever in the Fall Classic. They managed only a collective average of .185 against Kansas City pitching.
In winning the best-of-seven Series, four games to three, the Royals became the first team in baseball history to win the world championship after losing the first two games of the Series at home.
They also became only the fifth team in history to win the Series after trailing three games to one.
The Royals, who joined the American League as an expansion team in 1969, accomplished an incredible feat by twice rallying from three-games-to-one deficits in the post-season competition. The Royals also came back from being down 3-1
The victory made good a vow by Hal MRCae, the Royals' designated hitter who had been relegated to a pinch-hitting role in the Series. McRae had predicted Saturday night after the Royals' dramatic ninth-inning comeback victory that his team would win the finale easily.
to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays in the AL playoffs.
"We're going to beat them, we're going to whomp them," said McRae
The game had been advertised as a dramatic "Show-Me" showdown between the Cardinals' best pitcher, John Tudor, and the Royals' ace, Saberhagen, but that never happened.
Tudor, who had posted a 21-8 record with a 1.93 ERA during the season and had already won two games in the Series, couldn't rise to the pressure of pitching the finale. He lasted only 2-2 3 innings, his shortest stint of the year.
Though he averaged only 1.60
walks per nine innings during the season, Tudor walked four batters in his brief stint and three of them scored.
Saberhagen, on the other hand,
was masterful just as he had been in
the third game of the Series when he
beat the Cardinals, 6-1, on a six-hitter
to start the Royals on their
comeback.
The 21-year-old right-hander, who became a father Saturday, allowed 30 shots at 59.
Saberhagen, who was voted the Most Valuable Player of the Series by Major League Baseball, did not walk a batter and struck out two in bringing Kansas City its finest moment. The Chiefs won the Super Bowl in 1970.
As soon as the game ended Saberhagen was mobbed by his teammates. Hundreds of the 41,658 fans ran onto the field in jubilation while thousands of others, many of them unidentified, cheered for several minutes. Kansas
City will honor the team Monday with a parade.
For all practical purposes the game was over in the second inning.
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New father Saberhagen named MVP
He reacted coolly to the World Series pressure. In fact, his biggest concern upon entering Busch Stadium for the first time was to find the St. Louis arch.
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His second game was a masterpiece. He allowed no walks and struck out two, but all night long he had the Cardinals sending the ball harmlessly into the air.
Meanwhile, his teammates backed him with an early lead. He survived a fifth-inning delay caused when Cardinal frustration led to the ejection of St. Louis manager Whitey Herrog
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"I kinda standing on Cloud 9." he said. "I'm mentally exhausted."
"What more could a person ask?"
Saberhagen asked rhetorically. "A baby and now the World Series win.
A native of Chicago Heights, Ill., Sabberhagen made two starts in the World Series. With the Cardinals leading two games to none, "Sabes" became the second youngest pitcher since 1966 to start a World Series game.
He experienced much less trouble in pitching than he did with the arch. He pitched the Royals back into the Series with a 6-1 victory in Game 3.
He did it despite the impending event in his family. Three days later, wife Janeane gave birth to Drew William.
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bret Saberhagen became a father and came of age in a wonderful October he will remember for a long time.
Saberhagen, a 21-year-old right-hander with a baby face and a mature pitcher, reinterports, last season, to the Kakao team to the World Series championship.
Saberhagen hurled a five-hitter, giving the Royals an 11-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. It marked Saberhagen's second crucial victory of the Series and made him the Series MVP.
But I couldn't have done it without my teammates. They make the plays. I wouldn't be the MVP without them."
"I've seen it all year," said Kansas City manager Dick Howser. "They felt good having John Tudor going, but they didn't feel any better than I did having Sahbern pitching."
The Kansas City third baseman went hitless in Game 6, striking out twice and bouncing into a double play. In Game 4 against Tudor, he struck out twice in four at-bats and looked futile in the process.
With the Royals one win away from their first world championship and with the 21-game winner Tudor as the obstacle last night, Brett decided
and Cardinal right-hander Joaquin Andujar.
"When you jump out to a quick lead like we did, you go out and challenge the hitter, and that's just what I did," he said.
George Brett took 15 minutes of early batting practice last night and went on to become the 43rd player in World Series history to collect four hits in a game.
some early batting practice was in order.
So three hours before game time — long before the arrival of the crowd and the television cameras — Brett spent 15 minutes taking cuts in the batting cage under the watchful eyes of hitting coach Lee May.
"I'd been swinging like a girl up there," Brett said. "This was the biggest game of my life. I wanted to be as ready as I could be for it so I wanted the extra batting practice. I wanted to contribute."
Brett singled in the first and third innings off Tudor, in the fourth off Bill Campbell and in the fifth off Rick Horton. He scored two runs in the clincher and wound up hitting .370 for the Series.
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Kansas quarterback Mike Norseth tumbled the football as he was tackled during Saturday's game against Oklahoma State. Norseth completed 16 passes for 197 yards in OSU's 17-10 victory.
By Frank Hansel
Late touchdown kills upset hopes
Of the Kansan sports staff
Success in the Big Eight means keeping conference losses to a minimum.
That made Saturday's Kansas-
Oklahoma State game critical
because both teams had already lost
a conference game.
"There's no doubt about it." OSU running back Thurman Thomas said after the game. "Because being 0 in the Big Eight would have really hurt us."
Two weeks ago, Kansas was upset by Iowa State 22-21, and Oklahoma State lost to Nebraska 34-24.
Thomas scored the winning touchdown with 1:05 left in the game to give Oklahoma State a 17-10 win over Kansas. The victory kept the Cowboys one game behind both Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Kansas had one last chance to tie or win the game, but time run on the Jayhawks, who had reached the OSU 14-yard line after marching down the field in the last minute of play. The loss dropped the Jayhawks two games behind the Sooners and the Cornhuskers.
"It itms that every close game we are in, we have to lose," said Kansas cornerback Tony Berry. "We played too well to lose today."
The Cowboys are now 1-1 in the Big Eight and 5-1 overall. Kansas slipped to 1-2 in the conference and 5-3 overall. Saturday Kansas travels to Norman, Okla., to play the Sooners, and the Cowboys are in Boulder, Colo., to take on the Buffalos.
Kansas head coach Mike Gottfried said before the game that the winner would be in the middle of the conference race, but that the loser would almost be out of it.
Cowboy head coach Pat Jones agreed. He said his team needed the win over Kansas if it wanted a
chance to challenge Nebraska and Oklahoma for the Big Eight Championship.
"A win like this aigiasen a quality team on the road will really help this team." Jones said. "We are still very competitive in league race and even the national one."
Jones said the Cowboys were fortunate to win, but both teams wasted scoring opportunities.
With the score tied at seven, defensive back Jerry Deckard intercepted a Mike Norseth pass and went 38 yards for an apparent touchdown. A Mike Krug negated the touchdown and the score remained tied until the third quarter
Each team missed goal opportunity. KU kicker Jeff Johnson missed from 38 yards out in the second quarter, and OSU kicker Joey O'Donnell missed from 22 yards in the fourth quarter after All-Star Game. The defense sloshed O'Neal intercepted a Norsest pass at the Kansas 11-vard line.
"I was definitely surprised to see the ball in my arms," O'Neal said. "All I was doing was going after Norseth, I don't think he even saw me on the play."
O'Donnell attempted the 22-yard field goal, which would have given Oklahoma State the lead, after the Cowboys were shut down in three plays by the KU defense following O'Neal's interception.
Jones said the defense was the most improved part of the Jayhawks. The Cowboys had averaged 27 points a game this year, and the KU defense held them to 17.
"We proved that we can play football with anybody," Kansas cornerback Milt Garner said. "The coaches told us all week long that we would have to play hard all four quarters to beat OSU. We did play hard, but we came up a little short."
'Hawks 5th at ORU
By Heather Fritz
Of the Kansan sports staff
The Kansas volleyball team finished first in its pool at the Oral Roberts Tournament in Tulsa, Okla, this weekend, but was knocked out of the competition by Texas Lutheran College 14-16, 2-15 in the semifinals.
' The Jayhawks won their pool by beating Tulsa for the third time this season 15-7, 15-12 and Texas-Ell Paso 15-9, 11-15. Kansas also lost to Texas Lutheran in the preliminary round 15-5, 11-15. Tournament matches were the best of three games.
; The Jayhawks' record is now 14-9.
In the tournament semifinals, Kansas lost to Texas Lutheran
after leading 13-5 in the first game and ended up in fifth place out of six teams.
Albizt said the net game was weak. She said the team's three best hitters, Judy Desch, Catalina Surzee and Julie Ester were playful either, so that on one rotation they only weak hitters at the net.
"I think once we're up, we feel like we've got it won." KU hitter Julie Ester said yesterday. "We just played really badly. I don't think our hearts were in it."
KU coach Frankie Albizt said, "We started out well but had some problems. The girls didn't have any problem again. They weren't effective."
"We need to spread those three out," Albitz said.
Broncos hand Chiefs 3rd straight loss
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Denver s Randy Robbins blocked two Kansas City punks, recovering one, and Gerald Willhite rushed for two touchdowns to lead the Broncos to a 30-10 victory yesterday over the Kansas City Chiefs.
Both blocked punts set up Denver points in the first and second quarters. Robbins' recovery on his first blocked punt set up a Denver field goal, and his blocked punt in the second quarter set up a touchdown
See NFL roundup p. 10.
The Broncos, 6-2, are now leading the AFC Western Division, depending on the outcome of the Los Angeles Raiders-San Diego Chargers Monday night game. The Chiefs, who
On their first possession of the game Denver quarterback John Elway led the Broncos on a 52-yard drive that ended when Wilhite dove over the top at the Kansas City 1-yard line for the touchdown at 8:26.
Willhite's score was set up three plays earlier when Elway hit wide receiver Steve Watson with a 12-yard pass to the Kansas City goal line, but Chiefs defender Kevin Ross wrestled Watson back to the 1-ward line.
The Broncos drove to the Kansas City 3-yard line, but Elway was sacked by Mike Bell at the 9-yard line, setting up a fourth-and-goal situation. Rich Karl then hit a 24-yard field
On the following series, Robbins blocked a Jim Arnold punt attempt at the Kansas City 37, and recovered the ball at the Chiefs' 9-vard line.
The penalty moved the ball to the Kansas City 39.
With 4:01 remaining in the first period, Elway connected to Watson on a second-and-10 situation for a 19-yard gain. Watson appeared to trap the ball at the Broncos' 42. Chiefs cornerback Ross protested the call and was called for unrestraintmanlike conduct.
goal to give the Broncos a 10-1 lead at 4:32 of the first quarter
Seven seconds into the second quarter, Gene Lane took a handoff inside from the t-yard line to score. He then took nine plays and marched 88 yards.
At third-and-two, Willhite swept left and scored on a 3-ward
After four Kansas City plays, Robbins again blocked an Arnold punt attempt, which was recovered by the Broncos at the Kansas City 24.
The Chies finally got their offensive game jump-started after the Broncos' touchdown. Two key receptions by Carlos Carson and Henry McHugh drove the Chiefs from their 53 to the Denver 31 in seven plays.
touchdown run to make the score 23-0. Karlis made the extra point for a 24-0 lead at 5:25 of the second period.
Three plays later Marshall caught an 8-yard pass to put the Chiefs at a loss.
Quarterback Kenney was shaken up on the following play and reserve quarterback Todd Blackledge was called in. Blackledge went up for a corner who went over the top for a touchdown at 4:39 to make it 24-7.
During the drive, the Chiefs made their only first downs of the first half.