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Thursday, Oct. 24, 1985
News Briefs
Starting center out for Saturday's game
Starting center Paul Oswald will miss Saturday's game against Oklahoma State after he suffered a strained knee yesterday in practice, head trainer Lynn Bott said. Offensive tackle Jim Davis bruised his ankle in practice yesterday, but he is expected to play.
One option Gottfried said he was strongly considering was moving *Pravis Hardy* to free safety and *Brad Garner* back in at cornerback.
The game will begin at 11:40 a.m. in Memorial Stadium and will be the Raycom-Big Eight Game of the Week. It can be seen locally on KMBC TV Channel 9 and KSNT Channel 7.
Head coach Mike Gottfried said he was still undecided about who would start in the defensive backfield against the Cowboys. Gottfried is looking for a replacement for Wayne Ziegler, who reinforced his right knee against Kansas State.
KU wins in 7 innings
Kansas third baseman Rob Presko's bases loaded walk in the bottom of the sevent innings lifted the Jayhawks to a 54 victory over Northeastern Oklahoma A&M yesterday at Quigley Field.
"We're jockeying some things around in the defensive backfield." Gottfried said.
The Jayhawks loaded the bases on a one-out double by John Hart, a walk to Steve Meyer and a single by Hugh Stainfield. Presko then walked on four pitches for the game winning RBI.
Last week Hardy was moved from strong safety to cornerback in order to get Marvin Mattox in the startling lineup.
Jayhawk first baseman John Byrn hit a three-run home run in the first inning to give Kansas a 3-0 lead.
Northwestern Oklahoma scored two runs in the fourth off start pitcher Steve Purdy, who transfered from Northeastern Oklahoma.
Northeastern Oklahoma tied the score in the fifth, scoring two runs off relief pitcher Paul Henry. Joe Benevitos came in to pitch the seventh inning and got credit for the win.
From staff and wire reports
Chiefs sign Pruitt;cut Jones again
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former Pro Bowl running back Mike Pruitt yesterday signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Chiefs and was placed on the team's 45-man active roster, the club announced.
The Chiefs waived first-year running back E.J. Jones, who had been released during the pre-season by the Chiefs but re-signed after two regular season games. Jones played 10 rushing yards on 12 carries and catching three passes for 31 yards in a reserve role.
Jones was a letterman on the Kansas football team from 1981-83.
Pruitt, who gained more than 8,000 total yards in nine years, reported to Arrowhead Stadium and will be available for Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos, a club spokesman said.
Pruitt gained his all-pro status in his nine-year career with the Cleveland Browns before he was signed by the Buffalo Bills in mid-September following the 1965 preseason.
He played in the last five games for the Bills, rushing seven times for 24 yards before being waived this past Tuesday.
The 6-0, 225-pound fullback was Cleveland's N.1 draft choice in 1976 but of Purdue he reached Pro Bowl for the Tigers and crushed for a career high 1,244 yards.
Pruitt gained more than 1,000 yards rushing in four of the next five years, including 1979. He caught at least 30 passes each of those seasons. His second Pro Bowl appearance came in 1980. In nine years at Cleveland, Pruitt totaled 124 games, 6,540 rushing yards on 1,598 attempts and averaged 4.1 yards per carry. He made 255 pass receptions for 1,761 yards and scored a total of 52 touchdowns.
The only injury in his career was a knee injury in 1984 that caused him to miss four games.
He left Cleveland as the Brown's third leading rusher in the club's history and had compiled 16 games of more than 100 yards.
Pruitt ranks 17th on the all-time NFL rushing charts.
Cards near title with 3-0 win over K.C.
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — John Tudor, writing perhaps the final chapter to his storybook season, pitched a five-hitter last night, and Tito Landrum and Willie McGee homered and moved the St. Louis Cardinals within one victory of their second World Series title in four years with a 3-0 triumph over the Kansas City Royals.
The Cardinals, who lead the best-of-seven Series 3-1, can wrap up their 10th championship before the hometown fans tonight at Busch Stadium. Bob Forsch will pitch for the Cardinals and Danny Jackson will pitch for the Royals.
Tudor, whose 21.8 record and 1.93 ERA were the best in baseball this season, was in command from the outset, allowing only two baserunner over the first six innings en route to his second victory this Series.
But he was a far better pitcher this time than he was when he won the opening game of the Series in Kansas City. This was a vintage Tudor performance, the kind he demonstrated numerous times this season while
posting 10 shutouts, tops in the majors.
The Royals had Tudor in trouble only twice. The first time came in the seventh inning when they loaded the bases on singles by George Brett and Jim Sundberg and a two-out walk to Steve Balboni. With Todd Worrell warming up in the bullpen, Manager Whitey Herzog elected to stay with Tudor. The 31-year-old left escaped by getting pitch-hitter Hal McRae to ground into a force play on the first pitch.
The Royals threatened again in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Lynn Jones led off with a double and Worrell began throwing in the bullpen. But Tudor rose to the moment by getting the next three battles, two on strikeouts, including Brett for the final out.
Tudor, 3-1 in post-season play this year, has won 23 of his last 25 decisions. He struck out eight and walked nine in the first time in the post-season.
The Cardinals had only six hits against starter Bud Black and relievers Joe Beckwitt and Dan Jarbry, but they made the most of them.
Normally a team that builds runs with baserunning. St. Louis unloaded the long ball to take an early 2-1 lead, ending a 68-inning streak during post-season play in which Kansas City pitchers did not yield a homer.
Landrum, the hitting star of the Series for St. Louis, got the Cardinals rolling by drilling a one-out homer in the second into the right-field seats. He who had not been hitning well from the doff position, belted a home to left.
The Cardinals then switched to one of their favorite weapons, the suicide squeeze bunt, to stretch their lead to 3-0 in the fifth.
With one out Terry Pendleton tripped to left-center. The Cardinals put on the suicide squeeze on the first in to N tom Nieto, but the ball rolled foul.
On a 3-2 pitch, the Cardinals applied the squeeze again and this time Nieto placed the ball to the right of the mound. Black one-handed the ball and his off-balance throw swailed by the plate as Pendleton scored easily.
Nieto took second on the error.
After Tudor struck out, McGee was
walked intentionally and Ozzie Smith fled out to end the inning.
The Royals had only two singles off Tudor over the first six innings and got just one runner as far as second base. Wille Wilson looped a single to center in the first and reached second when Brett bounced out to first. But Tudor escaped by getting Frank White on a fly ball.
Cardinals 3, Royals 0
If not for Tudor's superb pitching, it could have been a frustrating game for the Cardinals, who left runners in scoring position three times. They wasted a leadoff double by Tommy Herr in the sixth inning and ran themselves out of a potential big inning in the eighth when McGee was thrown at the plate as he attempted to score from second on a wild pitch by Quisenberry.
The Royals got only one hit off Tudor over the first three innings. Wilson singled with one out in the first inning and advanced to second when Brett grounded out. But Tudor retired White on a fly to end the inning.
KANSAS CITY ST. LOUIS
a b h b l  a b h b l  a b h b l
Lsmith f i 4 0 1 0  McGee e i 4 0 1 0
Wilson cf i 4 0 1 0  OSmith s i 4 0 1 0
Brett b i 4 0 1 0  Herr b i 2 0 1 0
Brett b i 4 0 1 0  Clark b i 3 0 1 0
Sumberg g i 4 0 1 0  Hodler b i 3 0 1 0
Motley b i 4 0 0 0  Cedeon r f 4 0 0 0
Balboni b i 2 0 1 0  Van Slyker r f 0 0 0 0
Balboni b i 2 0 1 0  Fendleton b 3 1 1 0
McRea p i 1 0 0 0  Mckee n i 1 0 0 0
Concepcion ss i 0 0 0  Tudor p i 0 0 0
Quisternberry p 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 5 0 Totals 25 3 6 3
Kansas City 000 000 000—0
St. Louis 011 010 00x—3
Tudor finding new dominance of Rovals
Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO
Black (L-0-1) 5 4 3 3 3
Beckwith 2 1 0 0 0 3
Quisenberry 1 1 0 0 2 0
Game-winning RBI - Landrum (1).
E - Black-DP - Kansas LOB - Lobras-Kansas
D - Washington 5 - SB Harr. Jones
B - Pendleton, HR - Landrum (1), MeGee (1).
N - Nieto, O. Smith
St. Louis         T-10            9 5 0 0 1
Tampa Bay        T-8             9 5 0 0 1
W-Queen Berry, T-219, A-53, 044
United Press International
"I was pitching around Balboni until I saw MreCae take off his warm uu
ST. LOUIS — Among all the hitters John Tudor confused and outwitted last night none was more threatening than Hal McRae, an old adversary who has had his number for a long time.
Mrae, who has compiled a convincing, 464 career batting average against Tudor, came to bat as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning with two out and the bases loaded. The Royals' Steve Balboni had just walked.
jacket," Tudor said. "He hit a bad ball and grounded out. I was fortunate that he did.
"I wasn't happy to see him come in, but things worked out," Tudor said.
"He's a good pitcher the way he moves the ball around." Howser said. "You know that a guy like John Tudor is only going to give you one
In shutting down the Royals, Tudor reversed a tough trend he had when he was with Boston. The Royals had beaten Tudor five of seven times and had run his career earned run average against them to 6.22.
Kansas City manager Dick Howser wasn't surprised by Tudor's performance. He also thought that the failure to score in the seventh ended the Royals' best chance to rally.
shot...Tudor made a pretty good pitch."
Tudor got McRae to hit the first pitch on the ground to third, giving the Cardinals the force-out that ended the inning and helped them claim a 3-0 victory and a 3-1, lead in the World Series.
St. Louis manager Whitey Herzog
had Todd Worrell in the bulpen puch chose to stay with Tutor.
The Royals threatened again in the eighth when Lynn Jones led off with a double, but Tudor struck out Lonnie Smith, got Willie Wilson to ground to second and then struck out George Brett on three pitches.
"I't thought about it. John has 10 shutouts this year. He's been a good pitcher and it's tough to take a guy like that out." Herzog said.
Tudor then retired the side in the ninth. As the capacity crowd shouted Tu-dor, Tu-dor, he got Darryl Motley
Tudor, who during the regular season won 20 of 21 decisions, had his customary pinpoint control. He walked only one while striking out eight, including striking out the side in the third.
to fly- out to center. St. Louis has a 3-1 lead in the Series.
He permitted a one-out single to Willie Wilson in the first, then retired 13 in a row before Balboni's single in the fifth.
KU defense bends but doesn't break
Tudor was pitching with three days rest after winning the first game of the World Series 3-1.
By Frank Hansel
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff
After Saturday's game against Kansas State, the Kansas pass defense is ranked eighth in the Big Eight Conference and 105th nationally. But statistics can be misleading, as investigator Vince Hoch said yesterday.
"The bottom line is not to let the opponent in the end zone." Hoch said.
"If you keep the ball in the ballpark then you're going to win."
Defensive back Travis Hardy said the team members were more concerned with their opponents than statistics.
Kansas has given up an average of 278.8 yards a game through the air, but the defense has allowed an average of only 19.8 points a game
"When you face as many passing teams as we have you're going to give up some yards," Hardy said. "Our defense seems to bend but not break."
Head coach Mike Gottfried said that when the Jayhawks face teams that throw the ball 40 or 50 times a game, they were going to give up some yards. But, he said, the KU team was able to stop its opponents.
"We had three interceptions that led to scores last week," Gottfried said.
Hoch said that just because he was happy didn't mean he was satisfied with the defense. The team has made improvement, but there is no question that there is room for more improvement, Hoch said.
"I have no quolms with our pass defense," Hoch said. "Outside of two passes — the long pass at Florida State and the tipped pass at Iowa State — I am happy with our defense."
Kansas has 14 interceptions through seven games this season. Last year the Jayhawks intercepted 14 passes in 11 games.
Since free safetyway Ziegler reinjured his knee against Kansas he will have his third starting defensive backfield in as many weeks.
"It itsems somebody has been down every week," Gottfred said. "You can't keep building when you have to keep going back to patch up the defense. You can't put in the things you want to."
Gottfried said he was considering several options to replace Ziegler. Hardy, who was moved from strong safety to cornerback against Kansas State, may be moved to free safety, and Milt Garner could regain his starting spot at cornerback.
Gottfried also said he might start Kevin Harder at free safety. Harder
Hoch said Kansas couldn't use the injury as an excuse but had to improve and make the best of the situation.
"You've got to play pass defense with confidence," Hoch said. "You've got to believe in yourself and be mentally tough, especially at cornerback, because they are usually covering man to man."
Three Big 10 teams could hurt Top 10
"I think all the defensive backs can play any of the positions," Garner said. "Coach just has to use his judgment and figure who he wants out there."
Garner said he expected the pass yardage to come down in the next couple of games because Kansas fans that relied heavily on running.
Garner said he and his teammates had confidence, no matter who was on the field.
"We have a strong defense against the run," Garner said. "We should be able to make these teams pass the ball, and if we do they will be ready."
Northwestern, one of college football's more notable losers over the
years, stands at 3-3 following last week's 17-14 upset of Wisconsin. Coach Dennis Green, an Iowa graduate, would like nothing better than to knock his alma mater from its No. 1 perch.
Following are the odds on some of this week's games, along with predictions.
Northwestern, Indiana and Minnesota, three veteran Big Ten doormats who are trying to shed their status as also-rans, have a chance to do some serious damage this weekend against three members of the Associated Press Top Ten.
Indiana at No. 4 Michigan (favored by 24). Michigan 35-7.
Virginia Tech at 2. Florida (by 17½%) Florida 28-7.
The Associated Press
Northwestern and Indiana are 24-point underdogs against No. 1 Iowa and No. 4 Michigan, respectively. Minnesota, however, is in the first place since 1982 and is only the sixth underdog against No. 9 Ohio State.
"You never know in this league," says Michigan Coach Bo Schembachler, whose team is the onestar of the big three to play at home.
West Virginia at No. 3 Penn State (by 7); Penn State 24-14.
Colorado at No. 5 Nebraska (by
21) Nebraska 42-17.
No. 9 Ohio State (by %) at No. 20
Western United Special of the
Missouri State.
Mississippi State at No. 6 Auburn (by 17): Auburn 38-14.
Kansas defensive back Travis Hardy stirred the crowd into a frenzy between plays in the second quarter of Saturday's game against Kansas State.
Intense work improves Kim
By Heather Fritz Of the Kansan sports staff
Christine Kim's first impression of KU's head tennis coach Scott Perelman was not a good one.
It was last spring and Kim, then a member of the Houston tennis team, was playing against Kansas in a tournament at Irvine, Calif. She was playing KU's Barb Inman, and the two were arguing over line calls.
"The first thing he ever said to me was, 'You have to continue playing. It's an NCAA rule,'" Kim said Tuesday.
Kim transferred to Kansas over the summer, and is now KU's No. 3 player. The move from Houston to Kansas is only part of her travels.
Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to the United States-with her family when she was 3 years old. She didn't start playing tennis until age 14, but things moved quickly for her after that.
She played at Shawnee Mission South High School for three years, but decided to move before her senior year to train in Florida.
But she set her sights a bit lower than the international circuit. Kim
Kim went to Nick Bollettieri's Tennis Academy in Sarasota, Fla., where she trained with the likes of Jimmy Arias, Carling Bassett and Lisa Bonder, now all high ranked in international tennis. KU team member Darin Herman also attended the academy.
"I thought it was going to be great," Kim said. "I really enjoyed the total tennis atmosphere. I didn't expect to come home and be Martina Navratilova, just to improve."
Kim said she never had impressive results in junior tournaments.
said she went to Florida with the goal of getting a college scholarship.
"I just couldn't win enough matches to get a good ranking," she said. "All those years that I was denied the big tournaments were lessons for me. I wish I could have played those tournaments, but that's in the past."
"I was on the court more hours than I was off the court," she said. "I hated it."
you have to put out 100 percent every day and do a little more every day."
At Bollettieri's, students went to class all morning and played tennis all afternoon. Bollettieri is known as a disciplinarian. In its November 1980 issue, World Tennis magazine called his academy "a sweatshop with nets." Kun finished her high school requirements in one semester, so she was practicing all day during the spring.
"Everybody knows that to be the best in any sport you have to sacrifice something," she said. "That's what I also realized that
The competitiveness at the academy added to her dislike for the program. It was hard to have friends, she said, when the players were playing against one another. She left the academy and went way through the second semester.
While at Bollettieri's, she was recruited by Houston. But when she arrived there, the coach who recruited her had been replaced.
"I've always grown to respect coaches," Kim said. "With the new coach down at Houston, I slowly started losing respect for her. She didn't care about the team's feelings, she just wanted the team to be all number one players."
At the end of the year, Kim and four of the other eight women on the team left the program. Kim chose Kansas because she was impressed by Perelman and the way he had improved the team.
"I wanted somebody who could help me, not screw me around like down at Houston," she said. "Scott was the perfect person."
Kim said she didn't regret leaving Bollettieri's, and she didn't wonder where she would be now if she had stayed.
"I do owe Bollettieri's for how much I improved, but I owe a lot of credit to myself," she said. "I'm the one that pushed myself to go out and do more. Nobody was there to say, 'You do this; you do that.' I kept pushing myself.
"There were so many times when I just wanted to quit because everyone was so far ahead of me. Now I'm here competing for No. 1 on the team. I never thought I could come as far as I am now."