Sports
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
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Zielger out 2 weeks with reinjured knee
'Free safety Wayne Ziegler, who reinjured his right knee in the Jayhawks' 38.7 victory over Kansas State, will be out of action about two weeks, head coach Mike Gottfried said yesterday.
Kansas went through a light workout yesterday on the practice field behind Anschutz Sports Pavilion in preparation for Saturay game against Oklahoma State at 11:40 a.m in memorial Stadium.
The game will be the RayCom Big Eight Game of the Week and can be seen on KMBCT TV Channel 9 and KSNT Channel 27.
Linebacker Willie Pless, who set a new conference record for career tackles, was named defensive player of the week by the coaching staff.
BYU leads tourney
Brigham Young had four golfers shoot in the 70s, and the Cougars took a commanding 11-stroke lead over Missouri after the first round of the Kansas Invitational women's golf tournament yesterday at Alvamar Country Club.
BYU's Karen Zielenski and Iowa State's Penn Pennis both shot 74 to share the first round lead. Martha Vargas and Nancy Callan, both of Brigham Young, were tied for third at 75.
Brigham Young shot 306 as a team to take an 11-strike lead over Missouri Iowa State is third at 318 followed by Kansas A team, 324; Wichita State, 326; Kansas B team, 333; Kansas State, 341; and Southwest Missouri State, 355.
Kansas coach Kent Keiser said Brigham Young was a great team, but it was frustrating to see teams that were U's home course and play so well.
Marlee Scheid was the low golfer for Kansas with a first round 79. Brenda Sanders and Tina Gnewboth both shot 81 for the A team. Ann Brayman also shot an 81 for Kansas, which was the low score for the Kansas B squad.
The tournament will conclude today with 27 holes. The teams will begin teeing off at 8:30 a.m. and finish the second round, and then play the third round in the afternoon.
KU sailors victorious
The Kansas sailing club competed last weekend against Kansas State at Lake Shawnee in Topeka and came away with a team victory as well as the two top individual finishes.
*Kansas scored 23½ points to beat Kansas State, which scored 25¼ points. Tamer O'Kay and Bob Rombach finished first and second for the Jayhawks, and Geoff Smith tied for fifth.
"The club races Lasers, which are one-person boats, O'Kay said. The clubs race twice in the competition, and club members swap among themselves to make sure no one racer has a big advantage
Next weekend the club will compete at Lake Fort Gibson, Okla., at a regatta sponsored by the Central States Sailing Association. Oklahoma State, Kansas State and other private clubs will also compete.
From staff and wire reports.
Howser faces criticism
United Press International
ST. LOUISE — Second guessers form a line!
America's Heartland World Series switches to Busch Stadium for Game 3 Tuesday night with the Kansas City Royals hopeful that they can silence the St. Louis Cardinals chair managers before the St. Louis Cardinals silence them for the winter
Royals' manager Dick Howser dealt with numerous questions Monday about his decision to leave starter Charlie Leibrandt on the mound in Game 2 Sunday, inviting a four-run Cardinal comeback.
The perfect wisdom of Monday-Morning-Managers interpreted Howser's decision as a serious blunder. Howser, much to his credit, faced every doubter.
"It wasn't an easy night for me, he said at a press conference Monday. "It was painful."
Sunday's loss left the Royals down 0-2 in the best-of-seven series with the next three games scheduled for Busch Stadium. The Cardinals plan to quickly wrap up their second world championship in four years in front of their home fans and avoid another
Right-hander Joaquin Andujar, the Cardinals' eccentric 21-game winner, is manager Whitey Herzog's choice to pitch Game 3. He will be opposed by Bret Saberhagen, the Royals' baby-faced 20-game winner.
trip across Interstate 70 to Kansas City.
Although the Cardinals have an air of invinibility about them, Herzog, mindful of how the Royals bounced back from a 2-0 defeat against Toronto to win the American League championship Series, is playing it cautious.
"We haven’t exactly overpowered them the last two days," Herzog said. "Their pitching is great. We’re going to go up against their 20-game winner (Bret) Saberhagen. They’re a veteran post-season team and we are not taking anything for granted. We still have to win two more."
At least the Royals will not have to worry about St. Louis speedster Vince Coleman for the rest of the Series. The Cardinal base-stealer was sidelined before Game 4 of the National League championships series when he was struck by an automatic tar-polling machine.
Cardinals' team doctor Stan Lon
don said further tests showed that Coleman has a tiny chip of bone on the outside part of his left knee and will not return to action this year. London said he had prescribed a six-week rest for the St. Louis rookie.
But the Cardinals have been winning without Coleman and it's hard to believe the Royals can come back. They played about as well as they could in the two games in Kansas City and lost both of them.
"I guess we are from the school of Yogi Berra. It's not over until it's over," said Tito Landrum, one of the heroes of the Cardinal comeback "It's been characteristic of our club all year. When Willie McGee led on the ninth with a double, the dugout just seemed to vibrate. It's just like we knew it was in the cards."
As spirit lifting as the victory in Game 2 was for the Cardinals, it was as equally demoralizing for the Royals.
"You can't give a team like that a chance," said Royals' third baseman George Brett. "We gave them a great one and it cost us. We've got to forget about that one."
Mark Mother/KANSAN
Monica Spencer watches Elisa Woods attempt to spike the volleyball past three Missouri blockers. Kansas won its second consecutive conference match with scores of 5-15, 3-15, 15-12, 15-11, 15-10 last night in Allen Field House against the Tigers.
Mark Mohler/KANSAN
Cox reportedly leaving Toronto
The Associated Press
TORONTO -- Manager Bobby Cox, who led the Toronto Blue Jays to the American League East Division title this year, is leaving the team to join the Atlanta Braves as general manager, Jays General Manager Pat Gillick said yesterday.
"He's gone," said Gillick, who is in St. Louis for the World Series. "It will be announced (today)."
Cox could not be reached for comment last night.
The Braves had asked the Jays for permission to talk to the 44-year-old Cox last Friday, just two days after Toronto had been eliminated in the AL playoffs by the Kansas City Royals.
Gillick wouldn't reveal terms or the Braves' offer, but said he thought it was for "five years and a lot of money."
A Braves spokesman reached in Atlanta on Monday night refused to confirm the report, although he said there was an announcement
New Braves Manager Chuck Tanner said the move makes the Braves "a well-rounded, organized organization." The most solid situation Atlanta has been in in a long, long time. This is a great direction to go."
planned for today and there was a "strong possibility" Cox would be coming to the Braves.
The Braves won the National League West title in 1982, but in 1983 tell to second place in the division. A year later, the Braves slumped to an .80-32 record that cost Manager Joe Torre his job.
Under Eddie Haas and Bobby Wine this season, the Bravelets to a 66-96 mark, 29 games out of first place in the NL West. Haas was fired during the season and replaced by Wine. The day after the season ended Wine was dismissed and left the Pittsburgh Pirates that club was sold to new owners, was hired the same week.
Cox managed the Braves from 1978-81, before moving to Toronto.
Volleyball team wins in 5 games
By Heather Fritz
Of the Kansan sports staff
The Kansas volleyball team kicked one habit Saturday night, but may have already started another.
This new habit is called winning Big Eight conference matches. The old habit was losing them.
The Jayhawks beat Iowa State on Saturday night to end a three-year streak of conference losses, and last night they proved it was no fluke by beating Missouri in five games.
"It's unbelievable," said head coach Frankie Albiz, shaking her head as she left the court. "That's the most confident they've played."
The Jayhawks' record is now 2-4 in the conference and 12-7 overall. The Tigers are 3-1 and 10-7 overall.
Albizt said that the poor play was because of line-up problems and hitter Catalina Suarez's position on the court.
Things looked bleak as Kansas lost the first two games 5-15 and 3-15. The Jayhawks had only 11 kills in the first two games, and Missouri had 21. Kansas also made six service errors in those first games.
"They didn't play well enough to get Catalina to the front to hit." Albitz said after the match. "I also think it a matter of the team settling in."
Suarez had only three kills in the first two games. She finished the night with 17.
Missouri was able to pull the Kansas hitters toward the net in the early games and spike the ball behind him. But Judy Desch said that Kansas put the ball back into the hitter Dianne Berg, which freed a lot of the court for the Tigers to hit into it.
In the third game, Kansas moved to a 10-1 lead before Missouri came back and won the next six points. The Jayhawks finally closed out the game 15-2 on a kill by Shannon Ridgeway
Kansas won the fourth game 15-11 on a service ace by Desch, then fell behind 1-4 in the fifth. The Jayhawks tied the game at 4-4 when a block by Sharon Zachering of Missouri fell wide. They moved to a 10-5 lead on a service ace by Surzee, and won the game 15-10 on Desch's block.
"They seem to be more able to do what I'm telling them." Albizt said. "I think we are gaining confidence in each other."
Earlier this season against Missouri and Kansas State, Kansas pushed the conference opponents to five matches, but each time fell short in matches they thought they should have won.
"This year when we started playing people to five games, I knew we would do it (end the streak)." said Desch, who finished the night with 14 kills and five blocks. "Other teams are overlooking us. They don't think we're going to beat a tough team."
Albitz admitted she was a little surprised that the team did so well.
"I was concerned that they might have a letdown because it (ending the losing streak) was such a big deal for them," she said. "But they deserve this. They've been through a lot in the last couple of years, and this means a lot to them.
"I was so pleased Saturday that we got over the hump. I hope it just keeps building and building."
Suarez had to leave the match briefly in the fifth game for a trainer to look at her knee. Albiz said she had twisted it before and reinjured it last night.
Kansas travels to Tulsa, Okla., this weekend for the Oral Roberts Tournament. It will be a homecoming for Albiz, who left Oral Roberts after four years as head coach to come to Kansas
"I'm glad they (ORU) are not in our pool." Albitz said "It will be interesting to see what happens."
Speaker motivates athletes
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff
Educating a football team is more than drawing X's and O's on a blackboard and reviewing game films for the next opponent. Kansas coach Mike Gottfred said Sunday it also involved teaching the players about other aspects of life.
During his three years at Kansas, Gottfried has brought in several different speakers to talk with the football team.
Mason also spoke to the Kansas football team before the Hawaiian and Vanderbilt games. He has also addressed other college football teams, including Georgia.
"There are not classes in all these areas, so I try to bring the classes to our team with the different speakers." Gottfried said.
A popular speaker this year has been Tony Mason. He has spoken to the team on three occasions this season on Team 13 was before the Kansas State game.
Mason is a highly successful football coach, coaching both high school and college. Now he represents two businesses and is a motivational speaker who tours the globe giving seminars.
Mason's coaching ac-
complishments include the longest
winning streak in high school football.
He won 48 straight games at Niles High School in Niles, Ohio.
He then went on to be an assistant
coach at Michigan and Purdue,
before becoming head coach at
Cincinnati. Mason ended his
career career at Arizona.
'He really gets into it and goes off on whatever he's talking about. It really gets you psyched.'
— Phil Forte
Pilton Rote
Defensive end
Mason said the Jayhawks didn't need him to speak to them, but he did it because Gottfried asked him to. It often helps to hear something from an outside source, Mason said.
"I originally brought him in to talk to our football team, but the seniors were so impressed with him that they asked him to speak at their graduation." Gottfried said.
Gottfried was an assistant coach with Mason at Cincinnati and Arizona.
Now Mason is the headline speaker for clinics all over the world. He has a great ability to motivate people through speech, Gottfried said.
Mason really made the team members believe in themselves, and he was just like one of the coaches.
Defensive back C.J. Eanes said
"Before the Hawaii game he warned us about a game over there," Eanes said. "He said the people would try to get us to notice the scenery and not concentrate on the football game."
Defensive end Phil Forte agreed with Eanes.
"He really gets into it and goes off on whatever he's talking about. It really gets you psyched," Forte said.
Gottried said Mason, or any other speaker, usually built on the theme of the week that the other coaches had been talking about.
"I can tell our team learns from these people because I often hear our队quoting them back," Gotfried said. "It reinforces what I know when they hear someone like Gi Brandt say the same thing."
Other guest speakers have included former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson and Gil Brown in the Dallas Cowboys' organization.
Mason said his basic tactics were the same whether he was talking to his business associates or to a football team
"Businesses need to sell, and football teams need to win games," Mason said. "It really is all the same."
Perry gets TD in Bears' win
CHICAGO — Walter Payton used 325-pound William Perry, a linearmurten-fullback, as a blocking back for two short touchdown runs last night, and Perry added his own 1-yard scoring run to lead the unbeaten Chicago Bears to a 2-37 victory over the Green Bay Packers.
The Bears, 7-0, and the Los Angeles Rams are the only NFL teams with perfect records. Green Bay dropped to 3-4.
Chicago scored three touchdowns in the second quarter to take a 21-7 halftime lead. The only scoring in the second half was a Chicago safety. It was scored when Otis Wilson caught
Payton, who rushed for 112 yards, and Perry formed an uncommon backfield for the Bears. The rookie defensive tackle from Clemson, who made his first appearance as a fullback in the final two plays of last week's game against San Francisco, served as a blocking back for Payton on a 2-yard run that made the score 7-7 with 13:41 left in the second quarter.
third-string quarterback Jim Zorn in the end zone with 4 minutes left in the game.
Following an interception by linebacker Wilber Marshall, Chicago's third of the game, the Bears used the same formation from one yard out. But Perry took the hap
The Packers punted on their next possession, and Chicago went 86 yards in 13 plays, scoring on a 1-yard run by Payton with Perry showing Packer linebacker George Cumby several feet off the line.
McMahon finished with 12 completions in 26 attempts for 144 yards. He left the game midway through the fourth quarter with an ankle injury that was not considered serious
Green Bay quarterback Lynn Dickey, who was removed with a pulled thigh muscle, finished the first half completing four of seven pass for 62 yards with one touchdown.
doff from quarterback Jim McMahon this time and scored to give the Bears a 14-7 lead.
Iowa unanimous No.1 choice
United Press International
NEW YORK — The Iowa Hawkeyes, solidified by their last-second victory over Michigan. Monday became the first college football team in more than two years to receive a unanimous No. 1 rating from the UPI Board of Coaches.
The Hawkeyes maintained their No.1 position for the fourth straight week when Rob Houghtlin kicked his fourfield goal, a 29-yard as time expired, to defeat Michigan 12-10. Michigan had been ranked third.
on the fifth week of the 1983 season. Iowa's perfect 630-point total was 74 more than No. 2 Penn State.
The last time the 42 members of the Board agreed on the top-rated team was when they voted Nebraska No. 1.
After lowa the next 11 spots changed Penn State climbed from the fourth spot to No. 2, Nebraska jumped from sixth to No. 3 and Auburn leaped from seventh to No. 5.
Michigan dropped to No 4. Oklahoma and Arkansas, which suffered their first losses of the season Saturday, both plummeted from the first five. The Sooners fell from No. 2 to No. 10 while the Razorbacks sank from fifth to 13th.
Top 20
First place votes and records in parentheses,
total points (based on 10 points for first place, 14
points for second and last week) in ranking:
I. Iowa (42) (6)
Lee State (41)
Michigan (51)
Auburn (51)
Ford (70)
Brightham Young (61)
Ohio State (51)
State of Ohio (51)
Okahanna (51)
Baylor (51)
Arkansas (51)
Miami (Fla.) (51)
Texas (51)
Tennessee (51)
Texas (41)
Oklahoma State (41)
Arizona (51)
Minnesota (51)
Indiana (week 9)