Sports
University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1985
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News Briefs
Injured safeties back for Iowa State game
free safety Wayne Ziegler and strong safety Marvin Mattox will play Saturday when the Jayhawks play Iowa State, head football coach Mike Gottfried said yesterday. The first Big Eight Conference game for both teams will begin at 11:40 a.m. in Ames, Iowa.
Blue Jays overpower Royals in Game 1
The game will be the Big Eight-Raycom game of the week, and will be televised regionally. The game can be seen locally on KSNT, Channel 27, and KMBC-TV, Channel 9.
Gottried said defensive end Robert Tucker, who is still recovering from knee, ankle and heel injuries suffered against Florida State on Sept. 28, would probably not play.
United Press International
From staff and wire reports.
TORONTO — Ernie Whitt, one of three remaining original Blue Jays, drove in two runs Tuesday night and Dave Steib pitched a three-hitter over eight innings, helping Toronto open its playoff history with a 6-1 rout of the Kansas City Royals.
Whitt singled in a run during the second inning and drew a bases-loaded walk in the third for the Blue Jays, who hold a 1-0 advantage in the best-of-seven American League playoffs.
The series then travels to Royals Stadium for Games 3, 4 and, if necessary, 5. Any remaining games would be played in Toronto.
A crowd of 39,115, well under capacity, came to Exhibition Stadium, a modest structure located on the shoreline on Lake Ontario shore.
The fans came hoping for a party and that is exactly what they received. The Blue Jays, a onetime doormat born of expansion, outclassed the playoff-experienced Royals from the first pitch.
Kansas City manager Dick Howser now has lost 10 straight playoff games.
They led 2-0 after two innings, 5-0
after three and 6-0 after four.
league debut in 1977 and since has developed into a valuable part of Toronto's catching platoon.
Whitt, 33, of Detroit, was acquired from Boston in the expansion draft in November 1976. He made his majored. Pinch-hitter Dane Iorg doubled in the eighth.
He grew even more important this season when catcher Buck Martinez was sidelined with a severe leg injury.
Right-hander Jim Clancy and third baseman Garth long are the only players with the best record.
Stieb, a 28-year-old right-hander, led the AL with a 24 A8R but posted only a 14-13 record. His nomination as the opening game pitcher caused controversy, because of his lack of success against Kansas City this season.
However, he more than justified his bulldog reputation. Of the 97 pitches he threw, 65 were strikes. Stieb shut down every Royal starter except George Brett, who drew and doubled.
Tom Henke performed an untidy mop-up job, allowing two hits in the ninth and yielding Kansas City's only run before retiring the side.
The Blue Jays took a 2-1 lead in the second inning, although a bizarre muff by left fielder Lomnie Smith failed to figure in the scoring.
Willie Wilson and Brett opened the Kansas City ninth with singles, putting runners on first and third. One out later, Wilson scored when Pat Sheridan forced Brett. The run snapped a 20-inning scoreless playoff streak for Kansas City in the plavoffs.
Jesse Barfield led on with a single and advanced when Willie Upshaw was hit by a pitch. Garth forl then lifted a routine fly to Smith.
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Kansas shortstop Gary Lang received a word of advice from assistant coach Skip James during a game last spring. Head coach Marty Pattin said Lang, a quiet team leader, had been a tremendous defensive shortstop. James is no longer with the team.
Coaches say shortstop Lang could become professional
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff
The weatherman has not exactly been a friend of the Kansas baseball team this fall. Rain, which has forced postponement of five games and cancellation of two others, washed out practice yesterday.
But Jayhawk shortstop Gary Lang said he wasn't worried, yet.
"As long as it rains in the middle of the week, it's OK," Lang said yesterday.
Lang is the only full-time starting indefender left from last spring, and head coach Marty Pattin said he had not missed any games from his senior shortstop this year.
"He just did a tremendous job for us last year defensively," Pattin said. "He had a good year offensive-minded to want more out of him this year."
Both Pattin and assistant coach Lee Ice said Lang had a good chance of playing professional baseball after his KU career ended next spring.
"He has enough range and strength. Pattin said he just hit him back with the ball."
think he has a chance to play pro ball somewhere.
Ice said if Lang had the kind of year he did last year, he would get a chance to play professional baseball. Last year, Lag hit .301 with 2 home runs, 21 RBIs, and had a fielding percentage of .935.
"I've talked to a few scouts, and they think he has a good chance of playing professionall ball," Ice said.
Lang said he would love the opportunity to play, but it was too early to think about it since he had a entire room to play. Lang said he needed to improve his hitting.
"I would like to hit for more power," Lang said. "Hitting involves a lot of luck, and I haven't found my stroke this fall."
This summer, Pattin said, Lang improved his hitting while playing for the Hays Larks. The team went to New York in a third-roundnament unseeded and fifth-f�thed.
This season Lang has been hitting third, and Ice said that spot often works well.
"We're hoping, Gary can hit for more power this year and get the key hits for us," Ice said. "He also needs
to drive in between 40 and 50 runs, instead of 15 to 20 like he did last year hitting in the number nine position."
In Sunday's double-header against Missouri Western, Lang had a single in the second half.
Pattin said Lang came to Kansas at a perfect time. The Jayhawks were looking for someone to replace shortstop Joe Heeney, who was drafted by the New York Yankees after he graduated in 1983.
"He really solidified the infield," Pattin said. "We needed someone to take over for Joe Heeney, and he really did the job."
Lang, who transferred from Kansas City, Kan., Community College, now has become a team leader, Pattin said.
'Huskers accused of having early basketball practice
"A lot of people look up to him, but he leads by his actions." Pattin said.
The Associated Press
Ice said Lang was a quiet leader, and his attitude and hard work set him apart from other players.
"He has an excellent attitude. He's always one of the first ones on the field, and the work is going to pay off for him someday."
"Everything we're doing is strictly legal," Iba said in response to a copyright story today in the Daily Nebraskan, the student publication at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
LINCOLN, Neb. — Moe Iba, Nebraska basketball coach, today denied that he violated National Collegiate Athletic Association rules by attending a practice.
Iba said he put the players through running drills, which the NCAA
allows before Oct. 15, when practice may begin.
The Daily Nebraska reported that Iba and Randy Cipriano, assistant coach, entered a gymnasium on Monday to watch the players were live basketball.
"The reporters have tape recordings of the players running on the court and of Iba and his assistants shouting instructions," said a Daily Nebraskan editorial accompanying its story. "Towels blocked the gym windows and the doors were locked."
"I wish I had a dozen Gary Langs," ice said.
The editor and the sports editor of
the Daily Nebraskaan were not available for comment when the Associated Press attempted to reach them at the newspaper's offices.
Ba said he discussed the matter with Bob Devaney, athletic director. He said Devaney had told him to go and do what was required and that was all there was to go.
"They thought they had something, I guess, and that's why they ran the wires. It said, "But in our minds they have we have not done anything wrong."
Tom Simons, associate sports information director at Nebraska, said the Daily Nebraskan had produced little more than circumstantial evidence to say that Iaai violated
"They have nothing that says what he was doing in there," Simons said.
Janice Wenger, legislative assistant with the NCAA, said teams can't begin on-court basketball drills until Oct. 15.
"Prior to that, they can have pre-season activities — aerobics, running, weightlifting — but nothing with a basketball," she said. "There is
nothing that says you can't lock the doors, but it would be unusual and something we would be interested in pursuing. We would certainly wonder if its supposed to be an open gym, somebody would be looking the doors."
The Daily Nebraskan reported that its reporters and photographers were waiting when Ia emerged from a gymnasium at Mabel Lee Hall.
Iba said today that players were playing basketball when the coaching staff entered the gym, but
they had stopped because of the rule about coaches watching play.
Iba said that he had then made the players run drills and that the instructions picked up by the tape recorder were his as he led the players through running drills.
He said he had conducted running and weightlifting drills for years before he joined the Army.
Iba said the doors traditionally have been locked and towels placed over the windows to prevent students and others from viewing the players preparing for the new season.
Sports Almanac
AP Top 20
Firstplace votes in parentheses, season record,
total points based on 20-18-18 and last week's
| | Record | Pts. | Pts. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Iowa (34) | 4-0 | 116 | 116 |
| 2. Oklahoma (14) | 4-0 | 116 | 116 |
| 3. Michigan (7) | 4-0 | 1037 | 7 |
| 4. Florida State (3) | 4-0 | 960 | 1 |
| 5. Oklahoma St (1) | 4-0 | 960 | 1 |
| 6. Arkansas | 4-0 | 806 | 10 |
| 7. Florida | 4-0 | 779 | 11 |
| 8. Penn State | 4-0 | 745 | 12 |
| 9. Nebraska | 3-1 | 664 | 12 |
10. Albany 4-0 650 11
11. Brigham Young 4-1 529 15
12. Anburn 3-1 514 14
13. Air Force 5-0 452 17
14. Tennessee 2-1 442 16
15. Ohio State 3-1 430 5
16. So Madhusti 2-1-0 300 3
17. Texas 3-0-0 170 20
18. Georgia 3-1-0 161 18
19. Baylor 4-1-0 109 18
20. Utah 4-1-0 109 18
Others receiving votes: UCLA 104, Arizona 83,
North Carolina 75, Wisconsin 62, Maryland 7,
Washington 6, Georgia Tech 5, Kansas 4, Browning
Green 4, Southern California 3, Purdue 1.
19 Baylor 4-1-0 159 19
20 LSU 2-1-0 115 8
Officials await word on aid
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
The petitions were filed in behalf of offensive guard Doug Certain.
Athletic Department officials said yesterday that they still awaited official word whether Big Eight Conference faculty representatives had approved continued scholarship aid for five of the seven football players declared ineligible by the University in September.
However, Prentice Gault, associate commissioner of the Big Eight, said yesterday that his records showed the representatives had granted scholarship exceptions and had not given any KU players. He declined to release the names of the players who were granted the exceptions.
Dave Didion, administrative assistant to head football coach Mike Gottfried, said petitions for approval of continued aid were filed by Del Brinkman, KU's faculty representative to the Big Eight.
tailback Lynn Williams, defensive end Guy Gamble, and linebackers
Those petitions, along with similar petitions from other Big Eight schools, were considered by the faculty representatives at the Big Eight meetings on Sept. 25-26, Brinkman said.
Pettitions were not filed for two of the seven originally declared academically ineligible Those two are unmarried imbibes and cornerback Alvin Walton.
Certain is no longer a KU student according to the office of student president.
Williams and Griffin now are playing with the team after they filed suit against the University, requesting academic certification. They were granted a restraining order that required the University to certify them as academically eligible. A trial date for the suit has not yet been set.
Brinkman and Athletic Director Monte Johnson said yesterday that they had not received formal
Johnson said he expected formal notice of the representatives' action to reach him soon, but was reluctant to discuss the players involved until that notice reached him.
notification of the decisions made by the representatives.
Brinkman said that under Big Eight procedures, a member school must file petitions with the conference on behalf of ineligible players for approval of continued aid.
Petitions filed on behalf of ineligible players usually are acted upon by the Big Eight faculty representatives' eligibility committee, he said, although all of the eight representatives sometimes choose to make such decisions as a group.
In this case, the entire group, except for Brinkman, considered the petitions on behalf of the KU players and those of athletes from other Big Eight schools. Brinkman said he did not attend the meeting.
By Heather Fritz
Runners show improvement, coach says
Of the Kansan sports staff
As far as women's head cross country coach Cliff Rovert is concerned, his team is progressing just fine.
The women finished seventh out of 15 schools at last weekend's Oklahoma State Jamboree in Stillwater, Okla. The Jayhawks finished behind the four other Big Eight conference schools competing in the race, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Runners from Nebraska also competed, but not as a team.
"In terms of progress we're making as a team, it's good." Rivelto said recently. "We're heading in the right direction."
Kansas' top runner, Shaul Raferer, finished 32nd in the Jamboree followed by Kim Sheridan, 40th.
Although the team is improving, it may not grab a conference title right away. Rovelo stressed that it took time to build a championship team.
"Our conference is so distance oriented," he said. "We don't invest as many scholarships in distances as we do at schools do. We're tracked oriented."
Hatcher's times have improved from 18 minutes, 59 seconds in the year's first competition, the Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb. to 18:10 at Oklahoma State. Roveto said she was still running about 10 seconds behind what he would like to see her run.
Meissa Satterfield, 43rd, Rachel Albright, 53rd and Suzanne McKay, 60th.
But the team is still progressing, and that is evident in the scores of Kansas' runners.
Satterfield had an off day in Stillwater, finishing in 18:48, but she still improved on her time of 19:08 at Lincoln. Satterfield had her best time at the Jayhawk Invitational in 18:20.4.
Albright took one minute off her time. She ran in 20:36 at Lincoln and the other team.
Sheridan cut 1:20 off the time in
Nebraska, from 19:51 to 18:31 at
Okaloosa.
"Everybody's improving," Sheridan said yesterday. "I've improved timewise more because I wasn't running up to my potential.
"To be perfectly blunt, who knows why you improve every week? I'm just pleased that my time is coming down,' I'm not content with it where it is, but at least it's coming down and not going up."
Hatcher and Satterfield, both
freshmen, are making the transition from running mainly track in high school to running longer distances in cross country at Kansas. Satterfield ran one cross country race in high school, Rovelo said, and that was at the state meet.
"We're running so many inexperienced people. It's not just that they're young," he said. "For instance, in this race (at Oklahoma State) I thought Shaula could run an absolutely fantastic race and be good more than 10 place higher, the competition was that good."
"It really is a difficult transition," Rovello said.
Rovello said that one problem with adjusting to cross country was that when runners first ran in the longer distances, they ended to hold back at the beginning.
Sharp shooter
Bryan Graves/KAMBAN
Chris Piper, a forward on the Kansas basketball team, takes a shot during a pick-up game in Allen Field House. Piper played yesterday afternoon.