2 Sports Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1985 University Daily Kansan 9 News Briefs Football player pleads not guilty of battery A plea of not guilty was entered Friday in Douglas County District Court for Dane Griffin, a Kansas football player charged with sexual battery. Griffin was not in court. His lawyer, Col Collister, entered the deal for him. Associate Judge Jeanne Shepherd scheduled a jury trial for Dec. 4. Two players recover Griffin, a junior linebacker from Lawrence, was charged earlier in the summer in connection with a June 20 incident. The Kansas football team yesterday continued preparations for Saturday's game against Vanderbilt, which will begin at 11:40 a.m., rather than the scheduled 1:30 p.m. starting time. The change was made to accommodate the television broadcasters. The game will be the first of the Big Eight-Rayecom package. The game can be seen locally on the KSN Network and KMBC, Channel 3. Wide receiver Sandy McGee, who suffered a mild hamstring pull during Friday's practice, returned to practice yesterday but was not expected to be at full speed. Linebacker Willie Pless, who also suffered a mild hamstring pull Friday, is back to 100 percent, head coach Mike Gottfried said. Pless practiced Saturday, but was not at full speed. C. J.Ean, a junior who usually plays cornerback, will be a wide receiver Saturday to help fill holes caused by injuries. Wide receivers Johnny Holloway and Skip Peete are both out for an indefinite period of time with knee injuries. Eanes will also return punts for the Jayhawks. Angels beat Rovals, 7-1 ANAHEM, Calif. — John Candelaria combined with Doug Corbett on a two-hitter and Ruppert Jones and Daryl Sconiors hit home runs last night as the California Angels snapped Kansas City's eight-game winning streak by beating the Royals 7-1. The Associated Press California moved within one-half game of American League West — leading Kansas City with the victory in the opener of the three-game series. The Angels had led the division for two months before the Royals took over first place during the weekend. Light-hitting Craig Gerber drove in three runs with three hits to support the pitching of Candelaria, innings. Corbett pitched the ninth. Candelaria, who is 5-1 for the Angels since they acquired him from Pittsburgh, allowed just a double to the Royals. The same thing happened to Darrell Noddley's burgers in the eighth. Jones ripped a solo hero in the fourth to break a scoreie lie. Jones' 21st homer came off Bret Saberhagen, 17, who had won his last six assists and not lost since July 18. Scooners hit a two-run shot in the eighth. Gerber tripled home two runs in the fifth and added an RBI single in the seventh. California 7. Kansas Citv1 KANSAK CITY ALCIFORNIA r b h b1 a b h b1 LSmith lt 1 0 0 0 Carew lt 4 2 2 1 OMron lt 1 0 0 0 RJones lt 4 2 2 1 Ljones cf 1 0 0 0 Scorris lt 4 1 1 2 Brett brt 1 0 0 0 Roikan rf 3 0 0 0 McIlroy mc 1 0 0 0 Milleur lt 3 0 0 0 White brt 1 0 0 0 JKhowl brt 4 0 0 0 Balboni lb 1 0 0 0 Grich brt 3 2 1 0 Motley rf 3 0 0 1 Pleasant rf 2 1 0 0 Oppen cf 3 0 0 1 Boone c 3 0 0 0 Ora pt 1 0 0 0 Kansas City 000 000 010-- California 000 130 12x-- Game Winning HR - KJoles (8) ... Gain 4-0, SB - Gerber HR, Call ortea 2 B - McLane, SB - Gerber HR Rhoneys (21), Moley (16), Sconiers (2). S-Pettia. S-P Carewell. Softball bullpen features transfer By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff At least this year when softball coach Bob Stantill looks into his bulpen someone will look back at him. That is because the Jayhawk pitching staff is one of the deepest that Stanciff has had in his 10 years at Kansas, the head coach said Saturday. The man in charge of the three pitchers is pitching coach Gary Hines, who is entering his ninth year as KU pitching coach. During that stretch he has coached five All Big Eight pitches. This year's pitchers are quick to give Hines credit for their pre-season success. This year's staff features three pitchers compared with two as has been the case in recent years. The pitching staff includes two newcomers, Junior Sherri Mach and freshman Maureen "Reenie" Powell join senior Tracy Bunge in this year's rotation. "I've gotten a lot more instruction here because at Texas Tech we didn't have a pitching coach." Mach said she had learned more in the two weeks she had been at KU than in two years at Texas. "Coach Hines does a great job in evaluating our strengths and weaknesses, and then matching us up to our opponents' strengths and weaknesses." Bunge said. "A lot of coaches can't do what he does." Bunge has established herself as the Jayhawks' top pitcher. In her three seasons at Kansas she has compiled a 47-21 record, including a 24-11 record and a 0.82 earned run average last year. Mach joins KU after transferring from Texas Tech, where the softball program folded last spring. Powell comes to the Jayhawks after successful seasons in the Topeka summer softball league program. Mach said. "Here coach Hines has something specific to work on every day, whether it is an individual pitch or spotting a pitch. Last year all my workout consisted of was throwing two hours of batting practice." Mach said part of her decision to come to KU resulted from the success of the program and the success of former pitching staffs. "I could have gone almost anywhere and been the No. 1 pitcher, but I wouldn't have had to work hard for it," Mach said. "But here I'll have to work harder, and that will make both Tracy and myself better because I'll be putting pressure on her." "Tracy's greatest asset is her desire to compete in pressure situations," Hines said. "From talking to Sherri you can tell she loves to compete as well, and she is one of the hardest workers I've had." Hines said that while this year the staff had more depth, its greatest quality was the competitiveness on the mound. Stancliff said Powell would be a Division I pitcher, but people had to remember that this was her freshman year, and it would be mostly a learning process for her. Powell said that right now the biggest problem she faced was keeping her self-confidence. "Last year I was getting everybody out and now they are hitting me," Powell said. "Having three pitchers is an advantage for Powell." Stancliff said. "Now we don't have to rush her along and put her into certain game situations if we feel she's not ready." Bunge said the additional pitcher would also benefit herself, because now she wouldn't have to worry about pitching a second game when she should be concentrating on the first game. Sottball pitching coach Gary Hines gives junior walk-on Sherri Mach pitch hints during practice. Mach, who transferred from Texas Tech, practiced yesterday in preparation for a tournament this weekend in Lincoln, Neb. Shauna Norfleet/KANSAN Intramural teams await playing field Bv Rustv Lvnn By Rusty Lynn Of the Kansan sports staff If you and your softball team are tired of playing sandlot ball, Recreation Services may help you get organized. The Recreation Services, located in Robinson Center, have four different leagues set up for intramural play which can accommodate any team. Right now, however, your team may see more playing time on the smallet. Until work is completed on an underground sprinkling system at the main softball fields, north and south teams will be placed on a waiting list. As of noon yesterday, Hector Munoz, assistant director in charge of intramural softball, said there were five teams on the waiting list. Four hours later, the number of teams vying for spoils had jumped to nine. Brad Danahy, Overland Park junior and player, was surprised to find out yesterday that one of Sigma Alpha Epsilon's two teams was on the waiting list. "We went in and signed up two teams, Minerva's Madness and the Lions, and it's a complete shock that one of our teams is on the waiting list," Danahy said. "We paid for both of our teams to join the league and thought that we were on the schedule. I guarantee that we were one of the first 100 teams to sign up and that makes us very mad." Still the Recreation Services are doing their best to see that every team signed up will get the opportunity to play. The four leagues include several divisions based on levels of skill and on living situations — all of which have separate men's and women's teams — and the Co-Rec league made up of both men and women. Although the number of teams signed up to play has not increased greatly from past seasons, the team's nonconference roadblocks that it hasn't faced before. One is that this year the number of playing fields is limited. Because of the installation of the new sprinkling fields on 23rd and Iowa Streets the fields on 24rd and Iowa Streets The Recreational Services have 113 teams participating in this season's languages. The first come, first served policy is in effect, so teams on the growing waiting list will be added to the team profile only if scheduled teams drop out. The second catch is that the leagues began play yesterday, so new teams may miss games. But the Recreation Services are still accepting applications. There is a small fee to join some of the leagues, but no fee is needed to join the waitlist. "Last year we had a 130 teams in our leagues," Munoz says. "Even without the use of our normal playing fields we're still fielding almost the same number of teams. The only real shortage that we have this year is that the women's teams are down compared to previous years." on a women's team because the one thing the program isn't short on is men's teams. Danahy may wish he were playing "We have a lot of guys working hard and practicing every day for this," Danahy said. "And how are we going to tell some of them that they can't play? Last year we had three teams and it was no problem. I feel that both of our teams have the quality to win our league. Now I'd like to know why one of our teams was dropped." Don Kempin, Lawrence junior and Sigma Phi Epsilon member, also had a few difficulties in finding spots for his teams. "We signed up both of our teams about four hours before the deadline last week." Kempin said. Sooners remain No.1 in UPI ballot NEW YORK — Oklahoma, with its first game still three weeks away, edged out Auburn yesterday to retain its No. 1 ranking in the first regular-season balloting of the United Press International Board of Coaches. United Press International The Sooners, the pre-season No. 1, open their season Sept. 28 at Minnesota. They received $80 points and 10 top votes to hold off Auburn, who was ranked second in the pre-season tally. The Tigers, who thrashed South- western Louisiana 49-7 Saturday beyond the 290-yard, four-touchdown running performance of Bo Jackson, finished with 577 points and 16 No. 1 selections. Founding out the top five are Southern Cal with 441 points and five South Carolina and Notre Dame are tied for 11th, followed by Brigham Young, Nebraska and Arkansas. Alabama was 16th, with West Virginia, Maryland, Pitt and Texas rounding out the top 20. first-place picks, Ohio State with 427 points and one top selection and Florida State with 418 points and one No.1 vote. Sixth-ranked Oklahoma State received the other No. 1 vote. The Cowboys are followed by iowa, Penn State and Louisiana State. All 42 members of the Board of Coaches voted. Oklahoma and Auburn were the only teams to appear on every ballot. Penn State, ranked 17th in preseason, moved into Maryland's No. 9 position with a 20-18 victory over the Terrapins. UCLA moved from 15th to eighth with a last-minute 27-24 triumph over BYU. The loss, which snapped the 'Cougars' 25-game winning streak, sank the defending national champions from seventh to 17th. Unlike Oklahoma, several top 20 teams have seen action and suffered in the ratings because of it. Fellow Big Eight competitor Nebraska, fourth in the pre-season, was beaten 17-13 by Florida State and fell to 14th. The victory helped the Seminoles climb from 13th to fifth. USC jumped from fifth to third with a 20-10 triumph over Illinois, Illinois, 10th in the pre-season tally, fell out of the ratings. Oklahoma State, with Thurman Thomas joining the cluttered race for the Heisman Trophy with a 237-yard showing, defeated Washington 31-17. The victory moved the Cowboys from 14th to No. 6 while knocking the Huskies from the rankings. Also dropping from the original top 20 were Georgia and Boston College. Pittsburgh and Alabama, winners in opening games two weeks ago, and Texas, which plays its first game Sept. 21, joined the rankings. Big Ten schools Ohio State, which dropped one spot from its No. 3 pre-season ranking, and Iowa, which gained one to No. 7, open their seasons this Saturday against Pitt and Drake. Louisiana State, which improved from 11th to No. 10, plays Saturday against North Carolina. The Big Eight and Southeast Conferences each has three members in the top 20 while the Big Ten, Pacific-10 and Southwest. Conferences each has two. The Western Athletic and Atlantic Coast Conferences each have one and six independs are ranked. The following coaches comprise the UPI Board of Coaches: EAST — Dick Anderson, Rutgers; Jack Bickell, Boston College; Foge Fazio, Pittsburgh; Dick MacPherson, Syracuse; Dohn Nehlen, West Virginia; Bobby Ross, Maryland. MIDWEST — Earle Bruce, Ohio State; Gerry Fraust, Notre Dame; Hayden Fry, Iowa; Lou Holt, Wisconsin; Dan Sinai, Wisconsin. Dan Sinai Toldea. SOUTH — Bobby Bowden, Florida State; Dick Crum, North Carolina; Vince Dooley, Georgia; Danny Ford, Clemson; Johnny Majors, Tennessee; Ray Perkins, Alabama. MIDLANDS — Jim Dickey, Kansas State; Don Morton, Tulsa; Mike Gottfried, Kansas; Yankee 4th player to testify in cocaine trafficking trial PITTSBURGH — New York Yankee infielder Dale Berra, testifying in a federal cocaine trafficking trial, said yesterday he sextoned cocaine off the end of an ignition key with other major league baseball players. United Press International But he said that while he used cocaine occasionally from 1979 to 1984 with other major leaguers, including Cincinnati slugger Dave Parker, he quit for good last year. "It made me feel euphoric." Berra said. "It sharpened my senses. It made me feel well." "I think any time you use cocaine it's a problem," Barra said. "I had a problem." 1. Berra was the fourth player to Earlier in the day's testimony, Los Angeles Dodger Enos Cabell said he was embarrassing to publicly confess his cocaine use but figured it was time to pay. The trial is in its fifth day in U.S. District Court. testify in the trial of Curtis Strong, an ex-clubhouse caterer charged with selling drugs to ballplayers. Like the others, Berra said he bought cocaine from Strong. Defense attorney Adam Renfroe asked how Cabell could say he was paying when he is under immunity from prosecution and able to return to a job that pays him $75,000 a year. "I'm paying," Cabell said. "I'm sitting up here embarrassing myself, telling everybody in the world what I've done. I have to pay for it. My family has to pay for it." Berta said he first used cocaine at a New Year's Eve party in 1979. "At that party I knew friends of mine were using the drug ... I said 'What the heck' and I just tried it. I was outside . . . I put some on the end of an ignition key ... used it that way ... through the nose." He said Parker showed him some cocaine and the two, along with Milner, snorted some — again off the end of an ignition key. Berta said he met Strong through Parker and Milner in a Philadelphia hotel suite in 1982. Reds beat Padres; Rose doesn't play United Press International CINGINNATI — Pete Rose, resisting the urges of a Riverfront Stadium crowd last night, did not play against the San Diego Padres and remained one hit short of breaking the career record of Ty Cobb. Rose equaled Cobb's 57-year record of 4,191 hits Sunday by collecting two singles off Reggie Patterson of the Chicago Cubs. After tying the mark, Rose failed in his next two at-bats. With San Diego left-hander Dave Dravecky pitching the first six innings, Rose elected to remain on the bench and stick to his duties as manager, despite the crowd of 29,289 yelling for him to come to the plate. Perez platoons at first base with Rose and plays when left-handers pitch. Rose's next shot figures to come in a start tonight against right-hander LaMarr Hoyt. Even the entrace of righthanders Lance McCullers and Rich Gossage, who finished the game for the Padres, did not budge Rose from the bench. Tony Perer, played first base for Cincinnati, which won 2:1 on an RBI single by Dave Concepcion with two out in the ninth. KU freshman makes team as a walk-on By Heather Fritz Of the Kansan sports staff When freshman Monica Sereda left her home in Western Springs, III., to come to Kansas, she figured she would make the track team as a walk-on. After playing basketball and running track and cross-country in high school, she found herself without a college scholarship to play athletics. She planned on trying to make the track team, but during the first week of school she changed her mind. "I'd rather play basketball than run track," she said yesterday. So she joined women's basketball coach Marian Washington's walk-on program, which Washington said had been quite successful over the years. "I've had many, many walk-onss who have made the team, and a few earned scholarships," Washington said. She said that walk-ons would be treated no differently from scholarship players, and Sereda verified this. Sereda said she hoped first to make the team, then to set goals from there. "I'm not treated any differently," she said. "The players took me under their wing." "They (the coaches) were straightforward, and they said it was going to be a lot of work," she said. "I knew I have to work twice as hard, but I have the opportunity, and I said 'let's go for it.'" "A walk-on is a very positive thing," Washington said. "It can be a very rewarding experience because nothing like the discipline of training, "We are very open and interested in anyone who has experience and the inclination to play. I believe there are many on campus that is intimated." Washington said the walk-on program was nearly as old as the basketball program itself. She said that there used to be more walk-on back when there were fewer scholarships, but now the number of walk-on had decreased. "There are young ladies who have the desire to play on the collegiate level, and for some reason or other they weren't recruited," said assistant coach Lynette Woodard. "We take a lot of pride in our walk-on program. We don't want to leave anyone out." Washington said that she would look for the same things in a walk-on as in any other player -- athletic ability, the attitude to work with a team and discipline. "The main thing is that they have the opportunity to come out and to try to be part of the program," she said.