University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 12, 1986
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KU falls to CMSU for second time this season
Cheryl Youngblood/KANSAN
Above: Central Missouri State setter Susan Dixon misses a ball blocked by KU middle blocker Tammy Hill. The Jennies beat the Jayhawks in four games last night in Allen Field House. At right, middle blockers Elisa Woods (left) and Lin da Altoa (center) and settter Kim Robinson cheer KU on as the Jayhawks tie Central Missouri State in the fourth game.
By JANE ZACHMAN
The Kansas volleyball team didn't give up last night, but it was fighting a losing battle. The Jayhawks fell in four games to the Central Missouri State Jennies 15-2, 13-15, 15-4, 15-13
"We know what they like to do in crucial situations," Central Missouri State head coach Peggy Martin said after the game. "Our kids adjusted well to KU's attack, and we were able to stop them."
The Jayhawks' record fell to 24-9 overall. The loss was the second season to 32-3 Central Missouri State, which is ranked seventh among NCAA Division II teams. Kansas is 4-5 in the Big Eight Conference.
Kansas will play its last regular season game against Oklahoma Fri
day at Norman, Okla. The Jayhawks are tied with Iowa State for third place in the conference. Oklahoma is in second place and Nebraska is in first.
Central Missouri State began the match by scoring six unanswered points. Kansas managed to squeeze in two points to make it 6-2, but the Jennies finished Kansas off with nine more points to win the first game 15-2.
Kansas head coach Frankie Albizz said the Jayhawks have overpowered and their defense was weak, a problem they have had all season.
"What beat us was blocking," she said. "We didn't hit real smart and our blocking was weak."
Albizt said the Jayhawks made too many mistakes in the match.
Kansas led the second game 3-0 before the Jennies were able to score. Kansas led again at 11-6, but then Central Missouri State began a comeback. The Jennies tied the score at 11, but Kansas worked back to a lead of 14-12.
CMSU served at 14-13, but a kill by Kansas outside hitter Catalina Suarez gave the serve back to Kna
sas. The Jennies were called for lifting, and Kansas won the game 15-13.
The third game was almost a repeat of the first, except the Jayhawks managed to score two more points.
With the Jayhaws behind 3-5,
Kansas outside hitter Jodi
Olschler spiked the ball past the
CMSU blockers. Kansas got the serve
and scored its last point of the game to put the score at 4-5. Central Missouri State then scored 10 straight points and won the game 15-4.
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Kansas won two points to start the final game, then the two teams exchanged points to reach a 13-13 tie. The Jennies grabbed the last two points to end the match, 15-13.
ISU coach reportedly will resign
United Press International
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State Football head coach Jim Criner, whose school is a target of an NCAA investigation, plans to resign at the end of the 1968 season, it was reported late yesterday.
Criner said he will be on the field for Saturday's home game against Kansas State, the television station reported.
Iowa State's Athletic Council was told in a closed-door meeting that Criner plans to suspend himself for the last two Big Eight Conference games of the season and resign after the final game, WOI-TV in Ames said.
the report comes amid rumors Criner was preparing to announce his resignation, but in an interview with United Press International last week, Criner said those allegations were false.
"（They rumors）aren't true." Criner told UFI "The only thing I'm doing right now is getting ready to play this week. There has not been a discussion — (the resignation) has not been brought up to me."
The university is to appear Friday before the NCAA Committee on Infrasctions to review Iowa State's case on 44 charges of National Collegiate Athletic Association violations.
Criner's intentions surfaced during the board meeting as university administrators offered the athletic council a glimpse of the defense they plan to present to the NCAA panel, WOI said.
ISU president Gordon Eaton appeared at an Iowa Board of Regents hearing last week to discuss reinstating the eligibility of Cyclones linebacker Jeff Braswell, who has been penalized for recruiting violations in connection with the NCAA probe.
KU teams compete in Salina
Associate sports editor
By HEATHER FRITZ
KU will sign basketball player
Lage Dougherty and Danny Manning led their teams in scoring as the Kansas women's and men's basketball teams scrimmaged in front of about 4,000 people last night at the Bicentennial Center in Salina.
- The Blue was successful on 47.4 percent of its field goal attempts and led 28-27 at halftime.
The Associated Press
In the women's game, played first, the Blue team defeated the White 47-46. The Blue was led by forward Kerri Hawley, who scored 12 points, guard Meshu Stronghter with 11 and center Lymn Page with eight.
For the White, Shaw had 13 points
The Jayhawks will sign Lewis, a 6-1 guard from Grady High School, sometime during the early portion of the national basketball signing period, which begins today.
Kansas has received a commitment to play basketball from Antoine Lewis of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Kansas State will sign Carlos Diggins of Butler County Community College, coaches for the two players announced.
Lewis, ranked No. 18 in the country by Van Coleman's "National Recruiter's Cage Letter," made just two visits, to Kansas and South Carolina His high school coach, Jack Ringel, said several Big East teams and Wake Forest were interested in Lewis, who played at the same Brooklyn High School as former Kansas State star Rolando Blackman.
Lewis averaged 18 points and six assists a game last season at Grady, which finished 18-6.
The Wildcats are expected to sign Diggins, a 6-4
guard from South Bend, Ind., on Wednesday.
Diggins is ranked as the 10th best junior college player in the country by The Sporting News.
"I was pleased with our play with this first screemimage," said head coach Marian Washington after the game. "I think we played well at times but we need more work on several things."
and 11 rebounds. Dougherty, a guard,
had 15 points and forward Lisa Baker
added eight.
Guard Cedric Hunter led the Blue team with 18 points. Forward Mark Randall was next with 11 and guard Kevin Prichard added nine.
Last night's scrimmage was the last for the women, who will play the Yugoslavian National Team in an exhibition at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Allen Field House.
Manning, a forward, led the Crimson with 19 points and seven rebounds. Center Sean Alvarado added 13 points, guard Mark Turgeon had 12 and forward Nilt Newton had nine. The Crismon scored on 60.5 percent of its field goal attempts.
"I'm happy with the effort," said head coach Larry Brown. "This has been a great experience. I see us improving each time out. Cedric and Danny played great, and Chris Piper has played well every time out."
Golfers finish 10th in Sutton tourney
By a Kansan sports writer
Arkansas won the tournament with a total of 571 strokes. Mississippi and Northeast Louisiana finished second and third with scores of 578 and 585 respectively.
The Kansas men's golf team finished in 10th place at the Hal Sutton Invitational in Shreveport, La., yesterday.
Men's golf
Rain shortened the tournament, which was scheduled to go three rounds, to two rounds.
Seventeen teams competed in the tournament.
Three football players given academic honors by Big Eight
KU's Brian McGreevy, who won back-to-back tournaments earlier this year and has been the top KU golfer at every tournament Kansas has competed in, was the top Kansas golfer with a score of 147.
Other Kansas golfers were John Ogden, 152; Clay Devers, 152; Steve Madsen, 155; and John Erickson, 162.
The other teams and their scores were North Texas State and Southwest Louisiana State, 595; Mississippi State, 596; Baylor, 598; Southern Mississippi State, 600; Centenary, 600; Kansas, 602; Houston Baptist, 604; Texas-San Antonio, 609; Southeast Louisiana State, 613; Abilene Christian, 614; Hardin Simmons, 627; New Orleans, 631; and McNeese State, 633.
Sports writer
By NICOLE SAUZEK
Kevin Harder, Mark Henderson and Wayne Ziegler received recognition through the award for their high standards in academics as well as athletics.
Big Eight Conference officials announced yesterday that three KU football players were named to the 1986 all-Big Eight academic team. Players were selected for the honor by conference officials.
Wayne
Ziegler
Mike Orth was named to the honorable mention academic team. Of the 26 players named to the team, nine each are from Nebraska and Oklahoma, three are from KU, two are from Colorado, and one each
Kevin Harder
are from Missouri. Oklahoma State and Kansas State. Iowa State had no players named to the list.
Athletes must have obtained a 2.8 cumulative grade point average during the last academic year and must be listed among the top 44 athletes on the team depth chart to be recommended for the honor, said Doug Vance, sports information director. Freshmen and first-year transfers are not eligible.
Mark Henderson
"I'm very proud of their efforts on and off the field," said head football coach Bob Valesente. "It speaks well of them. They're mentally tough in
the classroom, and it carries over to the football field."
For Henderson, a senior with a 4.0 GPA in business administration, this is the third time in four years he has been named to the team.
studies with a 3.39 GPA, and Harder,
a senior in civil engineering with a
3.89 GPA, are being honored for the
second straight year.
Both Ziegler, a senior in personnel administration and communication
Orth, a junior in civil engineering with a 3.09 GPA, is being honored for the first time.
"This really makes me proud," Ziegler, free safety, said when he heard the news. "We've had so many problems with academics here."
Four KU football players were declared ineligible in August because they did not meet National Collegiate Athletic Association standards. Also, three players were suspended for one game each by Valesente for skipping class.
"There's a definite correlation bet
to our program
Academic success, for Henderson,
fullback, is just a matter of time
management.
ween their performances in the classroom and on the football field." Valesente said. "They're a real plus to our program."
"I spend a good amount of my spare time studying." Henderson said. "I'm happy that I made it because it's satisfying for me. Making good grades means a lot."
Getting rid of the 'dumb jock' stereotype by proving his smarts was Ziegler's incentive.
"I just want people to think that, hey, he's not only an athlete, but a smart one," Ziegler said. "It's self-satisfying."
Houston's Scott gets National League Cy Young award
United Press International
NEW YORK — Mike Scott of the Houston Astros, a master of the split-fingered fastball who led the major leagues in strikeouts and earned run average, yesterday was named winner of the National League Cy Young Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
The 31-year-old right-hander, who pitched the Astros to the West Division title, edged out left-hander Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the balloting conducted of 24 BBWAA members — two from each NL city.
Scott received 15 first-place votes and 98 points while Valenzuela, the 1981 Cy Young winner, picked up nine first-place votes and 88 points. Scott and Valenzuela were the only pitchers named on all 24 balls. Mike Krukow of the San Francisco Giants was third with 15 points.
Past struggles help pitcher appreciate award
HOUSTON - Struggles during the early days of his professional baseball career made winning the National League Cy Young award yesterday even more important to Houston Astros pitcher Mike Scott.
"I went through some rough times, especially in New York," Scott said from his home yesterday in Los Angeles. "I came over to Houston and had a pretty good first year. Then I missed a couple of months, and after that had a really bad year.
Others receiving votes were Bob Jieda of the New York Mets.
United Press International
"If you never struggle, you think it's too easy, which isn't the case for most baseball players."
So I guess it's fortunate for me that I did struggle. It'll make me appreciate more. I know what it's like to be down at the bottom."
In four seasons with the Mets, Scott won only 14 games. After being traded to Houston in 1982, he won 15 games in the next two seasons, and in each of the last two years he won 18 games. This year he appeared in an All-Star game, threw his first career no-hitter and won two playoff games.
Scoot led the major leagues in strikes, with 306, and his ERA was 2.22 this season. He tied teammate Kobpecker for a major-league high of five shutouts. Scott gave credit to the split-
points), Ron Darling of the Mets (2), Rick Rhoden of the Pittsburgh Pirates (2), Dwight Gooden of the Mets (1) and Sid Fernandez of the Mets (1). Gooden was the 1985 Cy Young Award winner.
fingered fastball for saving his career.
"I saw Roger at a golf tournament down in San Diego and he told me he wasn't going to teach the pitch to anyone else," Scott said. "I was really fortunate that (former Astros manager) Bob Lillis and (former general manager) Al Rosen sent me to see him."
scott learned the pitch in 1985 from Roger Craig, now manager of the Giants.
Fernando Valenzuela of Los Angeles was runnerup in the Cy Young voting. Scott said he thought the difference for him was his no-hitter Sept. 25 against San Francisco that also clinched the NL West title for the Astros.
Each voter was asked to select three pitchers in order of preference and points were awarded on a 5-3-1 basis for votes from first through third.
Scott posted an 18-10 record and led
The Mets accused of doctoring his pitches with sandpaper, a complaint among many hitters during the season when they were unable
Young Award was conducted before the postseason.
the majors in strikeouts (306) and ERA (2.22). Among his victories was a division-clinching no-hitter against San Francisco on Sept. 25. Scott also beat the Mets twice during the NL playoffs, but all balloting for the Cy
scott, the first Houston pitcher to win the Cy Young Award, was obtained by the Astros from the Mets in December 1982 for outfielder Danny Heep. After two mediocre seasons with Houston, he learned the split-fingered fastball from Roger Craig, then pitching coach of the Detroit Tigers and now manager of the Giants.
Armed with his new pitch, Scott posted an 18-8 record and a 3.29 ERA in 1985 and struck out more than 100 batters (137) for the first time.
He worked on the pitch last spring training and became overpowering this year. He notched five shutouts among his 18 victories and became the 10th pitcher in baseball history to reach the 30-strike out plateau.
Valenzuela, 26, reached the,
20-victory plateau for the first time in
his six-year career with a 21-11
record. Valenzuela had a 3.14 ERA and led the majors with 20 complete games.