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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 5, 1986
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Lansing inmates want to play ball
By NICOLE SAUZEK
Sports writen
The Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing is looking for you — to play some basketball, that is.
The innate varsity basketball team wants to find some competition for games on Wednesday nights or weekends. So, prison officials are calling on KU's intramural program for some competition.
"We're not sponsoring the games," said Johnny Johnson, graduate assistant to team sports at Robinson Center. "We'll tell the teams about it and publicize the fact that they're looking for some teams to play. But taking kids up there would be out of our realm."
Interested teams should sign up through Ken Clay, an athletic therapist at Lansing Games will be played inside the penitentiary.
"We don't like to go outside the walls for obvious reasons," Clay said.
And coming in isn't that dangerous, he said.
"I think it safer in here than walking the streets," he said. "Plus, our inmates know that if something goes down, the program will be shut off. They don't want that, so we don't have a problem."
Security measures also will be stressed, Clay said. Anyone entering the penitentiary, after proper clearance, will be with a security escort at all times.
"We have an excellent security force," Clay said. "Our security people help a lot. They make sure that nothing is going to happen."
The inmate team, consisting of two coaches, two statistics keepers, two scorekeepers and 22 players, plays 36 or more games a year and participates in two or three tournaments.
Being on the team, though, is a privilege for inmates and a lot of hard work. Officials set up a three-week试期 period for inmates who are either working or who live in Cell House X and plan to work.
"It's an honor to make the basketball team here," Clay said. "It's a privilege to make the team, too."
Games against city teams from Kansas City, Kan., Kansas City, Mo., Leavenworth and Lawrence have been set up in the past and will continue this year.
Games were set up last year against a couple of KU fraternities, but the inmate team was stood up, Clay said.
"I can't remember the names of the frats," Clay said. "But, they signed up to play and then didn't show. I didn't think that was too fair to us."
So far, no team from KU has contacted Clay or Johnson, but the two remain positive that something could be set up as soon as basketball intramurals begin at Robinson.
Wide receiver Ronnie Caldwell and the Kansas Jawhayks Saturday joined the been. This season, the Sooners have allowed an average of 74.5 yards a game list of teams that have found out how dominant the Oklahoma defense has rushing and 54.5 yards a game passing.
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KU softball team readies for spring
By Jane Zachman
Sports writer
The Jayhawks finished the fall season with a record of 9-6, which wasn't as good as they had expected.
The Kansas softball team finished its fall season over a month ago, but the workouts have not let up in preparation for the spring season.
"It was a disappointing fall," junior catcher Gail Luekde said yesterday. "We didn't win as many games as we thought we would. But, we're looking forward to next spring, and we hope to end on a better note."
The Jayhawks had a tough season. They lost three returning letter winners and a freshman pitcher. The team now has only 11 players; one, sophomore inflieder Reese Noble, is injured but is expected to be back in shape for the spring.
The situation forced the Jawhays to play in positions that they were not in.
Kansas head coach Bob Stancliff was positive about the 11 players' capabilities and said that the team still had some strong players and good leadership with five returning seniors.
He said that four years ago Kansas had only 11 players, but still managed to finish the year among the top 10 teams in the country.
"We don't lack talent, we just lack numbers," senior leftfielder Jill Williams said.
Stanclift said, "We've gone through some personal shortcomings which slowed our progress. We didn't get to the point of establishing a set lineup and establishing players in positions. Each game we had different players in positions."
Stanclift said the positive side of the situation was that everyone got the experience of playing and getting to know each position.
Even though the season did not go as well as had been expected, Luedeke said the team was ready work hard to improve.
Williams said for the spring season the team would be working on becoming more consistent in fielding.
"We had a lot of mental mistakes," she said. "We left a lot of people on base in scoring position."
Stanclift said that during the winter, the team would be running and lifting weights three days a week, swimming and cycling.
Sooners' fate hangs on passing game
The Jayhawks will begin practicing again at the beginning of the spring semester. Their first games of the regular season will be against Illinois State on March 7-8, at Jayhawk Field.
The Oklahoma Sooners have everything it takes to win a second consecutive national championship — almost.
The Sooners have proved they have plenty of defense. In Saturday's 64-3 drubbing of Kansas, the OU defense didn't even let the Jayhawk offense get started. Kansas was able to gain only 63 yards in total offense, including 52 yards rushing.
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Sports editor
The Sooners have shut everyone down this season. The most successful rushing opponent has been Miami, which gained 90 yards. The Hurricanes have also been the most successful passing team against the Sooners, gaining 261 yards in the air.
Sooners rush to victories
Somersons golfing 26 yards in the air.
The OU offense has been just as dominant as the defense. The Sooners average 468 yards per game. Four hundred of those yards have come via the run.
This highlights the Sooners' one weakness — no passing game.
In the Sooners' seven victories the ability to run the ball has been enough, but in Oklahoma's only loss this season, a 28-16 setback to Miami, the Sooners' inability to pass was the difference in the game.
1986 results Rushing yardage
Oklahoma 38 Oklahoma 470
UCLA 3 UCLA 34
Oklahoma 63 Oklahoma 458
Minnesota 0 Minnesota 49
Miami 28 Miami 90
Oklaima 16 Oklaima 186
Oklahoma 56 Oklahoma 425
Kansas State 10 Kansas State 50
Oklahoma 47 Oklahoma 396
Texas 12 Texas 29
Oklahoma 19 Oklahoma 305
Oklaima State 0 Oklaima State 85
Oklahoma 38 Oklahoma 397
Iowa State 0 Iowa State 27
Oklahoma 64 Oklahoma 566
Kansas 3 Kansas -52
situations, completing only six of 13 passes for 90 yards and two interceptions. On the other side, Miami quarterback Vinny Testerverde completed 21 of 28 passes for 261 yards and five touchdowns.
The Hurricanes jumped on top early and led 21-3 in the third quarter. Head coach Barry Switzer said after that game that it was hard for the Sooners to play catch-up football because their offense was run-oriented.
Starting quarterback Jamelle Holway was ineffective in passing
For the season, Holieway has com-
pleted 48 percent of his passes, 21 of
48 (43%)
But can he successfully throw the ball against tougher defenses like those of Colorado and Nebraska the two games that will decide the Big Eight Conference championship?
"Jamiele throws the ball pretty well," Switzer said after the KU game. "Both of them have great option talent and that is why they play. It's not for the passing, it's the running game."
conference championship?
Switzer has used the last two games, against Iowa State and Kansas, to get a good look at his two quarterbacks, Holloway and Eric Mitchel.
After Holley scored two quick touchdowns on runs of 18 and 11 yards against the Jayhawks, Switzer rotated the two in and out of the line-up.
"As long as I keep on doing the things I'm doing, I don't think my job will be in jeopardy," Holieway said "I feel better throwing the ball. Now teams have to watch out for both the pass and the run, and that will make us even better."
Mitchel said the Sooners would have to throw the ball more effectively against tougher defenses if they wanted a shot at the national championship.
Holley said that as the season went on he was becoming more confident.
The Sooners may need that confidence in order to return to the Orange Bowl and another possible national championship.
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Just for kicks
John Holm, Wichita senior, kicks Doug Hay, Salina junior, while practicing karate at Robinson Center. They are members of the KU Karate Club.
Maryland coach sorry he grabbed referee
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Maryland football head coach Bobby Ross said yesterday that he had apologized to the referee he grabbed after the Terrapins' loss to North Carolina last weekend but insisted that his actions were misinterpreted
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At his weekly news conference, Ross said he sent a letter of apology to Atlantic Coast Conference referee Don Safit, who officiated Maryland's 32-10 loss Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Ross said he sent letters of apology to North Carolina Chancellor
Furious that the game officials had allowed North Carolina what he thought was an additional timeout, Ross raced across the field at Kenan Stadium after the game and grabbed Safirit by the shoulder as the referee secured the field. A stadium security step in and pushed Ross aside.
Christopher Fordham and athletic director John Swofford and added that he had filed an appeal of the game with the league office.
"I had no intention of hitting Mr. Saffin. In fact, I really think he is one of the best officials in the press," Ross said today. "I got him
Ross was livid when the officials granted the Tar Heels a timeout in the final seconds, allowing North Carolina to stop the clock for Lee Gliarmis' game-winning 28-yard field goal. The Tar Heels actually did have one timeout remaining, although the scoreboard did not show it.
on his shoulder, and that's the only place where I got him. I knew where I got him. And I said, 'Don, Don, what's your interpretation?' "
ACC Commissioner Bob James said Sunday that Ross faced unspecified sanctions for his behavior. League spokesman
Skeeter Francis said yesterday that James had not finished reviewing the incident and had not come up with any disciplinary action.
"There's no timetable on anything like this," Francis said. "When (James) has looked at everything, he'll let people know."
Ross said he had not been contacted by the conference office. He also said he suffered a pulled hamstring running across the field.
"That's what a 50-year-old gets for doing something like that. Right now, it isn't real funny around the Ross household. Things are about as tight as my hamstring," he said.
McNamara voted manager of year
Valentine comes in a close second
In balloting decided by a single first-place vote, the 54-year-old McNamara edged Bobby Valentine of the Texas Rangers by only five points to win his first Manager of the Year award of any kind after 13 years as a big-league manager.
McNamara received 13 first-place votes to 12 for Valentine in balloting conducted of 28 members of the BBWAA — two from each AL City. The extra-first-place vote McNamara received proved to be the difference as both managers got eight second-place mentions and six thirds.
NEW YORK — John McNamara of the Boston Red Sox, a low-key, gray-haired veteran who took a team predicted to finish in the second division and directed it to the American League East title, yesterday was named AL Manager of the Year by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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One writer left McNamara of his ballot while two did not put Valentine on their ballots.
Points were awarded on a 5-3-1 basis for votes from first through third. McNamara collected a total of 95 points, and Valentine had 90.
Gene Mauch, who led the California Angels to the AL West Division title, received two first-place votes and finished third with 44 points. Pat Corrales of the Cleveland Indians was fifth with 18 points, and Lou Piniella of the New York Yankees rounded out the voting with 5 points.
McNamara's triumph in the AL Manager of the Year voting came nine days after one of the most crushing defeats of his career. The Red Sox lost the World Series to the New York Mets in seven games, blowing the last two games after
Only regular-season records are considered in voting for the award. All ballots had to be received before the start of postseason competition
At the beginning of this season, the Red Sox were picked to finish as low as sixth in the rugged AL East in many preseason polls. McNamara led the team to a 95-66 record, the club's best in eight years, and the Red Sox won the AL East by $ 5 - \frac{1}{2} $ games over the Yankees.
"In an award like this, you share it with a lot of people," said McNamara, who singled out pitcher Roger Clemens as the one player who most helped the team reach the World Series.
McNamara joned the Red Sox for their 360 manager Oct. 18, 1944, and led the team to a .500 record in his first season.
"To come that close and not succeed . . . For however long a person's been a Sox fan and rooter, it's not going to hurt any more than the hurt I feel."
Known as a player's manager because he believes in sticking with a set lineup and letting the players dictate the action. McNamara earned tremendous respect from his team, even though his relationship with the news media was at times strained.
McNamara was especially cool under pressure. During the late season when practically all of New England expected the Red Sox to go through their annual collapse, McNamara kept the team together. The Red Sox then reeled off 11 consecutive victories in late August and early September to take command of the division race.