Sports
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 29, 1986
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Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
The KU volleyball team lines up to be introduction while wearing sunglasses (top). The sunglasses were supplied by Weight Watchers, a team sponsor, before last night's match against Missouri. At left, Shannon Ridgeway, Kansas outside hitter, leaps to spike the volleyball. KU won the match in three games at Allen Field House.
KU beats Tigers in 3 games
Stephen Wade/Special to the KANSAN
By JANE ZACHMAN
Sports writer
The Kansas volleyball team cruised through its match against the Missouri Tigers with the help of a beach party atmosphere provided by the Jay hawks' fans and cheerleaders.
The Jayhawks' match against the Tigers started out like a scene on
Volleyball
Wescue Beach. The crowd of 750 fans wore pink, yellow and green sunglasses that were given away before the match, and cheerleaders in jams and t-shirts boogied to Beach Boys' records. The party helped the Jayhawks beat Missouri in three games. 15-11, 15-9, 15-1.
"It helped to have a winning atmosphere, then things go easier." Kansas head coach Frankie Albitz said after the match.
Middle hitter Julie Ester said, "The crowd helped make it fun 'cause we felt like we were playing for someone else.
"We're learning to relax," she said. "We usually get uptight because we're so worried about winning."
cond time this season that Kansas has beaten Missouri.
Kansas is now 20-6 overall and 44 in the Big Eight Conference. Missouri's record dropped to 5-15 and 2-4 in the Big Eight. This is the se-
The Jayhawks had been trying to improve their mental game for the match, Albiz said, and an enthusiastic crowd helped.
The Jayhawks had to wade through muddy waters to win the first game as Missouri took the first point. Kansas eventually caught a wave and scored seven points in a row.
The Tigers began to sink in the second game as they managed to score only nine points against the Jayhawks.
Kansas won four easy points in that game when setter Monica Spencer scored two points, and outside hitters Jodi Oelschlager and Ester each scored one with dink hits that fell just over the net.
The Jayhawks found calmer waters in the third game, scoring 11 unanswered points. Behind 11-0, Missouri hung on to score one point. After that, it was smooth sailing for the Jayhawks. Kansas finished the game at 15-1 with Oelschlager serving the match-winning ace.
to first-year Missouri head coach Craig Sherman, the Jayhawks moved to a better, faster beat throughout the match.
"We could stay with them (the Jayhawks) a little while." Sherman said, "but we couldn't举 them up.
They pass well and have good defense."
Defensively, outside hitter Catalina Suarez led Kansas with 21 digs and one solo block. Shannon Ridgeway had 20 digs. Ester had 12 digs and four block solos and Spencer had 11 digs.
'Kansas is a really steady team
Kansas had a total of 79 digs and Missouri had 64.
Sherman said the Jayhawks hit down the middle of the Tigers where they were weak. One of Missouri's middle blockers, Sherri Gentry, is a freshman and has not played in very many games, Sherman said.
Spencer said the Jayhawks were working on a more positive attitude toward college.
"We've been working on relaxing," she said, "playing like we're always ahead."
Outside hitter Judy Desch led the Jayhawks offense with eight kills. Ridgeway had six kills and Suarez and Ester each had five.
Spencer put down three service aces and Riddeway had two.
Kansas had a total of 37 kills and sent nine service aces past the Tigers. Missouri had 32 kills and got only one service ace by the Jayhawks.
The Jayhawks will be playing near a real beach Friday and Saturday when they play at Gainesville, Fla., in the Florida Invitational.
Glasses popular with fans
Rv NICOLE SAUZEK
Sports writer
Catalina Suarez stood before fans in Allen Field House last night for the announcement of team players in her usual United volleyball attire — No. 15 uniform, shoes and knee pads.
Except this time spectators paid less attention to her short, white athletic socks and more to the orange glasses perched on her white, sunscreen-covered nose.
Suarez, Bogota, Colombia, sophomore, was not alone. The entire line-up for Kansas looked like a rainbow, pink, purple, green, orange and yellow sunglasses.
Even volleyball head coach Frankie Albitz was ready for sunshine on the sidelines as she sat facing the fans who looked back at her through their own glasses.
The banner above the benches should have read "Welcome to Allen Beach" instead of welcoming fans to KU volleyball.
Six hundred free pairs of sunglasses were given away at the match against Missouri as part of promotions to get more people involved in women's sports, said Kent Weiser, director of marketing and promotions.
Weight Watchers, the first corporate sponsor for women's athletics at KU, financed the giveaway. Weight Watchers announced their sponsorship of KU women's athletics in late September.
"We're just trying something new," Weiser said. "The idea was to get people here to see what's going on. I think it's safe to say that there were close to 600 people here tonight. And I know some of them have never been before."
Attendance at volleyball games had been averaging between 200 and 300. Weiser said
"It's fun to get things going like this," Albitz said. "You know, it's nice to give some of the attention to the crowd. I want them to catch the attention."
Danny Manning even sat in the stands with a pair of pink shades set on his forehead.
"I think everyone should come out and support the volleyball team," Manning said. "I also know some of our players, so I try to come to most of the games."
See GLASSES, p. 12, col. 2
New York celebrates; Boston mourning
United Press International
The parade began at Battery Park for the one-mile march up Broadway to city hall along a route where the nation's most beloved heroes have been cheered since 1930. Charles Lindbergh made the first triumphant trip through the canvans of lower Manhattan.
NEW YORK - Hundreds of thousands of screaming New Yorkers stood ankle-deep in ticker tape yesterday to salute the World Series champion New York Mets.
The festivities began hours before the scheduled start of the noon celebration with fans on foot packing subways and buses
"Let's go Mets," screaming fans chanted aboard the subways at each of the parade route stops.
A Sanitation Department spokesman said ticket tape was ankle deep at Liberty Street 45 minutes before the parade.
"Awesome," said Mets second baseman Wally Backman.
One Long Island woman stood in a blizzard of confetti and computer printout cards that swirled on an unseasonably warm day.
"It's been eight months of nail-biting. she said, "I finally will be able to talk to my husband again." Gov Mario Cuomo, who once played in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, wore a Mets cap and squinted in the bright sunshine
Fans stood from 20 to 100 people deep along the route, cheering at everything that moved up the street, including sanitation workers and hot dog vendors. People perched on window ledges, clung to tree limbs and jammed the streets below the soaring skycrapers.
- Some 2,500 police officers lined the route on foot and horseback Police estimated the crowd as "a couple of hundred thousand." * Some fans wore blue hair and
See FANS, p. 12, col.
Oswald a quiet force on KU football team
Sports writer
BY ANNE LUSCOMBE
He's often mistaken for Phil Forte, Kansas" outspoken defensive end, which surprises both of them. Forte and Kansas center Paul Oswald do have a lot of similarities: the same flatop haircuts, infectious smiles,
Paul Oswald
"And, when it comes, it's a surprise. The other position you must immediate rewards. The offensive line has to hit on even the most of no glory! It comes from within."
"Being on the intensive une, we aren't used to getting much credit. We look at it as a unit. When we do
OSWALD PROFILE
Background;Oswald lettered in football and wrestling in high school and was ranked one of the top wrestlers in Kansas. He had been a high school all-state selection both offensively and defensively. He is one of the strongest players on the Jayhawk team, bench pressing 450 pounds.
Hometown:Topeka Age:22
Class and major:Senior,majoring in personnel administration and communications.
Paul Oswald, KU center, prepares to snap the ball to quarterback Mike Orth. Head coach Bob Valesente called Oswalt is stealthing influence on the team.
ounging personalities. Both are football team captains. They are even close friends. But after that the likenesses begin to fade.
The cockiness that Forte admittedly exudes isn't present in Oswald. He's much more reserved. School and the future are carefully considered; law school is even among Oswald's options.
"I can't believe people mix us up, but they do." Forte said. "I don't know how they could. I'm ten times better looking. But then, I guess Paul feels he is."
"Paul's quiet on the outside," Forte said yesterday. "But deep down inside, he's cocky, in his own little way. He's not as bad as me, though."
Forte thrives on the limelight, but for Oswald that desire is not as intense. While attention is bestowed on many of the other players, it passes over Oswald. His name isn't hit up on the score boards for an outstanding tackle or flashed for touchdown runs. He takes a back seat to players in more glamorous positions.
The mistaken identities seem uncanny to the players. They just don't see the likeness.
"I'll be walking down the street," Oswald said, "and somebody will yell 'Hey Phil' and I will make sure they know it's me and not him."
"It's a thing where you don't ex pect it." Oswald said of the attention
something wrong it's everybody's fault, just like when we do something right it's everybody's praise."
The cellular division
When Oswald came to Kansas in 1982 from Topeka's Hayden High School, he wanted to play linebacker. However, he encountered some stiff competition from teammates Willie Pless and Darnell Williams.
"I was the slowest one of the three of us. I guess that was an indication of the future," Oswald said. "Then the Gottfried staff came in and moved me to center and guard, and I really liked it."
That first year Oswald redshirted. In 1983, he lettered as a reserve lineman playing behind a veteran line. Oswald was used primarily at backup center and guard in 11 games during his sophomore year.
He began starting last season and started at center for eight games until injuring his knee during practice the week before the Oklahoma State game. The injury forced him to miss the remaining four games of the season.
"Paul's been a steadying influence on the team," said head coach Bob Valesente. "He's been a real cornerstone to the offensive line."
This year, Oswald was selected as a team captain and is one of only four returning starting offensive linemen
Oswald has never played on a winning team. While at Hayden, his team went 4-13 his last two years.
"It it was rough when you come up here and everybody is from winning programs and they have bragging rights," Oswald said. "But I came to KU knowing it was in one of the best
The story was similar his freshman and sophomore year.
When he came to Kansas, he ran in to players from championship schools.
"It gets frustrating." he said. "It's always in the back of my mind, but
conferences in the nation. That was one of the reasons I came here
Once at Kansas, he thought the situation would change. But the best record the Jayhawks have had since Oswald has been here was last season's 6-6.
it's something I don't have much control over."
Away from football, Oswald remains involved and interested in athletics. He got a new bicycle this summer and spent hours riding around Lawrence. Lifting weights, playing golf and jogging are other pastimes, and relaxing and being with friends are important as well.