University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 22, 1986
Sports
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Mets regain form, win with big 1st inning
United Press International
BOSTON — The New York Mets,
finally playing like a team that won
108 games this season, surged back into
the World Series last night.
Lenny Dykstra and Gary Carter awakened the Mets from a catatose batting slump and left-hander Bob
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Bob Ojeda defeats old Sox teammates
Ojeda overcame the perils of pitching in Fenway Park, sparking a 7-1 triumph over the Boston Red Sox.
Second baseman Wally Backman also contributed handsomely with his glove as the Mets combined all the ingredients that enabled them to run away from the National League East.
"We won 108 games and we had something to prove, not only to the Red Sox but to everyone," Dykstra said. He went 4 for 5 and set the tone of the game by hitting the third pitch of a four-third in off loser Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd.
"The team was definitely wired-
United Press International
BOSTON — The New York Met most able to explain the intricacies of Fenway Park's Green Monster to his teammates, instead provided them tins on the delicacies of downtown Boston.
Bob Ojeda told his Met teammates where to dine on Monday, and yesterday he served up a five-hitter, helping New York defeat the Boston Celtics in the playoffs and close to 2-1 in the best-of-seven tournament.
"A few wanted to know some restaurants"
Ojeda said. "The key question was where are we
in." Dvkstra said.
In Game 3, the Mets feasted on Red Sox pitching, beginning with Len Dykstra's leadoff homer off Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd. By the time the Red Sox picked up a bat, they trailed 4-0.
"A lot has been expected of my club all year. The intensity was as high as I've seen it all year." Mets Manager Davey Johnson said. "We scored both and held it. That's been our trademark all year."
Then Ojeda, making his first start in Fenway Park since being traded to the Mets in the offseason, protected the lead. He allowed one run in seven innings and masterfully got out of trouble in several tight situations.
"He was a little off, a little on," Buckner said.
The 28-year-old left-hander wasn't flawless, but he retired Bill Buckner in two tough spots. Second baseman Wally Backman supported Ojeda with two strong defensive plays.
of Ojeda, who was 18-5 in his first Met season.
"Anyone who's won 18 games has done a pretty good ioh."
The Mets, who were hitting .190 in the postseason, raked three Boston pitchers for 13 hits and led 4-0 after the first innning en route to cutting the Red Sox lead in the best-of-seven Series to 2-1.
Despite the dangers presented by the nearby Green Monster, Ojeda never came close to allowing the three-run homer that has undone so many pitchers in Fenway Park. Boston's power hitters produced only a few good rips. Jim Rice, Don Baylor and Dwight Evans, three right-handed hitters who can reach the wall, went a combined 1-for-12.
"I've never hit against the guy, but he threw the way I expected," Rice said. "He showed me a fastball and then threw offspeed."
Game 4 is at Fenway Park tonight
mice and A hipster for the Red Sox.
New York collected only 12 hits and
played listlessly in the first two
games at Shea Stadium, but apparently benefited from a day off Monday, dominating the Red Sox in
the first World Series game at Fenway Park in 11 years.
"We were a tired ballclub, totally drained mentally and physically," said Carter, who drove in three runs on the first day. "He definite advantage to take some time."
Dykstra's leadoff horner triggered the four-run first inning that made things easy for Oieda.
"A base hit would have sufficed," Johnson said. "It was nice to break it open like that."
Ojeda, the Mets' top winner this season with an 18-5 record, pitched seven strong innings before giving way to Roger McDowell, who retired all six batters he faced, five on groundouts.
Ojeda allowed only five hits, struck out six and walked three in mastering Fenway Park. In fact, he became the first left-hander in 68 years to defeat the Red Sox in a World Series game at Fenway.
The 28-year-old pitcher, who spent a little more than five years with the Red Sox, admitted Monday he never enjoyed pitching in Fenway. The park has been a troublesome place for left-handers because of the short distance to the imposing Green
Trammel sets sights on conference title, 1988 Olympic team
Bv BRIAN SNYDER
Sports writer
Although recent rains have caused troubles in the form of cancellations for some Kansas fall sports, the Jayhawk swim team should be grateful when the heavens pour. Rain is how the Jayhawks ended up with Glenn Trammler.
The 19-year-old Trammel, a two-time All-America at Topeka High School, told yesterday of how he began his successful swimming career.
When he was eight, rain cancelled one of his little league baseball games, Trammel said. That day, a group of friends passed the Trammel house on the way to a local swim meet. Trammel watched the meet and joined the team the next day.
But Trammel's time was divided among football and basketball, as well as swimming, until his junior year in high school when universities began to recruit him. He quit when the risk of injury in the other sports threatened his future in swimming.
Since that rainy day, I tramelm has compiled a list of honors and records that disguise the fact that he is only a sophomore in college.
In high school, besides being named In-America twice, Trammel set state records in the 100-meter backstroke, 100- and 200-meter freestyle, 200-meter individual medley and the 200-meter medley relay.
At the 1983 YMCA National Championships, Trammel was named the Outstanding Male Participant. Last year, as an 18-year-old, he was the nation's top ranked swimmer in the 100-meter backstroke. Also, Trammel swam well enough to qualify for the World Championship Team Trials in Orlando, Fla. Although he didn't qualify for the team, finishing eighth, he said that competing for the national team was a vital experience.
championships.
"It was like swimming on the Olympic level." Trammel said. "They were the fastest trials the U.S. had, and they have been seven or eight world records broken."
Swimming on the Olympic level was the farthest thing from Tramline's mind in high school, but swim head coach Gary Kempf told him that he had the ability to be one of the top backstrokers in the country.
Last year, Trammel finished second in the 100- and 200-meter backstroke and third in the 200-meter individual medley at the conference
"I couldn't grasp that," Trammel said. "It was hard to believe. I never thought of it."
Trammel said making the 1988 Olympic team was a realistic goal and he planned to go somewhere this spring to train.
Where he trains for the Olympic Trials will be determined by the U.S. swim team head coach. He is now a member of the national team and will be invited to trials for international competitions like the Pan-Am Games.
But now, the emphasis is on the upcoming Kansas season.
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Glenn Trammel, Kansas City. Mo., sophomore, rests during a Kansas swim practice. The swim team is preparing for an intrasquad meet Friday. Trammel competed in the World Championship team trials last summer.
"I think we have a legitimate chance at winning the conference," Trammel said. "We want to take it personally and break into the national level."
"The swimming tradition in the Big Eight is here and it has eluded us. We're going to bring it back, where it belongs."
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Trammel said the team spirit was conducive to bringing the Big Eight Conference championship back to Kansas. The Jayhawks have won the conference title 10 times since 1968, the last victory coming in 1979. Last year, they finished second to Nebraska. Trammel described the team as a big family where everyone was on the same level, regardless of class rankings or talent.
The team unity is why Trammel decided to attend Kansas. He said that on recruiting trips he made to other schools, the swimmers on the teams didn't know each other Swimmers at Tennessee, Southern Stauffach and Florida separated themselves by class rank and talent.
"It doesn't matter who you are." Trammler said of Kansas. "I have just as much respect for the captains as I do for our two team captains."
Kempf said that Tramnel's attitude added to the unity on the team
"He was a late comer," Kemp, said Monday, "but he developed during his freshman year. He had to learn how to work but now he has a lot of confidence in himself. He understands what needs to be done."
and that he was an easy swimmer to coach.
Sophomore and fellow teammate David Youker said that Trommel's
Trammel said that his work habits had changed since coming to Kansas.
personality was basically outgoing and energetic, much like the other people on the team.
"If I had baseball practice, I blew off swimming," he said. "Now I work hard and swim fast during workouts. I give 129 percent."
leaning towards majoring in business management and minoring in biology, is one where he hopes he can help people in his community. He knows he will be somewhere in the business world, possibly in hospital management. But for now, Tramnel is working for the return to Lawrence of the Big Eight swimming championship.
Athletes are students first, leaders second, KUAC says
The future for Trammel, who is
By NICOLE SAUZEK
The KUAC board decided yesterday that any student athletes having disciplinary problems should be tried as students rather than under special conduct requirements for student leaders.
Sports writer
Disciplinary problems among student athletes were discussed by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board yesterday in response to questions brought up after a game made in the Spring of 1963 of assaults by football players.
Last spring, the KUAC set up a special task force to look into disciplinary procedures taken if a student athlete violated the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities established in 1970.
The question surfaced a year and a half ago when Mike Kirsch, owner of Gammon's, 1601 W. 23rd St., wrote letters to both the Lawrence Journal-World and the University Daily Kansan, complaining that several Kansas football players had beaten another student in the parking lot of his nightclub. He charged that similar incidents had occurred before.
David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, reported yesterday that the task force decided that effective regulations were available through the student code and that all students should be treated similarly under its provisions.
The executive committee of the KUAC then asked the board to consider developing a code stating the board's position in future situations where an athlete's conduct was in question.
In the case of a student athlete being charged with misconduct, a hearing panel could recommend to Caryl Smith, dean of student life, that the student be suspended
"If we enforce the code." Amber said, "that basically would take care of any situation."
from play, a probationary period that could last up to two academic years.
However, withdrawal of financial aid would be left to the Athletic Department. The athlete's grant-in-aid would only be terminated by the Athletic Department if the student was dismissed from the University because of failure to meet academic requirements, if the student was placed on disciplinary probation, suspension or expulsion, or if the student was convicted in a court of law for criminal misdemeanor or felony. Ambler said.
A hearing panel would only be set up if a student athlete broke the student code.
"Athletes have been suspended before," said Gary Hunter, associate athletic director. "But, the gravity of the problem didn't warrant suspension of aid.
"The basic right is to be a student." Ambler said. "There is no basic right to be an object."
The task force will look into punishments for misconduct against the University and report on it at the next KUAC board meeting December 1.
Early enrollment for athletes was also discussed at the meeting. There are still questions of whether or not student athletes should be allowed to enroll early for classes, said Don Green, professor of engineering.
Misconduct, though, will be tried and measured in severity on a case by case basis
The Athletic Department is monitoring the practice and no action will be taken on the issue until next year.
"Misconduct is what we say misconduct is."
Other business included a report on the Williams Fund, which provides scholarships to KU athletes. Donations for the fiscal year 1987 already exceed last year's contributions by $42,000.
A total of $655,853 has been gathered by the Williams Fund compared to $613,591 at this time last year.
NBA agrees to add at least three teams
The Associated Press
PHOENIX, Ariz. — The NBA's Board of Governors voted yesterday to expand the league by one to three teams. But at the earliest the expansion would not take place 1988, and possibly not until the 1990-91 season.
National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern announced at a news conference that a five-member expansion committee would be formed and would decide on the sites and timetable for expansion, which will be announced next April in New York.
The new teams would be added between the 1988-89 and 1990-91 seasons.
The last time the league added a new team was in 1980, when Dallas was granted a franchise.
"The NBA has reached a point in strength where the next logical step for us is to expand. The vote was unanimous, 23-0." Stern said. "The collective force of the presentations given by the players put away any doubts that we should not be moving aggressively forward."
are: Toronto, Minneapolis, Miami,
Fla., Orlando, Fla., Orange County,
Calif., and Charlotte, N.C.
Representatives from six applicants delivered presentations to the board Monday. The applicants
Stern said the expansion committee "will meet with each of the six applicants again and with any more that come forward. I would not be surprised that in the next 60 days, there are not more applicants."
Lewis Schafft, a former general manager of the New Jersey Nets who is representing the Miami expansion group, said he believed the league may decide to expand before 1990.
"If they say there is expansion by 1988, everybody will be happy." Schaffel said.
Stern said he believed it was possible to use the 1988 timetable because it would be an orderly expansion program.
Richard Bloch, president of the Phoenix Suns, was named chairman of the expansion committee. Stern said the other committee members will be William Davidson of the Detroit Pistons, Herb Simon of the Indiana Pacers, Norm Sonju of the Dallas Mavericks and Charlie Thomas of the Houston Rockets.
Miami, Orlando and Minneapolis reportedly are the leaders in the race to get a franchise.
Sports writer
The Kansas women's golf "A" team held its lead through the second day of the Jayhawk Invitational Golf Course. The club won by two strokes. Club to win by two strokes.
Golf team takes first in tourney
By JANE ZACHMAN
The "A" team's final four-man score of barely edged out Iowa State's total. barely edged out Iowa
The Kansas "B" team finished three strokes behind Iowa State with a total score of 959.
Weiser said that the Jayhawks played well yesterday and he was pleased with the win.
"I was probably most worried on the first nine holes (played yesterday)," Kansas head coach Kent Weiser said after the tournament, "because they could've come out and just let it go."
men's head golf coach
KU women's head golf coach.
'I was probably most worried on the first nine holes because they could've come out and just let it go.'
This was the last tournament for the Javahaws until the spring.
"We had a pretty good team; we would've had to throw it away not to win.
Penni Peters of Iowa State placed first individually. She had a slow start on the first 18 holes, shooting an 81. She shot a 78 in the second round, tying for third, and fired a 74 in the round to win with a final score of 230.
"I was putting really well today," Peters said, "but in the first round I got down."
Ann Vandermillen of Wichita State was the leader after the first 27 holes Monday, shooting a 76, but final rounds 8 and 77 dropped her to se-
Freshman "B" team member Suzanne Mossberg finished with the top Kansas score, placing third individually, with a total of 234. She shot a 74 in the first round and 80 in both the second and third rounds in her first college tournament.
"Twenty-seven holes is a lot to play when you've never done it before," Mina said.
This was the first tournament she has played in this season because she was academically ineligible until Fridav.
Junior Susan Pekar and freshman Marilee Scheid tied for fourth individually with total scores of 236. Pekar, playing for the "A" team, shot rounds of 76, 80 and 80, Schied, playing for the "B" team, shot rounds of 78, 84 and 74.
Pekar, also a team co-captain, said she could've shot better, but she was happy that the Jayhawks did so well.
"Everybody has worked so hard this season and everybody contributed something to the tournament." she said.
Junior Tina Gnewchu, also a co-captain, said she thought the Jayhawks' top finishes came from a team effort.
Weiser said the team has learned how to win this season.
Other Kansas “A”队 golfers' scores were: freshmen Donna Lowe, 87, 77, 82 — 246, and Sherri Achison 83, 77, 79 — 239, sophomore Michelle Mulvihill, 81, 79 — 239, and Gnewchw, 81, 82, 82 — 245.
Other Kansas "B" team golfers' scores were: freshmen Jill Reimer, 84, 78, 86 - 248, and Linda Bauerle, 86, 87, 88 - 261, and junior Toni Shockley, 82, 81, 78 - 241.