University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. October 15. 1986
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Mets beat Houston on single by Carter
United Press International
NEW YORK — Gary Carter turned in playoff goat to hero yesterday. In the 12th inning, Carter stroked an RBI single that lifted the New York Mets to a 2-1 victory over the Houston Astros. The Mets are now within one triumph of their first National League pennant in 13 years.
Carter's single came off reliever Kerie Kerfel on a 3-2 pitch. It brought in Wally Backman, who opened the 12th with a single oglue of third baseman Denny Walling. Backman moved to second on Kerfeld's wild pickoff throw.
After Keith Hernandez was walked intentionally, Carter fouled off three 3-2 pitches before
delivering his second hit in 22 atbats in the series. Backman easily beat the throw to the plate, and Carter was mobbed by his teammates. Moments after leaving the field he came back to the top of the dugout steps to acknowledge the cheers of the fans with a fist salute.
Jesse Orosco, who took over for starter Dwight Gooden in the 11th, retired all six batters he faced to gain the victory.
The Mets, who lead the best-of-seven series 3-2, can win their first pennant from 1973 tomorrow afternoon when the series switches to the Houston Astrodome for Game Six.
Left-hander Bob Ojeda, the win-
See METS, p. 13, col. 2
BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox ignored their tradition of failure last night with a 10-4 rout of the California Angels that sent the American League playoffs to a winner-take-all final.
AL series tied with Boston victory
United Press International
Spike Owen went 4 for 4 and Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd stiffened after a shaky start, evening the best-of-seven series at three victories apiece.
The Red Sox, who so often have managed to lose critical games late in the season, erased an early 2-0 deficit, then chased loser Kirk McCaskill in a tie-breaking, five-run third inning.
Game Seven is at 7:20 p.m. tonight at Fenway Park with left-hander John Candelaria of California pitching against right-hander Roger Clemens of Boston.
With a crowd of 32,998 chanting "Oil Can, Oil Can," the Red Sox finished with 16 hits off four pitches, winning a shot at their first World Series berth since 1975
The decision left the Angels facing their second infamous collapse within five years. Six teams in major-league history have rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win a best-of-seven series.
But the Red Sox are bidding to become an improbable seventh. Not only were they trailing 3-1 in games, but they were down 5-2 in the ninth inning of Game 5 and one strike from elimination.
The Angels, who blew the 1982 playoffs after leading 2-0 in a best-of-five series, learned yesterday they would be without rookie Wally Joyner. And without him, the Angels failed in the clutch and made mistakes on defense. Though expected to accompany the team to Boston, he remained in California with a leg infection.
Game Six remained close only for $2^{1/2}$ innings before the Red Sox took command. Marty Barrett had three hits and Wade Boggs and Don Baylor each scored twice. That made it easy for Boyd to go seven innings for the victory. With the victory, Boyd evened his playoff record at 1-1.
Owen, a midseason acquisition, delivered his fourth hit — a two-run triple — in the seventh. California added a run in the seventh on a homer by Brian Downing and one in the eighth on a throwing error by Owen.
ing of my own.
In a game clearly lacking the drama of the previous two, both clubs scored twice in a first inning that took 39 minutes.
Forcing Boyd to throw 44 pitches, the Angels took a 2-10 lead. After Ruppert Jones walked, Reg
gie Jackson and Doug DeCinces smacked RBI doubles off the Green Monster in left field.
As if uncomfortable with a lead, McCaskill walked the first two batters — Boggs and Barrett — and both scored. They advanced on a groundout, and Boone allowed a passed ball for one run. Jim Rice grounded out and produced another run.
The Red Sox took a 7-2 lead in the third
Owen and Boggs singled, and Barrett lined an RBI double to left-center. Bill Buckner singled home Boggs, Rice hit into a fielder's choice and Barrett was thrown out in an unwise attempt to score. It was the last out McCaskill recorded.
Baylor singled to center, and the absence of Joyner suddenly became conspicuous. Grich cut the ball off near the mound and noticed Baylar taking a long turn around first. He threw wild behind the runner, allowing Buckner and Rice to score with Baylor advancing to third on the wild throw. Dwight Evans singled home Baylar from third for a 7-2 lead, knocking out McCaskill.
California squandered a chance to get back in the game in the fourth. Grich singled and Wilfong bunted safely, but they never advanced even one base. Boone and Gary Pettis fanned and Jones lineed out to right.
Last season a motivator for 'Hawks
By FRANK HANSEL
Sports editor
The attitude of this year's men's basketball team was set at halftime of the North Carolina football game when team members received their Final Four rings.
The six newcomers looked on in awe as the rings were passed out to last year's players.
basketball players are surrounded by reporters, photographers and cameramen duringunity to interview and photograph members and coaches of the team. The Jayhawks will open ania day. The event, held yesterday at Allen Field House, gave members of the media an oppos season with an exhibition against the Soviet Union National Team Nov. 19, at Allen Field HQ.
"I heard a lot of freshmen say that is what they wanted," Larry Brown, men's head basketball coach, said yesterday at media day in Allen Field House.
The Jayhawks finished 35-4, with the most victories ever by a KU team, and won the Big Eight Conference regular season title with a 13-1 record. Kansas won the Big Eight post season tournament and the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament before losing 71-67 to Duke in the Final Four.
Last year's success should be enough to motivate the 1986-87 team, but this year's team will also have to replace some talent.
Gone are Ron Kellogg, Greg Drelling, Calvin Thompson and Archie Marshall. Marshall, a senior, will redshirt this season because of a knee injury he suffered against Duke in the Final Four semifinals.
Kellogg, Thompson and Marshall provided outside shooting, and Dreiling gave the Jayhawks plenty of rebounds. These are two areas the Jayhawks will have to re-establish if they are to be as successful as last season.
"Last year when Ron or Calvin took a shot, we knew it was going in," junior forward Danny Manning said. "We didn't think we could get beat. We'd get down in certain situations and we did not even think about it because we knew we weren't going to lose and that what helped us a lot."
"Last year we played to win and we didn't play not to lose. That's what I'm kind of scared of — that we might . . . play not to lose instead of playing to win."
The Jayhawks do have outside shooters, despite the loss of Thompson, Kellogg and Marshall. Senior point guard Cedric Hunter set a conference record by hitting 73.6 percent of his shots in league play.
"Coach Brown is going to look for me to score more this year," said Hunter, who needs 192 assists to break Iowa State's Jeff Hornacek's career conference record of 667.
Brown will also look to sophomore redshirt Milt Newton and freshman Kevin Pritchard to add some outdoor scoring.
Newton shot 55 percent from the field during his freshman season in 1984-85 and had a 12-point performance against Colorado.
"Coach Brown has told me I have a good outside shot, but in my freshman year, I wasn't needed for my outside shooting. I think I will be needed this year." Newton said.
Pritchard was twice named player of the year at Edison High School in Tulsa, Okla. He averaged 23.2 points
a game last season.
"We recruited Kevin to take the place of Cedric and Mark (Turgeon) some day, and we want him to have that in the back of his mind to play point guard someday." Brown said. "But he can shoot it."
More emphasis could be put on outside shooting with the National Collegiate Athletic Association's new three-point shot, which must be hit from 19 feet, nine inches.
"I think it's pretty close," Newton said. "Most of the guys on the team can make it, but it won't change the way we think on offense."
Brown said he didn't like the rule because the line was too close and would be too much of a factor in tight ballgames. He thinks the NCAA needs to compromise with the National Basketball Association's three-point distance of 22 feet.
Replacing Dreiling, who led the team with 282 rebounds, is another of Brown's concerns. Hutchinson Community College transfer Sean Alvarado and sophomore redshirt Mark Pellock will battle with junior Chris Piper for the center position.
Alvarado, who played at Dunbarn High School. a traditionally strong
basketball school in Washington,
D.C., averaged 8.4 points and 4.2 rebounds per game last year at Hutchinson.
"They never threw him the ball last year," Brown said. "He was mainly used on defense. He is very quick on his feet and a good shot blocker."
Pellock sat out last year after backing up Dreiling in his freshman season. He had his best performance against Oklahoma, scoring six points and grabbing five rebounds.
See BASKETBALL, p. 14, col. 1
Six new 'Hawks join KU nest
BY PENETRATE PRIVATE
Associate sports editor
Bv HFATHER FRITZ
At an event such as yesterday's men's basketball media day, dozens of reporters ask athletes the same questions over and over. But when they ask players why they chose Kansas, the same answer comes back time after time: Great coach, great academics, great fans.
Six fledglings have joined the Jayhawks this season to try to uphold Kansas' winning tradition. Each has a winning tradition of his own
Sean Alvarado
Robert Coyne, of Denver, Colo., brings to Kansas an average of 23 points, nine rebounds and five blocked shots a game. The 6-foot-8 freshman was a Street and All-Snake basketball magazine All-American and an All-Denver selection.
Sean Alvarado, a 6-foot-10 center from Washington, D.C., joins the Jayhawks after spending two years at Hutchinson Community College. He averaged 8.4 points and 4.2 rebounds a game last year. Alvarado said the time at junior college was good for his game.
"It helped me learn to play college ball," he said yesterday.
Coyne's eligibility is in doubt earlier this year because of the new Proposition 48 guidelines, but that was cleared up and now Coyne just wants to play.
"Coach Brown is an excellent teacher. He can improve my game 100 percent. I'm here to play. I'm here to win. But I'm here to learn."
"It's not going to affect me at all," he said. "They made a big deal about it and they shouldn't have. I'm grateful to the people who helped me out. It's in the past. Now it's time to concentrate on my playing."
Coyne picked Kansas over Marquette, Colorado and Pittsburgh, and he doesn't regret his choice.
■ Jeff Guelder, freshman guard, averaged 17 points and 9 rebounds each game last year for his high
school in Charleston, III. He was an All-league selection and the team MVP the last two years, and he achieved academic success as well with a grade point average of 4.7 on a scale of 5.0.
Guildner is looking forward to playing in Allen Field House.
"Basketball is pretty big in Charleston, but it doesn't even compare to this," he said. "I'm looking forward to my chance; I hope I can make the best of it."
Keith Harris, a 6-foot-5 freshman, comes to Kansas from Santa Monica, Cal., with an average of 18 points and 12 rebounds a game. He was a Street and Smith honorable mention All-American selection and can play off-guard or small guard as well as forward.
The 6-foot-3 Tulsa native has been called one of the country's top guard recruits. He was named Oklahoma's Player of the Year twice and a Street and Smith Hoo Scoop All-American. He averaged 22.3 points a game last year. Most of those came on long jump shots.
Pritchard said he expected the newcomers and the team as a whole to improve rapidly.
- Kevin Pritchard was so excited Monday night about the start of basketball season that he couldn't even sleep.
"Usually on a team you see two great centers or guards go at it, but there's competition at every position," he said. "That's why I think we're going to improve so rapidly."
Mark Randall led his high school to a 25.1 record and the Colorado championship finals last year. The guard averaged 27.2 points and 12.5 rebounds each game last year and was a Street and Smith honorable mention All-American, an All-Denver metro selection and a McDonald's All-American.
Pritchard said his biggest strength was that he was a hard worker who pushed other players to work hard.
Randall and Pritchard played together in the National Sports Festival this summer.
"I don't have the most talent in the world," he said.
These six will have to try to make up for the loss of Greg Dreiling, Calvin Thompson and Ron Kellogg, three of last year's starters now graduated. Senior forward Archie Marshall will be redshirted because of a knee injury suffered in the NCAA Final Four semifinals last spring.
"We've got a lot of positions that we need help in, and there's going to be some great competition," said head coach Larry Brown. "I don't think there's one kid on our balclub who can't make some contribution this year."
Nebraska beats KU in 3 games
By HEATHER FRITZ
Associate sports editor
Nebraska continued its domination over Kansas in volleyball last night, beating the Jayhawks 15-6, 15-3, 14 in Lincoln, Neb., and extending its winning streak over KU to 36. Kansas has never beaten Nebraska
KU's record dropped to 18-4 overall and 3-2 in the Big Eight Conference.
Vollevball
Both conference losses have been to the Cornhuskers.
Nebraska pushed its record to 15-3 overall and 4-0 in the conference. The Cornhuskers have not lost a conference match since Missouri beat them in 1984, 50 matches ago. They are now 136-3 against Big Eight opponents in the 11 years they have had a volleyball team.
Nebraska, the defending Big Eight
champions, also beat Kansas in Lawrence Sept. 16.
"We played better against them here than we did at home even though we won a game at home." Kansas head coach Frankie Albitz said after last night's match.
"Nebraska just played well. They had five girls over .500 in hitting percentage."
Nebraska got most of its points in bunches. In the first game, leading 6-4, the Cornhuskers scored six straight points. In the second game, with the score tied 2-2, Nebraska scored five straight points and later ran off five straight to end the game. In the third game, NU scored the first four points, KU scored one, then Nebraska got five more. Nebraska ended the game and the match with a service ace that fell between two Javahaws.
Errors made a difference as the Jayhawks scored a team total of 22
kills but had 18 errors. Nebraska had 44 kills and 11 errors. Hitter Catalina Suarez led Kansas with eight kills and freshman hitter Jodi Oelschlager, who started all three games, was next with six.
Middle blocker Karen Dahgren led Nebraska with 10 kills. Dahgren is the Big Eight Player of the Week this week for the second time this year.
The Cornhuskers out-hit Kansas, gaining a team percentage of .367. Kansas had a .046 percent hitting efficiency.
"It was a case where Nebraska beat us, not us beating ourselves," Albitz said.
Nebraska head coach Terry Pettit said he had seen Kansas play better, but he thought they would definitely fight with Oklahoma for second place in the conference.
Nebraska is now in sixth place in the country in the National Collegiate Athletic Association rankings.
Miami still tops college ranks
The Associated Press
Miami, Alabama, Nebraska and Michigan retained the top four spots in the Associated Press college football poll yesterday, while North Carolina and Southern Methodist joined the Top 20 for the first time this season.
In addition, defending national champion Oklahoma climbed from sixth place to fifth.
Unbeaten Miami easily held on to the No. 1 spot for the third consecutive week after routing West Virginia 58-14 last Saturday for its sixth victory. The Hurricanes received 56 of 59 first-place votes and 1,175 of a possible 1,180 points from a nationwide panel of sports writers and sportscasters.
Alabama, 6-0, collected two first-place votes and 1,099 points after defeating Memphis State 37-0. Nebraska, 5-0, which beat Oklahoma State 30-10, got 1,018 points, and Alabama received 986 points after defeating Michigan State.
North Carolina, 4-0-1, moved among the elite at No. 18, after beating Wake Forest 40-30. SMU, 4-1, came in at No. 20, tied with Baylor, after unsetting the Bears 72-21.
Oklahoma, 4-1, moved from sixth to fifth with 946 points after a 14-12 rant over Texas.
Penn State, 5-0, received the other first-place vote, but dropped from fifth to sixth with 892 points after having to rally to beat Cincinnati 23-17.
Auburn, 5-0, remained No. 7 with 861 points after beating Vanderbilt 31-9, but Arkansas and Southern California, ranked eighth and ninth last week, suffered their first losses of the season and dropped into the second 10.
Iowa, 5-0, beat Wisconsin 17-6 and moved from 10th place to eighth with 753 points, while Washington, 4-1, a 24-14 winner over previously unbeaten Stanford, climbed from 12th to ninth with 676 points.
Arizona State, 4-0-1, No. 15 last week, rounded out the Top 10 with 619 points after trimming Oregon 37-17.
The second 10 consisted of Texas A&M, Louisiana State, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Southern Cal, Arizona, Clemson, North Carolina and UCLA, with Baylor and Southern Methodist tied for 20th.
Last week, it was Arizona, Washington, Baylor, Texas A&M, Arizona State, LSU, North Carolina State, Stanford. Mississippi State and Clemson.
North Carolina State fell out of the rankings after a 59-21 defeat by Georgia Tech and Stanford's loss to Washington cost the Cardinal its spot in the Top 20