Sports
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 8.1986
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Witt allows 5 hits in 8-1 Angels victory
United Press International
BOSTON — Mike Witt, eager to prove he was the equal of Roger Clemens, upstaged the Boston pitcher last night with a masterful five-hitter, carrying the California Angels to an 8-1 victory over the Red Sox in the first game of the American League plavoffs.
The best of-seven series continues today at 2:05 p.m. with right-hander Kirk McCaskill pitching for the Angels and left-hander Bruce Hurst仁 living for the Red Sox
Brian Downing sparked an 11-hit Angel attack with four RBIs and rookie Wally Joyner had a pair of doubles, but it was the pitching of Witt that set the tone of the game.
Despite temperatures that dipped into the 40s, the 6-foot-7 pitcher performed as if he were pitching in sunny California. He did not allow a hit for $5\%$ innings, stifling the hard-hitting Red Sox, who defeated him twice this year at Fenway Park.
Angels Manager Gene Mauch had said that Witt's star quality would shine in the postseason just as Clemens' had done during the regular season. And that prediction could not have been more accurate.
While Clemens struggled with his control from the outset and was tagged for eight runs and 10 hits before being knocked out in the eighth. Witt faced the minimum number of batters for more than five innings until Wade Boggs reached on an infield
hit.
Clemens bore little resemblance to the pitcher who posted a 24-4 record during the season and is the leading candidate for the AL Cy Young Award.
Witt, the Angels' top winner during the regular season with an 18-10 record, struck out only three but walked just two, keeping the Red Sox off stride all game with his assortment of breaking pitches.
He never found his rhythm, possibly because of the elbow injury he suffered last week when he was struck by a line drive in a game against Baltimore.
The right-hander was rocked for four runs in the second innings during which he threw 45 pitches. He made
143 pitches before Manager John McNamara removed him in the eighth.
The Angels capitalized on Clemens' early wildness with four runs in the second inning.
Joyner saved Witt from a possibly disastrous eighth inning when he made a diving stop over first base of Boggs' hard smash and turned it into an out. Spike Owen had reached on an infield hit with one out before Joyner's sparkler. Barrett followed with an infail hit.
After striking out the first two batters in the second, Clemens walked Bob Boone and Gary Pettis, then yielded a run-scoring single to Ruppert Jones.
Joyner, who doubled in the first.
then doubled into the left-field corner to knock in Pettis. Downing worked a full count before lining a two-run single to left to make it 4-0.
An error by Owen helped the Angels score another run in the second. With one out, Rob Wilfong was safe when Owen's high throw pulled Bill Buckner off first base. Clemens struck out Dick Schofield, but Boone and Pettis hit successive singles to bring in Wilfong.
The Red Sox finally broke through in the sixth. With two out, Owen walked and moved to second on Boggs' hit to third. Barrett then lined a single to right, scoring Owen and cutting the lead to 5-1. Witt escaped by getting Buckner on a short fly.
Strongest Jayhawk likes living life of loner
By ANNE LUSCOMBE
Chase Van Dyne/Special to the Kansan
He has the distinction of being the strongest Jayhawk, the reputation of being a loner, the talent of being an artist.
Steve Nave, the quiet, intense offensive lineman, last spring became the first varsity football player ever to become an Iron Hawk. Only two other athletes, shot putter Ron Rose and javelin thrower Ron Bahm, have earned the Iron Hawk.
Steve Weiss lifts 635 pounds in the parallel back squat to earn the Iron Hawk Award. Last spring, Nave, who plays both the offensive and defensive lines for
The Iron Hawk, started three years ago, is the most prestigious weight-lifting award given to a Kansas athlete. To attain the virtually unattainable, the contender must be willing to make sacrifices and to work on eudurance. The athlete must also be a genetic monster, said Kansas' strength coach E迪 Biliek.
Kansas, became the first Jayhawk football player and only the third athlete to earn the University's most prestigious weightlifting award.
[Nave pushes himself to the limit and remains uncontented, but that is part of his nature. He prefers the solitary life over the rambunctious social life of many of his teammates. Perhaps that was why the Iron Hawk became his.
"I'm always pushing myself and trying to be better than anybody else." he said. "I am a solitary person, I rely on myself. It's really exciting to feel you can push yourself that far by yourself."
The Iron Hawk award goes to an athlete who, within 24 hours, lifts a specific total of pounds doing three separate lifts: the parallel back squat, the flat bench press and the power clean. The total is based on the athlete's body weight. Nave, weighing in at 260 pounds during the attempt, needed to lift a total of 1370
pounds.
He exceeded the minimum requirement by 30 pounds for a super heavy weight, an athlete 242 pounds and more. On the parallel back squat he lifted 635 pounds. He pressed 435 pounds, and on the power clean he lifted 330 pounds.
"The Iron Hawk is so difficult to achieve that to do so is rare." Bielik said. "It is simply the highest level of achievement that can be attained in the weight room."
Nave has earned the strongest Jayhawk status, although however strong he may be physically, Nave confesses to being very fragile emotionally.
"I'm not sure of the people around
me. I feel lost most of the time," he said. "I haven't attached myself to anyone in all the time I've been here. I've been hurt emotionally in my childhood and the wounds haven't healed. I may be strong and big but I'm still emotionally fragile. That's why I hang out by myself."
The two things he excels at the most, his art and weight lifting, require no outside assistance. He can contemplate life while lifting or drawing.
"I think more about me than anything else," he said. "I won't tell people my problems. What do they know about me?"
begins to describe a picture he wishes he had brought with him.
He pauses, lost in thought,
remembering another time. He
"I look at this picture when I was a little kid," he said. "I'm just standing in our backyard with this dumb-founded look on my face. It looks like I'm saying 'what do I do now?' There's only me in the picture. That's how I feel now, like it's just me, alone, in the picture, thinking 'what am I going to do?'
While Nave may lack security in where his life is going, lack of self-confidence has never hindered this quiet giant.
"When I decided to try for the Iron Hawk, there was no doubt in my mind that I would get it," he said. "I have so much confidence in myself
that it overrides everything else. It defies logic. I want to show people I can do something that to them might be impossible."
Nave hates to be beaten at anything. His goal is to be supreme. Orders are distasteful, often disregarded by the self-acclaimed rebel. He questions commands, especially those given by his coaches, wanting to know how the order will benefit him.
"I if gave anybody the chance to be in the same boat as me, they'd go crazy," he said. "There are still so many mysteries about me. Many I can't answer for myself. I still want to know who is the real me."
Terrapin athletic director quits job
United Press International
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Saying he feels free at last, Maryland Athletic Director Dick Dull resigned yesterday, 3/8 months after the death of basketball star Len Bias and amid mounting criticism of the poor academic performance of the school's athletes.
Dull, credited with returning Maryland Terrapin football to national prominence but burdened by a growing list of problems in the wake of Bias's cocaine-induced death June 19, left after six years at the helm of the Atlantic Coast Conference program.
"I would be remiss if I didn't say that (Bias's death) had some effect," Dull said at a news conference.
Charles Sturtz, Maryland vice chancellor for administrative affairs, was appointed to assume Dull's post while school officials begin a nationwide search for a new athletic director.
Dull and dozens of other Maryland officials testified this summer before a Prince George's County grand jury investigating the athletic program following allegations of widespread drug use and poor academic performance among athletes. In addition, two school task forces are probing academic problems and drug use among athletes.
"I wanted to see this situation through," said Dull, whose resignation is effective Nov. 1. "The grand jury has concluded its work, the task force has concluded its work and I believe by Nov. 1 most other issues will be resolved. I think it's appropriate right now for my personal happiness and my personal future that I step aside from a permanent position as athletic director."
Dull will serve for one year as an adviser to university Chancellor John Slaughter on what he called "a variety of athletic and policy program issues."
"It's been a trying time and a difficult time for all of us," Dull said. "None of us look quite the same as we did on the 19th of June
"But regardless of whether Len Bias had died or not, regardless of whether we were embroiled in this controversy, I intended to step aside anwow."
"As I said walking down the hall (to the news conference), I felt that I might recite Martin Luther King's words: 'Free at last.' "
Slaughter refused to comment on the status of Maryland basketball coach Charles "Lefty" Driesell. Slaughter, who has launched his own investigation of Driesell, said last week he would announce by Oct. 20 whether the veteran coach would remain at the school.
"I would like not to enter into conjecture or speculation on that issue. You can't pin me down," Slaughter said.
Criner says Iowa State needs win
United Press International
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State head coach Jim Crimer said yesterday that the Cyclones, 3-1, must win on the road, beginning at Kansas Saturday, before they can consider themselves a successful football team.
Iowa State upset Wyoming last week, 21-10, for its third consecutive victory at home after opening the season with a 43-7 loss to No. 11 Iowa. The Cyclones face the Jayhawks, 3-1, in their league opener Saturday and then travel to Colorado next week.
"I am very concerned this week because we are on the road. In order to be a successful football team, you have to win on the road." Criner said at his weekly news conference.
He also said he didn't think the Cyclones deserved to be ranked among the nation's top 35 or 40 teams, but said a win over the Jayhawks might change that.
"We've been on the road only one time this year and we did not play well. In addition, this week, there will be a very wild homecoming crowd at Kansas."
Criner said Kansas might be the most improved team in the Big Eight Conference.
"They are a team that is much like ourselves. They have improved each week." he said.
He said the Jayhawks had a strong defense and an "explosive offense" that was averaging 128 yards rushing and 227 yards passing per game.
Stephenson Hinton's Brandon Hinton, right, Topeka sophomore, trees to elude the tramural football game yesterday at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets. grasp of Tempin Second Floor's Jeff Trees, Overland Park freshman, in an in- Complete intramural schedules are located outside room 208 in Robinson
Rain causes intramurals to overlap
Sports writer
If the sunshine lasts and the referees don't collapse, intramural softball and football will continue throughout the week as the softball season winds down and the football season begins.
By NICOLE SAUZEK
The season-ending championship softball tournament scheduled to begin Sept. 22 was postponed because of rain and re-scheduled to begin to day and last through Sunday.
The first week of a three-week long football season also began Monday and will run through Sunday.
Neither sport will play Saturday because of the Kansas-Iowa State football game.
Unfortunately for intramural referees and possibly a few students, the two events overlap - making hours long for referees and conflicts for students involved in both sports.
"The core of our officials do all intramural sports," said John Johnson, intramural coordinator. "Usually, two sports aren't played in the same week. We're asking them to put in a tremendously long day."
Student conflicts haven't occurred yet because two rounds of football were played Monday and yesterday when softball games had not started.
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"If it gets to the place where there is a conflict," said Johnson, "no one will have to forfeit a game because they can't play. We just won't play the game or count it as a win or a loss."