Sports
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. August 26, 1986
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Kickers get down to business
Kansas place-kickers Mac Smith, above, and Chase Van Dyne, below, practice their kicks in Memorial Stadium. They are contending along with two other kickers for the top kicking spot for the Jayhawks.
He's the son that inherited his father's business. After grasping the idea that he's now the boss, the son must prove to the stockholders that he belongs.
By FRANK HANSEL Sports editor
Kansas place-kicker Chase Van Dyne is that son.
With the father, last year's kicker Jeff Johnson, retired. Van Dyne inherited the No.1 kicking job in the spring. Now the stockholders, including head coach Bob Valesante, want the son to prove that he can run the business.
So far, Van Dyne said yesterday the business is failing.
"I've kicked poorly." Van Dyne said. "I have had maybe a day and a half where I've kicked the ball as well as I can. That's one out of every 10 days."
At that rate, it won't be long before the son files for bankruptcy. The coaching staff has let Van Dyne know that his job is in jeopardy, and he said he was feeling the pressure.
"All along I had been the one fighting to get up to number one, and now I'm the one there and I'm just trying to stay there," he said. Last season, Van Dyne almost reached the top spot, but the results were disastrous, and it has haunted the Mission Hills sophomore ever since.
"The one I kicked against Colorado was the most embarrassing thing I've ever lived through." Van Dyne said. "I just wanted to dig a hole in the turf, crawl in it and never come out. It was the worst feeling in the world."
Last year's head coach Mike Gottfried gave Van Dyne a chance to kick against the Buffaloos because Johnson was struggling. Van Dyne entered the game with 39 seconds left in the third quarter and Kansas trailing 7-3. His 28-yard attempt didn't even reach the end zone.
Throughout the summer, Van Dyne reminded himself of that nightmarish moment, and he said he wouldn't let it happen again.
But now the son who stabilized the business in spring practice is faced with a possible takeover in the form of three kickers — Mac Smith, Gregg Robisch and Louis Klemp — who also want to run the company.
"Right now, I'd say they're all equal as far as kicking field goals," Joe Pannunzio, tight end and special teams coach, said. "Mac is ahead on kickoffs. He seems to have the stronger leg."
Smith, a freshman from Jackson, Miss., has just one year of kicking experience, which includes a 48-yard field goal at Jackson Preparatory School.
"I was off the first week," Smith said. "I think I've done all right though, but there is always room for improvement."
Valesente said he was giving the kickers as many game-like situations as possible so they would be ready when the season started.
"In high school there was never any doubt what was going on," Van Dyne said. "Now there is a lot of competition. It's an all out battle. If I can get my act together and kick the way I have in the past couple days, I should pull out all right."
Smith came through yesterday, hitting a 52-yard field goal to conclude a two-minute offensive drill at the end of practice. Van Dyne and Robisch were short and wide, and Klemp had enough distance but just missed to the left.
If he doesn't, the board could be looking for a new chairman.
Smith, Klemp and Robisb are giving Van Dyne plenty of competition.
Volleyball recruit follows dad to KU
By ANNE LUSCOMBE
Like father, like daughter. For the Oelschlag family the cliche fits.
Jodi Oelschlager, the only new recruitment for the Kansas volleyball team, is following in her father's athletic footsteps.
Ron Oelschlager, a 1965 KU graduate, was a running back on the Kansas football team. He played behind the legendary Gale Sayers for three years.
Even though he said he tried not to push Kansas over any other school, the self-proclaimed proud father was happy with his daughter's decision to stay close to home.
"We tried to stay pretty neutral during her recruiting, but there were subtle pressures because we're a KU family." Oelschlager said yesterday. "KU filled the bill for what she was looking for, and she knows we want to be able to watch her play."
Jodi, a two-time all-league selection and a first-team all-state and all-state tournament selection, chose Kansas over Notre Dame, Florida State and Virginia to be closer to home.
Her family may get more of an opportunity to watch her play than it
bargained for. She may be filling in for starting hitter Eileen Schwartz, a junior, who will undergo knee surgery tomorrow morning at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Head coach Frankie Albizt said Oeishlager was the only recruit because the Jayhawks had just one scholarship to offer. The team did not lose any players after last year, and only one player will be lost next year. However, Albizt seemed satisfied with her selection.
"She's real explosive and an exceptionally good blocker," Albitz said. "It's her power that we like."
The younger Oelschlager said she was not having any problems fitting in with the KU program, but she said the training was much more intense than what she received at Lawrence High School.
Oelschlager has had her share of adjustments since coming to Kansas. Albitz changed her position from a left-side hitter to a right-side or center hitter — a change Oelschlager said did not make her happy.
NCAA academic rule affects mostly blacks
She also no longer has the superstar status she attained while playing in high school. Now, her claim to fame is being the only freshman on the team.
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DALLAS — Blacks make up 85 percent of freshmen football players who will be ineligible to play this fall because of the NCAA's Proposition 40 academic regulations, the Dallas Times Herald reported recently.
A Times Herald survey of the 105 football programs in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I-A indicated that 9 percent of 2,227 incoming freshmen — 206 athletes — failed to meet the Proposition 48 requirements for standardized test scores and grade point averages on 11 basic high school classes.
Of those 206 who failed to meet the requirements, 175 were black, the newspaper said.
Bethune-Cookman College of Daytona Beach, Fla., lost 11 of its 16 recruits, all black, to the Proposition 48 requirements, the Times Herald said. Alabama State of SWAC lost 15 of 22 Grambling, where Coach Eddie Robinson set a record for most career victories by a college coach, lost 14 of 28.
"This is the first time anyone has seen the impact, and it's devastating," Brutus Jackson, athletic director at predominantly black Prairie View A&M, told the newspaper. The school lost three of its 10 recruits.
Among major conferences, 21 of the 22 ineligible athletes in the Southwest Conference are black, as are 10 of 11 in the Pac-10, all 25 in the Southeastern Conference, 14 of 15 in the Big Ten, 21 of 23 in the Big Eight and all 12 in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Proposition 48 requires that incoming athletes with a minimum 1.8 grade point average on 11 basic high school classes also score a minimum of 740 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or 17 on the American College Test exam. Test score minimums are lower for students with higher grade point averages.
Students who do not meet the requirements may retain their scholarships but lose a year of eligibility. They also may retain four years of eligibility by paying their own expenses the first year, or they can transfer to a school in NCAA Division II or III or the NAIA, where Proposition 48 does not apply.
Black coaches and educators, citing what they think is an ethnic bias in standardized tests, fought the Proposition 48 regulations when they were introduced earlier this year and said the failure rate confirmed those fears.
"We don't support the cutoff arbitrary score," said Marino Casem, athletic director at Southern. "The tests were not meant to measure a child's ability to perform in (college). It measures what you have learned.
"I if I came from an impoverished environment, I'm going to test poorly because I haven't been exposed to some situations in which others have experience. Historically, (blacks) have tested badly."
ACT officials dispute accusations of racial bias in the test, saying standardized exams have become a whipping boy for substandard education systems.
Robinson agreed that some students lacked a basic education.
"It it goes back to the mommas and the daddies," he said. "I think they knew when John was a little boy he couldn't read. They can't assume that by the time he gets to college he will.
Among Division IA schools, the Times Herald said, 26 lost no recruits to Proposition 48 — Duke, North Carolina State, Iowa State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Central Michigan, Miami (Ohio), UCLA, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State, New Mexico State, Pacific, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Rice, Southern Methodist, Wyoming, Boston College, Louisville, Virginia Tech and Penn State.
Among other Big Eight schools, defending national champion Oklahoma suffered the heaviest losses, with 10 recruits declared ineligible. Kansas State lost one recruit; Oklahoma State, four; Colorado, three; Kansas, two; and Missouri, three.
Royals beat Chicago,Cards fall to Atlanta
White's 18th homer beats White Sox
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CHICAGO — Frank White's two-run runner with two out in the eighth inning broke a scoreless tie and gave the Kansas City Royals a 2-10 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
White's homer, his 18th of the season, came off Jose DeLoon. 3-3, who permitted just three hits over eight innings.
Rookie Scott Bankhead, 7-7, scattered eight hits over $7^2$ innings to help hand Chicago its fourth straight loss and sixth in its last seven games. Bud Black, who relieved in the eighth, earned his sixth save.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Gino Petrielli tied the score with a two-run pinch hit homer on Roger Clemens in the eighth inning and Ruben Sierra won the game with a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth inning last night to lift the Texas Rangers to 4-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
Texas 4. Boston 2
Clemens, bidding to become the major leagues' first 20-game winner, carried a two-hit, 2-1 lead into the ninth inning and had retired 14 batters in a row before Sierra beat out a checked-swing hit with one out. Petrali was sent up to bat for Steve Buechele and hit Clemens' first pitch just inside the right field foul pole for his second home run of the season.
remain three games behind first-place California in the AL West.
The win went to Dale Mohoric, 2-1,
who pitched the last two innings in relief of Bobby Witt.
California 5, New York 3
The victory enabled the Rangers to
NEW YORK — Doug DeCinces hit home runs in his first two at-bats and Bob Boone contributed a pair of run-scoring singles to lead the California Angels to a 5-3 victory over the New York Yankees.
The loss prevented the Yankees from gaining ground on the Red Sox, who lead the AL East by six games.
since returning from elbow surgery, pitched $5_{1/2}$ innings for the victory. The left-hander struck out seven and allowed seven hits to help the Angels even their current nine-game road trip record at 4-4.
John Candelaria. 7-2 in 10 starts
Vern Ruble pitched two hitless innings of relief before Gary Lucas took over. Donnie Moore pitched the ninth inning for his 17 save.
DETROIT — Rookie Mark McGwire hit his first major league home run, a booming 450-foot two-run shot over the center field fence, and Mickey Tettleton followed with a solo home run to highlight a five-run fifth inning that gave the Oakland A's an 8-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers.
Murphy, Griffey spark Braves to win
Jose Rijo tossed a five-hitter and raised his record to 6-9 despite giving up three runs in the first inning, two coming on Darrell Evans' 22nd home run.
Rijo gave up two hits in the first and one in the second, then held the Tigers hitless until the ninth inning.
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David Palmer scattered four hits over seven innings to improve to 10-8. He walked three and struck out seven Gene Garber finished for his 20th save. Bob Forsch, 12-8, who allowed six hits in $7 \%$ innings, took the loss.
ST LOUIS — Dale Murphy delivered a two-run double in the eighth inning and Ken Griffey homered to open the ninth last night, sending the Atlanta Braves to a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Houston 3, Chicago 2
HOUSTON — Craig Reynolds singled and drove in Dave Lopes in the eighth inning last night, lifting the Houston Astros to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
Reynolds' third hit of the game made a winner of Charlie Kerdelf, 8-2, who worked the seventh and eighth innings in relief.
The triumph marked the 20th time this year Houston has won in its final
time at-bat.
PITTSBURGH — Relief pitcher Barry Jones' wild pitch allowed Buddy Bell to score from third base in the eighth inning with the tie-breaking run last night and gave the Cincinnati Reds a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
time at bat.
Cincinnati 5. Pittsburgh 4.
New York 5. San Diego 2
The victory went to Ron Robinson, 9-3, who pitched 11/8 innings of relief. John Franco pitched the ninth for his 22nd save. Larry McWilliams took the loss and dropped to 2-10. Montreal 6, San Francisco 5
SAN DIEGO — Ray Knight's two-out, pinch hit single to left in the eighth drove in Howard Johnson
Andy McGaffigan, 8-4, pitched four innings for the victory while Jeff Reardon pitched the ninth for his 28th save.
SAN FRANCISCO — Tom Foley drove in three runs and led the Montreal Expos to a 6-5 triumph over the San Francisco Giants last night.
from second base with the tiebreaking run last night and sparked the New York Mets to a 5-2 victory over the San Diego Padres.
Jesse Orosco, who relieved starter Ron Darling in the seventh after Garry Templeton had doubled, got credit for the victory to even his record at 5-5. Orosco retired pinch hitter John Kruk for the final out of the seventh and then was pinch hit for by Knight in the eighth-inning rally. Roger McDowell went the final 1% innings for his 17th save.
Craig Lefferts, 7-5, came in at the start of the eighth and took the loss. Los Angeles 3. Philadelphia 1
LOS ANGELES — Fernando Valenzuela became the first 16-game winner in the National League, pitching a four-hitter and leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 3-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
Mike Scioscia and Bill Madlock hit solo home runs to help Valenzuela, 16-9. snap a personal three-game losing streak.