SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 23.1992
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BRIEFS
Kansas baseball team signs three players
Kansan staff report
Kansas baseball coach Dave Bingham has announced the signings of three high school players to national letters of intent.
Roberto Garola, a left-handed pitcher from Northwest High School in House Springs, Mo., and Heath Bender, an infielder from Rock Island, Ill, signed letters Thursday. Casey Barrett, a right-handed pitcher from Cofeeville signed with the Jayhawks Friday.
Bender hit 500 last season with four home runs and 12 stolen bases.
Garola had an earned run average of 0.93 last season as a junior, with 98 strikeouts and only 16 walks in 57 innings.
KU defensive tackle Gilbert Brown breaks through the Missouri defensive line to tackle MU quarterback Jeff Handy as he attempts to pass. The Jayhawks defense gave up only one touchdown Saturday but the Missouri kicker Jeff Jackie kicked five field goals to lead the Tiers to a 22-17 upset.
Barrett, also an all-conference basketball player at Coffeyville High, was 5-1 last year with a 2.20 ERA and 71 strikeouts in 50 innings.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Texas runner signs letter with Kansas track team
Kansan staff report
Amy Cook, a senior at New Braunfels High School in New Braunfels, Texas, signed a national letter of intent to compete for the Kansas track program next season. Cook will compete in cross country, indoor and outdoor track.
Kansan staff report
Kansas volleyball loses season finale to Sooners
The Kansas volleyball team finishes its regular season losing to the Sooners 15-5, 15-11, 5-15, 8-15 and 15-17 Saturday night in Norman, Okla.
The Japhawks finished their season with a 20-10 overall record, 4-8 in the NHL.
"We won the first two games handily but then all of a sudden we lost our composure," Kansas coach Frankie Albitz said. "It's not fun going out with a loss like this."
Senior middle blocker Kim DeHoff led kansas with 13 kills and 4 block assists. Freshman setter Leshi Stenhard had 38 set assists and 11 digs.
Although the team's regular season is over, the Jayhawks will continue practicing today and tomorrow while awaiting a possible selection to the National Invitational Volleyball Championships.
The NIVC is Dec. 4-6 in Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas' hopes fall with Hilleary
Kansan staffreport
The No. 18 Kansas women's swimming and diving team remain undefeated after victories against Arkansas and No. 16 Tennessee Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark. The men's team defeated Arkansas but fell to Tennessee.
Men's, women's swim teams fare well at meet
The women's team defeated the Razorbacks 143-100 and beat the Volunteers 132-111, improving its record to 8-0.
The men's squad overtook the Razorbacks, winning 166-77, but could not handle the No.5 Tennessee team, losing 132-109.
Both squads are idle for the next two weeks. The women will swim in the three-day Texas Invitational beginning Dec. 4 in Austin, Texas. The men's team will compete in a dual meet against Southern Methodist on Dec. 5 in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Senior quarterback suffers concussion; offense struggles
By David Bartkoski
Kansan sportswriter
One of the goal posts at Missouri's Faurot Field was sent to the ground Saturday after the Tigers upset Kansas 22-17.
But the goal posts were hardly the first thing to fall on the fall afternoon in which the Jayhawks big Eight Conference title hopes were eliminated.
Both teams' first-string quarterbacks were knocked out of Saturday's game. The career scoring records for both schools fell, and 18 penalty flags hit the ground during the game that lasted three hours and 17 minutes.
Kansas senior quarterback Chip Hileary suffered a concussion after scoring the dayhawks' first touchdown of the game on 4 yard run with
He later returned to the game as a holder on field goals but did not play at home.
"I hit my head on the turf," Hillary said. "I couldn't remember any of the formations. It took me about 30 seconds to remember. The doctors told me that by any guidelines a player should sit out a week if he has any memory loss."
Sophomore quarterback Fredrick Thomas replaced Hilleary and played all but one down for the rest of the game.
Thomas accounted for all of Kansas' 49 yards passing. The Jayhawks were more successful on the ground, compared to rushing against the Tiger defense.
Kansas senior tailback Maurice Douglas rushed 31 times for 180 yards and one touchdown. It was his fourth 100-yard rushing performance of the season.
"I think our line played hard and opened up some holes," Douglas said. "But at the end, when it counted, the stunner defense was there to make the stop."
The Missouri offense also did its part, registering 388 yards of total
offense
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Before sophomore quarterback Jeff Handy left the game after being shaken up in the fourth quarter, he had completed 22 of 39 passes for 284 yards.
Missouri senior wide receiver Victor Bailey caught 12 passes for 179 yards and finished his career as the Tigers' all-time reception leader.
Senior kicker Jeff Jacke booted a school-record five field goals to help
Missouri to the victory, Jace's 42 yard field goal in the fourth quarter gave him 225 career points, making him Missouri's all-time leading scorer.
The Tigers' only touchdown came on a 4-yard run by senior backfiller Johnny Johnson.
Kansas junior kicker Dain Eichhorn became the Jayhawks' all-time leading scorer when he kicked the extra point after Hilleary's touchdown. His
two extra points and 42-yard field goal gave him 138 career points, surpassing Bruce Kallmeyer's former record of 233 points.
Several of the nine penalties that were called against Kansas came in crucial situations.
But Kansas senior wide receiver Matt Gay refused to make excuses.
Kansas had a last chance opportunity to win the game in the closing moments. The Jayhawks got the ball with 1.08 to play and drove to the Missouri 32-yard line with the aid of a defensive pass-interference call. With no time on the clock, Thomas' Hail Mary pass fell incomplete.
"We can't blame it all on parents," he said. "Our execution wasn't that good."
Jayhawks bowl aspirations hinge on 'Husker-Sooner dual
Kansan sportswriter
By David Bartkoski
Kansas coach Glen Mason was not sure if Kansas' season was finished after the Jayhawks were beaten 17-22 by Missouri Saturday.
The Jayhawks' chances of going to a post-season bowl game have been dimmed by a third consecutive Big Eight Conference loss.
Mason's phone will ring if Oklahoma does not beat Nebraska on Friday. If Oklahoma should lose to the 'Huskers, Kansas will finish third in the conference and receive an auto
"We may be done," Mason said. "If we don't go to a post-season bowl game, we have no one else to blame." The team's offense rung, so maybe we are finished."
An Oklahoma victory would propel the Sooners into third place, and Oklahoma would play the Cougars in Honolulu Dec. 25.
matic invitation to play BYU in the Alba Bobl Christmas Day.
Mike Long, selection representative for the Aloha Bowl, said that the Jayhawks would be an excellent Big Eight representative.
The three consecutive losses did not lessen the Alaha Bowl committee's enthusiasm about Kansas, Long said.
"I think Kansas has one of the most exciting football teams in the country," he said. "I think a Kansas-BYU match-up would be a very, very good game."
The outcome of the Kansas-Missouri game might have been different.
Hilleary should be able to play in the Aloha Bowl should the Jayhawks be invited. Also, the Jayhawks will have, more than a month to recover from the Missouri loss.
Hillery not left the game with a concussion in the first quarter. Long said.
Long said that those two factors should make for a better Kansas team
"We were disappointed Kansas didn't win Saturday," Long said. "But we won't be disappointed if they're the Bie Eight representative."
Kansas senior wide receiver Rob Licursi said that he had his fingers crossed for a bowl berth.
"Obviously, we'd like to go to one," he said. "Now we just have to sit back and see what other teams do."
Lady'Hawks defeat Czechs
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
With the help of sophomore guard Angela Aycock's career high 35 points and 12 rebounds, the Kansas women's basketball team overcame a 18-point deficit Saturday to defeat Czechoslovakian队 Cassiova Kosice 82-78 in Allen Field House.
The Jayhawks had 17 turnovers during the first half of their first exhibition game of the season, and went into the locker room down 33-28. Aycock said that Kansas coach Marian Washington was lived at halftime. Washington's talk served its purpose.
Midway through the second half, the Jayhawks found themselves even further down
"Coach started ranting and raving." Ayck said. "She told us what we needed to do. We thought we were going to blow them out, and I think I took this team tightly."
down 62.44. The Czechoslovakian team made 7 of 18 three-pointers during the game, but it could not stop the offensive explosions of Aycock and senior guard Stacy Truitt, who scored 21 points, 16 in the second half.
"The first half she came out and played timid," Washington said. "I was trying to go with the more experienced players."
Freshman guard Charisse Sampson, the projected Big Eight Conference newcomer of the year, made her debut in a Kansas uniform but sat on the bench for much of the first half.
"I told them to play hard, and I wouldn't tolerate anything less than that," she said. "The feeling was whether we won or lost, we wanted to play hard."
Washington was more pleased with Sampson's sec
Washington said that at half time, the results of the game were the least of her concerns.
on half performance, when she grabbed an offensive rebound and layed it in for the first two points of her college career.
"The first half I was nervous," Sampson said. "But I felt a lot better out there in the second half."
The Jayhawks tied the score at 70 when Aycock went inside to score and was fouled. She made both free throws and quickly scored on the Jayhawks' next possession grabbing another offensive rebound and hitting a 12-foot jump shot.
With six seconds remaining in the game, Aycock passed to junior center Lisa Tate, who layed the ball in, sealing the 82-78 victory.
"We saw in the second half a really gutty effort, so I know we have the makeup of a real fine ball club," Washington said. "But we have to get a lot more people involved with that."
Angela Aycock, sophomore forward, attempts to make a basket during the Jayhawks' exhibition game against Cassova Kosicew on Saturday.
Chiefs beat Seahawks capture tie for first
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Dave Krieg of the Kansas City Chiefs had a triumphant return to the Kingdome last night, thanks to big plays by rookie Dale Carter and Neil Smith.
"It's nice to come back here and see all my old friends," said Krieg, the 34-year-old quarterback, after leading the Chiefs to a mistake-24,14 victory against his old team, the Seattle Seahawks.
"I just wanted to come in here and execute our outbreak," he said. "There wasn't much time to be distracted."
Krieg was able to engineer just one touchdown drive but didn't throw an interception and didn't score a record of 112 career fumbles.
By winning their third game in a row, the Chiefs (7-4) moved into a tie with Denver, a 24-0oser to the Los Angeles Raiders, for first place in the AFC West. Kansas won a three-game road losing streak.
Carter ran back a punt 86 yards, and Smith returned a pass interception 22 yards for a score.
The Seahawks (1-10) lost their eighth game in a row, one shy of the club record set in 1980 when the team was 4-12.
"No matter how well we play defense, we can't climb out of the bag," linebacker Rufus Porter said.
Krieg, the Seahawks' starting quarterback for 8 1/2 seasons, signed as a free agent with Kansas City after the 1891 season. Krieg completed 11 of 15 passes for 103 yards and was sacked four times, twice by Porter.
"We beat them, but they beat me up," Krieg said. "I think they had a bounty out for me."
"It was our best offensive effort of the season except for my play."
The Chiefs forced six Seahawk turnovers, including four interceptions and a fumble recovery off Kelly Stouffer, who replaced Krieg as Seattle's quarterback this year.
Stouffer said.
Smith, a 6-foot-4, 275-pounder, gave Kansas City a 24-7 lead when he picked off Stouffler's pass and returned it 22 yards for his second career touchdown midway through the third quarter.
"I looked him in the eyes, and he just threw it to me," Smith said.
The Chiefs led only 10-7 when Carter broke the game open with an 86-yard punt return with 3:37 left in the half. Carter was untouched as he streaked down the left sideline for his second punt-return touchdown this season. Carter had a 46-yard return for a TD against San Diego in Kansas City's season opener.
The longest return by a Kansas city player was J.T. Smith's 88 yarder against Oakland in 1979.
"I got a couple of blocks and I just knew I was going to get there." Carter said to myself, "It's about time you got one."
Kansas City grabbed a 10-1 lead in the opening quarter on Barry Words's 44-yard run with 4:10 glove and Nick Lowery's 20-yard field goal with 51 seconds left. The Chiefs settled for the first-quarter field goal after failing to get a shot despite a first down at the Seattle l.
The Chiefs were held to 117 yardsrushing.
"They've got a great defense." Wordsaid said. There weren't whole lot of holes out there. Besides my run, we didn't have many big runs."
The Seahawks scored their first touchdown when Stouffor threw a 25-yard pass to Tommy Kane in the end zone with 1:25 gone in the second quarter. Chris Warren got Seattle's second touchdown on a 6-yard run with 2:52 left in the third quarter.
Warren had his third 100-yard rushing game of the year, rushing 20 times for a career high 154 yards. Stouffer was 13 of 30 for 164 yards with one touchdown and four interceptions, including one by Carter, as starting cornerback