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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 12, 1992
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Richey out four weeks after bone-spur surgery
Kansan staffreport
Patrick Richey, a 6-foot-8 junior forward/guard on the Kansas men's basketball team, underwent surgery on his right ankle yesterday to repair bone spurs.
Mark Cairns, Kansas assistant athletic trainer, said that the surgery performed on Richey was successful, and that he will be back on the court within four weeks.
"There was bone growth on two spots on his right ankle, and when he bent his ankle, those two spots would meet, causing him a lot of pain." Caims said. "It was getting progressively worse, and on Tuesday, we decided that something needed to be done."
Kenneth Wertzberger, a sports medicine doctor, performed the surgery at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Richie averaged about four points a game in his first two seasons. He will miss the Jayhawk's first exhibition game on Nov. 19, and possibly the second on Nov. 27, but is projected ready for the season opener on Dec. 1.
Three Jayhawks earn all-BigEight honor roll
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri placed five football players on the first team of the academic all-Big Eight honor roll, the conference announced yesterday.
Kansas and Kansas State both had three players on the first team.
Missouri was represented by wide receiver Mike Jadot, offensive lineman Mike Bedosky, defensive tackles and defense end Marc Pedrotti, and defensive end Marc Pedrotti.
Jayhawk quarterback Chip Hillary, tight end Pete Vang and place keeper Dan Eichloff also made the first team, along with center Quentin Neajr, linebacker Brooks Barta and free safety Thomas Byers of Kansas State.
the conference picked 54 players, including 26 first-team selections, for the academic football honor roll.
nebraska headed the list with 12 selections, including six first-teamers.
Missouri was second with eight honor roll members, followed by Kansas State and Kansas with seven each.
Three players were selected for the honor roll first team for the fourth consecutive year: Kansas State's Barta, Colorado offensive lineman Jim Hansen and Nebraska punter Mike Stigge.
The three were among 19 football players nationwide recently awarded National Football Foundation postgraduate scholarships, the conference said.
To qualify for the honor roll, players must be a "regular competitor" and have a minimum grade point average of 3.0, or "B," on a 4-point scale.
Kansas women sign two players to letters of intent
Kansan staffreport
Two high school basketball players signed letters of intent to play for the Kansas women's team yesterday, Kansas coach Marian Washington said.
Jennifer Trapp, a 6-1 center from Lawrence High School, and Angie Halbble, a 5-10 guard from Middleton High School in Wisconsin, signed yea-
Trapp played for Lawrence's state championship team last year.
"She's got great size, and I feel that once she can get into a strong weight program, it's going to help her immensely." Washington said.
Halibble averaged 20 points a game her junior year of high school.
"She's one of the top shooters in the country," Washington said. "She shoots with a lot of confidence and is competitive. She's also a strong student."
Holyfield, Bowe weigh in forheavyweight title bout
The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Evander Hollyfield weighed in yesterday at 205 pounds for tomorrow's night heavyweight title defense against Riddick Bowe, who weighed 235.
It is the lightest Hollyfield has been for his five heavyweight title fights.
Bowe, at 25 and 6-foot-5, is the youngest and tallest opponent Holyfield has faced, also is the third-heaviest. George Foreman weighed 257 and James "Buster" Douglas weighed 246
Bowe weighed 245 in his last fight, a seventh-round knockout of Pierre Coetzer on July 9. Holyfield weighed 210 for his last defense, a decision against Larry Holmes on June 19.
Volleyball team crushes K-State
By David Dorsey
Kansan soortwriter
The Kansas volleyball team destroyed the Kansas State Wildcats 15-4, 15-2 and 15-6 last night in its final home match of the season.
Kansas is now 19-13 overall and 3-7 in the Big Eight Conference.
Middle blocker Kim DeHoff and outside hitter Jill Larkin, this year's seniors, both started and played their last matches in Allen Field House.
"They both played very well," Kansas coach Frankie Albizt said. "They both have performed well this was in a legitimate start for them."
DeHoff had 10 kills for the Jayhawks, as well as a service ace which ended the second game. Larkin contributed with four kills and a team-high 11 digs.
The Jayhawks started off strong in the first game, scoring first off a kill by DeLoff.
The next play, Larkin dove for the ball getting her first dig, Freshman setter LeiStenII passed to DeHoff, who had her second kill.
Building its lead to 9-4, the team would hold the Wildcats scorele for the remainder of the game. DeHoff served an ace to get the 15-4 victory.
In the second game, the Jayhawks gave in two early points to K-State, and lost.
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But that was all the Wildcats could manage. Junior middle blocker Cynde Kanabel had two consecutive kills, giving the team enough momentum to hold the Wildcats scoreless for the remainder of the game.
The Jayhawks led 6-2 in the third game, when Steinert awed the crowd with a behind-the-head hit that landed in an open corner on the Wildcat's side of the court.
The move, called a dump, was one that DeHoff and Steinert had been practicing. DeHoff told Steinert before the play about the open area on the Wildcats' side. Albizt said she was impressed with the move.
"That was a real pretty one," Abitz said. "I had never seen that one."
Seniors Kim DeHoff (14), and Julie Larkin (12), block a spike attempt by a Kansas State player in Allen Field House. The Jahvawks beat the Wildcats lastnight in their final home game.
After Steinert's play, the Jaj Hawkes had little trouble winning the game, coasting to the 15-6 victory.
"She did a great job setting and passing the ball around a lot." Alzbiz said.
Steinert also led the team with 23 set assists.
With the victory against K-State, the Jayhawks could qualify to participate in the National Invitational Volleyball Tournament and possibly play host to it. The tournament will be in early December in Kansas City, Mo.
The seniors both said that going to the tournament was a goal for the team, and that last night's victory put them a lot closer to it.
"We have a real good shot at it," DeHoff said. "We're doing well now, so we should have a better chance."
Larkin said that the team needed to continue playing strong at Iowa State this weekend, and next week at Oka-
homa
"We beat K-State pretty soundly," she said. "Hopefully, it carries over to this weekend."
The Jayhawks finished the home portion of their schedule at 8-5.
Kansas played home matches in the field house, Robinson Gymnasium and at Lawrence High School because of repair work being done on the field house floor.
Jayhawks expect signings this week
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
Four high school basketball recruits are expected to sign their basketball letters of intent this week to play at Kansas next season.
The national early-signing period for prospective basketball players began yesterday and will continue until Wednesday.
Kansas coach Roy Williams is unable to comment on the recruits until he has received their letters, which should be next week. But recruiting analyst Bob Gibbons has said that Kansas already has one of the better recruiting classes in the nation.
The Jayhawks have four scholarships to give for next season, and with the addition of current high school seniors Scot Collick, Nick Proud, Jacque Vaughn and B.J. Williams, Kansas will have filled all of its scholarships during the early-signing period.
Vaughn, a 6-foot point guard from Pasadena, Calif., is the top prospect of the four, and Gibbons said he was the No. 2 high school point guard in the nation.
Pollard moved from San Diego, Calif. to Kennewick, Wash., a year ago and said that he was relieved that the recruiting process had finally ended so that he could concentrate on his senior year at Kamiakin High School.
Nick Proud, a 6-10 forward, is a native Australian, but has attended high school and played basketball for the past year in Sandy, Utah. He now is entering his second season at Alta High School and is expected to sign with Kansas later this week.
Pollard, at 6-11, is a natural center, but said he preferred to run the fast break rather than play with his back to the basket.
B. J. Williams, a 6-8 small forward, attends Wichita South High School and was a teammate of Kansas guard Steve Woodberry.
"It's really relieving that the recruiting is over," Williams said. "I chose Kansas because it's close to home and it's a really good program. They win a lot of games, and I get along well with the team."
Williams was a freshman reserve during Woodberry's senior year at Wichita South.
The Associated Press
Cubs' Maddux edges Glavine, earns NL's Cy Young Award
NEW YORK — Greg Maddox, who won 20 games for a losing Chicago Cubs team, edged out Atlanta ace Tom Glavine and was named winner of the National League Cy Young award yesterday.
Glavine, to become the NL's first repeat Cy Young winner since Sandy Koufax in 1966, was 20-8 with a 2.76 ERA. He got the remaining four first-place votes and finished second with 78 points.
Maddux went 20-11 with a 2.18 ERA for the Cubs. He received 20 of the 24 first place votes from a panel made up of two writers in each league city, and was named second on the remaining four ballots, finishing with 112 points.
Maddux won despite the Cubs going 78-84—seven of his losses came in shutouts—and finishing fourth in the NL East. He is the fourth Cubs pitcher to win the Cy Young, joining Ferguson Jenkins (1971), Bruce Sutter (1979) and Rick Scliffe (1984). Maddux also is the first NL starting pitcher to win the award on a team with a below-500 record since San Diego's Randy Jones in 1976.
Maddux was the first Cubs pitcher to win 20 games since Rick Reuschel went 20-10 in 1977. Maddux gave up four or fewer hits in 12 of his 36 starts.
"You never really know how good you can be if you put together the best year you can. I felt like I did that this year," he said. "To be rewarded for it in this way is very gratifying."
"I was pleasantly surprised. I thought I had a good enough year to get it and to get it means a lot," Maddux told Chicago's WLS-TV.
Glavine's second consecutive 20-win season came for
the Braves, who went 98-64 and won the NL West. The last pitcher to win consecutive Cy Youngs was Boston's Roger Clemens in 1986 and 1987.
Bob Tewksbury of St. Louis was third in the voting with 22 points, followed by teammate Lee Smith with three and Doug Drabek of Pittsburgh with one. Only Maddux and Glavine were named on all 24 ballots.
Glavine seemed a shoo-in to win again at the All-Star break. He was 13-3 at that point, but a disastrous start in the All-Star game signaled the beginning of a struggling second half in which he was troubled by injuries and went just 7-5.
Maddux, meanwhile, got stronger as the season went along. He made the All-Star team for the first time despite a 10-8 record at the break, then went 10-3 with a 1.93 ERA in the second half.
The right-handed Maddux led the left-handed Glavine in almost every pitching category. He pitched 268 innings to Glavine's 225, had 199 strikeouts to Glavine's 129 and nine complete games to Glavine's seven. Glavine led 5-4 in shutouts.
Although Maddux, 26, did not always get a lot of support from Cubs hitters — they scored a combined eight runs in his 11 losses — he helped himself in all ways. He won his third Gold Glove, leading major league pitchers in total chances for the third consecutive year, and also led all pitchers with 13 sacrifice bunts.
Tewksbury was 16-5 with a 2.16 ERA for St. Louis and Smith led the league with 43 saves. Drakeb, the 1990 Cy Young winner, was 15-11 with a 2.77 ERA for the NL East champions.
After first shunning cross country, Kansas' Teal finds niche off road
By David Bartkoski Kansan sportswriter
Jason Teal, an environmental studies major, has had plenty of opportunities to study the environment as a member of the Kansas cross country team.
He often has run through densely wooded areas, jumped over bumpy logs and hurdled muddy streams of water in three years of cross country.
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Teal will run with the team Saturday at the District V Championships in Ames, Iowa. The race could be Teal's last in a Kansas uniform if he does not run well enough to qualify individually for the NCAA Championships or if the team does not finish first or second.
The 22-year old senior from Omaha, Neb., has suffered from stress fractures in his right ankle this season, but he does not expect it to slow him down.
Senior cross country runner Jason Teal is nearing the end of his running career at Kansas as his December graduation approaches. Teal will run in the District V Championships on Saturday in Ames, Iowa.
"I sat in his home, and he
"Every step I take, it hurts," he said. "But this is possibly my last race at KU, and I have the attitude that I've got the rest of my life to recover."
said that the last thing in the world he would do is run cross country," Schwartz said.
Teal said he overcame initial worries about being able to handle the change from running 5-kilometer races in high school to 10-kilometer races in college.
Competing in indoor and outdoor track as a freshman, he was a member of the conference champion indoor-medley relay team and placed fifth at the Big Eight Outdoor Championships in the 800-meter run.
Teal ran cross country in high school but did not his freshman year at Kansas.
In cross country, Teal has finished as high as 20th at the Big Eight Championships, 16th at the District V Championships and 70th at the NCAA Championships.
Schwartz asked Teal to run cross country after that season, and Teal said he would give it a try.
He rated last year's 70thplace finish at the NCAA Championships as the best race of his cross country career.
"The coaches worked me in gradually," he said. "And I found that I had more potential than I thought."
finished Michael Cox, who finished 83rd at last year's NCAA Championships, said that Teal always performed best in the championship meets at the end of
"He races best under pressure," he said. "I've never known him to choke in a big race."
the season.
Teal also has excelled academically at Kansas. An eight-time Jayhawk Scholar, he has been named to several Big Eight academic honor rolls.
After Teal graduates in
December, he plans to move to Florida and attend law school at either Florida State or Florida.
"I'll remember my teammates and the friends I have made," he said. "The whole KU experience in general was really positive. I'm glad I had the opportunity to come here."
Jayhawks regroup for Big Eight race against Buffaloes
Kansan sportswriter
By David Bartkoski Kansan sportswriter
After being stomped by Nebraska 49-7, the Kansas Jayhawks will have to regroup in a hurry as the No. 13 ranked Colorado Buffaloes will stampede to Lawrence looking to grab second place in the Big Eight Conference.
The Jayhawks, 7-2 overall and 4-1 in the conference, and Colorado, 7-1-1 and 3-1-1, will collide at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on a regional broadcast by
Kansas coach Glen Mason said his team could not dwell on its loss to the Cornhuskers.
"The game teaches you when you get knocked down, not physically, but emotionally, you get up and go again," he said.
Kansas plays its last game of the season on Nov. 23 at Missouri.
Colorado coach Bill McCartney said Monday that he thought the game against Kansas would be hard-fought.
Mason said that at this time he was less concerned about getting bowl bids and more concerned with winning his team's last two games.
Colorado is a three-point favorite for Saturday's contest. Two weeks ago, the Buffaloes lost 52-7 to Nebraska. They tied Oklahoma 24-24 on Oct.
"The game is big and important for both teams," he said. "Going into Lawrence, I expect a very vocal, supportive crowd. We're going to have to be really sharp and play our best game of the year."
"We've got a two-game season left," he said. "We're going to finish some place between 7-4 and 9-2. There's a bit difference between 7-4 and 9-2."
Bill McCartney
Kansas sophomore cornerback Gerald McBurrows said Nebraska's dominating offensive performance would allow the minds of liavahawk defenders.
"We come back together as a defense every Sunday, he said. "We go over the mistakes we made. I think we were preparing right now, not physical."
Colorado will enter Saturday's game ranked seventh nationally in passing offense, and Kansas will have the nation's fifth-best scoring offense.
Mason said that senior fullback Monte Cozzens, junior defensive tackle Chris Mmaalanga and junior defensive end Ty Moeder would not play against Colorado because of injuries.