SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 21, 1992
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Volleyball team goes back to high school
Jayhawks anticipate large crowd at tonight's match against Sooners
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
The Karsas volleyball team is moving again.
The Jayhawks have played matches this season at Robinson Center and Allen Field House, but they will play Oklahoma at 7:30 tonight in the Lawrence High School gymnasium.
The floor was finished in time for its match against Nebraska Oct. 7, but recent repair work has forced the athletic department to find yet another site.
Installation of the new field house floor during the beginning of the season moved the team's first two home tournaments to Robinson.
Tonight is high school night for the team, and a large crowd is expected.
Robinson was eliminated as a possible site because the gym is not designed for large crowds. The Lawrence High School gym seats 1,000.
Cyndee Kanabel, a junior middle blocker, said that the switching of home courts should not affect the team.
"It has nothing to do with the way we play," Kanabel said. "If we're focused like we should be, it shouldn't matter where we play."
The Jayhawks, now 17.9 overall and 1-3 in Big Eight Conference play, face what could be a tough Sooner squad
tonight, said Kansas coach Frankie Albitz.
"They've had tremendous talent for the last couple of years but have been young," she said. "They'll be really big, so we'll try to beef up our blocking during practice and see what we can do."
Albizt said that victories at home this week—the lajawacks also play at home Saturday night against Iowa State — were important, if not vital, for the team's conference success.
"I don't want to go 1-4 in the Big Eight," she said. "It would be nice to beat both Oklahoma and Iowa State at home.
"The only match that has really hurt us so far is the Missouri loss. I don't know if we can afford to do that. We have to get it."
The Jayhawks won the DePaul Revlon Invitational Tournament this weekend and are on a two-match winning streak.
"It was a good break away from Big Eight competition," Kanabel said. "I didn't think we played too well, but winning helped our confidence. We really want to keep the streak going this week."
Kanabel said that she was looking forward to tonight's match because it was high school night.
"It gives you something to play for," she said. "It'll be nice to have a larger crowd cheering for us."
Cyndee Kanabel, Kansas City, Mo., junior, attempts to block a spike from Erin Kramer, Kansas City, Mo., junior, as Lesil Steinert, El Toro, Calif., freshman, prepares for the return. The volleyball team plays Oklahoma at 7:30 tonight at Lawrence High School.
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Comeback gives 'Hawks confidence boost, top rankings
Kansas football rankings in the Big Eight and nationally
National rankings appear in parenthesis.
Rushing offense: Passing offense:
1. Nebraska (1)
2. Kansas (12)
3. Iowa St.
4. Oklahoma
5. Colorado
6. Oklahoma St.
7. Kansas St.
8. Missouri
1. Colorado (3)
2. Missouri
3. Oklahoma
5. Kansas St.
6. Oklahoma St.
7. Iowa St.
8. Nebraska
Scoring offense:
Rushing defense: Passing defense: Scoring defense: Total defense
BOWING GROUND
1. Kansas (1)
2. Nebraska (2)
3. Colorado
4. Oklahoma
5. Iowa St.
6. Kansas St.
7. Missouri
8. Oklahoma St.
1. Nebraska (1)
2. Kansas (13)
3. Colorado
4. Oklahoma
5. Missouri
6. Iowa St.
7. Kansas St.
8. Oklahoma St
1. Oklahoma (13)
2. Kansas State
3. Kansas (20)
4. Colorado
5. Nebraska
6. Iowa State
7. Oklahoma (37)
8. Missouri
1. Kansas (9)
2. Colorado
3. Kansas St.
4. Oklahoma
5. Nebraska
6. Oklahoma St.
7. Missouri
8. Iowa St.
1. Oklahoma (16)
2. Nebraska
3. Kansas St.
4. Colorado
5. Kansas (40)
6. Missouri
7. Iowa St.
8. Oklahoma St.
9. Missouri
Top players Passing efficiency:
1. Cale Gundy,
Oklahoma (10)
2. Chip Hilleary,
Kansas (12)
3. Bob Utter,
iowa St.
Total
total offense:
1. Chip Hilleary, Kansas (10)
2. Cale Gundy, Oklahoma
3. Jeff Handy, Missouri
Scoring:
Kansas football team moves into first place in Big
1. Dan Eichloch
Kansas (10)
2. Maurice
Douglas,
Kansas (15)
3. Calvin Jones,
Nebraska
By David Bartkoski
Kansan sportswriter
He said the offense did not get the job done two years ago at Iowa State when the teams tied 34-34. The Cyclones kicked a 52-yard field goal with 18 seconds left in that game.
Saturday's comeback victory from 26 points down against Iowa State boosted Kansas into first place in the Big Eight Conference with a 2-0 record.
yard line with 18 seconds remaining.
Hillary ran around the left end, made
the first down and secured the victory.
And the 50-47 victory against the Cyclones also boosted the confidence level of the lahwacks.
Senior quarterback Chip Hillaryle passed for 239 yards and 4 touchdowns Saturday en route to becoming the second player in Big Eight history to pass for 4,000 yards and run for a 1,000.
But Hilleary helped make sure that scenario would not be repeated this
Although it was the first time the Jayhawks had been down by so many points this year, they did not give up. White said.
He said the offense's performance against Iowa State was probably its most productive of the season.
"We put a lot of points and yardage on the board," he said. "That was critical. We needed them."
Kansas trailed 47-21 late in the third, quarter before military scored on a call by Jake Burton.
That touchdown paved the way for 29 unanswered points by the Jayhawks, who rolled up 514 yards of total offense.
On Kansas' last drive of the game, the Jayhawks faced a fourth down and three situation at the Cyclone 12-
"Two years ago we had a 34-13斗 and the ball on the other side of the 50. It was fourth-and-one, and they stopped us," he said. "It came down to a critical situation twice I can think of when I didn't think twice about being stopped."
"I really did not think we could come back," he said. "But I was not going to give up."
He said that when Kansas was down by 26 points against the Cyclones, players were showing their frustrations.
Junior tailback George White rushed five times for 30 yards against Iowa State. He was part of the Kansas rushing attack that gained 725 yards Saturday and averages more than 240 yards a game.
"Some players threw their helmets on the ground when they came to the sidelines," he said. "I saw guys with their heads down."
White said the comeback would help when future crises arose.
If something similar happens, he said, the Jayhawks would have the confidence to succeed despite any barriers they might have to cross.
Kansas' next barrier is Oklahoma.
Russels here next 14 o'clock.
The Jayhawks, 5-1, play the Sooners, 3-2-1, Saturday in Kansas' Homecoming Game.
Kansas coach Glen Mason said the win against Iowa State was a positive, but the Jayhawks had to continue forward.
"We've got to leave that behind and go on to bigger and better things," he
White said he hoped to see a lot of people at the Oklahoma game and stressed the importance of Kansas' fans.
"They're what makes us go," he said. "You may be tired, but you look at the fans screaming for you. It's just a little more incentive to go out your hardest."
Blue Jays beat Braves to grasp 2-1 series lead
The Associated Press
TORONTO — Candy Maldonado and the Toronto Blue Jays turned Atlanta upside down and moved on top after three games of the first World Series played in Canada.
Maldonado singled over the drawn-in outfield with one out in the ninth inning, giving the Blue Jays a 3-2 victory last night for a 2-1 lead in the Series.
The hit came on an 0-2 pitch from Jeff Reardon, who served up pinch-hitter Ed Sprager's winning two-run inning of ninth inning Sunday night in Atlanta.
A tight game that featured home runs by Joe Carter and Kelly Gruber, a near triple play and a rare ejection came down to the bottom of the ninth inning. Roberto Alomar began the inning with a single off Steve Avery and store second while reliever Mark Wohlers was pitching to Carter. After an intentional walk to Carter and Dave Winfield's second sacrifice bunt of the season, lefty Mike Stanton was summoned to face John Olerud.
That game was marked by an incident in which the Canadian flag was carried upside-down in pre-game ceremonies. This time, thousands of red maple leafs were sent swirling, all of them rightside-up, by Maldonado's single.
Sprague came on as a pinch-hitter and was intentionally walked. Maldonado met Reardon with a drive over Otis Nixon's head in center field.
Duane Ward pitched one inning for
the victory. He relieved Juan Guzman, who allowed one earned run in eight innings. Avery was the loser.
The game began with the public address announcer at the SkyDome urging Canadian fans to pay respect to their neighbors to the south. The team's players depicted upside down U.S. flag were sold, but it was all good spirited.
Game 1 winner Tom Glavine will start for Atlanta tonight against Jimmy Kev.
Nixon began the Braves' half with a liner off Gruber's glove for an error and stole second on the second pitch. David Justice was intentionally walked with two outs and Lonnie Smith, whose base running cost Atlanta a chance to win Game 7 last October, singled for a 2-1 lead.
Both teams scored in the eighth, and Toronto third baseman Gruber figured in both runs.
score with another base-running blunder when Justice was easily thrown out at a third trying to advance on Smith's single to left.
The Braves missed a chance to
The Braves lost manager Bobby Cox in the top of the ninth when he was ejected by home plate umpire Joe West. Pinch-runner Brian Hunter was on first with no out and he became the first runner thrown out in 10 steal attempts by Toronto catcher Pat Borders. On the play, Jeff Blauer was called out on a checked swing and Cox threw a helmet which left the dugout and meant his ejection.
In the bottom half, Gruber broke an all-time postseason record 0-for-23 slump in a big way, with a leadoff homer to left. Gruber began the day hitless in 22 at-bats — tying the mark held by Winfield and Dal Maxvill and grounded out and walked before homering.
See related story, Page 13.
Iowa State coach voices complaint about officiating
The Associated Press
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State coach Jim Walden took his complaints about two recent calls that have gone against his team to the Big Eight's supervisor of officials.
Walden told reporters he had to be careful what he said publicly because he could be reprimanded for criticizing officials. But he said the calls in the losses to Oklahoma and Kansas were critical because they hurt the Cyclones.
The Iowa State coach said he planned to call supervisor John McClintock of Des Moines yesterday.
"I don't think I can continue to just be quiet," Walden said.
Walden said the officials erred on a fumble in Saturday's 50-47 loss to Kansas and questioned a pass interference call in the Cyclones' 17-3 loss at Oklahoma on Oct. 3.
In Saturday's game, Kansas quarterback Chip Hilley lost the ball when he was tackled on his own 42 yard line, and an Iowa State player fell on it. But the officials ruled Hilley was down before he fumbled, and Kansas kept the ball.
Iowa State was leading 47-21 at the time. Hillary scored four plays later to start the Jayhawks'
comeback.
Walden said it appeared that at least three officials thought Hilleary had fumbled. He said taped replays showed the ball coming loose before Hilleary hit the ground.
"It was not a judgment call. It was there. Three guys saw it happen, and we still didn't get the ball."
"When I see three bean bags going out there and some guy comes running in from the side judge position and says, 'Oh no, he was down,' I expect the three to overrule the one." Walden said.
Walden said rules that prohibit speaking out against officiating put coaches in a bind.
At Oklahoma, Walden disputed a third-down pass interference call against his team on an Oklahoma incompletion. The Sooners were given a first down and scored moments to break a 3-3 tie.
"What is our avenue?" he said. "If you speak out about what you know is proven to be an erroneous decision, you get rapped. If you don't speak out against an erroneous decision, you see the guy that made it standing out there the next week looking right at you with a smile on his face."
Women's crew goes to Boston, places 24th
Kansan staff report
The Kansas women's c.c.w finished 24th out of 33 boats in its three-mile race at the Head of the Charles regatta this weekend in Boston.
The eight rowers, the coxswain and coach Rob Catlott drove 25 hours to and from the regatta for one race, said club president Tami Odell.
"It was incredible for us," she said. "We drove a long way to row just one race, and it was worth it."
Coxswain Julie Lawler said that the scene amazed her.
"It was very impressive," she said.
The team raced against many northeastern universities that have crew as a varsity sport.
"We were just so excited to be on the east coast where rowing is a varsity sport," Odell said. "We had no idea what to expect, but we did exceptionally well.
"In the three-mule race at the Head of the Des Moines, we finished in 20 minutes. This weekend we finished in 17. It was this group's best time."
Odell said that the crowd along the river was overwhelming.
"People were yelling for us, and people were just yelling for everyone," she said. "There was an estimated 150,000 there."
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