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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 5, 1992
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Kansas volleyball team places second at Arkansas State Tournament
Kansan staff report
The Kansas volleyball team finished second out of five teams at the Arkansas State Tournament this weekend.
Kansas, now 15-6, won three out of four games.
Two Jayhawks, junior middle blocker Cyndee Kanabel and freshman setter Lesli Steinert, were selected to the All-Tournament team. Steinert had 46 set assists against Southwest Texas State on Saturday.
Kansas defeated South Florida 15-9, 15-2 and 15-9 Friday morning. The Hawks lost their only match of the tournament to Arkansas State 15-7, 15-2, 10-15 and 15-6 later that afternoon.
Kansas coach Frankie Albitz was disappointed with her team after the loss.
"We only played together for one game," she said. "We broke down mentally the rest of the time. I wasn't pleased at all with our play. The loss was self-induced."
After the defeat, the Jayhawks won two consecutive matches on Saturday, defeating Arkansas-Little Rock 15-4, 15-2 and 15-9, and Southwest Texas State 15-8, 13-15, 15-12, 12-15 and 15-11.
Arkansas State went undefeated,
winning the tournament.
The Jayhawks will compete Wednesday night at home after three weeks on the road. Kansas will face top-ranked Nebraska at 7:30 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Nora Koves, Kim Rogers pace Jayhawk women's tennis team in Manhattan
Kansan staff report
The Kansas women's tennis team returned from Kansas State's Wildcat Invitational yesterday after a solid performance, said Kansas coach Michael Center.
"We didn't play as well as we were capable of," he said. "But we have a lot of potential, and I think we should be a Top 20 team. Overall I thought we had the best performances of any of the teams."
Oklahoma State, K-State, Drake and Wichita State also competed. Kansas sophomore Nora Koves made it to the finals of her bracket, but lost 6-4 and 6-0 yesterday.
Sophomore Kim Rogers made it to the finals of her bracket as well, but lost 2-6, 6-2 and 7-5.
Koves and Rogers defeated a K-State doubles team 6-4 and 6-2 on Saturday.
The Kansas doubles teams did not lose any matches in the tournament, Center said.
Final placings were not available.
Kansas softball squad goes 3-1 in tournament
The Kansas softball team went 3-1 in the Big Eight Tournament this weekend in Independence. Miss.
Kansan staff report
The Jayhawks had three shut-out victories, defeating Nebraska 2-0, Missouri 7-0 and Iowa State 3-0, Jill Bailey, Stephani Williams and Beth Robinson all recorded victories.
Williams lost the last game of the tournament to Oklahoma State, 2-0.
"We dominated everybody except for Oklahoma State,"Kansas coach Kalum Haack said. "We just didn't play real good defense in that game. But I think that us and Oklahoma State are head and shoulders above the rest of the Big Eight."
Broncos stun Chiefs with late TD
Elway does in Chiefs again with two late touchdown drives
The Associated Press
DENVER — Even for John Elway, it was mite a comeback.
With fans at Mile High Stadium fleeing after Kansas City took a 19-6 lead with five minutes left, Elway led the Denver Broncos to another improbable win, throwing two touchdowns in a game for six minutes for a 20-19 victory yesterday.
Though the fans may have given up,
"When I think we've lost is when the game is over — unless we're in Philly. Elway said in a tongue-incheek reference to Denver's inepititude in a 30-10 loss in Philadelphia two weeks ago.
Elway hadn't.
The Broncos still needed Treadwell's extra point to go ahead; the kick barely made it.
Elway's 12-yard TD pass to Vance Johnson with 38 seconds left tied the game and David Treadwell's extra point completed the 30th fourth-quarter comeback drive of Elway's 10-year career, and his second of this season.
enough at the end because of a great quarterback and receivers making great catches. It seems like when there's the least amount of chance, we still have a shot. There's just something about this stadium that unbelievable."
"We were fortunate. We were good
The Chiefs won't argue — not after their 10th straight loss at Mile High Stadium, Kansas City's Marty Schottenheimer, who came into the game with a 1-8 head-coaching record against the Broncos, joked last week that he might decide to spare himself by taking home and letting his team go it alone.
Instead, he saw another last-minute nightmare.
Before the two late touchdowns, the Broncos had extended their string of quarters without a touchdown to 12. The usually loyal Denver fans were fleeing in disgust.
"I was trying to it off quickly so they wouldn't block it," Treadwell said. "It was a whole lot more exciting than I wanted it to be."
There's a ghost out there in that stadium."
Of the clinching pass to Johnson, who had just been activated off injured reserve, Elway said, "We had the route set up and didn't use it. I told Vance, 'If we get man (coverage), it's coming to you.'"
Johnson, whose TD catch was his only reception of the game, said Elway "saw me drifting in past (cornerback) Albert Lewis, and when the ball dropped in there, I made the catch. Nothing is as sweet as this victory, being down 19-6 like that.
Schottenheimer tried to shrug off his latest disappointment against the Broncos..
The victory lifted the Broncos into sole possession of first place in the AFC West at 4-1, while the Chiefs fell 'o 3-2.
Kathleen Driscoll / Special to the KANSAN
Whack
Steve Strom, Lawrence graduate student, plays a game of tennis. Strom was playing early yesterday afternoon at the Robinson Center tennis courts.
Baseball program could suffer under new NCAA rule
By Brady Prauser
Special to the Kansan
The Kansas baseball program is without graduate coaching assistants this season, and one assistant coach has been relegated to restricted-earnings status because of a new NCAA rule that went into effect in August.
The rule eliminates graduate coaching assistants and limits college baseball programs across the nation to one head coach, one full-time assistant, one restricted-earnings assistant and one volunteer coach. It was passed at the January 1991 NCAA Convention.
"They want to be taught on a high level," Kilmer said. "You're greatly reducing the University's ability to do that."
Pitching coach Wilson Kilmer is the Jayhawks restricted-earnings assistant this season. Under the new rule, restricted-earnings assistants can earn only what the NCAA designates.
Rob Hole and Scott Dwyer were graduate assistants for the Jawhakes last season. Hole is the volunteer coach this season, and Dwyer is head baseball coach at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, Calif.
Kilmer said the rule would hurt college baseball in the long-run, and that the NCAA Baseball Coaches Association voted overwhelmingly not to go along with the proposal when it was passed.
He said that the players would be directly affected.
"Obviously I don't like it," Kilmer said. "It has definitely restricted my income."
"I came here to be under a great coaching staff as a graduate assistant," Hole said. "Now nobody else can come here and do the same thing." So no better opportunity to learn about teaching than to be around top players.
He said the rule was unfortunate because other young coaches would not be able to benefit from being a graduate assistant.
Dave Bingham
Hole said that because of the new rule, there were now more young coaches on the market looking for college coaching jobs, and it was harder to secure a position.
three credit hours away from completing a master's degree in sports
"What we found was that most of the coaches at the Division 1 level were graduate assistants at some time," Bingham said.
Hole said he was displeased with the new rule, but being a volunteer him to remain in college baseball.
Under the new rule, volunteer coaches will not be able to travel with students.
Coach Dave Bingham agreed that the new rule was difficult on young coaches.
Bingham was a graduate assistant at
Hole played baseball at Emporia State University before becoming an assistant at Kansas. He is
Emporia State before becoming head coach there. As head coach, he led the team to an NAIA national championship in 1978. Kilmer, who was a member of that team, also became a graduate coaching assistant at Emporia State after his playing career was over.
Bingham said that the NCAA Coaches Association had developed a fivepoint plan that that it would present at this year's NCAA Convention in January in an effort to change some of the restrictions placed on college baseball by the rule.
The plan will request that college baseball programs be allowed four full-time coaches, one who would be restricted-earnings, and that volunteer coaches be allowed to travel with the team in the spring.
"It's forced us to travel a lot more," Bingham said. "We put in a lot more hours truing to do the job."
In addition, it will request that programs be allowed to offer 13 full scholarships, as opposed to the 11.7 that college baseball teams will award in the 1982-83 season. The plan will also request that college programs be allowed up to 24 hours of practice time a week in the fall, and 24 total weeks of baseball a year, instead of the 22 weeks now allowed.
Bingham said that the loss of graduate coaches and the implementation of the restricted-earnings position forced him and hitch coach Brad Hill to spend more time recruiting. Before his departure, Scott Dwyer assisted in the coordination of recruiting.
Men's cross country places seventh at meet
Saul's sixth-place finish leads the KU women to 12th place By David Bartkoski Kansas sportswriter
Kansas' men's cross country team finished seventh out of 30 teams at the Pepsi Invitational Saturday in Minneapolis, while the women's team finished 12th out of 16 in the Nike Invitational.
Both squads ran at the Les Bolstar Golf Course at the University of Minnesota, where Adams State took first in the men's race and Wisconsin won the women's meet.
Kansas coach Gary Schwartz said that he was pleased with the men's overall performance, but that the Jayhawks would continue to improve as the season progressed.
Junior David Johnston led the Kansas men, finishing 15th out of 231 runners. He ran the 8-kilometer course in 25:05.
"I think we made a lot of improvement from last week," he said. "We haven't quite reached a point where we're in as good a shape as we will be later in the year."
Johnston credited his success to David Cook, an associate professor of health, physical education and recreation. Cook talked to the dayhawks about racing strategies last week.
"He had us look at racing a little dif-
ferently," Johnston said. "He wanted
us to treat the sport as it was part of
school. The practices are like class
and the race is like a test. You prepare
for the test by practicing and studyin-
the course. Then you think about the right answers during the race."
Junior Michael Cox finished 30th, at 25.27. He said he tried to use a new strategy that he hoped would help him finish in the top ten.
"We came to the two-mile mark in about 9:03," he said. "That's real fast for an 8-K race. I paid for it later."
Junior Julia Saul paced the Kansas women, finishing sixth in the 5-kilometer race with a time of 17:39. She finished second at the meet last year.
Sophomore Kristi Kloster and junior Ashley Ace finished 20th and 57th, respectively, out of 150 runners in the race, with times of 18:13 and 19:07.
Cox sprinted out with the lead pack of runners he said, but fell back to his feet.
Ace said she was disappointed with her performance.
"I expected to run a lot faster," she said. "My goal was to run close to my PR (personal record) of 18:33, but things didn't work out."
Freshman Kelley Lorch ran the first race of her college career Saturday and finished 98th, at 20:20. She said that she was nervous before the race but was pleased with the outcome.
"I think everything just fell into place for me," Lorch said.
Schwartz said that he wasn't upset with the women's team, but that he had concerns.
"We've got to get some runners closer to Julia," he said. "We're not very
The Jayhawks next meet will be in Ann Arbor, Mich., at the Michigan Invitational on Oct. 18.
The Associated Press
Missouri Tigers end losing streak as K-State's winning streak gains momentum
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It's been a long time — 349 days to be exact — but Missouri's losing streak is at an end.
The Tigers' eight-game skid started in the sixth game of the 1991 season and ended in a shower of milestone achievements in the fourth game of 1992 with a 44-21 conquest of Marshall.
Offensive ineman Mike Bedosky swears he foresaw it.
"I knew last night," he said. "I knew this morning when I woke up. I knew when we stepped out on this field they didn't have a chance."
"We came, we fought, we did not conquer," said Iowa State coach Jim Walden. "They beat us, they just executed better than we did and they are better at what we do than what we are right now offensively."
Elsewhere on a light weekend in the Big Eight, No. 19 Oklahoma (3-1 over 1-1, 0-Big Eight) had all it wanted for the first half, then wound up with a 17-3 victory over Iowa State (2-3, 0-1) in the first conference game; Kansas State (3-0) has a six-game winning streak for the first time since 1943-45 after shutting out New Mexico State 19-0, and Oklahoma State (2-2) lost a 13-11 decision at Texas Christian University.
Colorado (4-0), Nebraska (3-1) and Kansas (3-1) all had the week off.
Missouri's Joe Freeman tied a school record with four touchdowns on runs of 7, 20, 19 and 1 yards while Phil Johnson enjoyed the sixth-best passing day of his college career.
But most of all, the losing streak was over. The Tigers are no longer the top scorer in the league.
Iowa State benefited from six Oklahoma penalties, three Oklahoma fumbles and several dropped Oklahoma passes. Some wondered if the Sooners were caught looking ahead to this week's always-heated showdown with Texas.
Oklahoma had 47 yards rushing after three quarters and wound up with 104, but made a living on Cale Gundy's passing.
"As we've talked about in the past, anybody can beat you if you're not to play or if you don't go out and play well," said Oklahoma coach Gary Gibbs.
Kansas State will be unbeaten going into its game with Kansas this week for the first time since 1960. The shutout was K-State's first of a non-conference opponent since 1975, and only their second since then.
In their first four games, theAggies had scored 130 points.
Top 25 teams
Record Pts
1. Washington (42) 4-0-0 1,528 1
2. Miami (16) ...4-0-0 1,497 2
3. Michigan (1) ...3-0-1 1,393 4
4. Tennessee (2) ...5-0-0 1,305 7
5. Texas A&M ...5-0-0 1,252 5
6. Alabama (1) ...5-0-0 1,224 9
7. Penn St. ...5-0-0 1,217 8
8. Florida St. ...4-1-0 1,197 3
9. Colorado ...4-0-0 1,048 10
10. Virginia ...5-0-0 953 14
11. Stanford ...4-1-0 942 18
12. Georgia ...4-1-0 824 16
13. Notre Dame ...3-1-1 774 6
14. Nebraska ...3-1-0 772 15
15. Syracuse ...3-1-0 590 17
16. Oklahoma ...3-1-0 534 19
17. Georgia Tech ...3-1-0 501 23
18. Mississippi St. ...3-1-0 478 24
19. UCLA ...3-1-0 346 11
20. USC ...1-1-1 288 20
21. Boston College 4-0-1 271 22
2ie Ohio St. ...3-1-0 271 12
23. Florida ...1-2-0 142 13
24. California ...3-1-0 121 —
25. Clemson ...2-2-0 118 25
2ie N. Carolina St. 4-2-0 118
Receiving Dotes Pointing W. Virginia 90, Wisconsin 74, Washington 71, St. Zacharia 72, Alumunb 87, Armuh 73, San Diego St. 27, Missouri 14, Ksert 12, Kstate 12, Air Force 1, Oregon 1.
Source: The Associated Press