University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 11. 1987
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Phillies' relief ace wins NL Cy Young by scant two votes
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Philadelphia reliever Steve Bedrosian, who led the major leagues with 40 saves, won the National League Cy Young Award yesterday by the slimmost margin in the award's history.
Bedrosian, who set a major-league record with saves in 13 consecutive appearances, edged Rick Sutcliffe of Chicago 57-55 in voting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Ruth Reuschel, who played for Pittsburgh and San Francisco, finished one point behind Sutcliffe in third place.
Bedrosian received nine first-place votes, five more than Sutcliffe but only one more than Reuschel. However, Sutcliffe received more second and third-place votes than Bedrosian or Reuschel.
"This is the ultimate," Bedrosian said during a news conference at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. "The thing I'd like most is to be in the World Series someday, but don't get me wrong. I'm really excited about this and I'll never forget it as long as I live."
The closest election prior to this year was in 1981, when Fernando Valenciaela of Los Angeles beat Tom Seaver of Cincinnati by three points.
"From what I understand, this is the most vote in history." Bedrosians say.
Bedrosian is the third reliever to win the NL Cy Young Award since the leagues started giving out separate honors in 1967. Bruce Sutter of Chicago won in 1979, while Mike Marshall of Los Angeles was honored in 1974.
It is fourth time this decade that a
Philadelphia pitcher has won the NL Cy Young Award. Steve Carlton won in 1980 and 1982, and John Denny won in 1983.
Bedrosian, whose two-year contract runs out at the end of 1988, made $500,000 last season. At the news conference, he was asked if he would try to renegotiate with Phillies President Bill Giles.
"Well, we're going out to dinner tonight," Bedrosian said jokingly.
Bedrosian had a 5-3 record and earned run average of 2.83 in 1987. He struck out 74 and walked 28 in 89 innings. Despite his outstanding season, the Phillies finished tied for fourth in the National League East with an 80-82 record.
The 29-year-old right-hander was traded from Atlanta to Philadelphia on Dec. 10, 1985 for catcher Ozzie Virgil and pitcher Peter Smith. In his first season with the Phillies, Bedrosian had 29 saves along with an 8-6 record and 3.39 ERA.
"I think I gained a little bit of confidence with Bill Giles bringing me over here," he said. "The team had confidence in me and I worked hard."
Bedrosian spent five seasons in Atlanta, where he compiled a 34-39 record. In his final season with the Braves, he switched from relieving to starting and ended up with a 7-15 record and 3.83 ERA.
Bedrosian, who lives in Duluth, Ga., was at the Atlanta airport yesterday when he was notified of the award. He immediately flew to Philadelphia to attend the news conference.
Two writers from each National League city take part in the voting.
Freshman forward Heather Rhodes slips past sophomore guard Michelle Arnold. The two practiced with the rest of the Kansas women's basketball team yesterday at Allen Field House.
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Kansas swimmer Glenn Trammel tramel the clock during a recent swim country and has earned him a position in the 1988 U.S. Olympic Trials. practice. Trammel's time in the 100-yard backstroke is 15th best in the Trammel is also a captain for the KU team.
KU swimmer ready to take on the world
By ROBERT WHITMAN
Staff writer
Glenn Trammel is already a world-class swimmer. All he needs now is some international competition.
The junior for the Kansas men's swimming team has the 15th best time in the world this year for the 100-meter backstroke. He has just missed making the U.S. teams for three international meets this year.
Trammel finished sixth in this spring's NCAA Championships in the 100-yard backstroke. The top five of the World University Games team
At the United States Senior Nationals this summer in Clovis, Cal., he had a time of 57.0 seconds in 100-meter backstroke, good enough to qualify him for the 1988 U.S. Olympic Trials.
But he also finished sixth in that meet, and the top five in the event were selected for both the Pan-Pacific Games and Pan-American Games swimming teams.
The next big international meet for Tramell is the 1988 Summer Olympiad.
"I don't fantasize about making the Olympic team." Trammel said. "I do dream about it. I've come so close to making teams."
If anyone ever had a chance to make the U.S. Olympic swimming team, it's Trammel, Kansas coach Gary Kemp said.
progressed faster than any other backstroker, which, I think, is an ideal place to be," he said. "I think Glenn has just started to be as good as he can be."
'Coming into an Olympic year, he
Trammel, who said his 6-foot-3, 185-pound frame made him an average-sized backstroker, has also received an invitation to the pre-Olympic training camp, Nov. 21-29 in Hawaii.
By the time he gets to the camp, though, he may have qualified for the Olympic Trials in two more events, the 200-yard individual medley and the 200-yard backstroke. Trammel's best effort in those events is one-tenth of a second slower than the qualifying time.
Trammel said his performance at the Big Eight Invitational Oct. 30 showed he was ddoing better than he did at this time last year.
He won three events at the meet:
the 100- and 200-yard backstrokes and
the 200-yard individual medley.
"I was really pleased with my 200 IM," he said. "I finished all my races. I swam eight events, but at the last relay I really felt strong. At big national events, you'll swim one event in one day or two events in one day."
Tramnel's training regimen keeps him in the pool about 30 hours a week and in the weight room another five or six hours a week.
Kempf said, "Glenn's success is because of Glenn. He's had the confidence and the belief in himself."
And so do his Jayhawk teammates. Trammel was elected as a captain along with junior Dan Mendenhall and senior Karl Zueger.
"We go through so much. I don't think people realize how much training we do." Trammel said.
"He's a team leader," junior Bobby Kelley said. "He scores a lot of points and really gets the team going in the water."
Kelley has been in the water and in training two weeks since recovering from mononucleosis, which kept him away from training for five weeks.
And being that kind of team leader makes expectations about Trammel's performance greater from meet to meet.
"He encouraged me. He said, 'You'll get well, you'll get back in shape.' " Kelley said. "We can complete against any team in the nation because he is in the water."
"I think there is a little more pressure and this is an Olympic year," Trammel said. "But I don't think it's coming from Gary, it's coming from me in the expectations I have for myself."
Ranked in the top five percent of his senior class at Topeka High School, Trammel said he was trying to get into the business school so he could major in business administration.
His full name is Lawrence Glenn Trammel III. His father, who goes by Larry, is director of purchasing for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. Mo.
and is plant manager of the company's plant in Lawrence.
Trammel and his family moved from Topeka to Kansas City, Mo., just before his senior year, but he stayed in Topeka to finish his senior year.
“When people ask where I’m from,
I say ‘Kansas City via Topeka.’
I say ‘Pueblo via Topeka.’
The Kansas high school record he set in the 100-yard backstroke in 1984 still stands, along with his part in Topeka's record-setting 200-yard medley relay team. He was recruited by Tennessee, Southern Methodist, Stanford and other top college swimming programs, but chose to stay near home.
"My father said there are three choices I'll have to make: what college you'll go to, who you'll work for and why you will marry." Trammel said. "I knew the people, I knew Gary was one of the top coaches in the country and I knew it was a young program.
"I loved the people and the atmosphere (at Kansas) more than anything else."
The atmosphere was much like a family, Tramnel said, though swimming was in large part an individual sport.
"I don't think anybody really comes to KU after taking a recruiting trip and think they'll be an individual. We're a team instead of 25 individuals," he said. "We socialize together and live together."
Manning, Newton shine in basketball scrimmage
By a Kansan reporter
Senior forward Danny Manning and junior guard Milton Newton lead the Kansas Blue team to a 75-3 victory over the White team before a crowd of 5,000 at Hutchinson Community College last night.
Manning scored 18 points, including a three-point field goal, and Newton scored 14 points during the game.
The Blue team built a early lead and led 51-27 at halftime.
Other scorers for the Blue team included: sophomore guard Kevin Pritchard, 12 points; senior forward Archie Marshall, 10 points; junior center Marvin Branch, nine points; senior forward Chris Piper, eight points; and junior guard Scooter Barry, four points.
Scorers for the White team included sophomore Mark Randall, 15 points; senior center Sean Alvarado, 10 points, and freshman center Mike Masucci, 10 points.
Cyclone coach wants to avoid K-State tie
Walden jokes that he might throw game instead of having deadlock Saturday
The Associated Press
AMES, Iowa — No matter how the game is going, Iowa State coach Jim Walden wants to make sure of one thing in Saturday's home finale with Kansas State.
"I might just throw the game before I tie." Walden joked yesterday.
Kansas State hasn't won a game this season and tied Kansas 17-17 last week, leaving the two to share last place in the Big Eight Conference. Iowa State's only conference victory was over Kansas.
"Win or lose, I hope one of us does. I don't want a tie. Walden said during his weekly press conference, 'If I'm going for the tie or the win, you can rest assured I will do everything in my power not to tie
"If we tie it because it happens early and neither one of us gets close enough to score again to break it."
Iowa State is favored by nine points, and a victory would give the Cyclones three for the season.
"At the risk of sounding egotistical, I'd have to say it's marvelous." Walden said of the possibility of finishing 3-8. "Not for my sake. I mean for my players' sake. At no other time has less done so much."
Iowa State finishes the season Nov. 21 av Oklahoma State, which will be heavily favored to beat the Cyclones.
At the beginning of the year, Walden said his goal was to win one game.
"I will refuse to say I should beat anybody with what we've got," said Walden, whose team is coming off a 42-3 loss to Nebraska. "I took 43 scholarship guys to Nebraska, two kickers and 11 walk-ons. That's exactly what's going to run out here this week.
Walden, who has only 57 scholarship players, said he wouldn't guarantee a victory.
"I don't think you should be able to say you're a favorite to beat anybody with these numbers."
Walden said, "Kansas State's as good a football
team as we are. If we don't play well, Kansas State will whip us this coming Saturday just as sure as I'm standing here."
Three Iowa State players are worthy of all-Big Eight Conference recognition, Walden said: kicker Jeff Shudak, wide receiver Dennis Ross and running back Joe Henderson.
Shudak leads the conference in field goals, Ross is the second-leading receiver and Henderson is the No. 3 rusher. Henderson needs only 94 yards in the final two games to become the first Iowa State back since 1981 to rush for 1,000 yards in a season.
"I went into the season hoping our team could get 1,000 yards," Walden said. "After two weeks, you guys didn't think we were even going to get a touchdown.
"So to go from all those early things to the possibility of having a guy rush for 1,000 yards is fun for him, for fun us. It's a barometer that we can do some things with. In some little ways, it shows our offensive system can really work, and I will owe Joe a lot of big favors for it."
Volleyball team to play hungry 'Husker squad
By ROBERT WHITMAN Staff writer
The Jayhawks play the nationally ranked Cornhuskers, who have lost their last two matches, at 8 p.m. today in Lincoln, Neb. The Jayhawks, 12-17 overall and 3-7 in the Big Eight Conference, may be just the team Nebraska is looking for to get back on the winning track.
Playing Nebraska might not be the easiest thing for the Kansas women's volleyball team to do right now.
"Last year, we won a game off of them here (in Lawrence) and when we went back up there, they played really well against us," Kansas coach Frankie Alitz said. "I'm expecting the same thing, so I don't think they'll take us for granted."
Spencer is wearing an air cast on her ankle and practiced Monday and yes.
Nebraska had no problem with the Jayhawks on Sept. 15, posting 15,2-15-6, 15-4 victories at Allen Field House.
Senior setter Monica Spencer, who suffered an ankle injury during practice Thursday, accompanied the team on its three-match trip to Colorado, but didn't suit up for one match.
"As far as I know, I'm playing," Spencer said. "It's up to me as far as how I feel. The swelling has gone down. The only time I have a problem is when I cut. Going straight is no problem."
Albizt said junior Kim Robinson would start the first game tonight. If Spencer said she was able to play and Winners said she could, she might play.
season only for short periods during matches to give Spencer a rest, started all three matches on the Colorado trip during the weekend.
Robinson, who had been used this
"Anytime I start, I'm looking forward to it." Robinson said. "It's an awesome challenge against Nebraska because they have such awesome athletes."
Albitz said Robinson played well in victories against Regis College and Northern Colorado, but not as well in the loss to conference opponent Colorado.
"I think she got a little insecure during that (Colorado) match," Albiz said.
Robinson agreed, saying, "I was nervous because it was a conference match and the crowd was really the whole CU football team came."
But no matter what the outcome against Nebraska and Oklahoma, the Jayhawks will finish fifth in the conference standings. Although it is possible that Kansas could match the Titans or the State of Kansas State or sixth-place Colorado, the breakers would leave the standings intact.
So, Kansas will meet Kansas State in the first round of the Big Eight tournament at 6 p.m. Nov. 20 in calina.
The winner of that match will play Nebraska, which has clinched the regular season conference championship. Because there are only seven conference schools with volleyball programs, the "Huskers receive a first-round bye in the tournament. Oklahoma State does not have a volleyball program.