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Monday, November 2, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Sports
Men's team takes 8th in cross country meet
By MIKE CONSIDINE Staff writer
Staff writer
The Kansas men's and women's cross country teams gave disappointing performances at the Big Eight Conference meet Saturday in Norman, Okla. The men tied Kansas State for fourth place with 115 points. The women were eighth with 199.
Before the meet, Timmons said he had hoped his team could challenge for first place.
"We can't seem to get away from K-State." KU men's coach Bob Tommons said. "We've been back-to-back with them all season."
"When I look back on it, I hoped it would go a little bit differently." Timmons said. "If you analyze it, the best we could have taken was a real strong third. We were shooting for the top, but it didn't work out."
Sophomore Steve Hefferman placed ninth in 32:29.29 and junior Craig Watchee finished 11th in 32:56.39 to lead Kansas.
"I was happy with the effort, but I was disappointed in the placing," Heffernan said. "I think a lot of it was dictated by the race. Everyone went out conservative. I think that hurt me in the end."
The spread of 1:11 between the team's No.2 and No.3 runners was too much for the Jayhawks to overcome. Freshmen Andy Pritchard, 28th, Sam Froese, 29th and Sean
Sheridan, 38th, rounded out the pack.
Timmons said, "We had a little bit of a leddown after our first two runners. We were just too far back with the others."
Adversity came in droves. Sheridan missed practice time with rib and toe injuries and was below full strength. Junior Matt Bell was 40th. Junior Jon Joslin lost a shoe and was unable to finish the race.
Heffernan said, "Immediately after the meet, there was a lot of disappointment. Then we realized how we ran. Nothing went right."
The men and women will race at the football V meet on Nov. 14 at Columbia.
The top finisher for the KU women was senior captain Trisha Mangan, who was 35th in 19:43.04. Freshman Susan MacLean finished 39th, sophomore Michelle Foran was 40th, sophomore Kiley Coffey was 43rd and freshman Tony Gundy was 45th.
Mangan said she knew women's coach Cliff Rovelto was disappointed about the meet, as were all the girls. "The race just got worse from the start."
Injuries were a factor, she said.
Injuries were a factor, she said.
"So many girls were hurt and not able to practice," Mangan said,
"that it wasn't a very good situation to have to work with day in and day out. I don't think anybody was really mentally prepared."
One on one
Joe Schuler, Overland Park senior, takes the ball downfield as forward Tom Holland, Lenexa senior, pursues him. The soccer team was scheduled to play Central Missouri State University yesterday but played a scrimmage game at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa Streets, after Central Missouri State canceled the game.
Kenyan runner takes New York marathon
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A confident Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya caught early pacemaker Pat Petersen shortly past the 14-mile point and coasted to victory yesterday in the 18th New York City Marathon.
Priscilla Welch of Britain led all men's women's title in the 2016 US Open at the Tulsa Country Club. [3,26]
Hussein, ninth in the 1985 race in his marathon and fifth last year, was timed at 2 hours, 11 minutes, 1 second.
Welch, who will be 43 on Nov. 22, became the oldest women's winner in the New York City Marathon. The previous oldest winner was Miki Gorman, who was 42 years, 75 days when she won for the second consecutive time in 1977. Welch is 42 years, 344 days.
For Hussein, 29, a former Western Athletic Conference steepechleace champion at the University of New York and his fifth marathon and third victory.
He won the Honolulu Marathon in 1985 in a course record 2:12:08. Last year he defended his title and ran the race in 2:11:44.
He also won the Bay To Breakers Race in San Francisco in 1984 and 1985 and was the first men's finisher in the 1986 Trevira Twosome 10-mile race in New York.
Before this race, the soft-spoken Hussein said he felt very relaxed, compared to last year when he ran
"scared."
"I think you will see some surprises," Hussein said. "I think somebody will steal the race. I hope that somebody is me."
Early in the 26-mile, 385-yard race through New York's five boroughs. Petersen tried to steal the race.
The top American finisher in the 1964 New York City Marathon when he placed fourth, and in 1985 when he was third, Petersen set a blistering early pace. He opened a 35-second lead at five miles. At that point, he on a record 2:04 marathon pace.
Petersen hung on to second place most of the rest of the way before being overtaken in the closing stages and placing fourth in 2:12:03, behind Giannio DeMadonna of Italy (2:11:53) and Sergei Pervak of Russia (2:11:46) 1984 U.S. Olympic Trials marathon winner. Tommy Ekblom of Finland finished fifth in 2:12:31.
Italy's Orlando Pizzolato, the 1984 and 1985 New York City Marathon champion, made his usual second-half charge, moving into third place at one stage, before fading to sixth in 2:12:50.
The race attracted a record field of more than 22,000 and was run in near perfect marathon conditions — with the weather at the start in the mid 50s and comfortable humidity.
Francise Bonnet and Jocelyne Villeton, both of France, finished second and third, respectively, among the women.
Sports Briefs
Soccer team tops Rockhurst
Dulcie Gira scored two goals Saturday to lead the Kansas women's soccer team to a 4-1 home victory over Rockhurst College of Kansas City, Mo.
Gira scored both goals in the first half, one on penalty kick 20 minutes into the game and the other 30 minutes into the game, giving the Jayhawks a 2-0 lead.
In the second half, Kristin Wolfe headed a pass from Pascale Hausermann into the net, making the score 3-0.
Rockhurst scored a goal making it 3-1 before Haustermann closed out the scoring with a left-footed shot past the Rockhurst goalie.
The Jayhawks, with a record of 2-3-4, play their final home game of the fall season against the Tarkio (Mo.) College varsity at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets.
KU rugby club wins 3 weekend games
The Kansas Rugby Club swept opponents Saturday at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets.
The Jayhawk Varsity won 31-0
over Pittsburgh State. The Kansas
Club team defeated Springfield
Mountain. The Reserve team beat, Topne 19-0.
The Jayhawk Club team will travel to Kansas City, Mo., Saturday to play the Kansas City Blues. The Jayhawks' Varsity and Senior Reserve teams will not play any games next weekend.
Tom Watson wins again after 3 years
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Tom Watson, exhibiting the gritty
determination that once made him the game's greatest player, ended a three-year victory famine yesterday in the richest tournament golf has seen.
Watson, the leader all the way,
scrambled to a final-round 2-
under-par 68 and a two-stroke
victory over Chip Beck in the
Nabisco Championships of Golf,
the final official event on the PGA
Tour schedule this year.
It was the 32nd victory of his PGA career — not including his five British Open titles — and his first since July 1884.
The tournament carried a $2 million purse, plus another $1
million for the Nabisco Grand Prix of Golf, which also ended in this tournament.
Despite finishing dead last in a 30-man tournament that offered the most prize money in tour history, Curtis Strange took the season's money-winning title with a record $29,941.
But the honor he wanted — Player of the Year — eluded him. That went to Paul Aziger who.
In a tournament that offered almost 10 percent of the total tour purse for 1987, the Player of the Year title turned on scoring average.
Scoreboard
NFL football
Chicago 31, Kansas City 28
Houston 31, Cincinnati 29
Indianaapolis 19, N.Y. Jets 14
New England 26, L.A. Raiders 23
New Orleans 38, Atlanta 0
Philadelphia 28, St. Louis 23
Miami 35, Pittsburgh 24
Tampa Bay 23, Green Bay 17
Washington 28, Buffalo 7
San Diego 27, Cleveland 24, OT
Denver 34, Detroit 0
Seattle 28, Minnesota 17
San Francisco 31, L.A. Rams 10
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