Sports
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 21, 1987
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Kansas outside hitter Shannon Ridgeway passes the ball to a setter. The Jayhawks lost to Kansas State in four games last night at Allen Field House.
KSU defeats Jayhawk volleyball team
Rv ROBERT WHITMAN
Staff writer
Kansas State rallied in the fourth game to defeat the Kansas women's volleyball team last night at Allen and Preston before a crowd of about 500 people.
The Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks 15-6, 10-12, 12-15, on High School Night. About 100 people from volleyball teams from surrounding area high schools and junior high schools attended the match. They were invited by the Kansas volleyball team.
The Jawhaws recovered from a quick two-game defeat by forcing a fourth game, and almost forced a fifth.
K-State coach Scott Nelson said,
"When you're on the road, you don't
want to go into a fifth game because they have the crowd behind them and you are physically tired."
The Jayhawks led 10-6 in the fourth game, but the Wildcats slowly cut the lead. K-State pulled ahead 13-12, their second lead of the game, when the Bengals scored a touchdown. Call teamed up to block a spike at Desk outside hitter Judy Desk
K-State wrapped up the match with two spikes by Lynda Harsharger.
Kansas coach Frankie Albitz said, "We had a lot of trouble with our passing. They were serving really well. When we have trouble passing, we'll lose nine out of 10 times, as any team would."
After the Wildcats won the first two games, the Jayhawks won the third game, but had to rally from a 12-11
deficit with the Wildcats serving.
K-State self-destructed in the fina stages of the game. The Jayhawks scored three points on Wildcat violations for touching the net, being out of position when the serve was hit and carrying the ball.
The Jayhawks blocked a Wildcat spike to win the game, 15-12.
After the match, the Jayhawk team met the high school and junior teams to play a series.
It was the third year for High School Night, begun in Albitz' first year as Kansas' coach.
The names of the high schools and junior high schools with teams attending the match were announced by the public address announcer before the matches. Senior outside hitter Tammy Hill seemed to have
the loudest cheering section, a group from her alma mater. Pleasant Ridge High School.
Pleasant Ridge High School has about 215 students in grades 9-12, and about 130 teachers.
"I come from the smallest school (on the team) and had the biggest crowd here, so it was really good to see them all," she said. "It is a small school. I wanted to play for people I went to high school with. I wanted to play well for them just to show them that someone from a small school can play college sports.
"It can be a great recruitment."
Hill said. "It makes an impression on a high school kid if a collegian says 'Hi, signs autographs and asks them about their season, because they really look up to them.'"
Cards rally in 7th to beat Twins 3-1
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Vince Coleman's two-run double in the seventh inning rescued St. Louis from the brink of World Series elimination and rallied the Cardinals past Minnesota 3-1 last night, cutting the Twins' lead to two games to one.
No team has overcome a 3-0 deficit in the Series, and the Cardinals avoided that position by scoring against Jevon Renner's leading attack against Juvenar Bluenett.
Twins starter Les Straker, a 10-year minor leaguer, outduced St. Louis' John Tudor for six innings, shutting out the Cardinals on four St. Louis struck, when Berenguen took over to start the seventh.
The scratching started when Jose Quendo and Tony Pena opened the seventh with singles and Terry Pendleton, batting for Tudor, bunted the runners into scoring position. At that point the crowd of 53,347, which had scored 82 goals, scored in coldness and the coldest night of the fall in St. Louis, came to life.
Then came Coleman, just one for 11 in the Series. He sliced an 0-2 pitch barely inside the left-field line to make it 12, then stole his second base on the glove and scored an insurance shot with Benguer's single that finished Berenguer.
In engender, the Twins' ace reliever in the American League playoffs, was hit hard again by the Cardinals. He gave up two runs on three hits in
Minnesota's 8-4 victory in Game 2.
Tudor and the Cardinals finally found a way to shut down the Twins, who scored 18 runs on 21 hits in the first two games. Tudor allowed one run on four hits in seven innings and the team well finished with a one-hit relief stint.
"We've lost a lot of offense." Herzog said. "Our pitchers know they have to pitch a low-run ball game."
Yet even with Tudor pitching well, it appeared it might not be enough on a night when the temperature was to drop into the upper 20s. Tudor issued a request of the game starting the sixth and Tom Bryumainy hit an RBI single.
Game 4 will be tomorrow night here when Frank Viola, who won Game 1, starts for the Twins. He left the game Greg Matthews will start for St. Louis.
Of the 37 teams that won the first two games in the World Series, 27 went on to win it.
Straker and Tudor matched zeroes through five imprints.
Tudor retired the first six Twins and escaped trouble in the third by striking out Straker in his first major-league at-bat. Straker failed to bunt with a runner on first, and the Gladden followed with a two-out single. Tudor got Greg Gagne on an inning-ending fly ball.
The Twins, who had scored 13 runs in the fourth innings of Games 1 and 2, went down 1-2-3 this time and that brought the loudest cheer from the relieved crowd. Tudor finished the fifth by striking out Straker with a runner on third, again on three pitches.
Junior safety Normore returns to football team
By a Kansan reporter
Kansas junior free safety Clint Normore returned to the team yesterday. Normore had quit the team last Thursday because of personal reasons.
Kansas football coach Bob Valesente said he met with Normore yesterday afternoon before practice and discussed the situation. Normore practiced with the team yesterday afternoon.
Valesente said, "He's going to
have to come back and work his way up the (depth chart). It's a very positive sign that he's back with us."
Before his departure, Normore had started the first five games of the season at free safety for the Jayhawks. He had an interception against Auburn and blocked a punt for a safety against Nebraska. Normore also had 26 tackles in the Jayhawks' first five games.
Chiefs coach says running game may lag because of strike
The Associated Press
But the running game is another matter.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attitude, conditioning and effort will be no problem for the Kansas City Chiefs this week, as they return from the NFL strike and prepare for Sunday's game against San Diego, Coach Frank Gansz predicted yesterday.
But the running game is another matter. Gansz said during his weekly news conference that reconstructing the timing of the ground game was one of his primary concerns as the 1-4 Chiefs prepared to take on the 4-1 Chargers in San Diego.
"Obviously, we will not be able to go right
to the same proficiency with the ground game that we had coming out of training camp." Gansz said. "There's a lot of timing and you've got to be prepared for the stunts.
"Realistically, it may take time to get our running game back. For teams that run the ball a lot, it will take longer to recover from this (the strike)." he said.
The first-year coach also predicted that the teams whose regulars worked together on their passing game during the strike would be able to win by a combined renewed National Football League season.
He included the Chargers in that group. San Diego has had good weather, he said, and veteran Daufs Founts probably worked with his receivers during the 24-day player strike.
For those reasons, Ganz said, the Chiefs would have to work harder this week.
"This has to be the best week of practice ever had. We have to do our effort, and we must work hard," he said.
Joining those drills are seven replacement players which the Chefs announced yesterdays. They were included in the week. They included rookie quarterbacks Matt Stevens of UCLA and Doug Hudson of
Nicholls State.
Also retained were: veteran linebackers James Harrell, Florida, and Bob Harris, Auburn; punter Kelly Goodburn, Emporia State; tight end Rod Jones, Washington; and defensive back-kick returner Jitter Fields. Texas.
"These are the guys who did the best job for us," Gansz said. "They were productive. And he indicated that they were kept to work in the situation in some of the Chiefs' problem areas."
All NFL teams must determine an active list of 45 players by 3 p.m. Saturday, Gansz
said that the coaching staff would decide the starters — including the quarterback — probably by Friday afternoon.
Will there be any problems between the regulars and the holdover replacements?
“It’s business as usual.” Gansz said firmly. “It’s water over the dam. That’s history. How could we be concerned about someone else when we have to get better ourselves? We have no room for petty things. I anticipate no problems.”
If any player has a problem, he said. "They can come to me about individual matters."
KU women's golf team takes third in tourney
By DARRIN STINEMAN
Staff writer
The Kansas women's golf team finished behind Big Eight Conference rivals Missouri and Nebraska at the National Golf Tournament yesterday.
The tournament, played at Alvamar Golf Club, was won by Missouri, which finished with a 885 team total. The Tigers were led by medalist Lisa Luigs, who had rounds of 76, 74 and 89 in the two-day tournament.
Kansas had a team total of 10... nine stakes higher than second place Nebraska. The Jayhawks were led by seniors Tina Gnewch, who coached the 54-hole tournament in 241 strokes, and Susan Pekar, who had a 246.
Twenty-seven holes were played each day on Monday and yesterday.
But other than those turned in by Gnewuch and Pekar, the Kansas scores were too high to make a run at the tournament title. The next closest score was a 262 from sophomore Donna Lowen.
Gnewchurn turned in scores of 83, 77 and 81 on the Jayhawks' home course to earn second place in the individual position, despite cold, windy weather.
"It seems one and two are strong and playing pretty well, but they're going to need help from three through five." Kansas coach Kent Harkins thinks things are starting to fall into place, and I believe it will."
“Things went pretty well considering the conditions,” Gnewach said. “I was not pleased with the last nine months, but the weather was tough to play in.”
"It's hard to be critical just because it was so rotten," he said. "I don't think we handled the conditions badly, it's just that Missouri and Nebraska handled the conditions tremendously."
Weiser agreed that the weather kept the scores higher than they normally would be.
"It was a big advantage," she said.
"We've been playing this course every day in wind like this. We know what to do, where to be and where not to be."
Gnewuch said having a home course advantage was helpful.
"I've always thought it can be more of a disadvantage than an advantage," he said. "You get used to shooting a certain number on a target, and you don't get above that. The conditions negated any advantage."
Despite that, Weiser said playing on the home course wasn't necessarily an advantage.
After Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas, the team finishes were as follows: Wichita State, 1031; Southwest Missouri State, 1068; Samford, 1121; Northern Iowa, 1135, and Kansas State. 1143.
The tournament was the last of the fall season for Kansas women's team.
With earmuffs on and the wind in her face, Tina Gnewuch, Green Bay, Wis.
senior, tees off on the first hole at Alvamar Golf Club. Gnewuch participated in
the Kansas Javhawk Invitational Golf Tournament yesterday.
KUAC revenue tops budget projections
Susan Wachter, assistant athletic director in charge of business, released the report at a meeting of the Athletic Department at daytime at the Adams Alumni Center.
"The contributions and Big Eight (Conference) revenues were higher than we had projected," Wachter said.
The Kansas University Athletic Corporation 1986-87 audit report revealed that the organization took in $137,826 over budget projections.
By MIKE CONSIDINE Staff writer
Wachter said that corporation received $186,000 in revenue from the sale of concessions. The 1986-87 budget projected a $168,000 intake. Wachter said that the surplus came from basketball income.
Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director and director of the Williams Educational Fund, said revenues from season football tickets were down $100,000 from 1968 fiscal year budget projections.
Konzem said large deposits, transfers from the endowment corporation
"We anticipate that it could be made up in Big Eight and television revenue (from bowl games and other events)," Konzem said.
Konzem reported that the Williams Fund was within $19,000 of matching first-quarter donations from the record fiscal 1987. The quarterly fundraising amount for $686,531. Donations for the same period last year were $655,533.
and contributions accompanying season basketball ticket purchases contributed to a $300,641 increase in total revenue during September. A change in the way interest was deposited into the Williams Fund account was partially responsible for a $71,309 gain in interest income during the month.
In other business:
■ Athletic director Bob Frederick announced that an agreement to broadcast eight Kanas basketball games to the state's three largest markets was "virtually assured."
"They're just out selling the program package on the streets," Frederick said of the stations, which include KSHB-TV, channel 41, in Kansas BHW-TV, channel 13, in Topeka; and KSHV-TV, channel 24, in Wichita.
Frederick said Kansas supported changes in football scholarship restrictions to increase parity.
The proposals include increasing the maximum number of annual football scholarships from 25 to 30, or eliminating the yearly restrictions. Under the latter, member schools may accept only scholarships in a given year, providing that its total number of scholarships did not exceed 95.
- Frederick announced that director of marketing and women's golf coach Kent Weiser had resigned to take a position in private business. Frederick said the athletic department would create a full-time marketing and promotions director job.