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Tuesday, October 13, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Sports
Scott Carpenter/KANSAN
Student assistant coach Mitch Wiles helps Kansas pitchers Craig Houfek. Kansas baseball team is in its last week of play and will take on Crowder Steve McGinness and Mike McLead, from left, sharpen their reactions. The (Mo.) Community College at 3:30 this afternoon.
Fall season to end today for 3 KU pitchers
By DARRIN STINEMAN
Staff writer
Staff writer
Kansas pitcheers Brad Hinkle, Scott Taylor and Craig Houfek will make their final appearances of the fall season this afternoon when the Jayhawks take on Crowder (Mo.) Community College at 3:30 p.m. at Quigley Field.
The last game of the fall season is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at Qui Nguyen against Meramac (Mo.) Community College.
Hinkle, a sophomore from Olathe, said he was content with the way he
had pitched against the Jayhawks' junior college opponents this fall.
"At the beginning of the season, I was throwing real good." Hinkle said yesterday, "but you've got to keep in mind we've been playing junior colleges. My last outing wasn't a control, but tomorrow I hope to come out and throw strikes and keep my mechanics smooth."
Houtek, a junior in his third season with Kansas, agreed with Hinkle that the junior college batters he faced this fall had not been an ideal preparation for the Big Eight Conference season this spring.
"They don't even compare." Houkef said. "The guys we face have about three good batters in the lineup who are capable of playing major college baseball. The two teams I've pitched against have been horrible."
Hinkle is scheduled to start the 15-inning game, with Taylor and Houfek to follow. The 15-inning format allows the teams to use three pitchers in starting situations because the games are broken up into five-inning
Today's game will be the second for Kansas without coach Dave Bingham, who is in Havana, Cuba, coaching the U.S. national team at the Intercontinental Cup Tournament. The remaining coaches, Lee Ice and Wilson Kilmer, have taken Bingham's coaching role.
Recruits
But because of Bingham's philosophy of letting the players call their own offensive plays by signaling each other on the field, the coaches' workload hasn't been too heavy.
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Recruiting against nationally-
prominent programs like Oklahoma
and Nebraska does present some
difficulties. Cochran said many players were naturally attracted to teams that go to bowl games every year and have many of their games on television.
had a football program that was on the unswing.
"We don't try to hide that we're not a nationally ranked team right now," he said. "We try to sell them on the fact that Kansas has a football program that is moving in the right direction."
It was that kind of approach that attracted Kansas junior defensive tackle Tim Adams to sign a letter of intent with the Jayhawks after his second season at Dodge City Community College. Adams said he was recruited b Kansas, Kansas State, Brigham Young and Oklahoma State during his sophomore season at Dodge City.
"Kansas State just didn't have a good football program," he said. "BYU had its history of going to a
bowl game every year, but I didn't like their coaches as much as I liked the coaches here at KU."
Adams said the process of being recruited was exciting for him.
"You kind of get caught up in the glamour of the whole thing." he said. "It's a lot of fun to get recognition from coaches and have them tell you they want you to play for them."
Sometimes the excitement of being recruited can turn into pressure. Redshirt freshman David Gordon said that although he was recruited during his senior year at Independence (Kan.) high school, the pressure of making his college choice came from many directions.
"Everybody, friends, relatives, parents and coaches, was giving me advice on what I should do," he said. "Kansas really pressured me to sign early. They showed the most interest in me, so I signed to play here."
The Jayhawks had an advantage in recruiting Gordon because he had grown up in Kansas and was very familiar with the program. He had attended Jayhawk football camps when he was young and had grown up a Kansas football fan. Despite the heavy pressure, he said he never considered any other school after he
was offered a scholarship by the Jayhawks.
The Jayhawk coaches try to recruit just the players in Kansas that they think have good chances to contribute in the future. Last year, the staff signed 10 of those 12 players.
"We want to try to establish an identity with the in-state kids so that they will all be interested in us because we are their home-state university." Cochran said. "We have been getting good reception from high school players and coaches, as far as that goes."
NCAA rules prohibit coaches' talking about individual players they are recruiting. Cochran did say that Kansas was involved with some talented in-state and out-of-state recruits.
Cochran said the key to a successful recruiting harvest would be the number of offensive and defensive linemen that were signed.
"You have to have the numbers in the line to be successful," he said. You can't afford to have one year of schooling until you are two years, we will sign 10 to 14 if we can."
The latest class of Kansas recruits has those kinds of numbers, Cochran said. "We've got the best."
Sports Briefs
Sports Brands Golf team finishes 13th in tourney
The Kansas women's golf team finished 13th in a strong field at the South Florida Invitational held at Naples High School Golf Club in Miami last week.
Senior Coach Evald had the low round for Kansas with rounds of 82, 84, and 78 for a total of 244 at the 54th event.
Miami won the tournament with a 7-under-par 281, followed by Georgia and Florida State.
Correction
Because of an editor's error, a Kansas football player was incorrectly identified in a photograph yesterday. The player was freshman quarterback Kevin Verdugo.
men last spring. Eight of those signees are being redshirted this season. Five true freshman are on either the first or second teams of the Kansas depth chart.
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