University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 2, 1987
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Sports
'Hawks to face last team beat before streak
By CRAIG ANDERSON
Staff writer
Nobody knew at the time, but the Kansas and Southern Illinois football teams were headed in opposite directions after the Jayhawks beat the Salukis 35-23 in Lawrence last season.
Southern Illinois went on to win four of its last five games and finish the season with a 7-4 record. This year, the Salukis have won their last two games to even their record at 2-2.
The 10-game losing streak, which spans the two seasons, is the second longest losing streak in the baseball season.
For Kansas, the victory over Southern Illinois marked the last game that the Jayhawks would win during the 1986 season. Kansas lost its last seven games of the year. The trend has carried over to this year, as the Jayhawks lost their first three games.
In the game against Southern Illinois last year, Kansas scored five touchdowns, including four touchdown passes by starting quarterback Mike Orth. During the losing streak that has followed that performance, the Jayhawk offense has scored only seven touchdowns in all of its games combined.
Kansas has been plagued by turnovers. In the three games this season, the Jayhawks have committed 14 turnovers.
"We couldn't beat a good junior high tea if we commit eight turnovers in a game like we did last Saturday," said Kansas coach Bob Valescent.
Kansas will seek to turn its fortunes around again, this time for the positive, when the Jayhawks play Southern Illinois tomorrow at Memorial Stadium.
During the week, talk about the Kansas football team has centered around who will start at quarterback. Valente has been asked more questions by reporters about the quarterback situation than about he thinks the Jayhawks will be prepared to heat Southern Illinois.
"The quarterback position is important to our offense, but it takes a lot more than that for us to be successful." he said. "We need the offensive line firing off the ball and the backs running hard, so they're many keys to a good offense."
The Southern Illinois defense could prove to be a tough obstacle for the Jahways' offensive unit to overcome. The Salukis have given up only 10 points combined in their last two games, a 10-3 victory over Iowa and a 9-6 victory over Illinois State. The Southern Illinois defense forced 13 turnovers in their first four games.
The jayhawk starting quarterback will face the Saluki defense after having gone through a week of close scrutiny by the Kansas coaches. Valesente put his quarterbacks in as many game situations as possible during the practices to get an evaluation of how they would react tomorrow.
Valesente said he would meet with his staff after last night's practice and decide on a starting roster. He also met more Kelly Donoboe and senior Mike Orthe are the three leading candidates for the starting quarterback job. Freshman Lance Flachsburch is another possibility, but he has been calling the signals for
Game 4
Kansas Jayhawks
Coach Bob Valesente
Record: 0-3
Last Week: Plagued by turnovers, the Jayhawks lost at home 16-11 to the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.
Southern Illinois Salukis
Coach Ray Dorr
Record: 2-2
Last Week: The Salukis took a 24-0 lead in the first half en route to a 38-7 victory at home over Illinois State.
Probable Starters:
Offense:
WR — 1 Willie Vaughn, 5-11, 185, Jr.
LT — 70 Jim Davis, 6-6, 260, Sr.
LG — 68 Jay Allen, 6-3, 250, Sr.
C — 51 Chris Butler, 6-2, 200, Fr.
RG — 65 Bryan Howard, 6-5, 285, Sr.
RT — 71 Bob Pleper, 6-5, 280, Sr.
TE — 69 Brad Wedel, 6-5, 230, Sr.
QB — 13 Kevin Verdugo, 6-4, 200, Fr.
TB — 28 Darryl Terrell, 5-11, 180, Jr.
FB — 24 Mike Rogers, 6-1, 195, Sr.
FL — 34 Ronnie Caldwell, 6-4, 180, Sr.
PK — 29 Louis Klump, 5-10, 195, So.
SE — 85 Wesley Yates, 5-11, 169, So.
DT — 62 Pete Howell, 6-0, 235, Sr.
OG — 69 Rob Howell, 6-0, 235, Sr.
C — 68 David Greaves, 6-3, 260, Sr.
QG — 51 Rob Mason, 6-2, 252, Jr.
OT — 68 David Smith, 6-8, 280, Sr.
TE — 82 Bandy Brave, 6-3, 224, So.
OB — 10 Fred Gibson, 6-2, 175, Fr.
FL — 20 Nate McGhee, 5-10, 172, Sr.
RB — 6 Byron Mitchell, 5-11, 190, Jr.
FB — 4 Paul Hortonzer, 5-10, 202, Jr.
PK — 14 John Brda, 6-0, 190, Sr.
Defense:
LE — 90 Elridge Avery, 6-3, 265, Sr.
LT — 91 Tim Adams, 6-5, 285, Sr.
RT — 97 David White, 6-4, 285, Sr.
RE — 73 Teddy Newman, 6-4, 240, Sr.
LLB — 33 Rick Glayton, 6-3, 235, Jr.
MLB — 19 Curtis Moore, 6-1, 220, Fr.
RLB — 25 Rick Brodesen, 6-1, 230, Sr.
RGB — 16 Mill Garner, 5-11, 200, Sr.
LCB — 27 Bill Sutter, 5-11, 180, Fr.
SS — 90 Chris Matthews, 6-1, 200, Sr.
SS — 32 Marvin Matthews, 6-4, 210, Sr.
P — 48 Rich Riich, 5-11, 180, Sr.
OLB — 47 Jimmy Burnette, 6-2, 202, Sr.
DE — 55 Shannon Ferbrache, 6-3, 260, So.
MG — 58 Jacob Reilly, 6-3, 218, So.
DE — 90 Martin Herr逊, 6-2, 220, Fr.
OLB — 93 Joel Dickerson, 6-2, 207, Sr.
MLB — 45 Mike Carbonaro, 6-2, 228, Sr.
NL — 94 Ezell Shetleton, 5-11, 205, Sr.
CB — 8 Ira Davia, 5-10, 180, Sr.
SS — 20 Bobby McNabb, 5-11, 200, Sr.
PC — 40 Jay Hurden, 6-0, 180, Sr.
CB — 37 Willie Davis, 5-11, 183, So.
P — 11 David Peters, 6-2, 212, Fr.
KANSAN graphic
Series: The Jayhawks and Salukis met in football for the first time in last year's 35-23 KU victory. The game was the last victory for the Jayhawks before the start of their current 10-game losing streak.
History: KU assistant football coaches Jan Quarless and Rocky Alt were once assistant coaches at Southern Illinois.
Coverage: The Kansas-Louisiana Tech game will be carried locally by the Kansas Jayhawk Network. The game can be heard in the Lawrence area on KLZR (106 FM) and KLWN (1320 AM). Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in Kansas' Memorial Stadium. Radio station KJHK (90.7 AM) will also provide coverage of the game.
At the end of last night's practice, Verdugo was quarterbacking the first-team offense during the team's two-minute drill. He stayed with the first-team offense and ran through plays on the sidelines while Donoho quarterbacked the second-team offensive unit.
"Verdugo hasn't seen any playtime during the Jayhawks' first three games. He was warming up on the sidelines during the second half of last week's 16-11 loss to Louisiana Tech.
injury situation is a little more settled. Senior defensive tackle Von Lacey and junior cornerback Johnny Granderson will be the only Jaywaks to miss tomorrow's game, said Lynn Bott, director of sports medicine. Lacey suffered a cut on his head during the Louisiana Tech game that required stitches. Granderson torre ligaments in his knee didn't won't be able to practice until at least next week
Unlike the quarterback situation, the Kansas
Freshman running back Frank Hatchette, who missed the last game because of a lower back bruise, will at full speed during yesterday's practice, will be available for duty against Southern Illinois.
Cardinals clinch third NL East title in last 6 seasons
Champion Mets watch as St. Louis wins right to face San Francisco in league championship series
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals won their third National League East title in six years last night, the team's fifth behind a five-hitter by Danny Cox.
St. Louis will open the best-of-
kids game against San Franci-
sica at Plaza Oaks.
Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter and about a dozen other members of the defending champion New York Mets were among the 48,763 fans at Busch Stadium and saw St. Louis clinch the division. They were all gone by the day when the Cardinals broke it onto scooping live runs for an 8-1 lead.
New York had an off-day, and its only hope was a Montreal victory last night and then a sweep of a three-point lead inORDinals that would have forced a tie.
The Mets, plagued by injuries and inconsistency all season, became another World Series champion who failed to repeat. The New York Yankees of 1977-78 were the last team to accomplish the feat.
Dan Driessen, who was batting. 218 while substituting most of the month for injured first baseman Jack Clark, drove in three runs and had two hits. He doubled in the fourth made it 3-1 and he hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
The Cardinals overcame several of their key injuries this year and managed to hang on despite a 33-33 record since July 23, the day they led Montreal by $9_{1/2}$ games and the Mets by $10_{1/2}$.
Cox, 11-9, struck out four and walked one. The victory was just St. Louis' seventh in 18 games against the Expos this season.
Had the Expos won, they could have created a three-way playoff by winning three straight against Chicago and if New York swept St. Louis.
But Cox, who had lost five of six September starts, was too tough in his second complete game of the season. Facing a Montreal lineup that had hit .47 against him this season, he gave up a run in the first before retiring 16 in a row.
Jay Tibbs, 4-5, lost in his second start since being recalled from the minors on Sept. 14. Tibbs was a late choice by Montreal Manager Buck Rodgers, who had exhausted his stall while trying to catch the Cardinals.
Tibbs' trouble started when John Morris led off the third with a triple. Tony Pena followed with an RBI out on a 3-0 pitch that tied the score 1.3.
Ozzie Smith opened the Cardinals' fourth with a hard one-hopper that skimmed off third baseman Tim Wallach and trickled down the left-field line for a double. Tom Herr singled Smith to third and Driessen lined a double to the right-center field that easily scored both runners.
Joe Hesketh relieved Tibbs after Driessen's hit and held the Cardinals in check until the seventh, when they poured it on and triggered a white cardinal decoration in a sea of Cardinal red that included chants of "Go Home, Mets!"
The Expos took a 1-0 lead in the first. Tim Raines opened with a double that scooted off Smith's gloves in the hole at shortstop, took third on a sacrifice and scored when Wallach hit a grounder to third baseman Pendleton, whose throw home hits Raines in the arm and went for an error.
St. Louis scored five runs on two hits and two errors in the seventh against three pitchers, Ozzie Smith hit a two-run single, Driessen had a sacrifice fly and Wallach and reliever Clyde Crowns bowls that each allowed runs to score.
They didn't score again until one of the ninth, when Wallach hit his 63rd.
St. Louis manager Whitey Herzog's title is his sixth in 12 seasons and certainly one of his most satisfying.
"If someone had told me all the crazy things that happened to us were going to happen, I'd have said we'd never stand a chance." Herzog won't stand the club has held on. It hasn't always been pretty, but it's been exciting.
Fall softball season ends this weekend
Staff writer
Bv MIKE CONSIDINE
The Kansas softball team wraps up its fall season this weekend with the five-tteam KU Invitational No. 3. Unlike the first two, KU Invitational 3. nits the Jayhawks against a field of junior college teams.
Hutchinson Community College,
Barton County Community College,
Johnson County Community College
are entered in the tournament.
Kansas plays Crowder in the opening game at 11 a.m. and Johnson County at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Jayhawk Field. Kansas will play Burton County in a 7 p.m. game at Broken Park, Park 30th and Louisiana streets
Sunday, Kansas plays Barton County at 9 a.m., Johnson County at 3 p.m. and Hutchinson at 5 p.m. All of Sunday's games are scheduled for
Jayhawk Field.
"To me, it doesn't make any difference who we play." Coach Kalum Haack said. "As long as we play good defense and hit the ball."
The Jayhawks, 4-7, improved in both areas at last weekend's Iowa State invitational. Kansas won two of its four games.
"We still made too many mistakes defensively and in base running," Haack said. "But our hitting picked up a little. I think the wins helped bring them around."
OSU meet will be first test for KU cross country team
Kansas had 15 hits in four games at Iowa State. The team punched out six hits in a 3-2 victory over Southwest Missouri State.
Senior Gayle Lueck, emerging from a season-long slump, drove in the game-winning RBI against Iowa State.
The field at the Cowboy Jamboree includes teams from Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Pittsburg State and Texas-Arlington, this year's Jayhawk Invitational champion.
Tomorrow's Cowboy Jamboree at Stillwater, Okla., promises to be the toughest meet of the season, according to Kansas cross country coach Bob Timmons.
The 82nd annual meet will provide the first test for Timmons' new
By a Kansan reporter
Timmons said Arkansas was the
The Jamboone will give the Jay-
naws their first opportunity to face
the Brains.
"We'll shoot as high as we can," Timmons said. "I'm sure Arkansas will be very, very strong, but we can't let the competition influence us. We just have to run within our capabilities."
Scoreboard
The Razorbacks are undefeated and have beaten Big Eight Conference favorite Nebraska this season.
"It will give us some indication
we are in the conference."
Timmy
meet favorite.
American League
Baseball
Oakland 9, Cleveland 8
Boston 7, New York 5
Detroit 9, Baltimore 6
Seattle 8, Seattle 6
Texas 8
National League
Cincinnati 4, San Diego 3
Pittsburgh 12, Chicago 3
Houston 6, Atlanta 5
St. Louis 8, Montreal 2
Los Angeles 7, San Francisco 0
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Former KU wide receiver Richard Estell crossed the NFL Players' Association picket lines and is practicing with the Kansas City Chiefs. Estell said that he understood the union's reasons for striking but he would suit up for Sunday's game with the Los Angeles Raiders in Los Angeles.
Ex-'Hawk crosses strike line
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Richard Estell's dreams of playing in the National Football League turned into a nightmare in real life last week when he arrived at Arrowhead Stadium.
By CRAIG ANDERSON
Staff writer
The good part was that he could have another chance to play professional football. He decided the team would be better, but it was too good an offer to pass up.
"I pulled into the parking lot, and I could see all these striking players heading over to my car," said Estell, who played for Kansas from 1982 to 1983. "They did some yelling at me, but I wasn't attacked physically. I was horrified because I didn't think crossing lines would be big of a deal."
What resulted for Estell was both good and bad.
The bad news was the damage the strikers did to Estell's car two slashed tires and dents in the hood.
"I told them there was no way they were going to change my mind because they couldn't scare me," he said. "I do take the team bus to the stadium now, though, instead of my car."
Also, Estell might have to put up the hard feelings, returning Chippewa.
"The coaches said there would be opportunities for some of us to stay on the team if the strike was settled." he said. "At this point in my life, I have to give it my best shot to play and get the ball out." I played football too long and love the game too much to give up my dream this early."
Working towards his dream of becoming a permanent player in the NFL means putting in some long days. Estell said he and his new Chiefs teammates begin work at 7:30 PM on Saturday night. Trying to put a football team together in less than two weeks leads to such long days.
Estell said learning the new plays and formations at such an acceler-
See ESTELL, p. 12, col.4