University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 8, 1987
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KU women capture second in tourney for season opener
By ROBERT WHITMAN
Staff writer
Jodi Oelschlager had only 10 minutes warning Friday night that she'd be in the starting lineup for the Kansas volleyball team's first match of the season.
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But Oelschlager and the rest of the team exceeded their coach's expectations with their second-place finish at the Southwest Missouri State tournament in Springfield, Mo.
The Jayhawks defeated Southwest Missouri State 15-9, 6-15, 11-15, 8-15, 16-14 Friday night and came back Saturday afternoon to defeat Memphis State 15-3, 15-7, 15-13.
pals State 10-5, 19-7, 14-8
Nationally ranked Texas defeated
Kansas 10-15, 5-15, 9-15 Saturday
night to give the Jayhawks a 2-1
record and second place in the round
robin tournament.
"They surpassed me again. I hope they do it all season." Kansas coach Frankie Albizt said, "I thought we'd be ready for that game. We could we could beat Southwest Missouri."
Albitz said the victory over Southwest Missouri State was particularly satisfying because it was her first over the Bears in her 11-year coaching career.
ing career.
Olelschlag, a sophomore outside-hitter, started all three matches. She also played a new position, one filled by All-Big Eight performer Catalina Suarez last year.
Source has year Oelschlager, who played on three state championship volleyball teams at Lawrence High School, has been getting into the middle of the action. She is passing more than last year when she played to the right of the setter.
seller:
"I didn't pass much last year at all," Oelschlager said. "I was kind of scared at first."
Albitz said she decided to start Oelschlager after she had two good days of practice just before the team left for Springfield.
Oelschlager had a meeting with Albitz last week to discuss her role on the team. Albitz said.
"She came into my office and said, 'What do you want out of me?'" Albitz said, "I told her, 'I need more out of you in practice.'
"It I can keep her working hard in practice she can fill one of (Suarez) roles. I wasn't sure who I needed there, but (Oelschlager) did a good job."
Oelschler said, "She said my head hadn't been in practice. I decided to get more into practice. My overall game improved Thursday, don't miss a confession, my passing until that day. I felt more confident in Springfield."
Albitz said Kansas blew a big lead in the final game against Southwest Missouri State. Then, a service ace by Shannon Ridgeway gave Kansas new momentum.
Ridgway's ace came directly after a timeout called to re-position Kansas's tallest blockers in front of where Albitz guessed the Bears might try to set the ball. The Bears had been spiking successively, foot 8 setter Monica Spencer, the Jawkows' shortest player on the court.
"I told Shannon just before we went back out, 'If you ace them, I won't have to find out where they're going to set it,' " Albitz said.
The ace moved Kansas off 13 points, where Albitz said they had been throughout the Bears' rally in the fifth game.
Against Memphis State, the Jayhawks found each of the three games in the match becoming progressively closer.
"Sometimes when you beat a team really easily, you have a tendency to let down. And (Memphis State) played better each game," Albitz said.
Albitz said the Jayhawks simply ran up against a bigger and stronger team in Texas, which made it to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament
"We were competitive except for the one game," Albizt said. "We did everything well except hit. Their block was strong, and I think it compliments us."
Albitz said the team was quiet after the Texas match and she couldn't tell what the team's mood was, but Oelschlager said she thought the team was pleased with the weekend's results.
"It always hurts to lose, but Texas is about eighth in the nation," Oelschlager said. "But I think everyone is pleased it went so well."
KU rugby team effort highlights fall opener
Staff writer
By CRAIG ANDERSON
A strong team effort highlighted the Kansas varsity rugby season opener, Coach Ken Renfo said.
The Jayhawks varsity defeated Nebraska 24-9. The KU club team beat the Cornhuskers 17-6. The Senior Reserves lost 12-0.
The Jayhawk varsity had such an overall good team performance that he couldn't name any individual standouts. Renfo said.
sahbous. Renfro said,
"All of the trys we scored were by players who were pushed over the line by the rest of our team," Renfro said. "Everyone was working well together."
together.
Senior Paul King led the Jawhays in scoring with a try and three penalty kicks. Senior Jim Laurie scored two trys. Senior Pat Roberts added a try.
Roberts said he was happy the way the team stuck together after a rough first half. The Jayhawks led only 10-9 at halftime before pulling away in the second forty-minute period.
"We had a fairly inexperienced backline, but they played incredible," he said. "Jason Elder did a great job at second row."
The loose ball play was not as good,迅rofa said. He said the ball handling and outside play needed to be worked on this week during practice.
The Kansas play on the inside pleased Renfo. He said the set plays worked well when the team was able to get the ball outside quickly.
The physical conditioning of the Kansas varsity was also a weak spot, Renfo said.
The Kansas varsity will play in its home opener this Saturday against Garden City. Renfro said he expected the Jayhawks to do well.
"They (Garden City) don't have much of a team," he said. "They just started playing four years ago and don't have many players on the team vet."
"It's not where it needs to be," he said of the physical conditioning. "We'll work on it this week in practice."
The KU club team and Senior Reserves will play games Saturday against the Johnson County "A" and "B" teams. All games will be played at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets, and begin at 1:30 p.m. Admission is free of charge.
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Robbed!
catch. The informal football game was played yesterday afternoon behind Oliver Hall.
Sean Shire, Independence junior, right, slaps the ball away at the last second to keep Bob Edler, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore, from making a
Two pitchers are planted on KU team
By DARRIN STINEMAN
Staff writer
Coach Dave Bingham has found two winners of this fall's Kansas baseball lottery, but their payments may be deferred for a couple of years.
Derek Chatterton, Wilmette, Ill., freshman, and Curtis Sharp, Bartlesville, Okla., freshman, were the only two players to come out of the pre-season walk-on tryouts with a spot on the team.
"There were 80 people out there, and I knew they wouldn't take many," said Chatterton, a left-handed pitcher. "I was really surprised."
Shaw, who is also a left-handed pitcher, said he was equally surprised to be chosen.
"I had heard that they'd signed two freshman left-handers," he said, "and I didn't think I'd make it when I found that out. I had a pretty decent trovul, but I still didn't think I made it."
gained some experience.
Bingham said he didn't expect either pitcher to contribute much this season, but he said he hoped the investment would pay dividends after they
"We were mainly looking for young guys." Bingham said. "We were looking for the freshmen we missed recruiting who could come in and develop."
They seem to have found two players who are content to do just that. Neither Chatterton nor Shaw have aspirations of setting the Big Eight Conference afire just yet.
contest and I want to get bigger, stronger, and increase my strength," Chatterton said. "I've still got a long way to go. I'm smaller than most."
"I really don't expect to play much this year," Shaw said. "If I do play, it would be a bonus. I'd just like to go through the fall and spring seasons and learn about college baseball."
Talented left-handed pitchers can be hard to find and are almost necessities to having a successful baseball team. Bingham said that he was comfortable with the present pitching staff and that he was hopeful Chatterton and Shaw would be a part of it.
in the future.
"They did okay (in the tryout), but more than anything else they filled a need for us," he said. "I feel these are two young kids who could come along and help us."
The fall baseball season, a preparation for the all-out competition of the spring season, begins Sept. 13 when Kansas City Kansas Community College comes to Quigley Field. All of the Jayahawks' fall games will be at home against junior college opponents.
"I like to use fall ball as an evaluation time," Bingham said. "I don't like in the fall to play against people we have to compete against in the spring. We play junior colleges because it helps recruiting. We can show kids the campus and our program. We don't want to travel in the fall and take kids out of class, and the junior colleges are more than willing to come out to our program and play. To me, there's just one championship season, and that's the springtime."
Runners to fill gaps as part of strategy
Staff writer
By MIKE CONSIDINE
In cross country, closeness is important — closeness as in very little time passing between finishers.
Based on the results of last Friday's intrasquad meet at Rim Rock Farm, the KU men's team is close and can be expected to get closer.
Only 29 seconds separated junior winner Craig Watcke and fourthplace junior finisher Matt Bell.
Student assistant Ashley Benjamin, who is sharing coaching duties
with fellow student assistant Ben Welch while Coach Bob Timmons is on a Mediterranean cruise, called the spread the most pleasant surprise of the meet.
the meet.
"That's something we haven't had here in a while," Benjamin said. "Last year the gap was 1:10."
The principle is this: the tighter the pack, the less room for opponents to finish in the middle of it and take valuable points.
The main purpose of the meet was to determine the seven runners
who'll compete in Friday's dual meet at Southern Illinois. Those seven, in order of finish, are: Watchee, Steve Hefferman, sophomore (27:26), Sean Sheridan, freshman (27:34), Bell, Mike Spielman, junior (28:07), Sam Froese, freshman (28:14) and Andy Pritchard, freshman (28:40).
"The times were slow, but the weather was over 90 and it's a tough course." Benjamin said. "Plus it's early in the season, and we haven't done any speed work. I think we're in good shape."
Spielman's status for the meet is uncertain, due to a class conflict. Benjamin said junior Dan Schneider would fill in if Spielman couldn't compete.
computer Watcke and Heffernan have been running extremely close in practice, Beniamin said.
("They) ran up front as expected. We didn't know who would win." Benjamin said. "Throughout the year, they are pushing each other. It's real healthy for the team."
Top seeds reach quarterfinals at U.S. Open
Fourth-seeded Mandlikova faces penalties after loss as Graf, Lendl advance
NEW YORK — Top seeds Ivan Lendl and Steff Graf advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. women's seed championships yesterday, but No. 4 women's seed Hana Mandikova lost after penalized a game for smashing her rocket against a scoreboard.
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a scoreboard.
Sixth-seeded Jimmy Connors and No. 8 John McEnroe also moved into the quarterfinals at the National Tennis Center.
Connors, habbling on an injured right foot, beat No. 11 Henri Lecerce 6-7 (0/7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.
McEnroe, who faces fines and a two-month suspension for a tirade during his third-round victory, was relatively calm as he defeated No. 9 Andres Gomez 6-4, 7-6 (72), 6-3.
Andres Gonzalez 8-4, 7-4. Connors said his injury, which doctors have been unable to diagnose, wouldn't force him out of the tournament.
hourmistress.
"I'd play out there on a peg leg if I had to," he said. "It's the U.S. Open. It only happens once a year."
Mandikova, who lost to No. 9 Claudia Kohde-Kilsch 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-1, was the second player to be played a game for poor behavior at the tournament. In his victory over Slobodan Zivojnovic Saturday, McEnroe was penalized for cursing and yelling.
Other women advancing to the quarterfinals were second-seeded Martina Navratilova, No. 3 Chris Evert, No. 6 Helena Sukova, No. 8 Gabriela Sabatini and No. 11 Lori McNeil.
Lendl, the two-time defending champion, beat No. 16 Anders Jarryd 2-6, 7-2 (7-2), 6-4, and Graf downed No. 13 Svila Hanika 7-5, 6-2.
In men's play, 14th-seeded Emilio Sanchez lost to unseeded Ken Flach in a third-round match delayed by rain.
Her temper flared again after she lost the second game of the third set by hitting a shot wide. When she cursed at the line official, Mandilikova was given a point penalty that forced her to start the next game down 0-15.
Mandikova got her first warning after cursing at an official who had just called a foot fault on her in the fifth game of the first set.
Mandikova lost that game to fall behind 2-1 in the set. During the changeover, the 25-year-old Czechoslovakian slammed her rocket against the scoreboard, prompting head referee Georgina
Clark to penalize her a game
Kohde-Kilsch won the next three games to come out the match. After shaking hands with Kohde-Kilsch, Mandikilla again smacked the scoreboard with her racket before leaving the court.
After the match, Clark said Mandlikova would be fined $500. Mandlikova could be fined up to $10,000 after further review by a disciplinary committee made up of players and a representative of the Women's International Tennis Association.
Clark said Mandilika would not be suspended. "I'm very disappointed, because the women usually behave very well." Clark said. "This kind of behavior is very rare."
Very Palmer is Game pennant have been issued only twice before in the tennis, to Pompea at the 1986 French Open and to Patricia Tarabini at a 1987 tournament in Sweden.
before, she said.
"I could never act like that," Kohde-Kilsch said.
Kohde-Kilsch, who won the women's doubles title at the 1885 Open with Sukova, said she wasn't surprised by Mandikola's behavior. "She's done that before," she said.
Women's golf team finishes in 3rd place
Tinn Gnewchw and Sue Pekar led the Kansas women's golf team to a thirdplace finish in the Cyclone Golf Classic at Ames, Iowa, this weekend.
By a Kansan reporter
The five-woman team finished with a total score of 890 for the 54-hole tournament, 29 strokes behind the Iowa State and Missouri teams, which tied for first place.
Gewuch carded an 80 on Thursday and followed with a 79 and a 78 in the three-day tournament to claim fifth place. Pekar shot the low 18-hole round for the Jayhawks on Thursday with a 77, and followed with an 80 and an 81 to take seventh.
"I think Tina and Sue did great," said Kent Weiser, Kansas women's golf coach. "They played really hard."
Although the weather was cooperative during the tournament, spotty greens made putting difficult, Pekar said. Considering it was the first tournament of the year, she said she was content with her score.
"It could have been worse, and it could have been better," she said. "The second day I really had trouble with my putting."
The rest of the team didn't fare as well as Gnewuch and Pekar. Michelle Mulvihill, Suzanne Mossberg, and Donna Lowen all turned in scores of 256.
*e* mushing fourth in the tournament was Nebraska with a 993 total, followed by Northern Illinois with 1011, Illinois State with 1034, Southwest Missouri State with 1075 and Kansas State with 1104.
State warrior the Jahawks return to the Hawkeye State next weekend to play in Iowa's tournament.