UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 23,1996
3B
Mentee off in home opener
Kansas women to play in Oregon
by Tommy Gallagher
Kansan sportswriter
The Jayhawk golf teams will be in action for the next three days, but where and who they play at their respective tournaments will be far apart.
wine the women play in Oregon, the men will stay in Lawrence.
The Jayhawk men start their season today by sponsoring the Kansas Invitational at Alvamar Golf Course. The Jayhawks, who have won the tournament the last two years and six of the last eight, will be competing on the same course they practice on daily.
course they practice slopes." "To us, the course really doesn't seem that hard because we know what each hole is like," sophomore Chris Thompson said. "The course has big greens with steep slopes and subtle breaks and that gives people the most trouble."
Thompson, one of Kansas' top golfers
set career lows for a round and total with scores of 72 and 220, respectively, at last year's tournament.
As a team last year, the Jayhawks shot all rounds of the three-round tournament at par or better for the first time in team history with team scores of 286, 285 and 288. The Jayhawks won the tournament with a team score of 859, which broke the team low for the Invitational by 11 shots, set by Kansas in 1988. It was also the lowest score by any team at Alvamar since Oklahoma State shot 857 at the 1981 Big Eight Championships.
Despite the team's recent success at the tournament, men's head coach Ross Randall guards against being too optimistic about playing at home.
"Sometimes there can be more pressure playing at home because you know the course, because you want to do too much," Randall said. "We want to find out how our young talent performs under pressure and see who will continue to golf for us later in the year."
One of those players is highly-touted freshman Ryan Vermeer, who will compete in his first NCAA tournament today
in his life. I think there's more pressure on me to
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perform well than on the other players because I am a freshman, "Vermeer said. "I have to prove myself to the team, but to do that I have to help the team have a good finish and win the tournament."
The first round will start at 8 a.m., with the second round to follow later that day about 1 p.m. The last round of the 54-hole tournament will start at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow.
The tournament will feature 17 teams, most of which are Big 12 foes or regional schools. Conference and area teams include Missouri, Kansas State, Iowa State, Nebraska, Texas Tech, Wichita State and Drake University.
The women's golf team won't be playing at home. In fact, the Jahaywomen will play against teams and a course unfamiliar to coaches and players alike.
The Jayhawk women will compete in the Northwest Invitational at Crosswater Golf Resort in Sunriver, Ore. The team is scheduled to play the three-round tournament in three days, starting today and ending Wednesday.
"We'll see a different group of schools than we're accustomed to seeing," said
Jerry Waugh, women's head coach. "The thing is, we don't compete against the other teams or the golf course; we play to challenge ourselves to perform at our best each time out."
Most of the 18 teams in attendance will be from the Pacific region, such as Southern California, Washington, Washington State, Oregon and Oregon State. The only other Big 12 school competing in the tournament will be Colorado.
Although the tournament is far from home, at least the Jayhawks already have some playing experience this year.
The Jayhawks finished fourth out of 15 schools at the 36-hole Minnesota Invitational Sept. 14 and 15. Sophomore golfer Mandy Munsch said she was looking forward to the tournament.
"None of us know what to expect, so we're all pretty excited to go," Munsch said. "It's a new course, but it's easy to play the course second time around.
"I also like the format of the tournament, playing a round of golf per day," she said. "That makes the tournament much less tiring and lets us concentrate on what we need to do to win."
Chiefs slip past Denver Broncos,17-14
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the first time since Indianapolis knocked them out of last year's playoffs, the Kansas City Chiefs have their confidence back.
"If we reach our goal of the Super Bowl, we'll point to this game," center Tim Grunhard said after Marcus Allen's 2-yard touchdown with 4:09 remaining lifted the Chiefs over Denver 17-14 in a game pairing unbeaten AFC West rivals.
The victory also gave the Chiefs the first 4-0 start in the 37-year history of the franchise.
"I think that last drive told us something about ourselves," guard Dave Szott said. "We haven't felt this confident since we finished (the 1995 regular season) 13-3."
The Chiefs had to overcome Shannon Sharpe's 131 yards receiving and Terrell Davis' 141 yard rushing to go to 4-0 and stretch their AFC West winning streak to 12 games. Davis broke a 65-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, the longest against Kansas City since 1977.
"I don't worry about stats,"
said Davis, who had 130 yards in the first half. "I think we outplayed them most of the game. But you can only give a good team so many chances to beat you."
Davis' run gave the Broncos (3-1) a 14-10 lead that stood until Steve Bono, booed the previous series, brought cheers from the crowd of 79,439 by directing a 67-yard drive to score and take the lead.
He hit Dana Hughes for 16 yards and Chris Penn for 18 on successive plays to set up the 106th rushing touchdown of Allen's career, which tied him with Jim Brown for No.2 on the career list.
"It was just an I-formation, and the fullback just led through the hole," Allen said.
"On that drive, we had several guys make big plays."
"Everybody looked at each other in the huddle and said we're going to score," Penn said. "The coaches put together a perfect plan and called perfect plays. Bono made perfect reads and the offensive line made perfect blocks."
Dale Carter's lunging interception of John Elway's long pass gave the Chiefs the ball right back, and the offense picked up two first downs to run out the clock and keep the Chiefs unbeaten at home during the regular season since Dec. 4, 1994, when Denver triumphed in overtime.
"Today we found out that we are a good football team," Elway said. "But we can't beat ourselves. We made some mistakes that you just can't make against the Kansas City Chiefs."
Chiefs coach Marty Schottenheimer said a couple of players made mistakes on Davis' 65-varder.
"You don't expect me to name names, do you?" he said. "We solve those problems behind closed doors."
Safety Brian Washington seemed to be taking the blame.
"I sick about it," he said.
"We don't let anybody go 65 yards for a touchdown on us."
Davis burst through a hole on the right side and outran Mark Collins and Carter, the Chiefs' fastest defender. As Carter slowly closed the gap, Davis veered left, then veered left again, keeping just ahead him until the cornerback dragged him down in the end zone.
The Broncos took the opening kickoff and burned 7:34 off the clock on a 14-play, 74-yard drive that Davis capped with a 6-yard run. Elway passed for 53 yards and converted four third downs in the march, including a third-and 10 when he hit Sharpe for 19 yards to the 31.
After Pete Stoyanovich's 37-yard field goal made it 7-3 with 57 seconds left in the first quarter, fullback Kimble Anders got loose for a 45-yard pass reception to key a 75-yard touchdown drive that gave Kansas City the lead. Anders hauled in the pass on the left sideline, broke Romanowski's tackle and made it all the way to the 37.
A moment later, Bono tossed an 8-yard TD pass to Danan Hughes.
Denver's Jason Elam missed a 52-yard field goal attempt in the second quarter and a 34-yarder that struck the left upright in the fourth.
The Chiefs appeared to be driving toward a score in the second quarter when Bono threw his first interception in 93 pass attempts this season.
Two of the worst passes Elway has thrown all year preceded Stoyanovich's 37-yarder in the first quarter.
komanowski picked off the ball on the 21, and three plays later Davis scored after his 65-yard run.
Given plenty of time on second-and 15 from the Denver 35, the ball popped out of Elway's hand and went straight up in the air as his arm moved forward.
On the next play, he threw a wobbly pass to Collins, who was standing by himself in the middle of the field and returned the ball 23 yards.
Nebraska falls to the Sun Devils
Winning streak snapped in Arizona State shutout
The Associated Press
TEMPE, Ariz.— Nebraska isn't invincible,
afterall.
the top-ranked Cornhuskers had their 26-game winning streak snapped Saturday night in a shocking 19-0 loss to No. 17 Arizona State on the same field where
they won their second straight national championship in January.
"We're all embarrassed and ashamed ... to go out there and lay a goose egg on the scoreboard," Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost said. "I never dreamed that could happen."
The Sun Devils, routed by the Huskers 77-28 last season, recorded three safeties in handing the Huskers their first defeat since losing the 1994 Orange Bowl to Florida State.
"I'm just so proud of this team and my staff," said Arizona State coach Bruce Snyder, who accused Nebraska coach Tom Osborne of running up the score last year. "This might be the biggest win I've ever been involved with."
It was Nebraska's first shutout since a 22-0 loss to Miami in the 1992 Orange Bowl, and its first regular-season loss since dropping a 19-10 decision to Iowa State on Nov. 14, 1992.
Jake Plummer threw for 292 yards and a touchdown and Robert Nycz kicked two field goals for the Sun Devils, who outgained Nebraska 401 to 216.
"We surprised them," Plummer said. "They might have thought we couldn't come out and do that (move the ball). Against Nebraska, you can't just sit back and wait. We sat back and wait last year and you saw what happened."
The three safeties, more than Nebraska had ever given up in an entire season, typified the Sun Devils' defensive dominance over the Huskers, who had won 37 straight regular-season games.
Nebraska had its best opportunity to score in the first quarter when it drove to the Arizona State 5. But on third-and-3, Damon Benning fumbled a pitch when he was hit by safety Mitchell Freedman, and the Devils' Scott Von der Ahe recovered at the 22.
Nebraska's other scoring opportunity came with the game long decided, after backup quarterback Matt Turner replaced Frost with 4:17 left.
After moving the Huskers 42 yards to the Arizona State 26, Turman tossed a swing pass to Green, who cut back across the middle and headed for the end zone. But Freedman hit him, forced a fumble and recovered near the 5.
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