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The Kansas rowing team didn't finish as well as it wanted to at the Head of the Charles Regatta last weekend.
Tuesday
October 26,1999
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Pro Football
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Oakland Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon broke his left wrist in the waning seconds of the Raiders win.
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College Basketball
A Kansas prospect, Jared Reiner, has given Iowa an oral commitment.
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Tiger thrashing not without injuries
Bv Mike Miller
By Mike Miller sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas issued a beating in a 21-0 victory against Missouri Saturday at Memorial Stadium but was unable to escape uncathed.
Middle linebacker Daris Lomax rests on top of a pile during the game against Kansas State. Lomax was injured during the game against Missouri. Photo by Christine Nellf (KANSAN
Junior middle line-
backer Dariss Lomax
sprained his medial
collateral ligament in
his right knee during
the first quarter and is
questionable for
Saturday's game
against Nebraska.
Sophomore Marcus
Rogers will get the
start, but Lomax can
play, he could receive
some playing time.
Lomax sprained a ligament in his right knee
Kansas coach Terry Allen said Lomax would try to play.
he's been key for Kansas this year.
Sophomore cornerback Andrew Davison was the only other Jayhawk hurt. He suffered a concussion during the third quarter and did not return but will play Saturday.
— Edited by Chris Hopkins
Rogers is smaller than Lomax, about two inches shorter and ten pounds lighter, but
"I had to learn both positions because Coach said I had to," Rogers said. "Either one is fine with me."
He played for an injured Lomax for much of the Texas A&M game and led the team in tackles with nine. Rogers had four tackles last week, including one for a loss.
"It's tough sitting behind him," Rogers said.
It was Rogers' game against Texas A&M that eased Allen's mind about playing him last weekend.
"Marcus played a majority of the game and did a good job," Allen said.
Rogers will team with LeClair to form a young middle linebacker group, one that will probably be the linebacker unit of the future.
For the Nebraska game, however, it's the linebacker unit of the present.
Men's club volleyball overlooked but fun
Story by Jason Walker • Photo by Chad Cummings
imagine a white ball about 10 inches in diameter whizzing toward your unprotected head at speeds up to 90 miles per hour. That's what it's like to play men's club volleyball.
While the men's club volleyball team at Kansas probably doesn't spike quite like professions such as Karch Kiraly, they do play intense volleyball. Even though they spike the ball with the speed of Roger Clemens' fastball, the players admit that in the world of volleyball, most of the attention goes to the women's teams.
"Most people don't know we exist," said Dennis Heier, Blue Springs, Mo., senior and setter on the Jayhawk team. "Especially at KU where the women have the varsity team. In general when most people think of volleyball, they think women."
heer said that he had watched athletes such as Kiraly and Sinjin Smith play on the professional beach tour and thought men's volleyball was one of the most exciting sports out there, but also one of the least known.
While the intense court action of the Jayhawk team is played by about 15 men. Nic Slayton, Derby senior and club president, said that he thought the reason interest in men's volleyball was lacking was because there aren't many men out there who have played before.
"I saw Karch break the all-time wins record," he said. "And I got his autograph. People will see my autograph and say, 'who's he?'"
Slayton got involved in volleyball because his father is a former high school and college coach. He said that he learned the game because of his dad's coaching career.
"I would just hang out at practice and watch
"Most guys probably didn't have a chance when they were younger," he said.
the girls," he said. "Then I started helping my dad coach."
Shayton said that when he came to Kansas, he got a job with the women's varsity team and learned about the men's club team through a friend.
"I knew I wanted to play, and my friend got me to come out," he said. "It's fun. There are a bunch of fun guys to play with."
The Jayhawk team is expecting to play about eight matches this fall and will take part in several tournaments this coming spring. Shayton said that two weeks ago the Jayhawks beat Kansas State in a match after the women's varsity game.
"We try to play after the women's games so we can get a crowd," he said. "We're pretty happy about the K-State game because they have a strong team. I think we're getting better."
Heier said that while about half of the men on the Kansas team hadn't played competitive volleyball before this season, the other half had played in high school or in a club. He said that the six-on-six indoor version of volleyball was different from the two-on-two beach volleyball people could have seen on TV.
"In beach it's all about experience, hustle and reading the hitters." he said. "Indoor takes a lot more athleticism. It's complex because there are lots of hitters. There's a lot more to the offense."
"We take the competition seriously, but at night we like to go out and have fun," he said. "I just love the sport. I think it's the best one out there."
Heier said he enjoyed the club because he loved volleyball and the team trip.
Slayton said he planned on playing volleyball as long as he could because it was a sport people could play for many years.
Edited by Mike Loader
Jayhawks slap the stripes off Tigers in win
If I could have picked one game for the football team to win all year, this was it. A huge upset against in-state rival Kansas State would've been tough to turn down, but it was a distant second to a border-rival beatdown. No one from Manhattan ever came to Lawrence to kill him and pillow.
I have to admit that I was impressed with the piece in Friday's Kansan by Columbia Missourian columnist Wright Thompson. It was a particularly
Besides, the Kansas-Missouri rivalry hits home a little harder for journalism students. The two schools are generally regarded as having the best journalism programs in the Midwest.
Derek
Prater
sports columnist
sports@kkanan.com
But enough about Thompson.
nice job of riping off Rick Reilly. From the golly-gee-I'm-cute pose to the self-righteous, pseudo-cl clever self-indulgence, Thompson's column seemed as though it was ripped straight from the back page of Sports Illustrated.
He's just a symptom of a larger epidemic of bad taste and awful manners. If it's not its drunk, half-literate fans chucking bottles at our band, it's the scholarship athletes interrupting our halftime show. Missouri is a case study in what makes the whole state feel like the backwoods.
The color combination of yellow and black makes me nauseous, and there was plenty of it in Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Fortunately, a little Tiger tail-whipping proved to be a tough antacid. Watching a couple thousand Missouri fans forced to sit on their hands was nearly as fun as watching the 'Hawks finally break some big plays.
Harrison Hill's hands and Moran Norris' sledgehammer-style running highlighted what was an otherwise mediocre offensive attack.
the defense, on the other hand, was impressive all around. The line consistently stuffed the run and generated great pressure on Missouri quarterback Jim Dougherty. When Missouri did manage to breach the line of scrimmage, Carl Nesmith turned the gains into replay-highlight oohs and aaahs with bonecrushing and momentum-stopping hits.
As much fun as it was watching the Hawks shut out the Tigers, I don't know that it's necessarily a sign of things to come. It's evident that Missouri just stinks.
The game may not have been too pretty, but the immediate result was groin-grabbingly gratifying.
And as Grandpa Simpson says, "I'll be dead in my grave before I recognize Missour-ah."
Prater is a Lawrence graduate student in journalism.
Kansas takes first in doubles, first and second in singles
By Melinda Weaver
by Nominee
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's tennis team went to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Region V Championships expecting to finish high, and the players responded well to the pressure.
in the singles finals, two Jayhawks faced one another for the title.
Freshman Eleazar Magallan defeated sophomore Rodrigo Echagarray in three sets, 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-1, for his first collegiate tournament win, improving his record to 16-4.
"I felt very nervous because Rodrigo is my teammate, and I had not expected to play
him." Magallan said. "I think we both played very well. He was ahead in the first set and beat me in the second set. I think the key in the third set that is I was more patient."
In the third round of singles Magallan defeated Rick Warren of Oklahoma 6-3, 6-0, and Echaguaray defeated Henry Choi of Indiana State 6-1, 6-1.
In the quarterfinals, Magallan defeated Jorge Abos Sanchez of Nebraska 6-4, 7-5, and in the semifinals, he beat Mirko Javanovic of Colorado.
Echagarray defeated Dusty Beard of Oklahoma 6-1, 6-4, in the quarterfinals and Gareth Keating of Indiana State 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to reach the finals.
"The tournament was very good, and it really challenged our team," Magallan said. "I thought there were a lot of good teams, but I just kept playing
Coach Mark Riley said he expected to have a better idea who was going to step up after this tournament and lead the team this
season. After his performance, Magallan is a top prospect.
"Magallan is an all-court player," Riley said. "He is a steady performer and now, he showed he's one of the best players on our team."
"When two of our players reach the finals in singles, and our team wins the title in doubles, you can't ask for much more than that," Riley
Kansas also won the championship in doubles as Echagarray and partner Ed Dusef defeated Beard and Jeremy Dunham of Oklahoma in straight sets 6-4, 7-6 (7-2).
"Ed served very well, and Rodrigo played well from the net," Magallan said. "Rodrigo also returned well on important points. They played very well as a team."
Dus and Echagarray earned their spot in the semifinals after defeating Mullins and Sewell of Wichita State 6-4, 7-5. In the semifinals, they beat David Cairns and Scott Byrd of Illinois State 6-4, 6-3.
"When two of our players reach the finals in singles,and our team wins the title in doubles, you can't ask for much more than that."
Mark Riley
Kansas tennis coach
said. "Right now, our tennis program is alive and thriving."
Edited by Mike Loader