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Wednesday, June 8, 1994
SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Golfer nearly scores spot in NCAA nationals
Senior Holly Reynolds participated in the NCAA Golf Regional for the west district, which included Big Eight teams, May 13-15 in Albquuerque, N.M.
Coach Jerry Waugh said Reynolds missed qualifying for the national tournament, which will be held in Portland, Ore., by two strokes. Reynolds scored 74 points all three days of the tournament on the 73-par course, he said.
Waugh said that he thought Reynolds played well in the tournament although she did not qualify for nationals.
"She played the tournament as she had planned to, but she didn't quite make it," he said.
Eight make all-Big Eight tennis
The University of Kansas tennis teams placed eight athletes on the all-Big Eight teams. The women's team placed five players, including three-time members juniors Nora Koves, Rebecca Jensen and Kim Rogers, Seniors Mindy Weiner and Abby Woods also made the team. Koves was gamed co-player of the year.
Martin Ericksson, sophomore; Victor Fimbres, freshman, and Reid Slattery, sophomore, were named to the men's team. Coach Michael Center was named Coach of the Year for leading the men's team to their 10th straight Big Eight title.
'Hawks baseball flags in regionals
A second round stomping of Ohio State couldn't keep the Jayhawk baseball team alive through the rest of the NCAA Atlantic II Regionals last month in Tallahassee, Fla.
The Jayhawks began the series with a 2-7 first round loss to Jacksonville. Managing only three hits in the game, the Jayhawks scored both runs in the eighth inning.
The Jayhawks' only win came in the next round with their 20-6 victory over Ohio State. Scoring five home runs, including a grand slam by catcher Ted Meadows, the team avoided elimination and moved on to the third round.
The third game was the team's last, however, as the Jayhawks suffered a 3-8 loss to Brigham Young. Third baseman Brent Wilhelm lead the team with three hits and two runs. The Jayhawks dropped to 40-18 for the season.
HOOVER, Ala. — At first, it looked like Michael Jordan would make baseball look as easy as basketball.
Jordan grounded in slump
The Associated Press
He had a 13-game hitting streak. His average was over .300. Ho him, who said this game was so tough?
Now, though, Jordan is learning that it's much simpler — for him, at least
Compiled from Kansan staff reports.
— to soar through the air and dunk into a 10-foot goal, then it is to stay on the ground and make contact with a little white ball that's doing funny things.
"Basketball is a tough game for everybody," said outfielder Randy Hood, one of Jordan's teammates with the Double-B Birmingham Barons. "Players go through streaks where they don't get many hits all the time."
While the NBA Finals that were his personal playground the last three years are set to begin Wednesday, the greatest basketball player on the planet finds himself currently parked in the no-hitting zone.
A 9-for-78 slump has dropped Jordan's average below the dreaded Mendoza Line (.199), and he has displayed hardly any power in the batter's box. That's not a promising combination — a singles hitter who
doesn't hit for average.
Still, Jordan remains convinced that he's right on schedule. He considers this a marathon, not a sprint. And he doesn't want to talk about a possible return to basketball.
"I feel like I passed stage one and this is stage two," he said. "Nothing is going to be told until the end of the season. Anything could happen between now and then. I'm not through yet."
Publicly, Jordan's coaches and teammates are still solidly in his corner. They talk about the improvement he has made since the start of the season, even if it doesn't show up in the statistics.
"His average has gone down, but he's actually a better hitter now than he was during his 13-game hitting streak," said Mike Barnett, the Barons' hitting coach.
"In spring training, the big question everyone had was his bat speed. He had to prove he could hit the fastball. Once he did that, they tried to throw him a lot of breaking balls. He wasn't staying back, he wasn't being very selective with the breaking ball."
That's not surprising, Barnett said. "You can't expect him to have that
combination of aggressiveness and selectiveness when he had no at-bits for 14 years. That's going to come with at-bats."
As he approaches his 200th at that this season, Jordan is beginning to turn the corner against the steady barrage of curves, sliders and changes, Barnett said. He pointed to Jordan's performance Saturday night against the Carolina Mudeats, when he slammed a breaking pitch into the left-center gap for a double and also grounded out hard to second.
"No time frame has been set," Barnett said. "It would be unfair to set a time frame. He needs to get some more at-bats. Five-hundred at-bats will give us a good idea of where heels at."
Jordan may have been further along if he had struggled at the start of the season. Perhaps he got a false sense of his own ability when he looked up and saw his average above 300.
But he has not been a total flop. He's fourth in the Southern League with 15 stolen bases, ranks third on the Barons with 21 RBIs and has helped Birmingham lead the circuit in attendance at 6,400 per game despite a 26-30 record.
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