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University Daily Kansan/ Tuesday, November 26, 1991
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'Hawks ready for postseason
Volleyball team meets Colorado in first round of Big Eight tourney
Janet Uher, left, and Sara Hinkeldey try to block a spike by Cyndee Kanabel. Kansas plays its first-round match Friday in Omaha, Neb. If Kansas wins the Big Eight tournament, it will advance to the NCAA tournament.
By Jeff Kobs
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
Just getting there is not good enough for the Kansas volleyball team anymore.
The Jayhawks qualified for the Big Eight Conference postseason tournament for the second straight year by defeating Missouri two weeks ago, clinching a third-place spot in the league.
"Not this year," senior setter Julie Woodruff said. "Last year that was fine, but now we want to go in and beat Colorado, make the championship round and then go to the NCAA tournament."
Kansas finished the season 23-7 overall and 6-6 in the conference and will face Colorado, 22-8 overall and 9-2 in the conference, in the first round of the tournament.
The teams will meet at 5:30 p.m. the third time this season. Neb. for the third time this season.
Colorado, ranked 20th in the nation,
won both regular season matches
and the NCAA tournament.
Kansas had several players out with the flu the second time the teams played.
"Here we played them real close, and then out there we also played them close, but we were not at 100 percent," Coach Frankie Albitz said. "They feel it's within reach to win and they do want to beat them."
Albitz said it was a lift for the team to play Colorado in the first round as compared to Nebraska, which is ranked eighth.
"Colorado's sort of young, and I think they might be a little easier to knock off," she said.
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This season exemplifies the full circle in which the seniors have traveled since they first arrived as freshmen at Mount Oread.
in the seniors' first year as Jayhawks, the team went 5-24 and finished last in the conference.
"It was miserable at first," Woodruff said. "I think several people thought about transferring, but nobody wanted to be a quitter.
"After our freshman year, I never really had any doubts we'd be where we are."
Senior Kris Kleinschmidt said it was just a matter of everyone getting used to playing with each other.
"Every year we expected to do better," she said. "We click well together now."
Woodruff said if she was writing the
"Making the finals and then playing Nebraska tough there would be good," she said. "Actually beating Nebraska in the finals would be great,
ending script for the seniors it would be in beating Colorado in the tournament.
"Then to go to the NCAA tournament
how far we could go would be a good wint
Lady Jayhawks show potential in opening game
By David Mitchell
Kansan Sportswriter
Kansas will play Weber State on Friday in the first round of the Texas-Arlington Classic. Coach Marian Washington said the Jayhawks still needed to improve in several areas.
The Lady Jayhawks overcame a poor shooting performance and a large height disadvantage in their play, defeating Illinois-Chicago 70-60.
"I want to see intensity from the start," Washington said. "I want to us see running the floor better, and the selling percentage was very weak."
On Saturday, Kansas rallied from a 36-29 halftime deficit after shooting just 34 percent from the field.
"The more games we play, the more we improve," Johnson said. "We take pride in our defense. Eventually, the offense will come around, and we'll have a total game."
Senior forward Terrilryn Johnson, who had 10 rebounds and 14 points, said the team was accustomed to slow starts.
The Jayhawk defense forced 26 turnovers against Illinois-Chicago, helping the Jayhawks overcome a large height disadvantage. The Flames' squad had four players taller than 6-foot-3.
Courtside
"Playing with bigger teams will make us a better team in the long run," she said. "We're quick getting up and down the court."
- Kansas announced the signing of a sophomore point guard yesterday.
Michelle Leathers, from Loussburg College in North Carolina will transfer to Kansas next year.
Leathers was an all-state selection at Northside High School in Belle Haven, N.C. In her freshman season at Louisburg she averaged 11.7 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.3 assists.
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Men place 15th in the nation
fit from the challenges.
Bv.JeffKobs
Kansan Sportswriter
The rankings proved to be on target yesterday at the NCAA Championship cross country meet in Tucson, Ariz.
The top two teams finished as ranked: Arkansas first and Iowa State second. Kansas, ranked 15th, finished 15th.
Two Kansas women ran at the meet. Junior Julia Saul finished 32nd with a time of 17:25. Senior Julia finished 914 with a time of 18:16.
"Probably disappointment describes it best," Coach Gary Schwartz said. "We are capable of performing better."
Saul missed all-American status by one place. The top 25 American runners earn that honor. Six for runners finished ahead of Saul.
CROSSCOUNTRY
"Julia ran the kind of race she needs to," Schwartz said. "A top 30
finish is indicative of how good she is and also how good the competition has become in women's cross country.
"Overall it has been a very fun and rewarding year for both the men and women."
Senior Jason Teal led the Kansas men by finishing 70th with a time of 32:04. Senior Donnie Anderson came in second for the Jayhawks and 76th overall with a time of 32:10.
'Hawks face Arkansas-Little Rock tonight
Sophomores Alec Bolten, 32:10,
Michael Cox, 32:15, and David
Johnston, 32:59, rounded out the
Kansas top five.
"Its been a good year so it's hard to be too far down," Schwartz said.
Seniors Sam Froese and Sean Sheridan also ran for Kansas and had times of 33:30 and 35:28 respectively.
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
The Kansas men's basketball team will play tonight for the second time in four days.
The Jayhawkss beat the University
Baltimore-County Count 122-58
Saturday
Kansas will play the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans at 8:08 p.m. in Allen Field House. The game will be televised on channels 13 and 62.
"I was really pleased with the whole team," Coach Roy Williams said. "Even the guys who were in there at the end had great execution."
Richard Scott, sophomore forward,
is the team with a career and game high.
He said the victory would be put aside.
"It just happened that we got a lot of guys open inside." Scott said.
"We have to come out and be focused on the next game." Scott said.
first game, Scott said.
Scott, who is from Little Rock, Ark.
said that he was recruited by Arkansas-Little Rock, but that he never really considered going to school there.
The Trojans defeated Alcorn State 82-74 on Saturday night.
The Trojans have three returning starters and six lettermen from a team that went 10-20 last season.
Williams said the team had talked about playing hard every game.
"You don't get many chances to go out and play games," he said. "We're going to practice about a hundred times.
"You only play 27 games unless you keep winning at the end."
The Jayhawks will play Central Missouri State University on Saturday at Allen Field House. Kansas State will play in conferences with Central Missouri State 11-1.
CMSU returns four lettermen and one starter from a team that finished 27-5last season. The Mulestiedfor second in the Missouri Intercollegiate Conference.
Game 2: 8:08 tonight, Allen Field House
Jayhawks vs. Trojans
Kansas record: 1-0
Probable Starters
Arkansas-Little Rock record: 1-0
Coach: Rov Williams
Coach, Roy
Forward 6-6 Sr.
Forward 6-7 Jr.
Center 6-10 Jr.
Guard 6-4 Jr.
Guard 5-11 Jr.
21 Rod Wade
24 James Womack
24 Jarvis Canton
23 Corendell Robinson
23 Cordell Robinson
Coach: Jim Platt
Forward 6-6 Sr
Forward 6-4 Sr
Center 6-6 Fr
Guard 6-5 Jr
Guard 6-1 So
Television: KSMO (Kansas City), WIBW (Topeka), KWCH (Wichita)
Source: Kansas Sports Information
Sox pitcher rocks in the off-season
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Bv Ben Grove
"We called the White Sox up the next day to contact his agent and see if we could book him for a hockey game," Loria said. "We were the first people to talk with him, he so agreed to make Kemper his first arena concert."
Special to the Kansar
Leslie Pasterman, a music intern at WXRT, an alternative station in Chicago, said that the single was get-together with him and just short of the station's heavy play.
When Chicago White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell comes to Kansas City on Saturday, he won't be facing batters in Royals Stadium.
He will face a crowd of Kansas City Blades hockey fans at Kemper Arena in a post-game show as the front man for his alternatively rocked band. V.I.E.W.
McDowell, an American League All-Star last year, was the subject of an ESPN feature during the All-Star game after having formed V.I.E.W. game seeing the feature gave Jim Loria, Blades marketing director, an idea.
Pasternak said "Free Fall" was a
November. The band plays during baseball'soff-season.
Loria said that he was expecting 10,000 people to attend the game and that he thought McDowell's music would be well-received. He said college students would be especially receptive.
The band was formed when McDowell was leading the Stanford Cardinals to the 1987 College World Series. There he met Lee Plelem, and the two began playing guitar and bass together. When Warner Edwards joined the
The single "Free Fall," from V.I.E.W.'s *Extendagenda* album on the QualityStart label, is getting airplay in Chicago.
When Wayne Edwards joined the
1990, 1992, and 1993 teams,
V.I.E. W had its perquisite
Tickets for Saturday's 7:35 p.m.
game against the Fort Wayne Kornes
cost $6.50, $9 and $11 and are still available.
"I didn't even know he was a baseball player, and when they told me, I was really surprised," she said.
good song and a lot of people liked the song without knowing who McDowell was.
“It be pretty easy for someone like him to get some Top 40 song without really putting anything together,” Pasternak said. “But, it’s better music than that. He’ll do very well. His music is just fun. You don’t have to like a distinct kind of music to appreciate his song.”
Mcdowell told the Kansas City Star that baseball was his top priority during the season but that during the off-season music was more than a hobby.
Pasternak said she thought the music reflected that sentiment.
KU athlete faces charges
KU football player Kenny Drayton was issued a ticket early Sunday to appear in municipal court on battery charges. Lawrence police reported.
Drayton allegedly struck a Lenexan man once with his fist and once with a flashlight about 2:20 a.m. Sunday, police said.
The incident occurred near the holiday Inn Holidome parking lot, 200 McDonald Drive, after theLENexa man and passengers in his car exchanged words with a group of people including Drayton, police said. Two other KU football players were with Drayton but were not cited.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Drayton's arralignment date in municipal court on the battery charge is
Drayton was cited after police were called to the scene.
In a separate case, Drayton issched-
uled to appear in Douglas County District Court on Dec. 13 for a decision on whether he will enter into a diversion agreement on a misdemeanor theft charge. He allegedly stole a stereo from a roommate between February and June 1991, according to police reports.
Drayton, a senior from Homestead, Fla., played wide receiver for the Jayhawks.
Kansas coach Michael Center announced yesterday that the Jayhawk women's tennis team had received a letter of intent from Jennifer Atkerson of San Antonio, Texas.
Atkerson is one of the top four junior players in Texas, and is expected to be ranked among the nation's top 75 players when the national polls are released next month.
Akerson will compete at the national indoor championships next weekend at the Overland Park Raquet Club.
The men's golf team will conclude its fall schedule on Friday at the Rice University Invitational in West Columbia, Texas.
The Jayhawks won the 11-team Hall Sutton Centenary Invitational at Shreveport, La., two weeks ago. The victory was the second of the season for Kansas. They also won the Kansas Invitational in September.
Kansas will open the spring portion of its schedule March 9-10 in Orlando, Fla., at the University of Central Florida Classic.
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