University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 5, 1991
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Experience guides team
Coaches' poll picks Kansas to win Big Eight conference
By David Mitchell
Kansas Sportswriter
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
After winning 20 games with a team led by juniors and underclassman last season, the Kansas women's basketball team returns an experienced squad for the 1991-92 season.
Senior point guard Kay Kay Hart and junior off guard Stacy Truitt will lead the backcourt. Junior Lisa Tate, the Big Eight Conference's leading shot blocker, returns at center.
Three seniors, Tanya Bonham,
Terriilyn Johnson and Danielle
Shareef, anchor the forward positions.
Johnson was one of three players who started every game during the 1990-91 season. She led the team in steals, with 74, and she scored 20 goals a game. Her average of 9 points a game was second behind Troutt.
"She has been a real key player
for us," Coach Marian Wasnub
ton said. "She's a great rebounder;
just a great athlete and one
her teammates really respect."
Johnson said the seniors were ready to take on leadership roles in their final season.
Bonham agreed.
"We'll be like big sisters to the younger players and teach the newcomers how to adjust," Johnson said. "We're ready to start."
"We haven't had a senior class for a while," she said. "When things fall apart, on or off the court, they can look to us to fix it."
Bonham started 12 games, averaging 5.8 points a game last season. She also recorded 31 steals.
Shareef started 15 games, averaging 4.7 points a game. She recorded 31 assists and 97 rebounds.
"Both these young people have started at different times and have really made a difference in our games," Washington said.
Bonham and Shareef both said that starting was not an issue.
"Your individual goal is to help the team," Shareef说. "When coach starts shuffling the line up you have to adjust. I used it to."
The team was picked to win the conference by the preseason Big Eight Coaches poll.
The seniors said they have put aside their personal goals to concentrate on one thing - winning the Big Eight.
"I think we can do it," Bonham said. "We know what it takes now."
When the senior class was recruited out of high school, the Lady Jayhawks were the defending Big Eight Champions. In 1988
they made a second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
The team has not repeated either of those feats in the last three years.
Johnson said the seniors wanted to go out the way they came in.
"This is our senior year," she said. "This is our last chance. We're more determined not only to earn Eigh, but to get into the NCAA."
■ Junior guard Jo Jo Withersoon began practicing with the team yesterday. Withersoon was urging on her right in October.
Center Lisa Tate has been sidelined with a stress fracture in her lower leg.
COURTSIDE
The Lady Jayhawks' first game is Nov. 14 at Allen Field House.
The Associated Press
Giants' playoff hopes dimmed by 30-7 loss
PHILADELPHIA — No matter who plays quarterback for the New York Giants, Reggie White, Clyde Simmons and the Philadelphia defense always seem to have his number.
The victim last night was Jeff Hostelter (15) instead of Phil Simus (11), but the result was the same: a 30-7 Philadelphia victory that put the playoff hopes of the defending Super Bowl champions in severe peril.
ings with the Giants. Both teams are 4-5.
Jim McMahon and Keith Jackson chipped in with a 7-yard touchdown connection, and James Joseph ran in 11 attempts for the eagles won for the sixth time in the last seven meet-
McMahon was 16-for-26 for 229 yards as the Eagles ended a four-game losing streak. The Philadelphia offense ran for 137 yards, mostly during two second-half drives that lasted more than nine minutes each.
But the key was a defense that sacked Hostetler four times and forced a fumble that set up one of Roger Ruzek's three field goals. Simmons and White each had one and one-half sacks in the game, and allowed only 13 sacks in its first eight games and none in its last two.
Putting constant pressure on Hostetler, they held New York without a first down for
the opening 17 minutes
And they allowed the Giants only 87 yards until Hostetler, who was 9-1 for 17 for 142 yards, connected with Odessa Turner for 55 yards late in the third quarter. That set up Rodney Hampel and Zachry Williams that cut Philadelphia's lead to 20-7. Hostetler left with an ankle injury, allowing Simms to get his first action of the regular season.
Joseph, a rookie from Auburn who had just 18 yards on 11 carries all season, got 41 of his 68 total yards on a 67 yard drive that set up Ruzek's 35-yard field goal that made it 2-7 with 8:13 left.
Joseph went over again from the 1 with 3:19left.
Teams celebrate centennial of basketball
Former Soviet Olympians and Kansas greats will compete in All-Star Classic in Salina
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportwriter
Bob Swan, head of the Meeting for Peace Foundation, sizes up a T-shirt against six-foot nine Alzhan Zhmukhamedov, a forward for the Soviet All-Star basketball team. The Soviet team received the complimentary T-shirts at a news conference yesterday.
Ten former Soviet Olympic basketball players, scheduled to be in Lawrence last week, arrived Sunday night.
The Soviets were originally slated to play former Kansas basketball greats in the "Russia-Kansas All-Star Classic" on Nov.2, but flight problems the Soviet Union prevented the team from arriving in Lawrence in time for the game.
So instead, the former Kansas
greats played an intersquid scrimmage Saturday at Allen Field House in front of about 150 spectators. The game netted $820 for the Meeting for Peace Foundation, which organized the event.
Bob Swan, head of the Foundation,
said yesterday during a morning news conference that the game that was missed would be rescheduled
and played in Lawrence within a week.
The Soviet players will resume the original schedule and play against the Kansas group at 8 p.m. tonight in Salina at the Bicentennial Center.
He said tickets purchased for the original All-Star Classic game would be honored at the rescheduled Lawrence game.
The foundation organized the event to celebrate the centennial anniversary of basketball and to cover a $75,000 debt incurred last year when it played host to a delegation of about 250 Soviets who visited Lawrence in October 1990.
The Soviet squad features two 7-foot-2 players.
The shortest member on the team checks in at 6-7. There are three players who peak at 6-9.
Grenady Volnov, a 6-7 guard, said that when he was growing up in the Soviet Union, it was understood that one had to be tall to play basketball.
"During two summers I added seven inches," he said through a translator. "At age 15 I was 6-1. At age 30 it turned out we can play to capable."
Volnoy, the oldest member of the team at 52, said there were not many facilities available in the Soviet Union to play basketball.
"There (are) no hoops on all the garages like here," he said.
Volnov said basketball was a popular sport in the Soviet Union.
"The Olympic players are very respected," he said. "In tradition the best players in the world are Americans, and every time the Russians come to the Olympics we thought we
could win.
"It was our dream to win over the Americans."
And the Soviets finally did it when they won on a last second shot in the 1972 games. It broke the American
lock on the gold medal in basketball.
back on the gold medal in basketball. Five of the ten Soviet players on this team were on the 1972 team, including Ivan Yedeshko, who threw the long pass in the closing seconds of the Olympic game.
Yankees still undecided about Steve Howe's fate
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Although 13 more players filed for free agency yesterday, the New York Yankees still made no decision about Steve Hawk, the last potential free agent with an option year.
Howe, who came back from drug and alcohol problems and pitched 48-13 innings and saved three games, has an option at a salary to be agreed to by the Yankees or by an arbitrator. The Yankees will until today to exercise the option.
"We're still talking." New York general manager Gene Michael said from the major league general manager of the Boca Raton Fla. "That's all I can say."
The 13 players who filed yesterday raised the free agent total to 80. Twenty-five more can file by Monday's deadline.
Ken Griffey, who could have filed,
announced yesterday he was quitting
after 19 years in the majors, and Seatie
placed the 41-year-old outfitier on
the voluntary retired list. Griffey hit
282 with one homer and nine RBIs.
He was injured in a car accident during spring training and played just 30 games before going on the disabled list. He was hospitalized with 11 to repair a bulging in his neck.
"I was hoping to be able to come back for one more year," said Griffife, a three-time opener. "It realized it was after the open, but probably wasn't going to happen."
already is a two-time All-Star for the Mariners.
Carlton Fisk, who became eligible Saturday when the White Sox decided not to exercise their $2.28 million option, was the top player to file yesterday.
Ten of the 13 who filed yesterday were originally covered by the five-year restriction on repeat free agency and became eligible Friday when their teams failed to offer salary arbitration. They are Dennis Lamp of Boston, Scott Fletcher of the White Sox, Jim Ganter of Milwaukee, Dave Parker of Toronto, Jim Clancy of Atlanta, Ted Power of Cincinnati, Garry Templeton of the New York Metis, Dickie Thon of Philadelphia, Bob Walk of Pittsburgh and Terry Kennedy of San Francisco.
Griffey's 21-year-old son, Ken Jr.,
Others filing were Dwight Evans of Baltimore and Brian Harper of the World Series champion Minnesota and the first of eight eligible Ticket to file.
Howe, who earned $500,000 this year, does not want his salary to be determined by an arbitrator.
"If we can't make a deal by tomorrow, I asked them not to," said Howe's agent. Richard Moss.
Bruins bruiser is praised after post-game brawl
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Boston Brunts executives gave high praise yesterday to defenseman Stephane Quintal, even when he won 'bite' on the ice any time soon.
Howe, suspended five times for his problems, was released by Texas after the 1987 season and did not return to the majors until this year. The 33-year-old left-hander was 3-1 with a 1.68 ERA in 37 games. However, he did not pitch after Sept. 7 because of a tender elbow.
NHL executive vice president NHL O'Neill announced Sunday that he will be joined by 10 co-boards Probert has been suspended for 10 games for the post-game brawl.
The Bruins won 4-1 Saturday night. Bruins officials sang praises of Quintal.
"That was by far the best game I've ever seen Steph play," said Bruins assistant general manager Mike Milbury, his former coach.
"He gave us toughness, he scored goals, he killed penalties and he was on the power play — a great night for the kid." Bowness said.
Boston coach Rick Bowness was also impressed with Quintal's game.
O'Neill informed Bruins general
Bruins captain Ray Bourque said, "He played a really strong game in all facets. He was good and he was physical."
Both had left the ice but returned when the melée broke out again.
Quintal had fought Detroit's Marc Potvin earlier in the game before tangling with Probert. He also had his first two goal game in the NHL
manager Harry Sinden that referee Mark Fauclei invoked a rule that calls for the suspension of any player being ordered to the dressing room.
"I was off the ice and I saw Probert hit Steve Leach with a right so I went after him," Quinta said of the brawl. "I didn't see what started everything
because I was off the ice, but I went after him because he's their biggest guy and I'm our biggest guy. You've got to do what you've got to do."
A total of 82 minutes in penalties were assessed when peace was restored and players went to their dressing rooms. Also, Quintal and Probert each drew fighting and game misconduct penalties, with the Detroit forward getting an additional two minutes for instigating the fight.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Men's bowling finishes fourth
The Kansas men's bowling team placed fourth last weekend at the Mid-States Match Games in Kansas City.
The Kansas women's team finished 10th in their 12-team field. Marie Masters led the women's team and Theresa Ryan averaged 166.
Butch Riley led the Kansas bowlers with a 211 average. He finished 10th individually in the 60-man field.
Joe Donnici and Stephan Cox were close behind, both finishing with 201 averages.
The Jayhawks finished with 13,988 total points. Wichita State finished first in the 12-team field with 14,835.
The men's team will travel to St. Louis for the National Collegiate Match Games Nov 29-30.
HAYS - A Fort Hays State basketball recruit and a student assistant coach were among those charged yesterday in a drug case.
Players charged in drug case
Rodney Tatum, 23, of Jacksonville, Texas, was charged with one count of conspiracy to sell
cocaine. He was a two-year starter for Fort Hays and was serving as a student assistant coach.
Also charged were Melvin R. Olivier, 25, a former Fort Hays State player, and Donald Plump. Oliver was charged with sale of crack cocaine, possession with intent to sell, conspiracy to sell cocaine and failure to buy a drug stamp. Plump was charged with selling crack cocaine, using a communication facility in a drug operation and conspiracy to sell cocaine.
Harvey Petty, 21, of Shelby, N.C., was charged with two counts each of sale of crack cocaine and failure to purchase a Kansas drug tax stamp. Texas sent him from Howard, Texas, Junior College after averaging 16 points a game.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Joe Canseco and his agents were accused in federal court yesterday of "scheming, arrogance and ruthlessness" in their dealings with the promoter of a 1988 baseball card show in Alabama.
Canseco called arrouant
But an attorney for the Oakland Athletics sluggier said he never got paid for his appearance even though he "bent over backwards to make
Jim E. Pitts of Montgomery has filed a lawsuit against Canceco and his agents, the Beverly Hills Sports Council, claiming they hurt his defunct business and caused him mental anguish by reneging on a verbal order to attend a show at the Montgomery Civic Center on Nov 19, 1988.
this show a success," signing more than 1,000 autographs.
However, Segall charged, Canseco's agents wanted to back out of the deal when in 1988 he became the first player in major league history to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in a season.
Pitts' attorney, Bobby Scaled, said his client agreed to pay Canseco $10,000 to come to Montgomery if he was hired to minimum a of 1,500 automakers.
Bulls trade Hopson to Kings
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Kings acquired shooting guard Dennis Hopson from the Chicago Bulls yesterday in exchange for veteran guard Bobby Hansen and a 1992 second-round draft pick.
"We're very pleased to acquire a young shooting guard that still has outstanding potential," said Jerry
Reynolds, Kings player personnel director. "Dennis Hopson will have an opportunity to enhance his career."
The Kings acquired guard Mitch Richmond from Golden State last week in exchange for the rights to forward Bill Owens.
Hopson was traded to the Bulls from the New Jersey Nets last season for several draft picks. Playing in 61 games for the NBA champions, he averaged 4.3 points playing 11.9 minutes per game.
Pavin named as PGA's best
From staff and AP reports
Pavin topped the year-long points system, which ended with last weekend's Tour Championship, earning 10 points for victories in the Bob Hope and Atlanta tournaments, 20 points for finishing atop the earnings list with $979,430, and 18 points for finishing second to Couples in the Vardon Trophy race for low scoring average of the year.
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.
- Corey Pavin won PGA Player of the Year honors as he finished the year with 157 points, two more than Fred Couples.
Get a grip
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Rachel Penny grins as she successfully flips from one bar to another without losing her grip. The Medicine Lodge sophomore was trying out some new gymnastic techniques yesterday at Robinson Center.