University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 18, 1991
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'Hawks hope Florell keys resurgence
Kansas has not beaten Cyclones since 1984
By David Mitchell
Kansan Sportswriter
Kansan Sportswriter
The Kansas football team will take on Iowa State tomorrow, a team the Jayhawks haven't beaten since 1984.
The closest Kansas has come to knocking off the Cyclones was a 34-14 tide last season in Ames. Iowa state kicker Jeff Shudak salvaged the homecoming game for the Cyclones by connecting on a 53-yard field attempt with just 18 seconds remaining.
After starting this season 3-0, the Jaya hawks oned track for a winning season.
"Right now, we can't have another loss," senior safety Paul friday said. "We have to win this game. To reach the goals we want to reach, every game is a must win game."
Iowa State is 2-3, but two of the losses came to top 25 ranked Iowa and Oklahoma. With an open date last Saturday, the Hawks had an extra week to prepare for the Hawks.
Despite a winning record at 3-2, Coach Mason said the Jayhawks had not pitched well enough in the series.
"I think it's about time we play a good football game. Mason said. "I mean a good, solid football game. It's important that we play well on Saturday."
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The Jayhawk defense has been solid. The unit ranks second in the Big Eight Conference in total defense and 19th in the nation, holding opponents to an average of 284.8 vards a game.
However, on offense, the passing game has struggled. Mason switched quarterbacks early this week in hopes of improving offensive execution.
Mason benched junior Chip Hilleary, who had started the Jayhawks' last 16 games, in favor of sophomore backup Nate Fiorell.
"No one is more surprised, or disappointed, in our offensive output to date than I am."
In his first career start, Florell will face one of the conference's best defenses. The Cyclones have limited their opponents to 343 Byards a game, the third lowest total in the conference behind Oklahoma and Kansas.
Iowa State has given up a conference-law 796 yards passings. Cornerback Andrew Buggs leads the Big Eight with four interceptions
The Jayhawk running attack will try to get back on track against the Cyclones after being smothered by Kansas State last weekend. Senior tailback Tony Sands was knocked out of the conference rushing lead after the Wildcats held him to 29 yards.
The Cyclone defense is sixth in the conference against the run, allowing 184.6 yards a game. Linebacker Dan Milner leads a Iowa State with 52 tackles.
The Cyclones' running game is much different from the one the 'Hawks faced a year ago. Standout tailback Blaise Bryant was drafted by the New York Jets, and backup Sherman Williams has fallen to third after rushing for 309 yards a year ago.
Fullback Sundiate Patterson has taken on the leading role this fall. Patterson has rushed for a team-high 210 yards, averaging 5.1 yards a carry.
Quarterback Chris Pedersen is close behind with 192 yards. He led the conference in total offense in 1990, totaling 2,171 yards.
However, Pedersen lost his starting job to backup Bob Utter after a 7-6 loss to Wisconsin three games into the season. Utter started two games, but he was injured two weeks ago against Oklahoma. Pedersen is expected to start tomorrow.
"I think he's an excellent quarterback," Mason said.
The Jawhak defense has recorded 17acks in the first five games. The team
Friday said, "If we come out and play the type of game we are planning to, we will decide the game before the fourth quarter."
Game 6:1 p.m., Oct.19, Memorial Stadium
Kansas Jayhawks
Coach: Glen Mason
record: 3-2
WR 2 MattGay
TE 1 Dwayne Chandler
LT 7 ChrisPerez
LG 66 Hessy Hempstead
C 75 Dan Schmidt
RG 65 ScottImwalle
RT 7 KeithLoneker
WR 85 KennyDrayton
FB 34 Roger Robben
QB 15 NateFlorel
TB 24 TonySands
PK 31 DanEichloh
OLB 90 Guy Howard
LE 96 Kyle Moore
LT 93 Gilbert Brown
RT 71 Dana Stubblefield
RE 99 Brian Christian
OLB 7 Hassan Bailey
ILB 52 Steve Harvey
CB 3 Gerald McBurrows
FS 10 Doug Terry
SS 14 Paul Friday
CB 8 Tim Hill
P 31 Dan Eichloff
Iowa State Cyclones
Probable starters
Source Kansas Sports Information
Coach Jim Walden
record 2-3
Offense
5-11/185Jr. SE
6-32/30S.迅 S
5/280Sr. SG
6-1290F. C
6/1260Sr. WG
6-2265Jr. WT
6/3035Jr. QB
6-0175Jr. TB
6-0125Jr. FB
6-3210Sr. TE
5-6170Sr. FL
6-1215Sr. PK
89 Chris Spencer 6/41/199Jr.
66 Todd McClish 6/51/199Jr.
73 Tony Booth 6/32/175Fr.
78 Scott Armbrust 6/32/178Fr.
56 Lawrence Roberts 6/52/167So.
75 Lance Keller 6/23/166Fr.
5 Chris Pederson 6/32/225Fr.
16 Kevin Caldwell 6/21/190Fr.
39 Sundiata Patterson 6/01/195Fr.
91 Paul Schulte 6/322/225Fr.
81 Brandon Hughes 6/21/170So.
2 Ty Stewart 5-11/175Fr.
Defense
6-3/230/So. LE
6-3/230/Lr. JT
6-2/305/Rt. RT
6-4/285/JR. RE
6-4/260/OLB MLB
5-11/200/JR. MLB
6-4/230/FR. OLB
6-0/190/LCB
5-11/185/Sr RCB
5-11/FS SF
6-8/170/SS
6-1/215/P P
41 Dan Watkins 6-2/225Jr.
95 Matt Rehberg 6-0/250Jr.
93 Travis Block 6-0/250Jr.
93 Matt Grubb 6-2/251Jr.
46 Larry Ratigan 6-3/225Jr.
58丹 Milner 6-1/232Jr.
54 Matt Nitchie 6-2/206Jo.
13 Andrew Bugs 6-1/180Jr.
6 Shawn Walker 5-11/167Fr.
25 Mark DouBrava 6-0/192Jr.
36 Kevin Fulton 6-1/181Fr.
19 Jon Schnoor 6-1/181Fr.
Melissa Unterberg/KANSAN
'Late Night' gets Big-8's top crowds
Bv.Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
"Late Night with Roy Williams," the traditional Kansas basketball season opening scrimmage, could be the best of its kind in the BigFight Conference.
Big Eight schools Iowa State, KansasState, Missouri and Oklahoma all have festivities similar to Kansas "Late Night," but none traditionally pull in as large camps as the Jaypawks.
Coach Roy Williams said he expected the same or better tonight. He said the field house might even be filled.
Last year, "Late Night" attracted 13,000 fans to Allen Field House, and that was on a school night.
Other conference schools have not fared as well.
"We have as much interest as anybody in the country," Williams said. "Our people show it anytime we tip it up."
Sean Moran, Kansas State sports information student assistant, said his office had estimated a cedar of 7,500.
Kansas State had a crowd of 5,000 show up for last night's "Slam it with the Cats." That is less than half of Bramlage Calumse's 1500 capacity.
The fourth annual "Billy Bash" will be tomorrow at Oklahoma, after the Colorado-Oklaahoma football game.
Mike Prusinki, assistant sports information director at Oklahoma, the Saoniers had a crowd of about 5,500 for last year's bash.
"We're expecting between 6,500 and 7,500," he said. "It's gone up every single vear we've had it."
Iowa State will wait until Oct. 26 to have its "Cyclone Tippoff Preview." It will take place one hour after the Oklahoma State football team was in an effort to null it in football fans.
Missouri will give its preseson performance a Halloween theme by playing host to the "Hearns House of Horrors" on Oct. 31.
Missouri and Iowa State have the latest dates of the preseason openers.
Kansas usually has "Late Night" on the first day of practice, with the scrimmage starting at 12:01 a.m. OCT. 15. However, this year Oct. 15 fell on a Tuesday, and Williams and Bob Fredrick, athletic director, decided to move it back and include it as part of weekend联赛.
During "Late Night," Williams will be inducted into the Kansas Athletic Hall of Fame. Other activities will include a performance by the Crismon boys' basketball team for an enduring shootout for the Ryan Gray Playground for All Children.
The Jayhawks will have a 30-minute scrimmage at 10 p.m.
Junior guard Adonis Jordan said it would be a chance for everyone to see the new players.
"It will help the new guys get com-
fortable with the crowd," he said.
Kansas fans will get their first look at newcomers Eric Pauleau, a junior college transfer, and freshmen Greg Ostering, Ben Davis and Greg Gurley. The two have casuals Snoap Pearson and Calvin Kayford will be eligible to play.
"We'll find out who can dance and who can't. It'll be fun."
Finishing up
real end of a round of Frisbee golf. Bruce Hudson of Topeka attempts to complete the 18th hole. Hudson and some friends played yesterday afternoon in Centennial Park at Ninth Street and Rockledge Road.
Cross country teams each ranked in top 25
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan sportswrite
For the first time in Kansas cross-country history, the women's team is ranked higher than the men's team.
In fact, it's only the second week a women's team has been ranked, and Coach Gary Schwartz said the women had handled it well.
"I's really nice to work so hard and have it pay off," she said. "I made us work harder. If we can get ranked, we know we can get ranked higher."
Kansas" men's team, ranked 18th nationally, has been ranked all season, and the women, ranked 16th, broke into the rankings Oct. 7 after placing second at the Minnesota Invitational.
Schwartz said it was a matter of pride for the men.
"The rankings haven't gone to their heads," he said. "If anything, it has beltered their confidence."
"I've been kidding them that they aren't the most important around here anymore," he said.
"It has inspired us to get it going," he said.
Freshman Kristi Kloster said the team appreciated the ranking.
Both teams will travel to Ames, Iowa, tomorrow in the last meet before the Big Eight Conference Championship.
Kloster said the men's team was happy for them.
"The guys have been really supportive of us," she said. "When we finally got ranked, they were so proud of us."
Sophmore Kienan Slate said the success had motivated the wholeteam.
The women's face will begin at 10:30 a.m. Kansas will face conference foe Iowa State, Air Force, Bucknell, Georgia Tech, Marquette, North Dakota, Northern Iowa, Northwest Missouri State and Wichita State.
The men's team will face other ranked teams, and the women's team will be favored in the Iowa State Memorial Cross Country Classic.
Including the 'Hawks, five teams at the meet are ranked. Iowa State is ranked second nationally, followed by Kentucky and No. 18 Kansas and No. 22 Bucknell
This is the first big invitational in which the women's team has gone in as the favorite.
"Hopefully, we can end on a good note," she said. "I think mentally it would be good to win into the Big Eight meet."
Other teams competing will be Creighton, Georgia Tech, Illinois State, Minnesota, Northwest Missouri State, Oklahoma, West Mississippi State and Wichita State.
The men's race is scheduled to begin at 11:15 a.m. Most of the participating teams are ranked.
Senior Cathy Palacios said she thought it would be a good meet.
Kansas is one of just seven schools to have both its men's and women's teams ranked among the top 25.
"More teams are noticing KU and that will help for next year," she said. "It will have a snowball effect."
Palacios said it was a total change from last year.
"It's too bad it's my tail end, but at least I'm a part of it.
Smoltz shuts out Pirates; Braves win NL pennant
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH - The Atlanta Braves finally sucked their loser's image, shutting out Pittsburgh in Game 7 of the National League playoffs and setting up the most unlikely WorldSeries ever.
The Braves made winning look easy last night as John Smoltz pitched a complete-game shutout, leading Atlanta past the Pirates 4-0. The pennant is the Braves' first since they moved to Atlanta from Milwaukee.
Now, a season full of surprises ends with the biggest one yet. The Braves, who had the most losses in the major leagues last season, and the Minnesota Twins, the only other team this century to go from worst-to-first, meet in a Super Series starting tomorrow night in the Metrodome in Minneapolis.
Brian Hunter's two-run homer capped a three-run first inning, and that was all Smoltz and the Braves who hit out for the second straight game.
"This club came a long way from
spring training," the Braves' Terry Pendleton said. "People said we were out of it at the All-Star break, but we kept batting. They said we couldn't catch the Dodgers and we kept batting." This is a team that won't give up.
A day after NL playoffs, MVP Steve Avery and Alejandro Pena shut down Pittsburgh 1-0, Soltzmit won his second game of the series with a six-hitter. In reversing their history, the Braves Game 7 successes. Pittsburgh had previously played five deciding seventh games and won them all.
After the Braves knocked out 20-game winner John Smiley in the first inning, the Pirates had their best chance of winning. Bellied off the first inning with singles.
But the big three of Andy Van Slyke, Bobby Bonilla and Barry Bonds each made outs. The Pirates' 3-4-5 hits were a combined 15-for-75, a 200 average and didn't drive in any runs after the third inning of Game 1. In last year's playoffs, they were 12-for-63.
World Series
Game 1 - 7:29 p.m. tomorrow Atlanta at Minnesota
Game 2 - 7:40 p.m. Sunday
Atlanta at Minnesota
Game 3 - 7-29 p.m. Tuesday
Minnesota at Atlanta
Game 4 - 7-26 p.m. Wednesday
Minnesota at Atlanta
Game 5 - Thursday (if necessary)
Minnesota at Atlanta
Game 6 - Oct. 26 (if necessary)
Atlanta at Minnesota
Game 7 - Oct. 27 (if necessary)
Atlanta at Minnesota
Teams seek inspiration from Olympics
By Christopher Jenson Special to the Kansas
The two, senior Barb Pranger and sophomore Scott Townsend, will lead the swimming and diving teams in their season-opening intrasquad meet tonight at Robinson Natorium.
The Kansas swim teams hope the eligibility of two of their swimmers for the 1992 Olympic trials will allow them to the 1991-92 collegiate swim season.
The meet, which begins at 7 p.m. will feature Kansas swimming and diving alumni in competition. The purpose of the meet is to give the team a chance to be competitive, Coach Gary Kemp said.
The team will open its regular season Oct. 26 at Southern Methodist, which has finished in the top eight last the two twoyears, Kempf said.
Two weeks later, the team will play host to defending Big Eight Conference champion Nebraska. Missouri and Iowa State are the only
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other Big Eight schools with swimming programs.
"We won't be real good real early,
but our training is geared for that."
Kempf said. "We'll be a lot better in
February than at the beginning."
"i scheduled SMU and Nebraska early on purpose to see how we'll compete," Kempf said. "We need to race."
Pranger and Townsend already have qualified for the trials. Kemp hopes to have five or six qualify at the U.S. Open meet in December.
Race experience is always important, but this year may be even more so. With the Olympic trials coming up, it will be hard to make at different times. Kemp said.
The team officially began practice Sept. 7 and has been swimming from 4/1 to 5/3 miles a day." Wetrain hard. Wedolots of aerobic work, and we do it with a lot of intensity," Kempf said.
Kempf said he thought the team's strongest point was its depth. "We have good people in every event. We don't have an enemy event," he said.
Having spent 16 years as head coach, Kemp said this year's teams were among the best and most well-balanced ones he had ever had.
Lo Kiddle, men's team captain,
agreed.
"The depth is there. If someone stands up and excels, he'll bring the others with him," he said. "There is so much talent on this team that no one person is going to totally stand out."
"I see this team messing really well," she said. "If we can be mentally tough and race well, we're really going to go somewhere."
Pranger, women's team captain, also thought the team was balanced.
Kempf said his biggest hope for the season was that his young team could turn from good to elite.
"We'll have to find out if we have an elite athlete who's going to stand up. Our good needs to become elite really quick," he said.
Kansas volleyball eager to play for big crowd
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
Tonight's crowd for the Kansas-Colorado volleyball game could be the largest to see the Jayhawks play this season.
And the Kansas players like the possibility.
"My heart is already beating about 100 miles per hour." Sophorone Cynde Kanabel said. "It's great being included in all of this."
which is expected to bolster tonight's crowd.
The game, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. will kick off the homecoming weekend activities. The game directly preceeds "Late Night with Roy Williams."
"It would be a big boost for us if we could knock them off," she said.
Kanabel predicted that this could be one of the Jayhawks' toughest matches of the year.
The Buffers are currently second in the Big Eight Conference, ranked sixth in the Midwest region and have received top-20 votes.
The Colorado squad already has compiled some impressive statistics that
"I don't look at beating any Big Eight
But Albizt said the Jayhawks were not intimidated by the Buffs.
school as an upset," she said. "If we win, we'll probably earn it."
The Buffalo leads the conference in kills, assists and digs. Kansas is third in kills and assists and second in digs.
Albitz said Kansas was statistically similar to Colorado due to the similarities in the programs.
"We run the same type of system," she said. "It will be difficult to block their spiking because of their inside-outside approach."
Albitz emphasized the mental aspect of the game.
"I think they feel they have a good chance against Colorado and that's half the battle," she said.