University Daily Kansan/Tuesday, October 8, 1991
SPORTS
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Chandler takes on leading football role
By David Mitchell
Kansan Sportswriter
Dwyane Chandler caught two passes for 31 yards during the 1990 season. As a freshman, the tight end was limited to a backup role behind starters Chad Fette and Pete Vang.
However, this year Fette was lost for the season after injuring his left knee during the season opener at Toledo. Vang missed the first two games with a broken finger. He returned to action against New Mexico State, but has played with a cast on his injured hand.
Chandler said it was nothing unexpected.
Those injuries have allowed Chandler additional playing time, but he caught just one pass in each of the first three games.
But Saturday Chandler exploded. He caught four passes for 79 of the Jayhawks' 128 passing yards.
"We had the same game plan as against New Mexico State," he said. "The opportunity was there, the quarterback saw I was open."
Tight end coach Tim Phillips said Chandler's big day was a result of Virginia's aggressive defense against the run.
"He did a good job of catching the ball on Saturday."
"When they concentrate on trying to stop the run, it enables him to get open." Phillips said. "If it's there, you've got to take it.
Coach Glen Mason said last week that the Kansas offense was lacking big plays. Though the passing game as a whole did not deliver, Chandler showed what he was capable of.
"He can run by some people with his speed," Phillips said. "There's always a shot he can go along the way."
Phillips said that Chandler may be the big-play threat Kansas has been looking for.
The sophomore caught one pass in each quarter against Virginia. Three of his four receptions were for more than 20 vards.
However, Chandler's performance was overshadowed by the
errors of his teammates.
His first quarter catch moved the ball 21 yards to the Kansas 41-yard line, but four plays later the Jayhawks were forced to punt.
With less than 30 seconds remaining in the second quarter, Chandler's 27-yard reception set up sophomore Dani Eichlöh's 42-year goal field, giving Kansas a 13-10 lead at half time.
In the third quarter Chandler's reception moved the ball seven vards to the Virginia 36. The Jay-
Dwayne Chandler
h a w k s pushed forward to the Cavalier 29-yard line, but lost six yards on the next three plays and punted from the Virginia 35-yard line.
Despite Chandler's success, the Jayhawks kept the ball on the ground for the most part.
Chandler's 24 yard catch began the Hawks final drive, which penetrated to the Cavalier seven-yard line. The Jayhawks were turned away again when a reverse play on 16 yards down and four.
Even worse than the stalled drives, the Jayhawk offense and special teams handed the Cavaliers three fumbles and an intercept.
"In the first-half, the run game was working pretty well and we ijdn't on passing. "Mason said.
"They had the big plays when they needed them."
"If we hadn't had those turnovers it would have been a completely different story." Chandler said.
The Jayhawks rushed for 206 yards on59 carries.
"The game plan for this week was to execute the offense, control the ball, move the chains, use the clock, keep the turnovers and score." Mason said.
"We did about half of that. The turnovers did us in."
Variety of sport clubs available to students
Bv Steve Hudson
By Steve Hudson
Special to the Kansan
From fun to fitness, competition to
membership, the University of
Editor's note: This is the first of four-part series dedicated to informing KU students of some of the athletic opportunities available through various sports clubs on campus.
start practicing, Kratz said.
Kansas Recreational Sport Club Program has something to interest almost everyone.
Nearly 30 clubs are open to all students. This variety enables students to choose a club that is right for them, whether it be team sports such as volleyball and
Gordon Kratz, assistant director of sport clubs,said he thought students should get more exercise.
If membership dues are required, they are set by the individual club. The money usually goes to help pay the team coaches or fund trips to away games.
"They should decide where and where they play, and who plays," he said. "I think it will be better."
While sport clubs are similar to amurual sports, there also are diffs[17]
rugby, or individual competition such as karate, fencing and table tennis.
To form a new sport club, a group of students who have the same interests should get together, advertise for more members and find a place to
"In intramurals there is league competition at the University," Kratz said. "A sport club might play other sport clubs from other schools."
The number of clubs gives students chance to choose the one that's right for them.
If a club wishes to obtain vity status, it needs to petition the Athletic
Department.
However, Krazz said he thought clubs should not get their hopes up when awolving.
"I don't see that in the very near future, more sport clubs will become varie- he said," he said.
The main reason for this is a lack of funds from the Athletic
"The only thing the Athletic Department can offer that we don't is scholarships." Kratz said.
He said that students should not feel deprived if their club was not on varsity level.
Department,hesaid.
YOU'RE FIRED!
Almost all sport clubs have regular practices or meetings. To find out when these meetings are held, or to learn more about a particular sport club, students can visit the Robinson Center Staff is on hand from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to provide phone numbers of club presidents or advisers.
Major league managers fired during 1991 season:
Date Terminated
April 23
May 22
May 23
July 6
August 26
October 6
Team Replacement
Philadelphia Jim Fergosi
Kansas City Hal McRae
Baltimore Johnny Oates
California Mike Hargrove
California Buck Rodgers
Yankees
American League
Manager
Nick Leyva
John Wathan
Frank Robinson
Doug Rader
Doug Rader
Mump Stillm
National League
Manager Date Terminated Team Replacement
Don Zimmer May 21 Chicago Jim Essian
Buck Rodgers June 9 Montreal Tom Runnells
Bud Harrison September 28 New York Mike Cubbage
Source Associated Press
Melissa Unterberg / KANSAN
Durocher dies after spirited life in baseball
The Bills, who haven't been held without a TD since Dec. 4, 1988, suffered their worst defeat since a 47-6 loss to Indianapolis by replacement players durerally. But the Bills also saw their chief's attacks, with two of them causing fumbles.
Center remarked on the play of No. 1 singles leader Eveline Hamers and spoke well of some younger players' abilities as well.
KC capitalizes on turnovers, handing Buffalo its first loss of the season
K-State also has a quality team, he said.
Besides the Jayhawks, K-State, and Wichita State, one of the contenders in the four-team tournament was the defending conference champion of the last 11 years, Oklahoma State. Although the Cowboys have dominated in the past, Center said he thought other Big Eight teams would emerge as threats to take the conference title, not the least of which could be Kansas, he said.
The Bills, averaging more than 32 points and 40 yards in winning their first five games in defense of their AFC championship, suffered six quarterback sacks, five lost fumbles and their most lopsided defeat in four years last night as the Chiefs rmped to a 33-6 victory.
Chiefs cruise over Bills, 33-6
The Associated Press
"Rebecca Jensen, Nora Koves, and Casey Cooley are freshmen who played extremely well. "Center said.
Ookye ran for 130 yards, setting a Chiefs record with his 13th 100-yard game, and rookie Harvey Williams rushed for 103.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City's defense gave Buffalo's no-buddle offense no hope.
"There should be a lot of parity in the Big Eight this year, a lot of close matches," he said.
"We're definitely as good if not better than Oklahoma State this year."
Christian Okoye, following two Buffalo turnovers, scored two touchdowns two minutes apart as the Chiefs took complete control in the third quarter.
A flight is a contest between players of equal rank. In the tournament, however, each flight contained two groupings of singles, matching the first and second ranked players, the third and fourth ranked players, and on down to the seventh and eighth ranked players. To win a flight, a player must win three matches. In doubles, the number ones and twos were combined, as well as the threes and fours, putting eight doubles teams in each flight.
"We're off to a good start," Kansas coach Michael Center said. "Hopefully we'll keep improving."
Lady 'Hawks lead in tennis season debut
In the women's tennis season debut last weekend at Kansas State, the Jayhawks dominated the competition.
Durocher died of natural causes at 3:20 p.m. CDT a Desert Hospital, hospital representative Randy Bevilacqua said.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Lee Durocher, a feisty and controversial manager for nearly a half-century and is the league's top finisher, last year at 186.
Kansas swept the two doubles flights, each consisting of eight teams, and took first in three of four singles flights.
The Bills, held to 210 total yards, still were in the game when Thurman Thomas took a pass from Kim Kelly deep in Bowie territory and was immediately hit by Lonic Marts, who knocked the ball loose for Kevin Ross to scoop up and run 13 yards to the Buffalo 17.
Steve DeBerg hit Rob Thomas for 12 yards to the 5, then Okeye went over on the next play for a 2-6 lead with 2:52 left in the third quarter. A moment later, Thomas sacked Kelly, knocking the ball lose, and Dan Saleaumu recovered on the 11. On fourth and goal from the 2, Okeye knocked a defender backward into the end zone.
Durocher played for 17 seasons, almost all as a shortstop, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees, the team he began baseball with in 1925.
DeBerg, after faking to Okoye, hit Pete Holohan with a 1-yard touchdown pass on the second play of the second quarter.
A fumble by Don Beebe on the ensuing kickoff led to Nick Lowery's 22-yard field goal. Lowery also kiced a 41-yard in the first quarter, a 40-yard in the second and a 24-yard in the third.
The Chiefs sacked Kelly four times in the first half and harassed him on almost every passing down.
By Steve Hudson Special to the Kansan
Buffalo got a 44-yard field goal in the second quarter from Scott Norwood and then a 25-yard after wasting a first down on the Chiefs 11 after Okoye fumbled into the arms of Buffalo's Leonard Smith on the Chiefs 34.
Thomas, the Bills' leading rusher, left the game late in the quarter with an apparent tackle in injury.
The Associated Press
Yet it was his fiery style as a manager that drew the "Lip" the greatest attention. He received his share of fines and suspensions during his managerial career, which included stints with the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first team he managed, beginning in 1939; the New York Giants, the Chicago Cubs and the Houston Astros, with whom he finished in 1973.
A roughing-the-passer call against Bill Maas two plays later moved the Bills 11 yards to the 11, but the Chiefs' defense, which came into the game allowing an AFC-low 12 points per game, refused to yield.
He guided three teams into the World Series: the 1941 Dodgers, who lost to the Yankees, the 1951 Giants, who lost to the Yankees, and the 1954 Giants, who swept the Cleveland Indians.
And the man who talked about nice guys finishing last did wind up in the cellar once, with the 1966 Chicago Cubs. who went 59-103.
Adding to their miseries, even the officiating
Blue Jays, Twins to open AL's first indoor playoffs
The Associated Press
I may be what baseball in the '90s was meant to be. For the first time ever, an entire playoff series is moving indoors.
Toronto and Minnesota open the best-of-seven American League playoffs tonight at 7:39 p.m. in the Metrodome.
The two teams have become familiar with each other this season.
The Blue Jays don't even have to travel to their playoff destination, having finished the regular season after taking two of three at Minnesota.
"The advantage is you have a chance to see some of their pitchers up close and get more familiar," Twins general manager Andy MacPhail said. "But that's a disadvantage, too,
because they get the same chance."
The Twins surprised almost everyone in 1887 by beating Detroit in the playoffs and then St Louis in the World Series. But their success had to do with playing inside, too.
1 "guess a negative for us is they have had time to get a little more acclimated to the dome." MacPhail said. "They won't even have to travel."
The Blue Jays won the season series 8-4 and finished with a 91-71 record. The Twins ended up 95-67, a 21-game improvement over 1990's last-place showing.
In an otherwise meaningless weekend of baseball, the Twins sent the Blue Jays a message on Sunday. Devon White led off the game with a home run and was brushed back by
Tom Edens in the third inning.
"It was definitely intentional," White said. "I don't know if he was trying to nail me in the head or what, but I definitely sending me a message."
White, Toronto's game-breaking No.1 batter, made a trend-breaking prediction.
While most combatants are predicting a long, low-scoring series between two evenly matched teams, the man his teammates call "Devo" sings another song.
"I don't know if it's going to go the distance, to tell you the truth," he said.
"I think we'll take it before that. Maybe five games. We will be satisfied if we get away with one in here because we're pretty tough at home."
Batter up!
Joe Kurtzman, Shawnee senior, concentrates on the batter in a second-round intramural softball tournament game at the softball fields south of Robinson Center. Kurtzman and his undefeated team won their game yesterday afternoon 9-2.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Big Eight players nab honors
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Oklahoma quarterback Caley Gundy and Missouri free safety Sharon Washington were named offensive and defensive players of the week for the Big Eight conference.
Gundy, who was the first Sooner ever to throw for more than 200 yards in consecutive games, won the honor yesterday for his performance in Oklahoma's 29-8 victory over Iowa State.
Cross country makes polls
He threw touchdown passes of 17,37 and 31 vards.
Washington had 12 tackles and one interception in Missouri's 31-21 victory against Memphis State.
Yankees fire manager
Kansas broke into the poll after beating four top 25 teams at last weekend's Minnesota Invitational.
An NCAA Division 1 women's cross country coaches poll released yesterday ranked Kansas at number 17.
Kansas received 71 votes in the poll. Villanova was ranked No. 1, and Big Eight Conference rival Kansas State was ranked 15th.
NEW YORK — The New York Yankees fired manager Stump Merrill yesterday, a day after the team finished 71-91 and finished fifth in the American League East, 20 games behind division champion Toronto.
Yankees manager Gene Michael said no successor had been named to replace Merrill, who became New York's manager on June 6, 1990 after Bucky Dirt was fired.
"The Yankees thank Stump Merrill for his hard work and efforts," Michael said. "However, the organization felt that a change was necessary."
Merrill took over the team in 1990 when it was 18-31. The Yankees finished that year at 67-95.
Merrill had been with the Yankees' organization for 16 seasons, spending the first 14 in the minor-league system.