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University Daily Kansan/Monday, October 7, 1991
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Kansas falls to Virginia 31-19
Turnovers costly as 'Hawks drop to 3-1
Senior tailback Tony Sands gained 124 yards rushing in Kansas' 31-19 loss to Virginia on Saturday.
Kansas outran, outpassed and overmatched Virginia on Saturday.
Nevertheless, the Jayhawks found a way to lose.
By David Mitchel
Kansan Sportswriter
Kansas recorded 24 first downs, eight more than Virginia. Kansas rushed for 260 yards, 394 yards more than Virginia. Kansas scored 128 yards, 21 yards more than Virginia.
"We were right in the ball game," Kansas coach Glen Mason said, "and we self-
However, when Virginia had the ball, they held onto it. The Hawkies coughed up the ball.
"We knew we could play with these guys, and turnovers killed us," sophomore tight dwayne Chandler said. "It's going to be a hard to put this one behind us."
Chandler, who caught four passes for 79 yards, was one of the few bright spots in the game.
Junior quarterback Chip Hillery continued to struggle. Hilleary, who played with an injured finger on his right hand, completed nine of 15 passes for 107 yards.
Hilleary did rush for both Jayhawk touchdowns, but he threw a costly interception in the third quarter. Under pressure from Virginia defensive end Mike Frederick, Hilleary's errant pass was picked off by linebacker P.J. Killian, who returned the 20 yards for a touchdown.
"He was covered, and he shouldn't have thrown it." Mason said.
Twice in the third quarter, Hilleary overtaken to pass Kenny Drayton when the ball was in bounds.
Even Tony Sands, the Kansas catalyst in the season's first three weeks, made costly errors.
Mistakes by the Kansas offense and慕般 teams led to easy points for the Cava team.
Sands ran for 124 yards, but contributed 13 of the Jayhawks' 40 yards in losses. It was Sands' first-quarter fumble on first down at the Kansas 35-yard line that set up Virginia's first touchdown.
“It’s one of the most frustrating games, when you know you could have won it,” Suzie said.
Cavalier quarterback Matt Blundin
touchdown pass to Tyron Davis
Sikhla Krysic
FOOTBALL
Late in the first quarter, Matt Gay mismanled a pune. Gene Toliver recovered for Virginia at the Kansas 22 yard line. Four plays later, Michael Husted's 38-yard field goal gave the Cavaliers an 10-13 lead.
However, the third quarter was dominated by the Cavaliers. Virginia outscored Florida 7-0.
Kansas did manage to hold the lead at halftime. Hilley scrambled for his first touchdown early in the second quarter. Sophomore Dan Eichloch's 42-yard field goal broke the 10-point deadlock with just 6 seconds left in the first half.
Killian's touchdown gave Virginia a 17-13 lead. Kansas would never catch up.
Blindin threw a touchdown pass to Aaron Mundy to increase Virginia's lead to 14-3.
On the first play of the 'Hawks next possession, sophomore tailback George White fumbled. Virginia recovered at the Kansas 29-ard line.
quailers after Hilleary's second touchdown run early in the fourth quarter. However, Sands' two-point conversion failed.
Kansas' final possession ended on a bizarre fourth-and-three play that lost 14 yards. After two timeouts, a failed reverse throw to the ball and six and a half minutes to kill
Iough the Kansas offense continually gave up the ball and field position, the Jayahawks' defense was tough. The Cavaliers mounted only one scoring drive of more
"It's a lot different when you've got to drive the ball 80 yards than when you turn the ball over in their territory. Mason said.
The Jayhawk's defense did allow a 64-yard touchdown run to Virginia running
"Most guys were getting frustrated," Dana Stubblefield said.
The junior defensive tackle led the team with eight tackles and two quarterback
"We should have come off that field victorious."
"I felt we weren't playing up to the potential we're capable of, like we were in the first half." Stubblefield said.
Team rallies to first conference victory
Kansas downs Iowa State in tough five-game match
VOLLEYBALL
The Jayhawks, who opened the season with a 15-1 start, fell to 2-6 in the Big Eight Conference when they lost to Nebraska on Wednesday.
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
After a hard-fought victory against Iowa State on Saturday, the Kansas volleyball players think the team is over the hump.
Adrian Powell serves as the Javhawks defeat the Cvclones 3-2.
But Saturday, Kansas won its first conference match, improving to 1-2 and 16-4 overall.
"It was a good thing we won or we would have had a hard time doing anything in the Big Eight," Coach Frankie Albitz said. "Their determination showed through, to come back and win."
After opening the match with a 15-10 victory, Kansas dropped the next two, 6-15 and 3-15.
"Our passing broke down," she said. "But Iowa State always has strong serving."
The Jayhawks survived a strong performance by the 17-3 Cyclones and won 3-2.
But itwasn't easy.
Albizt said a strong serve gave the Cyclones momentum.
"It was one of the most momentum swinging matches of the year."
they jumped out to 6-10 lead. The 'Hawks held on to win 15-12, setting up the rally-point fifth game.
The Cyclones were able to get a 13-12 advantage, but then a kill by sophomore Cyndee Kanabel and a miscued hit by Iowa State gave Kansas the lead 14-13.
However, the momentum swung to Kansas in the fourth game as
Kansas led the game 9-4,but the Cyclones rallied,tying the score at 9.
Kris Kleinscmidt
"It's really nerve-racking but exciting to play," senior Adrian Powell said.
With the game tied at 15 senior Kris Kleinschmidt hit two of her 10 kills to ice the victory.
"But there was a hole in the block, and I just nailed it."
"I called a No. 2, which is a set in the middle," Kleinschmidt said. "They had been blocked it all night.
Kleinschmidt, Kanabel and Barb Bella led Kansas with 10 killseach.
Kansas had a team total 42 kills, compared to the Cyclones' 43
Kleinschmidt also led the team with 16 digs out of the team's 73. Iowa State had 69 digs
Frankie Albitz
Albitz said those numbers were unusual.
"When you have a lower hitting percentage, 98 percent of the time you lose," she said. "Somehow we sneaked by."
But the Cyclones did lead the statistics in hitting percentage with a 100 percentage, compared to Kansas' .070.
Powell said the victory helped restore some of the team's confidence.
"It made us feel good to win the ones
we had to win," she said. "We were
playing aggressive. That's how we
played in the early season."
Kansas will look for its second conference victory when it plays Kansas State at Allen Field House on Wednesday. The Wildcats are 0-3 in the Big Eight and lost to Iowa State in three games Friday.
By Michelle Betts Special to the Kansan
Kansas soccer clubs place second
It was a tiring weekend for the Kansas men's soccer club.
Half the team traveled to Benedictine College in Atchison, only to lose 3-0. The players then joined the rest of the team at Missouri. The University of MissouriInvitated.
Kansas played its game against
The men's team finished second to Illinois in national with two victories, two ties and two losses.
"I think we had a pretty good weekend," said Chris Roberson, president of the men's club. "If we'd had a full year we would have won every game."
The two Kansas squads joined for Saturday's third game against Iowa. Kansas won 1-0 with a goal by junior
Benedictine with only 10 players after the first 20 minutes of the game because a player was ejected for fighting.
Kansas tied 1-1 with Illinois in the second game.
"It was a very physical game, and the referees weren't controlling it very well." Roberson said.
The team that played the first two games of the invited tieid the first game against Missouri's B team 2-1. Junior Steve Mochire scored the first goal on a penalty kick, and senior Curtis Terry scored unassisted in the second half.
The Kansas women's soccer club also placed second in the invitational, and third in the national championship.
The Jayhawks arrived in Missouri on Saturday evening after the other game.
Mike McBride, and advanced to the finals.
The game went into overtime, and the teams grouped for penalty kicks.
The University of Missouri scored early in the first game of the finals against Kansas, but Kansas senior Jefferson assisted on a goal by Kirchner.
"That'sprettyhardto do,"Roberson said. "He kentusin it."
Senior Scott Schaffer, goalkeeper for Kansas, made two saves.
Freshman Thad Johnston, the sixth kicker, scored the winning goal for Kansas.
The Jayhawks faced Illinois in the final game but lost 2-0.
"The game went back and forth, and by that time mental breakdowns were happening. We were tired," Roberson said.
KC loses, finishes season 82-80
The Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Mark Langton was able to turn around his season, and so was the AL West.
The California Angels made sure that every American League West team finished at .500 or better, beating the Kansas City Royals 3-1 yesterday as Langston tied a career high with his 19th victory.
The last place Angels swept the three-game series and finished the season at 81-81. The Royals finished 82-80. It marked the first time since the leagues split in 1969 that every team in a division was at least .500.
"If it's never happened before, it's never going to happen again with expansion." Angels manager
Buck Rodgers said.
Last year, Oakland, Texas and Chicago were the only teams in the AL West to finish at over .500.
Langston languished last season,
finishing 10-17 in his first year of a
five-year, $16 million free-agent
contract.
Langston (19-8) struck out 10 and gave up five hits in 7/10 innings. He became California's top winner since Nolan Ryan won 19 in 1977. Langton was 19-13 with Seattle in 1987.
"I went through a lot of stuff last year," said Langston, who was regularly booed by the home fans after compiling a 3-11 mark at Analeim Stadium in 1980.
Runners successful at meet
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswrite
The Kansas women's cross country team proved Saturday thatrankings are just rankings.
The Jayhawks pulled off a big upset by finishing second, placing better than four top 25 teams at the Minnesota Invitational.
The 14th-ranked Kansas men's team finished sixth in the 33-team field.
"Webeatssomegoodteamsand racedfantastically."
But that might change.
"It's definitely a high point for Kansas women' s cross country," Coach Gary Schwartz said. "It's an impressive win.
No. 25 Virginia won the meet with a low score of 87, 11 points ahead of second-place Kansas at 98.
Despite knocking off 23-ranked Washington and winning the Simon Praser Invitational, Hawks were not ranked.
Eighth-ranked Nebraska finished third with 102 points, followed by Minnesota and Auburn.
Saul led the race until the last 200 meters. She finished behind Nebraska junior Fran Ten Bensel with a time of 17.12 and senior Sandy Ham from Colorado State with a time of 17.21.
Saul, who ran the course last year in an Oregon uniform with a time of 18:11, had a personal best Saturday.
"She was looking forward to seeing how much she had improved "Schwartzsaid.
Junior jumfa San'i againe agné the kansas attack with a time of 17:23 on the 5,000-meter course.
Senior Cathy Palacios ran a season best 17.56, finishing second for Kansas and 12th overall
"We are going to keep this allin perspective," she said. "We're going to try and not get cocky."
"The belief grows stronger each meet," he said.
Freshman Kristy Klocker finished 25th, followed by freshman Melissa Swartz and sophomore Grace Rounding out the Kansas to five.
Schwartz said that the strong showing indicated that the team was starting to believe in itself.
Although three ranked and two unranked men's teams finished ahead of Kansas, Schwartz said he was not upset.
"I'm not discouraged by finishing sixth." Schwartz said. "I was pleased. It was a reality check for us.
It would have been nice to finish first or second, but we didn't."
South Florida, ranked 16th,
won the meet with only 57 points.
Adams State scored 72 for sec-
tion and led by Jared Wilson,
fifth ranked Wisconsin at third.
Second-ranked Iowa State, running without two of its top runners, finished fourth Next, University and University and the Kearns.
South Florida runner Chris Payne won the 8,000-meter meet with a time of 24:26.
Sophomore Michael Cox finished 28th overall and first for Kansas with a time of 25.11.
"We didn't finish as well as we thought we could," Cox said. "It was a potentially intimidating incident, but everybody reacted well."
Senior Donnie Anderson finished for Kansas with a time of 25.13. Junior Ale Bolten was the third Kansas runner to finish, and seniors Sean Shierati and Froese rounded out the top five.
Cox said there were a lot of positive things the team learned from the meet.
"This race was bigger than nationals," he said. "We stacked up against some big teams.
"If we are going to win the Big Eight, we can see now what it takes to get there."
Schwartz said the team learned something about themselves
"We need front runners," Schwartz said. "Only 21 seconds separated our first and fifth runners.
what we need is one or two people to finish in single digits. That's what we'll be working on now and the conference meet."
The Jayhawks have the week off from competition, but will return to action Oct. 19 when they play in the Iowa State Invitational.