SPORTS
University Daily Kansan/Wednesday, September 25, 1991
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Sisters strut different styles on, off court
Mary Beth Bella prepares mentally and is determined.
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportswriter
Sisters Mary Beth and Barb Bella are once again together on the volleyball court. This time it is for the Kansas Jayhawks.
The sisters are one year apart in age but are separated by two years of eligibility. Although they played together at Oak Forest High School in Oak Forest, Ill., they took different routes to Kansas.
Mary Beth, the older sister and a senior at Kansas, became a Jayhawk right out of high school.
"Werecrubeted her off of tape. I never saw her play," volleyball coach Frankie Albizt said. "She impressed us when she got here."
"I liked the school a lot and knew I could get a good education here," she said.
Mary Beth said she made up her mind after visiting the school.
However, complications with the coach and program at Texas A & M sent Barb looking for a new place to call home.
Mary Beth said Barbused to call her from Texas
Things just dun't work out at all down there," Barb said.
After contacting Albiz, Barb was able to transfer to Kansas. She sat out the 1990 season in accordance with NCAA transfer rules.
"Sheused to tell me she would love to be here. She always would say I was so lucky to be here."
Mary Beth said that she had sought independence from her sister and
Volleyball team earns honors
Kansanstaffreport
Kansas volleyball, off to one of its best starts ever, received team and individual honors recently.
The American Volleyball Coaches Association recognized the Kansas program for its fast start this season. The Jayhawks have a match record of 15-1 and have won all four regular-season tournaments they have competed in this season.
The AVCA also ranked Kansas seniors Julie Woodruff and Adrian Powell for their individual performances.
Woodruff was ranked 10th nationally for assists per game.
Statistics, through 37 games up to Sept. 17, show Woodruff with 12.3 assists a game.
Coach Frankie Albizt said the rankings were meaningful to the team
Powell was ranked 15th nationally, averaging 4.3 digs a game, through 38 games.
Albitz said the digs ranking was not surprising because the team had always been strong on defense.
"The assists ranking is a major step for us," she said. "It shows she is doing a good job and the hitters are as well."
The Jayhawks will open Big Eight Conference play Saturday at Oklahoma.
family when she left for college.
"She had always been behind me every step of my life it seemed." Mary Beth said. "It was real hard for me to adjust when she first came here."
However, she said the adjustment had been possible because they were able to establish their own identities.
"We each have our own friends, our own major and our own social life," Mary Beth said. "Basically we do our own thing, which is good."
Doing their own thing shows up on the court. too. Albitz said.
"Mary Beth has such sheer determination," she said. "Her mental game is unbelievable."
"She plays a little more looser. A little more relaxed," she said. "She taunts the other team a little bit."
On the other hand, Albitz said Barb was more cocky.
Mary Beth, a middle blocker and starter, and Barb, a right side blocker, are both recognized as Jayhawk cars for their work in the classroom.
"We still have those little sister fights at times," Mary Beth said. But squabbles were left off the court, she added.
Barb said that sometimes they had been compared in the past but that it was not a problem at Kansas.
However, times are not always great for the sisters
"The team treats us as two individuals." she said.
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Jayhawks use week's rest to prepare
Barb Bella likes to play loose and taunt the opponents.
By David Mitchell
Kansan Sportswriter
With an open date Saturday, the Kansas football team will end the month of September undefeated for the firsttime since 1981.
However, the Jayhawks won't be sitting around.
Coach Glen Mason said the Jay-
hawks needed the extra week to recu-
pitate.
"We're really banged up and bruised up in there," Mason said after Saturday's 54-14 victory against New Mexico State.
Junior offensive guard Scott
littleright left the game because of
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were serious and that those Jay hawks should be ready in time for the next game Oct 5 at Virginia
Mason said that junior safety Charley Bowen, junior receiver Matt Gay and senior cornerback Tim Hill all played with sore ankles.
Junior offensive tackle Keith Loneker and sophomore center Dan Schmidt both left the game with injured ankles.
After sitting out Saturday's game, corner-back Gerald McBurrows and linebacker Stone
Glen Mason
Mason said that none of the injuries
Harvey, both freshmen, are also expected to see action against the Cavaliers.
However, the Kansas passing attack was dealt a severe blow Saturday.
Two games after losing junior tight end Chad Fette, senior flanker Rob Licuris suffered a season-ending injury.
Licurs landed out of bounds and suffered a broken collar bone after a first quarter reception.
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Both Licursi and Fette qualify for a medical hardship ruling and could gain another year of eligibility.
Though the week will be a valued recuperation period, it also will help the Jayhawks prepare for Virginia, a state that defeated Kansas 58-10 last season.
"Last year Virginia came in here and embarrassed us," senior flanker Kenny Drayton said. "Virginia is a girl who can't we cann't in go there laudadalised."
Junior quarterback Chip Hilleary said the team had improved over the first three games.
"With a week off we'll be just as good if not better," he said. "We still have a long way to go."
Mason agreed.
"We will not use it as an off week," Mason said. "We will use it as an extra week of preparation."
"I guess the only down side is when you think your getting better better you don't want to take a break in the action."
SIDELINES
Chip Hilleary
Senior tailback Tony Sands is ranked ninth in the nation and leads the Big Eight Conference in rushing with an average of 145.33 yards a
The Kansas rushing game is averaging 314.3 yards a game, third in the conference and fifth in the nation. In 1988, Mason's first year in at Kansas, the Jahyhaws ranked 68th nationally with an average of 145.4 yards a game.
- The Jayhawks lead the conference in total defense, allowing an average of 267.7 yards a game.
KC victory dashes A's hopes for AL pennant
The Associated Press
OAKLAND. Calif. — The Athletics' three-year reign as American League champions came to an end Tuesday night as Oakland was mathematically eliminated from the West Division race with a 5-4 loss to the Kansas City Royals.
Oakland, the first team to win three straight AL pennants since the 1976-78 New York Yankees, dropped 12 games behind firstplace Minnesota with 11 games remaining.
The Twins, in 1987, were the last team other than the Athletics to win the AL pennant.
Danny Tartabul hit his 306 homer for the Royals, and Kevin McCarthy scored an overrun in six innings. Appier is 2-0 with four no-decision since he lost
Tartabull's first-inning homer off Joe Slasarski (4-7), after singles by Brian McRae and Kurt Stillwell, gave the Royals a 3-0 lead. Tartabull, who has seven homers against Oakland this season, is the sixth player in Royals history to reach 30 homers in a season.
Brent Mayne singled at the start of the second, took third on David Howard's single and scored on Mrae's sacrifice fly for a 4+ lead.
The first Athletics run scored on Danny Howitt's sacrifice fly in the third. Stillwell singled and scored on Jamie Ritchie's double in the fifth for a 5-1 lead.
Oakland made it close in the eighth on Ernest Riles's three-run homer off reliever Jeff Montgomery.
Prime Time makes plans for double time
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to Texas on Aug.23.
"My face lit up like a Christmas tree when they saw me and accepted me."
In this weird and wondrous season of the Atlanta Braves, the weirdest news yet came yesterday: Deion "Prime Time" Sanders, who left the team eight weeks ago to resume his NFL career, will play both sports for the duration of the National League West pennant race.
ATLANTA — Bo knows baseball, football and rehab. Deion had better know airline schedules.
Just how much this might trouble the Los Angeles Dodgers — who
Even when compared to the Braves
attempt to vault from worst to first,
they are still behind.
Bo Jackson became the most successful two-sport athlete of his generation, playing for the Kansas City Royals and the Los Angeles Raiders.
But Jackson never played two sports in a 36-hour span. Sanders plans to do just that this weekend: running back punts for the Falcons in Atlanta Sunday afternoon; running over travelers at Hartfield airport Sunday night; and running the bases for the Braves in Cincinnati Monday night.
Deion Sanders Two-sportathlete
After all, it's not as if Braves General Manager John Schuerhole found a 28-year-old Henry Aaron hanging around and got him a uniform. He also played games with Atlanta this season, with four homers and 13 runs batted in.
Schuerholz, at a news conference before yesterday's game, said Sanders would be in uniform for nine of the Braves' final 12 games. He said Sanders would miss this weekend's three-game series in Houston.
But he was nine-for-12 stealing bases, and therein lies the reason for bringing him back. Without Otis he could have done his job as leader who is suspended for a drug violation, the Braves need all the speed they can get.
"We had talked with other clubs trying to acquire a speed guy," Schuering said. "We wanted to do it, as he said he did, we'd go on and give him the opportunity.
enjoyed a one-and-a-half-game lead when the Braves summoned Sanders on yesterday — remains to be seen.
"Ispoketo (Falcons President) Taylor Smith as a courtesy. I called to tell him, and he just said he appreciated our calling."
Thus the announcement yesterday from team representative Jim Schultz: Sanders was being added to the roster for the remainder of the sea-
"We just hope he doesn't get hurt and we want him to keep focused on football," Smith said in a statement. "We've got a big game coming up this weekend against an undefeated division rival."
"I was excited," Sanders said as he was reunited with his baseball teammates. "They were excited. My face lit up when they came in, when they saw me and accepted me."
He said he does not expect to be fined by the Falcons.
Sanders said his teammates wished him well
Sander said he had not talked to Falkenport, jerry Gillanville, "but I coach." Boehner
Sanders will play for the Falcons Sunday when they play New Orleans.
"They told me to go for it," he said.
"No. I don't. I haven't done anything wrong. I'm going to be at practice, meetings and the game. What I do on Sunday is my own business," Sanders said.
No one knows whether Bo will try a football comeback with Raiders
LOS ANGELES—A representative for Bo Jackson's doctor said yesterday that no decision had been made concerning the two-sport star's immediate football future and that one won't stand until after the season season.
The Associated Press
"Bo has said from early on that while baseball season is on, he's going to concentrate on baseball." said Larian Johnson, a representative for Dr. James R. Andrews and Alabama Sports Medicine in Birmingham, Ala.
Jackson is the designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox. He signed with the White Sox as a free agent after the Kansas City Royals on March 19.
The Royals released Jackson because they did not believe he would ever play baseball again because of a hip injury he suffered while playing for the Los Angeles Raiders in a play-off game against Cincinnati Jan. 13.
Jackson's football future became a hot topic yesterday when the Atlanta
Braves announced that outfielder Deion Sanders would return to the team during the pennant race while he remained a defensive back for the
The second-place White Sox are long shots in the American League West. They entered last night's game at Minnesota trailing the Twins by eight games in 12 games for both teams.
with 12 left for bothteams.
If the Twins win the division, Jackson will be finished with baseball on Oct. 6.
"Dr. Andrews, of course, has not made a determination at this point," Johnson said. "He has kept the Raider doctors up to date on any and all physical information, so they have the same information he has to evaluate."
Crew club tips boat in river
A Kansas crew club boat was reported tipped over during practice on the Kansas River at 7:48 a.m. yesterday, and the boats made it to safety. Lawrence police reported. Firefighters were told to disregard the call.
SPORTS BRIEFES
Garden City retains top spot
TOPEKA — Garden City's Buf faloes solidified their hold on the no.1 position in The Associated Press Class 6A consensus rankings this week after blasting Manhattan 34-15 last week
record, plays at Hays on Friday, hoping to keep the top spot ahead of No. 2 Wichita Northwest, a 34-14 winner against Wichita Southeast, and No. 3 Olathe North, which beat Leavenworth, 48-14. Northwest plays at home against North and North plays at home against Shawnee Mission East this Friday.
Garden City, boasting a perfect 3-0
All the leaders remained unanimous choices for the top positions in the 11-man classes after winning last week.
Chicago recruit shot, killed
HIALEAH, Fla. — A high school third baseman who was drafted in June by the Chicago White Sox was shot to death by a man who thought the
youth was a peeping Tom, authorities said.
David Marrero, died early Monday. He was shot by a man who had left his home in search of a prowler who had stalked the neighborhood peering into windows, the Miami Herald reported in Tuesdays' editions.
Marrero played at Hialeah Miami High School, was named to the all-county team in May and was drafted by Sox. So the next month on the 34th round.
But instead of playing in the major leagues, Marrero planned to continue his education and had accepted a scholarship to a local community college.
Jose Ortega, a scout for the White
Sox, expressed disbelief on hearing the news.
Nebraska learns from defeat
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said yesterday that his 16th-ranked Cornhuskers went to No. 4 Washington last Saturday.
"I think there were some positives to come out of it," Osborne said at his weekly conference. "I think we played hard, the players really gave excellent effort and they have for three games. There hasn't been a game where they haven't laid it on as far as effort."
Osborne said one of those who came
Two teams look for stadium
Offensively, Osborne credited quarterback Keith McAnant, and receivers Nate Turner, Tyreugh Hughman andmad Jon Bostick with play good.
forward with outstanding play was sophomore linebacker Mike Anderson.
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Raiders and the University of Southern California are looking for a place to train their players. The Los Angeles Coliseum is being renovated.
The renovation is scheduled to begin after the 1992 NFL season and will be completed in time for the 1994 season,
Coliseum Commission President Matt Grossman said yesterday.
Raiders owner Al Davis was noncommittal but did say talks had been held with Anaheim Stadium, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and Dodger Stadium as possible sites for Raiders home games in 1993.
It is believed that Southern Cal is leaning toward Anaheim Stadium, the home of the Los Angeles Rams, which is 35 miles to the south.
The Rose Bowl is about 20 miles east of the Coliseum and Dodger Stadium about five miles east.
From Associated Press and staff reports