SPORTS
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 19, 1991
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Mason not seeking revenge
Coach holds no bad feelings about 1988 loss to Aggies
By David Mitchell
Kansan Sportswriter
In 1988, Kansas lost to New Mexico State 42-29 in the first meeting between the two teams.
For the Jayhawks, it was one of 10 losses during 1988 under then-first Year Coach Glen Mason. Kansas finished that season 1-10.
New Mexico State lost its next 27 games in a row.
New Mexico State lost its next 21 games in a row. Mason dismissed any possibility of a revenge factor in Saturday's rematch with the Aggies at Memorial Stadium.
"I don't have any ill feelings towards New Mexico," he said. "I have no problem with that matriarchal war." We performed absolutely horrid."
Since the 1988 game, the Aggies have changed coaches. Coming off of last year's 10-season, second-year Coach Jim Hess is looking to a crop of junior college transfers to turn the program
Of the Aggies' 20 recruits this season, 19 came from junior colleges, including eight of Grid Wire's top 100 players. Seven of the recruits have earned starting assignments.
around.
Kansas tailback Tony Sands said the Jayhawks fourth place finish in 1980 showed that the 'Hawks had come further in their rebuilding than the Aggies.
"It says that this team has come together a lot
from different other team," he said. "We can play.
We want to win."
New Mexico State lost its season opener last Saturday in Texas-El Paso 22-21.
Though the 'Hawks are highly favored against the Patriots said that New Mexico State had a potent offense.
"They were very impressive early in that game with their passing game." Mason said. "They've got the ability to get some big plays, which always makes you nervous from a defensive perspective."
make you host on line due to lack of per-user Mason said that the Aggles' weakness was their
inconsistency. Last week, the Aggies could not sustain an early 21-7 lead against the Miners.
In the second half, New Mexico State misdeed a 34-yard field goal and was turned away twice at the
Quarterback David Chisum is one of four returning offensive starters. Chisum is a single-season school record last year with 187 pass completions, and passed for over 2,000 yards.
Chisum accomplished the feats behind an offensive line that allowed 50 quarterback sacks in 1990, an average of almost five per game.
All-Big West Conference linebacker Steve Campbell leads the Aggie defense. Campbell led the team last season with 135 tackles.
SIDELINES
Big Eight Conference rival Kansas State defeated the Aggies in Manhattan last season 7-2.
The Kansas defense has allowed just two touchdowns in the first half. The Ravens gave up 10 touchdowns.
Young KU men's golf team looks for experienced players to take lead
Coach thinks team has shot at tournament
By Jeff Kobs
Kansan Sportwriter
Most coaches cringe when faced with a team containing no seniors. Most would label it a rebuilding year
While the Kansas men's golf team won't field any seniors and only three juniors, Coach Ross Randall believes the team will be a contender, not a winner.
"Some of the younger guys have stepped forward and assumed a leadership position," Randall said. "We're quite a bit of experience and depth."
For example, the team returns Big Eight Conference tournament champion Matt Goel.
"He's very competitive," Randall said. "I had a lot of expectations for him when he came here."
Gogel, a sophomore who transferred from Oklahoma and sat out a year, became the first Jayhawk to win the Eight since Bob Richardi了 it did
Gogel said the Big Eight victory as a freshmen had only helped improve his golf game.
Gogel said he didn't want the leadership role of an untouchable, but instead one that set an example for the team.
"If anything, winning it took some pressure off me," Gogel said. "I played well all year and after winning the tournament and with the coaches expectations it put me into a leadershiprole."
Sophomore Casey Brozek said depth would make the team better and more competitive.
"We should have a lot of guys in position to make the top five," he said. "Having strong competition will keep us focused on our game."
In collegiate golf, each tournament team consists of five players but only the best four scores count from each round.
"Last year one of our problems was the lack of a little more help from the fidh app." Ralph
The Jayhawks will look for help and leadership from juniors Jim Young, from Tulsa, Okla., and Brad Bruno, from Bartlesville, Okla. Bruno won the Lawrence Men's Open in July, while Young turned in Kansas' best round last season at the NCAA regional qualifier.
Randall got a pleasant surprise in August when he landed Bryan Bennett, Los Alamitos, Calif. Junior, Bennett, a transfer from Long Beach Community College, was the California Junior College Champion.
"He could really make an impact," Randall said. "He has a great attitude and is very team-oriented."
Brozek, from DePere, Wis. comes into the season after winning the Wisconsin Amateur during the summer.
Brozek said his victory in the Wisconsin Amateur was a great experience, but very tense.
"I won by only one shot on the last hole," he said. "It was very nerve-racking."
Other sophomores who should battle for a spot on the traveling team include Joe Moeller, from Bartlesville, Okla., and John Hess, from Leawood. Hess was a medalist in the Kansas City Match Play championship. The Jayhawks will also have the best team Tom Sims and Tim Sadiq, both from Wichita. Sadiq was the 1989 Kansas junior player of the year.
Kansas has only one incoming freshman, Allen Stearns, from Camarillo, Calif. Randall said Stearns was a good player who should help in the future.
"We'll probably end up redshirting him this year," Randall said.
Randall said the team had set its sights on the NCAA Championships in the spring.
"We finished 13th, but they only take the top 10," Randall said. "We have so much more depth this year. We'll be a better team."
The Jayhawks missed qualifying for the tournament by only six strokes last season in the 21-team regional meet
The Jayhawks will open the season Sept. 30 in the Kansas Invitational. The two-day tournament will be at the Alvamar public golf course.
Prep star picks Cal, nixes KU
The Associated Press
ALAMEDA, Calif. — One of the nation's top prep basketball players announced yesterday he had chosen California against Kansas.
The player, Jason Kidd, a 6-foot-4 point guard who is a senior at St. Joseph's Notre Dame High School in Alameda, has verbally committed to
Kidd decided that staying close to home was more important than choosing from among the five schools he said he had been considering.
"I know everybody is shocked because Cal was not on my list," Kidd said yesterday during a news conference in St. Joseph's gymnasium. "But it was always a dark horse. It was the one that I wanted to beat last one I ddone from my first list."
"I just went with my gut feeling, and that's what I was based on," said Kidd, who visited Cal with some students last month andliked what he took
Kidd cannot formally commit to California until national signing day in November.
Kidd led his team in scoring (26 points per game), rebounding, assists and steals as a junior, and was the biggest reason St. Joseph's won the state Division I championship last year.
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He joins a Cal program whose freshman class has been rated one of the nation's best.
"That was a big plus-sign," Kidd said, "I wanted to be part of that. If I can do my job with them doing their job. I think we can be successful."
Kidd said that his grades were high enough to allow him to play as a freshman, but that he had yet to score 700 on test day. The he would he take the test again on Oct. 12.
Kids's final decision surprised even his parents, who got the news about his death.
"The first person I told was my dad, and he didn't believe me," Kidd said. "When my mother got back from a vacation, and she did not believe me either."
Tickets remain for Davis Cup in KC; Injured Becker out
Kidd said having his parents nearby while he attends college was the key factor in his decision.
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo — Boris Becker will be missing when Germany faces the United States in a Davis Cup semifinal tennis match this weekend. So might one-fourth of the hoped for crowd.
About one-fourth of the tickets for this weekend's tennis match remain unsold, but promoters of the interim tennis tournament are calling it a success.
Local ticket sales have been sluggish, but all the most expensive seats are sold and the crowd will include many of the world's countries, promoter Rusty Clive said.
Brad Bruno, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, takes a chip shot.
"It's going very well," said Cline, "whose Kansas City-based firm Cline and Associates promoted the Davis aliens in St. Petersburg, Fla., last year.
But Becker, ranked second in the world, has been sidelined with a thigh-muscle injury. Still, the German team is strong with Wimbledon champion Michael Stich, Carl-Uwe Steeb, Eric Jelen and Udl Rigielewii.
Crushed rock and red clay have applied to the floor of Kemper Arena, and some of the world's best men's tennis players are practicing at another clay court constructed for them
Jim Courier, who won the French Open in June and was runnerup earlier this month at the U.S. Open, and Andre Agassi will play singles for the United States, while David Pate and Scott Dawson will team up for doubles.
The other World Group seminal, which also will be held Friday through Sunday, will pit France against Yugoslavia in the southern French
city of Pau. The winners will meet for the title Nov. 29-Dec. 1 at a site to be determined.
The clay courts in Kansas City, which will be dismantled after the tournament, cost Cline $60,000. And although only 72 percent of the tournament tickets have been sold, Cline said he was not worried.
"This event will make money," he said. "We've got a tremendous number of people from the United States and around the world."
All the top-dollar tickets, $450 and $300 a person for the three-day tournament, have been sold. The least expensive tickets cost $80 a person for three
"I think that these ticket sales have been very gratifying in a difficult economy," Cline said.
Kemper Arena seats 15,200, and about 11,000 fans are expected to attend each day. About 30 percent of fans come from outside Kansas City, Cline said.
The best-of-five format is two singles matches the first day, a doubles the second day and two singles the third day.
One of the snags in sales is that people must buy tickets for all three days. Cline said. Single-day tickets have been available for the Davis cup. he said.
Davis Cup prices are set by the International Tennis Federation, the United States Tennis Association and promoters like Cline.
It is the second Davis Cup held in Kansas City. The first was in 1928, when the United States defeated China 5-0. Cline said.
Shoddy Twins defense leads to Royals victory
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Twins rightful gene Larkin, who describes his defense as "brutal," could not complain too much about brutal treatment last night from the home fans.
"played a brutal game. There'nothing else I can say," said Larkin, whose error, misplay and late throw keyed Kansas City's six-run sixth inning in the Royals 10-4 victory.
"We worked hard to get back into the game and then I took us out of it. You hear the boos, sure you do."
Twins manager Tom Kelly said, "I was booing, too."
"Larkin busted his butt and did his best and the fans were booing him," said Puckett, one of the most popular players in club history. "It was a great day for Larkin, and he is worthy of a first-play team getting boo."
But Larkin's teammate, Kirby Puckett, said he thought the booging was not very classy.
The AL West-leading Twins, 2-6 after a 7-1 September start, made two wrongs and had several other poor plays. The bad defense cost the team $58 million, but be the major league's first 19-game winner.
The Twins' division lead dropped to six games with second-second Chicago's 6-6 victory.
Erickson (18-7) is 6-5 with a 6.75 ERA since his 12-game winning streak ended June 29. He has not pitched well since oblow soreness
forced him to spend time on the disabled list, and gave him games, runs, six earned, and births 3-13 images.
It was 3-3 when Kurt Stillwell left off the sixth with a double. He beat Larkin's late throw after the seemingly catchable ball went under second baseman Chuck Knoblauch's glove. Following George Brett's first racket bant since 1978, Tartulat singled the Royals ahead for good.
"I felt fine out there," he said. "I don't think they would have scored more than one run if we got some defense."
One out later, Todd Benzinger hit a broken bat器 to right. Larkin got a late jump on the ball, which bounced over his head and rolled to the wall.
Bill Pecora doubled to make it 6-3 and knocked out Erickson, who has not lasted more than seven innings since his streak ended. Carl Winslow, who was greeted by David Howard's infield hit.
Kansas City had taken a 3-0 four-inning lead, Jim Eisenreich tripped in two runs and scored on a bad pickoff kick by Junior Ortiz in a heartbeat in air for 237 games dating back to June 17, 1988.
Luis Aquino (8-3) allowed three hits in five innings and 18-3 with a 3.19 ERA since moving to Arizona.
Minnesota made it 3-1 in the fifth on Mike Pagliarulo's two-run single and an RBI grounder by Ortiz.
Chiefs to give running backs equal time
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It's not the triple-option wishbone that Alabama and Oklahoma made famous, but the Kansas City Chiefs are going to come at opponents in a tight attack.
Christian Okowe, Barry Word and rookie first-round draft choice Harvey Williams will not be on the field simultaneously. But Marty Schottheimer and his staff have been given the opportunity to cause their talented trio of running backs is to spread the carries equally among them.
"What we've got to do, in my opinion, is find a way to give them the opportunity to all run with the ball," Schottenheimer said yesterday during his weekly media luncheon. "Certainly, we've done it with two backs. But it's a new idea with three."
Okoye, the 260-pound Nigerian, is
Word, who weighs 242 pounds, offers a rare combination of power and speed. He and Okoye both rushed for more than 800 yards last season.
stronger and more punishing than Word and Williams but less experienced and, in the parlance of the game, "less instinctive."
New to the equation is Williams, a 220-
powder who is by far the swiftest of the
scientists.
"The theirs are very different, and that poses a problem for the opponent," Schottenheimer said. "I think the best way for us to go about it is the way we've got it organized right now. I've never done it with three backs before."
The Chiefs first tried their new plan in Monday night's 17-7 loss to Houston when Okoye had 17 carries, Word had 14 and Williams had three.
Fullback Bill Jones, a good blocker, will join Okoye in a two-back formation. When they go to one-back sets, either Word or Williams will be on the field.
Schottenheimer knows he's going against a long-held belief that most running blocks need a few carries to get "in the flow of the game."
"You had to be on the sideline to appreciate it, but every one of those running backs was encouraging the guy going in to play." he said. "It was a very, very positive situation. Seventeen and 14 (carries) is a pretty good day's work. The question is how you get up to that level. I'm not sure yet."
girl.
"I would agree with that axiom," he said.
"I don't disagree with it at all. But for our purposes right now, the best thing we can do is keep them fresh and let them get their rushes.
SPORTS BRIEFS
NL Westtiebreaker in L.A. if needed
NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Dodgers won a coin toss yesterday to determine the site of a National League West tie-breaker, one be necessary with the Atlanta Braves.
General managers Fred Claire of Los Angeles and John Schuerholz of Atlanta participated in the toss via conference call with NL president Bill White.
Claire made the call. It was heads.
lar season Oct. 6, a playoff game would be held the next day at Dodger Stadium.
If the division is tied at the end of the regu
NCAA puts Tennessee on probation
Although, Tennessee faced bans on television and bowl appearances and recruiting limitations, the NCAA's most serious penalty was a reduction of scholarships for the next two seasons. The NCAA also cut one permanent coaching position.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee escaped the full force of NCAA sanctions yesterday when its football program went 4-10 over two years' probation for committing violations.
Cards' announcer still hospitalized
PHILADELPHIA — Jack Buck, St. Louis Cardinals' radio announcer, remained hospitalized yesterday after complaining of weakness and back pain.
Buck was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital during the Cardinals-paladins game.