University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, May 1, 1991
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KU's Gogel wins Big Eight golf tournament
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan sportswriter
The last hole was a drama in itself
The last note was a drama in itself. A blooper off the tee that landed in the tall-grass rough on the right and almost dropped into the creek, followed by a second shot that again flirted with drowning in the creek was enough to get Kansas sophomore Matt Gogel's adrenaline pumping.
And with good reason.
Gogel would become the 1991 Big Eight, Conference Golf Champion.
Gogel was on the 18th hole of the final round of the Big Eight Conference Championship yesterday at Hallbrook Country Club in Leawood
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and he had a chance to win the tournament.
"By that time, my heart was beating a thousand times a minute," Gogel said.
His third shot on the par five was 125-130 vards from the pin.
Kansas coach Ross Randall walked the 18th hole with Gogel.
"I told him. Take your time and think about what you want to do with this," Randall said.
Gogel knew exactly what he wanted to do with the third shot.
"I had been firing at the pin the entire tournament," he said. "Sometimes that aggressiveness hurts you, but more often it pays off."
this time it patd on.
Gogel's shot fell just beyond the pin on the green.
"It was absolutely fantastic," Randall said. "It landed about four feet from the hole and spun back."
Gogel was left with about a 25-foot pit. He came within 18 inches on his first try, then dropped in his parrot shot, and then the clubhouse with a final round 70.
Three holes behind Gogel was the leader after two rounds, Brian May.
and his Oklahoma State teammate Craig Haimeil. Both were only a shot or two back, well within reach of the championship.
Hainline needed to sink a 17 footer to birdie 18 and force a playoff between him and Gogel.
There would be no playoff.
May needed to eagle 18 for a tie. There would be no nails.
May needed to eagle 18 for a tie.
There would be no eagle.
Gogel finished the tournament with a 219, one shot ahead of Hainline and two ahead of May.
"Deep down my goal had been to win the tournament," he said. "I had played the course in the back of my head a thousand times."
Randall praised Gogol, saying,
"He hit the ball very well, very well all
three rounds. There was a lot of
excuse on him and he handled it well."
Oklahoma State won the tournament as a team with 889 followed by Oklahoma with a 917 Kansas finished in third with 937
Randall said he was delighted with the team's finish.
"I am glad we finished where we did, after the bad first round," he said.
The first two rounds were played Monday in cold and windy weather. Randall said.
“One of our goals was to get closer to Oklahoma,” he said. “And we did that. Anytime you finish in the upper deck, the Big Eight you are doing well.”
Kansas has until May 23rd to prepare for the NCAA regional qualifier tournament. It will be played at Country Club in Bartlesville, villa.
Randall said he thought the team had a good shot at qualifying for the NCAA championship.
Shockers shock'Hawks Fifth-inning Wichita runs break tight baseball game
"Only 30 teams go, and only the low to 10 from our region will go," he said. "I think we have a good shot at making it."
Fifth-inning Wichita runs break tight baseball game
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
WICHTA — A three-Winch, State fifth innings blew open a tight game, as the Shockers cruised past the 9-13 baseball team 11-5 last night.
"The score is not indicative of the game, because they had more control than it shows," Kansas coach Dave Bingham said.
It was not an enviable task for Kansas from the beginning.
The Jayhawks were coming off an emotional weekend series with Iowa State in which they dropped three of four games.
Wichita State, on the other hand,
moved to first in the ESPN/Congl
baseball Poll earlier this week
and had won 31 of its last 34 games.
"It was going to take a super effort
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Against four Kansas pitchers, the Shockers banged out 13 hits on the evening.
from the kids we had pitching out there tonight," Bingham said.
It was not all bad for the Jayhawk hurriers, however. Kansas had pitched its way out of several jams and was able to win runners in every inning but the sixth.
Unfortunately, Kansas had offensive problems of its own
The Hawks had scored two runs in the second inning and one more run in the fifth to pull within one, making the score 4.3
sober starter since 1985.
In six innings of work, Dreifort limited Kansas to three hits and one run.
Dreifort said he enjoyed his extended relief performance.
That's when the Shockers' Darren Dreifort came on in relief of Wichita
State starter Shane Dennis.
The Shockers scored three runs in the fifth and two runs in both the sixth and eighth to seal the victory.
Bingham said the Shockers' ability to score in the late innings proved they were worthy of their No. 1 ranking.
"In the four games we've played them, they have shown they're the best team we've played all year," he said.
Track team signs recruits
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan sportswriter
The rainbow can stretch many miles to those searching for a pot of gold. This year, Kansas track has found the end of the recruiting rainbow as far away as Canada and as close to home as Lenaex.
Kansas has signed four athletes so far, and they all have the potential to greatly strengthen the program.
From Gloucester, Ontario,
Canada, comes 6-foot, 260-pound
Michael Reichert, a shot put and
discuss thrower who Kansas coach
Schwartz said would make a marty
the field as well as in the
classroom.
"Michael is a strong student and a strong athlete, and I am very excited about his prospects," Schwartz said.
Reichert is finishing his high school career in Canada, where he competes in a track club. He has competed internationally against the world's top tennis players in West Germany and Belgium and has set 10 club and district records.
Track
Adding to the depth of the high jump squad will be Nick Johannsen
His best throw in the shot put is 58 feet, $8^{4}$ inches, and he holds a mark of 173-11 in the discus.
from Miller, S.D. Schwartz discovered Johannsen a couple of summers ago when he was visiting his father in Wessington Springs, S.D.
"He comes from a good family, and he is a great student athlete," Schwartz said.
Johannsen's strongest event is the high jump. He was the state champion in the event as a junior. He went on to win 2*1/2 inches off the Kansas record.
Johannsen also competes in the long jump and the pole vault, but Schwartz said Johannsen would do better in high jump than in any other event.
Two middle distance runners from the Kansas City area have signed with the women's team.
Lenexa'a Kristina Kloster and Overland Park's Melissa Swartz both will compete in cross country skiing. She runs a 3,000-meter and 400-meter runs.
Kloster won the state championship in cross country the past two years, and Swartz won the state championship in the 800 in 1990. Swartz also placed second in cross country this year.
Kansas distance coach Steve Guyman said the recruits would add needed depth to the middle-distance and distance events.
He said that with their addition, Kansas would be able to field three relay teams and place in each.
"They are that good," he said. "They are the top two recruits in the Midwest region."
Guymon said that the four athletes who signed were a great start but not the end of recruiting for Kansas track.
"We are going to Oklahoma this weekend, Texas next weekend and will be looking at the Missouri, Kansas state meet," he said.
Schwartz said that scholarships in track were different from those in sports like basketball and football.
He said that the track program could give partial scholarships rather than full ones to some athletes.
"We can give a partial scholar ship right down to the textbooks," he said.
Schwartz said that meant the team could try to sign as many athletes as it could.
"Recruiting in track is never over," he said.
Pacer's Schrempf named NBA Sixth Man
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Detief Schrepmt,
the Indiana Paupers' versatile
forward, was named winner today of
the NBA Sixth Man Award, beating Dan
Majerle of the Phoenix Suns by one vote.
The 6-foot-10 Schrempf, who has played all five positions during his six NBA seasons, received 38 votes to win the national championship nationwide panel of 96 sports writers
It was the closest vote in the award's nine-year history. Previously, the closest race was in 1989, when Eddie Johnson, then with Phoenix, beat Thurl Bailey of the Utah Jazz by seven votes.
and broadcasters, three from each league city and 15 representing the national media.
rebounds and a career-high 3.7 assists per game this season, in helping the Pacers to their second straight playoff berth. He also shot a career-high 260 from the field, 818 from the net, and 375 from 3-point range.
Schrempf, runner-up last year to Rickey Pierce, then with Milwaukee, averaged 16.1 points, a team-high 8.0
Majerle, the Suns' 6.4 forward-ground, averaged 13.6 points, 5.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, off the bench in 70 of 77 games.
Justin Knupp/Special to the KANSAN
Pushing off
Brian Hollands, Tulsa, Okla., freshman, throws the shot-put as part of his afternoon workout next to Memorial Stadium. Hollands, a member of the KU track team, took advantage of the weather yesterday to practice his form and distance before the end of the semester.
Former college athlete arrested for 2 murders
Roy Zachary Williams, 25, was arrested at his mother's home in Compton, Calif., on Monday night, said homicide Detective William Col-
LOS ANGELES — A former Cleveland State basketball player was arrested and charged with the murders of two teenagers, Long Beach police said yesterday.
Collette said Williams became a target for investigation in the killings of the two young women after a test determined his DNA matched that in secretions found at Young's murder scene.
Williams has been charged with the 1988 murder of Trina Denise Young, 19, and the 1989 murder of Lena Aldridge, 19 police said. He was warranted for failure to appear in court as a rape charge in Ohio, Collette said.
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The results of the DNA testing came in about six weeks ago, after
Williams voluntarily donated blood for testing, Collette said.
Williams first was questioned by police in July 1989, after Aldridge's body was found stuffed into the trunk of her car in San Diego. Williams was released after medical examiners could not find a cause of death because Aldridge's body was badly decomposed.
Young was found strangled and stabbed in her mother's home in North Long Beach in 1988.
Kevin Sharkey, 25, collapsed after being tackled by Richard Heke in an amateur league match between teams from the Brisbane suburbs of Sydney and Wellington on Saturday. Sharkey was taken to a hospital where he lapsed into a coma
Rugby player charged in death of competitor
BRISBANE, Australia — A rugby player has been played with manslaughter following the death of a woman during a weekend match, police said.
and died Sunday afternoon. An auto psy showed he died as a result of a blow to the head.
Heke was charged with manlaughter late Monday and police said the charge was likely to be heard in court today.
Basketball star to leave LSU for junior college
BATON ROUGE, La. — Defensive star Shawn Griggs will leave Louisiana State after this semester and enroll at Pratt Community College, Pratt basketball community Joe Johnson said.
Griggs led the Southeast Conference with 2.8 steals a game last season and set a single-game SEC record with 10 steals against Tennessee. He averaged 8.8 points a game and 3.8 rebounds, starting the season at small forward and shifting to off guard later in the year.
He was ineligible for his freshman season and played last season as a sophomore. Johnson said if Griggs got his associate degree at the Kansas junior college he would still have two years of eligibility remaining at a four-year college.
Former player named assistant coach at MU
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Kim Anderson, former Big Eight player of the year at Missouri, was named an All-Star for the first time in coach Norm Stewart yesterday.
Anderson played forward-center at Missouri from 1974-77 and was named the conference's player of the season. He scored 22.1 points in Big Eight games.
Anderson, 35, replaces Bob Sundvold, who resigned after Missouri was placed on probation by the NCAA for recruiting violations last fall but remained on the job until the end of the basketball season.
He has been an assistant to Gene Iba at Baylor for the past six years and previously was a part-time assistant for four years at Missouri.
Softball team wins one darkness halts second
Kansas was able to get a 2-1 victory against Wichita State before the sky took its toll on the game.
The second game was tied 2-2 when the game was canceled in the seventh inning.
KU golf team places fourth in tournament
Darkness forced the Jayhawks double-header softball games against Wichita State yesterday to end early in Wichita.
Kansas' record improved to 36-12 for the season with the victory.
Oklahoma won the title with a three round total of 943.
The Kansas women's golf team finished fourth yesterday in the Big Eight Conference tournament in Columbia, Mo.
Oklahoma State finished in second place, three strokes behind the Sooners.
The Jayhawks' team total was 881. Junior Shelly Triplett was Kansas' leading scorer. She finished ninth with an individual total of 237.
The tournament's medalist was Oklahoma's Cathy Stevens with a score of 232.
Lacrosse team wins two games in weekend play
The KU lacrosse club won two games and lost one during the weekend. The team beat the University of Missouri 14-7 and Kansas State 8-7. The club lost to St. Louis University 8-4.
High scorers for the tournament were John Armstrong, of Englewood, Colo., with five goals. Rob Krach, also from Englewood, had four goals and Super Hapke, from St. Louis, had three.
From wire and staff reports