University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 30, 1991
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'Hawks lose final game of series to Cyclones
Kansas drops to fifth place in conference race
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
In the completion of Sunday's rain-suspended baseball game, the Iowa State Cyclones slipped past Kansas 10-8 in eight innings yesterday afternoon at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
With the victory, Iowa State took three of the four games in the series and moved past the Jayhawks into place in the Big Eight Conference.
Kansas fell to five place with four conference games at Missouri remaining. The Jayhawks must finish in the top eight for quality for the Big Eight tournament
"We're still not out of it," Kansas coach Dave Bingham said. "I told the kids if we can win three, we still have a chance on the tie-breaker."
Beginning where Sunday's game was halted, Iowa State began yesterday's scheduled seven-inning game in G-1 lead in the top of the second.
After Kansas right-hander Joel Bacon retired the Cyclones in order, the Jayhawks began slicing into the Iowa State lead.
Kansas second baseman Jeff Berlinger led off with a walk and moved to third one batter later on Kansas right fielder Denard Stewart's double
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Berblering scored on designated hitter John Wuycheck's ground out to second. Stewart cut the Cyclone lead in third, and David Sault sacrificed him home.
Iowa State pushed their lead to 6-3 in the top of the third, but the Jayhawks stormed back with a Jeff Niemier RBI single and a Gerry Camara two home run run to knot the score at 6 after three innings.
Although both teams threatened, there was no more scoring until the top of the seventh.
After Iowa State third baseman Rod Pottrat drew a lead-off walk, Cyclone center fieldier Eric Krogulski lined a two-run run that barely cleared the right-center field fence.
Trailing 8-6 in the bottom of the seventh. Camara answered with a two-out RBI single over second base, and Kansas center field Chris Moore.
The game was sent into extra innings when Camara scored off a Berlinger full-count single to left
by right-hander Jim Walker after hitting Iowa State shortstop John Camelin with a pitch.
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Both Iowa State runners scored, giving the Cyclones a decisive 10-8 lead. Kansas was retired after four batters in the bottom of the eighth.
Mahoney, who had hit a grand slam home run off Walker earlier in the series, slammed a double to the left-center power alley.
Iowa State coach Bobby Randall said the game could have been won by either team.
"This KU club is a bunch of fighters," he said. "They're one of the best we've played this year, and we've played some good ones."
Bingham said that the decisive factor in the game and the series was the Cyclones' offensive production.
"They flat beat our brains in," he said. "I have to give Iowa State credit. We didn't play as well as can, but they had a lot to do with it."
The Jayhawks, 29-25 overall and 9-11 in the Big Eight, will face third-ranked Wichita State at 7 onight.
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Kansas catcher Jire Niemeyer slides safely into second against Iowa State's Mark Elsinger. The Cyclones defeated the Jayhawks 10-8.
Kansas to take on Wichita State
By Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas softball team will face Wichita State in a doubleheader at 3 p.m. in Wichita
The Jayhawks are coming off a weekend in which they split two game series with Oklahoma State and Nebraska.
Junior pitcher Shelly Sack said the weekend's games showed the Jayhawks that they needed to work on their hitting and their attitudes.
"Nobody was really fired up and ready to play." Sack said.
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She said the team would be ready for Wichita State today.
"We need these two wins," Sack said. "We're not looking past Wichita, but we’re definitely gearing up for the Big Eight on Friday."
Sack said that Kansas hit the ball well at the Big Eight Conference Round Robin on Saturday in Lincoln, Neb., but after the Jayhawks were shutout Sunday, they noticed there was room for improvement.
Sack said Kansas should have a good chance to beat Wichita State. She said the Jayhawks' pitching and defense were where they should be.
Sack said that Wichita State was a strong team and that if the Jayhawks did not play hard today they could experience an upset.
"They could come out and beat us, but if we come out and play ball, and we hit the ball, we should win," Sack said.
"It will be to our advantage to come out and hit the ball," Arterburn said. "As long as we hit the ball, we can win."
Junior shortstop Christy Arterburn said she thought Kansas would win today's games.
"It it proved what we already knew," Arterburn said.
She said she was looking at the games against Wichita State as preparatory games for the Big Eight tournament, which begins Friday.
Tennis teams look toward future success
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
However, the Jayhawks went a long way in laying the foundation for future success.
Now that the Big Eight Conference tournament is over, the Kansas men's and women's tennis teams wanted to accommodate this season.
Kansas women's tennis coach Michael Center said the Jayhawks' third-place tournament finish was not indicative of a good season.
"We doubled our wins over last year, received votes in the national poll for the first time and moved fourth to third in the conference."
"Overall, we didn't play the way we're capable of in certain spots over the weekend," he said. "But we did some positive things this year.
The Jayhawks also saw junior
Eveline Hamers claim her third No. 1
singles crown in three years.
"Eveline made her mark over the weekend," Center said. "She will go down as the most dominating player in women's Big Eight history."
Hamers has qualified for the women's NCAA tournament May 13 in San Francisco, but she said that she would take the next season than for this postseason.
"We're only losing two girls, Stacy (Stotts) and Mindy (Pelz), plus there are three good freshmen coming in," she said. "Hopefully, we'll get better and better. That's what I want my fourth year."
Continued improvement is also what Center wants.
"We're definitely an improved team," he said. "Mentally, I think we need to learn how to compete for a championship. That's a goal for next year."
Center's disappointment in the Jayhawks' performance in the Big
Eight tournament was shared by Kansas men's tennis coach Scott Perelman.
Three days after Kansas dropped the men's title to Oklahoma State by two points, he was feeling some ill side effects.
"I'm not doing too well," he said.
"I feel like we gave it away."
Entering the tournament in second place and three points behind the Cowboys, Kansas failed on several occasions to erase Oklahoma State's lead.
"In the seminals of singles and doubles and the finals of doubles, we had chances to win." Perelman said. "It isn't as though the door opened once. It opened five or six times and it just couldn't take advantage of it."
Despite losing the overall title, the Jayhawks did claim three conference championships.
ished first in 3. no singles, and junior Patrick Han won the 6. no singles. Haan teamed with freshman Rhan and claimed the 3. no doubles crowns.
In the wake of those victories, Perelman, like Center, found the silver lining in the Jayhawks' season.
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"We've had an excellent season," Perelman said. "We've experienced things this program never has before."
Among those things are two victories over top-five ranked Tennessee and a No. 13 national ranking, the Jayhawks' highest ever.
As a team, Kansas is on the bubble for an at-large bid to the 20-team NCAA tournament.
Perealman said the No. 1 Kansas doubles team of Walker and Craig Wildey probably would qualify for NCAA postseason play, and Wildey had an outside chance to do the same
Six crew entries advance to finals
By Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas crew entered six boats in the Midwest Rowing Championship this weekend at Lake Wingra in Madison, Wis., and all six made it to the finals of their events.
The men's freshman notice four finished highest among the Kanas entries. They took third place.
The men's varsity eight finished sixth, and the men's varsity light eight grabbed seventh place.
All three of the women's teams finished in fifth place.
Kansas coach Rob Catloh said Kansas proved with its performance that it was in the same class as the other schools at the race.
"We row really competitively with all of those crews." Catloth said.
Catalto said he was pleased with the teams' finishes because this was the first year that all of Kansas' boats made it to finals.
More than 30 crews participated in the regatta, including Wisconsin, the men's varsity eight defending national champions.
Catloth said there were few races, if any, that Kansas raced in during the weekend that Wisconsin did not take first place. He said the Wisconsin women's varsity team had won the Midwest championship race for the past 20 years.
Catloth said the only thing holding Kansas back was inexperience. The team is young. Catloth will be members of their staff members stay on all four years.
"We just don't have the seasoning." Catloth said in regard to the women's teams.
Still, Catloth said the Kansas crew had shown all year how good it could be.
"We were in the thick of all the races." Catloth said.
Chris Davis, Kansas City. Mo.
senior, is one crew member who has been on the team since his freshman year. He said he had noticed changes in the Kansas team.
He said the size of the men's team has decreased from about 25 members to about 12. At the same time, competition has improved, he said
"We were hoping to finish closer," Davis said. "If we would have had one of our best races we could have beat Northwestern."
Wisconsin finished first in the men's varsity eight race. Purdue finished second and Northwestern finished third.
Tami Odell, Norman, Okla. sophomore, said the races against crews such as Wisconsin's were difficult.
"It's a higher level of rowing," Odell said. "We don't have the experience."
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Chris Beal, Sedgwick sophomore, and Mandana Ershad, Pittsburg graduate student in microbiology, practice self-defense techniques during the Kempo club meeting.
Bo making progress, specialist says
The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A sports medicine specialist who examined Bo Jackson for about four hours yesterday said that the two-sport star's recovery from a hip injury that he should not get rid of his crutches yet.
"We did not expect him to heal this injury during this period," said Jim Andrews, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Medicine and "orthopedic Center."
Jackson returned to Birmingham for his first in-depth examination in six weeks.
Jackson, 28. was released by the Kansas City Royals in March after the team's doctor determined that Jackson's football-related hip injury would not allow him to play baseball this year.
He signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox earlier this month.
"I passed my exam with flying colors," Jackson said at a news conference. "I'll be back on the playing field soon."
But Andrews said Jackson should continue using crutches for a safety factor as the physical-therapy program accelerated.
"Bo's hip continues to be normal." Andrew says. "Bastiany, we have a good relationship with you."
He said there was no evidence of any popping that would indicate loose bone fragments in the hip joint.
Jackson will be examined again in about four weeks.
Andrews said yesterday's exam included producing a three-dimensional image of the athlete's hip on a
computer.
"The bone appears to be undergoing a healing process," Andreas said. "This was the real positive aspect of the examination today. You can see reformation of bone injured when he was tackled."
Jackson sustained the injury, which doctors have described as a fracture-dislocation, in the Los Angeles Raiders' playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 13.
The Royals waived Jackson after their team doctor, Steve Joyce, told him Jackson should not play baseball this season.
Doctors have differed on whether Jackson, the only man to win football's Trophy and baseball's PW award, will ever play sports again.
Oklahoma State gains lead in golf tournament
Sports briefs
LEAWOOD — Oklahoma State's Bob May fire a three-under-par 60 in the second round of the Big Eight Conference Men's Golf Tournament, giving the Cowboys an 18-stroke lead yesterday.
Club. His 69 came after shooting a 7 in the first 18 holes earlier yesterday.
May holds a one-shot lead over Kansas' Matt Gaget in the race for individual medalist honors. Gogel shot a 72-77-14. Oklahoma State's Craig Hainline and Oklahoma's Patrick Lee each shot a 76-74-150.
May was the only individual in the tournament to shoot under par on a cold, windy day at Hallbrook Country
Brown decides it will eliminate four sports
Oklaahoma State, the six-time defending champion, shot a 36-hole total of 59. Oklaahoma is in second place at 617, followed by Nebraska (634), Kansas (637), Iowa State (641), Oklahoma, Kansas State (658) and Colorado (660).
The 18-hole final round begins today.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University announced yesterday that it
was eliminating four varsity sports in an effort to avert a projected budget deficit.
Men's water polo, men's golf,
women's gymnastics and women's
voleball will be eliminated in the
14th round about 75,000, the university said.
"All departments are being asked to cut their budgets," Executive Vice President Robert A. Reichley said. "Essentially, we are downsizing the institution in an effort to eliminate a deficit for this year and through long-range planning and relocations, bring the budget permanently in line so that deficits can be avoided in the years to come."
From staff and wire reports