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Monday, April 28, 1997
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Men's golf starts Big 12 Conference Tournament play
The University of Kansas men's golf team begins competition today in the Big 1.2 Conference Tournament,
The two-day event is at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson. The par-70 course has hosted the tournament for the last six years.
Kit Grove, Brad Barnett, Chris Thompson, Brad Davis and Ryan Vermeer will compete for the Jayhawks. Grove and Thompson are the only Kansas players who competed in the event last year.
Thompson leads Kansas with a season average of 74.14. Grove has also been a strength for the Jayhawks, posting a stroke average of 76.53 during the last three years.
"Kit is a hard worker and a pressure player who seems to play his best in the conference championship, regionals and NCAA finals," Kansas coach Ross Randall said.
At last year's Big Eight Tournament, Kansas placed fifth, its worst showing in the last five years. The team was runner-up from 1993 to 1995. Grove tied for tenth place individually at the 1996 Big Eight Tournament.
The tournament will conclude tomorrow.
MU softball moves into first in Big 12 after beating 'Hawks
The No. 23 Kansas softball team continued to struggle offensively, losing 2-0 and 2-1 to the No. 7 Missouri Tigers on Saturday. The losses dropped the Jayhawks to 34-19 overall and 11-6 in the Big 12 Conference. The two Missouri victories, along with Nebraska's 2-1 victory against Oklahoma on Saturday, assured the Tigers of this season's Big 12 softball title. Kansas will take on the Cornhuskers in a double-header tomorrow afternoon in Lincoln, Neb.
Kansan staff reports
Kansas track team performs well in several weekend competitions
Team makes finals in all relays except men's 4x400 race
By Matt Woodruff
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas track and field team finished a busy week on Saturday afternoon at the 88th annual Drake Relays in Des Moines and the UMKC Invitational in Kansas City. Mo.
At Drake, the women's throwing group of Kim Feldkamp, Marlea Woodman, Lisa Beran and April
Kockrow continued to perform well, placing at least one member of the team in the top 10 of each throwing event.
The Kansas relay teams also performed well in Iowa, with the men's 4x100 team and the women's 4x400 and 4x200 teams advancing to finals.
"I was pleased with the fact that we made the finals in all of our relays except for the men's 4x400." Kansas coach Gary Schwartz said.
Pierre Lisk had a strong meet, placing fifth in the 100-meter finals with a time of 10.79 and running the anchor leg of the seventh-place 4x100 relay team with Grady Black-
At UMKC, Kansas had 13 athletes place in the top five of their events, and Lewis Theobald lead the way with his first-place finish in the steeplechase (9:34.40).
mon. Marcus Scheid and Nate Hill.
Second-place finishers for the Jayhawks included Paul Tan in the triple jump (47-5) and Jon Colby Miller in the pole vault (16-1).
In Friday's action, the Kansas women's 4x20 relay team of Carleen Roberts, Madinah Hazim, Diamond Williams and Tamra Montgomery finished fifth overall with a time of 1:38.32.
On Thursday, distance runners Ricardo Amezcua and Jerry Pullins
competed in the 10,000-meter run at the 103rd annual Penn Relays in Philadelphia.
Amezcua finished fifth in the event with a time of 29:26.29, and Pullins was 13th with a time of 30:04.27.
Amezuca's time was good enough for a NCAA provisional qualifier, and Pullins missed the qualifying time of 29:10 by less than 10 seconds.
"I was very pleased with the way that both of them ran," Schwartz said. "Ricardo has more experience in the 10,000, but they were both running well."
The team will compete next weekend at the Oklahoma Invitational in Norman, Okla.
Johnson wins, draws crowd at Drake
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Michael Johnson isn't just a spinner anymore. He's a phenomenon.
workers swarmed toward Johnson.
From the moment Johnson arrived at the Drake Relays in an 18-foot stretch limousine and donned his purple shoes, the crowd belonged to him.
Hundreds of athletes, workers and judges in the infield craned their necks to glimpse him in the starting blocks. The sold-out crowd of 18,000 waited on edge for the starter's gun. Those without tickets stood four and five deep along the fence at the open end of the u-shaped stadium.
And after he won Saturday's 200-meter race in the world's fastest time this year—20.05 seconds—photographers, cameramen and meet
"I expect reactions like that here because there are a lot of very knowledgeable track fans at Drake "Johnson said.
It was such a mob scene, and Johnson couldn't even take a victory lap. He finally had to duck into a stadium tunnel for his post-race interview.
expectations. a lot more dollars."
This is the way it has been for Johnson since he became the first man to win the 200 and 400 in the same Olympics, a performance he capped with a world-record 19.32 clocking in the 200.
"There's a lot more of everything that I've always been done," he said. "There's a lot of appearances to make, a lot more business opportunities, a lot more endorsements, a lot more autograph requests, a lot more interruptions, a lot more
Obadie Thompson, fourth in the Olympic finals of the 200, finished second to Johnson on Saturday in 20.36. They were close in the curve, but Johnson burst ahead at the top of the straightaway.
In other events, Baylor captured the 1,600 relay for the sixth straight year, winning in 3:04.67 and beating Iowa by almost three seconds.
Arizona's Bob Keino ran away from the field on the anchor leg of the distance medley relay to give his team its third straight victory in the event.
Hagedorn won the shot put with a throw of 63 feet, 71/4 inches—the best by a collegian this year.
Josh Hagedorn extended Iowa State's string of winning at least one event at Drake every year since 1981.
Track Results
Highlights of the Kansas track team's weekend Top Finishers
Penn Relays
Ricardo Amecua, 5th place
Men's 10,000 Meters, 29:26.29
Drake Relays
■ Kansas, 5th place, Women's
4x200 Relay, 1:38.32
■ Lisa Beran, 5th place, Women's
Discus 152-3
Pierre Lisk, 5th place, Men's 100 Meters, 10.79 seconds
UMKC
■ Lewis Theobald, 1st place,
Men's Steeplechase, 9:34.40
■ Paul Tan, 2nd place, Men's
Triple Jump, 47.5
Jon Colby Miller, 2nd place. Men's Pole Vault, 16-1
Amy Cook, 3rd place, Women's
800 Meters, 2:16, 06
Jason Archibald, 3rd place. Men's High Jump, 6-10
Brent Scholz, 4th place, Men's triple Triump, 46-3/4
Matt Norton, 4th place, Men's 800 Meters, 155.96
**Darin Schmitz, 4th place, Men's Hammer Throw, 168-3**
Brad Schepers, 5th place,
Men's Discus. 166-7
Emily Miles, 4th place, Women's
3,000 Meters, 10:37:86
Michael Cain, 5th place, Men's 80 meters, 156.72
Travis Batts, 5th place, Men's 100 Meters, 11.02
Shanna Shoemaker, 5th place,
Women's High Jump, 5-7 1/2
Olympics official condemns tolerance of drug use
The Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. The president of the International Olympic Committee assailed some Olympic sports yesterday for ignoring drug use among world-class athletes.
IOC chief also criticizes Nagano organizers for not promoting games to world, Japan
In an uncharacteristically blunt assessment, IOC chief Juan Antonio
swimming, was misdirected.
Although he declined to identify the sports failing to act, Saranacah said public scrutiny of drugs in high-profile events, such as track and
Samaranch also had some criticism for the organizers of next year's Nagano Olympics. Speaking after three days of meetings with the U.S. Olympic Committee, the IOC chief said Nagano needed to better promote the games.
Samaranch said that while most sports were fighting drugs, others closed their eyes to an issue almost three decades old.
"All the attention and all the criticism is going to the organizations that are fighting drugs," he said.
"Doping for these organizations is not existing," he said.
"They need to sell the games better to the world and Japan," Samara ranch said. "If you go to Tokyo now, you get the feeling that the Nagano
At the same time, however, Samaranch raised the bulk of preparations in Nagano and said a stronger yen eased the burden on organizers.
He also said signs pointed toward success for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where he visited Olympic sites before arriving at the USOC's headquarters.
Games are not so important."
"They are very much united with good relationships between the organizers, the governor and the municipality," Samaranch said. "I have no concerns."
This visit was just the third by Samaranch to the USOC's headquarters since he took office in 1980. Those long absences mirrored strained relations between the two Olympic groups, but Samaranch said that was changing under new USOC president Bill Hyll and executive director Dick Schultz.
"Never have we been so close and so friendly," he said. "The U.S. Olympic Committee is very important to the Olympic community worldwide and is maybe the best national Olympic committee in the world."
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