UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 17, 1997
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Women's golf swings strong finale
Team placed sixth in regular season
Kansan staff report
The Kansas women's golf team ended the regular season the best way it could - by playing some of the best golf it had played all year.
The team finished in sixth place at the Susie Maxwell Classic in Norman, Okla., with a队 score of 968. It was one of the best season performances, and placed the team just eight strokes behind
third place finishers Baylor and the University of Texas-Ell Paso.
The Jayhawks finished 35 strokes behind tournament champion Oklahoma.
Leading the way for Kansas was senior Missy Russell, who was playing in the final regular season college tournament of her career. Russell grabbed sixth place, her best finish of the season. She shot a three-round total of 232, the season lowest. It was the 19th time in her career that Russell earned a top-25 finish.
Russell finished eight strokes behind tournament champion Isabelle Blais of Oklahoma, who
shot a three-round score of 224.
Kansas freshman Susan Tressary grabbed 33rd place, breaking her string of three consecutive top-25 finishes. She shot rounds of 77, 85, and 84 for a total of 246.
The 11-team tournament, which was played at The Trails Golf Country Club, contained five Big 12 Conference teams.
The Jayhawks finished behind Oklahoma, who took first, Texas Tech, who finished second, and Baylor, who earned third.
Kansas will compete in the Big 12 tournament at Alvamar Country Club in Lawrence beginning on Sunday.
Berning Classic results
Top Team finishes
1. Oklahoma ... 933
2. Texas Tech ... 936
3. Texas El Paso ... 960
4. Baylor ... 960
5. Wichita State ... 961
6. Kansas ... 962
Kansas Finishes
Kansas Fresnes
6. Missy Russell . . . 232
30. Mandy Munsch . . . 245
33. Susan Tressary . . . 246
41. Beth Reuter . . . 249
48. Carrie Padden . . . 251
56. Anne Clark . . . 255
Kansas golf grabs recruit for men's team
High school standout signs letter of intent
Kansan staff report
The University of Kansas men's golf coaches have been on the recruiting trail and the hard work finally paid off.
Earlier this week, Casey Harbour, Lake Quivera, signed a letter of intent to play for the Kansas men's golf team next fall.
Harbour is a senior at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park. Harbour helped his high school capture first place in the season's first tournament.
Harbour is a two-time United
States Golf Association Junior Qualifier and a Big I Qualifier. He was named the 1995 Kansas City Player of the Year and was a high school regional champion.
Kansas golf coach Ross Randall said that Harbour was the top player on his recruiting list and that he was glad to see Harbour pick Kansas.
and a fine player," Randall said. "We are really looking forward to hearing him in some way."
"Casey is an excellent student
to having him join our team.
Kansas could use the recruit.
The team will lose two players from this season's roster.
Kit Grove, Lincoln, Neb., senior, and Vance Holtzman, Altamont senior, will leave the team after the spring semester.
Grove is a past Academic All- Conference selection and has the second best stroke average on the team.
Tiger Woods' donations to aid Kansas Newman
Catholic college to auction balls signed by champ
The Associated Press
WICHITA — He might not even know it, but golf sensation Tiger Woods could prove to be a big benefactor for a small Kansas college.
Two Titleist golf balls, autographed by the sport's new superstar, who rewrote the record books at The Masters this year, will be the featured items at an auction to benefit Kansas Newman College, a Roman Catholic school in Wichita.
And the tale of how the college's Sister Margaret came to possess the treasures almost seems like
divine intervention.
Sister Margaret, 76, was in charge of procuring big names for Kansas Newman's 13th annual scholarship golf tournament to be held on May 3.
After lining up former Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Nick Lowery to take part, Sister Margaret was still short of her goal — to get some golfer who's really famous.
Then, late in March, she traveled to Cincinnati to take part in a Sisters of Charity retreat.
While there, she had a visit from her sister Pat, who lives in Columbus, Ohio. And Pat brought along a friend, Betty, who nearly missed the trip because she'd been chatting with her interesting neighbor, one Mike Cowan.
Cowan, it seems, isn't home much because he has to travel a lot for his work. Since last year, he's been caddying for that young wizard, Tiger Woods.
Sister Margaret was onto something. She asked the favor to Betty — could she get anything of Woods'?
Cowan came through and so did Betty, delivering the prized golf balls a couple of days later.
Little League ousts Taiwan for violations
Taiwan, the reigning champions of the Little League World Series and 12 of the last 23 tournaments, left the organization yesterday and will not defend its title, the league said.
Officials in Williamsport, Pa., home of the annual championship, said Taiwan had broken league rules by drawing players from an overpopulated area, even though the players were from the same school.
Representatives from the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association, the governing body in Taiwan, met with Little League officials April 1 to discuss other alleged violations, but ended up focusing on the population issue.
League rules restrict teams from drawing players from areas with a population larger than 20,000. Since 1992, high-density areas have been able to tie their leagues to school populations; one league is permitted per 1,000 students in grades kindergarten through 7th.
In Taiwan, single leagues were pulling players from schools with more than 3,000 children, said Lance Van Auken, Little League Baseball representative.
"They said they would have great difficulty in making that stick," Van Auken said. "When they left they said they wanted to go home and basically think about it."
CTBA faxed notice of its withdrawal to Williamsport yesterday
The fax said that, although baseball in Taiwan had prospered with LLB, Taiwan's society and culture made it difficult to comply with its regulations.
There was no answer yesterday at the CTBA headquarters in Taiwan.
"Cultural differences." Those are the words they used," Van Auken said. "They simply didn't want to have three leagues in that one school. That in itself gives them a distinct competitive advantage."
Since itjoined the league in 1969, Taiwan has dominated World
Series play. Last year the championship game was stopped in the fifth inning after Taiwan built up a 10-run advantage — the most allowed — against a team from Cranston, R.I. Before that, it had outscored opponents 49-6.
Despite their overpowering success, the Taiwan players were universally quiet and respectful. They would salute umpires and bow to the crowd after victories.
"We do appreciate the openness of the CTBA in making this decision," said Stephen D. Keener, president of Little League Baseball. "As with any group ... willing to abide by (our) rules and regulations, we welcome the leagues in Chinese Taipei to return at any time."
Van Auken said he did not know if Taiwan had broken the rule before. In 1993, Taiwan and several other teams from the Far East tournament were declared ineligible because players were drawn from outside league areas.
In previous years, some teams had complained that the Taiwan players, many of whom were much taller than their competitors, were older than the 12-year-old league limit. Van Auken said the allegations had been investigated and the team cleared.
"It's an inherent danger," Van Auken said. "We have to depend on people at the local level to follow the rules. Everybody is presumed innocent until something comes up to show they are not."
Taiwan fielded 35 leagues last year, a tiny percentage of the more than 7,500 programs charted throughout the world. Nearly 3 million baseball players in all 50 states and 83 countries compete each year.
"I would think that the general reaction for people might be that the biggest competitor in Little League is out of the way, at least for now," Van Auken said.
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"I think this might even peak people's interest. If you take them out of the mix, it might make other people think they have a chance."
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