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SPORTS
U N I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1996
Cyclones blow Jayhawks down
Kansas drops to sixth place after two losses
AMES, Iowa — Kansas baseball coach Bobby Randall did almost everything he set out to do on his return trip to Iowa State.
By Dan Gelston Kansan sportswriter
He saw old friends, he visited the new press box he raised money to build, and got to see how his former team was doing.
But he didn't win.
The Jayhawks were swept by Iowa State in a shortened twogame series last weekend at Cap Timm Field.
The Jayhawks lost 12-10 on Friday and 5-3 on Saturday. Snow canceled yesterday's game.
It was Randall's first trip to Ames since he left the Cyclones to become coach at Kansas. He was the head coach at Iowa State for 11 years.
Kansas, 16-20 overall and 6-12 in the Big Eight Conference saw the Cyclones, 13-19 overall, 7-10 in the Big Eight, leap ahead in the conference race. The Jayhawks entered the series with a one-game lead on the Cyclones, only to see it disappear.
"They're playing very good baseball right now," Randall said after Saturday's loss. "We didn't play bad baseball. They outpitched us, (but) I wasn't displeased with the way we threw at all."
But despite tallying 10 hits, the batters could not sustain a serious rally.
Aric Petes (2-5), pitched perhaps his best game of the year for the Jayhawks, playing six innings and allowing all five runs on Saturday.
Kansas senior second baseman Josh Kliner gave the Jayhawks a 1-0 lead with a sacrifice fly in the first, allowing shortstop Joe DeMarco to score.
But even Kliner couldn't explain his success.
Gina Thornburg / KANSAN
It looked as if Kliner were taking batting practice on the Cyclones pitching staff, going 5 for 8 with two home runs and nine RBI in the two games.
The Cyclones could consider themselves lucky that only one run scored during Kilner's at bat. At least they got him out.
"I don't know why I hit them so well," he said. "I just happened to get some good pitches, and I'm able to take advantage."
The game was tied 2-2 at the beginning of the fifth, but the Cyclones took the lead for good with two runs in that innning.
"It itse like when we get good pitching, our hitting doesn't respond, and when we get good hitting, our pitching isn't there," Randall said. "We just have to find a way to get out of it. Like I told the team, this won't last forever."
Iowa State 5, Kansas 3
KANSAS (10-20)
| | ab | r | h | rk |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| ss DeMarco | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 3b Juday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| of Byrd | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2b Kilner | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1b Dimmick | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| lf Headley | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
dh Wilhelm | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
rf Oplipar | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
c Dean | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | 35 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
IOWA STATE (13-19)
ab r h rbl
dh Bahun 4 2 3 1
2b/1b Bohannon 5 0 1 0
cf DeReu 3 2 1 2
3b Cox 3 0 2 0
c Logan 4 0 1 2
if Vance 4 0 0 0
1b Grubb 0 0 0 0
2b Ipsen 4 0 0 0
rf Tremawan 4 0 0 0
ss Harmon 4 1 2 0
35 10 5
Kansas IP H R ER BB SO
Peters 6.0 9 5 5 3 5
Winged 2.0 1 0 0 0 4
Iowa State IP H R ER BB SO
Prehn 9.0 10 3 1 2 2
The Jayhawks were swept by the Cyclones last weekend in Ames, Iowa.
E Juday, Peters, Bohannon, Logan, Tremane
WDp DP Iowa 1, LOB Kansas 9, Iowa 7,
9 2B Behun (2) 3B None HR DeReu 8
Behun
"We could go out and win 10 games in a row. We have to remember how well we played earlier in the year."
Kansas first baseman Justin Headley said the team had to remain confident.
"We can't be getting too discouraged," he said. "There's still a lot of baseball to be played. We've got some big games with Nebraska and K-State coming up that we have to take advantage of."
Despite getting the two homers from Kliner and a solo shot from Andy Juday, the Jayhawks twice fell behind by six runs.
Kansas sophomore Linus Williams delivers a pitch in a game earlier this season at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Kliner batted 4 for 5 with two home runs and seven RBI, the second time this year that he has driven in seven runs in a game against the Cyclones.
Kliner had eight RBI against them in a 22-8 Jayhawk victory last month.
"I don't care about that right now," he said. "We lost; that's all I'm thinking about."
Kansas has dropped from fourth to sixth place in the Big Eight in just one week.
"This wasn't make-or-break by any means," Randall said. "We wanted to win. We thought we could win, but we have to get ready for tomorrow."
The Jayhawks are back in action when they play the Big Eight's seventh-place team, Nebraska, at 7 tomorrow night at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Of the seven teams in the Big Eight that field baseball teams, six make the Big Eight tournament.
Visit bittersweet for coach
Randall all smiles as friends gather
By Dan Gelston
Kansan sportswriter
AMES, Iowa — Kansas baseball coach Bobby Randall was all smiles as he conversed with the group of people that surrounded him after a loss on Saturday afternoon.
But the group wasn't the baseball team, and he wasn't smiling because it lost.
Instead, Randall was enjoying getting reacquainted with old friends and former players who had come to visit him.
It was an emotional weekend for Randall, who was making his first trip back to Ames since resigning to take the Kansas job in the fall. He had spent 15 years with the Cyclones — the first four as an assistant and the past 11 as the head coach.
He compiled a 309-311 record and led the team to last year's Big Eight Tournament championship game.
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"It was kind of a strange thing," he said. "I was thinking, 'Well maybe I
Randall faced his former team last month when the Cyclones visited Lawrence, but to actually come back to the city he called home for 15 years was bittersweet.
"I have all the respect and admiration for the team across the field."
Bobby Randall Kansas baseball coach
was going to think I belonged over there. But it felt like I belonged over here, and I desperately wanted our team to win."
Randall's successor, Lyle Smith, was an Iowa State assistant for 11 years, but he didn't take any special satisfaction in beating his old boss.
"None whatsoever," Smith said. "It's another game. It's just another Big Eight team that we have to play. It could be Nebraska or Oklahoma or whoever."
Cyclone senior shortstop Ryan Harmon was grateful for what Randall did for him while he was there.
"We have to win, and it doesn't matter who's coaching."
understands the game and knows what we're going through as players.
"It feels good to beat him up here, but there's no revenge involved."
"I learned a lot from him while he was here," he said. "He made me a better player defensively. He really
The other Cyclone senior, center fielder Darrin DeReu, said he could tell Randall put his stamp on the Jayhawks.
"They try to hit the ball the other way a lot. That's something he likes to do," he said. "They don't ever give up. Like (Friday) they kept battling until the final out. He was always telling us not to give up."
Eric Krogulski played for Randall from 1989 to 1992 and couldn't wait to see him in Jayhawk blue.
"It's definitely strange seeing him over there," he said. "It's hard to imagine him as something other than a Cyclone. I have such positive memories of our time together. It never amazed me, the things he could do.
"He could still turn a double play like you wouldn't believe."
Although Randall still has feelings for his former players, he's quick to point out Randall and Cyclones are two words that should only be associated with the past.
"I have all the respect and admiration for the team across the field," Randall said. "I was a part of it not too long ago, but I'm not anymore."
Kansas softball team breezes past Texas Tech
Kansan staff report
Winds gusting to about 40 mph yesterday nearly canceled the Kansas-Texas Tech softball game in Lubbock, Texas.
Raiders away.
She allowed just one hit and no runs in the Jayhawks' 8-0 victory, and moved her record to 13-6.
Kansas improved to 26-16 overall and 7-5 in the Big 12 Conference. Texas Tech dropped to 4-83 and 1-10 in the Big 12.
After an hour and a half delay, though, it was Kansas senior pitcher Beth Robinson who blew the Red.
Kansas sophomore shortstop Michelle Huber went 3 for 4, including a double. She also scored three times. The Jayhawks got two RBI off the bat of senior left fielder Katie Morgan, who went 2 for 3. Four of Kansas' runs were unearned as Texas Tech committed eight errors.
Yesterday's victory was the Jayhawks' sec.
ond in the three-game weekend series against the Red Raiders. The teams split a doubleheader on Saturday. Kansas won the first 5-1 and lost 5-4 in the second. Texas Tech's win against the Jayhawks was the Red Raider's first Big 12 victory this season.
Offensively, Kansas sophomore catcher Kristina Johnson, who went 2 for 4, knocked in two runs during the fifth inning when the Jayhawks took a 4-1 lead. Hubler and junior second baseman Heather Richins also went 2 for 4, and sophomore third baseman Sarah McCann went 2 for 3.
The Jayhawks' lone loss this weekend dropped freshman pitcher Sarah Workman to 12-8. She allowed just one earned run on seven hits in the loss, but Kansas had four errors and left eight runners on base.
In the opener, Robinson went the distance and let just one Texas Tech runner score. She also struck out five and walked one.
Johnson again led the Jayhawks. She went 2 for 4 with a triple, a double and a RBI.
Kansas travels to Omaha, Neb., to face Greighton at 4 p.m. today. The doubleheader will make up for games that were canceled because of bad weather on Mar. 27.
Matt Flickner / KANSAN
Kansas second baseman Heather Richins avoids an inside pitch in last week's doubleheader against Southwest Missouri State. The Jayhawks defeated Texas Tech yesterday, 8-0.
Streets clear of electors
Finally, it's safe to walk across Wesco Beach.
I've got just one message for the new student representatives — new
Although having flier after flier stuffed in my face made me feel as popular as William Shatner at a Star Trek convention, I'm glad the elections are finished.
freedon neither.
If you really have a "vision," you'll give it some serious consideration, because this campus badly needs one.
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EDITOR
To celebrate the changing of the guard, let's talk about a guard that needs a change—a change of attitude, that is.
Watching Laker guard Nick Van Exel nudge
an official last Wednesday night made me wonder what level of basketball game I was watching. Lowering the shoulder at an official is something that would be considered immature at the elementary school level.
Even more remarkable is Van Exel's comments during the fallout of the re-checking incident. Van Air-airhead said that the ref made a nasty remark to provoke him. He also said that $25,000 was too steep a fine.
Swallow your pride, Nick. Just because you've played well enough lately to reach the level of mediocrity in the NBA doesn't mean you're above the law. I'll give you seven words that most likely will never come out of your mouth, but they are the only ones that would rectify your situation.
"I was wrong, and I am sorry."
Enough of playing this Desperado role — it's time to come to your senses.
I spent Friday night listening to last season's football coach of the year—Northwestern's Gary Barnett. Barnett, as I found out that night, is one of the kindest and most professional in his field.
Barnett spoke about his season and gave numerous motivational tactics and anecdotes. During both his press conference and speech, Barnett praised Kansas coach Glen Mason for turning around a football program at a basketball school.
Instead, Snyder used such class acts as quarterback Brian Kavanagh, who beat up a K-State student and his dog.
Although he is reluctant to take much of the credit himself, Barnett is the best football coach in America. Forget coaches like Lou Holtz or Steve Spurrier, who came into programs that were already well established.
Kansas State's Bill Snyder isn't in Barnett's class either. Snyder did turn a laughing stock into a contender, but he didn't do it with the strict admission requirements that Northwestern has implemented.
Barnett's Wildcats won college football's toughest conference, and they did it with class.
True, Barnett has achieved great success only one season. But with a strong squad, featuring Heisman Trophy finalist Darnell Autry, Northwestern has nowhere to go but up.
Thumbs down to the U.S. Olympic Committee for selecting Charles Barkley for the last spot on the Dream Team. In case you have forgotten, Chuck lowered an elbow at an Angolan player at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
Barkley also was involved in a controversy about the Reebok logo on the official team warmup suits. Charles originally had said that he would probably skip the medals ceremony, rather than wear the warmups with the Reebok logo.
But Barkley and several other players chose to drape American flags over the logs instead of foregoing the ceremony.
With such players as Anfernee Hardaway, Grant Hill, Reggie Miller and Hakeem Olajuwon, winning the gold is pretty much a sure thing. Adding a loud mouth, has-been like Barkley can only cast a negative image on the U.S. team.
My choice would have been Super-
sonic Shawn Kemp.