En route to a rout
Photo by Rick Pendergrass
Members of the KU rubgy team (dark jerseys) fight for the ball against the University of Missouri KU smashed MU 20-0 to wind up the spring season with a 4-1 mark and a first place league finish.
Rugby club anxious
20-0 victory ends season as team looks to next year
With a 20-0 smashing over the University of Missouri Saturday afternoon, the KU Rugby team finished a highly successful spring season, and with nothing left between now and the '69 fall campaign but a long hot summer, team members have begun to sit back and start thinking of next year—and what a year it might be.
For the most part next season's returning squad will be made up of the same talent that put together this year's speedy
scoring machine which carried Kansans to a 4-1 record over the spring—the only loss a 12-9 heartbreaker at the hands of MU earlier in the season.
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Saturday the KU blue tallied five tri's, one conversion, and one field goal to avenge in a big way their earlier loss to the Tigers.
Scoring tri's-equivalent to a touchdown in football-were Ralph Johnson, Brent Bagget, Gary Patzkowsky, and Jim Thurmord. Converting once was Bob Marquis, and veteran Pat Wrap booted the field goal.
A total of 11 contests have been slated for the '69-'70 fall and spring seasons. Team captain Gary Patzkowsky, Kiowa junior, along with other Rugby club members have scheduled matches for next fall with St. Louis University, Notre Dame, University of Missouri, and the Kansas City Blues Rugby Club. Seven games have already been slated for next year's spring
Besides lengthening the team's winning streak to three games, the victory gave KU first place in the Heart of America league. Next year the squad hopes to get out of the five-team conference and move onto bigger and better things.
season including matches with the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and possibly University of Colorado.
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Patzkowsky explained that the eleven dates are a good start, but are not the entire schedule. He said there are still several open dates which can be filled with matches between KU and other Midwestern teams.
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"The next step is to go to the athletic department and ask for finances. The fencing, volleyball, and soccer teams are all financed by the Physical Education department and the Rugby team involves more people than any of those organizations," Patzkowsky added.
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He also said that there are tournaments such as the nationalists-held this year in Chicago-which the KU squad would be able to compete in if they had some means of financing their expenses other than digging into the pockets of the team members.
KU, which had a combined record of 11-2 from this year's overall mark and last spring's campaign, has a respectable national ranking and a solid young team with the coordinated experience it takes to become a Midwestern power.
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So the team looks to next year with their hopes high and their fingers corses. A little financial flavoring just might be the thing the Ruby players need to put together one of those years to remember.
Team Hitting
H AVG.
Kansas State 95 287
Oklahoma State 127 271
Colorado 103 249
Oklahoma 103 228
Missouri 99 228
Kansas 84 226
Iowa State 90 225
Nebraska 60 211
League-leading Oklahoma State came to town for a three game series with KU, who is fighting for their winingest season in years, and exploded for 23 runs to sweep the series, and send the Jayhawks conference record whirling down to 5-11.
Team Position PO E AVEG.
Nebraska 203 13 965.
Okahoma 351 16 962.
Okahanna State 362 19 962.
Missouri 339 19 954.
Iowa State 302 26 947.
Kansas State 240 26 927.
Kansas 273 31 925.
Colorado 311 36 923.
Team Fielding
Jayhawks drop three to first place OSU
Pitching
FIELDING W L ERA
Ron Hall, Okla. 2 1 1.17
Bill Dake, Okla. St. 3 0 1.46
Bill Maxwell, Okla. St. 5 0 1.46
Ailur, Nebury. 2 1 1.73
Dick Brown, Okla. 3 0 1.73
Dick Silesch, Okla. 3 0 1.73
Dick Slesch, Kans. 2 2 2.30
Bob Lingle, Iowa St. 1 3 2.35
Bob Sheetz, Moo. 3 1 2.43
Bob Weiss, Iowa St. 1 3 2.43
Dehnli, Ranzau, Okla. 4 0 2.56
Dave Robisch, Kans. 2 2 2.93
The Cowboys tripped up KU on both ends of a twinbill Friday, 7-2 and 8-3, then on Saturday rallied for four runs in the seventh to cap off the three game sweep with a 8-3 win.
KU bounced back in the bottom of the third with two runs as Tommy Anderson doubled and scored on Kieth Lieppman's home run. From then on the 'Hawk bats were held scoreless as OSU picked up another tally for the 7-2 victory.
The first game of the triomatched KU's Roger Jackson against the Cowboy's Bob Richardson. All the action for both teams came in the third frame when Oklahoma State opened the inning with a triple by Steve Houck. He was singled home by Roger Manaugh then Bob Tate and Fred Dumler hit back-to-back homers to give the Cowpokes a 6-0 lead.
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Through the first six innings of the second game the contest shaped up to be a pitchers dual between Bill Dobbs of OSU and Dave Robisch. Scorless until the seventh both teams picked up two runs in that inning, but in the eighth the Cowboys erupted for six runs on five hits to walk away two wins richer.
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The Jayhawks got their only other run on a 380-foot blast off the bat of Paul Womble as KU dropped the contest, 8-3.
seventh OSU staged a rally that saw the Cowboys get seven runs for the 8-3 win.
KU got two of their runs in the first on a two-run shot by Kieth Lieppman. Also scoring on four-bagger was second baseman Lynn Snelgrove who had opened the game with a single.
In Saturday's single game KU tried to revenge Friday's double loss as they battled the Cowboys through six innings, and only one run back going into the
As KU was down 3-2 going into the seventh, OSU came up with five singles—the biggest blow Joe Sorenson's bases-loaded safety—to score seven runs before reliever Corky Ullom bailed starter Richard Slicker out of the inning.
With the sweep of the series OSU retained their slender hold on first place in the hot Big Eight baseball race. Their record now stands at 15-3 in conference play, and 18-7 overall. KU's loop mark rests at 5-11, and is 10-13 for the year.
The other score came on a solo balst by Biff Temple in the last of the seventh.
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