University Daily Kansan / Monday, May 1, 1989
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Volleyball club serves up regional tourney
Kansan sportswriter
by Beth Behrens
Kansas, didn't have a volleyball club in 1979, the year Ed LeClusey graduated. He played with students who bought their own uniforms and scheduled their own tournaments so they could play the game.
During the weekend, LeCluyse again helped to schedule a tournament, but this time he wasn't a player. He was a coach.
the IKE Volleyball Club was host for the United States Volleyball Association Heart of America Regional Tournament during the weekend.
Two of the men's teams and the women's team participated in the tournament, but none advanced to yesterday's finals.
Coach watches Jayhawks develop as a team
"The guys in the club are still young and inexperienced," LeCluyse said. "Some of the older teams just have the skills, so we expect them to play in a higher
division than they need to because tougher matches will get them experience. Besides that, it's more fun to play with better competition.
Lectusse said 80 teams from Missouri and Kansas participated. The teams were divided into six-tier pools within each division to determine which teams would advance to the semi-finals yesterday.
The four divisions were AA, A. BB and B. The top team from the AA and A divisions will advance to the national competition in Toledo, Ohio.
This is the second year that LeChyse has been tournament director. He volunteered for the position when regional director Hank Van Arsdale said he wanted to move the tournament to Washburn University because the Kansas club lacked leadership.
reputation around the area because the guys expected the tournamen to run themselves," LeClusey said. "I knew the club would most likely go defunct if they didn't get the leadership, and I didn't want to see that."
'(The club) started to get a bad
Bryan Hatton, Hutchinson senior and a member of the club, said LeCluyse provided a kind of leader's responsibility on the members.
LeChusie said he volunteered his services last year only to set up tournaments. He offered to coach the team, but he didn't travel with the club.
"Things have become more organized," Hatton said. "He says, 'I have the information about this tournament. You guys decide if you want to go or not. If we get it in late, we don't play. It's no skin off his back."
ing is left to us, and he runs the tournament. He expects us to help him out and be responsible for ourselves."
"Scheduling is left to us, the fund
on selves.
LeCluyse was a member of what he calls the forerunner of the KU Volleyball Club.
ball Club. He first started here, I played with a mixture of people from Lawrence and Topeka," LeCluys said. "Most of us were KU students, but volleyball wasn't an official club sport at the University. It didn't get club status until after I had graduated.
"I didn't want to see the program go under. We all do this because we love volleyball, not because we are air-paid. I want to see volleyball win."
Kansas volleyball coach Frankie Albitz said the Jayhawks did well in the AA women's division even though
they didn't make it to the finals.
"We had a rough season this fall because we lost a lot of players to graduation." Albizt said. "When you come in, it's hard to learn everything fast, yet you have to start playing and playing, and then you develop a developmental time for the team. They play in the spring so they can try to get ready for next year."
Albizt said the tournament was more relaxed than the fall season. She said the spring season gave the team more control about the pressure of the collegiate play.
"The competition in the tournament is good," Albitz said. "The clubs here are better than most of the teams, because they are more experienced."
Two of the members of Benchwarmers, a Kansas City, Kan., club, are Kansas alumi, and a third member, Karen Schonewise, is an assistant coach for Kansas. Kansas was seventh in the AA women's division
Soccer game raises money for Sheffield families
More than 60,000 fans, many of whom had traveled through the night, packed the Park-head stadium in Glasgow to capacity as Liverpool, soccer champions of England, beat last season's Scottish champions, Celtic, 4-0.
The Associated Press
It was the first game played by the Liverpool team since the April 15 Hillsborough stadium catastrophe when 96 of its fans were crushed or burned at FA CA Cup semifinal against Nottingham Forest.
"This is the game we need to get it out of our system," said Harry Craig, a 46-year Liverpool barber who also was at sheffield and who is currently actively as victim after victim died around him.
The occasion was more significant than the game.
unnecessary and should never have happened."
"I wasn't sure I ever go to a game again. But I had to be here. I want to shout, scream, urge the team on, get rid of all this pent-up emotion." Craig said. "Hillsborough was all so
petted
Inside the ground, about 500 police kept a low profile as Celtic supporters and about 6,000 Liverpool backers who had traveled from all parts of Britain mingled freely in the stands in a sea of color.
Police said they imposed no segregation measures because of the special nature of the game.
tence.
All the Liverpool players wore black arm
A standing ovation greeted the two teams as they walked out of the tunnel side by side, the Liverpool squad led by its player-manager, Kenny Dalglish, who started his career at Celtic.
"It was our view that the special circumstances are such that there was no need to insist on the usual situation of segregating supporters," said Chief Superintendent Alistair Walker. "The circumstances of this match make for a different atmosphere."
bands in memory of those who died at Shef field.
A tide of green-and-white Celtic scars and several hundred more in the red-and-white colors of Liverpool filled all four sides of the vast arena as the Liverpool soccer anthem, "You'll Never Walk Alone," echoed around the ground.
ground.
Thousands of supporters joined in the singing, many reading the words of the song from the front of their game programs.
Hardly a sound was heard as a minute's silence was observed, the players and game officials forming a circle around the middle of the field, many with heads bowed.
As the players warmed up, a dozen fans carried a 16-foot, multicolored banner around the stadium. On it were the words: "Mersesy-side, Thanks Glasgow," a tribute from the Liverpool fans to those of Celtic for agreeing to play the game.
Despite the lack of crowd segregation at yesterday's game, there was no hint of disorder in the packed stands. The only note of caution came when the Celtic club announcer asked the fans to stop the clock, and then to step back, promising them an official collection would be made afterward.
When the game ended, the Parkhead crowd cheered both teams off the field in another display of scarf-waving, singing and unified support.
the game was expected to raise $504,000 towards the Sheffield Disaster Fund, which stood at approximately $4.62 million before the game.
Liverpool returns to league action Wednesday in what is expected to be another emotional game against Everton. Its FA Cup semifinal against Nottingham Forest, halted after six minutes at Hillsborough, will be replayed May 7 at Manchester.
KU golf team comes in third at invitational; coach pleased
The Kansas men's golf team finished third out of 15 teams this weekend at the Midwestern Invitational in Dekaulb. Ill. Kansas has placed first, second and third in its last three tournaments this month.
Coach Ross Randall said he was pleased with how the Jayhawks were beginning to peak at the end of the season.
"We've continued to improve as a team, and I want us to keep improving through the Big Eight tournament (on May 15-16) and the NCAA Regional Qualifiers (on May 25-27). Randall said, "We've had two wins, two seconds and a third this year, and I think that's pretty good."
by a Kansan reporter
"This year we have a shot at qualifying for the NCAA tournament as a team, rather than individually."
Ohio State won the Midwestern Invitational with a score of 854, followed by Illinois with 858 and Kansas with 874. Bandera won the Minnesota main big Ten teams, with the exception of Nebraska, Kansas State and Kansas
Illinois' Steve Stricker won tournament medalist honors with a score of 205.
"This guy was a first-team All-American last year, and he's continued to play well," Randall said.
For Kansas, John Sinovin and Sean Thayer tied for eighth with 218, followed by Clay Devers at 17th with 220 and John Ogden at 19th with 221. Len Johnson finished out of the top 20 with a 227.
Kansas has a two-week layoff before opening Big Eight tournament play on May 15 in Tulsa, Okla.
Fifth start's a winner at Derby Trial
The Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Houston could provide a much-needed tonic for trainer D Wayne Lukas' hurting back.
"I won't be jumping around much if he wins the Kentucky Derby, but it sure would take my mind off my back." Lukas, who won the 1988 Derby with the filly Winning Colors, said yesterday.
Houston, whose Derby credentials were tarnished with a fifth-place finish in the Santa Anita Derby, easily won the one-mile Derby Trial Saturday on opening day at Churchill Downs.
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"He's super, better than I hoped," Lukas said. "It was not a hard race for him."
I thought Houston ran a good race," said Shug M谷gaughy, who trains Easy Goer, the favorite for Saturday's Kentucky Derby. "I don't think they wanted to use him too much before the Derby.
"I think he'll be a factor. He has speed, but he's lacking in racing experience. But if he gets on the lead, he might forget how many times he's
The Trial was only Houston's fifth start, his third this year, and only his second at more than seven furlongs.
Houston, ridden by Laffit Pincay,
stalked pacesets Pulverizing
through a half-mile in 44 4/5 seconds.
"I liked the way he rated off those fast fractions," Lukas said.
Pincay sent Houston into the lead entering the turn, and he won by five lengths over Beek in 1:36 1/5 on a track rated as good.
"It was a darn sure important race." Lukas said of the performance that came three weeks after Houston finished fifth, beaten 16% lengths by winner Sunday Silence in the Santa Anita Derby.
The trainer chooses to disregard the Santa Anita Derby, blaming Houston's performance on the heat in California following the cold weather in New York, where he made his 3-year-old debut.
"Now he knows the track, and we've got our horse back. He's a good horse. Whether he wins the Derby or he's going to go on to be a good horse."
"I don't ever look backward." Lakas said. "You take a race like that, evaluate it, then forget about it."
Houston's first start of the year was in the seven-furlong Bay Shore, which he won by 13 lengths March 25 at Aqueduct. It was about that time that Lukas had began buring.
He said there were calcium deposits on a vertebra that were pressing against the scatic nerve.
Brock Morris, St. Louis, Mo., senior, (above) bumps the ball over the net during a mud volleyball game. John Van Gelder, Wichita freshman, (right) blocks a spike by Eric Sherer, Olathe sophomore. The games were played this weekend.
Kent Gilbert/Special to the KANSAN
Good, clean fun
Investigators trace check from Rose trust $10,000 used to pay informant's lawyer in another case
The Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Investigators for major league baseball have traced a $10,000 draw drawn on Pete Rose's account to trust Paul Janssen, an assistant coach at the Chicago Cubs, of betting on baseball games, a newspaper reported yesterda
The money was used to pay Janzen's lawyer, Merlyn D. Shiverdecker, for representing the former bodybuilder in a federal tax evasion case. The (Cleveland) Plain Deck unidentified sources as saying,
Janssen, 31, has claimed he was the middleman between the Cincinnati Reds manager and Franklin, Ohio restaurateur Ron Petens, who federal authorities claim handled $1 million in球赛. baseball's lil' time he lead.
The check, signed by Rose's lawyer and agent, Reuven Katz of Cincinnati, was deposited in Shiver-
decker's bank account March 22, 1988, The Plain Dealer said.
one newspaper quoted an unidentified Hamilton County Bar Association official as saying Janssen used the check to pay Shiverdecker.
Shiverdeer yesterday said he considered amounts he was paid by clients a private matter and declined to comment further.
Rose was in Philadelphia yesterday, where the Reds played the Phillies.
In the lower lefthand corner of the check was the notation "loan," but investigators said they could find no documents verifying a loan agreement between Janssen and Rose, The Plain Dealer said.
Rose associates Saturday also characterized the $10,000 check as a loan, but investigators said they could find no written agreement that spelled out terms for repayment of the money or interest.
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he commissioner's office did not order him to step aside, did not request him to step aside. . . But it's one of these things where they would have liked for him to do it.
Hal Bodley USA Today baseball editor
"The thing that's interesting about this $10,000 is that if Patte made a loan to Janssen, why isn't there anything to show how it's got to be paid back?" the newspaper quoted a lawyer involved in the case as saying. "Pete is represented by competent, sophisticated people who would not give $10,000 away without some kind of written instrument as security."
Janssen, a former friend of Rose's, is serving a six-month sentence in a Cincinnati halfway house for evading U.S. income taxes on the sale of steroids. The newspaper said he had told federal agents and others that he placed bets for Rose with books in New York, Ohio and Florida.
Janssen has claimed in interviews with baseball and federal investigators that Rose owed him a lawsuit. Rose and his associates dispute the claims.
The Pian Dealer account appeared a day after USA Today baseball editor Hal Bodley said in a televised interview that the baseball commissioner's office suggested Rose step aside until its investigation into Rose's gambling activities was complete, but Rose refused.
"It was a suggestion, not an edict, and not even a request," Bodyle said. "The commissioner's office did not
order him to step aside, did not request him to step aside," Bodley said earlier on CNN's "Baseball '89." "... But it's one of these things where they would have liked for him to do it.
"pete said no." I think it was the right thing to say, frankly, because if he had stepped aside, that would have caused a clear admission of gault on his part."
Bodley is a longtime friend of Rose's and was the best man at Rose's second wedding.
"He wrote that last week," Rose said when asked to comment on the report. "Because it was on TV, does that make a difference?" He wasn't sure. To my knowledge, Boddy wasn't there when it happened.
when it happened.
"I spent two days with Bodley last week. He had he wanted something, but I didn't give him that."