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University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 28, 1989
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4 tennis players will miss tourney
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Some get chance to play their 1st Big 8 tournament
Women's tennis coach Eric Hayes advises players Page Goins and Eveline Hamers.
by Laurie Whitten Kansan sportswriter
Something will be missing for Kansas at the women's big Eight Conference tennis tournament this weekend in Oklahoma City.
Four members of Kansas' 1988 third-place Big Eight team will not be competing for the Jayhawks. Filling in will be four Jayhawks who will be competing in their first conference tournament.
The scores of each Big Eight match this spring were totaled to determine what seed a team received at the conference tournament. Oklahoma State, ranked fifth nationally, is first with 62 points, followed by Oklahoma State with 59 points. Nebraska and Kansas State are batting for fourth with 29 and 28.
For Kansas, 14-11 overall and 5-2 in the Big Eight, conference competition began April 5 and will end Sunday.
"We lost the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 players from last year's team, and we brought in a lot of freshmen." Hayes said. "Our team started this season young and inexpierenced, and we improved from there."
The pre-tournament scores will be added to each team's tournament results, and the team with the most points will be the Big Eight champ.
Hayes said he was satisfied with the Jayhawks position going into the tournament.
"We're positioned right where I want us to be," he said. "We're going into it with a 5-2 record, which is the
same as last year, and I think we should be seeded in singles every where except maybe at No. 3.
"When I took this job (in January 1988), I had a goal. That was to improve a spot in the Big Eight and make it into a national tournament. In 1977, Kansas finished
fourth. Last year, we finished third.
This year, it looks like a second place finish is well within reach, and it's well into the well-line (Hamers) will go to national's.
Hamers, a Meerssen, Netherlands, freshman who is ranked 25th nationally, is 7 of the conference and has a
good chance of winning the champ ionship, Hayes said.
"Eveline's played well up to this point," he said. "In fact, all of our singles have improved. Against Nebraska and Iowa State, we won 11 of 12 matches, and we could have easily won all of them."
OSU leads men's tennis championship
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma State led the race for the team title in the Big Eight Conference men's tennis championship with 91 points after the first day of competition yesterday.
Nebraska held second place with 87 points, followed by defended champion Kansas with 47. Oklahoma with 51, Utah with 44 and Missouri with eight points.
As a result of earlier round-robin
Mueller of Nebraska 6-3, 6-2.
dual play, Oklahoma State had a six-point lead over the rest of the field coming into the conference tournament, but Nebraska cut that margin to four by placing five of its six singles players in the finals.
Oklaahoma State got four men through to the finals, but lost Eric Fahnestock, who was defeated by Carlo Firming of Kansas State in singles, and Grant Williams, who was defeated at the semi-final stage by Matthias
Nebraska's only loss was at No 2, singles where Robert Sjoholm, the defending champion at that position, was defeated by Jeff Gross of Kansas
In the No. 1 singles flight Jeff Neuman, the top seed for the title, defeated Craig Wildey of Kansas 6-4, 7-6, taking his place in the final. The winner was Michael Pfeifer who defeated Glenn Wilson of Iowa State in the second semi-final 2-6, 4-2.
6-3.
Kansas senior Jim Secret defeated Oklahoma's J. J. Ganz 6-4, 6-1 in the No 3 semi-finals, and the Jayhawk's No 5, player. Rafael Broussard was in the semi-finals by Jack Salero of Oklahoma State 7-6, 6-1.
The final day of play will begin at 9 a.m. today with doubles semi-final action. The singles finals are scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.
Shockers blank KU; 'Hawks to play OU
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
Kansas began a five-game road trip with its first shutout loss of the season last night in Wichita.
The Jahayhaws issued 13 walks and committed two errors in a 14-0 loss to nationally ranked Wichita State.
Sophomore pitcher Steve McGinness, 3-4, gave up three runs and three walks in one inning, taking the loss. McGinness was a great team that Kansas coach Dave Bingham used against the Shockers.
"We just threw some kids that had been struggling," Bingham said. "We got down early, and we jugged a bear, through it the night!"
Kansas' record is now 29-24. The Shockers, ranked fifth in the Baseball America ball and eight in the College baseball, improved their record to 44-8.
A four-game Big Eight Conference series at Oklahoma, ranked 26th by Collegiate Baseball, begins with a 7 p.m. game today.
Kansas and the second place-
Sooners, 32-13 overall and 12-4 in
the conference, will play a 5 p.m.
game on Tuesday and a 1 p.m.
game Sunday.
Kansas has a 6-16 record in road games this year. Bingham said the Jayhawks had fallen behind their opponents during early stages of too many road games.
Bingham said the Jayhawks needed to improve their performance in road games.
"That's the challenge of the program," Bingham said. "To continue developing at this point and to get into the conference tournament, we have to win on the road."
"We have to get to the point where we begin to feel more comfortable and assert ourselves in the game a little earlier." Bingham said, "when you go down Southwest Missouri and in both Creighton games, it changes the whole offensive situation."
Bingham said his team tended to play better in four-game road
series than in single games. Kansas center fielder Pat Karlin said that playing away from home required adjustments.
"It takes a day to get used to playing on the road," Karl said. By Friday and Saturday, we'll be playable and how important this series is."
Last year, the Jayhawks split a four-game series with Oklahoma at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium. Senior Craig Mulcahy, who is scheduled to pitch tonight, pitched a one-hitter and defeated the Sooners 3-0 in one of the games. Kansas also won 12-8 and lost 10-8 and 4-0.
"That series was great," Bingham said. "We could have easily won all four games."
he said last year's performance could benefit the Jayhawks this weekend.
"It's a confidence base that we can compete in the Big Eight," he said. "I think our intensity will be a pick up with those games."
Oklahoma is third in the Big Eight with a .303 team batting and leads the conference in pitching with a 4.32 earned run average.
"They have a real fine offensive ballclub." Bingham said. "They are hitting real well, and they can hit for power."
Okahama pitches Kevin King (3-0, 2.06) and Jim Husleg (4-0, 2.60) rank first and third in ERA. Sooner designed hitter Scott Campbell is third in batting with a 471 average.
Kansas right fielder Jeff Mentel is batting. 487 in conference games and ranks second in hitting. Mentel, St. Louis senior, leads the league with seven home runs and six doubles. He also is second in RBI with 19.
Karlin said the Jayhawks, winners of six of their last eight games, had a chance to win four games if they failed, if they continued to play well.
"Like coach said, we don't want to sell ourselves short," Karlin said. "We don't want to go down there with the attitude that we just want to stay in it. We want to go down with the attitude that we can win all four and put ourselves in a better position in the Big Eight."
Congressional panel gives boxing the ol' 1-2
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Boxers need mandatory health and safety standards established through federal legislation to protect them from injury. The state also unable to regulate itself, a congressional panel was told yesterday.
"The sport has had more than 100 years to attempt self-regulation," said Rep Pat Williams, D-Mont., a Republican who earlier byRep Bill Richardson, D-N.M., to establish a non-profit, Washington-based federal corporation to govern the sport. "The decision is in, boxing lost the deci
Specifically, the proposed United States Boxing Corp. and its 12-member board of directors would draw up
Health and safety standards fought by sport's promoters
uniform boxing regulations and assist states in implementing them, create a computerized national registry to track boxers' won-lost records and injuries, and establish uniform premium safety and health standards.
Richardson said similar legislation passed the House last year but died in the Senate.
But a provision that adheres to the corporation's guidelines be made voluntary: draw criticism from promoters, boxers and other members of Congress. They told the Committee on Energy and Commerce's subcommittee that all state buying organizations should adhere to the same rules.
"Many of us are reaching a point of frustration in not passing this legislation.” Richardson said. “I favor mandatory participation, but I'm concerned with keeping bipartisan support.”
Williams took a harder line on imposing uniform criteria.
"Some kind of a standard . . . that will be adhered to in every club, in every state, is essential," he said.
Boxers, he suggested, should be assured the same workplace safeguards as other workers covered by Health Administration standards.
'Why shouldn't they understand
"It seems to me this situation cries out for uniformity, but it isn't as simple as dealing with workplace safety," said Rep. James Florio, D-Wisconsin subpoenaed by the commander, who also is seeking protections encompassing training sessions.
The House hearing, auspiciously timed to fall just hours before the first boxing championship in the country, has included testimony and questioning
International Boxing Federation President Robert W. Lee took issue with an aspect of Richardson's bill that would require the proposed corporation to issue a certificate every three years to promoters, matchmakers, managers and trainers, calling it anti-competitive.
from several congressmen familiar with life inside the amateur ring, including Florio and Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J.
"Certification of a promoter or manager impacts on the free enterprise system," he said. "Remember, the boxing industry has been the vehicle of entrepreneurial opportunity and financial success for many poor and disadvantaged young men."
States that regulate its boxing industries support a national stan
dard.
"My personal records indicate that there are approximately 43 state agencies, including Puerto Rico, which regulate professional boxing," said Larry Hazzard, a former boxer and commissioner of New Jersey's State Athletic Control Board. "Licensing requirements, medical requirements, and time limits between boxing and even rules of conduct pertaining to the actual event are, in many instances, different from jurisdiction to jurisdiction."
Softball team to face Nebraska in 2 games
"It's not impossible for a boxer disqualified in one state to compete elsewhere, with few questions asked. The greatest danger here is that a boxer with a serious medical problem can, and will, compete where testing necessary to detect such a problem is not required."
by Laurie Whitten
Kansan sportswriter
In the aftermath of two victories against nationally ranked teams, Kansas softball coach Kalum Haack has some advice to give the 32-24 Jayhawks concerning today's Nebraska doubleheader.
"I feel great about us beating (first-ranked) Oklahoma State and (10th-ranked) Creighton this past week," Haack said. "However, the team is not to the point where we can just show up and win. We have to be concentrating and playing every innest of the game."
"In the 19-inning game against Creighton, we lost some of our concentration and grew tired toward the end of the game. Our beaustrka, we need to be tougher. They beat us before because we played poorly. We
Haack said Nebraska was an excellent team that went from being underdogs to winning. Kansas was defeated 30 by the Cornhuskers April 14.
Kansas will play the Cornhuskers at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Lincoln, Neb.
didn't get a hit the entire game and we had five errors."
"I'm going to work with Roanna during practice on the importance of pitching to each batter," he said. "Right in the middle of the pitch, you're doing something that makes a mistake pitching to them, they'll knock it over the fence."
Haack said he had thought about how to beat Nebraska and had decided to start his game plan with pitcher Roanna Braizer.
Haack said Brazier, who is 21-16 this season and has.96 earned run average, was capable of pitching against any team in the country.
Brazier, who pitched all 19 innings in Wednesday's game against Creighton, said her arm felt loose but in good shape for today's doubleheader. She said once pitched 33 consecutive innings, so pitching 19 didn't seem tiring.
Haack said yesterday that he would give Brazier a day off to rest her arm.
Tomorrow, the Jayhawks will remain in Lincoln to play unranked Texas A&M, a team that Haack has played only once.
Seton Hall coach consults players Carlesimo still evasive about Kentucky move
The Associated Press
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — P.J. Carlesimo yesterday met with Seton Hall officials and his returning basketball players and was quoted as saying that the team had unrealized about taking the coach's job at Kentucky.
Seton Hall athletic director Larry Keating said that Carlesimo faced a tough decision and that it could be a couple of days before anything was decided.
"I don't know what their timetable is," Keating said of Kentucky. "I would think they would want it settled as soon as possible. I think he has asked for time for considering and that's what happen."
A source close to Kentucky, however, said Carlesimo's selection would be announced before the NCAA handed down sanctions against the program, which could be as far off as three weeks.
After his meeting with Keating, Carlesmo walked into Walsh Gymnasium about 4:30 p.m. EDT looking a little haggard, his sports jacket slung over his shoulder.
Carlesimo walked into his office, and his players followed for a 15-minute meeting.
"All he told us is he went down and talked with people," forward Frantz Vortley said.
with people," forward Frantz Voley said.
Forward Michael Cooper, the pirates six man law enforcement officer, was arrested.
Assistant coach Bruce Hamburger said that all Cardinals told the team was that he knew they had been injured.
Carlesimo had two days of interviews at Kentucky earlier this week and sources told the Associated Press that the 59-year-old-two time big boy, who had agreed to become the Wildcats next coach.
finalized
Carlesimo has not commented on the report, and yesterday he again refused to talk with the media about the situation.
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Carlesimo had two days of interviews at Kentucky earlier this week and sources told the Associated Press that the 39-year-old two-time Big East Conference coach of the year had agreed to become the Wildcats next coach.
Keating and Carlesimo met for two to three hours in what Keating described as a good
"There is really nothing to discuss." Keating
"there is nothing to think there'll be
there for a count of days."
Keating said he could not say whether Kentucky offered Carlesimo a contract, but just as quickly the two men did, Keeating told me.
Kentucky has been under investigation by the
"Obviously we want him to stay here," Keating said. "He has an opportunity to go to one of the top universities."
Keating said the threatened sanctions would not influence Carlesimo's decision.
"That was a very small part of our conversation."
NCAA for 18 alleged violations, and it likely will be placed on probation.
In Lexington, Kentucky athletic director C.M. Newton said, “P.J. has to back off from it. You need to clear your head, see what other questions you've got and try to get them answered.”
The university went before the NCAA Committee on Infractions last weekend at Charleston, S.C. to respond to 18 allegations of wrongdoing the past two seasons under Eddie Sutton, who was forced to resign in March after guiding the team for four seasons.
NCAA officials indicated that any penalties would be announced in the next one to three weeks.
A source told the Associated Press that Kentucky wanted to have Carlesimo under contract before the NCAA report.
Kentucky officials denied yesterday that Carlesimo had been offered the position.
Before Carlesimo could be hired, however, the move would have to be approved by the University of Kentucky Athletics Association, the school's governing athletics board.
chris Cameron. Kentucky sports information
not been planned, association meeting had
not been planned.