Sports
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 20, 1989
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KU defeats Washburn as bullpen gets work
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
After playing nine games in the previous nine days, the Kansas pitching staff needed a break.
The Jayhawks rolled to an 8-2 lead over Washburn last night behind starting pitcher Mike Massey. Two relievers and a third baseman took over from there as Kansas defeated the Ichabods 10-7 in a nonconference baseball game at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Massey, 2-0, allowed five hits and two runs in six innings. The freshman right-hander walked three batters before stealing home, and retired nine of the next 10 batters.
"He was unsettled at first; but once he sent down, Mike did a pretty good job," Kansas coach Dave Bingham said. "I think Mike is going to be a good pitcher. I think he was on the mound getting control when I took him out."
Bingham said he relieved Massey after the sixth inning because his bulldon needed some work.
Kansas, 23-21, will not have a scheduled day off for the rest of the month. The Jayhawks will play Wichita State, ranked fifth in the Baseball America national poll, at 7 am tonight at Hogwain-Maupin Stadium.
Washburn, 22-22-1, scored four unearned runs off Kansas reliever Craig Stoppel. The score stood at 8-6 after eight innings last night. Three baseman Mike Byrch pitched the ninth and allowed only one run.
"The situation was really set up for them to win." Bingham said, "Craig didn't pitch well, and we didn't have anyone to stop them."
Jayhawk senior Pat Karlin, who had three hits and three stolen bases, led off the eighth inning with a single and scored on Steve Dowling's sacrifice fly to make the score 9-6. Ichabee recorded a stremming walked in the final run.
Karlin scored two of Kansas' runs as the Jayhawks took a 4-2 lead after two innings. Consecutive doubles by Dan Benninghoff and junior Mark Hummel, an RBj 'single by senior Troy Mertz and a sacrifice飞 from Karlin gave the Jayhawks a 7-2 lead through three innings.
Kansas 10. Washburn 7
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Massey, Massey, Boschsen (6), Washburn
Vilasquez, Stemming (6), and Spencer, Kulnicki (7), W. Massey (2), L. Vellezumi (3-4)
W. Massey (2), L. Vellezumi (3-4)
Hanover, Moore, Washburn, Corcoran
Kansas tennis player Shawn Wooten hits a shot during practice.
Tennis player takes his game on line
Computer helps analyze opponents
by Laurie Whitten
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas tennis player Shaw.
Wooten knows more about tennis than how to serve, hold a racket or hit a forehand.
Wooten, an Overland Park sophomore, is the inventor of a computer program that charts an opponent's strengths and weaknesses and mathematically figures out how to win a game.
"The computer program simply tells you how to beat another player," Wooten said. "It's able to tell you things that a coach or any other human can't because there are too many numbers involved.
"Say, for example, I lost to someone 6.2. That score to me that I was capable of winning two games but that I wasn't hitting the right shots at the right time in the game," he said. The computer helps me by keeping track of what shots my opponent is consistently making and where he's making mistakes. With the program, you don't waste time.
First tested on Wooten's 16-year-old brother, Derek, the program has been used by Kansas tennis players John Falbo and Paul Garvin, as well as by Chris McDermott. Under the name SportsPlus Inc., Wooten's program currently is being marketed nationwide.
You can attack your opponent's weaknesses immediately."
The program originated during the spring semester of Wooten's junior year at Shawnee Mission South, when he wrote a small counting system for a hand-held calculator used in physics class. He used the system to count Dearborn students mining which stroke he was hitting most successfully and which was costing him the most errors.
"It was a really simple system," Wooten said. "I took it to my brother's matches, and people started looking over my shoulder and asking me questions. Some offered to pay me to watch their kids play and chart their strokes, too."
At one of Derek's tournaments, a businessman advised Wooten to market the counting system nationally. Wooten contacted his high school coach, John Waltz, who agreed to finance the project, and began writing the computer *program in April of that year.
"I began writing the program with no computer background whatsoever," Wooten said. "I just started typing. I didn't even make a flow chart. There were tons of errors that surfaced that I had to
work through for the next two years."
Wooten, who had played tennis since he was 8, said he gave up tennis and other extracurricular activities for the sake of the program. He said he spent 10 hours a day working on it that summer.
Once a rough draft had been established, Wooten said that he and Waltz decided to form Sports Plus Inc. and to get a copyright for the program. Waltz's responsibilities were to advertise and to the program, he said, and his own responsibilities were technical.
"We tried the program out on Chad King, a player from Oklahoma, at a Missouri Valley tournament, and it was an outright success." he said. "He was non-seeded, yet he upset the No. 2 and the No. 4 seeded players and made it to the finals.
"He beat players strategically that, according to his ranking, he shouldn't have been able to beat. We charted the player right before him, then I would break down his game and tell him what to do to win the game. It gave him a strategic advantage, but also a mental advantage. He was confident about winning before he even
went out there."
Wooten said that one of the company's greatest successes came last summer, when the U.S. Justice Department Everett rated the program into her game.
Brad Clafian, a former KU engineering student, helped Wooten clean up the errors in the program. Wooten said he hired Clafian as an contractor who would get a percentage of the company's gross profits.
"I worked through Chris' coach because it isn't good to have two people telling her what to do," he said. "They gave me a permanent pass to her games, and I would sit before them in the opponents before she played them."
"Unfortunately, Chris didn't play very well. That was pretty disappointing. I saw her on a national TV interview, though, and she said, 'I just wasn't capable of hitting the shots I was supposed to.' That took the heat off my back."
Paul Garvin, a Batavia, Ill. freshman, said that the program had helped his game.
"The first time I used it was in October at the Rolex Qualifier in Wichita," Garvin said. "It was pretty cool. It gives you information during a match, which is always helpful."
North Carolina coach says he is not retiring
The Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith said he was "iabbargested" at rumors of his arrest. He said he said he had no plans to step down.
"There's absolutely no truth to it," Smith said Tuesday in a telephone interview from Kansas City, Mo., where he was attending an NCAA meeting. "I really haven't given it a thought."
"I'm flabbergasted this has come
up. There's no truth to it all. I plan to coach next season and beyond next season."
Rumors intensified Tuesday, the day before the team's annual banquet at the Smith Center. Reports of health problems related to heavy lifting at the Smith Center in Sports Illustrated that he might retire fueled the speculation.
Smith, 58, had to miss practice after developing nosebleeds in November 1997. Doctors said that the
meeting was related to Smith's frequent smoking and that he was advised to stop.
Smith announced last Oct. 15 that he had given up cigarettes after more than 30 years of smoking, quitting "cold turkey" on the first day of preseason practice. And he said Tuesday that the inevitable nicotine withdrawal was not an unbearable problem during the season.
"I got used to it pretty quickly," he said. "The first 30 days were the hard
part. After that, it wasn't bad.
"I'm perfectly healthy. In fact, I might be too healthy after going six months without smoking. I had my doctor tell me to go another day, and it was pretty good."
North Carolina, 29-8 last season,
first its first Atlantic Coast Conference
Tournament championship since 1982 before being eliminated in the final round by Michigan, the eventual national champion. And some close
However, Smith said Tuesday, "I think it was an excellent season. The first season certainly was more stressful than the 28th."
to the North Carolina basketball program said the year had been particularly stressful for Smith.
Late in the season, Smith, always cautious about his public comments, surprised many people by saying that the "J.R. Can't Reid" signs crafted by opposing fans were a racial slur.
Melvin tied the score with a one-out single off Kansas City starter Charlie Lehrbandt. 0-2 Mickey Tettleton left Lehrbandt was relieved at Amuino.
The Orioles trailed 3-2 after Bojack Jackson's three-run homer in the top of the sixth, but they had five hits and a walk as they batted around in the bottom of the innings. They beat the second in the second time in the last 18 games.
Brady Anderson was intentionally walked before Bradley sliced a bases-loaded single to score Tettleton and Ripken.
One out later, Ripken grounded a single to center that scored Melvin. Tettleton took third and Ripken went to second when the center fielder Willie Wilson's throw to third was late.
BALTIMORE — Bob Melvin and Bill Ripken singled home one run apiece, and Phil Bradley singled home the other two in a four-run sixth inning that carried the Baltimore Orioles out of the Kansas City Royals' league.
The Associated Press
Sports Briefs
Orioles' hits in 4-run 6th beat KC 6-5
The Royals got two runs in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Wilson and a solo home run by George Brett of Baltimore starter Dave Schmidt,
Schmidt was lifted after Brett's homer, and Gregg Olson pitched 1 1/2 innings. Mark Williamson pitched the ninth for his second save.
Among those attending were Elizabeth Taylor, a longtime close family friend; former boxers Arche Moire, Ken Norton, Bob Olson and Art Aragon; entertainer Red Buttons; and, from the sports community, Tom Lasorda, Elgin Baylor, George Allen and Eddie Futch.
A portrait of Robinson, framed in flowers, stood next to the casket, which was to be interred at Evergreen Cemetery.
"Some of us worry about where we go when we die," Tyson said. "I'm sure heaven is asking him to come in with open arms."
KU BOFTISH TEAM WINS! The Kansas softball team won both games of a doubleheader against Southwest Indiana State yesterday, 6-3.
A second indictment charges former Gamecock strength and conditioning coach Keith Kephart with conspiring with other members of the community to import and distribute steroids without prescription.
Memories of Robinson, who died last week at age 67, so moved Tyson that his voice choked, and he apologized. He was born in Los Angeles Church of God in Christ.
The charges are all misdemeanors. Also, John Carter of Bethesda, Md., was charged with felony counts of intending to defraud and mislead the FedEx company in connection with the importation and distribution of steroids to four former South Carolina players, including Tommy Chaikin.
TYSON EULOGIZES ROBINSON:
Legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson
"personified class, style and
digity," heavyweight champ Mike
Tyson told more than 2.300 mourners
today in yesterday for Robinson's funeral.
In game one, the 28-21 Jayhawks scored four runs in the first inning and held the Bears scoreless for the
The indictments also charge Kurucz with lying to the grand jury concerning his knowledge that assistant football coaches had either provided players with steroids, had made arrangements for players to participate in contests to the law or had provided money for the purchase of steroids.
The Associated Press
Thomas Gadd, James Washburn and Thomas Kurczu were charged with conspiring to "conduct a program of illegal steroid use by members of the athletic community, and by the university's football team."
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Four former South Carolina assistant football coaches were indicted yesterday following an investigation into the alleged illegal use of anabolic steroids at the state-supported university.
The grand jury also charged the three with importing steroids into South Carolina and distributing them without prescription.
4 ex-coaches are indicted in steroids case
Kansas will continue NAIA play today in a doubleheader against Oklahoma City University at Jayhawk Field, on the south side of Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Game time is 3 p.m.
MARSHALL HIRES KSU ASSISIANT: Kansas State assistant basketball coach Dana Altman has accepted the job as Marshall University head basketball coach, Marsh's athletic director said yesy last.
to game two, Kansas scored three runs in the first two innings and three more in the seventh inning; the next nine pitches were inning and two more in the fifth Kansas committed one error and none hits, including doubles by Brazier and Jessica Hennig. Southwest Missouri State had seven hits and two runs.
remainder of the game. Kansas committed one error and had five hits, including a double and a triple by pitcher Boca Brazer. Southwest Missouri State had two hits and two errors.
The athletic director, Lee Moon,
planned to introduce Altman to Marshall staff and fans yesterday at the school's Memorial Student Center. Altman, 30, becomes the youngest head basketball coach in Marshall history. The university is in Huntington, W.V.
Up and over
Steve Traynor/KANSAN
State decathlete Steve Fritz clears the bar at 6.0four-9.2 winning the high jump during Kansas Relays competition yesterday.