Sports
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 18, 1989
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Lady Jayhawks will get Mississippi All-American
High school senior says talk with Coach Washington was the reason she joined the KU basketball program
by Laurie Whitten Kansan sportswriter
Kansas women's basketball coach Narian Washington yesterday announced the signing of a 5-10-four guard who was named Mississippi receiver by USA Today and Third Team by USA Today and Third Team by All-Parcade magazine.
Siau Trait, a high school senior from Fort Gibson, Miss., confirmed that she would join signes JoLo WitsherSON of Inglewood, Calif. Sandra deLauprent of The Netherlands, Misti DeCruitt of El Heno, Oka this year the Kiteon ELI Eh Horn, Iowa, in this year's Kansas recruiting class.
Truitt. averaged 15.5 points, six rebounds, six assists and four steals per game as she led Port Gibson High to a 41-0 record and the 3A state championship this season. She said a visit with Washington on Saturday had convinced her to sign with Kansas
"After 48 hours, I'm still thinking about my visit with Coach Washington." Truitt said after she returned from the team's season, the reason he coming to Kansas.
"We had so much fun talking about everything — my family, her family, what our interests are, things like that. We talked about basketball for about 30 minutes. The rest of the day, we spent some extra hours, we talked about each other."
Truitt, who had been recruited by Louisiana Tech, Louisiana State, San Diego State and Lamar University, said the other coaches only wanted to discuss basketball with her. Washington made her feel more at ease.
Washington said Trutt was powerful for her size and had unlimited potential as a player. The new junior guard is a class one of Kansas, best she said.
Witerspoon, a 8-8 guard, averaged 17 points, 10 assists and five steals a game and led Morningside High School to a No. 2 national ranking.
DeBruin, a 62 center who averaged 18.9 points and 11.4 rebounds, was the all-time leading scorer at Southwestern Community College.
Clemann, a 6-2, averaged 20 6 points and 8.1 rebounds a game at El Reno High School, while Kite, 5-8, averaged 35 points a game at Eik
Horn High School
"For the last two weeks, we've always been able to attract one blue chipper." Washington said. "But this team is getting more depth in recruiting."
"I think the thing that has impressed me the most about Stacy is that she is a team player that does whatever it takes to win. She passes exceptionally well and has good one-on-one skills but is not blessed with good one-on-one skills."
Mason Denham, Truitt's high school coach, said Truitt was a great high jumper and scorer.
"She's very quick, and she's a leaper," Denham said. "She's jumping 5-4 now, but I think she'll probably jump 5-7 before she leaves.
"This girl is like a gazelle. She goes up for a shot and then kind of hangs there for awhile before releasing the ball."
Dhenham said he had visited with Truett after her trip to Kansas. He said he was pleased with both the basketball program and the school.
"They're lucky to have her," he said. "There is no limit to her potential, no limit to where she can play."
Report says Kentucky, NCAA will agree on recruit's money
The Associated Press
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky will agree with the NCAA that $1,000 was placed inside a package to a recruit from the school's basketball office but will not concede that the source of the cash was an assistant coach, according to a published report.
The Lexington Herald-Leader quoted a source in Sunday's editions as saying university officials agreed with the NCAA that the package left the basketball office with the money inside.
However, the university said the evidence was inconclusive as to whether then assistant coach Dwane Casey put the $1,000 in the Emery Air Firepackage, the source told the newspaper.
"I'm not concerned," Casey's attorney, Joe Bill Campbell, told WKKT-TV on Sunday night. "They don't have any evidence. They're going to have a tough time winning before the Infractions Committee."
Kentucky officials will meet with NCAA enforcement staff members Saturday for a hearing on its allegation that the school's basketball program. The NCAA's judicial body, the Committee on Inactions, is expected to make a judgment and possibly impose sanctions sometime next
The investigation began last year
when an Emery package sent to Claud Mills, father of then-recruit John C. Walters, the Emery workers said $1,000 was in the package, which was sent by Casey
Casey denied sending the money, and the Mills' denied receiving it.
The newspaper's source said the NCAA contended that Casey placed the money in the package, as stated in the first allegation against the program. But the university takes the position that evidence regarding Casey and the source of the money is inconclusive, the newspaper said.
Still, the NCAA and the university will agree on at least two other serious violations, according to the newspaper's source.
Both parties agree that academic fraud was committed when Eric Manuel took a college entrance exam and passed the Ayatayette High School, the source said.
In Allegation No. 10, the NCAA charges Manuel with copying answers from another student who sat at next to him. The NCAA cited a question answer sheet that it said showed that 211 of 219 responses were identical
The source told the newspaper that both sides also agreed on Allegation No. 11, which charges Manuel, Sean Sutton and Casey with providing false and misleading information to NCAA investigators about how the two players were transported to the test site referred to in Allegation None.
10.
However, WKYT reported Sunday night that an NCAA case summary on the investigation said the university would not agree on Allegation 12.
Sutton, a point guard for the Wildcats, is the son of former Kentucky coach Eddie Sutton, who resigned last month after four years on the
Three other allegations have been judged to be unfounded by both the NCAA and Kentucky, the newspaper's source said, and will not be part of the investigation.
The allegations considered defunct are:
No. 2 — that Casey offered prospect Sean Higgins two cars and a monthly payment of about $300 as an inducement to play for Kentucky.
No. 3 — that Casey had an improper contact with Higgins during the recruiting process and that Casey shot baskets with Higgins.
No. 4 — that basketball talent scout Bill Chapul of Columbus, Ohio, improperly took prospect Lawrence Funderburke on a trip to Lexington in the summer of 1867 to tour Kenny Mason in four other allegations as improperly acting as a Kentucky representative in recruiting Funderburke.
In none of the other 15 allegations do the NCAA enforcement staff and the university agree the charges are completely unfounded.
Kansas pitcher Steve McGinness, Plymouth, Neb., sophomore, fires a fastball.
KU surges by Emporia State, 18-4
bv Mike Considine
Kansan sportswriter
Last night, the 22-20 Jayhaws tapped into a new power source, and the result was an 18-4 nonconcurrent over Emporia State University.
Kansas baseball coach Dave Bingham has been waiting all year for a power surver.
Kansas senior Dan Bennighoff hit two home runs and drove in seven runs to lead the Jayhawks. Before the game, Bennighoff had a .237 batting average and just one home run.
"We have been struggling to get our line set, and Benningham has been a thorn in our side." Bingham said. "But we're getting better, but he's capable. We've tried to get him to work on some things."
Two of Benninghoff's home runs have been grand slams. The left
fielder, tied for eight place on Kansas' all-time list with 15 career home runs, hit a bases loaded home run in the fourth inning and a three-run shot in the seventh against Emporia State.
“One thing I did tonight was that I moved off the plate a little bit and got my arms extended.” Beenning, “that’s the only thing I did differently.”
Kansas had 16 hits off three Hornet pitchers.
Senior right fielder Jeff Mentel had four hits, and Benninghoff had three for the Jayhawks.
Sophomore McGinnie was Kansas starting pitcher for the second straight game. McGinnie pitched to the first two batters Sunday and OKahoma State and was charged with five
could have gone with Mike Masssey, but we really felt it was better to send McGinness out and see if he can find himself."
"We really had nobody else we could start," Bingham said. "We
Emporia State, 32-14, lost the services of starting pitcher Dann Eaton before the game when he was struck with a bat. With a district championship game against Washburn University today, Bingham saidhornet coach Brian Emery couldn't afford to use a front-line pitcher against Kansas.
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Foreign runners finish first in Marathon
The Associated Press
Norwegian and Ethiopian run away with top honors
BOSTON — Though it couldn't make up for missing the Olympics, Abebe Mekonnen ran like a gold medalist and became a champion yesterday at the 93rd Boston Marathon.
Ingrid Kristiansen, meantime,
beat Benoit-Samuelson for the first time ever in winning her second Boston Marathon.
Mekonnen broke away from Jumu Kangaan with about 1½ miles left in the 26-mile, 385-yard race from the town green in Hokkaido to the Back Bay on Saturday for seven minutes, 4 seconds — the seventh fastest clocking in the race's history.
This was the first time since 1963 that Ethiopia had sent a delegation to the Boston Marathon. That year, 1960 Olympic gold medalist Abebikila, who also won in 1964, and Mamo Wolde, who won on to win the 1968 Olympics, competed but didn't fare well.
Mekonnen, a 25-year-old Ethiopian, missed the 1988 Olympic marathon because his country joined North Korea's boycott of the Seoul Games.
Although he said he was happy he won yesterday, he said, "I don't consider it my Olympic race."
He also completed a sweep by Ethiopian runners in the weekend's major marathon races: Belaine Denney (14), Yusuf Danish (10), honer, won the Rotterdam Marathon on Sunday and Keeke Metaferia finished first in the international Amateur Athletic Federation World Cup Marathon at Milan, Italy.
Mekonnen made up for those failures.
This year's second- and third-placed finishers were the same as last year's: Kikanga of Tanzania in John Treacy of Ireland in 2:19:24.
Kenya's Ibrahim Hussein, last year's Boston champion and the first
African to win the race, wound up fourth in 2:12:41, followed by John Campbell, 40, New Zealand, in 2:14:19. Campbell's time smashed the Boston course Masters record of 2:22:37. By Ryzard Marczak of Poland
Meanwhile, Kristiansen's bid to become the first sub-2:20 female marathoner evaporated in the heat and humidity.
She led every step of the women's race and was not seriously challenged after the early stages, when it was her last time for a woman on the course.
Kristiansen was unable to crack.
2:20 or even break her world-ost of 2:21, 06; but she had no difficulty in beating the gallant, injury-plagued Benoit Samuelson.
The confident Kristiansen said she was not concerned about Samulsona, who has been beset by hip, knee and back injuries in the past four years and has taken time off from running to get back to her daughter in October 1987.
Benoit-Samuelson, the 1984 Olympic champion and course record-holder at 2:22.43, struggled to finish ninth at 2:37.51.
This was the third meeting between Kristiansen and Benoit Samuelson, the two fastest women's marathoners in history.
Officials say FA Cup must go on despite tragedy
LONDON - English soccer officials said yesterday that the game must go on despite the nation's worst sports tragedy.
The Associated Press
They drew a comparison with airline passengers who fly shortly after a plane crash.
Trying to get the nation's pastime back on its feet after 94 fans died in the Hillsborough Stadium disaster Saturday, executives of the Football Association met to decide whether to replay the Liverpool-Nottingham Forest Cup game where the deaths occurred.
Although the fate of the Football
Association Cup competition had not been determined, several key league matches were postponed to inspect for the Hillsborough victims
The games included this Sunday's title showdown between second-place Liverpool and league-leading Arsenal, as well as Liverpool's home game tomorrow against last place West Ham.
Also yesterday, national coach Bobby Robson selected three Liverpool players and five Nottingham Forest players for the English team that will face Albania in a World Cup qualifying
match April 26, acknowledging that the game "pales in significance compared to the blow" of the tracedy.
Robson said he did not have an opportunity to talk with the Liverpool or Nottingham Forest players before announcing the squad, and I would like to decide whether he would be prepared emotionally for the match.
"We have 10 days to go. Time is a great healer, but I don't know if that's enough time." Robson said.
"This is a World Cup match, and I just hope our players can be up to the task."
Robson compared English players and fans to airline passengers who flew shortly after 270 people died as a Pan Am jet was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, last December.
"The Lockerbie air crash was a tragedy, wasn't it, but people were flying the next day, weren't they?" be asked
"Football here is suffering, but you have to ask what interests are served by canceling matches," he
FA spokesman David Bloomfield said there had been no discussion about seeking a postponement of the England-Albania game.
said. "We haven't really considered it at this time."
Joseph Blatter, general secretary of FIFA, the world soccer governing body, said in a telephone interview from Geneva that the game should be played as planned.
"Football must go on. We cannot stop football even if there is a tragedy and where we have a deep feeling for all the victims." Blatter said. "If they (English) don't want to play it, that is another fact, but we have not heard anything from them about that."
Men win golf tournament; women to try to catch NU
by a Kansan reporter
Kansas men's golfers returned Sunday to Lawrence after winning the Bradley Invitational in Peoria, Ill. and the women's golf team will try to duplicate the men's victory Cornhasker Classic in Lincoln Neb.
The Kansas women's team enters the second day of the two-hour, 54-hole tournament in second place behind Nebraska. After 18 holes, the Jayawhitsu shot a 292 bound Nebula at 333. Six teams, including Kansas State, Colorado State and Air Force, are participating in the tournament.
Individually for Kansas, junior Donna Lowen is in third place after shooting a 78, and freshman Laura Myers is 12th with an 82. Freshman Shelly Triplett, junior Sherri Athesion and freshman Laura Martin shot rounds of 84, 85 and 86 for the Jawhaws.
The Kansas men's team won the 16-tem, 34-hole Bradley tournament last weekend with a 908, followed by Indianapolis University with a 928 and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville with a 934.
Junior John Ogden narrowly missed earning medalist honors for Kansas with a 223, four strokes behind SIU-Edwardyville's Bill