Sports
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 11, 1989
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Kansas' Wildey powers over OU
by Laurie Whitten
Kansan sportswriter
Court one was center stage for Kansas tennis player Craig Wildey as he defeated Oklahoma's Chris Leap setts. 6-1, 6-3, 5-3 Sunday afternoon.
"Can anyone tell me how to beat this guy?" Leap asked the smiling fans.
As more than 150 people gathered at Lawrence's Alvaram Racquet Club, Wildey launched an attack of passing shots and serves so powerful that the Sooners' No. 1 player was left searching the crowd for help
According to Kansas coach Scott Perelman, Wildey's performance against Leap was one of his best. Perelman said that when Wildey played up in his potential, there was one in the country who could beat him.
"Wildy played the best I've seen him play all year against Leap," Perleman said of Wildy, the 1989 Big Eight Conference No. 3 champion. "The crowd watched him win, and it involved in the match. When Wildy plays that well, there's nothing anyone can do to stop him.
"He is one of the most powerful players at the college level I've seen. His serves and his forehands are like weapons. When he uses them well, he can dictate the tempo of any match he's in."
Wilde, who debuted at No. 2 for Kansas his freshman year and still holds that position behind John Falbo, said that his game had changed since playing at the college level and was no longer one-dimensional. Wilde was recruited by Alabama, where he chose to Kansas, Indiana, North western and Texas &M before deciding to play for Perelman.
"I decided to come to Kansas, for the most part, because of Coach Perelman," said Wildey, a Spring Lake, Mich., junior. "He's a good coach, a great motivator, plus he's a really good friend."
"When I was a freshman, I had a really successful season. I played 2 no.1 singles and did a good job at that position, but my game was pretty one-dimensional. I didn't come to the net that often and mainly stayed back at the baseline and relied on my ground strokes and serves."
Wildey said Perelman had continued to work with his serves and
ground strokes, but he also has helped him perfect a slice backhand that enabled him to come to the net easier.
"That was something I wasn't used to, but it has definitely improved my play at the net," he said.
Wildley said an added bonus to coming to Kansas was that his former doubles partner and friend, Chris Walker, also had decided to play for the Jayhawks, Walker, a Grand Rapids, Mich., junior, had played with Wildley on the junior national level since the two were 13.
Because it was not in the team's best interest, Wildey said he and Walker rarely played doubles together their freshman and sophomore years. However they teamed up with his team for national ranking before Walker suffered ulnar neck in his right arm and had to停 playing.
"Chris and I had played together since we were young, and we wanted to keep playing together if possible." Wilde said. "But we had to make sure it was in each of our best interests to come here. We did not make the decision to come to Kansas together.
"We were supposed to play together this year, and it was disappointing when he when he got hurt. If we didn't team, we'll try it again next year."
Walker recently received a medical hardship ruling for the season and will have two years of eligibility remaining.
Meanwhile, Perelman said he predicted more victories for Wildey during the remainder of the Big Eight season.
Kansas, 5-18, will play Missouri, the Jayhawks' third conference match, at 2 p.m. today on the courts. The Knicks, 7-0, will play Kansas women's team, 9-10, will play Southwest Missouri State at 8 a.m. and Missouri at 2 p.m.
Wildley said his personal goal was for Kansas to repeat as conference champion for the third consecutive year.
"After a shaky start by everybody, we're starting to come together. The younger guys got a taste of the Big Eight this weekend, and they know now hard it's going to be to win. They're going to Kansas' open Big Eight matches. Which is catching the Jawlacks out to Oklahoma State 8-1 and leftected Oklahoma 6.3.
<ansas junior Craig Wildey practices at the tennis courts behind Allen Field House.
Faldo basks in glory of Masters win
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It had been around his shoulders until the early morning hours, as Faldo basked in the aftermath of his playoff victory against Scott Hoch.
AUGUSTA. Ga. — There was the green jacket of a Masters champion in the luggage Nico Faldo loaded into the car at his hotel yesterday morning.
And it served as a prop when he was asked if the meaning of his triumph really had dawned on him.
"Oh, yes," he said, as he paused and fingered the lapel of the jacket. He smiled, continued to caress the jacket and repeated, "Oh, yes."
Before starting the two-hour drive to Hilton Head, S.C., site of this week's Heritage Classic, Faldo considered some of the implications of the win, both for himself and for European golf in general.
"It proves we're still on a roll," the man from Surrey, England said, a reference to the growing dominance of foreign players in world golf.
His Masters victory marked the fifth time in the 1880s that a European player has won a green jacket. A U.S citizen has not won the British Open in five years. The Europeans compete against the best U.S. golfers in 1963 and 1967, the last two times the matches were held.
"We're slowly proving what we're made of," said Faldo, who won the 1967 British Open, lost the 1988 U.S. Masters and now is the 1969 Masters winner.
The win raised Faldo to the level of those who have won multiple major championships.
"I caught up with Sandy again," Faldo said of his lifelong friend and golfer foe Lyle dragged the green tee to the left in Sunday in the presentation ceremony.
Faldo and Lyle grew up in the same London suburb. They have competed against each other all their lives. Until now, Lyle has been the leader.
Faldo won $200,000, but his London-based manager estimated the benefits could rise to more than $3 million in the next two or three years. Faldo, however, saw it from a different angle.
"You want to be remembered for the golf you played," he said. "That's been my dream since I was a little boy."
Good start lets coach expand his team's front-line pitching
by Mike Considine
Kansan sportswriter
A good start in the Big Eight Conference has given Kansas baseball coach Dave Bingham a little more flexibility in his lineup.
Tonight's 7 p.m. game against 21-5 Southwest Missouri State at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium begins a challenging stretch of games for the 18-17 Jayhawks. Bingham said Kansa' 5-3 start in the Big Eight enabled him to work on developing two more starting pitchers, a move that would better prepare Kansas for that difficult stretch.
"A year ago, we were so concerned with winning games, we didn't have a chance to do that," Bingham said of last year's 25-34 club.
Bingham said that last year he didn't have the confidence to throw out a fifth starter because the team was able to win with its front line guys.
Bingham said he wanted to save his top four pitchers for the
weekend's four-game Big Eight series.
"We have some midweek games come up that are pretty tough." Bangsan said. "It will make it a lot easier on the team if we can go with him and get the starters rather than going with our big Eight starters in those games."
Southwest Missouri State defeated the Jayhawks 7-2 April 4 Kansas was coming off a doubleheader split with Big Eight rival Nebraska.
"This is the time of year when our schedule gets very tough, particularly after a big weekend series." Bingham said. "They caught us on an emotional high and with an inexperienced pitcher."
Sophomore pitcher Steve McGinnis took the loss in that game, however Bingham said the experience helped him this weekend at Kansas State. He said McGinnis earned the fourth spot in the Jayhawks pitching rotation with a four-hitter against the Wildcats on Sun
Team is set for Big 8 challenge during weekend 4-game series
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"I have a lot of confidence we'll play better this week and down the road going with McGiness in the starting rotation," Bingham said.
McGinness said being included in the Big Eight rotation had been a personal goal.
"That's something we all work for," McGinness said. "I'm overjoyed about it."
"I believed it to some extent last year, but I really believe it now." McGinnis said. "Last year, when I was at the age of 15, I scored a scoring position, rather than pitching
The other members of the rotation are junior Brad Hinkle, junior Steve Renko and senior Craig Mulehcy.
MeGniness said he thought his confidence level was important to his success.
Sophomore Darin Harris, freshman Mike Massey and freshman Eric Stonecipher are in contention for the fifth and sixth starting jobs. Bingham said he probably would start Stonecipher and Massey against Southwest Missouri State today and tomorrow.
through it, I would walk a guy and then lose my concentration."
"I know we have the talent," McGinness said. "Everybody can do the job. Seven of us can start. It's just easy." He added, and doing what we reCAPSULATED of.
The Jayhawks top three relievers have a combined 4-2 record and seven saves this season. Senior Craig Houkce has worked in middle relief. Sophomore Curtis Shaw and junior Stoppel have been the staff's closers.
"All three of us are doing a good job," Shaw said. "It's normal for one out of three to have a bad day, and it doesn't matter how much we are going to be able to pick up you."
Bingham said he would like to have his starting pitchers pitch six strong innings in each outing, allowing the bulpen to finish the games.
The biggest problem the staff has faced this year is bases on balls. The Jayhawks have averaged almost six walks a game.
"We're getting over it," McGinnie said. "We're getting better all the time. It's a simple fact that if you get ahead in the count, you'll get the borderline calls. The batters start swinging at borderline pitches, rather than thinking you're going to walk them."
Bingham said the Jayhaws goal for the rest of the season was to use their 10-man pitching staff to keep the Big Eight Conference tournament.
Kansas is tied with Oklahoma for third place in the league. The top four
"The only chance we have to go anywhere is with the conference tournament." Bingham said. "Our record is not going to be good enough to get an at-large berth."
Notes
teams qualify for the tournament The champion automatically qualifies for the NCAA tournament.
Yesterday, right fielder Jeff Mendel was one of four players named as a Copperstone National Player of the Week.
The award was given for games played between April 3 and April 9.
In nine games, in which the Jay-hawks went 6-3, Mentor battled 425 with 14 hits in 31 48 shots. He had two wins, a triple, four home runs and 14 RBIs.
Mentel set a Kansas record with three home runs in a 13-12 victory against Nebraska on April 3.
He was named Big Eight Conference Player of the Week for his performance in the first week of league competition.
College players bypass NFL draft 2 quarterbacks to wait for supplemental picks
NEW YORK - Quarterbacks Timm Rosenbach of Washington State and Steve Walsh of the University of Miami will bypass the April 23 NFL draft because it was a very early summer with some real spring-like drama.
The Associated Press
Rosenbach's agent, Gary Wichard, said yesterday that his client, who led the nation in passing last season, definitely entered the supplement draft, to be held at the end of June or early in July.
Wichard said he made the decision so that the fourth-year junior would be treated — and paid — like a No 10 draft choice "rather than a guy taken sixth or seventh, depending on how things fall."
Walsh, acting on the advice of Marvin Demoff, the Los Angeles-based agent who is "a family attorney and adviser" let the 5 p.m. EDT deadline be set. Demoff Demoff had indicated he might make that decision.
Yesterday held more interest than usual because of a chain of events set off by the departure of Miami coach Jimmy Johnson for the Dallas Cowboys. Johnson was replaced at Miami by Joe Ramos, who is expected to leading Rosenbaum to pass up his senior year and eventually leading Walsh to make a similar
Rosenbach and Walsh, both of whom have a year of college eligibility left, almost surely would have been first-round choices had they entered the regular draft. They are rated behind only Troy Williams and Ben Simmons, but the first pick, either by the Cowboys or by another team i Dallas decides to trade the top choice
decision.
Instead, both quarterbacks will go into the supplemental draft, in which the choices are weighted in tiers according to last year's standings.
Under that system, the order of the first nine choices will be determined by picks from a drum in which there are 28 slips for 3-13 Dallas; 27 for 4-12 Green Bay and on down to 29 for 6-10 Miami. The second nine are then determined by the same process, starting with 19 slips for 7-9 Phoenix down to 12 for 10-6 New Orleans with the third tier becoming the 10 playoff teams.
A team making a pick in the first round of the supplemental draft loses its pick in the first round
Demoff said the decision by Walsh, who will graduate this summer and needs no waiver from the NLP, if he does, was based on NCAA rules that did not allow a team to work out players while they
still had college eligibility left.
"There's no desire on his part to manipulate the system," Demoff said. "Miami's semester ends at the end of May, and he can work out and get a feel as to who might be interested in him. Right now, there's a lack of information about him among NFL teams."
But Wichard, who held out Brian Bsworth of Oklahoma for the supplemental draft in 1987, earned him an $11 million, 10-year contract with Seattle, indicated that the attraction of the supplemental draft for Rosenbach was clearly the money.
He noted that with Aikman sure to go ahead of him, Rosenbach's value might be diminished by the NFL's "slotting" system in which salaries go down with each pick. But that's not necessarily the case in the supplemental draft, because the team picking a player loses its choice the next year.
"The beauty of the supplemental is that we get the leverage," he said. "If a team picks him and can't sign him, they're going to trade him rather than lose that No. 1, the next year."
Unlike Walsh, Rosenbach is not expected to graduate next year and would have to petition the
The Associated Press
"The university cannot be a party to any membership of any organization that even raises the possibility that a white coach can take an opponent from a coach another." Lamar Alexander, university president, said.
KNOXVILLE, Teen — Tennessee football coach Johnny Majors and athletics director Doug Dickey quit an all-white country club yesterday after reports that incoming basketball coach Wade Houston, who is black, could not become a member.
Hank Bertelkamp said no application had been made by Houston or on his behalf, so it would not be possible for it to be rejected.
The president of Cherokee Country Club said yesterday that Houston could not have been denied a seat in the club because he had not applied.
He acknowledged that the club had no black members, however.
"Cherokee Country Club has no exclusionary policy based on race," Bertkamp said.
The university has for several years paid for memberships in the club which has a $15,000 entrance fee and monthly enrollment — for the athletics director, football coach and basketball coach.
Before Alexander's late-after noon announcement, political leaders were calling on the university to sever all ties to the country club.
Houston said during the weekend that he had no intention of fighting to get into the club.
"It's their decision," he said. "It's their club".
Published statements by Dickey that a membership at Cherokee was not an option for Houston and provided comments from black leaders.