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Monday, April 10, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Sports
Wins over Wildcats are deja vu to KU
by Mike Considine
Kansan sportswriter
This weekend was like a flashback to the 1982 season for the Kansas baseball team.
For the first time since 1882, the Jayhawks have won more games than they have lost at this stage of the season. Like the 1892 team, the Jayhawks defeated Kansas State in a four-game series to improve their overall record to 18-17 and their Big Eight conference record to 5-3.
Kansas State is 19-9 and 2-6.
"Everybody feels confident about what's on your." KU baseball coach Dave Bingham said "It's the first time I've seen that confidence since I've been here."
Kansas won a four-game series from a Big Eight opponent for the first time in three years
Sophomore pitcher Curtis Shaw
(2-1) said that the Jayhawks had their minds on last year's series with the Wildcats, when Kansas State catgames from Kansas in Lawrence.
"Last year's series really hurt," Shaw said. "They put us out of contention. To get revenge on them was definitely a factor in the series."
Kansas sophomore Steve McGinnie (22) held Kansas State to four hits, leading the Jayhawks to a 14-1 victory yesterday. Kansas won 4-3 on Saturday after dropping the opening game to the Wildcats 11-8 Friday night.
Bingham said that McGinness had better control in yesterday's game than in previous starts.
"With the wind at his back, he was just overpowered." Bingham said. "There were a couple of times he got in trouble, but he came back and
made great pitches."
Kansas had a 3-0 lead until the bottom of the fourth inning, when KState scored its only run on a balk by McGinness.
Designated hitter Mark Moore and left fielder D Benninghoff hit two run singles in the fifth inning to give Kansas a 7-1 lead.
The Jayhawks added seven more runs in the last two innings.
"That was a great game," Bingham said. "Everything we did worked. There's our question that the series is our best baseball of the
Right fielder Jeff Mentel had a two-run double in the seventh inning to complete a 7-for-16 series. Mentel, who leads the Big Eight in hitting, is batting .533 (16 for 30) in eight conference games.
Bingham said that Mentel had
become an effective clutch hitter this season.
"He has really grown into that role," Birling said. "Last year, he wasn't an RBI player. Now he knows he can come through in that situation."
Neither team scored in the three innings before Mentel's home run.
Mentel had four hits in Saturday's second game, including a two-run, game-winning home run.
Kansas jumped out to a 4-10 lead behind a two-run home run by senior Tom Buchanan, but the Wildcats back to tie the score in the fifth inning.
Shaw allowed no hits and struck out five in four innings, earning the victory. In the first game, Shaw scored just 1% innings to gain his second save.
(last week), I was really trying to throw the ball too hard. Shaw said. "This weekend, I was just concentrating on throwing strikes. I was making them put the ball in play and not just getting it playing great defense behind me."
Brenninghoff's first-ring grand slam was the game-winning hit in the first game. It was the first home run hit by Aaron Rodgers and the fifth-hit 12 home runs last year.
"Against Nebraska and Creighton
Kansas managed only one hit off Kansas State pitcher David Hierholzer (4-1) the rest of the way.
Senior Craig Mulcahy (2-4) allowed just two hits in $ 4^{1 / 3} $ innings for the victory.
really pumped us up. We knew going into extra innings that we were going to win the game."
Hits by Tom Buchanan and Steve Dowling combined with five Kansas State errors to the Wildcats' lead to 6-5 in the top of the fourth.
In Friday's game, Kansas traced from the third inning on in an 11-8 loss.
"We came back real well after the first night," Bingham said. "I'm not pleased with the way we play all the time, but we've been able to hang in there and get a hit to win late in the game."
Kansas 102 423 | 4-1 13-1
Kansas State 100 | 10-0 | 1 4-5
Kansas McGinnis and Beesher, Kansas
State McCillean, Heidrick (5), Durway (7),
Laddish (7) and Schmidt; W-McGinnis (2-2)
L-McCillean (2-2); BB-McGinnis; Mentel 2
Kansas freshman Rafael Rangel uses a strong backhand on Oklahoma's No. 5 player Brian Geiger, Rangel was the only Jayhawk to win two singles matches in weekend Big Eight Conference play.
Kansas women's coach Eric Hayes advises freshmen Page Goins and Eveline Hamers during a break in their No. 1 doubles match against Oklahoma's Stacy Bullman and Karen Marshall. Goins and Hamers lost the 1-6, 6-0, 7-6.
Men's tennis team beats OU; Sooners, OSU defeat women
by Laurie Whitten Kansan sportswriter
In Big Eight Conference play during the weekend in Lawrence, the Kansas women's tennis team lost to Oklahoma State and Oklahoma 8-1, 6-3, while the men's team lost to the Pacers and beat the Sooners 8-1, 6-3, respectively.
Kansas women's coach Eric Hayes said he was satisfied with the Jayhawks' performance against fifth-seeded Alabama State on Saturday morning.
"As I told the girls, this match needs to be kept in perspective." Hayes said. "This year, Oklahoma State) can be challengers for the national championship. They're that good."
Freshman No. 1 singles player
Eveline Hamers won Kansas' only match, defeating 17th-ranked Tessa Price 6-3, 6-4. Price is ranked the No. 1 singles player in the conference; Hamers is ranked third.
When the Kansas team lost to Oklahoma State Saturday afternoon, Coach Scott Perelman said he had performed better than they did.
"I'm disheartened by our lack of desire to find a way to win." Perelman said of the 5-18 Jaiyahaws. "We matched up with them up and down the lineup, but in nine matches we only won three sets total."
Freshman Rafael Rangel won Kansas' only match when he defeated the Cowboys' No. 6 player, Justin Stead, 2-6, 7-6, 6-3.
Yesterday, against Oklahoma,
Hamers improved her conference
singles record to 2-0 when she
defeated Jile Vaughan 7.6, 6-1.
Freshman Elba Pinoer won the No. 4
singles for Kansas, defeating Berner
Kansas 6.2, 6-7.7 At No. 3
singles scored in Dagel 6.2,
Pezz defended Diagne 8.7.
After the women's matches, the Kansas men's team defeated Oklahoma, which finished second in the conference in 1988. The Jayhawks played without John Falbo, Kansas' No. 1 player who was ranked 19th in the tournament. Falbo suffered a pinched nerve his back during Saturday's match.
Falbo and junior Craig Widley were in the first set of their No. 1 doubles match against Oklahoma State's Jeff Neuman and Jack Salerno when Falbo hit his back against a metal beam at the back of the court while he was trying to hit an overhead shot.
Later, when Falbo tried to serve the ball, he fell to the court in pain and did not move for 15 minutes. Kansas trains helped him limp to the side of the court. He was placed on a stretcher and taken to Lawrence
Memorial Hospital.
Perelman said Falbo was given muscle relaxers and released.
"John will be really uncomfortable for the next few days." Perelman said. "The problem is serious enough if no action for the next 10 to 14 days."
Despite Falbo's absence, Perelan said the Jawhacks played against the Sooners with poise and a desire to win.
"We were a lot more competitive today," he said. "I got the feeling when we showed up that we wanted to win."
In singles, Winged defeated No. 1, player Chris Leap 6-1, 6-3, and Jim Secrest defeated No. 3 player J.J. Cavani 7-5, 6-2, and Leming defeated Matt Mars 7-5, 6-2.
KU vaulter has happy Texas homecoming
Miller is first in Austin meet; beats teammate
by Cynthia L. Smith
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas pole vaulter Cam Miller said that beating teammate Pat Man son helped them both.
Miller was victorious with a vault of 18 feet, $i$ inch at the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Jay Almond won. He did not qualify for the finals.
"After a while, you think maybe this guy is invincible, and maybe I
can't beat him," Miller said.
He said that Manson would work more after not winning. During the indoor season, Manson finished second at the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Indianapolis with a vault of 18.2, and he won the Big Eight Invitational Championships in Lincoln, Neb., with an NCAA record of 18.8. Manson was fifth at the Texas Relays with a vault of 16-11.
Miller was nervous early in the meet because his warm-up was bad, and he knew a lot of people at the meet from his two years at Abilene Christian College in Abilene, Texas, he said.
"This is more important than the NCAA outdoors because of the prestige of the meet," Miller said. "Win
Kansas track coach Gary Schwartz said that the Jawhays were aggressive athletes at the meet despite the poor weather.
ning was stellar. It was a dream come true. I had visions about winning the Texas Relays."
The rest of the Jayhawks competed at the EMotion Relays in Cape Girardeau, Mo., this weekend.
"The cold was really bad, but the wind adds a lot of resistance." Schwartz said "The way the track looked on the backside ended up fighting it on the basketshell."
Senior Jon Joslin won the 800-meter run in 1 minute, 54.68 seconds, and Mike Perez was the collegiate
"It was kind of a bummer because I'd go through practice all week and the rest of the team would go compete, but I'd just go home," he said. He worked hard to make work harder because there's a lot at end of the meet. I meet to compete."
Four Kansas men were individual champions.
Jacobson did not compete last year because he dislocated his right shoulder.
Jacobson said that first-year Kansas assistant coach Gary England helped him develop this year.
champion in the high jump with a leap of 6-8. Teammate Sean Jacobson took the javelin with a throw of 191-0
"After we're done throwing in practice, he can just jump on the runway with a javelin on his arm and show us what we did and then show
The 6,400-meter relay team, consisting of Sean Sheridan, Donnie Anderson, Mike Spieglman and Craig Watcke won in 17:04.72 The 3,200-meter relay team, consisting of Joslin, Tye Thal, Jason Teal and Tim Riley, Samuel Schedel won in the 1,600-meter relay team, consisting of Darren Bell, Brett Fuller, Brad Cobb and Stacy Smedlaa won in 3:14.65.
us how to do it," Jacobson said. Kansas' three relay teams all finished first.
Sophomore David Brummett placed third in the 1,500-meter.
Kansas' Angie Melland was the only member of the women's team who placed in the top three. She won the javelin with a throw of 136-5.
Fencing clubs qualify for national tournament
"There always a question of whether you will advance to nationals," Elliott said. "I knew I could, but there is no such thing as competition. You're never guaranteed a win."
hy Beth Rehrens
The KU Fencing Club was the host of the Kansas Divisional Tournament on Saturday, and one club member and both the men's and women's teams qualified for the U.S. National Fencing Tournament that begins June 8 in Orlando, Fla.
Coach Mary Elliott was the Kansas qualifier in the individual bouts. Elliott took first place by winning all her 11 bouts against fenceers qualified for national. The top three fenceers qualified for national.
Kansan sportswriter
Other Kansas fencers who placed were Greg
The divisional tournament was one of two qualifying tournaments for the year for foil competition. The other tournament for national qualifying is the Rocky Mountain Sectional Tournament at Penn Valley Community College on April 28-30 in Kansas City, Mo. The section consists of all the states in the Rocky Mountain area.
The Kansas district consists of Kansas and the five Missouri counties that are part of the state.
Tobin,LENexa senior,fourth place; Shawn Chestnut, Overland Park sophomore, 10th; Charles Roberts, Olate senior, 11th; and Rob Calhoun, Olate sophomore, 12th. Marcella Morgan, Olate freshman, placed fifth in women's individuals.
The number of people who would gain
The Johnson County Community College,
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Wichita,
Topka and the Kansas City fencing clubs participated in the tournament.
The men's team placed second behind UCLA, the women's team finished second behind Utah.
"T
here's always a question of whether you will advance to nationals. I knew I could, but there is no such thing as complacency. There was some good competition. You're never guaranteed a win.'
- Mary Elliott Kansas fencing coach
national placement from the sectional tournament will depend on the number of participants
The sectional tournament, unlike the divisional tournament, will have events with all of its members.
The foil is the lightest of the three weapons. Scoring is achieved only by a direct hit with the foil.
The epee is similar to the foil in that only direct hits with the tip of the blade score, but the other two are less efficient.
With the saber, not only direct hits with the tip of the blade but also slicing blow score. Points are awarded when contact is made to the blade. The target area for the saber is from the waist up.
In individual competition, the first fencer to score five points wins the round. In team competitions, the first team to win nine bouts wins the round.
Roberts, who is the captain of the club, said that the foil was the most common of the three weapons and that it was the most frequently used in Kansas competition.
"The foil is a kind of training tool for the saber and epee." Roberts said. "Graduation to the other weapons is a matter of choice. Foils are most popular in our division. We do have competitions for the other weapons but not as often."
Steve Fisher to be named head coach
Ann Arbor, MICH — Steve Fisher, who in 20 remarkable days guided Michigan to the NCAA basketball championship, will be named coach of the Wolverines at a news conference today. The Associated Press learned yesterday.
The Associated Press
Sources close to the team, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said yesterday that Fisher was the only candidate interviewed by Bo Schembechler, Michigan athletic director.
The move will come one week after the 44-year-old Fisher was named national titleholder with an 80-70 overtime victory over Seton Hall.
Fisher, who was an assistant to Bill Friedler for seven years, took over the Wolverines on the eve of the NCAA tournament when Friedler accepted a job at Arizona State.
An angry Schembecher, saying "a Michigan man will coach Michigan, not an Arizona State man", refused to accept Frieder's 21-day notice and banned him from being the team in the tournament.
After the Wolverines won the title, there was an immediate clamor, both locally and in the national media, for Schembecher to remove the "interim" from Fisher's title. The stubborn Schembecher, who as the Wolverines football coach never has won a national championship of his own, refused to be stamped.