Sports
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 30, 1989
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Men's swim team has high hopes going into NCAA Championships
by Brett Brenner
Kansan sportswriter
Heading into the NCAA Championships today in Indianapolis, the Kansas men's swim team has lofty expectations.
Kansas senior co-captain Dan Mendenhall said that the team could attain its goals.
"We want to come back as a top 15 team," he said, "That is really possible, a very reachable goal."
The Jayhawks are sending seven swimmers to the meet, which will continue until Saturday. They are seniors Gleam Trennbauer, Bobby Kelley and Chris Young. Juniors Kevin Toller and Andrew Billings; and sophomore Jeff Stout.
Coach Gary Kempf said that the team was well-prepared for the meet.
"I feel really good about the way they've been swimming," he said.
"It's time to do the job. I expect them to all swim well. What we are striving for is lifetime best."
Trammel, Kelley and Stout will compete in individual events.
Trammel, a two-time All-American and the Big Eight Conference Championship's outstanding performer, qualified to compete in the 60-yard freestyle. Trammel also will swim in the 50-yard freestyle.
Last year at the NCAA Championships, Trammel placed sixth in the 100 backstroke.
Swimmers who qualify in one event are permitted to swim in two other events without having qualified.
He said that although he was ending his swimming career at Kansas with this meet, he was not going to dwell on it.
"I'm not going to get caught up in the 'last' stuff," he said. "I'm not
looking at it as a last. It's a fun meet."
Kelley qualified for the 400 individual medley and also will compete in the 200 individual medley and the 1,650 freestyle.
Kolley is the conference champion and school record-holder in the 400 individual medley.
Stout qualified for the 100 backstroke and also will compete in the 200 backstroke and the 200 individual medley.
Although the NCAA Championships will be a new experience for stout, he said he was mentally prepared.
"I've talked to the other swimmers." he said. "I'm not going to let it be too big of a meet. I've got to go in thinking that I'm just as good as everyone else, and not be too over-helmed."
Kansas will also field four relay
teams — in the 200 medley, 400 medley, 200 free and 400 free — in addition to the individual competitors.
Chaney, Billings, Mendenhall and Trammel will make up the teams for the 200 and 400 freestyle relays.
Chaney, a member of three of the relay teams, said that the team would have fun as well as concentrate on its job.
They captured a Big Eight Championship Meet record and the school record in the 400 freestyle relay earlier this month in Lincoln, Neb.
"We'll have a good time," he said.
"But, when it comes to swimming we'll be serious."
Chaney, along with Trammel Toller and Mendenhall will compose the 200 medley relay team.
In the 400 medley relay, Kansas will be represented by Trammei, Toller, Mendenhall and Billings.
Seton Hall coach doesn't stop working
The Associated Press
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - P.J.
Carlesimo sat at a table in his hotel
room and ate breakfast.
He wore Seton Hall gym shorts and a T-shirt. His feet were bare and his hair was a mess.
On top of a video recorder sat nine or so tape boxes, each marked and bearing the names Illinois, Duke and
The NCAA Final Four
The newest rising star on the national collegiate coaching scene looked tired, overworked and was not the gib coach seen recently in postgame news conferences during the NCAA tournament.
Michigan. Each was a game tape that Carlesimo had seen more than once. His eyes showed it.
Within a few minutes, he would lie on his bed and handle a telephone
Carlesimo drives team into Final Four
conference call with New York and New Jersey area writers. Most of them he would address by first name.
It was classic Carlesimo, from a man in his late 30s who admits to being a bassist. It seems that the nice guy who has managed to beat the odds and finish first.
Carlesimo is at the top of his profession these days, and Seton Hall, 30-6, is heading toward a Final Four showdown against Duke on October 27. Carlesimo has never stopped working to get them there
He still gets to work at about noon and many times answers the phone in his South Orange office at about midnight.
A little more than a year ago, the Final Four may have seemed the most inaccessible place for Sean Paul. The Penguins had stumbled to a 2-6 mark in Pirates that stumbled to a 2-6 mark in
the Big East and were in their familiar spot in last place in the league.
Many on campus called for Carlesi-
mo's ouster despite improvement by
the team during each of his seasons.
"That's the kind of thing I don't try to pay too much attention to," said Carlesimo, who since has signed a law that allows him to name named Big East coach of the year.
"My concern was whether (atlantic director) Larry Keating and Chancellor Monsignor (John) satisfied. I never lost their support."
What has happened this season is even more remarkable. Seton Hall won both the Great Alaska Shootout
"Things" turned around quickly. Seton Hall finished the 1987-88 season by winning six of eight Big East games and earning its first NCAA bid, and earning its first NCAA bid.
and the Sugar Bowl tournaments early in the season, stayed in the Top 20 most of the year, finished second in the Big East with an 11-5 record and went 26-6 to earn a second NCAA bid.
Victories against southwest Missouri State, Evansville, Indiana and UNLV have moved the Pirates within two victories of their first NCAA title.
“It’s simple.” Carlesimo said. “Whatever team puts together the two best games will win.”
It sounds simple, but it's not, and Carlesimo knows it.
His practice this week have been as intense as always. His voice frequently rises above all, and more often than not, there is a note of displeasure at a batched assignment or a bad play.
“He is different from any coach I've had,” said forward Andrew Gaze, a two-time Australian Olympic champion, his first season for Carlsberg.
Shockers' loss is Vanderbilt's gain
The Associated Press
Coach leaves Wichita State for SEC
WICHTA - Wichita State University's Eddie Fogler resigned yesterday to become Vanderbilt's bead basketball coach.
"It was a very, very tough decision for me," Fogler said at a news conference.
Fogler said that there was nothing wrong at Wichita State and that he wasn't leaving because his businesses with anyone at the university.
"If there was something wrong here, I would have been interviewing at every place that came open," Folger said.
He said that he had been approached about 15 coaching positions in the past three years. He said that the Vandy job was the only one he chose to go after. He refused to name the other schools that were interested in him, except for Tennessee.
He acknowledged that many coaches would have taken the Tennessee job over Vanderbilt.
"But Vanderbilt is something I think I fit very, very well," Fogler said.
Comparing it to Duke, he said that Vanderbilt had a national reputation as a strong academic school. Fogler said that it ranked 14th nationally in total attendance this season and consistently filled its 15,000-seat arena even during losing years.
Fogler said that he made his decision early yesterday morning and then met with Athletic Director Tom Supe, several booster groups, who told him that he said that he urged the players to remain at Wichita State.
Acknowledging the decision is up to Shupe and Wichita State President Warren Armstrong, Fogler said that he recommended his chief assistant, Mike Cohen, be named to replace him.
named to replace him.
"Mike's been a big part of our success here the past three
years," Fogler said. "I think he's entitled to the right to be the new head coach. I think it would be best for the program."
"often, 45, has never held a head coaching post at the college level. He was a prep coach 12 years and had several college basketball coaching staff jobs before joining FSU. Football is security, shooting, and he was also heavily involved in scouting, recruiting and game preparation.
Fogler said that Rick Callahan, the assistant who coached Wichita State's centers and forwards, would be on the Vanderbilt staff.
Senior Sasha Radunovich and several other Shocker players refused comment following the team meeting. Others said that they would decide later whether to stay at Wichita State.
roger met with Vanderbilt athletic director Roy Kramer and the school's chancellor, Joe Wyatt, during a visit to Nashville, Tenn. Monday and Tuesday. He said that he also talked with the players of the Vandy post to become athletic director at Kentucky.
Fogler came to Wichita State in March 1986, replacing Gene Smithson. Fogler had been an assistant coach for the UCLA and Columbia coach Dean Smith since 1971.
In his three seasons at Wichita State, Fogler compiled a 61-32 overall record and was the only coach to guide the Shockers to consecutive NCAA appearances, doing so in his first two seasons. Wichita State beat 19-11 after being defeated by Michigan State in the second round of the National Invitation Tournament.
Fogler said that the Southeast Conference, in which Vanderbilt plays, is one of the strongest basketball leagues in the nation. Five SEC teams went to the NCAA tournament this year.
Royals cut infielder reach 24-man roster
The Associated Press
"It was one of the toughest ones I've had in my short career." Manager John Wathan said of the decision to option Pecota to the Class AAA farm club at Omaha. "I love him like a son."
HANES CITY, Fla. — Infielder Bill Pecota was sent down to the minors yesterday as the Kansas City Royals reached the 24-man roster limit for the opening of the baseball season next week.
Third baseman Kevin Seitzer and shortstop Kurt Stillwell, Pecota's two closest friends on the team, wept at the news. Pecola was visibly shaken.
Pecota, 29, spent all last season with the Royals, appearing in 95 games and hitting .208 with 15 runs batted in. Taking his place on the major league roster will be Roy Palacios, a 26-year-old catcher-in-flight.
Palacios, who hit 220 with 27 RBI at Toleo last year, was called up by the Royals at the end of the season
and appeared in five games, hitting .091.
This spring, Palacios batted only 111 while Pecota hit .294.
Wathan said that he decided to keep Palacios because he can both catch and play third base, which would allow the team to make late-night pitching hit and pin-run batting. Both coaches Bob Boone and Mike Macfarlane.
In other moves to reach the roster limit, the Royals send former major-league relievers Donnie Moore and Steve Crawford to Omaha along with first baseman Luis de los Santos and second baseman David Johnson open the season on the disabled list at Omaha but will stay at the spring training complex.
De los Santos, the most valuable player in the American Association last year, hit 375 in 19 games this spring but was playing behind George Brett, Bill Buckner and Pat Tabler at first base.
Sports Briefs
EDWARDS LEAVING INDIANA: Jay Edwards, the Big Ten player of the year, told Indiana University yesterday that he was passing up his final two years of eligibility to make himself available for the NBA draft.
The 6-foot-4 sophomore, a second-
team All-American, averaged 20 points a game and led the Hoosiers to the Big Ten title.
Isiah Thomas was the only other Indiana underclassman to leave early to play professional basketball during Bob Knight's years as coach. He left the team eight years ago after leading Indiana to the second of its three NCAA championships during Knight's 184 games.
He felt he "had nothing more to accomplish," assistant athletic director Steve Downing said.
Knight, in a statement released by the sports information office, said, "I wish Jay the very best and hope his decision works out well for him."
George McGinnis also left Indiana after his sophomore season, a year before Knight became coach.
ABDL-JABBAR FINED: Los Angeles Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scoreer, was paid $500 today and to pay $840 in restitution for showing an Italian tourist at a shop.
Enhawks, who was the Big Ten freshman of the year in 1988, had a two-year average of about 18 points as game.
Phoenix Municipal Court Judge John L. Wiehn convicted Abdul-Jabar on Feb. 28 on two misdemeanor assaults and criminal damage charges after the 41-year-old waived his right to a jury trial.
ping mall in Phoenix in April.
Abdul-Jabbar, who brushed past spectators without comment after the sentencing, will not have to serve time in jail. He could have been given up to 10 months, and the fine could have been as much as $1,750.
Curren will face the winner of last night's match between top-ranked Ivan Lendl and 10-seeded Aaron Krickstein.
Noah's semifinal opponent Friday will be No. 7 Thomas Muster, who beat Jim Grabb 7-5, 7-4 (8-6), 1-6, 0-G, grabb, at No. 172, the lowest-ranked player ever to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament.
Curren had to rally from two-set deficits in the first and fourth rounds. Noah had gone five sets in, but he was still down in less than two hours yesterday.
NOAH, CURREN ADVANCE:
Yannick Noah and Kevin Curren used dominating serves for straight-sets wins yesterday in the quarterfinals of the International Players Championships.
Nah, seeded 12th, swept unseeded Carl Uwe-Steeb of West Germany, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4. Curren, seeded 13th, ousted No. 11 Emilian Sanchez, 6-3, 6-1, 6-4.
Brazier's pitching, early-inning runs win two for 'Hawks
Softball team blanks Bears twice
by Laurie Whitten Kansan sportswriter
Behind the shutout pitching of Roanna Brazier, the Kansas softball team defeated Southwest Missouri State at Jayhawk Field yesterday, winning both games of a duel under the scores of 4 and 4-0.
The Jayhawks jumped ahead early in each game, scoring five runs by the second inning in game one and four runs by the third inning. But the Hawks Haack said the team's hitting climbed the victories for Kansas.
"We came out strong today."
Haack said. "We hit well and stole bases when we had to. I don't know if the pitcher was as good as some other pitcher, but we were making her adjust to us by not swinging at bad pitches."
In the second inning of game one, Kansas second baseman Jodi Hoyer walked, outfielder Liz Kobold hit a single into right field, and Brazier drove them in with a double to right field. A single down by outfielder Jesse Hemp drive Brazier in to make the score 3-0.
The rally continued in the third inning. Third baseman Jennifer Frost hit a double into left field and ran home on an error by the Southwest Missouri State shortstop, making the score 4-0.
The Bearrs tried to make a comeback in the fourth inning as outfielder Jennifer Keesaa doubled into center field and shortstop Kathy Cummings was hit by a pitch. But the inned ending quickly when Jayhawk shortstop Christy Arterburn fielded a ground ball, tagged Keesaa and threw to second base for a double play.
Haack said that Brazier was Kansas' strongest player, both offensive and defensively, in yesterday's games.
"Roanna's hitting and pitching were on today," he said. "She had two big hits in five innings, and that's good."
In game one, Brazier struck out two batters and gave up two hits in five innings. In the second game, she again held the Bears scoreless, giving up no hits and striking out eight. Reene Powell pitched the final innings of the game and allowed only one hit.
Kansas junior Roanna Brazier attempts to get out of the way of a sliding Terrie Helfrich of Southwest Missouri State. The Jayhawks swept a doubleheader from the Bears yesterday at Jayhawk Field.
Brazier said she had one of her better performances yesterday.
"I did feel good about how I played," said Braizer, who was a 1988 Big Eight Conference honorable mention selection. "I think I was hitting better. I hit the ball harder than usual."
two. when they started to get tired.
She said that the Jayhawks played strong defense and hit the ball well until the middle of game
twO, when they started rogue.
"We were a little tired by the second hour, and we had to play flat," she said "Against better teams, we're going to have to stay up the entire time, or we'll get kicked."
"We lost some of our concentration, and I don't like to see that. However, it was a good win for us overall."
Olympic diver seeks transfer from prison
The Associated Press
TAMPA. Fla. — Former Olympic diver Bruce Kimball sleeps with his sneakers on, fearful that his few belongings will be stolen, said Kimba's attorney, who plans to ask a judge today to judge the term and medialist 'if ye prison term and master him to a rehabilitation center.
Kimball, sentenced in January for killing two teens while driving drunk in 1988, is serving his time at Tomoka Correctional Facility, a maximum security institution in Daytona Beach.
Queadas maintains that Kimbala never will be rehabilitated in a prison such as Tomoka, where he says drugs and alcohol are available. The only alcohol treatment plan is an Emergency Alcoholics Abuse program.
Defense attorney Frank Quesada intends to ask Hillborough Circuit Judge Harry Lee Coe III to reduce the athlete's sentence and allow him to attend a private residential facility for the treatment of alcoholism.
Queada described Kimball's first month in maximum security as trying and said he planned to tell Cole of his hopes of winning a reduced term.
If the sentence were reduced to less than 10 years, Kimball could be transferred to a minimum security case attorney Frank Quesada said.
Kimball, 1984 Olympic silver medalist, burgled with convicted murderers in a large dorytorm room at Tomoka. Although nothing has happened so far, Kimball still worries that he may be forced or molested, Opada said.
"He's made the adjustment, but it's a pretty lousy place for him or anyone else." Quesada said.
Quesada said he couldn't expect to find much sympathy among Kimball's victims and opponents of drunken driveway who said they were outraged by the effort to pare his prison term.
bruece Kimball should be treated no differently than anyone else in the prison system, "said Tom Satterly, a professor at the University of Mothers' Drunk Driving.
"Those are conditions that anyone who commits a crime has to face.
Kimbella was drunk when he drove into a crowd of Brandon teens in August, killing Robbie Bedell and Jesse and seriously injuring two others.