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Monday, March 27. 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Sports
Stage set for Final 4 in Seattle
The Associated Press
Illinois shed its image as a postseason flop. Duke continued its string of successes. And Georgetown coach John Koch disappointed in six months.
Illinois beat Syracuse 89-96 to win the Midwest Regained yesterday and to advance to the Final Four for the first time in 37 years.
Duke won the East Regional by beating Georgetown 85-77, going to the Final Four for the third time in four years.
And Thompson completed a season of failure. Last September, his U.S. Olympic team was upset by the Soviet Union in the semifinals. The team was the second-ranked team in the tournament and make the NCAA's medal round
In the Final Four, Illinois, 31-4, will play Michigan, 28-7 Michigan beat Virginia 102-65 Saturday for the Southeast state. Duke, 28-7, will play Seton Hall, 30-6. Seton Hall beat Michigan 84-61 Saturday for the West title.
"We beat a great team," said Duke's Danny Ferry, who scored 21 points and will make his third trip to the Final Four. "It was a big challenge, and we came through. It been a great four years. If we could end it with a championship it would be unbelievable."
The NCAA Final Four
of the 64 teams that started in the NCAA tournament only four remain. They will play in Seattle next weekend for the NCAA Championship.
- All games will be played in the Kingdome in Seattle.
Duke's Christian Laettner made nine of 10 shots and scored 24 points. Georgetown's Alonzo Mourning man tied for the lead as was benched at the end of the game.
"I thought I would just stay open because they'd concentrate on Dannv." Laetner said.
Duke used three 8-0 spurs in the first 13 minutes of the second half to take a 68-56 lead, and a three-point shot by Gavin Smith to expand the lead to 75-61 with 5:41
Georgetown then scored 12 consecutive points to pull within two, but Duke stayed by making 10 of 2 free throws down the stretch.
remaining
"I was a big reason why we were behind in the final minutes," Mourning said. "I was a big reason we lost."
Thompson said, "Alonzo appeared to be winded and I had to give him breathers. We needed a smaller, more mobile lineup."
Lou Henson, the Illinois coach, took New Mexico State to the Final Four in 1970. In his 14 seasons with the illini, he had made the regional finals just once. In 1984, Kentucky beat Indiana 54-51.
"I suppose I could have pulled off my sport coat and thrown it and run around kissing people," said Henson, who remained calm as his players cut down the nets. "I really felt good. I think it's great that we're going to the Final Four, but we still have business to take care of."
Illinois beat Michigan 96-84 and 89-73 during the regular season. Still, Henson was cautious in assessing the Wolverines.
Syracuse, which lost the 1987
"Right now, they're awesome," he said. "I don't think there another team in the tournament playing as well as they are now."
championship game to Indiana by a point, also has an image as a team that loses big games.
When people talk about doing big games, they now knowledgeable about the game." lenseon said. "Syracuse won 30 games, but because they lost today, someone will say they can't win the gig one." That's for people in the pool
Illinois' Nick Anderson scored five points in a 7-2 tsp that broke the last tie and put Illinois ahead to stay in the final $6\frac{1}{2}$ minutes.
He got the Illini started by grabbing an offensive rebound and dropping in a basket, and Gill followed with a pull-up jumper at the free-throw line, making it 74-70 with 5:38 left.
Coleman's layup brought Syracuse back to within two, but Anderson made a free throw and scored off a two-foot layup. Illinois' lead to 77-72 with 9:06 to go.
Syracuse closed to 87-86 on Sherman Douglas’ three-pointer, his only basket of the second half, with 23 seconds left. Marcus Liberty missed the front end of a one-and-one three seconds later, but Kendall Gill grabbed the rebound, and Battle made two free throws with 15 seconds left. Battle finished with 28 points, Anderson with 24.
MU's controversial season is over, but problems continue
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A turbulent season marked by the loss of Coach Norm Stewart and the specter of an NCAA investigation ended for the Missouri Tigers with an 83-80 loss to Syracuse.
With the abrupt end to the Tigers' 29-8 season, people are wondering what's next for the team.
The Tigers, who had not won an NCAA tournament game since 1982, made it to the Midwest Regional semifinal in Minneapolis before losing to the Orangemen for the second time this season.
Visions of the Final Four vanished Friday night as Syracuse played a 16-0 second-half run that the Tigers could not stop.
"It was just funny for us losing the second time to them," said freshman Anthony Peeler, adding that he and several other players captured the tape of the first game to figure out what had gone wrong.
Rich Daly, the assistant coach who guided the team when Norm Stewart fell ill, said he was interested in a head coaching position
Missouri's program faces an NCAA investigation for recruiting violations, and the status of assistant coach Bob Sundveld remains unclear. The university will while an investigation. But his recruitment practices is in progress.
Stewart, who is recovering from cancer surgery, said he was feeling better and looking forward to the future. However, he is not certain whether he will return to coach the Tigers.
"I've got to go out and get back to recruiting and try to catch up on some things," he said. "We had a very good early signing. We signed the new coach, and ended up in state tournaments. We'd like to add one more."
For Daly, there will be relief and regret in giving up the head coach job and returning to his role as the Tigers' chief recruiter.
Top pitching brings wins to Jayhawk softball team
by Laurie Whitten Kansan sportswriter
Kansas softball coach Kalum Haack said Kansas' pitching was close to perfection against Washburn in a doubleheader Friday. The Jayhawks defeated Washburn 3-0 and 7-0.
Junior Roanna Brazer and freshman Shelly Sack alternated pitching duties in the games. Although Haack had said in January that Brazer and Sack's pitching needed to improve, he had nothing to complain about.
"I'm not surprised at the way they're pitching now," Haack said. "At the beginning of the season, our pitching was weak, but it wasn't because they didn't have the potential.
"Roanna and Shelly are starting to pitch the way I want them to, and they're backed up by great defense, which makes it even better."
"Roanna pitches with more finesse," Haack said of the 5-foot-3 1988 Big Eight Conference honorable mention selection. "She has a good rise ball, a good drop ball and excellent control."
Haack said Brazier's pitching in the first game was more uniformed but less powerful than Sack's. Brazier had a perfect game until the sixth inning when she gave up a base hit with two outs remaining.
Brazier, who had a 20-19 record in 1981, pitched in 46 games and had nine shutouts last year. She also scored the most runs in the record for striking out 139 batters.
Compared to Brazer, Haack said Sack's strength was not in her finesse but in her ability to change the speed of her pitches.
"Shelly has more of a power ball, as well as a good change-up," he said of the 5-foot-10 North Platte, Neb. native. "When she throws the ball, the motion looks the same each time, but the speed may be slower. The force is greater the stronger, the lot of times they will completely miss the ball.
"If a pitcher throws the ball the same speed every time, batters get to it and are able to figure out how fast they mix her speed, it throws them off."
Haack said that more than 250 people showed up to support the Jayhawks on Friday, and many were by how fast the team had become.
"For instance, in the two games against Washburn, we stole nine bases. That forces the other team to move first down." If they don't, we'll be advancing."
"I've stressed all along that to be a winning team, we have to have speed," he said. "That's something that we've changed since last year.
"I think Washburn is a good NAIA team," he said. "However, they hadn't had much playtime before they didn't know it couldn't execute their defense well."
Haack said the Washburn players might not have played to their potential because they had played only two games this season.
He said the Jayhawks' defense was satisfactory in both games.
"In the first game, it was three up and three down until the sixth inning. In the second game, we covered the field equally as well."
Let's scrimmage
Kansas football coach Glen Mason tells his team what he expects from its scrimmage. In the scrimmage on Saturday, quarterback Kelly Donohoe completed all 13 of his passes for 173 yards.
KU track opens against alumni
by Cynthia L. Smith Kansan sportswriter
Elena Balaver-Goldberg returned to Kansas on Saturday to compete in the Varsity/Alumni track meet at Memorial Stadium. She joined the men's and women's teams and other alumni at the outdoor season opener.
Other alumni competing included sprinter Cliff Wiley and jumper Danny Seay.
"It was a real low-key deal, just getting the kids ready for the outdoor season," said Kansas assistant track Coach Theo Hamilton.
Bavel-Goldberg, a 1987 Kansas graduate, is a citizen of both the United States and Israel. She won the discus throw at the Israeli National Championships last June. She was on the KU track team in 1980-81.
This weekend, she won the hammer throw at 67 feet, $6_{1/2}$ inches, placed second in the discus at 117.5 and third in the shot-utot at 27.7$.
The Varsity/Alumni Meet was only the fourth meet Bavel-Goldberg competed in this year because she is busy working as a substitute teacher.
She said she planned to train and compete for three months in Israel beginning April 11. She also said she would compete in eight meets, including the Israel national championships.
"I hope to be on the Israeli (national) team," she said. "That's one of my lifelong dreams."
She also said that she hoped to compete with the team at the Maccabiah Games from July 12-18. The year before, he competed in the Maccabiah Games.
Olympian Cliff Wiley graduated from Kansas in 1978 and the KU School of Law in 1983.
Wiley qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team in the 200-meter dash but did not compete because of the boycott against the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. He also trained for the 1984 games.
"I went out to California, and everyone was betting 'I make the team,' Wiley said. "But Lady Luck with me, with me, and I strained a hamburg."
Kansas senior Ornette Gaines said he was excited about running against Wiley.
"Anytime I have the opportunity to run against somebody of that high caliber, it makes me better." Gaines said. "I was not being on that level, I was afraid."
Gaines said he thought he might beat Wiley because Wiley no longer trained regularly.
Wiley won the 200 meters in 21.3 seconds, followed by Gaines in 21.9. Wiley also won the 100 in 10.3, followed by Gaines in 10.6.
Wiley said he still received offers to compete.
"I guess he's still got a lot left in him," Gaines said.
"You have momentary lapses of insanity when you think you can do this on a consistent basis," he said. "But my concentration is not as good as it used to be. I have enough problems with clients who start concluding that they need an witness stand. I don't need any more pressures."
As a freshman, Wiley roomed with Hamilton, who was then a Jayhawk senior.
"We took Cliff under our wing more or less," Hamilton said. "When Cliff came in, we had a lot of track tradition."
Danny Seay, a 1975 graduate, said he was proud of Kansas' tradition because while he competed, from 1971-75, the men's team did not lose a Big Eight indoor or outdoor championship and place lower than fifth in the NCAA.
He was the three-time Big Eight Conference champion in the long jump and two-time champion in the triple jump.
Seay and Hamilton, both former All-Americans, competed in the same events.
"We helped each other," Hamilton said. "No doubt practice situations were very competitive."
Kansas baseball increases winning streak to 6
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
With the Big Eight Conference baseball season less than a week away, Kansas appears to be sliding into shape.
The Jayhawks defeated Tarkio College, 12-3 and 10-6 yesterday at Hog Island-Maupin Stadium. In all, Kansas won four games this weekend, extending its winning streak to six.
"Things are starting to come together," senior pitcher Craig Mulcahy said. "It would be nice to get some momentum going for the Big Bowl, but we don't want it to happen like last year, when we were totally unprepared."
A victory against Benedictine College at 7 p.m. tonight would give the 11-12 Jayhawks a .500 record for the first time this season. Kanas will play three more games before its big victory against Nebraska on Saturday.
"Offensively, we're running the bases well, we're playing pretty good defense and our bullets is getting squared away," Coach Dave Bingham said. "We just haven't hit the ball hard."
Kansas improved its team batting average from 240 to 261 with 47 hits in four games, but just eight of these were extra base hits.
Senior first baseman Tom Bucha had four of the Jayhawks' 13 hits in yesterday's second game. Bucha had four hits in five at-bats, raising his season batting average to 351.
"I still need to concentrate in every at-bat," Buchanan said. "If I had concentrated on my last at-bat, I could have been five-for-five."
Buchanan led off a five-run Kansas
Tarkio, 5.9, tied the game in the top of the third inning with a two-run home run by shortstop Xavier Acosta. However, Mulley, 1.3, held up three runs and blocked seven during the next four innings, gaining his first victory.
second inning with a home run. A two-run single by junior Pat Karlin and an RBI single by senior Pete Simmerson the Jawahar a 5-8
"Mulcahy was sloppy early and didn't have good concentration," Bingham said. "He saw a team he should be able to beat and tried to blow it by them. He wanted his first win real badly."
Mulcahy struck out 11 batters in $ \mathrm{six} \frac {1}{3} $ innings.
Right fielder Jeff Mentel hit the game-winning run with a base hit in the fifth inning.
"It was mostly my slider," he said.
"The last couple of starts I've pitched well, but my slider was about 10 km/h" (slow). I got my speed in today.
In the first game, Kansas scored 10 first-inning runs.
Kansas increased its lead to 12-3 on singles by Karlin, Simmerson and left fielder Steve Dowling in the third.
Kansas was scoreless in the last four innings.
Tarkio starting pitcher Ty Thatcher walked five of the six batters he faced Junior Jim Pender and gave up five consecutive hits.
"We probably got a little too satisfied," Buchan said. "We need to concentrate at all times."
Kansas defeated Northern Iowa 10-2 Friday and 10-7 Saturday at the stadium
"I just think it's a matter of our
Dowling had three hits in three atbats with two RBI for Kansas. Simmerson and catcher Garry Schmidt had two hits and two RBI each.
In Saturday's game and yesterday's first game, the Jayhawks rolled up big leads early, but their opponents closed the gap.
pitching settling down," Bingham said. "We always have to work on getting established in the game. Once we get into the game, we're OK."
The Jayhawks had a 6-1 lead through three innings Saturday. Mentel tripled and Byrn doubled, deviseed two of Kansas' four runs in
Northern Iowa. 4-9, scored five runs in the next two innings, closing within one. 6-5.
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