University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 21, 1989
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Mason expects spring practice improvement
by Scott Achelpohl
Keeps sports writer
Kansan sportswriter
Although the Kansas football team once again will lack experience, Kansas head football coach Glen Mason said he was expecting vast improvement heading into today's first spring practice.
Mason said he was looking forward to the start of spring practice.
"You're a continuing problem because we're low on scholarships," Mason said. "But, we re much better off than we were last year at this
spring practice allows us to evaluate personnel, improve conditioning and come together better as a team," he said.
Kansas returns 40 lettermen from a year ago although only losing 13. of the returning lettermen, 22 were true freshmen or redshift freshmen last
Glen Mason
The Jayhawks return 17 starters from the final game of 1988, including nine on offense and eight on defense.
Offensively, Mason said two keys to success would be the improvement of the offensive line which lost only
17 starters returning to squad
one starter and the return of 6-foot, 185-pound quarterback Kelly Donohoe, who will be a senior.
"I'm looking for Kelly to have an outstanding year," he said. "Last year, everything was new. This year, he has started to take a leadership role and has worked hard this winter." Donohoe, who has 20 career starts passed, joined Jayhawk this season fourth on the all-time Jayhawk passing list trailing Frank Seurer, David Jaynes and Mike Norsech.
The offensive line will include junior Chip Budde, 6-2, 265-pound center. He was a Big-Eight honorable mention pick last year.
instrumenter.
Returning at tackles will be Bill
Hundell, 6-6, 270-pound senior and
Crisp Perez, 6-4, 280-pound senior.
Two sophomores, 6-3, 260-bound Smith Holland and 6-3, 267-bound Russ Bowen, will return at the guard spots.
The rest of the offense will look familiar to Kansas football fans.
Returning starters are 6, 3-10,
20-pound senior tight end John Baker:
5-11, 175-pound senior wide receiver
Quinn Smith; 6, 20-20 pound sophomore
fullback Roger Robben; 5-6,
175-pound sophomore running back
Tony Sands and 5-10, 195-pound
 junior running back Frank Hattchett.
Three receivers will be competing to fill the void left by the departure of the Jayhawks from a time leading up to their playoff season. Kenny Drayton, 6-0, 170-pound sophomore, Jim New, 6-0, 188-pound sophomore, and 6-0, 195-pound redshirt
freshman Rob Licursi.
"Willie had big play potential," Mason said. "Somebody will step in and pick up the slack."
Injuries devastated an already thin defensive team last year and they would have an effect on spring practice. Mason said.
Defensive tackle David Gordon, 6-3, 252 pounds, is recovering from a left ankle sprain while middle guard Scott McCabe is recovering from a left knee sprain. Mason said neither would practice this spring.
The defense, Mason said, was a concern for him heading into his second year as Kansas coach.
Three regulars return to the defensive line. They are tackle Mark
He said he hoped the defensive line would be stabilized with help from junior college transfers Mike Hall, 6-1, and Junior Gary Oats, 6-1, 232-pound junior.
Koncz, 6-4, 25-8 pad senior, who started most of last year and was credited with 67 tackles, junior tanker Dave Walton, 6-7, 25-19 pounds, who started the final two games last year, tanker David Gorton, 6-3, 25-90 pounds.
Curtis Moore, 6-1, 323 pound junior, will anchor the inside linebacker position. The two year starter enters the defense against Ainsley 'Alisa' all-time tack list with 274
Returning in the defensive backfield are 5-10, 180-pound sophomore Deral Boykin, and 5-11, 165-pound sophomore Dou Terry. Boykin was named defensive newcomer of the year in the Big Eight last season. He finished second on the squad with 87 tackles.
"We're vastly improved." Mason said. "We must play with a lot of enthusiasm and improve on fundamentals."
Women's golf team improves under direction of new coach
by Laurie Whitten
Kansan sportswriter
Since the beginning of the fall season, the Kansas women's golf team has won three tournaments and finished no lower than third place at any of the NCAA Tournament divisions and recognition for the Jayhawks' victories was long overdue.
"The team is improving at a fantastic rate," Demo said. "Since I took over the program, our stroke average has decreased by about 15, and we've finished in the top three of any tournament we've been in."
Demo took over the program in 1988.
Demo said that when he was assistant coach for the program from 1983 to 1986, it wasn't uncommon for him to be in the bottom half at tournaments.
"If someone shot an 80, it was thought to be a good score," he said. "Now we've got girls shooting in the park, and we haven't changed the changes we've made since then."
During spring break, Kansas finished first at the Snowbird Intercollegiate tournament in Sebring, Fla., with a score of 627, followed by Missouri with 633 and Southern Illinois with 656. Leading the Jayhawks were freshmen Laura Myers and Shelly Triplett, who both narrowly missed winning medalist honors with 155 each.
Myers, a Missouri City, Texas, native, finished third at the Iowa
State Cycle Classic last fall and has since lowered her stroke average from 80.3 to 78. Triplet, a Pullman, Wash., native, finished second of the Texas-El Paso Invitational last fall and won gold-hawks with a scoring average
Both were recruited by several schools after high school, and said they chose to play for Kansas because of what Demo offered them.
"I decided to come to Kansas because of the coach," Myers said. "He's given me a strong mental outlook on the game — he tells us to be relaxed and not worry about how others are playing around in us in a tournament. That's helped my game a lot."
Myers said that her game was not yet at its peak, however, because she wasn't used to the changes made in her swing over winter break.
"I spent time with Coach over break, working to improve my swing," she said. "We changed it entirely. It has totally changed the way I play, and it's an improvement."
Triplet, who has played golf for eight years, said Demo had helped her to improve her concentration.
I just a really good coach in high school, so my fundamental skills were OK." Triplette said. "What Coach has taught me most is motivation to say the right thing me at the right time to get me motivated."
Demo said that during the Texas-Ela Paso tournament, Triplett paid more attention to how the competition was playing rather than how she was playing. As the season progressed, however, he said she learned to focus her attention on the course.
"Shelly was tied for the lead after the first day of the (Texas-Ell Paso) tournament." Demo said. "But then she began to watch the other girl too closely, and she made a mistake. Shell told herself it was OK to make the same mistake.
"Now she's able to go out there and play excellent rounds of golf without worrying about anyone else. She reminds me of (professional golfer) Tom Kite - you'll see her smile every once in a while, but she doesn't show a lot of emotion."
Demo said that because all the players had improved their games this season, Kansas had a good chance of winning the Big Eight Conference Championship in April. But for now, he said, the team was concentrating on breaking 300 at a tournament.
"They won't be satisfied until they break 300," he said. "We shot a 307 on a par-73 at Utah, and a 305 on a par-72 at Sebrina. We're getting close."
Triplett said the Jayhawks believed they could win the Big Eight Championship, as well as qualify for the NCAA tournament in May.
Pitching, hitting slumps concern baseball coach
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas baseball coach Dave Bingham said he hoped his team would score a few more runs and give up a few less walks in today's p. gm. game at Hoglund State Bearcats at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Northwest Missouri State, 11-3, was one of two non-NCA Division I teams to defeat the Jayhawks last year. Kansas defeated the Bearcats 18-5 in the first game of a doubleheader but lost the nightcap 7-6.
"He just hasn't played very well, along with a lot of other guys," Bingham said.
rne Jayhawks' pitching has concerned Bingham through the season. Kansas has a 0.45 ERA and a average of 7.1 walks per game.
"I have no idea why," Bingham said. "We just simply walk people. In a couple of cases, they're young pitchers, but it's also our older guys, only thing that means they are frightened of the hitters."
The Jayhawks have averaged
just 3.9 runs and allowed an average of seven runs during the last 10 games. Kansas has a 4-6 record during that stretch. Two of the victories came before the team's spring break trip to Hawaii.
The Jayhawks had identical 2-6 records on their spring trip each of the past two years. Kansas lost its first five games during Spring Break, dropping three to Hawaii and two to Hawai-Hilo. It finished by winning two of three games against Hawaii-Pacific.
Bingham said that the Jayhawk batters lacked confidence at the plate.
Kansas has batted 260 over the last 10 games to raise its season average to .247. The Jayhawks have hit just seven home runs and driven in 55 runs during their first 15 games.
"Basically it's a situation where we are not getting enough clutch hits,"卡尔in junior, centerfielder Pat Karlin said. "I think we need a couple of games where we hit the ball well with runners in scoring position. Then it will take care of itself."
Karlin, a Lawrence native, was one of the Jayhawks' top hitters in Hawaii. He has batted 300 during the last ten games to raise his season average to 220.
"We have to find confidence in our ability to play ball," Bingham said. "We don't have to throw harder. We simply have to strike. We're hitting the ball, but we also take charge at the plate."
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"I was a little tentative before the Hawaii trip," he said. "I wasn't swinging enough, and I had to wear thighs. I had to iron out with my stroke.
Bingham had a different startling lineup in every game the team played in Hawaii. He said that he would continue to juggle the lineup and batting order until he found a combination that was consistently effective.
"The only thing it points up is that we have to play better," Bingham said. "Twenty of the 26 players we took over didn't do what they are capable of. The simple fact is that if we don't play better, it will be a long, miserable year."
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