University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 20.1989
Sports
11
Oklahoma and Missouri move to 'Sweet 16'
All four top seeds move past first 2 rounds without upsets
The Associated Press
This time, Hoya Paranoia had Georgetown running scared.
The second-ranked, top-seeded Hoyas survived another hair-raising upset hid yesterday in the NCAA tournament, where he scored 814-74 after trailing at halftime.
Georgetown, 28-4, will go to the regional semifinals Friday night in East Rutherford, against with host Kansas City, 102-96, beat Iowa 102-96 in double overtime.
Georgetown trailed by as many as seven points in the first half against Notre Dame, and the Fighting Irish led 36-23 at the half. Georgetown didn't take the lead for good until a three-point play by Alonzo Mourning put the Hoyas ahead 58-57. Mourning finished with 17 points.
Charles Smith scored 28 of his 34 points in the second half for Georgetown, which squeaked past last-seeded Princeton 50-49 in an East first-round game that Thompson said the Hoyas should have lost.
Smith gave Georgetown its first lead of the second half, 46-44, with three straight three-point baskets, and he had seven points in a 13-7 run that gave the Hoyas a 75-66 lead with 1:09 to play.
"We didn't play as well as we would have liked here, and that's attributed to the game with Princeinot, it was such a strain." Thompson said, "I want to get out of here, go home, get pumped up and angry at practice and forget the way we plowed."
Knight-Ridder Tribune News / ROBERTSON ADAMS
SOURCE: National Collegiate Athletic Assoc.
"It was most important for us to keep the lead, and the three-point play gave the momentum to Georgetown," Notre Dame coach Digger Holmes thought we could have made shots down the stretch, we could win."
Freshman LaPhonio Ellis, who out the final eight minutes of the first half with two fouls, had 18 points for Notre Dame, 21-9.
N.C. State 102
Iowa 96, 2OT
Rodney Monroe scored a career- high 40 points for N.C. State, 22,8, including 11 in the second overtime, and hit baskets that tied the score at the end of regulation and the first overtime.
Monroe's jumper with four seconds left in regulation tied the score 75-75.
and he hit another jumper with four seconds to play in the first overtime, tying the score 83-83.
Iging the test card.
His three-pointer with 4:00 left in
the second overtime gave N.C. State
the lead for good at 86-85.
Ed Horton had a career-high 32 points for Iowa, 23-10. It was the only loss in 10 first- or second-round NCAA games for Iowa coach Tom Davis.
Michigan 91, S. Alabama 82
Glen Rice scored 36 points, and he and Terry Mills helped the Wolverines overcome a 57-51 deficit with four minutes gone in the second half, ending South Alabama's 11-game winning streak. The victory sends Michigan into the regional semifinals against fifth-ranked North Carolina.
Mills, who had 24 points, converted a three-point play with 2:17 left, breaking an 80-80 tie, and Hice followed with a three-pointer 45 seconds later.
Michigan, 26-7, won its second game of the tournament under acting coach Steve Fisher, who replaced Bill Frieder just before the tournament began. Frieder quit to go to Arizona State.
N. Carolina 88, UCLA 81
Junie Lewis had 25 points for South Alabama. 23-9.
Playing without the suspended J.R. Reid, North Carolina overcame a 10 point UCLA lead in the first half and advanced to its ninth straight Final. The Tar Heels, 29-7, trailed 51-41 late in the first half and took their first lead of the game (26/75). Madden made two free throws with five minutes left. Madden finished with a team-high 22 points.
The victory was Coach Dean Smith's 667th, tying him for sixth on the all-time list with former UCLA coach John Wooden.
Rick Fox started in place of Reid, the Tar Heels' leading scorer, who was suspended for breaking curfew. Fox scored 18 points, and all five Carolina starters were in double figures.
UCLA, 21-10, hit just four of its last 16 field goal attempts.
Missouri 108, Texas 89
Doug Smith scored a career-high 32 points, and Missouri advanced to the
regional semifinals for the first time since 1982. Missouri, 29-7, fell behind 25-20 but bore down the Longhorns physically, outrebounding The States 41-31.
Texas, 25-9 in Coach Tom Penders' first year, but get no closer than six points in the second half, and Missouri steadily pulled away in the final 10 minutes. Greg Church had 12 of his 14 points after halftime for the Tigers, who will next meet No. 7 Syracuse.
Travis Mays led Texas with 25 points.
Syracuse 65.
Colorado State 50
Missing only one of 11 field goal attempts, Stephen Thompson scored
21 points and led Syracuse over Colorado State. Syracuse, 29-7, 1d 38-28 on a basket by Herman Harried with 15:24 to play.
Colorado State closed to 50-42 on a Matt Sharp basket with 9:45 to play, but the Rams could get no closer. Colorado State's season ended at 23-8.
The Orangemen led by as much as 34-19 in the first half, but Colorado State scored eight straight points to remain in contention at 36-28.
Andy Anderson had 15 points for the Rams.
Seton Hall 87. Evansville 73
Andrew Gaze hit a three-pointer that gave seton Hall 77-73 lead, and Gerald Greene followed with a layup at the Pirates for the first time
reached the regional semifinals, where they will face Indiana. Evansville ran off 13 straight points to pull Georgia out, and Greene retaliated for Seton Hall.
When Seton Hall built a 74-60 lead, it looked as if the game was over, but then Evansville's three-point shooters took over. Reed Craft had two three-pointers and Scott Haffner had one in the Aces' 13-point run.
John Mortgn led Seton Hall with 17 points, and Haffner had 20 for Evansville, 25-6.
Indiana 92, UTEP 69
Freshman Eric Anderson scored 24 points as Indiana, playing mostly reserves, romped over Texas-El Paso. The Hoolgers, 27.7, seeking their second trip in three years to the
Final Four, scored the game's first seven points and outscored the Miners 14:2 to start the second half. The second of Jay Edwards' successive three-pointers put Indiana ahead 59-33 with 16:27 left.
The game was the 700th of Indiana coach Bob Knight's college career, and it gave him a 514-186 lifetime record.
Saturday's second-round scores:
Duke 70, West Virginia 63, and Minnesota 80, Siena 67 in the East;
Oklahoma 124, Louisiana Tech 81, and Virginia 104, Middle Tennessee State 88 in the Southeast; Illinois 72, Ball State 80, and Louisville 85, Arkansas 95, New York 84, Las Vegas 85, DaFal 70, and Arizona 94, Clemson 68 in the West.
Royals depending on strong bullpen to cut close losses
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A loss is a loss is a loss.
Except when you are the Kansas City Royals and you lost 47 times last season by one or two runs.
It added up to a finish 1912 games behind Oakland last year in the American League West.
"Take several of those 47 one- and two-run losses we had last week, because they were by one factor or another," General Manager John Scherubler said.
"That should not be unrealistic, and if you just simply do that and still end up losing 37 games by one run. you would have won 94 games.
"Win 100 games and you're in the hunt. Win 95 games and you're in the hunt."
To be exact, make it 24 losses by two runs and 23 by one run. Too many not-close-enoughs for a team that won 84 rames.
Late last May in Cleveland the Royals lost 8-7 in 10 innings. They then dropped a three-game series in Minnesota by a total of five runs and followed that with a 3-2 loss at Texas.
The five-game losing streak put them 12 games behind eventual division winner Oakland by May 27.
"That is where we have to get good, right there in that guy who comes in to get the last three outs," said Royals second baseman Frank White. "Some people say, 'Well, the team is not scoring runs.' To me, there's no difference between losing 2-1 or 9-8.
"You've still got one run to work with, and you've got to find the guy or two guys that can get you those players when you've got one run to protect."
Kansas City went into spring training with Steve Farr named as its closer. Given the job midway
The Royals are left looking for a bullpen this year.
through the season last year, Farr responded with 20 saves.
"Steve has never done it for a whole season," Schuerholz said. "Last year, he saved 20 games. He has also won 13." And that is a big part of the job."
"Steve has pitched well," Manager John Wathan said of Farr, who has struck out eight batters and given up one run in seven. He got out of a team situation. He's thrown some strike-outs."
Farr pitched two scoreless innings Saturday against Cincinnati. The Royals lost 5-2 when the Reds scored in the 11th off Rick Luecken.
Wathan plans to take four middle relievers back to Kansas City as up-men for Farr. So far, he appears to be assured of a spot.
"So far, it's unresolved," said Schuerholz up to the long list of pitchers on the roster affixed to the wall of his office. "If we come out of' here feeling some sense of security about our bullpencil."
A host of young pitchers are after the other spots.
"If we do go with young pitchers, which is a real possibility now, they immediately get to be not quite as young." Schuerhölz said. "He's behind the plate to do the pitching, and do the pitch selection for them.
One ace the Royals figure they have is catcher Bo Boone, signed as a free agent this year. Boone, says Schuerholz, is acknowledged as the best caller of games in the majors.
A trade for a pitcher always is a possibility, but nothing is in the works. Schuerholz said.
Owners kick off winter meetings
They have an immediate injection of experience while they are on the mount because he's behind the plate."
The Associated Press
PALM DESERT, Calif. — With thoughts of instant repay and free agency occupying their thoughts and what can best be described as Eurodollars in their dreams, NLF owners began their annual winter meetings
Three major topics were expected to take the spotlight at the meetings.
The long-range view was at the burgeoning overseas market, one that could lead to the creation of an American company in Europe in the next five years.
At the top was the continued debate about instant replay, along with the continued absence of an agreement with the players union and the possible approval of the sale of the Dallas Cowboys to Arkansas尔曼Jerry
The NFL will be on television in approximately 35 foreign countries next season, broadcasting live for the first time in Britain, where conference games and one NFL exhibition each of the past three summers has whet-
NFL tackles instant replay, free agency, European teams
ted interest in pro football. The past Super Bowl was broadcast in 55 countries, with 29 of the telecasts live.
Live games in England and the opening of a London office by NFL Properties, the league's marketing arm, are the next step in the progression that has netted a little more than $1 million in recent years. While it's still in the planning stage, the owners, at the urging of Commissioner Richard Sinder establishing a developmental league in such cities as London, Frankfurt and other places where there is clear interest.
it's not significant in terms of
weather, not when we're getting $440
million a year from television here,"
said Val Pinckhee, the league's
director of broadcasting. "But
we had access to about 100 million
homes last year. That kind of exposure is why we're talking about a regular league over there."
Meanwhile, matters of the present also concerned the owners.
As it has been the past two years, television review of controversial plays appeared to be in danger as the meetings started.
Only eight votes of the 28 teams were needed to kill the proposal, which was approved 23-1 last year for 27 teams. There are minimum of 27.2 years ago.
Still, that has been the situation in the past, and proponents this year were prepared to argue that since the system has been in effect for three years, it has been insisted on without instant repay, uncorrected bad calls would immediately show up on television with the commentary: "That
wouldn't have happened last year." As for collective bargaining, one of the principal topics of discussion was the signing of free agents, more than 100 of whom have changed positions in the system that allows teams to protect 37 of the average of 59 players on their rosters.
But most owners consider that free agency plan only as a stopcap to satisfy U.S. District Judge David Doty of Minneapolis, who is presiding over the antitrust suit filed by the successful 24-day strike in 1987.
"We don't want to go on like this," said Art Moldel, owner of the Cleveland Browns. "This thing has to be done." He has a collective bargaining agreement."
As for the Dallas sale, it was unclear whether the paper work would be complete by the end of the week, in time to get approval of the sale at these meetings. The league's finance committee was meeting yesterday with the Dallas sale one of the items on the agenda.
Jayhawk baseball team wins 2 of 8 Kansas struggles in Hawaii, outscored 65-31
by Mike Considine
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas baseball coach Dave Bingham had mixed feelings about his spring vaction.
The Jayhawks, 5-10, had a break from the cooler weather in Lawrence. However they didn't win at home but they won, winning two of eight games.
"The big thing is that we played three good teams," Bingham said. "They're more tailored to (a hit-and-run) game. But they made some good adjustments against Hawaii in their goal to see those type of things."
Kansas was winless in series against Hawaii and Hawai-i-Hilo. The Jayhawks then won two out of three against Hawaii Pacific.
The Jayhawks lost 11-5 on March
10, 9-4 on March 11 and 11-5 on March 12 at Hawaii in its first series. Kansas lost 9-4 on March 13 and 10-1 on Tuesday against Hawaii-Hilo, an NIAA school. The team then defeated Hawaiian Pacific 6-4 on Wednesday and won the first game of a doubleheader at Hawaii in a Hawaii-Pacific win the final game 4-0.
"We played better in two of the last three games," Bingham said. "We had more hits and were playing better offensively. We hit our only two home runs of the whole trip in those three games."
Senior third baseman Mike Bryn hit both home runs. Byrn hit a two-run, game-winning run and gave the Giants an outplayed game-and game-winning grand slam Thursday.
Although the Jayhawks have a.260 team batting average during the last
Bingham said he thought three pitchers performed well in Hawaii.
w aren't scoring nearly enough runs." Bingham said. "We're having a hard time finding a lineup which can produce offensively."
Brad Hinkle (3-2) allowed two hits in 88% in innings in a 64 victory over Hawaii Pacific on Wednesday. Hinkle gave up five hits and four earned runs in 5% in innings on March 11 against Hawaii and was charged
10 games, they have had trouble scoring runs. Kansas opponents outscored the Jayhawks 65-31 on the Hawaii trip.
He said the only batters who hit well in Hawaii were centerfeder Pat Karlin, first baseman Tom Buchanan, catcher Garry Schmidt and Byrn. Buchanan has batted .480 during the past 10 games.
with the loss.
The second-year coach said he thought relievers Eric Shaw and Craig Stoppel also pitched well on the first two games, who picked up saves in the two victories.
"Our pitching hasn't been great, but its improved over a year ago," Bingham said. "We gave up a lot of walks."
Kansas walked 62 batters on the eight-game tour, an average of 7.8 a game.
Bingham said the trip was a good learning experience for the team.
"It made us play a different type of baseball than we're used to playing," he said. "The Big Eight ballparks are all smaller with a short outfield, and the parks over there are big parks whose use their players are less powerful."