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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 8, 1989
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Trying to break up a double play, Kansas left fielder, Steve Dowling, slides into second base while Mike Casper, Missouri Southern second baseman, prepares to throw the ball to first base. The Jayhawks won their home opener, defeating Missouri Southern 3-0 yesterday in Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
KU's doubles late in game shut out Missouri Southern
by Mike Considine
Kansan sportswriter
If Kansas first baseman Tom Buchanan is slowly pulling out of a slump, his game-winning double yesterday at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium may have been the final push.
Buchanan's hit, combined with the three-hit pitching of pitching of Craig Mulcahy and Brad Hinkle, led the Jayhawks to a 3-0 victory over Missouri Southern in their home opener.
Mulcahy and Lions starter Mike Stebbins were locked in a scoreless pitchers' duel through five innings. But the Jayhawks broke the scoring drought when second baseman Pete Simmerson and Buchanan back-to-back doubles to the gap in left centerfield in the sixth inning.
"My style is to sort out the game as it goes along," Kansas baseball Coach Dove Bingham said. "We were able to work out what they were doing a little bit and wear on them late in the ballgame."
Kansas, 2-4, scored runs in the seventh and eighth innings.
Buchanan also had an eight-himming single to give him five hits in 21 at-bats (238 average). The team produced his first BRI this year.
"I started out slow," Buchanan said. "I was a little worried, I may
have let the first at-bat set the tone for the (season-opening) Arkansas series. But I never considered it a slump."
ingham said his staff had been working to get Buchanan to swing hard at all times.
"He's a very good college hitter." Bingham said. "I thought he only had one good swing (today) and that's the ball he打 the double. On sometimes he has a hard time judging how hard he's swinger."
The Jayhawks pounded out nine hits, with two apiece from Buchanan and Simmerson. The Lions were limited to three.
Mulcahy (1-1) allowed just one hit and struck out six in five innings.
"I thought he did a very good job of adjusting," Bingham said. "The first couple of innings, his motion was not very good but he put himself together and was unhittable after that."
Hinkle allowed two hits and struck out five.
"His fastball and curve were better than they could handle," Bingham said.
Bingham said he pitched Hinkle for the last four innings to keep him sharp for the Jahawks spring trip, which begins this weekend in
Missouri Southern, 2-5. only mounted one scoring threat. In the
Lions' sixth inning, a single by second baseman Mike Casper, a walk to left fielder Tony Tichy and a sacrifice bunt by centerfielder Rudy Hernandez in third. However, Hinkle recorded the last two outs.
Kansas scored in the seventh on a double by right fielder Jeff Mentel and a sacrifice fly by Steve Shibley. Consecutive singles by Buchanan, designated hitter Tom Benninghoff and third baseman Mark Hummel scored a run in the eighth.
The game was scheduled as a doubleheader, but the teams played a single game because of wet grounds.
"I was frightened to death by the conditions," Bingham said. "The ground was soft and moisture kept soaking away, because it froze hard overnight.
Bingham said he expected the field to be in good shape when Kansas played Washburn at 2 p.m. in Hogland-Maupai Stadium.
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King, Blaylock and Irvin head All-Big Eight team
Pritchard, Newton named to conference second team
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Stacey King and Mookie Blaylock, who sparked Oklahoma to its fourth conference championship in six years, and Missouri guard Byron Irvin are unanimous choices for The Associated Press All-Big Eight basketball team for 1988-89.
Newton
Guard Steve Henson of Kansas State missed being a unanimous first-time choice by only one ballot among a panel of sportswriters and sportscasters who regularly cover the Big Eight.
There is not one repeater from last year's all-Big Eight team, which comprised five seniors who were all first-round draft selections by the
Joining those four on the first team is Iowa State's sophomore center Victor Alexander.
"People who thought the Big Eight was going to suffer a leddown this year should take a look at the top players we have this season," said Iowa State coach Johnny Orr. "With the possible exception of Stephen Curry, we've been better this year, I believe. We may not have a lot of well-established players, but there's a pool of very talented young players coming up in the Big Eight."
Heading the second team is Richard Dumas, a 6-7 sophomore from Oklahoma State, who averaged almost 16 points and eight rebounds a game. On the second team are Kevin Pritchard, 6-4, and Milt Newton, 6-4, of Kansas; Fred McCoy, 6-7, of Kansas State; and Shaun Vandiver, a 6-10 sophomore who provided last place Colorado with one of the bright spots in an otherwise demoralizing season.
Pritchard
Newton, who went through a mid-season shoot滑肘, has averaged 21.5 points a game in the Jayhawks last six games. The 6-4 senior averaged 17.4 points for the season. Pritchard averaged 14.8 points to the All-Big Eight defensive and academic teams this season.
King, a 6-11 senior, led the Big Eight in both scoring and rebounding and was described by Nevada-Las Vegas coach Jerry Tarkanian as the country he aveuged 26.2 points and 19.4 rebounds a game.
Opposing coaches will also be happy to wave good-bye to Blayck. The 6-2 senior guard has made his mark as one of the greatest defensive players in Big Eight history. He averaged more than 20 points and four rebounds a game this year, but even more eye-catching were his 200 assists and 117 steals. This made him one of the most NCAA history to record more than 200 assists and 100 steals in back-to-back seasons.
Irvin, the other senior on the first team, is a 6-6 do everything guard for a Missouri team whose season was won by Irwin. Norm Stewart. Irvin averaged 19.6
points and almost five rebounds a game while hitting 55 percent from the field.
"He's a tremendous player," said Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs. "Byron Irvin is one of those rare players who can do just about anything — score, rebound, run the floor."
Henson's 1950s crewwork and hustling style have made the 6-1 junior favorite at Kansas State. And he is staking a claim to being one of the greatest free-throw shooters in college history. He was a member of free-throw shooting, and he goes into the post-season action this year as No. 1 again.
For the year, he's missed only six of 86 from the line for a nation-leading percentage of 93.09. If he does win the national free-throw shooting title, he would be only the fourth player ever to do so two years in a row.
"I'd say if you had Mookie Blaylock and Steve Hendron on the same team you'd have the best two guards in the country," Tubbs said. Hendron averaged 18.2 points a game and had 130 assists for the Wildcats.
Alexander is one of the most pleasant surprises of Orr's coaching career. Big and bulky, he was going to be eased into action this year. But injuries forced Orr to start using the sophomore full time, and he responded by averaging 19.6 points and 8.7 rebounds and keying a late push that has the Cyclones hoping for an NCAA tournament bid.
"We started out hoping to play him 10 or 12 minutes, then take him out 5-6 minutes, and then put him back in," he said. "I lost about 38 minutes a game. He's shown great stamina and the ability to really do the job."
Ben Johnson still best, coach says
The Associated Press
TORONTO — Ben Johnson is the greatest spinner of all time, and anabolic steroids played only a small part in his success, Johnson's coach said Tuesday.
"Anabolic played a role, as they did with his competitors," Charlie Francis told a Canadian commission on drugs and athletics. "I believe he was on a level playing field . . . and he was winning."
"He is the best sprinter of all time, I'm convinced of that."
The coach made his comments in his fifth day of testimony to the commission, which was formed after Johnson was stripped of the 100-meter gold medal at the Seoul Olympic when he tested positive for steroids.
The coach said illegal substance could explain perhaps 1 percent of a performance, the rest determined by years of work and training. Francis
has outline steroid use by Johnson since 1881, including injections he gave, saying it was necessary to keep up with the competition.
Francis, as he ended the direct testimony part of his appearance, said the chairman of the Canadian Track and Field Association had agreed to try and give him advance warning if his agency had instituted random drug testing before the Olympics.
The official, Jean-Guy Ouillette, outside the hearing room, denied the allegation.
Random testing in Canada — while cheating went on elsewhere — would have been like disarming unlaterally, the coach said. He said it would have been "the athletic equivalent of being nuked."
Ouellette was determined that random testing "not occur before the Olympic Games." Francis said. "He also went further and said if in fact
random testing was put in, he would attempt to involve in the process so that we would find out and have some advance warning."
Francis on Monday said sabotage was the only explanation for Johnson's positive test for stanozol after the Olympic 100-meter race in September. He said that substance last was used in spring 1987.
He said yesterday that the optimal benefit for sprinters after steroid use was 20 to 50 days after they were stopped, making it easy to regulate their use in training periods with no adverse caught by a test in competition.
"The main benefits are in the training period." he said.
Johnson was tested 10 times during competition in 1986, seven times in 1987 and twice in 1988 meets preceding the Olympics, Francis said. He said all the tests were negative, and no masking agents were used.
Clubs ready for week-long competition
by Beth Behrens
Kansan sportswriter
In several days, University of Kansas students will leave their studies to take a week off to play.
Included among those students are members of the KU rugby, soccer and crew clubs, who will spend their vacations in various places throughout the nation.
The rugby club will start its Spring Break tour Sunday in Seattle where it will compete against the University of Washington.
Herb Lewellyn, a member of the squad, said after that game the club would take a ferry to Victoria, Canada, and prepare for Tuesday's game against the Royal Road Military Academy of Victoria.
Liewlien said that an afternoon of deep-sea fishing was scheduled after practice Wednesday to allow the players to relax before the Victoria Invitational Rugby Tournament on Thursday and Friday.
In the tournament, the club is
scheduled to play against the University of Victoria, Brigham Young University and the University of British Columbia.
The tournament semifinals and finals will be played Saturday.
"This is our first Spring Break tour," Lylewll said. "We wanted to go because we're ranked in the top 15 collegiate rugby club in the country now. The purpose of the trip is to keep us together so we can play better.
Llewellyn said the squad was looking forward to the trip.
"We are going to play against some of the best teams in the western hemisphere. Our own tournament will be in April, and we hope that we can try to continue our competitiveness to win our own tournament for a berth to the national playoffs in Colorado Springs."
After spending the first weekend of the break practicing in Lawrence, the club will travel Monday to El Paso, Texas. The club will practice Wednesday in preparation for Thursday's game against New Mexico State.
will be on the road during Spring Break.
On Friday, the club will compete against the University of Juarez, in Juarez, Mexico. The final game of the road trip will be against the University of Texas-EI Paso soccer club on Saturday.
Allan Klenke, San Antonio, Texas,
senior, said the members of the
soccer club would take advantage of
the warm weather in Texas by getting
in a solid week of practice. He
said this was the first time the soccer
team had scheduled a Spring Break
tour.
The University soccer club also
"Typically, we like to get about two
"We've had our first two outdoor practices to try to get ready for the teams we'll be meeting this weekend. But we'll be playing in a different altitude, and we have to make sure we get used to it before we play."
Brigham Young leads the 12-team field with a score of 600. Cal-State Long Beach is second at 614, followed
months of practice in before the Big Eight tournament," Klenke said. "Because of the weather, we'll only get about a month and a half of outdoor practice.
Meliza Goble of California State at Long Beach leads the tournament with an even-par 146, after 36 holes. Triplet is second with a 147. Kansas freshman Laura Myers is 10 shots back at 157, while juniors Donna Lowen and Sherri Aitchison have scores of 158.
Klenke said the club members would spend their free time enjoying the nightlife of El Paso.
The Kansas Crew team is also going to Texas, but they will be in Austin
The club will participate on March 18 in the Heart of Texas Regatta. Crew member Karl Brehm said for the competition practices would be scheduled twice a day, March 13-16.
KU GOLF RESULTS: Going into today's final round of the Utah Dixie Golf Classic in St. George, Utah, the Kansas women's golf team is in third place and will play Jiahawk in the Shelby Triplee in second place, one shot off the pace.
Brehm said 15 to 20 clubs would participate in the regatta.
"It's been a process that involves trying to determine every facet to make a decision that's fair to everyone," he said.
"We've gone to Texas for the past six years, and we've won five of the six times we've gone," he said.
University officials had indicated Monday that they expected a deci-
Sports Briefs
NO DECISION ON BLAYLOCK: University of Oklahoma officials made no decision yesterday about the status of Sooner guard Mookie Blaylock, who was arrested during the attack as a complaint of public intoxication.
"No decision has been made," Athletic Director Donnie Duncan said last night. "It's a result of not having all the facts.
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sion about Blaylock to be made sometime yesterday. Duncan said he expected that by sometime today, he would receive a confirmation he needed to make a decision.
Meanwhile, an Oklahoma City television station reported that Blaylock would be suspended for the second-ranked Sooners' next game.
Television station KOCO, citing unnamed sources, said Blaylock would be forced to sit out Friday's game against Colorado in the first round of the Big Eight Conference tournament.
Blaylock, one of 10 finalists for the Associated Press' college basketball player of the year, was arrested
early Sundav. morning.
CBS RADIO SIGNS CONTRACT:
CBS Radio has signed a four-year,
$50 million contract to continue its
major league baseball coverage
through 1993, the network announced
yesterday.
rone radio network, which has been broadcasting baseball since 1976, will expand its coverage when the contract takes effect in 1990.
CBS Radio will continue to broadcast a game of the week, the All-Star Game, playoffs and World Series. The contract also adds 20 jobs that allow broadcasts and special coverage of late-season games.
Rookie Abbott strikes Canseco out in game
The Associated Press
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Jim Abbott knew it all along: pitching against major leaguers wouldn't be easy.
Abbott, facing a big-league lineup for the first time, struggled for two innings yesterday but wound up the winning pitcher as the California Angels beat Oakland 9-4.
"There were a few butterflies out there." Abbott said. "I got caught up in who was out there, rather than what I could do."
Abbott, born without a right hand, was the eighth pick overall in June's draft. Never before has a player wearing No. 60 and having a Double-A contract attracted so many attention in the exhibition season.
Abbott thrilled himself and the crowd by striking out Jose Canseco with a hard slider. But Abbott walked three batters and was slow fielding a potential grounder, allowing a run to score.
In his spring debut Friday, Abbott pitched three scoreless innings against San Diego in a 'B game against mostly minor leagues, the best big hit missing from the lineup was Mark McGwire.
Abbott got a big cheer from the crowd of 5,631 when he relieved to
"Even though I struggled a bit, there were good and bad points," he said.
He gave up one run and one hit — a single by Carney Lansford—and struck out two. Abbott was supposed to work three innings, but came out early because he had thrown 57 pitches.
Abbott got two quick strikes and, after a foul and ball, g canseo to swing and miss a hard slider down-and-in. The crowd, which booed when home-plate umpire was about to score, g canseo out a pitch earlier, erupted in its loudest cheer of the hot afternoon.
start the fourth. Two walks and a grounder brought up Canseco with two outs and runners on second and third. Even Angels starter hit the ball out of the outfield warning contest, passed to watch the confrontation.
"He throws hard." Canseco said, "He's got good stuff. It's hard to tell from one at-bat, but I think he's' legitimate."
he's legitimate
Abbott knows Canseco is the real thing, too.
"I went to the World Series last year," said Abbott, 21. "I thought then that I would someday be facing these guys. I know it's just hard for a team to be honest—it was a thrilling job Jo Canecco."
Dave Parker drew a lead off walk in the fifth and took third on Lansford's soft single to center. Abbott struck out rookie Jose Felix before Terry Steinbach followed with a chopper back to the mound.
Abbott balances his glove on his right arm and switches it to his left hand, so smoothly that it his hardly perceptible. But he had taken it off his glove and getting the ball back into his left hand, and his relay to second baseman Mark McLemore was in time for a forceout, but late for a double play as Parker scored.