University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 27, 1989
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KU women strong despite 70-51 loss to CU
by Molly Reid
Special to the Kansan
The Kansas women's basketball team's 70-51 loss to 10th-ranked Colorado Saturday will not dampen the spirits of the Jayhawks as they prep for the Big Eight Conference matchment. The Kansas coach Martian Washington said,
"Let's give them credit — the kids that were out there," Washington said. "I think we're a lot wiser. You can easily see a lot of progress from the freshmen that got some playing time."
By beating the Jayhawks, Colorado became the first team in Big Eight history to go undefeated in conference play. Both teams completed regular-season play Saturday. Colorado would put pts. in first place going into basketball while 9- Kansas in the tied with Nebraska for sixth in the Big Eight.
"We're anxious to see who we open up with," Washington said. "I don't think we'll be in the cellar. If we can work through it, we'll enjoy a life well enough to enjoy more than one game."
Despite the loss, Washington said she was very proud of her team She added that inconsistencies were expected from such a young team.
"If I didn't think they were trying,
and I didn't think they were out there
committed, then I'd let you know,"
Washington said. "I'm not suggesting that I've been happy with everyone's performance, game in and out," he added. "I don't think they're out there trying."
Although the Buffaloes never surrendered the lead, the Jayhawks followed within seven for the first 10 minutes of the game. But with about half of the first period left, Colorado began to extend its lead.
Let's give them credit — the kids that were out there. I think we're a lot wiser. You can easily see a lot of progress from the freshman that got some playing time.'
Marian Washington
Marian Washington Kansas women's basketball coach
Kansas' 41-25 halftime deficit never improved by more than 14 points in the second half. With 6-45 left in the game, Turner sunk a 16-footer, placing Colorado ahead by 24, the biggest lead of the game.
"When we miss layups and stuff like that, we're crushing ourselves," Washington said. "When we can't hit those, that hurts."
On the play of senior Bridget Turner, the game's high score with 20 points, Colorado outscored Kansas 16-5 during a seven-minute run, putting the score at 35-19 with 4:02 to play in the half.
Poor shooting underneath the basket plagued the Jayhawks, contributing to their 35.7 percent field goal shooting. Colorado shot 45 percent for the game and hit three of seven from three-point range.
Danielle Shareef led the Jayhawks scoring with a career-high 14 points and she grabbed nine rebounds.
The second leading scorer for the Jayhawks was junior Lisa Braddy, with 10 points. Braddy's fourth point early in the second half made her the eight player in Kansas history to score 1,000 points. She also broke former Kansas All-American Lynette Woodard's career assist record of 502 just four minutes into the game. Braddy had five assists in the game, giving her 507 in her career.
"My motivation is that we knew he had to come out and play to make up for what we didn't do in the first round." "We're not a team that gives up."
Kansas once again played the floor without freshman Shannon Bloxon, who is out with a knee injury. She will win the Eight Tournament, Washington said.
The Jayhawks will take a few days off before preparing for the Big Eight Tournament, from March 4 to 7. The team was scheduled to meet Oklahoma State, 17-16, at 6 p.m. Saturday at The Bicentennial Center in Salina.
"They are a good club." Washington said. "They're a veteran club. I mean, look at what they have on the floor. I had my freshmen up against their seniors. Turner is a seasoned player veteran."
Colorado 70, Kansas 51
Tripp 0.30 9 Starka 34 0.06 5 Ford, 51-1-5 61 Warnen 8.0/1.0 63, Turner 8.12-2.28 Martin 8.2-2.68
Tripp 0.30 9 Starka 34 0.06 5 Ford, 51-1-5 61 Warnen 8.0/1.0 63, Turner 8.12-2.28 Martin 8.2-2.68
Tripp 0.30 9 Starka 34 0.06 5 Ford, 51-1-5 61 Warnen 8.0/1.0 63, Turner 8.12-2.28 Martin 8.2-2.68
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Kansas center Lynn page swats a shot by Colorado's Crystal Ford. Colorado, which went undefeated in conference play, won 70-51 on Saturday.
KU baseball team starts with 3 losses
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas baseball team, opened its 1988-89 season with three losses to nationally ranked Arkansas during the weekend at George Cole Field in Fayetteville, Ark.
The Jayhawks dropped a doubleheader to the Razorbacks, who are ranked 17th in the ESPN-College Baseball poll, 3-2 and 7-0 on Saturday. Kansas lost 18-4 to Arkansas yesterday.
The Jayhawks took the early lead in two of the three games.
Kansas closed the gap to 4-2 on a
Arkansas scored four runs in the bottom of the first to take the lead for good.
With the bases loaded and two out, designated hitter Kirk Piskor drove a double down the left-field. Razorb back right fielder Haden Etheridge, who drove in six runs, followed with a triple that scored Piskor and gave Arkansas a 4-1 lead.
Second baeman Steve Dowling gave Kansas a 1-4 lead in the top of the first inning yesterday. Dowling advanced to third base on a wild pitch by Razorbacks' starter Cole Hyson (1-0) and scored on a sacrifice fly by Kansas left fielder Dan Beminghoff
grounder by Benninghoff in the fourth inning.
Arkansas put the game away with three runs in the bottom of the fifth innning. Etheridge belted a two-run triple to make it 6-2. Etheridge scored on a sacrifice fly by catcher Tony Gilmore.
Junior Steve Shibley hit a two-run pinch-hit home run for Kansas in the top of the ninth, making the final score 18-4.
In Saturday's first game, a two-run home run by third baseman Greg D'Alexander gave Arkansas the lead after the Jayhawks took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. They were followed another run in the second inning, and Kansas scored one more in the third.
Kansas starter Craig Mulchy (0-1) took the loss despite having limited Arkansas to seven hits. The winner was the winner for the Razorbacks.
Arkansas" Denis Fletcher and Mark Sweep combined on a two-hit shutout as the Jayhaws lost 7-0 in the second game.
The Razorbacks led 4-0 after an inning. The Razorbacks' Jim Thomas tied the game with a hit-and-run double, and Piskor ran on a sacrifice飞. Piskor then smashed a two-run home run.
Dallas awaits Landry's statement New owner dismisses Cowboys' head coach
The Associated Press
IRVING, Texas — Deposed Dallas cowboy Coach Tom Landry flee back to Dallas yesterday from his Austin-area hideout, where his wife
"It's a sad thing, and we really don't have the money to buy future plans." J
am not sure Tom will stay on with the organization or decide to leave." Alicia Landry told The Associated Press at their North Dallas home.
The couple spent Saturday in Austin at their weekend home. Jones and team president Tex Schramm visited Landry午后 in the afternoon to tell
Landry, 64, was not immediately available to discuss his removal as head coach after 29 seasons in favor of the University of Miami's Jimmy Johnson, who has no NFL experience or hurricanes to a national title in 1987.
While new owner Jerry Jones, an Arkansas oilman, was saying the sale was "just like Christmas Day," the Landrys were left to mull their future in the fallout of a dramatic attack on the油厂 of the NFL's most stable franchises.
him of the change.
him of the change.
Schramm said he spoke with Landry yesterday.
Tom is not ready to make a decision about his future with the Cowboys or talk to the media yet. "I don't know," he hasn't set any time frame for it yet.
When asked about Landry's mood, Schramm said, "I think Tom is feeling better. He knows it wasn't his doing."
Landry's contract calls for approximately $800,000 this year, but Jones has left the door open for the winner of more than 250 games and two Super Bowls to stay around in a yet-to-be-named capacity.
"Tom Landry is the Cowboys, and just like Tex (Schramm) are the Cowboys. And we'll have to address that at a later date." Jones said. "But let me look at the water bucket. It would be the first to tell you he couldn't carry Tom's water bucket."
Johnson, who wasn't at the news conference Saturday night when H.R. "Bum" Bright said he had sold 140 tickets for $140 million, flew back to Miami.
He added, "In time, Tom might be like a great gorilla, getting what he wants from Jerry Jones. However, I would not have taken the job without Jimmy Johnson as my head coach."
Schramm said Johnson, a teammate with Jones on the 1964 Arkansas
Razorbacks, would have a news conference in Dallas tomorrow.
Johnson refused to speak at the news conference in Miami yesterday.
news conference in Miami yesterday. Landry, 64, who took over the Cowboys when they were a ragged expansion team in 1960 and led them to the Super Bowl five times, was the major victim of the sale.
Jones described his 40-minute meeting with Landry earlier Saturday as "a 'very awkward and trying' thing. It's the most inadequate I've ever been in my life. If you had not taken an interest, I would have gotten an F."
Schramm, who was the architect of the Cowboys and actually hired Landry for the original owner, Clint Murchison Jr., survived the sale.
Jones called himself "an apprentice of Tex Schramm."
However, Jones made it plain that he would be taking the first chair at the owners' meetings.
"I'll be there on the front row. However, there are no rules that say you can't take two people. Jones has a friend in the back right now." He just a little behind right now."
When asked what he paid for the team, Jones said, "That's between Bum and me, but I don't mind telling you I'm going to need some lead in my back pocket. I'm going to leave Dallas longer than when I came in."
While Jones will be the majority partner, there will be five minority
Owners, including Ed Smith of Houston, who has 27 percent under Bright's ownership. The other minority owners include Charles Wily, Sam Wily and Evan Wily, who are affiliated with U.S. Cates, owners of the Bonanza Steakhouse chain and Russell Glass.
Jones said he was moving to Dallas and would have an office at the team's headquarters at Valley Ridge, in front of the team's first hands-on oven.
"Tex is used to standing out front, but he's a little behind right now." Jones said. "But he's still going to be a very important part of the Cowboys.. . I plan to be into socks and jocks. I'm going to examine each facet of the organization. The Cowboys will be my life."
Jones' philosophy already was evident yesterday at the team's headquarters as members of his staff were entrusting the ropes in the vast complex.
Attorneys for Jones and Bright also were meeting to iron out the final paperwork before the sale was subpoenaed to the NFL office (or approval)
Jones' bid is subject to approval from 21 of the 28 NFL owners.
Under Landry, the Cowboys had an NFL record of 20 consecutive winning seasons. The team sputtered the season to a 3-13 record in 1988, its second worst.
Tennis results mixed during weekend play
by Laurie Whitten
Kansan sportwriter
Kansan sportswriter
The men's and women's tennis teams ended the weekend on a positive note.
The women's team won duals Friday and Saturday against Arkansas 6-3 and Iowa 7-2, and the men's team defeated Brigham Young 5-3 on Saturday in the consolation round of the National Indoor Intercollegiate Tennis Team Championships in Louisville, Ky.
Women's coach Eric Hayes said that the dayhawks, who have a 7-4 dual record, played better doubles weekend than in previous seasons.
"By the end of the Arkansas match, our doubles were starting to look good," Hayes said. "I'd say that stood out for us this weekend."
Kansas won all three doubles matches against Iowa and two of three doubles matches against Arkansas.
Kansas freshman Igeene Kay-chaudhuri, who had not played since Jan. 27 because of a back injury, scored twice both against Pau. The pair won both their No. 3 doubles matches during the weekend.
Raychaudhuri and Pelz defeated Arkansas' Rose Barakat and Amy McGarranh 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 on Friday and then defeated Iowa's Patty DeSimone and Amy Nivhold 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday.
"Playing tough doubles is what makes this team different from last year's. Everyone is paired up well."
Raychaudhuri previously had played two. 1 doubles with freshman Feveline Hamers, the Jayhwaks' No.
"I was happy with our singles against Arkansas — a team that turned out to be tougher than I thought," he said. "They were about like New Mexico, and we lost to them by a low score to regroup and come back strong."
1 player, and the pair was ranked 19th nationally.
Hayes said that he was also pleased with the team's singles play, especially against Arkansas.
The men's team won eight of 18 singles matches at the national indoor team tournament, which began Wednesday and ended yesterday. Coach Scott Perelman said that the players playing had never been weaker.
The Jayhawks again lost only two singles matched Saturday night when they played the Hawkeyes. Berglund lost her 2 match to Liz Converonii Stoss lost her sophomore Staey Stoss lost her 4 match to Tracy Donnelly 6.2-7.5
The Jayhawks lost to New Mexico 6-3 last weekend in the New Mexico Quadrangular in Albuquerque. N.M.
Kansas lost only two singles matches Friday night against the Razboracks. Jayhawk senior Susie Brazlund lost her 2 match to Joann Varnn 7-6, 6-2, and freshman Page Goins lost her 5 match to Topeka native Linda Norris 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.
"our singles play has been awful." Perelman said Wednesday night. "This team is lacking the killer skills. I don't believe they can win, so they do!"
"A month ago, I would have sai21
that our doubles were weak, not our
singles. That's changed now."
Steve Travnor/KANSAN
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Kansas State spinner Ray Hill celebrates at the finish line of the a time of 6.15 seconds at the league championships Saturday in Lin-55-meter dash. Hill set a Big Eight Conference record in the event with coln, Neb.
FloJo retires from track to tread new career paths
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Florence Griffith Joyner cried on her way to the bank.
Wearing a full-length coat befit her new millionaire status, a teary-eyed Griffith Joyner retired from track Saturday, saying she wanted to pursue her interests in writing and acting.
"From now on, I have decided to run on a different track and to strive
for the best of which I am capable in a different field." Griffith Joyner, 29, said at a packed news conference in a small midtown hotel room.
Since the Seoul Games, in which she won three gold medals and one
"Life has many things to offer all of us, and since the Olympics, many challenges and opportunities have come to me. I want to护您们."
silver, FliJo has been deluged with offers for television and move parts, magazine and newspaper layouts, magazines and meetings and speaking engagements.
The long-term offers she has accepted include those from Japanese companies Mizuno and Mitsubishi, a German film-copying firm called AGFA, Proxy shoes, MCA Universal and LJN Toy for promotion of her Flojo dolls, and a company offering services for temporary employees.
In addition, she is on the verge of signing with one of the major softdrink companies, has been discussing a deal that would get her the movie role as a female James Bond, has offers from four companies to publish her children's books, featuring the character Barry Bam Bam.