TENNIS Men's and women's teams sweep their weekend matches. Page 2B
SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1995
Kansas senior outfielder Josh Igou is safe at third base as the throw to Oklahoma State third baseman Tal Light is off target. The Jay hawks lost all three games during the weekend to the No. 3 Cowboys.
Sean R. Crosier /
SECTION B
Cowboys rip'Hawks again, 11-2
Kansas no match for No.3 Pokes endures sweep
By Tom Erickson Kansan sportswriter
Oklahoma State's basketball team met with defeat in Seattle during the weekend, but its baseball team was much more successful.
The No. 3 Cowboys completed a weekend sweep of the Jayhawks with an 11-2 victory yesterday at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Big innings plagued the Jayhawks. After scoring a single run in the first inning, Oklahoma State pushed across four in the third and added two more in the fifth, off Kansas starter Robert Garola (2-3).
Kansas now stands at 2-6 in the Big Eight Conference and 10-20 overall. Oklahoma State, riding a 10-game winning streak, improved to 9-1 and 29-3.
Sophomore pitcher Tim Lyons relieved Garola in the eighth and surrendered one run.
Lyons lasted just 2/3 of an inning before yielding to freshman Robert Keens, who got the final out in the eighth had to
endure three more runs in the final inning.
Kansas coach Dave Bingham said the Jayhawks played their best game of the series on Sunday. The Cowboys won 9-7 on Friday night and 16-3 afternoon.
"I thought they played harder today than they did yesterday by far," Bingham said. "It was a better game. We're just not hitting well, and we just don't have an offensive guy."
The Jayhawks' two tallies came in the sixth and seventh innings. After sophomore shortstop Joe DeMarco drew a two-out walk from Cowboy pitcher Jason Bell (7-0), sophomore right fielder Justin Headley slapped a double to right field to drive in DeMarco and
Josh Kliner to ground out and struck out freshman designated hitter Mike Terry for the third out.
Headley, who robbed Oklahoma State third baseman Peter Prodanov of a base hit
"We can't play pressure baseball, and it kind of hinders the way we want to score runs." Brent Wilhelm Kansas senior third baseman
make the score 7-1. Senior third baseman Brent Wilhelm then struck out to end the inning.
Kansas senior left fielder Josh Igou led off the seventh with a triple, and then scored on a ground out by senior first baseman Alex King.
Bell then got freshman second baseman
with a diving catch in the sixth inning, said the offense needed to be spread out more to be effective.
"In the sixth and seventh, our pitching shut them down and we put some runs on the board," Headley said. "But we need to do that for nine innings to beat Oklahoma State. We just need to come out and play hard for all nine innings."
Wilhelm said the Jay-hawks needed to string good at bats together to be better offensively.
"We still haven't been
able to do the things we want to do to win," he said. "We can't play pressure baseball, and it kind of hinders the way we want to score runs."
The Jayhawks' will take a day off today before traveling to Lincoln, Neb., to start a two-game series with the Cornhuskers tomorrow night.
"We still haven't been
Oklahoma State 1.1, Kansas 2
JAYHAWKS (10-20) ab r h rbl
ss DeMarco 3 1 1 0
rf Headley 4 0 1 1
3b Wilhelm 4 0 1 0
lf Igou 4 1 1 0
1b King 4 0 0 1
2b Kliner 3 0 1 0
dh Terry 3 0 0 0
c Wilmot 2 0 0 0
c Dimmick 1 0 0 0
cf Byrd 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 5 2
Kansas IP H R ER BB SO
Garola L(2-3) 7.0 9 7 5 2 5
Lyons 0.2 2 1 1 0 0
Keens 1.1 2 3 3 1 1
Okla. State IP H R ER BB II
Bell W(7-0) 8.0 5 2 2 1 6
Gaiko 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Aycock ends career as All-American
By Jenni Carlson
Kansan sportswriter
E DeMarco, Keens, Kliner, Wilhelm DP Oklahoma St E LB 10 Kansas A 3 Oklahoma St, B Steenberg, Richard, Headley MB Memanova, Richard, Igo MacKay, Steelmon RB Richard, DeMarco
Angela Aycock has reached the pinnacle
Aycock learned of the award on Tuesday and was happy that four years of hard work at Kansas bad off.
NICKI WOOD, Members of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association named the Jayhawk senior forward to the 1995 Kodak All-America team on Friday in Minneapolis.
Angela Avcock
"It's really an honor to be chosen a Kodak All-American" the Dallas native said
"I'm glad that I was able to contribute enough this season for the committee to recognize me."
Aycock averaged 23.1 points a game, scoring 716 points during the season. She became only the second woman in Kansas history to score more than 700 points in a season. The other was Lynette Woodard, who also was the only other Jayhawk to be named to the Kodak team. Woodard was a four-time selection from 1978 to 1981.
And contribute she did. As the only senior on Kansas' roster last season, Aycock led the Jayhawks to the championship game of the Big Eight Conference tournament and the first round of the NCAA tournament.
During her career, Aycock scored 1,978 points and fell 22 points short of becoming the fourth player, male or female, to have more than 2,000.
But Aycock was not only a prolific scorer.
Last season, she led the squad in rebounding,
assists and steals. She also topped the list
in minutes played, field goals made and
attempted, and free throws made
and attempted.
All-Americans
The 1995 Kodak All-American team, as voted by the WBCA:
Angela Aycock
Niesa Johnson
Vickie Johnson
Rebecca Lobo
Stacey Lovelace
Nikki McCray
Wendy Palmer
Jennifer Rizzotti
Shelley Sheetz
Charlotte Smith
Kansas
Alabama
Louisiana Tech
Connecticut
Purdue
Tennessee
Virginia
Connecticut
Colorado
North Carolina
accompanying Source: The Associated Press KANSAN "This award"
puts all my hard work over the last four years into perspective," Aycock said. "I can't think of a more incredible way to end my career at Kansas."
The Kodak All-American team is the oldest and most prestigious of the women's basketball honor squads. However, Aycock was also named to the United States Basketball Writers' Association All-American team and was an Associated Press second team selection.
Her Big Eight honors this season include being named Player of the Week three times and an All-Big Eight first-team selection for the third year.
Betty Jaynes, executive director of the WBCA, said selecting this year's All-Americans was a monumental task.
"The nine coaches on the selection committee spent hours poring over statistics, background information and video tapes before determining the final 10," she said. "There's no question the ever-advancing quality of college women's basketball is a major reason the committee has to work harder and harder every year."
Conference start rocky for Kansas softball
GAME 1
Missouri 6, Kansas 2
JAYHAWKS (11-8, 0-3) ab r h rbl
lf Morgan 4 1 1 1
rf Herrera 4 0 1 1
sus Huber 3 0 1 0
dh Wenger 2 0 0 0
1b Richardson 2 0 0 0
ph Holland 1 0 0 0
c Johnson 3 0 0 0
cf Reyes 3 0 0 0
p/1B Blood 3 0 1 0
2b Richins 3 1 1 0
3b McCann 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 2 5 2
TIGERS (33-5, 3-0) ab r h rb1
rf Persinger 4 2 3 2
cf Bailey 3 1 1 0
ph Slover 1 0 0 0
ss Babb 2 1 1 2
dh Wright 3 0 1 0
1b Heick 2 1 0 0
3b Herman 2 0 0 0
if Anderson 3 0 0 0
c Jones 3 1 2 1
2b Ashley 2 0 1 0
Totals 25 6 9 5
Kansas  IP H R ER BB SO
Blood  2.1 5 4 3 1 1
Hamer  3.2 4 2 2 1 1
Missouri  IP H R ER BB SO
Boen  7.0 5 2 0 1 1
E Johnson, Babb (2), Anderson LOB Kansas
6, Missouri 5 2B Persinger 3B Morgan HF
Persinger, Babb 5B Bailey, Wright
By Jenni Carlson Kansan sportswriter
For the Kansas softball team, this wasn't exactly the way it was supposed to be.
The Jayhawks opened Big Eight Conference play during the weekend against Missouri with a double-header Saturday in Lawrence and a double-header yesterday in Columbia, Mo. The Tigers won all four games by scores of 3-1 and 4-2 on Saturday and 6-2 and 3-2 yesterday.
"Obviously, you get some games under your belt, and you get to work through some problems," he said. "The defense especially gets settled in a little more."
Kansas sophomore pitcher Tiffany Blood and junior pitcher Beth Robinson each had two losses.
Playing 39 games already has been positive for the Tigers, Missouri softball coach Jay Miller said.
The games dropped Kansas to 11-9 and 0-4 in the conference. Missouri moved to 34-5 and 4-0.
Kansas coach Kalum Haack agreed that the Tigers' experience played a role in the Jayhawks' losses, but he didn't blame everything on it.
"The mistakes we made, it wouldn't have mattered if we'd played one game or 50 games," Haack said. "We're throwing the ball on away on routine ground balls. Those are
things we work on in practice every day."
Not only did Missouri feed off six Kansas errors on Saturday, they enjoyed strong hitting from left fielder Gina Anderson. In the opener, Anderson drove in two runs in the second inning, and the Tigers never trailed again. In the second game, Kansas came from behind in the sixth inning and tied the game at 2-2, sending it into extra innings. A two-RBI single by Anderson decided the game in the eighth inning.
A bright spot for the Jayhawks was freshman shortstop Michelle Hubler's hitting and defense. She was 3-for-5 on Saturday and 2-for-6 yesterday.
"Gina Anderson came through twice, and she's been struggling a little bit," Miller said. "It's nice to see her step up, drive in some runs and win some games for us."
"One of the nice things about this season is that she's been real consistent, her defense as well as offense." Haack said. "I wish the upperclassmen would take some notes from her."
"It's not going to help unless the team gets better," she said. "We didn't come out and execute very well. We can't get consistent enough."
However, Hubler said she could not feel positive about her contribution until the team started winning.
GAME2
Missouri 3. Kansas 2
JAYHAWKS (11-9, 0-4) ab r h rbl
if Morgan 3 0 0
rf Holland 3 0 0
ss Hubler 3 ± 1 0
1b Wenger 3 0 0
c Johnson 2 0 1
2b Richins 3 0 1
3b McCann 3 1 1
cf Fitzmorris 3 0 0
dh Kirkwood 2 0 0
Totals 24 2 4 2
**TIGERS (34-5, 4-0)**
ab r h rbl
rf Persinger 1 1 0 0
cf Bailey 2 0 0 0
sba Babb 2 0 1 1
p Wright 2 0 0 0
1b Heick 3 1 1 1
3b Herman 3 1 0 0
lf Anderson 2 0 0 0
c Jones 3 0 1 1
2b Ashley 2 0 1 0
**Totals** 20 3 4 3
Kansas IP H R ER BB SO
Robinson 6.1 4 3 2 4
Missouri IP H R ER BB SO
Wright 6.0 3 2 1 0 2
Marshall 1.0 1 0 0 0
E Wenger, Herman LD Kanaas 2, Misouuri
4 HR McNair, Holck BS Persaling
Valerie Crow / KANSAN
Kansas freshman pitcher Heather Hamer warms up with freshman catcher Sara Holland. The Jayhawks lost double-headers to Missouri on Saturday in Lawrence and yesterday in Columbia, Mo.
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