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Cowboys lead golf tourney
Sports Writer
By MIKE EARLE
Batting gusty winds, defending NCAA champion Oklahoma State jumped to a comfortable 7-stroke advantage over second-place Colorado after the holes in the first day of the Big Ten conference yesterday at Alvamar Hills Country Club.
The Cowbys, led by Bob Tway, scored a 198-stroke team total. Tway shot rounds of 35, 37 and 35 for a 142 total and the lead in individual scoring.
UK ended with a 618 team total for fourth place. D.R. Senseman, with a 150-stroke total after rounds of 35, 42, 39 and 34, leads the Jayhawks. Mark Crow followed closely with 151. Other KU teams were Doug Anderson, 198; Mark Steker, 158; and Jim Doyle.
KU COACH JOHN HANNAN said the play of play hurt the Jayhawks.
After 18 holes, KU was tied for second place with a 300 total, but dropped six strokes on the backhand.
"I wish we hadn't lost ground in the second round." Hanna said. "If we could have shot around a 304 we'd be in good shape."
The tournament concludes today with the final 18 holes on the Jawahar and Quail courses.
Team totals at 36 holes: Oklahoma
State, 583; Colorado, 610; Nebraska, 617;
Kansas, 618; Missouri, 624; Iowa state, 627;
Kansas State, 632; and Oklahoma, 633.
Individual scores after 36 holes: Bob wavy, OSU; 142, Rick Cramer, CU; 147, Rick Reynolds, CU; 149, Rick Reynolds, NU; 149, D.R. Senseman, KU; 150, Rafael Alarcon, OSU; 151, Mark Crow, KU; 151, Jeff Walser, OSU; 153, John Moyer, KLaste, KState; 144 and Jim Jaulian, MU; 154.
NFL draft underway; 14 go from Big Eight
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The Big Eight's two perennial football powers, Oklahoma and Nebraska, again were in the lead yesterday when nine players from the two schools were selected in the first four rounds of the annual NFL draft
The Cornhuskers, who tied with Oklahoma for the league championship with a 6-1 record last year, joined four other schools in having two players chosen in the first round - linebacker George Andrews and offensive tackle Kelvin Clark.
A total of 14 players form the Big Eight were selected in the first four rounds, including five from Oklahoma and four from Nebraska.
THE ONLY KU player to go in the first day was Mike Wellman, who was chosen by
Andrews, the 19th player selected, went to
Los Angeles and Clark was selected three
weeks later.
The first player selected from the conference was Missouri tight end Kellen Winslow, who became the 18th player of the draft when he was picked by San Diego.
"I've been playing football for 15 years, waiting for something like this," Andrews said. "I'm sure it hasn't even sunk in yet. It was a tremendous trophy to get a phone call and hear them say, 'Congratulations, George, you're now a Los Angeles Ram.'"
FOR CLARK AND Winslow, however, the phones weren't working. Their phones weren't working.
"I was going nuts," Clark said. "I drove down to the Memorial Stadium about 1 a.m., saw a telephone man working and told him I was expecting an important call. A half an hour later, it was fixed and I was breathing easier."
Winslow,however,wasn't that fortunate.
"I called them and told them this was a very important call," he said. "But they acted like it would be a miracle to come and fix it by 9:30. Is there another phone company in town? You ought to quit this one and to out and start your own."
ONCE HE FOUND out where he was going, however, Winslow was no longer mad with him.
"I would have been happy to go anywhere,
San Diego where I wanted to go." he
"The backwards there love to throw, the coach there loves to throw and I love to catch the ball. And I love to run with it after I catch it."
Oklahoma had to wait until the second round before three of its varsity were picked. Dickie Greg Roberts went to Tampa Bay and defeated Joel Kramer, Orleans and offensive tackle Sam Claphan to Cleveland before the fourth Sooner, running back Kenny King, was picked in the third round by Houston. Defensive end Phil Zawinik, who is by the New York Giants in the fourth round.
Staff photo by CHRIST TODD
THE ONLY OTHER Big Eight player chosen in round two was Iowa State defensive end Mike Stensrud, who was taken by the Oliers as the third pick in the
In the third round, guard Barney Carney became the third Nebraska Player drafted when he was selected by Cincinnati and Rick Berns, the Cornhuskers' career rushing leader, was tapped later in the round by Tampa Bay.
The other conference player chosen in round three was running back James Mayberry of Colorado, who went to Atlanta. Matt Miller, an offensive tackle from Colorado, went to Cleveland in the fourth round.
Perfect putt
KU golfer D.R. Sensenham puts into the cup on the ninth green of the Quail Creek nine at Alvamar Golf Course in the first round of the Big Eight golf tournament yesterday. Sensenham shot rounds of 77 and 73 and is eight strokes off the pace going into today's final 18 holes.
Royals seek end to umpire strike
KANASIS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The players and coaches of the Kansas City Royals have written to baseball management asking for an end to the major league umpires' strike.
Jerry Terrell, the Royals' players representative, said a signed letter was mailed to MacBee Macbain, president of the team. "We had to give back," Bowie Kubrin, and some of the owners.
Terrell praised the substitute umpires for helping keep the game going, "but it's
"Pitchers are trying to earn their livings, and it's difficult for them to have umpires who do not call strikes on the black part of the plate." Terrell added.
tough on everyone because these guys are not the caliber of major league umpires," he
"Basically, we are asking to get this settled. We're not taking sides, because it's not our business. But, we don't want this situation to make a forfeit of the game."
Southpaw combines baseball, academics
By TONY FITTS
Kever Kerschen has done a lot of traveling this semester.
Sports Writer
Kerschen, a pitcher with the KU baseball team, has gone with the Jahywahs on road trips to Texas, Colorado and Missouri. But he has traveled more than that.
Kerschen is also a senior engineering student looking for a job. Because of his 3.4 grade point average, the reputation of KU's School of Engineering and a good job market, employers have been flying Kersken around the country for interviews. He went to Texas last week, and will fly to California in three weeks.
"Right now, my future plans are to work as an engineer." Kerschen said, "with a hope for baseball. I love to devote a couple of years from my life to professional baseball, because I can always fall back on engineering."
HIS PERFORMANCE this season hasn't hurt his chances for a few more years of baseball. He is 7-9 with a 2.08 ERA, second on the team to Dan St. Clair. Last year he was 64 with a 4.40 ERA. The improvement in his performance is not coincidental.
"I knew this could be my last year with baseball," Kerschen said. "My concentration has really been a factor this season, and I wanted to help the team to move on to a Big Eight championship—that's been our goal all year."
The weekend series with Nebraska could mark a milestone in Kersen's career. The game is important to the Jayhawks, because a win could help them get into the playoffs. In the week before the game, scheduled to be the starting pitcher, has a personal goal in the game as well.
"THAT GAME with Nebraska gives me an opportunity to reach 20 wins in my college career," he said. "Only Terry Sutcliffe has 20 wins at KU. There's nothing I'd like better than to get that 20win against Nebraska."
Kerschen had no idea he would have a chance to win that many games.
"When I first came to KU," he said, "engineering was first on my mind. But as I've grown in my confidence and ability at engineering he has stepped right up there with engineering.
"I was a walk-on as a freshman and I was redshirted after practicing all fall and spring. Actually, I don't know if I was redshirted or cut, but we were carrying 14 pitchers at the time and somebody had to go."
THE REDHURST has helped Ker-
a academically, he said, as well as
academics in the area.
Kerschen is majoring in engineering physics, which he describes as a lot of physics with work in a lot of different engineering disciplines.
"With the engineering degree, it has been good to stretch it all through five years," he said, "especially in the spring. With road construction, it can't get in much more than 13 to 14 hours."
Along with professional engineering ambition, he has been interested in developing skills.
"I was six or seven years old when I first started playing," he said, "and I've been pitching for all that time. My dad played a little semi-pro ball and he realized the advantages of being a left-hander. He encouraged me to be a pitcher.
"IYWE HAD a good time in baseball. And an opportunity to play professional ball with the Indians was one of the best I could hope for. If I don't getrafted this year, I'll probably talk to some of the scouts I know and see if they have any openings. I think I have the ability to play."
But the world won't end for Kerschen if he doesn't get to play pro ball. He has successfully combined the roles of student and athlete, and that has been enough for him.
"It's been pretty challenging," he said,
but I've enjoyed trying to meet that chau
Net matches conference tune-up
"These two matches are going to be just the type of matches we want going into the Big Eight tournament," head coach Tom Kivisto said.
The KU men's tennis team will play Southwest Baptist and Southern Illinois-Edwardville universities this weekend in the NCAA Division I Basketball Eight Conference tournament May 16-18.
The 'Hawks will take on Southern Baptist this afternoon on the Allen Field House courts. Kivisto said he did not expect a diffei- match.
Kivisto also said it would be a good opportunity for the Jayhawks to work on their
"WE NEED TO go out and think about execution," he said. "We need to play with discipline, intensity and concentration, and we can do it."
Kivisto said he was not worried about the outcome of Sunday's match against Andrya Lukasova.
"We don't expect to go to Edwardsville and be beat," he said of Southern Illinois, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics franked team and last year's NIAA champions.
"I just want to compete with them," Kivisto said. "If we're carrying over good habits from the last couple of days of practice, then we can go further—thought to boothely keep us in some matches."
KU will take an 18-7 dual-match record into the matches.