Wednesday, April 18, 1979
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St. Clair leads staff
By TONY FITTS
Snorts Writer
Dan St. Clair is dedicated to baseball and his statistics show it. In his second year at KU, the senior right-hander leads the receiving staff with a 64 record and 19,938 RPA.
He's always been dedicated to baseball.
"I've been a pitcher since I started playing baseball in fifth grade," he said. "When I was a freshman in high school, I tried out for football. I made the team as a second-starter stringer—but I never got into a game. I got pissed and the team just hit me, in the name of the season, when coach let everybody play. That was my football career."
Baseball is important to St. Clair.
"I then tried basketball, and then track. I finally stuck with baseball."
"BASEBALL" IS TO only reason I've continued to school," he said, "As long as they give me the education for playball. I'll take it."
A physical education major, St. Clair said he hoped to be coached some time, after he began his job.
"I've been at three different colleges so far, and each coach has a little different way of teaching."
St. Clair attended American Christian College in Tulsa, Oka, and Garden City Community College before coming to KU his junior year.
"I've been picking up little odds and ends about practicing and playing and sticking them in the back of my mind," he said. "If I see something different from what I've learned before, I'll think about it and compare it to what I already know."
"BUT I don't do too much of that. I'm here today, and to second hand coach Tommy."
to talk about of think. I'm here to play, not to seethat about and study pitching, though. He said he sometimes watched major league games on television and played.
"I watch what they do for control, where their release points are, how they come off the mound—and other things, like how they hide the ball from the batters."
He watches more than the pitchers.
"It's getting to the point now where I watch the big bites and see what they hit... it's a bit scary."
"I don't watch too much, though. I'd rather play baseball than watch it."
SOMETIMES, however, a pitcher has to watch battles. St Clair and the other members of the Kansas baseball study the chance in the Big Eight whenever they get a chance.
"We'll take the pitching charts from when we played them last year and see what they do with it," he said. "We'll go from that," he said. "We also ask around the league about the various hit rates."
This research doesn't always work
"I last year at Nebraska, I threw over 100 last bats, and only about six curves, and was thrown out three times." The Nebraska was supposed to be a fastball batting club ball," he said. "I'm glad I didn't get it."
THE PITCHER isn't the only person who has to know the batters. The catcher is very smart.
"the catcher," he said, "has to know each particular batter—what he likes to hit, where to put the target, when and how to catch on his iron—everything about the batter."
"If you get a good catcher who knows all that, you don't have to think at all. You can just stand up there and throw without thinking about it. If you have to do some thinking on your own about the batter, it takes away from your pitching."
"IF I DON'T get drafted," he said, "it won't be that bad. I had a chance to be drafted two years ago, but I decided to go to school.
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And St. Clair doesn't want anything to take away from his pitching. That's what he wants to use as a ride to the major leagues because he played in Kansas. But his life does' lend upon it.
"If I do get drafted, I'd like to go with a team with a young pitching staff who isn't making real big salaries. I think I'd get a team that has a lot of talent and have so much invested in a pitching staff."
"But if I don't get drafted, I'll probably work over the summer and earn enough money to finish my degree. Right now. I have thoughts and sights are aimed at baseball."
"You have a lifetime to work, but you only get one chance to play baseball."
Soccer club gets 3rd in league
Staff photo by STEPHAN SPECTOR
KU's soccer club placed third in the Big Eight conference tournament in Burlington.
Colorado beat Missouri 2-1 in overtime to claim first place in the seven-team tournament. Oklahoma State's soccer team did not make the trip.
Ball Beck's goal gave KU a 1-4 victory over Nebraska in its first game. Missouri shut out KU 2-0 in the second game, which put Illinois against Kansas State for third place.
With the score tied at two a piece, Brian Harris scored a clutch goal, and KU held on to win 3- Pete Nelson and Nikda Valovich also scored goals.
The team's next action will be the 12-team Wheelchair Invitational Tournament.
KANSAS CITY, MO. (UPI) - All Big Eight conference guard Darnell Valentine has been invited to try out for the 1979 U.S. Pan American basketball team.
Valentine is invited
Other league players invited were Rolando Blackman, Kansas State guard; Al Beal, Oklahoma center; and Dean Uthoff, Iowa State center.
Pitcher Dan St. Clair releases a fast ball at Quigley Field, showing the that earned him a team-bump 64 and record 1 and a LRA Rex. He says he always been dedicated to the sport.
Royals lose; face KU
The rally began with singles by Mark Wagner and Ron Lefonte off starter Paul Stanley. The ball was dropped in and got the second out of the innings. Kemp broke the deadlock with his hit to left. May then looped a ball to center. Amos Otis for a diving catch but the ball got past him.
DETROIT (AP) - Steve Kemp broke a 3-12 tie with a run-scorning single off Al Harbakos in the seventh inning yesterday and Milt May followed with a two-run double to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 6-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Kansas City manager Whitey Herzog played the last innings of the game under protest because of an interference call in the top of the seventh on Hal McRae. McRae pitched 64 pitches and ran into pitcher John Hiller covering the bag, while George Brett scored from second.
The Royals scored their first two runs in the sixth off Dave Rozema, one on a single by Pete LaCock and the other on a groundout by Frank White.
Umpire crew chief John Shulock sent Brett back to third. However, Brett later scored anyway in a single by AI Cowens, tying the score-3.3.
Today, the Royals play KU in an exhibition game at i8 in Royals Stadium. The game was scheduled to give Kansas City some practice from some hurriers other than its own pitching staff, KU coach Floyd Temple said yesterday.
Temple said he would start Terry Sutcliffe, who would pitch for two innings. Dan St. Clair will go another two innings. Speedy second baseman Steve Jeltz, who leads the 'Hawks in walks and stolen bases, will be KU's lead off hitter.
The games will open at 12:30. Admission is free.
Buck, Hogan contrast, 'Hawks win decisively
By GENE MYER8
Snorts Writer
KU's men's team traintown its fifth straight Arkansas State Invitational championship by a whopping 70 points, but the Crimson Jonesboro, Ark, were actually 17-8 and 46.3.
Those were the marks registered Saturday by Jeff Buckingham in the pole vault and Deen Hogan in the 400-meters. Despite their mutual successes, the two KU freshmen have had contrasting rookie campaigns.
The highly-touted freshmen have been two of KU's steadiest performers all season. They are also the only one meet. Hogan's injured hammatric has limited him to just on meet a month since his knee was broken.
BUT HOGAN put his training table days behind him by beating teammates Lester Mickens and Stan Whitaker in the 400-meter run. Not only did he defeat Mickens, one of the nation's top middle distance runner, and Whitaker KU's senior captain, but his 485 clocking is the third fastest in KU for a national championship for the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Later in the meet, Hagan helped the hawks capture another of their six first-time kills.
the mule relay, he combined with Tommy McCaitlh, Whitaker and Mickens for a new album.
"I finally over the injuries," Hogan
said. "It was really easy and I felt so rela-
ted."
"COMING OFF the straightway, I just had this extra burst of speed. I never felt it."
KU's other winners were Anthony Coleman, with a NCAA qualifying 13.7 in the 110-meter hurdles; Jimmy Little, with a NCAA qualifying 13.6 in the intermediate hurdles; Matt Friedeman, in the discus (169-7); and the 400-meter relay team. Tim Jones, Kevin Newell, David Blutter and Mickens won with a 0.52, or one second of a second off the NCAA qualifying mark.
Even though KU coach Bob Timmons was dubious about the quality of KU's operative performance, especially since KU limped through the Texas Relays April 7 with a
KU tallied 179 team points to win the team title for the fifth time in as many years. No other school has ever won the team title in the Invitational, begun in 1974. The host Indians finished second with 103 points and Notre Dame took third with 93.
KU captures Wichita title
The women's track team captured nine individual first-place finishers and won the team title by dominating the competition at the Wichita State Relays last weekend.
Three Jayhawk team members registered double victories in the meet. The team's only healthy spinner, Lori Green, won her two events, the 100- and 200-meter runs.
It was the third week in a row that Kansas finished first and by doing it it remained undefeated in outdoor competition this year. With 192 points, KU easily outdistanced second-place Dodge City Junior College, which finished with 139.
Lori Lourrey repeated her performance of a week ago at the Nebraska Invitational by
finishing first in both the 100- and 400-meter
heights
KU's Michelle Brown won both the 1,000- and 3,000-meter run. In both races her closest competition was from her own teammates.
In addition to the three individual double winners, other KU first-place finished were by Deb Hertzog in the 800-meter run and Shawn Corwin in the high jump.
KU's two relay teams recorded the team's first place-first finish. Claire Overstake, Lowry, Wren Pass and Green ran 48.18 to place first in the 400-meter relay. The medley relay team of Overstake, Pass, Denise Homa finished first in 1:48.5.
Phoenix beats Kings in 1st round
The second game of the best-of-seven series will be in Kansas City Friday night.
PHOENIX, Ariu. (IIP) - Paul Westphal scored 25 points and Walt Dawvis added 24 to lift the Phoenix Suns to a 102-99 comeback victory over the Kansas City Kings in last night's opener of the NBA Western Conference semifinal series.
ahead to stay at 90-49 on Westphal's layup with 4:21 left.
The Suns outscored the Kings 14-3 in the last eight minutes of the third quarter to close to within two after trailing by 13. The Suns' run was early in the fourth period until Phoenix went
PHOENIX PULLED to a five-point lead but the Kings closed to within one with less than a minute remaining. A stuff by Alvan Adams with 20 seconds left put the Suns back up by three points. Don Buse then got to put the game out of reach.
Otis Bitsdorf tossed in 20 points to top all five Kansas City starters. Bill Robinzie and Scott Wednesday had 16 each, Sam Lacey 13 and Phil Ford 10.
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