Thursday, March 22, 1979
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University Daily Kansan
Staff Photo by BILL FRAKES
Christeriansen, Kansas pitcher, aims a curve at the plate during the first game of yesterday's doubleheader with Benedicine College. KU won both games, 10-3 and 10-1. The Jayhawks collected 25 hits, including two triples by Butch Vickers and a three-run homer by Matt Gundlinger.
Vickers shines; 'Hawks take two
Bv TONY FITTS
Sports Writer
Contorted hurler
Butch Vickers struck out swung in his
doubleheader in first game of a KU
doubleheader.
Because Vickers, centerfielder, hadn't appeared at the plate in six weeks, a little uncertainty in his hitting was to be expected. But it didn't last long.
He hit triples in his next two at bats and finished the first game with two hits and two RBIs. Kansas won both games from Benedictine College, 10-3 and 10-1.
Vickers broke the middle finger on his right hand in February, and yesterday was a victory.
Coach Floyd Temple said he was somewhat surprised at Vickerr's triples.
"The first time he was up," Temple said, he looked like he hadn't seen any live animals.
VICKERS WAS NOT the only Jayhawk swinging the bat. Matt Gundelfinger hit a three-run home run in the first game and was able to play a third game to extend his hitting streak to 16 games.
The Jayhawks had 25 hits in the two games. Kansas pitcher allowed only nine hits.
Gundelfinger's home run was a long fifty ball over the trees behind the left field fence. Bein Whalen, the Benedictine pitcher, threw nine innings and missed the mound after the home plate umbrella declared the hit a fair ball. Whalen returned 13 hits before being replaced in the next inning.
"It was fair by a long way when I first hit"
it," Gundefinger said, "but it was awfully
hard, when the wind caught it, a drifted
A STRONG WIND was blowing in from right center field during both games.
In the second game, Spottedwatt and Gundeleffinger each stole two bases, and Vivian Drew and Ivan Mantel Spottedwatt now has 10 steals on the season, seven short of the single-season record be
Galen Worley replaced Dave Hicks as pitcher in the fourth. The junior right-hander had given up only three hits. He is recovering from mononucleosis, and Temple had planned to use him for no more than three or four innings.
Worley got the victory, his first of the season, to add to his three saves. Dan St. Clair struck out the last three Benedictine batters to end the game.
KU's fielding improved over previous games, Temple said. The team committed eight goals in the first half.
The Jayhawks are 12-3-1 on the season. They meet Baker University in a doubleheader at 1 p.m. Saturday at Quigley Field.
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Softball team's spring trip pleasing to coach
BvGENEMYERS
Sports Writer
The question marks are still there but a trip to the golden rays of the Southwest has begun.
KU's football team, minus five of last year's starters and five reserves, has brought home an 8-3 record from its spring tour.
And head coach Bob Stancillift has returned with a bright outlook for his youthful squad, comprised of only four juniors and seniors.
"In spite of our youth, we went down there and performed well against some tough competition," Stancliff said yesterday. "That region is the strongest in the United States in the caliber of teams that make it to nationals year in and year out."
"We still have too many unanswered questions, and we really won't know our capabilities until late in the season. It will be hard to come up with a team, but everything looks promising."
The team fared better in Arizona, sweeping doubleheaders from the University of Arizona, runner-up in the national tournament in 1975, and Pima Junior College.
After losing the opener of the Arizona State Invitational at Phoenix, KU won three straight. The 'Hawks avenged an earlier 1-0 loss to the Phoenix Westerners, an inference that victory victim, then beat New Mexico State 4-4 and then beat New Mexico State 4-4 in Apaches, another independent team 4-3.
KU, WHICH WAS 7-5 after last year's tour, started its spring swing by splitting two games against the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. The Jayhawks breezed in the opening, 7-2, but dropped the second game, 5-4.
The tour ended with a 5-3 loss to national power Arizona State University.
"TODAY IS the first time we've got to practice on our practice." Stanfield said. "We spent all winter playing in the gym, and that's a pretty big adjustment to make.
"We made some errors, but that's to be expected. We also lacked offensive punch but late in the trip we started coming around."
KU's offensive fire power came from Shelly Sinclair, Rose Rader, Jile Woodman and Jil Larson. Sinclair only hit a 272 clip but knocked in a team-high eight runs.
Woodman batted 407 with five RHIs. Kader also had five RHIs to go along with him, but not enough to qualify.
Hoosiers win NIT on final shot
high scorer with 13 points, and Carter and Hay Tubert—the co-most Valuable Players in the NBA.
NEW YORK (AP) - Butch Carter's 20-foot jump shot with six seconds left followed some unusual Indiana strategy and lifted the underdog Hoosiers to a 53-82 victory over Purdue last night in the National Invitational tournament championship game.
In the opening game, before a crowd of 14,889 at Madison Square Garden, Auburn King Collected 20 points for an NIT treble. State tide beat Ohio State 96-86 for third place.
Freshman Landon Turner was Indiana's
Larson leads the team with a 464 average, hitting 13 of 28.
Leading the pitching team with three victories apiece are Stuclair and LaAnn
Stanclift praised both hurlers.
*SINCLAIR IS OUR most experienced pitcher, and one of our best the past two years.*
"I wouldn't say that Stenich was a real surprise but she didn't get to pitch much last year. She worked hard all winter, and really mixed her pitches well."
weekend for the third annual Sooner Invitational.
The tournament's 24 teams are divided into six sections. After sectional round robin tournaments the winners meet for the title. The winner is Austin, Wyoming and Missouri universities.
The squad travels to Norman, Okla., this
"We have two goals for this season," Stancliff said. "I last year we were defending Big Eight champions, and we let that get away. We want to get that back."
"We also want to get back in the national tournament. Last year, we played seven of the top 12 teams in the nation and beat six of them when they wrapped up and didn't make the tournament."
Royals steady performers but lack knockout punch
The Yankees, who import key portions of their stock from other teams each year at high prices, have defeated the Royals—who nurture almost all their own stock—in three straight A1 championship series, and this season has sold a stifle battle for the Western division crown.
DUNEIDN, Fla. (UPI)—The Kansas City Royals play in the heart of steak country, but the New York Yankees have been the most successful of the Grade-A beef the past three seasons.
"When you sit down and really evaluate our club, our overall pitching is probably our strength," Whitey Herzog, Royals manager, said. "If everyone plays up to him, we can avoid the big injuries, we have a great chance to win it again."
RIGHT NOW IT'S a little injury that has Herzog concerned. Third baseman George Brett, a lifetime 308 hitter, missed more than a month last season with a bone chip in his thumb and is making a slow recovery from surgery.
**OUTLOOK—The Royals are good every year—but not good enough to win it all. Their stand-up policy may cost them in 1979, because California and Texas have won more than five times the lock on the West title in its serious jeopardy.
**WEAKNESSES—Less power than it takes to use team's elaborate seismic equipment to questionable right-hand relief pitching.**
NEW FACES—Less turnover than the Supreme Court.