Monday, April 14, 1986
Sports
University Daily Kansan
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Henry's pitching prevents NU sweep
Cornhuskers take 3 of 4 games from Jayhawks in weekend series
Bv Jeff Anel
Special to the Kansan
LINCOLN, Neb. — The grayness of the sky was reflective of the mood Kansas coach Marty Pattin showed after the conclusion of the Nebraska-Kansas four-game series at Buck Beltzer Field.
Although the Jayhawks had managed to earn a 6-1 victory over the Cornhuskers in yesterday's final game, Pattin said he couldn't be convinced. The team had dropped three of four games to the conference leading Cornhuskers.
The Jayhawks, he said, had once again made too many mistakes at crucial times to be able to contend with the 24-10 Cornhuskers.
"We just have to concentrate harder in the late innings," Pattin said. "It's a mental thing right now because we have lost a lot of games that we have had won."
Kansas gained a victory in the series' final game when Beatrice, Neb., native Paul Henry hurled a five-hitter against Nebraska.
Baseball
Despite pitching in darkness and in an brisk wind, Henry picked up his seventh victory of the season by outdueling Nebraska's Phil Lieberher. Kin Gross and Rocky Johnson.
After the game, Henry said he really didn't mind the adverse news.
"It is fine for a pitcher because hitters can't see the ball," he said.
"When it started to get pretty dark, I was real happy."
Kansas supplied Henry with all the support he would need in the game when they tagged Lieberher with three runs in the top of the first inning.
Lead off hitter Geno Nebbit got things started for the Jayhawks when he singled and stole second.
One out later, Nebit scored when Gary Lung singled. Lang took second on an error by Nebraska right fielder Todd Burge.
Successive walks to Rob Peters.
Jon Pattin and Darrel Matthews and a wild pitch by Lieberher then allowed the Jayhawks to score two more runs.
While Nebraska was held to only two runs on five hits in the next seven innings, Kansas scored two runs in the fourth inning and a single run in the seventh.
Although his squad had already beaten Kansas in the first three games, Nebraska coach John Sanders said losing the final game to the Jayhawks left him feeling unsatisfied.
"If we think we would be content with winning three of four then we're not playing the type of baseball that we want to." Sanders said. "We had some control problems early on and Kansas was able to reload after dropping the first three and beat us."
In Sunday's first game, the Huskers overcame an early 4-0 deficit by ripting Jayhawk relief pitcher Bret Morris for three late runs on the way to an 8-6 win.
On Saturday, Cornhuskers Phil
Harrison and Mike Dobbs pitched complete games to subdue the Jayhawks.
Harrison, 5-1, hurled a five-hitter in the first game while the Cornhuskers shelled Jayhawk pitcher John Quinn for a 9-2 victory.
Kansas... 400 200 000-6 83
Nebraska... 003 311 x-8 82
In the second game, Dobbs held Kansas to two hits in the seven-inning game. Nebraska won 10-0.
Nebraska 8, KU 6
Purdy, Befort (7), Morris (8) and Pfister, Honnor, Gross (4) and Beattie. —Gross, 4-0. L—Befort, 1-4.
KU 6, Nebraska 2
Henry and Boeschen; Lieberher, Gross (1), Johnson (4) and Beatie W—Henry, 7-5. L—Lieberher, 2-1.
Kansas  . 300 200 1-6 8-1
Nebraska  . 001 000 1-2 5-0
Three Royal homers lead KC past Toronto
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Willie Wilson, known for his speed afoot, finally put some speed in his swing yesterday.
Wilson, a career .301 hitter, was hitting just .045 when he delivered his first home run of the season and a tie-breaking single, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 7-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays
"I just had to relax and let my bat头 head do the talking instead of my body doing the talking," Wilson said.
Wilson and George Brett hit back-to-back pitches for home runs and gave the Royals a 3-10 in the third inning. After Toronto pulled even 4-4, Wilson triggered a three-run fifth inning with a single to center that scored Rudy Law. Law had doubled.
"Hal McRae told me the next time up after the home run was a very important time up for me
because you can hit one good and it's by accident." Wilson said. "So the next time up try to go the other way and hit the ball up the middle and that's what I did."
After Wilson's go-ahead single, the blue Jay intentionsally walked Brett. Then Frank White and Mckee hire run-scorning singles.
Steve Balboni also homered for the Royals, helping Bud Black, 1-4, to the victory. Steve Farr, with the Tigers, got his first save of the season.
"Farr is sneaky quick," said Royals manager Dick Howser. "He's got that breaking ball that he can get on over 3.2. We had Quiz (Dan Quisenberry) but Farr was just pitching too well."
Farr was aided by a spectacular diving catch made by right fielder Darryl Motley in the eighth. The catch led to a double play when Tony Fernandez was caught off first base.
The Golden Bear stalks the pack, wins 6th Masters
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jack Nicklaus, in perhaps the finest hour of a career unmatched in golf history, charged out of the pack yesterday and scored his sixth Masters victory in the 50th playing of the prestigious tournament.
Nicklaus, at the age of 46 a frustrated non-winner for two seasons, turned back the clock with a seven-under-par 65, including a thundering 30 over the back nine in Augusta National Golf Club course.
He did it the hard way.
But it took a last-hole bogey by Australian Greg Norman to ensure Nicklaus the win.
In one of the most dramatic tournaments in the history of this ancient game, he had to pass eight of the most accomplished performers in the game today.
Norman, playing well behind Nicholas to challenge, was the day he挑战
Norman, a powerful man known as the Great White Shark, needed only a par on the 18th to tie and force a playoff. A birdie would have won it.
He came surging up those final, hilly holes on a string of four consecutive birdies that began on the 14th. When Norman made a putt of about 15 feet on the 17th – with Nicklaus' round long finished and his 72-hole total of 279 on the board – Norman had achieved a tie for the lead at nine under par.
But with Nicklaus and his son and caddy, Jack Jr., watching, Norman pushed his second shot into the gallery. Norman pitched down a slope to within 18-20 feet of the hole, then missed the par putt and Nicklaus was a Masters winner again.
Norman had a closing 70 for a 280 total.
He was tied at that score with Tom Kite, the gutsy little man who has
The
Masters
played so well so often on Augusta's flowered hills, yet always has come up empty.
Kite, too, had a chance to tie but missed a 15-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole. He crouched on the green, his hands covering his head, a portrait of despair. He had shot a brilliant 68 in a duel with Spain's Seve Ballesteros and had once owned a share of the lead.
Kite and Norman were but two of the rivals Nicklaus had to overcome.
At one time or another, Ballesteros was there, the dashing Spaniard who now, in the twilight of Nicklaus' era, is ready to assume the role of golf's leader.
And there was Bernhard Langer, the West German who was the defending champion; Corey Pavin, perhaps the best of America's young stars; Tom Watson, the five-time British Open champion trying to win his third Masters; and Nick Price, the South African who set a Masters scoring record the day before.
They were all there in contention at one time or another, all trying to beat Augusta National, their own nerves and, in the end, Nicklaus, the man generally considered the finest player the game has ever known.
Ballesteros, who scored two eagles and at one stage on the back nine held a two-stroke lead, hit into the water at 14:05. The team washed fourth with a 70 and a 281 total.
Price, with a 71, was another shot back. Then came Watson with a 71 and Jay Haas, who had an early 67.
Langer once had a piece of the lead in the early going, but got tangleed up in the trees a couple of times. He dropped back with bogeys on the eighth and ninth and finished with a bogey. He had a 75 and a 286 total.
Diane Duitmeier/KANSAN
Silly Soccer
Keith Fulk, Kansas City Comets forward, joked with a group of children during a soccer clinic Saturday at the 23rd and Iowa Streets rugby fields. About 25 children attended the clinic, sponsored by the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Mike Gaume, left, Kansas City, Mo., senior, and Jeff Pretz, Olathe sophomore, row as part of the eight-man team crew down a 2,000 meter
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
course at Lake Shawnee in Topeka. This eight-man team finished first in the preliminary heat of the novice lightweight eight-man event in the President's Open Regatta Saturday morning.
Crew battles rough waters in Topeka
Sports writer
Bv Dawn O'Maltev
TOPEKA — As the sun made a valiant effort to peek from gray clouds early Saturday morning, several members of the Kansas men's and women's novice crew climbed out of their warm beds and headed toward Topeka for the President's Open Regatta.
The rowing conditions were not ideal. There was a brisk breeze and the water was choppy. But even with those conditions, the regatta went on as scheduled.
"Over the years this has been a tricky lake," Cliff Elliott, head crew coach, said Saturday. "But the conditions are rowable. It's too much to ask for perfect."
This is the second year the President's Open Regatta has been held.
Crew
Kansas won last year. This year, the Jayhawks won eight of the 23 events in which they participated. However, this year no team was declared the winner. Instead awards were given
to individual winners
Kansas competed against Minnesota, Xavier, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado State, Texas and others.
The Kansas women's novice crew's biggest competition came from Minnesota. Kansas beat Minnesota in the women's heavyweight race by two seconds. Kansas A team won in 8:33. Minnesota was second, finishing in 8:35. The Kansas B team was third in 9:05.
"It was windy and the water peak
ed up at times," Jill Dalzell, San Diego sophomore, said. "It feels great to beat Minnesota."
But at the end of the race, as they piled out of the boats, Kansas crew members' bodies shook from the cold.
Even though there was a stiff wind, some Kansas crew members said it wasn't cold out on the water because their adrenaline was flowing.
Controversy erupted in the men's open eight when Kansas and Washburn waited at the starting line for 20 minutes because of starter's delays.
During the delays, Texas entered the race and used a lighter boat than the one Kansas used. Texas went on to win the race.
"It was denied due to the fact the starter had released the crews from the lock up," Don Craig, co-founder of the regatta, said. "Texas didn't come in with a warm up. We bent in favor of the faster athletes as they proved themselves to be."
denied.
The Kansas men's lightweight eight beat Minnesota and Texas in the 2.000-meter.
"We took an early lead and kept it," Larry Thomas, Shawnee junior, said after the race. "It was awful choppy out there and against the wind the whole way does not help. The right crew is the best in the Midwest."
The crew took long powerful strokes to maintain first place.
Kevin Tracy, Overland Park freshman, said. "We did great moving together, stroking smooth."
Track teams warm up for Kansas Relays KU gets 9 first place finishes Heptathletes win top 3 spots
Bv Jim Suhr
Sports writer
Kansas middle distance runner John Creighton claimed three of nine Jayhawk first place finishes in Kansas' performance last weekend in the T.C. Woodman Track Classic at Wichita State's Cessna Stadium.
Kansas javelin thrower Ron Bahm and pole vaulter Scott Huffman each set meet records.
Kansas head coach Bob Timmons said yesterday that the meet, which was unscored, was just the right tune-up the Jayhawks needed for the Kansas Relays. The relays start Wednesday y at Memorial Stadium.
"The Kansas Relays are the most important meet for us next to the conference meet," Timmons said. "It's the only meet we have on our minds right now."
Bahm, who is coming off of an arm injury that sidelined him last season, threw the javelin 246-feet, 10 inches to break his old record of 228-10. His throw also qualified him for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Outdoor Championship meet June 2-7 in Indianapolis, Ind.
Men's Track
"He really cranked it." Kansas assistant coach Steve Kueffer said.
Huffman, who qualified for the national outdoor meet when he vaulted 17-7 at the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas on April 5, equalled that jump Saturday to place first and break the old meet mark of 17-6% held by Randy Raymond of Nebraska.
Creighton won the 400-meter dash in 48.2 seconds. He also ran on the victorious 400- and 1600-meter relay teams. The 400-meter team, which won the event in 41.6 seconds, was composed of Creighton, Raymond Mitchell, Johnny Brackins and Courtney Hawkins. The 1600-meter team of Creighton, Mike Roberts, Greg Dalzell and Mike Miller won the event in 3:15.3.
Other first place finishes for Kansas included: Mitchell, long jump, 24-1/4'; Hawkins, 110-meter high hurdles, 14.2; Dalzell, 800-meter run, 15:2.8; and Miller, 400-meter intermediate hurdles, 53.6.
By Dawn O'Malley Sports writer
For the first time in her track career at Kansas, heptathlete Jaci Tyma ran in a relay race Saturday. It was the 1600-meter relay at the John Jacobs Invitational, in Norman, Okla.
She was filling in for Kim Jones, who had injured her knee.
"I hadn't run on a relay team seriously," Tyma said. "Nothing on the college level at all."
Tyma's individual time was 58.5 seconds.
The invitational was not scored.
Cliff Rovello, assistant track coach, said yesterday. "It was her first time in that position. Her split, 58.5, is as good as any of the sprinters have done."
As a heptathlete, Tyma competed in seven events Wednesday and
Oklahoma won the 1600 relay with a time of 3:41.92 Oklahoma State was second at 3:47.5.
Also on the Kansas 1600 relay team, which finished third in 3 minutes, 52.15 seconds, were sophomore Veronda O'Hara, freshman Cindy Panowicz and sophomore Angie Helmer.
Women's Track
Thursday. She competed in the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meter dash, long jump, javelin and 800-meter run.
That heptaphnia was the first for Tyma, Panowicz and Rosie Wadman. They won the top three places. Wadman was first with 4,604 points; Tyma was second with 4,567 and Panowicz was third with 4,238.
Of Saturday's track meet, Rovello said, "There were a lot of firsts which is always nice. Looking at the meet, it might have been a meet accomplishing more than any other meet. This was exceptional because we had people grow a lot as athletes and competitors."
On Saturday, junior Denise Buchanan won the discus with a throw of 155 feet. $8\frac{1}{2}$ inches. She also won the shot put at 49-6\frac{1}{2}.
Sophomore Ann O'Connor finished first in the high jump with a leap of 5-8. She attempted to jump 5-10 but her heels nicked the bar.
O'Connor also won the triple jump at 37-8%.