Friday, April 11, 1986
Sports
University Daily Kansan
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Berra puts squeeze on KC; Yankees win in 10 innings
The Associated Press
'NEW YORK—New York Yankee
Dale Baina had a pretty good idea
what he wanted to do. He had an even
better idea what he didn't want to do.
"I didn't want to miss the ball, like Lynn Jones did," Berra said yesterday.
With the score tied at 5, Jones missed a suicide squeeze bunt in the top of the 10th inning and the Kansas City Royals failed to pick up a run. Berra was asked to make a suicide squeeze in the bottom of the 10th as a pinch hitter.
| Berra made contact. The bunt went for a single, scored Mike Easler from third base, and the New York Yankees won 6-5 yesterday, giving them two triumphs over the defending world champions in their season-opening three-game series.
"I never squeeze bunted before," said Berra, who was sent up with the bases loaded and one out to face rookie reliever A Hargesheimer.
Easier had led off the 10th inning with a double to the base of the
center-field wall. He went to third on a grounder, and Mike Pagliarulo and Butch Wynegar were walked intentionally to log the bases.
Berra then dropped a 2-1 pitch between the mound and home plate for a single. Easter scored without a throw home.
"I just wanted to get the ball down on the ground, that's all." Berra said. "The pitcher wasn't throwing very hard, so I knew I could see the ball. He got behind me 2-1 in the count so I knew I would get a fastball to bunt. Even if I fouled it off, it would be better than missing it."
Hargesheimer attempted to field the ball and may have had a play at the plate if he had gloved it cleanly.
"It it would have been close," Yankees manager Lou Piniella said. "With the force, it's a little easier. Still, we executed well, and they would have had to have a perfect play to stop us."
Royals manager Dick Howser lamented the missed suicide squeeze by Jones and other blown opportunities.
"I don't know what type of baseball we were playing out there," Howser said. "We played backwards. It was the type of game that runs managers out of the game. I didn't like what I saw. We played hard, but we didn't play well."
The winning pitcher was Dave Righetti, who came in after Frank White had led off the top of the 10th against Rod Scurry with a double. The Royals attempted a suicide squeeze, but when Jones missed the ball, Wyngear, the catcher, chasedward third base and tagged bim out.
The Yankees sent the game into extra innings with a ninth-inning run when pinch-hitter Ron Hassey singled with one out, Willie Randolph walked with two away and Don Mattingly singled to center.
The Royals scored two runs in the first inning and three in the fifth to give Bret Saberhagen a five-run cushion. But Saberhagen, the 1985 Cy Young Award winner and World Series Most Valuable Player, didn't survive the sixth inning.
Three sign with swim team
By Dawn O'Malley
Sports writer
Kansas head swim coach, Gary Kempt announced yesterday that two swimmers and a diver had signed letters of intent to attend Kansas.
Susan Bloomfield, Heather Hardy and Julie Pierce are the women who have signed with the Jayhawks.
Bloomfield, from Bartlesville,
Oklan, recently won the 100-yard
Swimming
backstroke at the West Junior Nationals in Grandforks, N.D., with a time of 58.6 seconds.
Bloomfield, a two-time All-American in the 100-yard backstroke, will join her sister Anne on the Kansas swim team.
"We both always do our best when we swim together," Anne Bloomfield said. "It never falls when we swim side by side we do our best times."
The Bloomfield sisters have a Kansas tradition. Their parents attended school here.
"I've always wanted to swim for KU," Susan Bloomfield said. "But I really didn't know I would. I am realizing that she has done well with his backstroke."
Kempf said she was the fastest backstroker to come to Kansas.
Susan Bloomfield also can help the women's team in the individual medley and freestyle, he said.
Heather Hardy, a senior from Katy, Texas, is a versatile swimmer, according to Kempf.
"The strongest attribute we recruited her on was her quality versatility." Kempf said.
The only diver recruited so far is Janet Pierce from Walmut Creek, Calif. She was named an All-American-meter diving boarder his junior year.
"She's a good diver," Barry Susterka, head diving coach, said. "She is a very talented All-American last year and has a good chance to be it again. She has good three-meter experience."
Pierce is the first diver that Susterka has recruited for Kansas.
She is the No. 1 diver that Kansas recruited this year, Kempf said. Pierce and Lori Spurney, a returning diver, will complement each other, he said.
'Hawks to split squad for meets
By Dawn O'Malley
While the Kansas women's track team is preparing for its weekend track meets, head coach Carla Coffey is preparing for her team's future.
Last night, Julie Howerton signed
Women's Track
her letter of intent to attend Kansas next year.
Howerton, Topeka, was the 6-A champion in the 800-meter run.
"We were looking for versatility," Coffe said.
Coffey said Howerton would be competitive in the 400-meter, 600-meter and 800-meter runs.
"Having the 400-800 ranges are good," Coffee said. "So that's a big plus. Besides that she's a good stud. That really gives her grade point leverage on a 4.0 scale."
The Kansas women's track team in up this weekend to compete in differential.
Part of the team tomorrow will be in Norman, Okla. for the John Jacobs Relays.
"Splitting up the team was a judgment thing on the coaching staff." Coffey said. "The competition should be good at both places."
At the invitational, three Kansas heptathletes will be competing in their first heptathlon of the outdoor season.
The women were entered in the heptapath to get experience before training.
Cindy Panowicz, Jaci Tyma and Rosie Wadman competed in the heptathlon events Wednesday and yesterday. Ann O'Connor, Denise Buchanan, Andrea Schwartz, Melissa Satterfield, Veronda O'Hara, Julie Hall and Angie Helmer will be joining them this weekend.
3 The rest of the squad will compete in the K.T. Woodman Classic in Wichita.
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Heather Sterbanz. Emporia graduate student concentrated on her final kick during her workout at Memorial Stadium yesterday afternoon.
The classic is named for K.T. Woodman who donated $100,000 for the refurbishing of Wichita State University's track.
perclassmen will compete in the Woodman Classic.
"The competition at the meets this weekend should be high quality," Coffev said.
Both underclassmen and up-
Casalis Marcelo, KU rugby player from Rosario, Argentina, practices with the team. Marcelo is one of three foreign rugby players chosen by KU's rugby committee to be members of the team.
Argentinian players aid KU
Bv Dawn O'Mallev
Sports writer
As a young boy, Carlos Rivolo used to sneak out of his house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his cousin and watch his father's rugby practices.
Rivolo soon took the sport and has been playing for 18 years. He now is one of the three foreign players on the Kansas rugby team,
Rugby
joined by Casals Marcelo, from Rosario, Argentina, and Martin Evans, from Cardiff, Wales.
In the countries where they grew up, rugby was a predominate force in their lives. Their roots in the sport run deep because their fathers used to play it.
team played Kansas, Rivolo a his teammates not only had to do with the Jayhawks, but, with cc temperatures
"Rugby is an amateur sport." Rivolo said. "You play to defend the colors and you play with friends. There are approximately 10 countries strong in rugby, but it is played everywhere."
"In Argentina, they'd never reach those temperatures," Rivolo said. "It was violent weather."
Kansas formed a committee last summer to accept three foreign rugby players and chose them from Argentina. Julio Gonzales Montaner is another Argentinian player but is not playing with the team because he is traveling.
Last year, Rivolo and Marcelo played for an Argentinian team called Los Condores. When the
"It is a good cultural exchange." Quint Nuer, Dodge City senior and captain of the collegiate side, said. "They are real good friends. But they do not get any special treatment. You watch to learn."
Marcelo said he found the university and the people receptive toward him.
"I like the players because they are the players me good," Marcelo said. "Rugby is a sport of friends, a gentleman's sport."
Since Marcelo and Rivolo came from more established programs, the Kansas men were given a few pointers.
"We have helped by collaborating with the coach." Rivolo said. "I didn't expect them to be as developed for an American team."
Both Marcelo and Rivol feel that rugby is gaining in popularity, but children should start playing it at a younger age.
"My club in Argentina is 120 years old." Rivolo said. "The style of playing is defined. Here it is not as defined."
Evans predicted that rugby here would become a force on the rugby scene in 20 years.
"It will just take that time," Evans said. "Over there you are brought up with it." Evans said. "Everybody plays it."
Evans, who has been playing rugby for seven years, stumbled into playing for Kansas after he met a Kansas rugby coach while he was traveling through Kansas City.
Although Evans has played with Kansas for only a short time, he said he has enjoyed the times with the teams.
"I am glad to have met these guys," he said. "There are a lot of fun times."
Jayhawks tune up for Relays
Sports writer
Wichita track meet is final stop before the Kansas Relays
By Matt Tidwell
The Kansas men's track team will use tomorrow's K.T. Woodman Track Classic at Wichita State to tune up for the Kansas Relays on April 18-19.
Men's Track
Men's head coach Bob Timmons said yesterday that the entire squad would travel to Wichita. Last weekend, Timmons split his team between the Kansas State Invitational at Manhattan and the Texas Relays at Austin.
"We'll have the whole team together this time," Timmons said. "think that will give us a better show how we'll do in the Kansas Relax."
Kansas State, Northwest Missouri
State and Wichita State will compete against the Jayhawks.
Coming off good performances for Kansas last weekend include sophomore pole vaulter Scott Huffman, who placed second at the Texas Relays with a vault of 17 feet 7 inches; freshman vaulter Chris Bohanon, who leaped 16-10 at Texas, and triple jumper David Bond, who was fifth at Texas with a personal best jump of $50-54$ feet.
At K-State, sophomore Ron Bahm finished first in the javelin throw with a mark of 230-5; sophomore Mike Miller was first in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 52.86; and senior Tom Hays was first in the pole vault with a jump of 16-1.
Timmons said Bahm, who is had an arm injury that kept him out last season, could be nearing his best throw ever.
"Ron Bahm's toss in the javelin last weekend at K-State was good, and I see him with a good chance to qualify for nationals." Timmons said.
This meet will represent the team's last chance to get ready for the Relays, which will be the squad's biggest test of the year in terms of strength of competition.
Even though several Jayhawks have looked strong in individual events, especially Kansas' corps of pole vaulters, Timmons said consistency was the biggest problem.
2 sign with Jayhawks
"As a team we're performing well," Timmons said. "but we'll have to improve in order to reach our goal of a third place finish at the Big Eight Championships (May 16-17 at Colorado). I'm anxious to see how we do in Wichita since we are taking a full squad."
By a Kansan sports writer
Marian Washington, head women's basketball coach, announced yesterday that two women have signed letters of intent to play basketball for Kansas next year.
Michelle Arnold and Lisa Baker will be wearing the crimson and blue. Arnold is a two-time first team 3-A All-State and a two-time second team All-Class selection from Hesston.
Women's Basketball
"Last year, people told me I was not good enough to play college," Arnold said, "that was enough to make me want to get it more. I will be competitive and push to be the best."
School she scored more than 1,500 points.
The 5-foot-10 forward averaged 25.3 points and 8.5 rebounds last year. Arrol hit 58 percent of her shots. During his career at Hesston High
She averaged 17 points and 12 rebounds last season. Baker led the state and region in field goals by hitting 60.5 percent of her shots from the floor.
Baker, a 5-11 forward, is a transfer from Seminole Junior College in Oklahoma City.
Hawley, a 6-0 forward from Tulsa,
played at Rogers State Junior College
where she averaged 21.2 points
and 8.6 rebounds.
These women will join early signees Kerri Hawley and Lisa Braddy.
Most recently, Braddy was invited to try out for the Olympic Sports Festival in Champagne Ill., this summer. She was named to the second team high school All-America by Parade magazine.
Road trips are real experience for team
By Jim Suhr
Sports writer
Wolffing down fast food, sleeping in hotels and facing a backlog of homework — that's life on the road for the Kansas baseball team.
Sports writer
"It's not a vacation by any means," KU assistant coach Lee Jee said yesterday.
Baseball
Kansas center fielder Hugh Stanfield agreed. He has experienced the bad jokes, the rickey vans, the Walkmans and the restroom stops for three seasons now.
He expects to experience the same things this weekend when the Jayhawks load up three athletic department vans and
travel to Lincoln, Neb., for a four-game series with the Cornhuskers. Nebraska leads the Big Eight with a 7-1 record and Kansas is in sixth place at 3-5.
Whether the Jayhawks travel to Lincoln or to Columbia, Mo., however, the routine is the same.
must. He majors in chemistry.
Ice said 22 players pile themselves and their Walkmans, books and other necessities into the three vans. "The players who make the trip include 10 pitchers and 12 position players.
For Kansas outfielder John Hart,studying on the road is a
Once the vans' wheels turn, the Walkmans come out, books are opened and cards are shuffled.
The vans are driven by head coach Marty Pattin, Ice or other assistants and trainers.
"I usually hit the books pretty hard," he said. "With my major, I'm taking fairly difficult classes. I can't afford to fall behind."
Ice said Hart was not alone. He said several Jayhawks used the time spent on the road or in hotels to catch up on homework.
Stanfield, a senior, said that although he took books on the road trips, studying was often difficult.
"There are quite a few guys who take books," he said. "It's a necessity. Some say it's a vacation for the athletes, but they aren't getting away from school — it's always going to be there."
"Traveling is tiresome," he said. "When you get there, you're too tired and only want to relax. Sometimes you want to check out
the town."
Stanfield said the majority of the team listened to Walkmans. Sometimes, however, he takes the time to heckle at what he calls "the nerd van." He said that van usually contained freshman with high grade point averages.
"A lot of time on the highway, we yell 'nerd, nerd, nerd' at it," he said. "At first a couple of them were offended. But as the season went on, they realized it's nothing personal. It's just a way to have fun."
Stanfield said Kansas' performance had an effect on the length of the ride home.
"If you win, it's that much shorter," he said. "If you lose, it's amazing how long that ride can seem."