Friday, April 4.1986
Sports
University Daily Kansan
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Teams out to prove they're cuts above the rest
Dave Lucey, assistant football trainer, worked on freshman wide receiver Jim Frikey's leg yesterday during the football team's final spring practice. The
Valesente to look for improvement in spring game
By Jim Suhr Sports writer
football team will have its annual spring intrasquad scrimmage tomorrow at 1:30 p.m.
For Kansas football players, dinker's on the line.
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The winners will dine on juicy steaks; the losers will serve the steaks and eat hot dogs.
To them, there's a definite difference between winning and losing in the annual spring intrasquad scrimmage at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Memorial Stadium.
"I just want the guys to go out and have a good time to cap off a great spring," first-year head coach Bob Naleste said yesterday.
Having fun tomorrow may be contagious, however, because proceeds from the scrimage will go toward the developing of an recreational facility in Lawrence's Holcomb Park.
Holcomb Center fund-raises need to raise $50,000 to match a half-million-dollar bond issue that was approved by Lawrence voters last
"We just want to put something into the community that's a result of our hard work," Valesente said. "Hopefully, we'll get some people out to watch us play and donate to a very worthy cause."
Admission for the scrimmage, which concludes Kansas' spring season, will be $2 for adults and $1 for children.
Valesente, in an attempt to strengthen the rushing attack, has recruited three junior college running backs — Scott Schriffer (Butler County Community College), Tim Ledford (Mt. San Antonio Community College) and Arnold Schnell (Independence Community College).
Valeante led assistant coaches Rocky Alt and Robert Ford would coach the teams while he supervised from the sidelines. He will evaluate the progress Kansas had made in its attempt to supplement its pass-oriented offense with an improved running game.
Mike Rogers and Mark Henderson have added depth to the Kansas rushing attack. Valesente said.
Those recruits, when combined with returning part-time starters
Orth will lead the blue team tomorrow against the white team, which will be led by junior college transfer Robby Santos. Orth was an understudy for three seasons under All-Big Eight quarterbacks Frank Seurer and Mike Norseth and has completed 42-of-80 passes for 607 yards and two touchdowns as a reserve.
Valesente said Kansas' passing attack next season would most likely be led by junior quarterback Mike Orth. He said Orth, who was redshirted last season, had established himself as a leader and as the No.1 quarterback during the spring drills.
Valesente said tomorrow also would be a chance to show off the new defensive formation, which includes four linemen, three linebackers, and four defensive backs.
The 4-3 defense, led by free safety Wayne Ziegler and right end Phil Forte, was initiated by Valescote to take the "moment" more of a "good swarming defense".
Andujar's suspension reduced by Ueberroth
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Pitcher Joaquin Andujar, suspended by baseball commissioner Peter Uebere Roth in October for 10 games at the start of this season for his tirade against plate umpire Dinkenker in the seventh game of the World Series, yesterday had his sentence reduced by five games.
The reduction meant Andujar, who was traded from St. Louis to Oakland in December, may resume pitching April 12 against the California Angels.
Andujar had appealed the suspension on the grounds that it was too excessive. Ueberorth reviewed the incident and determined that a five-day suspension would be appropriate.
Andujar's outburst came in the
fifth inning of Game 7 against the Kansas City Royals after he was called in as a relief pitcher. On a 2-pitch to Jim Sundberg, Andujar disputed an inside pitch. St. Louis manager Whitey Herzog subsequently was ejected for arguing the call.
When Andujar's next delivery also was rudged ball four by Denkinger and loaded the bases, the pitcher sterned off the mound, bumped into Denkinger and was ejected.
Although he won 41 games for the Cardinals over the past two seasons, Andujar's tantrum incurred the wrath of club hierarchy, and despite the objection of Herzog, the 33-year-old right-hander was traded to the A's for catcher Mike Heal and pitcher Tim Conroy on Dec. 10.
Royals' pitching depth forces rookie to minors
FT. MYERS, Fla. - Scott Bankhead will soon be reporting to the Omaha Royals of the American Association. That's all one need to know about the depth of Kansas City's starting rotation.
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The rotation consists of Bret Sberagenh, Charlie Leibrandt, Danny Jackson, Mark Gubica and Bud Black. Leibrandt, 29, is the old man of the group, a quintet that combined for a 75-52 mark last season. It's no reflection of Bankhek's skills that the Royals have decided to go north without him; it's a reflection of Kansas City's pitching excellence.
"He's a little bit like Saberhagen in terms of command of his stuff. He also knows how to hold runners on, field his position and do all the little things you need. If we were to have any trouble or injuries with our starting five, he'd be the first guy to be brought up."
Gary Blaylock, Royals' pitching coach, said recently, "Scott had an outstanding spring and probably showed the most improvement of any of our young players. Had the situation been the same here now as it was in '84, when we rebuilt our starting staff, he'd be on the roster.
Bankhead, 22, a stocky right-hander, was 24-3 at North Carolina, winning his last 20 collegiate decisions. The Royals picked him with their first selection in the June 1984 tree agent draft. Bankhead went on to win the Omaha Sesame Cup that summer, giving up one run in 9 2-3 bumps.
at 8-6 with a 3.59 ERA.
Last year, Bankhead tied for the Southern League lead with 128 strikeouts and finished strongly at Memphis. After losing four of his first five decisions, Bankhead ended
"He's got an outstanding arm ame a lot of poise," said John Wathan, Kansas City catcher. "He's got a nice grip, but actually mostly he can spot it in the strike zone."
Wathan saw Bankhead pitch 12-13 innings this spring, allowing just nine hits and one run with eight strikeouts. He did not walk a batter. Bankhead, Aashoro, N.C., native, will be in a Kansas City uniform as soon as Manager Dick Howser can figure out a way to give him enough innings at the major-league level.
Bankhead's name comes up repeatedly as the Royals test the trade market, but Buther isn't about to part with a mini-Saberhagen who almost cracked the roster of baseball's world champions.
"He would have made almost any other staff in the majors. There's no question he'll be in the big leagues and it won't be long until he arrives."
"There may not be a better pitching prospect anywhere in the majors," beams Howser, who has Dennis Leonard penciled in for middle relief.
"Scott was the best pitcher in the Southern League during the last two months of '85. You've got to look past the sheer statistics — numbers can only take you so far in evaluating a prospect.
"He's an exceptional talent who simply doesn't have the opportunity here yet with our five starters. He's got four pitches and throws all of them for strikes."
"Sure we've had offers, but Bankhead's not going anywhere." Howser said. "Heck, I'd hate to be facing him from the other side of the field in a couple of years."
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Knee injury sidelines Guerrero
The National League West outlook received a dramatic upheaval yesterday when Los Angeles outfielder Pedro Guerrero suffered a knee injury that will keep him out of the lineup for a minimum of three months.
The 29-year-old Guerrero suffered a ruptured patella tendon below the left knee in the first inning of the Dodgers' 8-5 loss to Atlanta. Guerrero slid into third base on the front end of a double steal and apparently caught his snikes.
Last year, Guerrero batted .320 — tied for second in the league — and hit 33 homers with 87 RBI despite missing 23 games with back spasms and a sprained wrist.
Another NL West team, Houston, received much better news about its key offensive player. Exploratory arthroscopic surgery showed that outwardly painful 'nuz suffered a sprained ligament and cartilage damage to his right knee.
Knuckleballer Phil Niekro, the oldest player in the major leagues at 47, agreed to a one-year contract with Cleveland. Niekro was released by the Yankees on Friday.
At St. Petersburg, Fla., Steve Jeltz collected four hits and Juan Samuel drove in four runs to pace a 21-hit attack that carried Philadelphia to a 13-7 decision over St. Louis.
In exhibition games:
Ripken cracked two solo homers and Storm Davis turned in seven shutout innings of shutout pitching to lead Baltimore to a 5-0 blanking of the Yankees.
At West Palm Beach, Fla., Scott Fletcher scored from second base on a two-out eighth-inning single by Montreal to enable Texas to beat Montreal 3-2.
At Bradenton, Fla., Sammy Khalifa lashed a one-out double in the 11th inning to give Pittsburgh its fifth victory, a 4-3 decision over Boston.
Toronto to a 12-10 victory over the White Sox.
M Sarasota, Fla., Kelly Gruber's two-run ninth-inning home carried
At Tampa, Fla., Dave Parker, Buddy Bell, Bo Diaz and Eric Davis homered to highlight a 22-hit attack and power Cincinnati to a 17-4 rout of the Mets.
Tigers shut down Royals
At Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Cal
LAKELAND, Fla. — Outfielder Larry Horned hit a home run and two singles yesterday and led the Detroit Tigers to a 7-2 exhibition victory over the Kansas City Royals.
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The Royals scored single runs in each of the first two innings off starter Jack Morris. Steve Balboni singled in Leslie Smith in the first Game Give Pryor an error to give Kansas City its run.
The Tigers took the lead for good in the fifth inning.
Herndon's fourth-inning home run put the Tigers on the board and cut Kansas City's lead to 2-1.
Coles had the game-tying hit, and Brookens scored the game-winner on a groundout.
the Tigers's in the fifth inning. Darrell Evans, Tom Brookens and Darrell Coles had consecutive hits at the beginning of the inning.
in the seventh innning, the Tigers scored a run when Doug Baker tripped and came home on Herndon's second hit of the game.
The Tigers finished their spring in Lakeland by winning their 20th consecutive home finale and setting a home attendance record of 68,764, nearly 2,000 more than their 1985 total.
Detroit finished off the Royals with three runs in the eighth innning, the final two runs came on a bases-loaded single by Herndon who finished the game with four RBI.
The victory raises Detroit's record to 18-9, the best in exhibition play this year. The Royals fall to 10-12.
Kansas State to host meet this weekend
By Dawn O'Malley Sports writer
Sports writer
The Kansas men's and women's track teams will run and jump this weekend at the Kansas State Invitational in Manhattan.
The Jayhawks will compete against its intrastate rival, the Wildcats. Kansas also will compete against Nebraska, Iowa State, South Dakota, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Central Missouri State, Wichita State, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Oklahoma State and Barton County Community College.
Carla Coffey, head women's track coach, said yesterday, "Our conference is strong. It is not sloppy by any means. The competition is tough."
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Nebraska is the five-time Big Eight Outdoor Champion and six-time winner of the Big Eight I-1:door Championship, K-State placed second at the Big Eight Indoor Championship this year.
"We are allowed to enter four people per event." Coffey said. "We are taking the majority of the team — a full squad with the exception of Ann and Denise."
"This is the second meet for the entire team," Coffey said. "We're working hard and as a total unit. Track and field is an individualized sport, but you can see things happening and falling together for a total team effort."
Denise Buchanan, junior and shot putter, and Ann O'Connor, sophomore and high jumper, are competing in the Texas Relays tomorrow at Austin.
Coffey said the team members' goals would be to improve their times.
"We want to win the meet," she said, "to enjoy winning, but it is not stressed. I want to see improvement of performance."
The athletes have written down their time goals and will strive to achieve them at the meet.
"We need the competition for improvement of performances and consistency of performances," Coffey said.
Although the meet is unscored, she said, it was important for the athletes to succeed in their particular events by meeting their long as they have improved their songs, they will have succeeded.
These weekend meets are a stepping stone to the conference, Coffee said.
The conference championships are May 16 at Boulder, Colo.
This weekend's invitational will be a family affair for the Jayhawks because the Kansas men's track team also will compete.
Only two Kansas women have qualified for the National College Championships in June at Buckan and O'Connor — Buchanan and Cloissier.
Bob Timmons, head men's track coach, said. "We use the whole year spending time trying to figure out the best way to score points at the conference meet. We want to have a team together for conferences."
For some of the athletes this will be their first outdoor meet. There will be 35 athletes competing for Kansas.
Tennis dominates Perelman brothers
By James Larson
Sports writer
For 17 years, head tennis coach Scott Perlman shared a bedroom with his brother, Brett. Now they have the insolubility of coaching the Jawhakies.
Tennis has dominated the lives of the Perelmans. Scott became the Kansas head coach in 1982. Brett joined the Jayhawk staff as an assistant in 1984.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, almost one year apart, they grew up in Monroe, Michigan, and started playing junior tennis when they were about 11 years old. Brett said Scott soon became a tough competitor.
Kansas head tennis coach Scott Perelman, left, and his brother Brett, assistant tennis coach, talk about this weekend's tennis matches. The team will play Oklahoma State today and Oklahoma tomorrow.
"When we played, he always beat me," he said. "The guy just hates to lose. I hate to lose, too, but I've acquired that. He was born with it.
At this time, Brett said, Scott was also looking for his own identity apart from Brett.
"If his buddies can pick him up and take him to the tennis courts, I'd
The Perelman's tennis competition extended into the collegiate ranks. Scott's college team, Ball State, played Brett's team, Central Michigan, and Scott beat Brett 7-6, 7-6.
"I was on the verge of winning the first set," Brett said. "Then he lobbed one over my head, it hit the baseline and went over the fence.
That ball kind of broke my back. I couldn't believe it."
Before Scott came to Kansas in 1962, the Jayhawks' tennis team finished in sixth place in 1979-80 and 1981-82 and seventen in 1981. Since Perelman took over the program, the Jayhawks have improved each
season — including a second place finish last season.
Recruiting Mike Wolf, the
Jayhawk's No. 1 player on the men's
Perelman's belief in hard work and his talent for recruiting are the main reasons for the recent success of the Javhawks.
team, is one of Scott's significant accomplishments at Kansas. Wolf said knowing Perelman had been beneficial both on and off of the court.
"He's one of my best friends," he said. "You couldn't have a better friend than Coach Perelman. His coaching has gone far beyond how to hit a tennis ball. I have unlimited respect for him."
Tracy Treps, the No. 1 player for the women's team, said that not long ago she was homesick and wanted to go home but that Perelman gave her the encouragement and attention she needed to continue with school.
"I was homesick, but we'd have ice cream almost every night," she said.
"I just thought I'd never find a better coach anywhere."
While Scott was coaching in Lawrence, Brett was coaching in Germany at the Vic Braden tennis school on the Island of Zylt. Before moving to Germany, Brett lived in a van and traveled across the United States doing a variety of work. When he was home for a visit in 1984, Scott called him and asked him whether he wanted to be the assistant coach for Kansas. He never went back to Germany.
While coaching at Kansas, Brett has started taking classes again. When he graduates in May, he said, it will be the happiest day of his parents' lives.
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