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University Daily Kansan
Sports
Friday, March 21. 1986
Jayhawks survive tough month
By Jim Suhr
Sports writer
For Kansas head softball coach Bob Stancill, the month of March has been like a year — and for good reasons.
"We've never had this kind of a month to start a season," Stanchlift, who is in his 11th season as the Kansas coach, said yesterday. "This is without a doubt the toughest month competition-wise that I've ever seen."
But for Stanclift and the fourth-ranked Jayhawks, tough isn't the word.
This month, Kansas jumped off to what Stancifl call's the best start ever by winning 16 of its first 18 games and two 18-team tournaments.
Softball
during its March 5-16 road trip.
Stancilf said winning the two tournaments at the beginning of the season, the March 6-8 Road Runner Tournament at Las Cruces, N.M., and the March 13-15 Sooner Invitational at Norman, Okla., had given his team experience and confidence in pressure situations.
Kansas must use that experience this weekend when it faces four more top 20 teams in the three day Hall of Fame Classic in Oklahoma City
Eight teams will attend the tournament, including No. 8 Louisiana Tech. No. 10 Oklahoma State. No. 13 Nebraska and No. 15 Indiana.
Games Kansas play this weekend against Big Eight schools and others in the region will affect the regional rankings. Stancliff said. The rankings are important in determining qualifiers for the first round of the NCAA plays May 16-17 in Omaha, Neb.
Stancliff said that aside from the tough competition his team faced he was most concerned with the effect traveling had on his team's classes.
But the real competitive and academic test for Kansas has yet to come. The Jayhawks, who won't have a week of until after the May 24 Big Eight tournament, must travel to Houston next weekend for the three-day Houston Classic.
'Hawks look for repeat performance
By Jim Suhr
Kansas head baseball coach Marty Pattin wants an encore
Pattin said yesterday that Kansas, 11-10 this season, would have to repeat its solid offensive and defensive performances in Wednesday's 4-3 and 11-2 doubleheader sweep of visiting Missouri Western when it hosts Kansas Newman in a 1 p.m. doubleheader tomorrow.
Pattin said he would send John Heeney, 2-1 this season, to the mound in tomorrow's first game and John Quinn, 0-1, or Scott Taylor, 2-1, to the mound in the second game.
"We'll have to get the kind of pitching that we got the other day." Patten said, referring to Wednesday's sweep of the Griffons.
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In those games, Kansas pitcher Steve Purdy and Paul Henry both pitched complete games. The Jayhawks extended their home winning streak to seven.
In the first game, Purdy struck out five Griffon batters and gave up three runs and seven walks. Henry threw a two-hitter and struck out eight in the nightcap. The two pitchers led a Kansas defense that committed only one error.
Both Purdy and Henry plan to pitch for the Jayhawks on Sunday when they travel to Emporia for a doubleheader against Emporia State.
Kansas may or may not have the
services of Gary Lang, the regular Jayhawk shortstop who was struck in the face by a ball during practice before Kansas' last game in Texas
"We hope he's ready to go this weekend," Pattin said.
Paul Sangagorski, Kansas Newman head coach, said that although he had a young team with only three seniors, his team played maturely. Wednesday, the Jets lost to ninth-ranked Wichita State 9-1.
"We weren't hanging our head." Samangowski said of the loss. "We played them better than the score indicated. They're such a great team. They scored five runs in the first two innings, and you can't play catchup against a team like that. It won't happen."
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