Sports
Monday, Dec. 9, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Swim teams finish second at Nebraska
Both the men's and women's KU swim teams finished second in their meets at the Nebraska Invitational in Lincoln, Neb., over the weekend.
The women scored 851 points.
The victorious Nebraska Cornuskers scored 1,021 points. Colorado State followed Kansas with 709 points. Texas A&M had 412 points, Texas Tech had 340 points, Iowa State had 217 points and North Dakota had 101 points in the three-day meet.
In the 1,650 freestyle, Marcie Herroid got third place with a time of 36 minutes, 56.38 seconds. Blanca Castillo got third place in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:07.05.
In the men's meet, the Kansas team finished with 688 points. The winning Nebraska team scored 955 points. After Kansas was Texas A&M; 613; Wyoming; 362; Texas Tech; 286; St. Olaf College.
Dionne has been unconscious since she suffered severe head and chest injuries in a two-car accident Nov. 30.
Dionne still in coma
Kansas All-America swimmer Karen Dionne is still in a coma and in critical condition at Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., the nursing supervisor said yesterday.
Tammy Pease, also an All-America swimmer on the Kansas swim team, was killed in the accident.
KU destroys Avila in 108-49 laugher
By Heather Fritz Of the Kansan sports staff
The women's basketball team ended a long string of six games in 10 days by routing Avila College 108-49 yesterday in Allen Field House.
See related story p.15.
Kansas forward Vickie Adkins had 35 points and ten rebounds to lead the Jayhawks. Guard Toni Web added 18 points and backup guard Lisa Dougherty had 15. The 91 field goals Kansas attempted was a record. The Jayhawks had 14 steals, and Avila gave up 25 turnovers as Kansas buried Avila in every category.
Saturday, Kansas beats Oral Roberts University 77-76 in Tulsa, Okla, with the help of a career-high 39 points by center Kelly Jennings.
The Jayhawks' next game is at 2 p.m. Sunday against Creighton in Allen Field House.
The win against Avila College boosted Kansas" record to 5-2. The Jayhawks were ranked 25th in the last Associated Press poll.
The closest Avila came to Kansas was early in the first half, when the Jayhawks led 12-8. Kansas quickly moved up to a 20-point lead with the help of five Adkins field goals. At halftime, Kansas led 55-23.
In the second half, the Jayhawks worked on their inside game and extended their lead over the Avlianers. Kansas ran off strings of eight points twice and 10 and 12 points once each to put the game out of reach.
"A game like this gives us a chance to work on areas of weakness that we might have discovered," Kansas head coach Marian Washington said after the game. "It's kind of tough when you're in control of the game -- you don't want to appear like you're
running up the score."
From staff and wire reports
The only question left was whether Kansas would score 100 points, and Dougherty answered that with a layup with two minutes, 50 seconds remaining. The Jayhawks ran out the rest of the game for their sixth straight win at home.
"I felt it was a good game for us," Webb said. "I don't think anybody realized how tired we were."
Washington said Webb was playing much more relaxed this year than last season.
"I spent the entire summer playing and concentrating on mental performance," said Webb, who scored 18 points for a career high. "I've always felt that I had it within myself to be a good ballplayer."
Earlier this week, Kansas lost on its first road trip of the season to Louisiana Tech and Northwestern State (Louisiana). Both games were plagued by questionable officiating, and Washington said that she would talk to Big Eight Conference administrators about taking a Big Eight official to road games.
"It's not easy to play away from home any more," she said. "It's not just here and it's not just us. With our conference trying to go outside, it would be very, very helpful to get other conferences to at least exchange one official."
Hawks win big road game
From staff and wire reports
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The last time Danny Manning played in the Greensboro Coliseum, he was welcomed by a bigger and friendier crowd than that which awaited him Saturday before No. 6 Kansas' 71-56 win over North Carolina State.
Manning played two years at Greensboro's Page High School before heading to Lawrence. His final game in Greensboro had been before about 10,000 cheering hometown fans who watched him lead his team to a state championship.
The 6-foot-11 sophomore was greeted upon his return by about 6,700 booing spectators.
"I expected a few boos, but not nearly as many as I got," said Manning, who had been hotly recruited by several nearby schools, including North Carolina.
"Danny was scared to death." Kansas head coach Larry Brown said. "The whole team was tentative early and we weren't playing with much poise."
Kansas plays South Alabama at 7:30 tonight in Allen Field House. The Jayhawks' next game after today is Saturday against Kentucky in the field house. The game will be televised nationally by ESPN, and is scheduled to begin at 8:05 p.m.
The Jayhawks play Arkansas Dec 21 and George Washington Universi
ty Dec. 23, both in the field house.
Kansas moved to 6-1 on the year, with its only loss to Duke, while the Wolfback fell to 3-3.
"This was a very big win for us and should help us later in the year when we have to play under these conditions on the road." Brown said.
Forward Ron Kellogg paced the Kansas attack with 23 points, connecting on 11 of 14 shots from the field. Jayhawk guard Calvin Thompson scored 14, center Greg Dreiling added 12 points to go with a game-high eight rebounds and guard Cedric Hunter scored 10. Manning, who hit on only two of seven shots from the field, finished with eight points.
"Ronny was great. He made some very clutch shots for us today," said Brown.
North Carolina State center Chris Washburn was high-scorer for the Wolfpack with 22 points. Swinger Nate McMillan added 10.
South Alabama returns only one starter off last year's team, 6-6 senior forward Dale Osbourne. The Jaguars lost 6-8 forward Terry Catledge, who was the top draft pick of the Philadelphia 76ers. Catledge was Sun Belt Conference player of the year twice, and was the league's leading scorer and rebounder last season.
The Jaguars were 15-13 last season and finished tied for fourth in the Sun Belt Conference. Kansas defeated South Alabama 90-81 last season in Mobile, Ala.
Kansas ticket manager Kent
Weiser wieder daß students must
remember to bring their KU I.D. if they have a student ticket for basketball games. He said students could loan tickets to other students, because the name on the ticket and the I.D. need not match.
He said the bearer of the ticket must, however, present his own I.D card. Weiser said the ticket-takers must be sure that only students use student tickets.
Students who sit in the bleachers behind the Kansas bench should be aware of a new policy concerning the area. The custom of standing throughout the game must come to an end, assistant athletic director Floyd Temple said yesterday, because that blocks the view of fans who sit in the first three or four rows of the second level.
Weiser said the policy was not intended to keep the fans behind the bench from standing in normal spontaneous cheering.
Temple said the lower-level bleachers were raised five or six feet after the renovations of the field house, so the fans in the lower level were now that much higher.
"The students don't realize what the situation is," Temple said. "The new bleachers were raised 5-6 feet. Before, they could stand up all day and never interfere with anyone's view. Now, anyone standing from halfway up the bleachers and higher will block the sight line of the people in the first few rows of the second level."
Kansas guard Mesho Stroucher goes up for a shot against an Avila College defender. Kansas' Kelly Jennings, 40, and Vickie Adkins, 25, look on. The Jahyhaws beat Avita 108-49 yesterday afternoon in Allen Field House.
Story implicates Texas A&M
United Press International
DALLAS — Texas A&M football players acquired thousands of dollars in under-the-table payments and received other illegal considerations from coaches and booster "sugar daddies," a copyright story in the Dallas Times Herald said.
In a 160-inch story appearing in its editions yesterday, the Times Herald reported that a two-month investigation undertaken by the newspaper revealed that the Agies, this year's Southwest Conference football champions, had committed scores of National Collegiate Athletic Association violations since 1979.
The story was the first of a series, the newspaper said. One former player, Gary Rogers of Dallas, said he was paid $20,000 by Riley C. Couch III, a Dallas banker and president-elect of the Dallas A&M Club.
in 1882 and left after sitting out the 1983 season on a disciplinary suspension. "I just blew money all the time. I partied a lot."
Kathy Jackson, a former A&M athletic department tutor, said, "They had a very organized system for a player being paid. According to his ability, he would be assigned a sugar daddy.
"It came to the point where I began to worder," Where it is coming from? "?" said Rogers, who signed with A&M
"They would always joke about it. 'My sugar daddy is richer than your sugar daddy.' "
The Times Herald said two current players, quarterback Kevin Murray and freshman linebacker Aaron Wallace, were driving late-model cars leased by sports agents or owned by boosters.
The alleged infractions, which included car deals, signing bonuses, weekly allowances and big payoffs for the sale of players' game tickets, occurred during the tenures of Jackie Sherrill, the school's football coach and athletic director since 1982, and former coach Tom Wilson.
Early success earns trips to NCAA meet
Bv Frank Hansel
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff
So what did she do against Kansas State and Central Missouri State in a non-scoring meet Friday in Anschutz Sports Pavilion?
Kansas high jumper Ann O'Connor has had trouble with her approach in practice. She has made drastic changes in her technique in the last two years, and there have been days when she couldn't clear 5-foot-5 in practice.
O'Connor, who finished third in last season's NCAA Indoor Nationals as a breeshman, easily won the high jump competition over Melissa Louraine of Central Missouri State, who jumped 5-1/4.
O'Connor qualified for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Indoor Championships with a jump of 5-11.%
"I didn't think she would jump that well this early in the season," women's assistant coach Cliff Bovelo said after the meet. "I felt she would make 5-9, but she is a lot stronger and faster compared to last year."
O'Connon is also triple jumping for the first time in her collegiate caree, and she won the event Friday with a jump of 37.7.
"It's an advantage because now I won't be concerned about qualifying, and I can concentrate on my approach and jumping higher," O'Connor said. "But I didn't expect to qualify this early."
Rovello said it was an advantage for O'Connor to qualify early in the
high jump because she was also a pentathlete.
Freshman Shaula Hatcher set a personal record of 10 minutes, 50.7 seconds in winning the two-mile run. Veronda O'Hara's time of 1:17.4 in the 500-meter race was two seconds better than K-State's Liz Rich.
"The longer it (qualifying) is delayed, the more pressure that is put on the athlete to reach the mark." Rovelto said.
KU shot putter Denise Buchanan won't have to worry about the pressure of qualifying for national either because she qualified Friday with a winning toss of 59-64. She defeated former Kansas All-American Stine Lerdahl, who was competing unattached. Lerdahl took second with a toss of 47-10%.
KU women's head coach Carla Coffey said she was pleased with the Jayhawks' performance in their first meet of the indoor season.
Kansas men's head coach Bob Timmons said he wasn't very pleased with the times his athletes turned in against Central Missouri State in its non-scoring dual meet, but there were optimistic signs Friday.
"So far we are on the right track," Coffey said. "The key will be if the team comes back in better shape (after the winter break)."
"There were not a lot of good marks, but I saw a lot of areas where we are going to get better." Timmons said. "But we are quite a bit stronger than we are at this time last year."
The next meet for the women's track team is the Husker Pentathlon, Jan. 24 in Lincoln, Neb.
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Chris Magen/KANSAN Kansas pole-vaulter Lance Adams flies toward the bar during the meet in Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Adams was Kansas' top finisher with a jump of 16 feet-6.
Blackledge riddles Falcons in KC win
United Press International
Quarterback Todd Blackledge burned that coverage of the Falcons for 219 passing yards and a career-high three touchdowns to deliver Kansas City a 38-10 victory yesterday over the Falcons.
"I felt if we could block we could score 40 points against them." Blackledge said. "It would be very difficult for their defensive backs to cover our receivers all over the field. Their defense was perfect for the offense we were running. It was just a matter of our line protecting the passer, which it did.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs were excited about the prospect of playing Atlanta, and not just because the Falcons were 2-11.
The Chiefs were excited about playing a team that lives by man-to-man coverage in the secondary.
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"We didn't score 40 points, but we came a lot closer than we have in a long time."
"When I get the chance to go against someone man-on-man I'm going to win 90 percent of the time." Paige said. "During the week we were watching films and I'd see something and say, 'That's six (touchdown).' I knew we were going
Blacklockage completed his first seven passes for 190 yards, including a 70-yard touchdown toss to Stephone Paige, to help give the Chiefs a 24-10 halftime lead and send the Falcons to their sixth defeat in the last seven games.
Ethan Horton and Heard had short touchdown runs on Kansas City's first two possessions to move the Chiefs in command early at 14-0. Mike Pruitt gained 102 yards on the ground in the first 100-yard rushing effort by a Kansas City running back since 1981.
Blackledge finished 11-of-19 and also threw touchdown passes of 15 yards to Herman Heard and of 8 yards to Paige as the Chiefs improved their record to 5-9. Atlanta fell to 2-12 despite a 197-rush rushing performance by Gerald Riggs.
to have success against them.'
"I'll search and find something positive from this," Atlanta head coach Henning said. "These guys have come to play 13 straight weeks, but they didn't today. Unfortunately, it had to come on a day in which they had a chance to win. We just got outplaced."
Cornerback Albert Lewis intercepted three passes and the Chiefs also sacked the Atlanta quarterback, David Archer, seven times, in winning for only the second time in the last 10 weeks.
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The Chiefs drove 87 yards in 12 plays with the opening possession of the game to take a 7-0 lead on a 1-yard run by Horton. Blackledge had completion of 21 yards to Walt Arnold, 23 to Carlos Carson and 24 to Anthony Hancock to fuel the march.
Lewis intercepted an Archer pass on Atlanta's fourth play, giving Kansas City possession once again at 19's own 24. Pruitt raced 54 yards two plays later to move the Chiefs to the Falcon 8-yard line. Heard scored from there for a 14-0 lead.
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