Kansan Summer WeeklyWednesday, June 10, 1987
ROYALS REPORT
compiled by Tim Hamilton
Sports editor
Monday: Royals 3, Twins 5
Minnesota Twins pinch hitter Gene Larkin hit a bases loaded triple in the seventh inning leading the Twins 5-3 over the Kansas City Royals Monday night in Minnesota.
Rovals 3. Twins 5
Royals 011 000 001-3 9 0
Twins 011 000 30x-5 7 0
Gubicza, Quisenberry, Quirk and Nieman (Frazier) 2 and Reardon W.-Nieman (1-0).
L-Gubicza (3-7), SV-Reardon (11), 2Bs-Seitzer (3B-White, Larkin, HRS-Puckett.
Sunday: Royals 9, Mariners 1
Bo Jackson and Willie Wilson led the Kansas City Royals in a 9-1 rout over the Seattle Mariners Sunday afternoon at Seattle.
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Marmers
Black (7) Farr, (2) and Owen; Moore (6½), Trujo (1½), Wilkinson (1), and Kenaway;
W-Black (3-2) L-Moore (2-8). SV-None. 2Bs-Tarttallbull 2, Bradley 2, Ramso 3Bs-brantley,
Tarttallbull. HJS-Hackson 2, Wilson 2.
Saturday: Royals 5, Mariners 2
Steve Balboni saved the day for the Kansas City Royals by hitting in all five runs for the Royals in Saturday's game in Seattle against the Mariners. Balboni hit a two-run homer and three-run double, giving him five runs batted in for the second time in his major league career.
Royals 5, Mariners 2
Moyas 000 023 005-5 0 2
Managers 001
Leibrandt (9%), Quisemberry (1%) and Quirk, Bankhead (6-4), Kearney, W Leibrandt (7-4), L-Bankhead (6-4), SV-Quisenberry (7-2), B2s-Bosley, Balton, BHIs-Balboni.
Friday: Royals 2, Mariners 7
Lee Guetterman won his third consecutive game since being called from the Seattle Mariners farm team in Calgary, Alberta. He pitched a seven-hitter and Mickey Brantley drove in four runs as the Mariners ended a three game losing streak with a 7-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals Friday night in Seattle.
Royals 2, Mariners 7
Royals 100 000 1010-2 7 1
Mariners 100 000 102x-7 9 1
Djackson (6%), Farr (1½) and LOwen; Gutterman (7), Shields (2) and Valle. W. Gutterman (3-4); L-DJJackson (2-7). SV-Shields (3), 2Bs-Vaile 2, Orta Hrs-Brantley.
Thursday: Royals 6, Mariners 1
Bret Saberhagen became the first 10-game winner in the major leagues this season by pitching a seven-hitter Thursday night in Seattle as the Kansas City Royals defeated the Mariners 6-1.
Sports
Royals 000 012 021-6 12 0
Marmers 100 000 7 1 7
Sabberhagen and Quirk; Margan (7%₁) Reed (1%₁) and Bradley. W-Saberhagen (10-1).
L-Morgan (5-6). SV-None. B2s-Balboni. HRS-Tartabull, Seitzer, Balboni.
Wednesday: Royals 2, Brewers 4
Kansas City pitcher Mark Gubieza's record fell to 3-6 as the Royals lost to the Brewers 4-2 in Milwaukee. Royals left fielder Bo Jackson struck out in all four of his at-bats, and center fielder Willie Wilson also went 0-4.
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Gubicaz (6½), Gleaton (1½) and Quirk; Barker (5), Bosio (3), Plesac (1)
and Surhoff, W-Barker (1-0), L-Gubicaz (3-6), SV-Plesac (13), 2Bs-Manning, Cooper,
Salazar, Quirk.
ON DECK
Today
Royals vs. Minnesota
7:05 p.m. at Minnesota
Today
Friday
Royals vs. California
7:35 p.m. at Royals Stadium
Tomorrow No game
Saturday
Royals vs. California 7:05 p.m.at Royals Stadium
Sunday
Monday
LAST NIGHT
Royals vs. California 1:35 p.m.at Royals Stadium
Monday
Royals vs. Oakland
7:35 p.m. at Royals Stadium
Tuesday
Royals vs. Oakland
7:35 p.m. at Royals Stadium
Royals ab r h rb
Wilson cf 5 0 2 1
Seitzer 3b 4 1 1 0
Trtabllrf 4 0 2 0
Bosley dh 4 0 0 1
FWhite 2b 4 0 0 0
Balboni lb 2 0 1 0
BJacksn lf 4 0 1 0
ASalazr ss 3 0 0 0
Orta ph 1 0 0 0
Bianclnss 0 0 0 0
Quirk c 4 1 2 0
Totals 35 2 9 2
Twins ab r h rbr
Newmn ss 3 0 1 0
Bush ph 1 0 1 0
Gagne ss 0 0 0 0
Gladden lf 5 0 3 0
Puckett cf 4 1 2 1
Gaetti 3b 4 1 1 0
Larkin 1b 4 0 1 1
Brnsk dh 2 1 1 1
Lmbrdz 2b 4 0 0 0
Laudner c 4 1 1 2
Davidsn rf 2 1 1 0
Totals 33 5 12 5
Tuesday
Twins ab r h rbi
Kansas City 100 000 100 -2
Minnesota 002 020 011 -5
    002 020 015 -5
Major League Standings
W J-Niekro (44). L DJakson (28). S-Neone. W仁师 BRI-Bankey (3). E Q琳. QPK - Minnesota L LOB-Kansas City 9. Minnesota 12. 2 bPucket Brankey, Quirk, Wilson 1B. 3 bPucket Brankey, Quirk, Wilson 3. berzerer (3). Wilson (15). Wilson (4). Glidden (10). None SF-Brankey. Puckett A. 18-563 T: 3-00
East | W | L | Pct. | GB | West | W | L | Pct. | GB
Toronto | 35 | 20 | .636 | — | Kansas City | 30 | 25 | .644 | —
New York | 35 | 23 | .603 | 1½ | Minnesota | 31 | 26 | .544 | —
Milwaukee | 29 | 24 | .547 | 5 | Oakland | 29 | 27 | .518 | 1½
Detroit | 29 | 25 | .537 | 5½ | Seattle | 29 | 29 | .500 | 2½
Baltimore | 29 | 30 | .474 | 9 | California | 26 | 32 | .448 | 2½
Boston | 27 | 31 | .466 | 9½ | Texas | 23 | 31 | .426 | 6½
Cleveland | 27 | 31 | .351 | 16 | Chicago | 22 | 32 | .407 | 6½
American League
National League
| East | W | L | Pct. | Gb | West | W | L | Pct. | GB |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| St. Louis | 34 | 21 | .618 | — | Cincinnati | 33 | 24 | .579 | — |
| Chicago | 33 | 24 | .579 | 2 | San Francisco | 31 | 26 | .549 | 2 |
| Montreal | 29 | 27 | .518 | 5½ | Houston | 28 | 28 | .500 | 4½ |
| New York | 28 | 27 | .518 | 6½ | Los Angeles | 28 | 28 | .491 | 6 |
| Philadelphia | 27 | 27 | .500 | 6½ | Atlanta | 27 | 30 | .474 | 5 |
| Pittsburgh | 27 | 30 | .455 | 9 | San Diego | 15 | 44 | .254 | 19 |
K.C. drops second straight to Twins, Joe Niekro gets win with knuckleball
The Associated Press
"That's my bread-and-butter pitch. I'd say I threw it more than 80 percent."
MINNEAPOLIS — Joe Niekro is the first knuckleball pitcher in the Minnesota Twins' 26-year history
Judging by his debut last night, they should have gotten one a lot sooner.
The 42-year-old Niekro allowed two runs in six $ \frac{1}{3} $ innings in his first start since being acquired Sunday from the New York Yankees, helping Minnesota to its fourth straight victory, 5-2 over the Kansas City Royals.
"I had a good knuckler tonight. I hated to get away from it," he said.
Tim Laudner, catching a knuckle-baller for the first time in his career, also hit a two-run homer to cap his satisfying night.
Niekro, 4-4, allowed nine hits in beating the Royals for the first time since April 26, 1971. Keith Atherton, who relieved Niekro in the seventh with runners at first and third, allowed no hits in two $ \frac{3}{2} $ innings for his first save.
"Everybody had tips. Everybody did. Somebody left a laundry basket in my locker," he said. "I had a lot of fun. I just made up my mind I was going to have fun. As a catcher, I was pleased with the challenge."
Laudner dropped Niekro's very first pitch of the game and also had a pass ball in the first inning, when run on Thad Bosley's BRI brouder.
trimmed to .001.
Kansas City's lead over the Twins in the American League West was
Otherwise, he handled Nikro flawlessly. And at the plate, Laudner put
the Twins ahead 4-1 with a fifth-
inning homer off Danny Jackson, 2-8.
His fifth homer of the year came in a 3-0 pitch and scored Tom Brunansky,
who had doubled.
Kirby Puckett hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the eighth for the Twins' final run.
L.A.'s Magic lifts Lakers past Boston 107-106
The Royals added a seventh-inning run on doubles by Jamie Quirk and Willie Wilson before Atherton entered the game.
Jackson allowed nine hits and four walks in five innings.
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Magic Johnson drove into the lane and sank a hook shot with two seconds remaining last night, giving the Los Angeles Lakers a 107-106 victory over the Boston Celtics and a 3-1 lead in the NBA championship series.
Game 5 will be tomorrow night at Boston Garden, but even if the Celtics win, the Lakers have the next two games at home and the Celtics get six straight road playoff games by an average of nearly 16 points.
The Lakers, who trailed 103-95 with three minutes 30 seconds remaining, rallied with a 9-0 spurt to take their first lead of the game since early in the first quarter.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's dunk made it 104-103 with 29 seconds left, but Larry Bird gave the Celtics a three-point shot (top, center) on a two-point shot (bottom, corner).
Abdul-Jabbar, who scored 10 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter, made one free throw with eight seconds left, then missed the second, but Boston's Kevin McHale knocked the ball out of bounds. After a timeout, Johnson, who finished with 29 points, calmly dribbed away several seconds in the corner before driving into the middle for the game-winner.
Bird then missed a long jump at the buzer, leaving the Lakers with the victory they needed to put them in complete control in the series.
the Lakers in six of the seven previous playoff games, broke free of the Boston defense that had held him to four points in four consecutive quarters, finished with 21 points. Reserve Mychal Thompson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar each had 16.
Mhale Leped Boston with 25 points, Danny Ainge added 23 and Bird had 21, despite missing 11 of his first 17 shots.
The first three games of the series were played without incident but tempers flared for the first time in the series.
Compiled column in the serves
James Worthy, leading scorer for
The first incident came late in the first half. Worthy, who had scored five straight Los Angeles points in the previous 90 seconds for his first points of the game, was fouled by
Dennis Johnson as Worthy drove to the basket with 15 seconds remaining.
Worthy, who was knocked to the floor, got up and punched Celtics center Greg Kite. Although Kite never got back to Worthy, both players were charged with technical fouls, and Worthy followed with two free throws as a result of the foul by Johnson.
It was at the end of the third period when the second scuffle broke out, this time between McHale and Byron Scott. After Scott was fouled by Bird with 38 seconds remaining in the quarter, McHale and A.C. Green exchanged shoves, then Scott shoved McHale, McHale and Scott were both assessed technicals.
KU places 3rd and 6th at NCAA track meet
Ry Tim Hamilton
Sports editor
The University of Kansas track team last week ended its season with two athletes placing in the finals of the 1987 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Baton Rouge, La.
All-American shot-putter Denise Buchanan took sixth place and pole vaulter Pat Manson finished third in the finals Friday night.
Buchanan, the only KU woman to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor championships, finished sixth in the best and school record of 52-31.
Buchanan, who earned All-America status with a fifth place finish in the 1987 NCAA Indoor meet, broke the former school record, 51-1114, which she set earlier in the year at the Texas Relays.
Preliminary heats for the women's shot-put were not held because only eleven women qualified for the NCAA championships.
Usually, the field is pared to twelve or thirteen athletes for the finals in field events. Nine qualify for finals in sprinting events and twelve in distance events.
Women's track coach Carla Coffey said that Buchanan finished a superb season in fine form.
"She wanted to do better, of course," Coffey said. "She was competing with the best in the nation."
Buchanan said she had been frustrated with her performances after gaining All-American status at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
"My indoor performance was exceptional but after a week of expec-
tion, I was struck by Rusch's music."
Two weeks before the NCAA Outdoor, Buchanan did well in a meet in Tennessee and regained her confidence.
Manson, a sophomore who took second at the 1987 Big Eight Outdoor Championships, vaulted $17-9\frac{3}{4}$ to capture third place in the pole vault. Doug Fraley, Fresno State University, won the event with a mark of 18-5.
"I threw better than I had in a long time and I knew I was coming back," she said.
Out of the three KU pole vaulters who qualified for the NCAA Championships, only Manson qualified for the finals.
Junior Scott Huffman and sophomore Chris Bohanan both failed to
clear the opening height of 17-13%
Both were All-Americans last year, Bohanan won the 1987 conference title with a jump of $ 18-3^{\frac{1}{4}}$, and Huffman cleared 18-4 at the 1987 Kansas Relays. The two finished seventh and eighth, respectively, at this year's national indoor meet.
Assistant track coach Rick Attig, who works with the pole vaulters and jumpers, said that the meet was a bit disappointing for the trio, despite Manson's showing.
Kansas is only the second school in NCAA history to have three pole vaulters over the 18-0 mark.
Attig said Huffman's performance was hampered by an ankle injury which he underwent surgery for early in the year.
"Atround Big Eight time Outdoors it started bothering him again," Attig said. "He hadn't been able to practice since the Big Eight conference meet."
He said Bohanan misjudged which poles to use.
Attig said Manson's performance suprised him because injuries had limited his training. Attig said that the team's swimming was spent biking and swimming.
"Jumping was not something he was really able to work a lot on," Attig said. "He's not in as good a shape as he could be."
"Pat is a really steady jumper. He jumps around his best every meet. He's going to be a great humper."
Hurdlers Courtney Hawkins, sophomore, and Ricky Mays, freshman, who both made strong showings this season, also didn't advance to the finals of their events.
Mays' hot streak going into the championships included a second place finish at the 1987 conference and then an all-time personal and season best of 25-11%.
In the championships, Mays' jump of $ 23.8_{1/2} $ was one inch short of the qualifying distance of $ 23.9_{1/4}. $
Hawkins was the 110-meter hurdles champion at the 1987 conference outdoor championships and also won the 60-yard hurdles at the 1987 indoor meet. But his time of 13.91 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles was .17 seconds slower than the qualifying time of 13.74 seconds.
Athletic director at Illinois State named as successor to Johnson
Sophomore triple jumper David Bond qualified for NCAA Championships but broke his foot and did not compete.
Sports editor
By Tim Hamilton
The Kansas University Athletic Corporation recently named Bob Frederick, athletic director at Illinois State University since 1985, as the University's new athletic director.
Frederick, 47, will become KU's 12th athletic director on June 15 when he takes over from Monte Johnson who is resigning.
Frederick is no stranger to KU.
In a 26-year relationship with the University, Frederick has been a KU student, an assistant coach and an administrator.
In 1959, as a freshman, Frederick was a walk-on on the basketball team and played for coach Dick Harp. That was only two years after the legendary 1956-57 team, with a player named Monte Johnson, went to the NCAA Final Four tournament.
Frederick earned his undergraduate degree in education and stayed at KU as a graduate assistant under Harp while he completed his master's degree.
Then for 13 years Frederick coached in the high school and junior college ranks in Kansas and Illinois before returning to KU in the 1971-72 season as an assistant basketball coach under Ted Owens.
Frederick left Lawrence again for five years to serve as assistant basketball coach at Brigham Young University and Stanford University
In 1977, Frederick began working for Lawrence High School. He taught basketball, coached the basketball team and served as coach of sports for Lawrence High School.
Max Rife, LHS assistant principal who has been with the school since 1956, said Frederick had his hands full fulfilling his LHS responsibilities and pursuing his doctorate degree in education at the same time. Rife said Frederick even had the responsibility for monitoring the cafeteria.
"Bob was an excellent teacher." Rife said. "He used the same method in school as we did in coaching. He had rules and abided by them and the kids did too."
"He was one of the finest basketball coaches we've had here. He produced a program we could be very, very proud of."
In 1881, Frederick was named the director of the Williams Educational Fund, which handles athletic scholarships.
While working in administration, Frederick finished his doctorate. He left KU and the Big Eight in 1985 to go to North Carolina (NU) in the Missouri Valley Conference.
Lew Perkins, former athletic director at Wichita State University, said Frederick had given a lot of direction to the ISU program.
"Bob is an excellent administrator and athletic director." Perkins said. "At ISU he provided a lot of good direction, had objectives and set goals. KU couldn't have done better."
Perkins said he couldn't make any comparison between Johnson and Eddie.
"They have two different administration styles." Perkins said. "What might work for one might not work for the other."
Although they may operate differently, Frederick and Johnson seem to have similar backgrounds.
Both are Midwesterners. Frederick hails from near St. Louis, Johnson from Kansas City, Kan.
Both did their undergraduate work at KU and were walk-ons on the varsity basketball team.
Now, both have earned reputations
After graduating, both men returned to KU for their graduate studies and both held several differences within the athletic department.
Frederick and Johnson were even brothers in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity during their collegiate days.
as hard-working, successful, basketball-oriented athletic directors, albeit not at the same university.
Frederick agreed that there were similarities.
Johnson's business experience helped him to be more successful as director of the Williams Educational Fund than Frederick had been.
but, Temple said, he was most interested Frederick's loyalty to the University.
Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director, said Frederick did a good job as director, raising the fund's revenue every year at a time when the department's revenue was down.
"His loyalty was very important to me," he said, "His relationship with the University will be excellent. He's going to send here, and I consider myself one."
"The general state of the department is very healthy because a long-range plan has been developed," Frederick said.
He said his top priorities would include reviewing the athletes'
He said Frederick's friendships with many people within the department, such as men's basketball coach Larry Brown, wouldn't interfere with his performance as athletic director.
Of course, things will be a lot easier for Frederick if he doesn't make many changes, and he said he didn't plan to.
"It doesn't hurt having close friends working for you or having a good friend be your boss." Temple said.
Bob Frederick
academic support program, meeting with alumni leaders across the state and increasing the visibility of the non-revenue sports program.
KU's struggling football program also is at the top of Frederick's list of priorities.
He said he was very interested in raising the gate revenue at the football games, especially through student ticket sales.
"My first plan is to sit down with any students as I can enlist their support. With any major institution with two major revenue sports, the enthusiasm starts with the students. That's obvious in Allen Field House."
Frederick also said promotion of the tradition and social aspects of the football games would increase revenue.
"The social aspect of college football has taken on much greater proportions," he said. "I think you have to promote the event and not just the game."
Obviously, the quickest way to bigger gate revenues is a better football team.
Last year, the Jayhawks finished 3-8, with a dismal 0-7 record in the Big Eight, last in the conference.
KU's last winning season was 1980-81.