Sports
University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 1, 1987
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Frisbee teams travel to regionals
BDAVID BOYCE
staff writer
Both KU's self-supported men's and women's frisbee clubs will travel to Madison, Wis., this weekend to participate in the Ultimate Player Association Regionals.
Kansas will compete against 14 men's teams and four women's teams with the top three men's teams and the top women's team advancing to nationals in two weeks at Penn State.
In the three-year history of the riebee regionals, Kansas has captured the regional title the first two years and a second-place last year. The KU men's team, the HorrorZontali, is the only college team to advance to national all three seasons.
"I'm expecting one of the top spots," said team spokesman Ken Wicker. "We will have to show a lot of them, and play a lot of [nautical] forces to win."
"Wicker said that if it was winky,
it would force the shorter
nose to be successful."
"We do have three guys over 6-foot-3 and are able to a few more junk catches," he said.
Tomorrow, Kansas will play four games, and if it finishes on top in the four-team pool, will advance to round-broin play on Sunday. The first team to score 13 points tomorrow will win the pool.
On Sunday, the team that scores 15 wins the first game of the double-elimination, round-robin play, and the team that scores 17 wins the second game. The championship game will be decided when the one team scores 19 points.
"We do more than just throw a frisbee and have a good time. We have to keep in shape to do well."
"The longer games Sunday will test the endurance of each team, and the better shape you are in, the better you will do," Wicker said.
Wicker said that the reason the frisbee team does not receive any financial support was because of the prevailing attitude that frisbee players were just having fun tossing a frisbee.
"We are just as dedicated as basketball players," Wicker said. "Probably more because we pay our own expenses."
Even though the University does not financially support the frisbee club, the team uses the University's name.
The men's team will send 16 players and the women's team, the Betty, will send 13.
Women's player Robin Ashmore said she thought the women's team would win the five-team tournament.
This is the first year the women will have a regional and national tournament.
KU All-Americans have extra edge
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
Marie Herrold, Columbus, Ohio,
senior, is a five-time All-American
swimmer at KU in the 400-meter
individual medley. Jayhawk pole
vaulter Scott Huffman performs
during the Kansas Relays. Huff-
man is an All-American pole vaulter.
Athletes excel at higher level
"Three of the teams in the tournament we have played and beaten and the other team has not been in other tournaments," she said, "so we figure they aren't that good.
"We are really excited about the tournament."
By DIANE FILIPOWSKI
Staff writing
Staff writer
Glenn Tramml finished eighth in the 100-meter backstroke last June at the U.S. Wheel Championship Trials in Orlando, Fla., his first race in a 50-meter pool.
For four years, the KU All-American swam in a $19_{2-4}$ pool at Topeka High School when swimming wasn't a high priority for him.
Glenn Trammel
Darcv Chang/KANSAN
"In the summers, if there wasn't a baseball game, I would go to swim practice," said Trammel, a KU sophomore. "Otherwise, I usually wouldn't swim."
Scott Huffman
Denise Buchanan
The summer before his junior year in high school, Trammel received the outstanding male swimmer award at the YMCA Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and decided he had the talent and would make the competition to competitive on the national level.
Trammel and other KU All Americans Denise Buchanan, Scott Huffman and Marcie Herold are athletes who succeed because they probably are strong in those three areas, he said.
Andrew Jacebs, a sports psychologist, said athletes such as Trammel were high achievers, strong in the areas of commitment, attitude and communication.
Jacobs said that at the national level, individual sports could be considered 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical, and was where commitment, attitude and communication separated the top athletes from the average athletes.
Jacobs, who is in private practice at The Winning Edge in Kansas City, Kan., is also the sports psychologist for the Kansas City Comets. He has worked with the 1984 Olympic cycling team and with KU athletes when he was the Athletic Department's sports psychologist from 1981 to 1985.
"When two athletes are of equal ability, the one who will win is the one whose mind is in shape," Jacobs said. "The people who have all three of these qualities are the types of people who are obviously driven to succeed."
Jacobs said successful athletes usually displayed dedication and desire and were willing to sacrifice to achieve their goals.
Herrell understood the importance of commitment when she was 13. She said she knew then that she wanted to compete nationally in swimming and since that time, she hasn't spent a summer at home in Columbus, Neb.
Commitment
Herrell spent her first summer away from home in Colorado Springs, Colo., where she said coach Rick Payne recognized her commitment. Since then, her school years and summers have revolved around swimming with two long-yardage workouts almost every day.
"He saw that I was a hard
worker and was serious about what I was doing, which was rare for a 13-year-old." Herrold said. "He told my parents that I had talent and should stay in the program."
Colorado.
Herrold, a distance swimmer, said she thrived on the hard workouts because she thought they would help her achieve her goals. But her parents thought differently about her summer training in
"They came to visit me during the hard part of the season that first year I was there." Herrio said. "I was skinny and tired and my mom thought, 'This can't be good for her.'"
Herrold's parents wanted her to stay in Columbus the next summer but she said she rebelled so much that they decided to let her stay
ness to sacrifice was the most important part of commitment.
Jacobs said an athlete's willing-
"Of the 20 different sports that I have worked with, swimming has to be the hardest," Jacobs said. "Swimmers have to have strong minds because of the amount of time that their bodies are in motion."
The following summer, Herrold
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Kansas rallies to beat Washburn in 10 innings
Staff writer
B DAVID BOYCE
Throughout this season, the Kansas baseball team has taken many leads into the last inning, only to lose. Yesterday against the Washburn lcbabeds in Topeka, the Jayhawks were batting in the top of the ninth, training 12-8, with loss number 34 staring in their face.
But this time the Jayhawks scored four runs, with the help of a Rocky Helm double, and sent the game into extra innings.
Baseball
The Ichabbs scored six runs in the first, and it looked like the Jayhawks were about to suffer their 13th loss in the last 14 games.
groundout and scored when Wash burn's pitcher bobbled a ball hit by Helm.
The victory raised Kansas' record to 13-33-1 overall and 1-15 in the Big Eight Conference.
Craig Stoppel started for Kansas and lasted two innings before being removed.
Kansas, however, committed five errors in the game to Washburn's one.
second baseman David Smith said. "But they were getting dinky hits and the field was very small.
The Ichabods' lead increased to 11-0 after five innings. Washburn scored one in the second and four in the fifth.
With one out in the 10th, first baseman John Byrn singled to right field. Byrn moved to second on a
"We did play some good defense despite playing on a field with holes in it."
"Stoppel was getting hit a little,"
After Washburn pulled its starting pitcher, Kansas began its comeback with five runs in the sixth and three in the eighth, which made the score
We did play some good defense despite playing on a field with holes in it.'
- David Smith
KU second baseman
11-8. Washburn scored its final run in the eighth.
Helm went 2-for-6 with four RBI, and Tom Bilyeu went 3-for-5 with three RBI including a triple.
Kansas will begin a four-game weekend series at noon tomorrow against the Oklahoma Sooners, who are third in the Big Eight with a 9-3 record.
Helm's second double in the ninth keyed the Jayhawks' comeback.
KANSAS 13. WASHBURN 12
Kansas    000 005 034 1=13 14 5
Washburn   601 040 010 1=13 14 5
Stopple, Andress (3) Hinkle (7) Murine (8)
& Boesenem, Menddorf, Malm (6)
Joesemt (7) Osterhouse (9) Jessep (10)
Murine (2-5) L-Jessep. J28b-Washburn, Gregor;
Kansas, Renko, Helm 2 3Bs-Kansas, Bilyeu
HR-Swashburn, Wright.
Gooden returns from rehab
The Associated Press
NEW VORK — Dwight Gooden, warned by Commissioner Peter Ueberroth that he faces at least a one-year suspension if he goes back to drugs, admitted yesterday that he made a mistake by using cocaine and said he hoped he could put his problem behind him.
Gooden, who rejoined his New York Mets teammates 24 hours after ending a 28-day stay at a drug treatment center, will face frequent drug testing.
"I know I made a mistake and I regret it, but I must turn the page once again because life goes on and I want to put all this behind me," Gooden said, reading from a prepared statement. "I want to get back to doing the things that I like, and that's playing baseball and having fun again."
Earlier, the 22-year-old pitcher was presented with his 1986 World Series ring and then spent a short time throwing from the mound and running in the outfield. He did not get any exercise other than climbing steps during his stay at the Smithers Alcoholism and Drug Treatment Center.
About the time Gooden arrived at the stadium, Ueberroth's office released a statement that said, "Any return to drug use will result in his suspension from baseball for a minimum period of one year."
The statement also said that Gooden would not be subject to disciplinary action if he continued to use the program, which includes druid testing.
The Mets hope that Gooden can resume pitching in the major leagues by the first week of June, but General Manager Frank Cashen emphasized that the team would not hurry him.
Cashen said that Greg Pavlick, the Mets' traveling minor pitching coach, would accompany Gooden on the road once he comes back. But Cashen admitted it would be impossible to monitor the right-hander's off-field activities.
"We wish Dwight Gooden well in his ongoing rehabilitation. We will continue to consult regularly with his doctors and the Mets regarding his progress," the commissioner's statement said.
"I think he can be on his own," he said.
Alan Lans, a doctor and associate director of the Smithers Center, declined to discuss the specifics of Gooden's case and said the pitcher's recovery depends on his after-care program.
"Of people who do follow the program, we can look for success in 75 countries."
Mets Manager Davey Johnson said Gooden would begin 15 minutes of light throwing today and would soon start throwing 10 minutes from the mound every other day. In about three weeks, the Mets hope Gooden can pitch three innings in a minor league game.
The Mets, who have tried to shield Gooden from the media since his arrival in the majors in 1984 at age plan to be especially protective now.
After the briefing, the team's club house was closed to the media until the conclusion of last night's game against Montreal. Cashen said no one-on-one interviews with Gooden would be allowed in the near future.
Cashen speculated that Gooden could possibly make his 1987 major league debut after the Mets conclude a West Coast trip.
Gooden's lawyer, Charles Ehrlich, said it had been determined by the center that Gooden was an occasional user of cocaine.
Jackson's home runs for A's beats Brewers
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Reggie Jackson had a two-run home run, and Dave Stewart and Jav Howell
combined on a three-hitter as the Oakland Athletics beat Milwaukee 4-1 yesterday, handing the Brewers just the third loss of their awesome April.
American League
month record was the second best in major league history behind the 18-2 start by the 1984 Detroit Tigers. Milwaukee started the season with 13 consecutive victories.
The Brewers' 18-3 opening
Stewart, 3-2, walked three and struck out eight, leaving the game with one out in the eighth inning after walking Robin Yount and Juan Castillo. Howell retired all five men he faced for his third save.
Bill Wegman, 2-1, took the loss.
Rookie leads Cardinals to win over Padres
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Rod Booker has waited a long time to play in the major leagues. Yesterday, he made the wait pay off, and the St. Louis Cardinals were the beneficiaries.
"I feel like I'm still on a cloud. I spent seven years in the minor leagues," the 28-year-old Booker said after his two hits and two RBI helped the Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres 5-4.
National League
"I've always wondered what it would be like to be here, and now I know." he said.
Booker, who was called up on Monday from Louisville of the American Association, walked with
Giants 5. Cubs 4.
the bases full, capping a two-run third that put the Cardinals on top. He also singled in a run in the fifth and singled in the eighth.
Chris Speier doubled with one out, went to third on a wild pitch by loser Lee Smith, 0-2, and scored on Spillman's single to center.
CHICAGO — Pinch-hitter Harry Spilman singled home the tie-breaking run in the ninth inning yesterday, giving the San Francisco Giants a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
NEW YORK — Rick Aguilera did not allow a hit in the final eight innings last night, and Keith Hernandez, Kevin McReynolds, Howard Johnson and Dave Magadan homered as the New York Mets defeated the Montreal Expos 11-3.
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh
the scoring and winning runs
Mets 11, Expos 3
Aguilera, 2-1, fell behind 3-0 in the first inning on Tim Wallach's RBI single and John Stefero's two-run homer. He allowed only two men on base in the final eight innings, both on walks.
Pirates 5. Dodgers 4
Reds 9, Braves 8
last night when Los Angeles failed to turn inning-ending double plays, and R.J. Reynolds hit a two-run double as the Pirates edged the Dodgers 5-4.
CINCINNATI — Buddy Bell scored from second yesterday on Rafael Ramirez' throwing error in the 11th inning as the Cincinnati Reds came back from a six-run deficit and beat the Atlanta Braves 9-8.
The Braves appeared headed for a sweep of the three-game series after pitcher David Palmer's three-run homer capped a five-run fourth, and Ozzie Virgil added a solo homer in the sixth to give Atlanta an 8-2 lead.