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Tuesday, April 28, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Rugby team takes 3rd in championship
By DAVID BOYCE Staff writer
The KU rugby team did not win the Western Union Rugby Championship in Dallas, but Coach Bill Mills said finishing third was a big accomplishment.
DALLAS — Paul King, St Louis senior fullback, tries to evade a defender during the Western Rugby Championships. The KU rugby team finished third out of the eight teams in the tournament this week.
Scott Stites/Special to the KANSAN
More than 250 rugby teams, including Kansas, participate in the Western Rugby Union. Eight teams from division competition over the weekend will play as the Western Rugby Union representative in the rugby final four.
"We were able to do well because we kept constant pressure against everybody," Mills said.
"We did very well," Mills said.
"This is the best we've done in six years, and our third place finish puts us in the top 12 in the nation.
Kansas won its first game 28-7 against San Antonio, Texas on Friday.
"We beat the first team pretty convincingly and was able to use some people who usually don't start," "kicker and forward Paul King said.
He said resting some of the starters on Friday helped the team for the Saturday and Sunday games.
The Jayhawks, though, lost their second game against the eventual Western Union Champion, Dallas Harlequins, 22-10 on Saturday, then rebounded and won the consolation game against Albequerque 15-14 on Sunday.
"Dallas pretty much outsized us and wore us down," King said. "Some of our players were disappointed, but we came in seeded third and finished third.
"Dallas is one of the best teams in
the nation "
Before Kansas left for Dallas on Thursday, the team's last practice was in 60-degree weather. Kansas and its first game in 90-degree heat.
"It was very hot and very intense."
Mills said. "We had to use everyone
because of the heat."
Mills said that he had planned to use all 25 players that went to Dallas regardless of the weather.
"I had confidence in every player that went to Dallas," he said.
team
"The heat just took it out of us," he said.
Even though he used all the play
ers, he said the heat affected the
The Kansas rugby team will be going to the Boulder Area Rugby Festival on May 16. Kansas is the winning champion at the tournament.
Dreiling said he was sitting in the Pacers' locker room when he saw Tisdale for the first time since their Big Eight days. Tisdale and his team exchanged sten tenses for a second. Then they started laughing.
"He has the ability to play," Manning said. "He's just got to wait his turn." And Dreiling's
"It's such a highly emotional game." Dreiling said, "You can't hold a grudge or a feeling of ill-will."
Dreiling has been keeping up with the Jayhawks as much as possible this season, although it's difficult when he's far from the madding crowds of Allen Field House.
"I was with them all the way," he said. "I was really proud of the job they did, considering the young people they had."
Kansas men's assistant coach Ed Manning said the four new teams entering the NBA will open up the league for players such as Dreling. The NBA Board of Governors last week accepted Charlotte, N.C. Minneapolis, Miami, and Orlando, Fla., into the league. The teams will be added between 1988 and 1990.
attitude will help him play when his time comes.
ion Sooners in 1984 and 1985
"He's been able to keep himself motivated and keep his head up," Manning said.
Dreiling
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"I'ts so hard for a big guy," he said. "It takes longer to keep in shape than it would a little guy."
"Within the next year or two," he said, "Greg will be able to play no matter he's at."
Dreiling is a bright guy who has a lot going for him. Manning said
Dreiling isn't sure whether he'll be staying in Indiana over the summer. It depends on what the coaches have in mind for him, he said. But he'll at least come back home to visit.
Dreiling wants to take a few classes. He wants to see his family. And he wants to play ball with the guys.
"At first, we were a little homeschick and we still are," he said. "We're really looking forward to coming back in the off-season."
Dreiling said that he, his wife, Kelly, and 4-year-old daughter, Jill, are settling into Indianapolis. Staying in the Midwest made the transition easier.
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He started his charge with three birdies in the first four backside holes.
After his long-range birdie on 18, Gardner had to two-putt from 100 feet just to force the playoff.
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Haas was happy for himself, but sympathetic toward Gardner, who still must wear the "hard-juck" tag after 10 winless years on the tour.
"It's not like a death," he joked.
"It's not the end of the world."
Haas was three shots off the pace set by Gardner and Dan Forsman, who were tied for the lead at 10 under-par into the final round.
Gardner said the loss was hard to take but he anticipated a quick recovery.
Rovelto said the group of seniors also excelled in the classroom, which he said also attracted high quality athletes and made the program stonger.
It was Gardner's second runner-up finish in the Houston open in four years.
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — 3y Haas broke a two-year-old promis to himself last week, and yesterday e had the Houston Open title and $108,000 to show for it.
"I remember saying to myself I don't need this." Haas said of his 1985 withdrawal from the Houston Open after 28 holes. "I didn't even say anything to my caddy. I just started walking back to the clubhouse and left him standing there."
Haas walked off the Tournament Players Course at The Woodlands two years ago in disgust with his game and vowed never to return.
"It has kept me here." Roveto said "If there were not those kind of people here. I would not be here."
Jaci Metzger, who will leave with the third longest long jump in KU history, said the team would not suffer next year.
Rovello told the seniors had also been helpful in recruiting. He said many of the team's freshmen said they were from Kansas because they adored the players.
said she would miss the group that she thought provided leadership for the whole team.
"It was nice to have someone there telling you not to worry about how you were competing." O'Connor said, "because they had been through the same thing before."
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"I had goose bumps on my face when it went in." Haas said
All six seniors will graduate in May, and Buchanan and Wadman were named to last semester's all-academic Big Eight Conference track team. Metzger was named to the honorable mention list.
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"I'm sorry," Haas said, consoling Gardner after the excitement had died down Sunday. "You played a great tournament."
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"While I have been here, the freshman that come in are better and
But Haas came back and Sunday he sank a two-foot putt on the first hole of a sudden-dead playoff to beat Buddy Gardner after the two had tied in regulation play with 12-under-par 276 totals.
better each year," Metzger said."
But more than anything else, Buchanan said she would miss the friendships she had made during her four years on the track team.
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Haas' last tour victory was the 1982 Texas Open.
ond-place finishes in his career,
responded "Don't be. I just missed it.
I played the best golf I could play."
All of Haas' bad memories of the course faded when he made a 60-foot birdie putt on the final hole to force a playoff.
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Then, after Gardner missed a 3-foot putt on the playoff hole, Haas sank the winning pput for his first tour victory in five years.
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