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Friday, April 24, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
KU crew goes to championships
By DIANE FILIPOWSKI
Staff writer
The Kansas Crew program is only nine years old, yet it has managed to become one of the top rowing teams in the Midwest.
The Jayhawks will compete today and tomorrow in the Midwest Rowing Championships in Madison, Wis., which Coach Cliff Elliott said was a stepping stone to compete on the national level.
Kansas will compete in a 32-team field which will include last year's national champion, Wisconsin, and nationally ranked Purdue. Elliott said that Kansas finished a solid third to these teams last year.
"We have only been around for such a short time," Elliott said, "but we have still managed to be competitive."
Elliott said that Wisconsin's crew program was almost 100 years old. The crew had been in the park since 1934.
The regatta includes six women's and 10 men's events. Last year, Kansas' novice men's and women's eight-man boats finished third, the novice lightweight men's eight-man 'A' and 'B' boats finished first and second, the varsity eight-man boat finished second, and the varsity women's four-man boat finished fourth.
"We have become successful because the students on the team take special pride in what they are doing," Elliott said. "I don't think we would have that special feeling if we were a part of the athletic department and took what we had for granted."
progress without a weight program, video equipment or indoor rowing tanks. He said that teams such as Wisconsin and Purdue, which were a part of their school's athletic departments, had access to such equipment.
Elliott said that Kansas had made
Kansas Crew, which has about 120
members, still has managed to grow
"Having more members each year has helped us improve," Elliott said. "I have more people to select from because of our population, and other boats to practice against."
Elliott said that more boats from Kansas were competing in Madison than ever before. In 1984, the team only had two boats that placed and went on to the Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia.
Elliott said that the Dad Vail Regatta, which will be May 1 and 2, was the national regatta for crew teams without the prestige of teams from Eastern schools such as Harvard and Yale.
"The Midwestern Rowing Championships is used for qualifying in our minds for national meets," Elliott said. "Crews that do well here can compete on the national level."
Elliott said that he thought the men's novice and lightweight eight-man boats, the women's varsity four-man boat and the women's lightweight eight-man boats were capable of competing on the national level.
"We have had some success on the national level and that has helped the team move ahead," Elliott said.
Elliott said that members of the Kansas crew team had tried out for national teams and had competed on sports festival teams.
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Near miss
Bill Bruning, Overland Park junior, squeezes past the catcher of the Oliver Hall second-floor softball team and scores a run. Brunning's Oliver sixth-floor team played the Oliver 2nd floor team yesterday evening on the diamonds south of Watkins Hospital.
Yankees,13-3,win 10 in a row New York off to fastest start since 1949
The Associated Press
This season, the New York Yankees lost three of their first six games but have since won 10 straight.
A year ago, the New York Mets lost three of their first five games before reeling off 11 straight victories.
NEW YORK — Baseball fans might be excused for thinking if it's not one New York team, it's the other.
Col. Jacob Ruppert, who owned the Yankees when they began a dynasty that produced 33 pennants in 61 years, used to say his idea of a perfect afternoon was "watching the Yankees score 10 runs in the first inning and gradually pull away."
The 1987 Yankees may not be quite that hot, although they did score 12 runs in the seventinning against Kansas City on April 11. But their 13-3 record, including a 5-4 victory last night over Cleveland, is their best start since the 1949 squad won 12 straight.
Before anyone gets too excited, however, it should be pointed out that the rapid getaway is only one game better than the 11-4 mark of a year ago, when the Yankees led the American League East by $2^{1/2}$ games and eventually wound up second. $5^{1/2}$ games behind Boston.
Wednesday night's 4-1 victory over Detroit completed a 9-0 homestand —
the best Yankee Stadium start since the 1951 club won its first 10 home games — but still left them $ _{1} $ games behind the record-setting Milwaukee Brewers.
'We're playing good right now, you can't deny us that. And we're a good road team. We've got a lot of fans on the road.'
road."
Bob Shirley Yankee pitcher
Now, the Yankees do not return home until May 8, playing 22 of 29 games on the road. Last night was the start of a 12-game swing through Cleveland, Texas, Minnesota and Chicago. "It's an important road trip for us," Manager Lou Piniella said.
"We're playing good right now, you can't deny us that," pitcher Bob Shirley said after closing the homestand with his first victory since Sept. 6, 1985. "And we're a good road team. We've got a lot of fans on the
Although home runs have been the Yankees' trademark through the years, they generally won with pitching and defense, which often were overlooked as Babe Ruth, Lou Gheir, Joe DiMaggio, Yoji Berger, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris gave it their best home run trots.
The current Yankees, to almost universal surprise, are doing it with pitching and defense. They have gotten virtually no offense from Mike Pagliarulo (.196), Dan Pasquo (.161) and Joel Skinner (.108). Even Don Mattingly, the $1.975 million first baseman, is struggling at .242 despite 15 RBI.
But the Yankees have committed only six errors and Wayne Tolleson, whose previous claim to fame was leading the National Collegiate Athletic Association in pass receptions for Western Carolina University in 1977, seems to have solved the shortstop problem.
Rickey Henderson . (422), Dave Winfield . (385), Gary Ward . (351), Tolleson . (340), Willie Randolph . (309) and Ron Kittle . (304) also have delivered offensive consistency.
The pitching staff, after a shaky season-opening road trip, has apparently settled down. And it has done it without Ron Gudry, who is expected to re-sign May 1, and Detroit ace Jack Morris.
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Tom Browning, 2-2, allowed severer hits in 75% innings, beating the Padres for the second time this season. He struck out three and walked none
MONTEREAL — Vance Law hit his third homer of the season, and Reid Nichols had three hits as the Montreal Expos beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5 yesterday.
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Montreal trailed 5-4 entering the seventh inning, but took the lead when Dave Engle lined a single to center with men on second and third. The second run scored when Phillies center fielder Milt Thompson mishandled the ball.
Reds 3. Padres 2
SAN DIEGO — Dave Parker, who had struck out in his previous three at-bats, hit a solo homer in the eighth inning yesterday, breaking a 2-2 tie
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2 victory over the San Diego Padres.
Astros 5, Braves 3
HOUSTON — Kevin Bass had three hits and drove in three runs last night as the Houston Astros won their ninth straight home game, beating the Atlanta Braves 5-3 and sweeping a three-game series.
Rookie Dave Meads, 1-0, got the victory in relief, striking out the only batter he faced. Dave Smith recorded his fifth save, pitching 1½ innings of scoreless relief. Rick Mahler, 2-1, was the loser, going 6½ innings and giving up four runs on eight hits.
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