University Daily Kansan / Thursday. April 23, 1987
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Sports
Athletes talk to kids about drug abuse
Bv LAURA BOSTROM
Staff writer
One seventh-grade girl asked the three KU athletes speaking to her class how she could help a friend who was addicted to drugs.
Manning told the girl that he had been in a similar position with one of his friends.
Danny Manning, KU forward; Tracy Jordan, KU tight end; and Brad Hinkle, KU free safety, spoke Tuesday to 22 West Junior High School seventh-grade students about the "sports" of drugs and possible solutions.
"It took awhile for me to realize
me friend had a problem." Manning
laughed.
The athletes gave presentations as part of Drug Use and Drug Prevention, a health, physical education and recreation class at KU, taught by Raymond Tricker, assistant professor of HPER. All class members made presentations this week to area schools about drug use.
The class examines drug use, reasons why it occurs and how to help those addicted. Tricker said. It also helps class members clarify some of their own feelings about the issue, he said.
Athletes have special needs, Tricker said.
"We need to understand their pressures as students, and as highly pressured athletes," he said.
Although the class is open to any one most of the 35 students are KU athletics.
Athletes need to be more aware of their potential to be positive role models, he said.
Manning said that he idolized college athletes when he was young, and the revelations about the drug use of McClain and McClaim as a basketball player from
Villanova who told his story of cocaine addiction in a recent Sports Illustrated magazine article, really hurt him.
McClain's story also was discussed at one of today's programs at West. Mia Elizabeth, 14, said she had liked her classes and felt well prepared. She had watched many of his games.
When the story of his drug use came out, she was disappointed.
"I couldn't believe it," she said.
Drugs are not worth the costs, Manning said.
"They hurt your family, your friends," he said.
The continual stories of drug use have hurt all those involved in athletics.
"It sheds a bad light on all of us," Manning said.
The athletes told the students reasons not to try drugs.
"At first you may like them," Jordan said. "But in the long run, they will hurt you, either physically or mentally."
The three athletes said they never had tried drugs, but they all knew it.
"People look for drugs as a way to ease the pain." Hinkle said. "Once you come down you still feel the pain."
The athletes asked the students about drug use at West, and the students spoke of rumored users, alcohol and cigarette smokers.
manning said the students needed to be ready with an answer if some-
"You have to be your own self. Do what's best for you," he said.
Manning said he found someone that he could talk to about his friend's problem.
"He's not back straight yet, but
he's turned his life around," he said.
KC suffers 4th shutout in 5 games
BOSTON — Bob Stanley finally got some cheers. Kansas City Manager Billy Gardner is still waiting for some runs.
Astros skunk Braves 6-0; still undefeated at home
In only his fourth start this season after six years as a reliever, Stanley pitched a four-hitter last night in the Boston Red Sox' 1-0 victory over the Royals, who were shut out for the fourth time in their last five games.
Stanley, 2-2, retired the truce to Kansas City batters and picked up the seventh shutout and 18th complete game of his 11-year career. His last shutout and complete game was June 19, 1980, against Seattle.
"I had everything working tonight," Stanley said. "The sinker was good, and the forkball was outstanding. I threw every pitch where I wanted to throw it."
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"Getting the standing ovation in the ninth inning was nice. I liked that," said Stanley a frequent target
of boys from Boston fans. "It's nice to be wanted."
prised to see him go so long with so much control."
Stanley threw only 102 pitches, 70 of them strikes.
But Gardner is tired of seeing his Royals go so long with so few runs.
"I've seen him pitch well in relief before," Gardner said. "I'm sur-
The Associated Press
"What did Custer say? Where did those Indians come from?" Giurgeo
Dwight Evans drove in the only run for Boston, which had seven hits.
The Royals had gone hitless for the first six innings against Boston's Roger Clemens Tuesday night when they finished with three hits in an 8-0 loss. On Sunday, they were shut out twice by the New York Yankees.
Jim Rice led off with a walk and took third on a single by Don Baylor, who was caught in a rundown between first and second and tagged out. Evans, who drove in four runs Tuesday night, then singled Rice home.
off Danny Jackson. 0-3.
Stanley struck out four and walked no. BeJackson, who came into the game with 10 strikeouts in his previow. He pitched out twice in three at bats last night.
Boston, which has won four of its five games, scored in the fourth
Jackson got the Royals' first hit, a fifth-inning double, but the next two batters grounded out and ended the
ST. LOUIS — Andre Dawson, hitting only .157, connected for his third career grand slam and capped a five-run seventh inning last night and powered the Chicago Cubs to a 5-4 triumph over the ST. Louis Cardinals.
The Cards, with Jack Clark hitting a triple, came home cups built a 3-10 lead after four minutes.
But in the Cubs' seventh, Leon Durham and Gary Matthews, pinch hitting for winner Rick Sutcliffe, 3-1, both singled. Dawley, 0-2, relieved St. Louis starter Connyro
defeated the Atlanta Braves 6-0 to remain undefeated at home this season.
Bv ROB KNAPP
Cubs 5. Cardinals 4
Atlanta's David Palmer, 0-3, went five 1-3 innings and took the loss.
KU tennis team looks for 2nd-place finish
Deshies, 1-0. walked two in his first start of the season. Larry Anderson and Dave Smith finished up.
Staff writer
The Associated Press
HOUUSTON — Left-hander Jim Deshaines gave up four hits and struck out a career-high 11 in seven innings last night as the Houston Astros
The Kansas women's tennis team begins play at the Big Eight Conference Tennis Championships today with hopes of locking down second place.
Defending champion Oklahoma State heads into the tournament with a sizable lead. But Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas are within all a few points of one another.
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Kansas enters the championships with two defending Big Eight champions, junior Tracy Treps at No. 1 singles, and sophomore Jeanette Jonsson at No. 2 singles. Defending champions face a special test, Perelman said.
Houston took a 1-0 lead in the first when Bill Doran led off with an
The new doubles teams have not played enough matches to be seeded, though, and will have to face seeded competition in the first round.
"We're 20 points out of first." Kansas women's tennis coach Scott Perelman said. "We lost to Kentucky, but didn't show up. There are three
"Any time you are defending a title, you become a big win or an important match for your conference opponents," he said. "I't pro
match since.
But for Treps, the season has been much more difficult. She lost two of her first three conference matches.
teams fighting for second, and that's what we're focusing on now."
Perealm said the team's new doubles lineup must do well for Kansas to finish high in the tournament. Perealm changed the doubles pairs after the dual match with Colorado on April 10, and the Jayhawks have not lost a doubles
Play begins today at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center with first and second round singles and first round doubles. The championships conclude tomorrow with the singles finals and the final two rounds of doubles.
Jonson has met that challenge,
going undefeated in Big Eight
play. She enters the tournament as
the top seed at No. 2 singles.
vides one with a new set of challenges."
The turnaround for Treps came in the Colorado match.
"Before I went out against Colorado," Treps said, "I said to myself, What do I have to lose?"
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Treps is one of three No. 1 singles players with two losses.
Christine Kim, Overland Park junior, makes a return during a match today at the Big Eight Conference Tennis Championships in Oklahoma against Oklahoma. The women's team is beginning competition City.
Jayhawks' errors result in late Shocker rally; KU loses 10-6
Staff writer
By DAVID BOYCE
in the bottom of the eighth.
A change of seenery did not help the struggling KU baseball team yesterday at Wichita.
The Jayhawks entered the bottom of the eighth inning leading 6-5 against Wichita State and let the victory ship away.
With one out, Kansas' first baseman John Byrn committed the first of three Jayhawk errors, which led to five unearned runs for the Shockers
The final score, Wichita State, 10 and Kansas, 6.
The game in many ways mirrored the two teams' previous confrontation on April 2 at Quigley Field.
In that game, Kansas held an 8-5 lead before the Shockers scored eight runs in their final at-bat. This game, the Shockers won five times during its final at-bat.
Kansas has now lost six in a row.
Its record is 11-28-1 overall and 1-15 in
the Big Eight Conference.
The Jayhawks' leading hitter, Hugh Stanfield, also had his 13-game hitting streak snapped.
But the ending of Stanford's hitting streak does not compare with the bad luck starting pitcher Mike McLeod has suffered in his last three starts.
Once again McLeod fell victim to his team's defense.
In his loss to Kansas State two weeks ago, an error late in the game cost him a victory.
"I did okay." McLoead said. "I felt good all the way through."
He said the team was still finding ways to lose games.
"We have a chance to win every game we play, but we just have not been able to get the breaks," he said.
The Shockers took the lead in the bottom of the first by scoring the first goal.
Last night, McLeod gave up five earned runs but suffered his fifth defeat against two victories.
Kansas tied the game in its next at-bat. Wichita State, though, scored three in the bottom of the third.
Both teams scored a run in the fourth making the score 5-2 Wichita State.
Kansas then scored four runs in the top of the fifth and held a 6-5 lead until the disastrous eighth.
In the eighth, two runs scored on consecutive throwing errors by catcher Joe Prister and third baseman Tom Bilveu.
Shocker catcher Eric Wedge scored the final run of the game on the throwing error by Pfister.
The Jayhawks will play the Shockers again tomorrow at 5 p.m. Wichita.
WICHITA 10. KANSAS 6
Kansas 01 140 100-6 6-4
Wichita 103 100 05-10 14-14
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