University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 22, 1987
Sports
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Clemens in old form as Boston shuts out Royals
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Roger Clemens says he isn't all the way back yet. After all, his no-hitter lasted only six innings last night.
"When it's meant to be, it'll happen," he said after allowing three hits and five base runners as the Kansas City Royals trounced the Kansas City Royals 8-0.
Clemens, who lost his first two decisions after missing all of spring training in a contract dispute, picked up his first victory of the season. He won his first 14 decisions last year and finished 24-4.
"This is like my third time out in spring training," said Clemens, last year's American League Most Valuable player and Cy Young Award winner. 'I'm getting there, I don't
Hearn put on disabled list
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo  - Catcher Ed Ehnear, acquired in a spring trade with the New York Mets, was placed on the 15-day disabled list yesterday by the Kansas City Royals.
Hearn, who was batting .308 in five games, irritated a bursitis condition in his right shoulder and was placed on the disabled list
retroactive to Sunday.
The Royals recalled third baseman Bill Pecota, who was batting 231 with one home run and one RBI for the Royals' minor league club at Ormaa. Pecota may get some playing time at third base because regular third baseman George Brett also was placed on the 15-day disabled list Monday with torn cartilage in his right rib cage.
know when I'm going to be there."
"If he had been at spring training
he'd probably be 3-0 right now." said Royals manager Billy Gardner.
A sub-par Clemens, who had three two-hitters last season, was more than the Royals could handle as the fastball pitcher threw more off-speed pitches than he usually does.
"You don't expect him to throw the curveball and change-ups," Kansas City's Willie Wilson said. "What irritated everybody was they had an 8-0 lead, and he still threw curveballs."
It was the third time in four games the Royals had been shut out, losing a doubleheader Sunday in New York, 5-0 and 1-0.
Clemens, who struck out six and walked one, said that "from the sixth
This is like my third time out in spring training.I'm getting there.I don't know when I'm going to be there.'
Roger Clemens Boston pitcher
inning, I wanted to make good pitches, see how long I could string it out, but I was tiring quick."
He retired 16 consecutive batters before Frank White got the Royals' first hit, a clean single to short center leading off the seventh inning, on a forkball. Danny Tartabull followed with a single to left on another forkball, but Clemens retired the next three batters.
Bill Buckner, with a pair of two-run singles, and Dwight Evans, who homered and drove in four runs, provided the offense for Clemens, 1-2. Clemens struck out six and walked one.
KU Rugby Club to play in Dallas
By DAVID BOYCE
Rick Anderson, 0-1, took the loss.
Staff writer
The KU rugby team practiced from 6 p.m. until dark yesterday as a cool wind blew across Shenk Complex in about 60-degree weather.
The team went through its final practice at Shenk, 23rd and Iowa streets, before it leaves for Dallas tomorrow to compete in the Western National Championship during the weekend.
Twenty-five players from KU's club and varsity teams will send one squad to the eight team, single-elimination championship.
"Primarily, we were fine tuning and working with our 25-man roster." said Kansas coach Bill Mills.
The rugby team qualified for the championship by beating the Kansas City Blues 16-3 earlier this month and winning its division of the Heart of America Union with a 5-0 record. Saturday, the club team beat the Omaha Goat at Nebraska 12-3.
Kansas, which did not qualify for the championship last year, is seeded third in this year's tournament behind Dallas and Denver.
"It will take a terrific effort from everyone to get to the finals," Mills said.
The team will play Los Alamos from San Antonio, Texas, Friday in the first round. To finish in the final four, Kansas also must get by the Denver Barbarians and the Dallas Harleuins.
The National Championship will be held May 10 at Boulder, Colo.
The team has been to the conference championship several times but has qualified for the championship game only once. Mills said he hoped to make a return trip to the finals this weekend.
After 10 minutes of calisthenics, which started about 6 p.m., the team started running drills. It then divided to work on specific skills.
The team worked out at three stations: kicking, offense-defense
drills and the scrum down.
Scrum down is when three players go against another three players with two players behind the three and one behind the two.
Once the two teams lock in this position, the ball is thrown in the middle, and the front three players try to kick the ball backward to their teammates.
The scrum down players were practicing on a football-type training sled. Three players push the sled while another throws the ball in the middle.
At the second station, players worked on offensive and defensive moves.
"This drill works on strength and controlling the ball," said Scott Stites, a front-line player.
And at the third, the team's lone kickers practiced conversion kicks.
Paul King, who kicks most of the conversions, said a good kicker was a valuable asset to the team.
"I am pleased with my performance, and I am hitting about 70 percent," he said.
Unlike football, where conversions are almost automatic. King said many conversions after tries were not.
Tries are scored when a player reaches the end zone and places the ball on the end zone line.
King said the goal was to score in the middle of the field because that makes for an easier conversion kick.
When the try is scored in the corner of the end zone, the kicker must then kick from that corner angle sometimes forty feet out.
No tees are used. The kicker digs a small hole in the ground and kicks the misshapen football over a field goal.
After a try, the team that scores receives the ball again.
Danny Ray/KANSAN
Matt O'Donnell, Leawood junior, practices penalty kicks with the KU Rugby Club. The team practiced yesterday at Schenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets, in preparation for a tournament this weekend in Dallas.
Late homer lifts Cubs, halts Cardinals win streak
The Associated Press
Davis' homer was his third of the year.
ST. LOUIS — Jody Davis homered in the ninth inning and gave the Chicago Cubs a 5-4 rain-interrupted triumph last night over St. Louis, snapping the Cardinals' three-game winning streak.
Lee Smith pitched the bottom of the ninth for the Cubs and gained his second save.
Vince Coleman, who had been in a 1-for-13 slump, singled home Steve Lake and Jose Oquendo in the tenth and pulled St. Louis into a 4-7 tie.
National League
The blow to left-center off Bill Dawley, 0-1, handed the victory to Chicago reliever Dickie Noles, 1-1.
Cubs starter Steve Trout through the first six innings.
The Cards were held to five hits by
Mets 9. Pirates 6
PITTSBURGH — Rafael Santana's three-run homer powered a six-run New York fourth inning, and the New York team defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-6.
Bob Ojeda, 2-2, improved his career record against Pittsburgh to 6-0, retiring 13 consecutive batters at one point before being lifted during
the pirates' four-run eighth inning. The win ended the Mets' four-game losing streak.
Astros 7, Braves 6
HOUSTON — Denny Walling's bases-loaded single drove in the winning run and capped a four-run ninth-inning rally as the Houston Astros defeated the Atlanta Braves 7-6 last night.
cut Houston's deficit to 6-4. After a pair of strikeouts, Bill Doran walked, bringing on Gene Garber in relief of Paul Assmacher.
Padres 3. Reds 2
Alan Ashby led the ninth for Houston with a solo home run, which
SAN DIEGO — Garry Templeton's two-out single drive home Steve Garvey with the winning run in the eighth inning as the San Diego Padres defeated the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 last night.
The Associated Press
Streak ends for Brewers
CHICAGO — The Milwaukee Brewers' record-tying 13-game winning streak from the start of the season ended last night when they lost to the Chicago White Sox 7-1.
Starter Joel Davis, with relief help from Jim Winn, thwarted Milwaukee's bid for a major-league record 14-0 start. Donnie Hill and Greg Walker honored for Chicago.
American League
The Brewers set the American League record for the best start when they won No. 12 Sunday with a five-run rally in the ninth inning for a 6-4 victory over Texas. They matched the major-league record of 13 straight set by Atlanta in 1982 by rallying Monday night to beat Chicago 5-4. In all, the Brewers won eight of the 13 games by coming from behind.
But it was not another come-from-behind night for Milwaukee, which trailed 5-0 after three innings.
The White Sox jumped on rookie Mark Ciarki, 1-1, for five runs in the first three innings and Davis, 1-1, for nine. The Brewers hit before departing in the sixth
The Brewers hit into three double plays and did not threaten until the eighth, when Jim Gantner doubled and scored on Paul Molitor's single.
Yankees 3. Tigers 1
NEW YORK — Joe Niekro won the 214th game of his career, allowing only two singles before he was knocked out of the game by a line drive off his left wrist in the seventh inning, and Dan Pasqua hit his first home run of the season as the New York Yankees won their eighth straight game last night, defeating the Detroit Tigers 3-1.
Niekro, 1-1, a 42-year-old knuckleballer, walked four and struck out two in only his second appearance of the season. But he left, flexing his wrist, after Johnny Grubb's smash went for an infiltrate to start the seventh. The injury was not thought to be serious.
Indians 5. Blue Jays 0
CLEVELAND — Core Snyder and Pat Tabler hit two-run homers and Tom Candiotti, the American League leader in competitions a year ago, pitched a six-hitter for his first complete game of 1987 yesterday as the Cleveland Indians beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0.
The victory was the Indians' third in the last four games, after an eight-game losing streak.
See AMERICAN, p. 12, col. 1
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