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Monday, April 6, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Hagler will set tempo, win Superfight over Leonard in 11th
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Once the last closed circuit TV ticket is sold tonight, Sugar Ray Leonard will be reduced to playing a supporting role to Marvin Hagler.
Leonard brought marquee value to his World Boxing Council middleweight title challenge against Hagler, making it the richest fight in the sport's history.
Leonard is responsible for worldwide interest and record ticket sales, but flagger will take over when the league starts. He will be the winner in the 11th round.
Leonard used to take command inside the ring as well as outside, but that was when he boxed for a living instead of a hobby.
Hagler will set the tempo. He can either charge Leonard like he did against Thomas Hearns in their 1983 fight, or he can open cautiously as he
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normally does. Hagler will probably take the cautious route; there is no sense running into something early in a fight he plans on winning by attrition.
Hagler will do his best to crowd Leonard, forcing the former welterweight and junior middleweight to exchange heavy blows. Leonard is prepared for this, and might do well
When Hagler shrugs off punches that toppled 147- and 154-pounders, Leonard will begin to question the wisdom of his ending a 35-month retirement to fight the middleweight champion.
for a few rounds.
Leonard wants to capitalize on his speed to nail Hagler first, then either grab or slide to the side and spin the champion.
"There's going to be a point in the fight where he says, 'Oh shoot, this isn't what I expected,' " Hagler said.
Hagler will attack Leonard's body early in the 12-round fight, concentrating more on slowing the challenger than scoring points. In the second half, look for Hagler to turn up his
From the ninth round on the fight will look like a middleweight against a welterweight, with Hagler's right jab and left follows backing Leonard to the ropes. Leonard will grow increasingly helpless until referee Richard Steele will be forced to end the fight, probably in the 11th round.
intensity as the pressure of the night begins to affect Leonard.
Leonard should finish on his feet and without feeling embarrassed. He may rock Hagler early and lead the fight in the early rounds. But Hagler, who was uncertain whether he wanted to fight again a year ago, has too much pride and put too much work into his career to let it all slip away.
Hagler will take Leonard's best punches like he did against Hearns, and wait for his opponent to make mistakes. After 35 months outside the ring, Leonard is bound to make his share of errors. He got away with most of them in his 1984 fight against Kevin Howard, although one mistake resulted in him receiving a seat he did not pay for.
Hagler will make Leonard pay for most — if not all — of his laps tonight. While Leonard should be spared a bad physical beating, the ego that brought him back for the challenge will suffer.
especially to the body area that both men have targeted in training - will make the early rounds worthwhile and produce changes that build drama in a fight.
Leonard, 30, can only win if Hagler has lost everything. Leonard does not have the same skills he showed against Wilfred Benitez. Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns. Hagler who turns 33 next month, has also faded but the hate he built for Leonard should stem that decline for one more night.
Both have retained the spirit of a champion, and that should carry the night.
Cards crush Rovals
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Third baseman Terry Pendleton's three-run homer in the eighth stadium helped Kansas City win victory over the Kansas City Royals.
With the Cards trailing 2-1, walks to Vince Coleman and Ozzie Smith opened the way for Pendleton, who got the blow off Dave Gumpert.
Smith, Willie McGee and Jose Oquendo had two hits each for the Cardinals, who had 11 hits, six off Gumpert and five off starter Rick Anderson.
The Cards came back to score four more runs in the ninth.
A homer by Smith in the fourth tied the game at 1-1 after the Royals scored an unearned run in the third. A hit by White homered in the sixth.
This is a fight that cannot live up to the hype, but it will have its moments. Some good exchanges —
Greg Mathews started for St. Louis and allowed three of the Royals four hits over six innings and struck out seven.
Kansas City opens the season today against the Chicago White Sox in Kansas City while St. Louis will play in Louisville today and open their National League season tomorrow in Chicago against the Cubs.
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Rough weekend
Barry Wolff, right, Cleveland, Mo., sophomore, fights for the football with a University of Missouri defender, worn and his teammates on the KU 'C' team to lost Missouri's 'B' team 13-10. See story page 14.
Play ball
Royals open season today against White Sox
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Lefthander Danny Jackson, 11-12 a year ago, is scheduled to pitch for the Royals in the 1:35 p.m. opener. Richard Dotson, 10-17 in 1986, is the scheduled starter for the new-look White Sox, whose many changes include caps that sport a big "C" for the first time since 1950.
KANSAS CITY, o. — Sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s are predicted for today when the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals open the 1987 baseball season at Royals Stadium with high hopes for improvement over 1986.
Both teams head into 1987 with different managers than those they had a year ago. Jim Fregosi, after replacing the fired Tony LaRussa on June 22, watched his White Sox finish 72-90. Mostly punchless except for Harold Baines, the Sox finished last in the American League in run production, hitting, extra-base hits and slugging percentage.
In charge of the Royals is Billy Gardner, who moved up from third base coach for Dick Howser three days into training camp. Howser will be watching from the sidelines. How-
ser, who guided the 1985 Royals to the World Series championship, is batting a malignant brain tumor that was diagnosed during last summer's All-Star break.
Just one year after winning their first World Series championship, the Royals dropped to 76-86. Their major weakness, like the White Sox, was offense. Outfielder Danny Tartabull, obtained in a trade with Seattle, will be asked to help pick up the load.
But in left field for the Royals will be a husky e- football player named Bo Jackson, likely to be this year's most closely watched rookie. The 1985 Heisman Trophy winner, who spurned a guaranteed offer of millions from the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was told on the next-to last day of training camp that he had won a spot on the major league roster.
"After I told him he made it, I told him I feel very good about this and hope his talents and efforts will help us win 110 games this year," said Royals general manager John Schuerholz.
"I guess I was the only one who didn't have any doubts about me," said Jackson, who hit 207 in 25 games with the Royals last September. Prior to signing a contract with the Royals last summer, Jackson's baseball experience had been limited to 89 college games with Auburn University. He butled the Royals this spring by driving in 11 runs.
"In all my years in baseball, this is one of the most remarkable things I've seen," Schuerholz said. "Although Bo's very talented and a gifted athlete, and has amazing physical skills, he has such limited experience in baseball. The progress he has made is the most remarkable I’ve ever seen. He’s shown the ability that he can play at the major league
Jackson's big bat will be needed in the Royals offense, which last year finished next-to-last ahead of only the White Sox.
level."
"People underrate me. Some do not like me." Jackson said. "Some are jealous of me. But it doesn't matter to me, because I'm not trying to impress the media, the fans or anything like that. I just want to live up to my potential."
The White Sox' starting pitching seems solid. But rightfielder Baines may again be asked to carry a big part of the offense. Baines, although hammered by a knee injury, led his team in 11 offensive categories and hit more than 20 home runs for the fifth straight season. Baines' first injury caused him to undergo off-season arthroscopic surgery.
"I never had an injury before, so I have no idea how they re supposed to react," Baines said. "It's frustrating. It's real frustrating."
'Huskers sweep 4; KU woes continue
By DAVID BOYCE
Frustrations continued to mount for the Kansas baseball team this weekend.
The Jayhawks lost four games to Big Eight Conference foe Nebraska over the weekend, and the first game against Nebraska on Saturday was a perfect example of their troubles.
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Kansas entered the ninth inning with a 11-8 lead only to have Nebraska score seven runs that gave the Cornhuskers a 15-11 lead.
The Jayhawks started a rally in the bottom half of the inning, but Scott Seratte was called out at second base by the hidden ball trick. The second baseman faked a throw to the pitcher and hid the ball under his arm, and he tagged Seratte out when he left the base.
Coach Marty Pattin had seen enough and his argument with the umpire after the play got him ejected from the game with two outs remaining.
Pattin, who has not won a contest since he was informed his contract would not be renewed, would not talk with the press after Sunday's loss in the second game.
The only bright spot in the first game was Hugh Stanfield breaking Steve Jelzt' all-time stolen base record, stealing his 66th in the first.
This was the second weekend in a row the Kansas baseball team lost all four games against Big Eight competition.
Last week the Missouri Tigers swept the Jayhawks in Columbia and this week Nebraska took all four games at Quigley Field.
The Jayhawks began Sunday by completing Saturday's second game that was suspended by darkness. Kansas lost that game 7-4.
By losing both games on Sunday, 11-8 and 6-4. Kansas has now gone 12 games without a victory, which includes 11 loses and a tie. Kansas overall record is 8-16-1 and 0-8 in the Big Eight.
Kansas will play a make-up game against Washburn today at 2 p.m. at Quigley Field.
In Sunday's second game, although Kansas only collected four hits, it was tied with Nebraska at 4-all entering the last inning.
But once again, the team faultered in that last inning. Two errors in the inning allowed two unearned runs, which made the final score 6-4.
Nebraska took the lead in the second by scoring two runs off starter Scott Taylor, who pitched well for five innings before being taken out in the sixth. Taylor allowed four runs.
"I threw pretty good until the sixth," Taylor said. "I was mainly trying to throw change-ups to keep
them off-balanced because Nebraska is a good fastball hitting team.
Kansas cut Nebraska's lead in half when firstbaseman John Byrne connected for his team-leading seventh home run.
"He throws a pretty good split-finger fastball and I was set for some trouble."
The Jayhawks tied the game in the third on a RBI single by Serate and took a 4-3 lead in the fourth, Rocky. Helm was walked with the bases loaded and Hugh Stanfield was hit by a pitch, which forced in a run.
But like in their last few games, the Jayhawks found a way to lose.
“It’s hard,” Byrn said. “We seem to be doing everything physically right, but we are coming up just short.”
In Sunday's first game, Nebraska jumped out to a 7-0 lead after 1 innings.
Kansas then scored four runs in the bottom of the second to trail by three.
The Jayhawks were aided in that innning by four wild pitches from Nebraska's pitcher John Kohl. KU triple also had a two-run triumph in that innning.
Kansas was never able to get any closer. Nebraska scored single runs in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings.
While Nebraska is increasing its lead, the Jayhawks only were able to manage two runs in the bottom of the sixth.
The Jayhawks entered the ninth inning trailing 11-5 but mounted a small rally.
Catcher Joe Pfister started the inning with a walk and then Darrel Matthews hit a double, but Pfister was easily thrown out at the plate.
The next four hitters reached base and two runs scored, but the play at the plate for the first out cost Kansas needed run. The final score was 11-8.
The surprise hitting star in the four game series was Smith, a walk-or junior college transfer who went 6-for 12 over the weekend.
Sunday's games
NEBRASKA 11, KANSAS 8 (1st game)
Nebraska 340 111 100—11 11 3
Kansas 040 002 002 — 8 9 3
Kohi, Spurgeon (8) and Pettengil, Renko, Henry (6) and Boeswen H. Leroko (1-10) SV-Spurgeon B2-Nebraksa, Pettengil and Limon, Kansas, Matthews, Boeschen, Smith and Estes B3-Kansas, Smith, HRs-Nebraksa, Kister, Sirak
NEBRAKSA 6, KANSAS 4 (2nd game)
Nebrakaus     200 101 -2 -6 11
Nebraska      200 101 -2 -6 11
Goumen and Petenellii, Taylor, Murre, Mornes (7) and Pattin W.-Gwogen, LMurre (1-3), 2bS-Nebraska, Crowk, Kansas, Serate, 3bNome, HFtRsNebraska, Sirak, Kansas, Kannay.
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