University Daily Kansan / Thursday, December 4. 1986
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Hunter may miss Washington game with injury
Sports writer
By NICOLE SAUZEK
Forwards Chris Piper and Mark Randall will try to put the squeeze on the Washington Huskers tonight as the Jayhawks took to increase their home winning streak to 36 games.
Hunter has not played on the ankle since Monday's game. He did suit up for practice yesterday, but only shot for a short time during the end of the practice period.
Cedric Hunter, KU's 6-foot senior guard, may not play in tonight's game against Washington because of an ankle sprain suffered in Monday's game against Southern, according to Larry Brown, men's basketball head coach.
Kansas, 2-0. will take on the
Missouri at 7:10 p.m. in
Allen Field House.
"Cedric is a tough kid," Brown
practices "the practice. 'He'll
work himself back."
The Jayhawks are coming off an 87-69 win over Southern — a game in which KU forward Danny Manning scored in the first half because of foul trouble.
"We came out flat that night. We didn't get into the game, so the crowd didn't either," Manning said. "It was dead in here.
"Washington is aggressive. We've got to be ready to play and the fans have got to support us if we're going to win."
Washington has played a tough schedule in the past week. The team traveled to Alaska last weekend for The Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage, where they went 1-2.
After playing only 26 minutes against Southern, Manning said he was ready to play against the Huskies.
Washington then traveled back home again Tuesday night and evened its record by beating Southeastern Louisiana 75-61.
The Huskies only win in the tournament was against defending national champion Louisville, 69-54. Then Washington lost to Utah State 81-72 and Alaska-Anchorage 77-75. In both games, the Huskies blew double-digit leads in the second half.
The Huskies will have the advantage of experience over the young Jayhawk team. Washington starts four seniors and a freshmen red-shirt while hosting four top returns — Chris Whelp, Greg Hill Al Mossatel
and Clay Damon. Washington lost on
two letterman last season.
Kansas has only two top returnees. Manning and Hunter. Kansas lost six lettermen.
The Jayhawks beat the Huskies 69-64 last year in the quarterfinals of the preseason National Invitational Tournament.
"We played them real tough last year, but that was on a neutral floor (at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver)," said Andy Russo. Washington's men's basketball head coach. "It's going to be a lot harder
for us to compete with Kansas at their place.
"But, we have a veteran club and I expect our guys to play real well."
Mark Turgeon, KU guard, agreed that the experience of the Washington team could pose a problem to the Jawhaws.
"Having that many seniors around has got to help." Turgeon said. "We're so young. Right now we're struggling to find the right combination on the floor. But, we'll do all right."
KU head coach Larry Brown said he was concerned about the effort the Jayhawks had given in their last two games, even though they were victories. The Jayhawks are currently ranked sixth in the Associated Press poll.
OSU, MU players honored as newcomers of the year
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Quarterback Mike Gundy of Oklahoma State and defensive back Adrian Jones of Missouri, who will meet on the playing field tonight, were named Associated Press Big Eight newcomers of the year yesterday.
Jones became the Big Eight's top interceptor of passes and Gundy set the record for consecutive attempts without being intercepted.
Jones, who leads the Big Eight with five interceptions, will be trying to stop Gundy tonight when the Tigers and Cowboys officially close out the regular season against each other in Stillwater. Okla.
Gundy was inserted into the lineup in the third game of the season and responded by throwing 138 consecutive passes without an interception — a Big Eight record.
"I think he's just amazing," said Oklahoma State head coach Pat Jones. "To think that the kid's first
138 passes set the conference record. And that included stops in Lincoln, Neb., to play on national television and then the next week at Oklahoma."
Gundy goes into tonight's finale with 1,239 yards passing, just seven shy of the conference record for a freshman. In 196 attempts, he has been picked off only once. The conference record is four thefts in 239 attempts by Jerry Tagge of Nebraska in 1971.
"He's thrown a few that ought to be intercepted." Jones said. "But for some reason or another, they don't intercept it. I'm beginning to think the little rascal leads a charmed life."
Jones was a crowd favorite at Missouri this season, despite the Tigers' disappointing record. He was Missouri's leading tackler as well as the league's leading interceptor.
"He's got a lot of charisma," said MU head coach Woody Widenhofer. "He loves to practice and play football. He's one of those kids who gets up in the morning and looks forward to practice, and that's why he's had so much success as a freshman."
The AP media panel earlier selected Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth and quarterback Jamelle Holway as the Big Eight's defensive and offensive players of the year for the 1986 season.
Bosworth, Oklahoma's junior All-America linebacker, was a unanimous choice as defensive player of the year. The colorful and sometimes controversial Texas native is certain to draw support for virtually every post-season honor in college football.
Holway, the Sooners' wishbone quarterback, finished second to Nebraska running back Keith Jones in the Big Eight rushing derby this year despite limited playing time in several blowouts. He was also named first-team all Big Eight quarterback for the second straight year.
Tar Heels win by 36
United Press International
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Kenny Smith scored 17 points to lead five North Carolina players in double figures last night, pacing the No. 1 Tar Heels to a 100-64 victory over Stetson.
Rebounding from their loss to UCLA Monday, the Heels 3,1; also received 15 points apiece from Ranzoino Smith and Joe Wolf. Bucknall and freshman J. R. Reid each scored 10 points.
Randy Anderson, Andrew Woodward and Eric Umbie scored 12 points apiece for the Hatters.
North Carolina, outscoring Stetson 21-6 in the second half, enjoyed a 95-57 lead with 1:21 left in the second half.
Pittsburgh 108, St. Francis 69
Aiken made 13 of 18 shots from the floor, sparking Pitt to a 12-0 start and an eventual 55-29
LORETTO, Pa. — Curtis Aiken scored 32 points last night, leading No. 11 Pittsburgh to a 108-69 victory over St. Francis of Pennsylvania.
halifte lead. Pittsburgh hit six of nine three-point baskets in the first half.
Georgia Tech 72, Georgia 66
ATLANTA — Duane Ferrell and Bruce Dairymlrp each scored 20 points last night, powering Georgia Tech to a 72-66 comeb-from behind victory over Georgia.
Georgia led 38-31 at halftime, but the Yellow Jackets caught to tie the game at 49-49 on a three-point basket by Dalrymple with 12:03 left to play.
NC State 104, East Tenn. State 85
RALEIGH, N.C. — Charles Shackleford scored 21 points, including 17 in the second half last night, leading No. 19 North Carolina State to a 104-85 victory over East Tennessee State.
N. C. State, 4-1, was led by six players in double figures. Tim Austin scored 18 points for the Bucaneers, 2-1 Lavelle Webster, Roy Donaldson, and David Vaught each scored 13 for East Tennessee
Bennie Bolton began the second half with a pair of three-pointers.
Brad Donahue, left, has become one of the premier 178-pound division amateur boxers in the country.
Special to the Kansan
Student fighting way to top
Donahue gets chance to make 1988 Olympic boxing team
By DARRIN STINEMAN
The ABF victory qualified him for regional competition, which he breezed through until he lost the championship bout. He then won the ABF East Coast Junior Championship and broke from boxing after his senior year in high school
Four years ago, Brad Donahue started boxing as a hobby. Today he's possibly the best 178-pound amateur fighter in the country.
Donahue's rapid rise to the top of his division almost is phenomenal. After only one year of boxing, he made it to the finals of the Plainfield, N.J., Golden Gloves tournament, and three months later won the New Jersey American Boxing Federation 18-and-under championship.
Donahue, Kansas junior, originally is from Manhattan, but his family moved to Sparta, N.J., when he was seven. He moved to Lawrence after graduating from high school and got a job as a boxing instructor at Gold's Gym in Misi
"I just love it in Kansas," he said. "People from Kansas are so honest and helpful. There's a list of positives to describe them. I'm going to end in living here."
Beginning college may have slowed down his training schedule, but it didn't dampen his desire to continue to improve as a boxer. He began training in August for the Police Athletic League's National Tournament held in October in Buffalo, N.Y. Donahue's victory there earned him an automatic qualification for the Olympic trials in
In training for the tournament, he said his biggest concern was to improve his ability to throw combination punches.
"I never really mastered the art of throwing four, five, and six punches in a row," he said. "My trainer wouldn't let me throw two or three punches. He made me throw five or six. By the end of my training, my combination punching was exceptional."
To improve his defense, Donahue worked out with "Thunderfoot" Thurmond, who he said the 185-pound
Professional Karate Association champion of the world. "He threw about as many punches as humanly possible." Donahue said.
"The main question was whether the lack of action would be a detriment," he said. "I think it gave me time to mature mentally."
Donahue, who describes himself not as a brawler but as a boxer with the ability to hit hard, said his success in previous tournaments gave him confidence going into the PAL journey, but a two-year layoff from boxing left him a little uneasy.
It must have, considering the way he dominated his three opponents en route to the championship. After a first-round bye, Donahue won in the quarterfinals by unanimous decision, in the semi-finals by first round technical knock-out, and in the finals by unanimous decision. The victory made Donahue the first Kansan to win a national boxing championship.
"After the bout, the fan support was unbelievable," he said. "The mayor of Buffalo came down and congratulated me and sugar Ray Leonard congratulated me. For the first time in my life I was signing autographs."
He'll be signing a lot more autographs if he makes the U.S. Olympic team in 1988. Donahue's next stop is the Golden Gloves tournament in Kansas City, Kan., in February. There is a strong possibility that he will be on the U.S. national team before its showdown with the Soviet Union later this month.
"I'd love to take a Russian bout but I can stand the Russians," he said. "I'd love to beat up a Russian."
Donahue said he was excited about the opportunity.
the Russians," he said. "I'd love to beat up a Russian. If he makes the Olympic team in May 1988, Donahue will have a chance to fight against whoever comes between him and the gold medal.
"I've always had a dream of winning the gold medal since I was in the sixth grade," he said. "It's going to be tough, but I think I have a very, very good chance at it. I'm not being cocky, but I can see my dream starting to come true."
Bias' mom preaches on danger of drugs
United Press International
COLLEGE, PARK, Md. — The mother of Maryland star Len Bias returned yesterday to the school where her son died of cocaine intoxication, telling students God took one man to literally save millions.
"When was the best time to take Lenny?" Lonise Bias asked several hundred students. "It's when everyone's eyes are on him. When you have the number two player on the number one team and everyone's screaming, 'Lenny, Lenny, Lenny'
"And then, swoosh, he's snatched away," she said. "By that time, God has everyone's attention."
Lonise Bias has crisscrossed the country in the 5 months since her son's death, warning students about the perils of drug abuse.
"God had to take a special sacrifice — a Len Bias," she said. "People were dying every day and no one was paying any attention. So God had to take something perfect, something good and special and take it away to draw attention."
Len Bias, 22, a two-time Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year; died June 19 after collapsing in his dormitory suite. Two days earlier, he was the second player chosen in the NBA draft by the league champion Boston Celtics.
Athletic Director Dick Dull and basketball coach Lefty Driesel resigned under pressure and the school imposed stronger minimum academic standards for incoming athletes.
The university's athletic department has undergone sweeping reforms and has sustained a major shakeup since the death of Bias and subsequent revelations of academic problems among athletes, particularly basketball players.
Lonise Bias, addressing students in a university course on drug use and abuse, said:
"I am here to tell you that God took one man to literally save millions. Have you ever seen such reform in drugs?" I have traveled this country and I did not realize the mess the country is in today.
"If it were not for the death of Leen Bias, I would be at home with my four children — one of them playing in the Celtics, or wherever."
Among those in attendance for Bias' lecture was new Maryland head basketball coach Bob Wade.
"She could have stayed home and wept but she chose to educate us," said Wade. "She not only educates the youth of America but their parents, too."
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