University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 28, 1988
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KC beats New York in the 11th
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Kevin Settzer singled home Kurt Stillwell with a tie-breaking run in the 11th inning Wednesday night as Kansas City beat New York 3-1 for the Royals' first victory in Yankee Stadium since 1986.
Stillwell led off the 11th with a walk, moved to second on Willie Wilson's sacrifice, and scored on Seitzer's single to center.
tight to center.
Bud Black, 1-1, who relieved Royals' starter Mark Gubieza in the ninth, pitched two innings for the victory. Gene Garber got the final three outs for his third save.
Kansas City last won in New York on Aug. 10, 1986, with a 13-3 victory. The Royals have still lost 22 of their last 26 games in New York. They lost all six games at Yankee Stadium last season.
Charles Hudson, 21, also allowed an RBI double by Frank White in the 11th. scoring Seitzer.
new York scored its only run off Gublize in the first innning when Willie Randolph walked, went to third on Mattingly's single, and scored on Jack Clark's infield ground.
rommy John shut out the Royals for 7 1-3 innings on two hits before being relieved.
Danny Tartabull tied the score at 1-1 with two outs in the top of the ninth when he hit his fourth home run, a 400-foot drive to left field off Dave Righetti.
John yielded an infiel single to Bo Jackson leading off the third inning. After a fielding error by third baseman Mike Pagliarulo on Stillwell's one-out grounder, John got Wilson to hit into a double play.
John retired the next 13 Royals and was relieved by Cecilio Guante after Steve Balboni singled with one out in the eighth.
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Sharrieff Hazim
Injuries hamper long jumper but he hopes to compete soon
By Keith Stroker
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas men's jumper Sharriff Hazim could be a world class performer in both the high and long jumps, according to KU men's jumping coach Rick Attig. Unfortunately for Hazim, the injury bug has kept him from reaching that potential.
Hazim, Topeka senior, has been bothered by injuries in his hamstring and groin this season, which has hindered him from competing the way he would have liked to.
Hazim attended Topeka West High School and graduated in 1983. During his senior season, Hazim set the Kansas state high school record in the high jump at 7-2. It lasted one season, because Brad Speer jumped $7-4_{1/2}$ at the state championships in 1984.
"My event was the high jump in high school and that is what I was recruited for," Hazim said. "I hurt my heel my freshman year, which frustrated my efforts in the high jump. After that, I turned to the
If Hazim gets healthy, he would have two more meets to qualify for the NCAA's and the Olympic trials. He needs to jump $25\cdot 10^{-4}$ for the NCAA's and $26_{1/2}$ for the Olympic trials.
"My hamstring injury has slowed me down somewhat, and my groin injury is getting better." Hazim said. "I can get down the runway without any pain, white blood cells, I feel that I can jump OK."
Hazim's best long jump was 25 feet-11.4", in 1986, his sophomore season, at the Shocker Sports Festival in Wichita. Since then, he festival won two titles that well, which has kept him from the NCAA Championships.
long jump and continued to get better in it."
During his freshman year, 1983-84. Hazim redshirted. Attig came to Kansas four years ago and has worked with Hazim during that time.
"I've enjoyed being around Sharriffire. He's always been a hard worker," Attig said. "I know it has been frustrating for him to have to deal with his injury situations. He's been positive throughout his career."
At this time last year, Hazim hurt his groin muscle, which kept him from his summer high jump training. He was only able to compete in the high jump in two indoor meets this season.
Hazim said his best event now was the long jump and he would concentrate his efforts on that event. However, his hamstring problems would keep him from going on the Drake Relays this weekend.
Hazim credits Attig for his successes while in college. Hazim said without Attig, he would not have been able to, desist the injuries.
"I don't want to take a chance and hurt myself before the Big Eight meet in two weeks. I will meet next, but try to compete in that meet next."
"Coach Attig is a very knowledgeable and dedicated person, who is concerned about the athletes he works with." Hazim said. "He has a very positive influence on me and he possesses most of the qualities that I would want in a coach."
Attig said Hazim was a person most coaches would want to have on their team
"Sharrieff is a quiet person at
times, who helps his team members in track meets by encouraging them in his own way," Attil said. "He does not yell out to them, but assists them in their events and falls behind them." He considers to his team members and coaches. He is also a hard working student."
Hazim will graduate in May with a degree in business administration. He has been working in Topeka on an internship every summer since he came to KU. The internship was offered to him and he pursued his career development program, which placed him at Bank IV in Topeka.
Hazim has worked as a management trainee at the bank, and he wrote reports about the different areas of the bank. After work he will work at the Ford Motor Credit Co. in Overland Park.
"I will work as an assistant customer service representative at Ford and am really excited about the opportunity," Hazim said. "My job will be to work with people on getting their payments in on time, and I may have to repossess some cars. It should be a good opportunity for me, because I really enjoy working with people."
Hazim has had to deal with obstacles throughout his collegiate track career. However, he said that if he put his mind to it, he could accomplish anything that he wanted to. That might include sprinting after he begins his career at Ford.
"If I can get healthy and stay that way, I may want to run in a few races," Hazim said. "But for now, I want to keep things in perspective, and my career, and maybe a family down the road, comes first."
Big Eight tennis tournament coming up; men hope to repeat as league champions
By Tom Stinson
Kansan sportswriter
For the first time in 24 years, a Kansas tennis team has a chance to repeat as Big Eight Conference champions.
The Jayhawk men will defend their league title this weekend in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. The Jayhawks are favored to win the championship
The women's tournament opens today.
The Kansas men, 15-8 and 5-1 in the Big Eight, lead the conference with 41 points. Oklahoma is second with 40. Nebraska third with 37 and last year's runnerup Oklahoma State is fourth with 32.
Pre-tournament points are compiled by winning singles and doubles matches against Big Eight opponents. Tournament points are scored eight points for first place through one point for eighth place.
"We're picked as the favorite, but
Nebraska is the only league opponent to beat the Jayhawks, defeating Kansas 4-5 Sunday in Laramie. The Jayhawks lost to Kansas a favor by beating the Jayhawks.
"I think we learned a lesson on Sunday," he said. "I think the last six or seven weeks we we've scared. We had lost our hunger from earlier days. We're better to be humbled last Sunday than to be humbled next Sunday."
right now it doesn't mean anything," said men's coach Scott Perleman. "The good news to me is that we can control our own destiny. And, at all nine positions, we're capable of being the champion."
"When you spank a thoroughbred, it runs, and when you spank a donkey, it bucks. We got spanked on Sunday, so we'll see what happens."
The Jahawk women, 20-5 and 1-5 in the big Eight, are in third place with 44 points, behind Oklahoma State with 58 and Oklahoma with 47.
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the women's two league losses are 8-1 to Oklahoma State and 6-3 to Oklahoma.
Kansas might have four No.1 seeds in the tournament.
Oklahoma State has won the last seven Big Eight women's championships. Kansas finished fourth last year.
The Kansas women stayed in contention for a league title with two lopsided victories last weekend over Iowa State and Nebraska. The Jayhawks beat the Cyclones 9-0 and the Cornhuskers 8-1.
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Sophomores Chris Walker and Craig Wildey and junior Jim Secrest
"It's an all-to-gain and nothing-to-lose situation. There's no pressure on us to win, so we're just going to go in there and shoot from the hips."
Walker was the No. 4 singles champion last year, and Jonsson was the No. 2 singles champion in 1986. Wildey, Secrest and senior Larry Pascal have all been on conference tourism doubles teams in their career.
Wildey paired with Mike Wolf last year to win the No. 1 doubles title. Secrest and Sven Groeneveld won the No. 3 title last year, and Pascal teamed with Charles Stearns at the No. 2 position in 1985.
In 1986, senior Tracy Treps was the first Kansas woman to win a Big Eight No. 1 singles championship. Treps finished second last season.
may be top-seeded for the No. 2, 3 and 4 positions for the men. Junior Jeanette Jonsson may be top-seeded at the No. 2 position for the women.
If Treps wins the No. 1 singles title, she will qualify for the NCAA Championships in May, because she would have the best singles record in the region.
Kansas breaks losing streak with 13-5 victory
By Tom Stinson
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas baseball team decided on Tuesday to take each of its last 14 games one at a time.
The first of those games, last night's home contest against Missouri Western, ended like the Jay's wanted them all to.
Kansas defeated Missouri Western 13-5.
The victory increased the Jayhawk's record to 18-28 and broke a five-game losing streak.
Kansas beat Missouri Western 23-2
on March 24 in Houlgnd-Maupin Stadium.
Missouri Western has a 16-42
score.
Kansas shortstop Pete Simmerson and his teammates celebrate Simmerson's grand slam last night against Missouri Western.
"We had a talk yesterday and we decided we needed to take the last 14 games one at a time," sophomore Pat Karlin said. "We think we can win all 14. Tonight we got good, solid pitching and the bats came alive."
praising Missouri Western committed seven errors, and three were by third baseman Darren Lewis.
"Coach wants us to build a base," senior Rocky Helm said. "He wants us to hustle as hard as we can and to give it all we can. His record shows that his system works."
Kansas only committed one error and collected 10 hits.
Amor Craig Houfeh, 1-2, was the winning pitcher for Kansas. He completed six innings, giving up only two earned runs. Freshman Steve McGinnes, in only his third collegiate appearance, finished the game for Kansas. He collected three strikeouts and gave up three earned runs.
Jim Stroud, 2-8, was the losing pitcher for Missouri Western. Bryan
Seruggs was the relief pitcher for Missouri Western.
"This is pretty typical for us," coach Dwayne Bainham说. "We have confidence against NAIA clubs. We handle that 82 mph stuff well. When a division I club gives us that curve, we don't have a harder time staying in there."
Aerial trailing 2 off of a Jeff Kelso home run, Kansas scored five runs in the inning and six runs in the sixth inning to put the game away. In those two innings, Missouri Western committed six errors.
Eight different Jayhawks hit successfully in the game, led by juniors Pete Simmerson and Tom Buchanan and Helm.
Simmerson went two for four and collected three RBI. All three RBI were on a fifth inning triple, which he scored on after a throwing error at third base. Buchanan went one for two with one RBI and two runs
Helm went one for three with three RBI. He also reached base three times on walks. The walks pushed his season total to 47, breaking the Kansas season record of 46, which he held from last year.
"It's not something I try to do," the Maize, Kan, native said. "I don't go up thinking walk. If it happens, it happens."
"I just try to be patient and get a pitch I can handle. I try to get on base to get something started for the team. The record is nice, but I'd rather go for team goals. I'd like to get the team winning."
Bingham said the Jayhawks needed a win to build confidence
after last weekend's tough road trip
Kansas lost four games to topranked Oklahoma State and one game to 15th-ranked Wichita State. Kansas had lost 17 of its last 20 games.
The Jayhawks play Creighton at 2 p.m. today at Hogland-Maupin Stadium. Creighton defeated the Jayhawks 14-1 on March 27 in Omaha.
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Knight's rape remarks distress NBC viewers
The Associated Press
"Coach Knight was not speaking for the university during the interview with NBC correspondent Connie Chung." President Thomas Ehrlich said in a statement released from the Bloomington campus. "I deplore his reference to rape, and his coarse language was in very poor tastle."
INDIANPOLIS - The president of Indiana University said yesterday that basketball coach Bob Knight's nationally televised comment comparing rape with handling stress was coarse and deplorable.
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Knight made the comment in a program about stress that aired Monday night.
When Chung asked the coach how he handled stress, he replied, "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it."
Knight added, "That's just an old term that you're going to use. The plane's down, so you have no control over it.
"I'm not talking about that, about the act of rape. Don't misinterpret me there. But what I'm talking about is you, so you have to handle it — now."
Knight could not be reached for comment yesterday and was believed to be out of town, a spokesman for the athletic department said in a telephone interview.
"To my knowledge he hasn't been in his office for over a week," spokesman Kit Klinger offerd said.
Meanwhile, school officials received several telephone calls and letters from people upset about Knight's statement.
"The calls have been coming in to the president's office, I'm told, about one every half hour," said Jim Green, director of news services for
the university
"There have been some letters, not many yet, but of course it's only been two days," he said. "The president has a very firm policy to respond to his mail, so they will get letters back."
the university. The green said that Erlich was in meetings on the school's Kokomo campus yesterday but that his secretaries were taking calls and would report their contents to the president.
Green said the school received about a dozen complaint calls on Tuesday and six or seven by noon yesterday.
NBC also received several complaints about Knight's comments. Network spokesman Andrew Freedman said 44 calls were received at stations in Burbank, Calif., New York and Chicago. However, he called that number "not overwhelming."
Trisha Bracken, assistant to the IU dean for women's affairs, said most of the 20 or so people who had called her office were waiting for further action by the university.
Despite the controversy, the university has announced no plans to sanction Knight. When asked about the matter, she said not yet heard anything to that effect.*
here are quite a few people who feel that the statement (by Ehrlich) is unsatisfactory, that it's not a strong enough statement," Bracken said. "There's a very wide range of responses coming through our office. People are mostly shocked and upset."
Bracken said most callers were concerned that enjoyment could be construed as a part of sexual assault.
"We've gotten a lot of reaction to that as a very old and very dangerous stereotype about the crime of rape," she said.
Twins' release Carlton, sign new affiliate player
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Steve Carlton, the winningest active pitcher in the major leagues going into this season, was released Wednesday by the Minnesota Twins.
Carlton, 43, the only pitcher in baseball history to win four Cy Young Awards, was o-1 this year with a 16.76 earned run average. His career record is 229-244.
In nine 2-3 innings this season, he allowed 20 hits, 18 earned runs and five home runs.
Carlton is among baseball's all-time leaders in victories, strikeouts (4,136), innings pitched (5,216 1-3), complete games (254), starts (709) and shutouts (55).
"There was only one Leffey," said Jim Kaat, a Twins broadcaster who played with Carlton from 1976 to 1979 with Philadelphia and who is probably Carlton's closest friend in Minnesota. "He'll go down as one of the baseball history, along with Sandy Koufax and Warren Spahn."
Carlton was replaced on the roster by Mark Portugal, who was recalled from the Twins' Class AAA affiliation in Portland, Ore. At Portland this season, the 25-year-old right lion with a 13-7 ERA in three starts.
Carlton left the Metrodome immediately after he was informed of the move and was unavailable for comment.