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Monday, April 18, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
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Jayhawks capture 20 medals in Washburn regatta
By Elaine Sung
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's open lightweight eight finishes second to Washington University Pabst, Woodston senior; and Shannon White, Lawrence freshman. The KU boat in the 2,000 meters Saturday at the Fourth Annual Washburn President's regatta. Left consisted of two varsity rowers and six novice rowers, and the Washington boat to right are: Fin Salts, Hemet, Calif.; freshman: Kellie Wells, Lawrence senior; Dana consisted of all varsity rowers.
Most of the Kansas men's and women's crew members were looking to the future instead of focusing just on the Washburn President's regatta during the weekend, where Kansas came away the overall medal winner with three gold, 10 silver and seven bronze medals for a total of 20.
Washington University of St. Louis came in second with 16 medals, and the University of Texas captured third with 11
"This has been the best competition we've seen yet this spring," said Jennifer Wagner, Overland Park freshman. "This is still early in the season, and we're gearing up for Madison and Philadelphia. That's where we'll peak."
The Jayhawks will participate in the Sunflower State Championships this weekend, followed by the Midwest Championships in Madison, Wis., the meet that many consider as the focus of the season.
"Our goals are set for Madison," said men's coach Cliff Elliott. "We're ready."
The regatta, held at Lake Shawnee in Topeka, was taken more as a testing ground. The Jayhawks took first place in the men's heavyweight open eight 400 meters, with a time of eight seconds; in the men's eight 2,000 meters in 6.18:3; and the men's lightweight open eight 400 meters in 1:11.
Kansas competed against teams from 23 other organizations, including Texas, who it faced last month in the Heart of Texas Regatta in Austin, Texas.
On Lake Shawnee, the Jayhawks got to see some of the other tough competition that they will face in Madison, including the nationally-ranked Minnesota women's team.
In the women's open eight 2,000-meter race. Minnesota won by more
than 10 seconds with a time of 6:54.3.
Kansas' A boat took second with
7:04.6, and the Kansas B boat was
fourth with 7:13.
Later, in the women's open four 2,000-meter race, Minnesota again captured first with a time of 7:39.5. Kansas A came in third at 7:54.2, and Kansas B was last at 8:15.8.
"We had good swing, and we got very good competition from Minnesota," said Sarah Morrison, Lawrence junior. "We were up against nationally-ranked rowers. We gave them a good race."
Women's coach Libby Elliott was
pleased with the Jayhawks' performance, especially since Minnesota's crew rows at a far higher stroke-per-minute average than Kansas usually does. The Jayhawks rowed up to 10 players in the first half and managed to keep within three to four strokes per minute of Minnesota.
"They were burning the hell out of the course," she said. "There was a lot of good solid racing. We didn't really know what to expect out of Minnesota. We weren't used to rowing that high."
eral factors influenced a few of the performances. Sickness hit the team hard just before the regatta, with a third bird of the team III, Libby Elliott said.
Besides some inexperience, sev-
Another factor was exhaustion. In addition to the heats Friday afternoon, many crew members had to row as many as four races Saturday.
"We saw some strong individual performances," Cliff Elliott said.
"What's easy to happen at regattas like this is to have rowers in multiple entries just to get more experience in. That tires people out, and it might have taken away from some performances."
While Kansas did well overall, some individual races turned out worse than what the Jayhawks hoped for. In the prestigious men's heavyweight open eight 2,000 meters, the Jayhawks were leading by half a length going into the final stretch of water.
But then, a rower's nightmare happened. One of the rowers on the Kansas boat "caught a crab." That is when the oar is not pulled out of the water correctly and knocks the rover off-balance. In effect, the oar acts as a brake in the water.
With the rowers and the oars not synchronized, Kansas State's boat pulled ahead and won by a length.
"It was disappointing," Cliff Elliott said. "We didn't handle the water very well. We couldn't regain momentum. This was the true indicator of a lack of experience. We didn't have the racing experience or the rowing experience.
"The kids will bounce back from this. They're disappointed at the moment. They'll settle in, and we'll get some good rowing in this week and get a much better performance in Madison."
Rugby team fails its bid for final four
By Keith Stroker
Kansan sportswriter
An edge of the crossbar was all that stood between the Kansas collegiate side rugby team and a possible berth into rugby's final four.
Air Force defeated the Jayhawks 7-6 in the semifinals of the Western Union Rugby Regional Tournament at Las Cruces, N.M. Saturday.
happy that the team was able to compete with a team like Air Force.
KU coach Bill Mills was proud of the team's effort and said that he was
Paul King, St. Louis senior,
attempted a 40-meter penalty kick
into a stiff, swirling wind against Air
Force with 5 minutes left in the
game. The kick had plenty of
distance and looked good, but the wind
pushed it into the crossbar, and
Kansas could not recover.
"Our effort this weekend should help boost our confidence going into next season," he said. "It was a tremendous team effort."
Scott Sites, Dexter Mo., senior,
said that the loss was disappointing
but not too frustrating considering
the competition.
Before the game, Air Force was overconfident and so were their fans. As the game wore on and Kansas remained competitive with the
"It was probably the best rugby match we've ever played." Stites said. "We had many opportunities to win, but couldn't always capitalize. Air Force is a fine team, and I think we gained their respect."
national runners-up, the fans from the other schools showed their appreciation for the Jayhawks by cheering for them as the Air Force faithful grew restless.
To gain its semifinal berth, Kansas defeated New Mexico State 15-9 on a try by John Brooks with 1:30 left in the game. NMSU was favored by as many as 20 points, but that did not seem to bother the Jayhawks.
Air Force defeated South Dakota State in the opening round before its game with Kansas. The Falcons went
"New Mexico State was the second seed in the tourney and was a very fine team," Stites said. "Paul King played a fine game with 11 points and was the real leader out there for us in the game."
on to win the regional championship against Colorado, 27-12.
The field conditions were good, despite a diverse range of weather patterns. Stites said that it rained, hailed and was windy and sunny at different times during the weekend.
Kansas was honored by the tournament committee, which chose four Kansas members for the 15-member All-Tournament team, more than any other team.
Those Kansas players honored were Jim Loarie, Chicago senior, at loosehead prop; Stites at loosehead prop; King at飞 half and fullback Kevin Harder, Lenaexa senior, a former Kansas football player in just his first rugby season.
Tigers beat Royals 8-6
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Chet Lemon extended his hitting streak to all 10 games of the season, driving in two runs and scoring twice, and Jeff Robinson pitched the Tigers to an 8-6 victory yesterday over the Kansas City Royals.
Robinson, 1-1, allowed three runs on four hits over $6\frac{3}{4}$ innings. Three of the four hits off him were home runs, two by George Brett and one by Jamie Quirk. Brett also drove in a run in the eighth inning with a single and had three RBI.
Don Heinkel, Willie Hernandez and Mike Henneman finished for Robinson. Henneman worked the
final $ 1^{1 / 5} $innings for his fourth save.
The Royals scored twice off Henneman with two out in the ninth inning. With one out, Thad Bosley singled, then moved to second on a wild pitch. After B Jackson struck out, Quirk doubled, scoring Bosley. Quirk scored on a single by Kurt Stillwell.
Mark Gubicza, 2-1. give up five runs on seven hits in four innings. Detroit scored three runs in the second and two in the fourth
Detroit scored three 1-2
second and two in the fourth.
Baseball
Matt Nokes and Jim Morrison each singled in the second, moved up on a bunt by Pat Sheridan and Tom McCormick. The scored on Gary Pettis' single.
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hits by sophomore Pat Karlin and juniors Jeff Mentel and Pete Simmerson.
Kansas State then scored six runs in the fourth inning, led by a grand slam by left fielder Reese Beers. It was the fourth grand slam of the weekend for the Wildcats, the other three came in Saturday's double-header.
Junior Dan Benninghoff tied the score at four by leading off the third inning with a home run.
"Everytime you turned around they got a grand slam," Bingham said. "They had one today, but our kids came back and kept us in the game."
Kansas scored two runs in the fifth inning, two runs in the sixth inning and one run in the seventh inning to
trail by only one run before the game was postponed.
"I always say that it centers around what takes place on the mound." Bingham said. "If you have good pitching, everybody looks better. When you get bad pitching efforts, it compounds everything. Base runners create pressure in a game."
In Friday night's game, junior Scott Taylor was the losing pitcher, allowing eight earned runs in six innings. In Saturday's first game, Kansas used four pitchers, allowing 18 earned runs.
Track
The 16-22 Jayhawks were trying to win their second conference game and to break a nine-game losing streak. Kansas is 1-10 and last in the Big Eight.
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Some performances of note were: Scott Huffman, first in the pole vault (17-0); Craig Watche, first in the 5,000-meter run (14:25.0), Steve Heffern, third (no time available), Sean Sheridan, fourth (14:45.0) and Matt Bell, fifth (no time available); David Channel, first in the javelin (193-0) and Kurt Kerns, second (190); Sharriff Hazim, first in the long jump (25-4); Alec Jacobs, second in the high jump (6·7½) and first in the 100-meter run :(10·3) and Johnny Brackins, second in the triple jump (48-9).
Southwestern Louisiana and Mississippi. Rovello said Alabama had a great team, with some of the best track members in the country.
Missouri has its revenge on KU, wins Big 8 soccer championship
By Elaine Sung
Kansan sportswriter
During Kansas' third game of the Big Eight soccer tournament Saturday, the Jayhawk men defeated Missouri 8-1 and made it into a semifinal game Sunday.
The two teams met again in the final game with the championship at stake. But this time, it was apparently Missouri's turn to win; the Tigers shut out Kansas 2-0 for the Big Eight championship yesterday.
"If we played Missouri four times, we'll end up with four different results," said KU coach Glenn Shirtliffe. "We're so even with Missouri on
talent and on skills. With different conditions on a different day, there would have been a different result."
The Jayhawks were without midfielder David Stoneburner, who was injured in the semifinal game against Oklahoma. Missouri scored with 5 minutes left in the first half, making it 1-0. The Tigers chose to protect their lead and go into a defensive strategy.
Kansas took out one of its defenders late in the game and replaced him with an additional forward. But Missouri took advantage of the situation and scored another goal and secured the victory.
"They got their first goal and then went into a defensive shell," Shirt-life said. "They came out and packed us in. They got lucky and their keeper made some outstanding saves."
wants goals by defender Mare Boussaguet and forwards Mark Plakorus and Toby Weas, Kansas beat Missouri. Kansas made it into the semifinals by allowing fewer goals than Colorado did during the tournament.
Kansas went on to defeat Oklahoma in the semifinals 3-2 with goals by defender Alan Neighbors and midfielders Sean Holmes and Ed Nelson.
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