University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 12, 1988
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LA rumor persists; Brown again denies
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — UCLA could have a basketball coach within a few days, and apparently Larry Brown, who was head coach at Kansas, is still a possibility.
"Obviously, we thought he was the man for the job at one time, so I suppose it is possible, under the right circumstances, to consider that again." UCLA Chancellor Charles Young said Sunday. "Goodness knows anything can happen given what has happened so far.
"I don't think it is very likely, but I couldn't absolutely律它it out."
According to a story in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, sources close to
Brown were making calls saying that Brown might be reconsidering a hasty decision.
Brown, asked earlier in the day about reports that he might continue to be interested in the UCLA job, would only reply, "I don't need to say anything. I'm staying at Kansas."
Brown was offered the UCLA job three days after his team won the NCAA championship Monday. He returned to Kansas early Friday, supposedly to give Athletic Director Bob Frederick his resignation.
However, at a Friday news conference in Lawrence, he announced that he had decided to stay at Kansas.
Tennis teams travel to Columbia today
By Tom Stinson
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas tennis teams need to dominate Missouri today to stay in contention for a Big Eight Championship, said both the men's and women's tennis coaches.
The Jayhawks travel to Columbia to play the Tigers this afternoon. Both UCLA coaches said their teams will win both games to gain valuable conference points.
Missouri finished last in the Big Eight in both the men's and women's division last year. The two teams combined for only 24 points.
This is only the second year for the Missouri squads after the school dropped the programs in 1982. The Big Eight Championship in 1975.
Kansas combined for 185 points last year, winning the men's division title.
Conference points are scored by winning a singles or doubles match against a Big Eight opponent. These points are then added to a teams
points scored in the Big Eight Championship Tournament to determine the conference champion.
"Missouri is trying to rebuild its program," said men's coach Scott Perelman. "They have no scholarships because there's no funding, so they're all walk-ons. But we've got to go there and be ready to play. We need to win 9-0."
The Jayhawk men are 11-7 overall and 2-0 in the league, coming off victories at Oklahoma State and Pittsburgh. They accumulated 12 points in the Big Eight.
The Kansas women are 16-5 and 1-2 in the league. They also have 12 points. The women lost to both Oklahoma State and Oklahoma last weekend.
"We have just got to go in and take the match," said women's coach Eric Hammond.
"We were in most of the matches against OSU but, when it was crunch time, we got out to the net. That puts us in a hole to win the Big Eight. But we can still do it."
Recruits commit to KU
By Tom Stinson
Kansan sportswriter
Three women and two men have verbally committed to play for the Kansas tennis program next season.
The five have said they would sign
Kansas tomorrow, the NCAA
sums up.
Elba Pinoer, Guaynabo, Puerto Ella; Page Goins, Tulsa, Okl.; and Laura Hageman, Dallas, have added to join Eric Hayes' women's team.
Pinoe is ranked in the top three in Puerto Rico and in the top 100 in the United States. She picked Kansas over Marquez and Iowa.
Goose choice Kansas over Louisiana State and Iowa. She is ranked in the top 100 in the country and in the top five in the Missouri Valley.
Hageman, from Woodrow Wilson High School, is ranked in the top 20 in Texas in singles and in the top three in doubles.
"I was really impressed with how the new coach was doing the program. Golds said we got along well and I felt the team is good. The major team is young, so you'll fit in well."
She said she chose Kansas over Texas. Texas Tech students State Bureau of grazing.
The No. 1 in Holland, Eveline Hamers, is also considering Kansas in her plans. She decided to attend a college she planned to head of oursuing a professional career.
"It is a certain possibility that I
might go to Kansas," Hamers said. "I want to go to college in America, but I'm not sure where."
Hamers said she was going to decide between Kansas and a small college in Texas.
Two of the United States' top 100 players, Marco Cacapardo and Carlos Fleming, said they would sign to the Jayhawk men's team tomorrow.
Caeopardo, Forrest Hills, N.Y., is ranked 74th, but has ranked as high as seventh in the nation in singles.
He chose Kansas over tennis power
Pepperdine the fifth-ranked team in
the nation.
"When I came to the school, I kept an open mind because I didn't know what to expect," Cacapardo said. "I really liked it there."
Fleming, from Shaker Heights, Ohio, is ranked 95th and is one of the top 35 returning players under age 18. He has his first year of competitive tennis.
Cacapoord said that he knew freshman John Falbo and withomores Michael Chigi.
"Kansas is building a program and I think they'll have a strong team performance."
He chose Kansas over Duke, Northwestern, Indiana and Minnesota because of its academics and its social atmosphere.
"I had to pick the best all-around school." Fleming said.
Scott Stewart/Special to the KANSAN
'Hawks at the White House
President Reagan holds a basketball autographed by the NCAA champions.
Student injured during championship celebration
By James Buckman
Kansan staff writer
For Dawn Shelton, the thrill of the Jayhawks national championship was mixed with a little agony.
Like many other students, Shelton, Olahe sophomore, immediately rushed to Jayhawk Boulevard to join the celebration following the Jayhawks' victory April 4.
Before a half hour passed, though, Shelton's toot had been run over and her 1987 job had sustained approximately $2,000 in damages. She had been the victim of a celebrating mob.
Shelton's nightmare began after she drove to the boulevard, getting there right before campus police closed off the street to traffic. Thousands of other students were pouring into the area.
drive " Shelton said
She was able to inch her car over the curb and parked in front of Wescoe Hall, on the south side of the boulevard. About 15 minutes later, a car loaded with people was heading toward her car, she said.
"The driver obviously could not see anything," Shelton said. "He was just inching along, but he was headed straight for my car. So I screamed at him to stoon, but he couldn't hear me at all."
"In a matter of minutes, it was too congested to
In the commotion, the other car proceeded to stop on Shelton's foot, she said.
"I don't think he knew anything about it," she said of the driver.
Shelton said that friends carried her to safety on the steps of Wescoe, where her ordeal continued
I look up, and I see this swolling of people who were looking at me. If time I got there, it was just destroyed," she said.
Larissa Ray, Overland Park junior, and a friend of Shelton's, was standing next to the car and said that it quickly was engulfed with people.
"Everyone wanted to be up as high as they could so they could see everyone," Ray said. "They were standing on the bumpers, jumping on it. You name it, they were doing it to the car."
"There were, I swear, a good 12 people on the roof alone."
Ray was ultimately able to drive the car through the crowd to safety.
Shelton said the insurance company valued the damage at more than $2,000, which included a trampled hood and roof, a smashed windshield, windshield wipers ripped off and glass fragments and beer inside the car.
Shelton her foot was not broken and did not require medical attention.
KU baseball team loses doubleheader
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — Bobby Benjamin went three for three and helped Nebraska defeat the Kansas baseball team 5-3 in the first game of a Big Eight Conference doubleheader yesterday.
In the second game, McGraw Milhavin, 2-1, got the victory as he helped Nebraska hold Kansas to three hits in Nebraska's 5-1 victory.
Kansas led 2-0 in the first game until the fourth innning, when with two outs, Keni Sirak hit a double and in Bobby Benjamin and Jeff Taylor.
Larry Ruelas and ended end the game. Kaitisat got the save, his first.
Nebraska scored two more in the fifth to make it 4-2 when Vinny Limon and Benjamin singled in runs.
Kansas loaded the bases in the ninth, and with two outs, Jeff Spencer scored on Dale Kistai's wild pitch. But Kistai's strikes out pinch-hitter
John Lepley, 6-2, pitched the victory for the 25th-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers, 27-8 overall and 7-1 in the Big Eight. Scott Taylor, 3-5, was tagged with the loss. Kansas dropped to 16-17 overall and 1-7 in the conference.
In the second game, Nebraska opened the scoring when Sirak tripped in the second inning to bring the trifer. It was Sirak's fifth trifer.
Kansas tied the game in the fourth with a solo homer by Troy Mentzer. It was Mentzer's eighth home run.
The Jayhawks resume play at 7 tonight against Southwest Missouri State for family night in Hoglund- Maupin Stadium.
Kansan sports reporter Tom Stinson contributed information to this story.
Indians defeat Orioles Baltimore still winless
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Indians extended their winning streak to six games with a 7-2 victory over the winless Baltimore Orioles. Dave Clark, filling in for injured Joe Carter, drove in the tie-breaking run with a sixth-inning single, and Mel Hall had four hits Monday.
Baltimore lost its sixth straight game, matching the Orioles' 1955 club record for losses at the start of a season. They have been outscored 48-7.
The Indians, 6-1, moved into first place in the AL East by a half-game over New York. This was their best start since they were 10-0 in 1966.
Cleveland left-hander Greg Swindell, 2-0, pitched his second complete game of the year and the Indians' fourth, striking out eight and not walking a batter while allowing eight hits. The Indians have a team earned run average of 1.45.
Mike Morgan, 0-2, took the loss.
With the score tied 2-2 in the sixth, Hall hit a two-out double and took third on a wild pitch as Cory Snyder walked.
Clark, playing because Carter was nursing a sore back, singled to center, scoring Hall. Snyder moved to third on the play and scored as Clark hung up in a rundown between first and second on an attempted steal.
The Indians added three more runs in the seventh on Pat Tabler's two-run triple and an RBI single by Hall.
Cleveland took a 2-0 lead in the fourth on singles by Brock Jacoby and Hall and a two-run double by McGregor has hit safety in all seven games.
Rick Schuil tied it in the fifth with a two-run homer, the Orioles' first of the season, after Larry Sheets led off with a single.
Huge increase in balk calls doesn't prevent Yankees' lightning start
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — There's no stopping the New York Yankees, especially when opposing pitchers aren't stopping.
"I guess we (players) just have to follow the rules a little better," said Yankees catcher Don Slaughter, who went four for four with two doubles and hilt a two-run single that broke an eight-inning tie.
The Yankees, 5-1 after a 17-9 loss yesterday to Toronto, beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 Sunday. An American League record six balks were called, including a league-record five against Brewers pitchers.
Milwaukee manager Tom Trebelhorn thinks his staff is complying with the new, tighter balk regulations that require pitchers to come to a full stop in their set positions. But, apparently, they aren't, because Sunday's violations matched the Brewers' 'total in 32 spring training games.
Ted Higuera, called for two baskets last season, committed three Sunday. Chuck Crim 's bulk help led to a shutout in innings and Dian Plescak balmed home New York's final run in the
"Everybody wants a balk. I have to watch my pitchers like a maniac." Trebholorn
eighth.
"I could put another defender in the outfield and the umpires might not see it because they're watching so much for balks," Treebelhorn said. "I might do that tomorrow in Boston, put another guy behind shortstop."
("Phil Niekro cheated for 40 years, and they're trying to make it up in one year. Who are the pitchers trying to deceive? I don't understand. It's a complete decep-
tion. You have to ask them umpires. They must understand the rule. They're calling the balks."
Balks are being called at a 300 percent higher rate than last year, when 356 were assessed, and home plate umpire Larry Barnett knows exactly what the rules are.
"Gentlemen, this is the way it's going to be. Dr. Brown (AL President Bobby) signs the checks, and if he says enforce the rules, we'll continue to enforce it."
"All the clubs in spring training had clinics. If they continue to abuse the rule, we'll continue to see what happened today." Barnett said.
"I don't want to make light of this. It's not a game, it is a very important thing. Believe me, I'm not in a contest with the crew chiefs to call the most balks."
The six balks surpassed the AL record set in 1930. The major league record is seven, set by the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers on May 4, 1963.
"I don't understand it," Higuera said.
"It makes it hard to concentrate."
Yankees pitcher Tommy John balked once which led to a run. Slaughter said New York catchers were constantly reminded by manager Billy Martin to keep pitchers alert about balks.
Plesiac said, "It's a rule that got out of hand and they're trying to correct."
"He really stressed it in spring training," Slaught said. "We are told to tell the pitchers to stop."
Slaught, acquired in an off-season trade with Texas, continued to swing the Yankees' hottest beat — enough to make Yankees' fans forget for now about Jack Clark, who comes off the disabled list this week. Slaught went two-for-three in his New York debut Saturday night and on Sunday lost both games, four hits — the fifth time he's done it and the first time since he was beamed by Dennis "Oil Can" Bovid in 1986.
Slaugh has hit 346 in his career against
Waukee. He doubled twice against
Hilton.
"He's one of those pitchers I see well,
but I can't explain it," Slaught said.
Higuera began the game with a 7-1 record against New York, the team he has beaten the most. Home runs by Robin Ount and Steve Gleave brags made it 4-0 in Yount and Glenn Bruggs made it 4-0 in the second innning. But Higuera couldn't hold it.
Slaught, who has stolen just 11 bases in 544 big-league games, trotted home on Henderson's sacrifice fflv for a 4-4 tie.
"Slaughter on the second base and Crim is called for a balk. Is Slaughter going to run? If he does, we say 'thank you very much.' And if we don't throw him out, we deserve
Shaught greeted Crim with a leadoff single in the seventh, was sacrificed to second and took third on a balk. That call particularly bothered Trebelhorn.
Slaught doubled and scored on Ricky Henderson's single in the third. Slaught's double in the fifth was wasted, but Dave Rivers had pulled the sixth that pulled New York within 4-3.
The Yankees loaded the bases with one out in the eighth against Crim, 0-1, on singles by Gary Ward and Winfield and a walk to Robert Kelly. After Plesac struck out Mike Pagliarulo on three pitches, Slaugh hit an opposite-field single to
right.
With Slaught on first and Kelly on third, Martin tried a trick play. He had Slaughter break early, trying to draw a throw from Plesac that might enable Kelly to steal home. Instead, Plesac was flagged for a balk by second base umpire Rocky Roe, who made a theatrical call.
"It it seemed like the whole game was stopped. How could he be called for a balk?" Treebellhorn asked. "If you're going to call a balk, call it. But that guy (Koe) made the call like he was finishing one of Taikovsky's biggest numbers."
Trailing 7, the Brewers tried to rally against Tim Stoddard, 1-one out singles by Paul Molitor, Yount and Braggs and Henderson's second error in left field produced two runs and put the tying run at second base. Cecilio Guante relieved and got his first save by getting Rob Deer on a popup and striking out Dale Sveum.
That gave the Yankees their best start since winning seven straight to open the 1933 season. Trebethorn, meanwhile, said he had seen enough.
"The umpires are just doing their jobs. They're enforcing the rules as they've been told to. Balks didn't beat us," he said. "But they took a nice Sunday afternoon and ruined it for me."