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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 4, 1988
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Royals 1988 opener set to take some of spotlight in KC
The Associated Press
Basketball won't be the only game in Kansas City today as the Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays open the 1988 baseball season at Royals Stadium.
There's a good matchup this afternoon — Toronto's Jimmy Key, the veteran League earned-run-average leader against Kansas City's Bret Saberhagen.
Some of the Royals and Blue Jays are hoping their opener doesn't go into extra innings - they have tickets to the Final Four later this evening. Saberhagen and teammates George Brett, Mark Gubicza and Buddy Black are going together from Royals Stadium to Kemper Arena for basketball with hard-to-get tickets Saberhagen's agent got.
"I'm going to root for the Jayhawks, and if they don't win, I'm going to root for Oklahoma," Brett Kearse said. Then, he'll am at the wrong games."
Olympic hero Bonnie Blair, Texas to jessica McClure and Final Four
fanfare highlight the festivities while Roger Clemens, Dwight Gooden and Jack Morris are some of the feature attractions today when the season begins.
Sold-out courts and nice weather are forecast for many of the nine openers. Detroit at Boston starts the year at 2:05 p.m. and St. Louis is in Cincinnati an hour later for the traditional National League opener.
Bob Horner, back from Japan,
Kirk Gibson, Dave Parker and other
All-Stars in new places are causing
optimism across the major leagues as hope springs eternal. All teams are even for now, and pressure of pennant races may be six months away.
"Things have to break as well for us as they have to break for anybody to win it," said Milwaukee manager Tom Trebelhorn, whose Brewers open in Baltimore. "We're going to have to keep everybody in there, and everybody is going to have to have a decent season."
Clemens, trying to become the first
to win three straight Cy Young awards, will throw the first pitch of the season. He will be opposed by Detroit's Morris, the biggest winner this decade, as the American League East champion Tigers face the Red Sox at jammed Fenway Park.
Riverfront Stadium is also sold out for the Reds' opener against the National League champion Cardinals, who signed Horner in the off-season. Mario Soto, trying to overcome two years of injuries, will start for Cincinnati against Joe Marrane
of the Cardinals.
"I don't know if they'll remember about me," Soto said of the home crowd. "They haven't seen me pitch in so long."
Blair and McClure also will make their best pitches.
Blair, a speedskater who won the gold medal in the 500 meters, will throw out the opening ball at Comisky Park before California plays in Chicago. Blair is from Champaign, Ill.
Louisiana Tech takes women's national title
The Associated Press
TACOMA, Wash. — Erica Westbrooks scored 16 of her 25 points in the second half, and Louisiana Tech overcame a 14-point deficit and defeated Auburn 56-54 yesterday for the NCAA women's basketball championship.
The Lady Techsters trailed Auburn in the second half of the basketball.
Leon Barmore of Louisiana Tech became the first male coach ever to win a national collegiate women's title.
Westbrooks, a 6-foot-3 senior forward, led a Louisiana Tech backbeat that also was sparked by the defensive performance of guard Teresa Weatherpoon in the second half on Auburn's Ruthie Bolton.
Ruthie Bolton scored 16 points in the first half as the Lady Tigers took a 31-19 lead but didn't score in the second half.
Louisiana Tech went ahead for the first time in the game at 53-51 on a lay-in by Westbrooks with 2:13 to 10 after a Weatherspoon steal and pass.
Vickie Rieck of Auburn tied the score at 53-53 on a 10-foot shot with 59 seconds left and Angela Lawson put Louisiana Tech ahead to stay 55-53 with a 20-footer with 39 seconds remaining.
Sharon Stewart made a free throw for Auburn with 25 seconds to go, but Weatherspoon connected on a free throw with three seconds left.
Westbrooks, who was voted the tournament's Most Valuable Player,
made a superb defensive play on a driving McNeil with six seconds left. Westbrooks blocked McNeil under the ball, and the play was ruled a jump ball.
Louisiana Tech got possession because the possession arrow was pointing its way.
The third-ranked Lady Tigers, who beat Long Beach State 68-55 in Friday night's semifinals, had things their own way in the first half.
Barmore got his team back into the game in the second half by benching 6-foot-4, 200-pound sophomore center Venus Lacy and going with a quicker lineup with substitute Sheila Etridge.
In the first half, Ruthie Bolton was 7-for-11 from the field, including two of two from 3-point range. But Weatherspoon's tight defense limited her to only four field-goal attempts in the second half.
Louisiana Tech didn't lead in the first half. Auburn scored the first six points of the game, but the Lady Techsters came back to tie the score at 6-6.
Ruthie Bolton put Auburn ahead at 9-6 when she hit her first 3-point basket with 3:47 gone.
With Auburn ahead 16-13, the Lady Tigers went on a 9-0 run for a 25-13 lead with 3:10 left in the first half, with Ruthie Bolton contributing her second 3-pointer.
It was Louisiana Tech's second NCAA women's title. The Techsters won the first championship in 1982 and were runner-up in 1983 and 1987.
Fans buy and sell tickets despite scalping warnings
Rv Kim Lightle
Kansan staff writer
All Floyd Kozak cared about when he was trying to get tickets to the Final Four was cheering for the crimson and blue, but he soon found out that the only color ticket scalper were interested in was green.
Had a 10-6.0 Kozak, a 1897 KU graduate, said that he drove overnight from Rhode Island to Kansas City in hopes of getting Final Four tickets.
And a lot of it.
He ended up paying $300 for tickets; the NCAA charges only $50.
Kozak was one of many people who got his tickets from a scalper.
during the weekend by Kansas City, Mo., police officers for scalping tickets outside Kemper Arena. Some were asking as much as $700 for one ticket to the National Semifinal game.
Several people, including three college coaches, were arrested
However, though propositions may be lucrative, most KU students who had Final Four tickets were able to sell their tickets at any price.
Alan Morgan, Holton freshman, got his tickets because he works for the sports information department.
Although he thought about selling his ticket when he heard that some people were paying up to $10,000 and said that he wouldn't sell his ticket.
Darrin Walton, Lawrence sophomore, stood in line 12 hours last
week to get his name put in the lottery for the tickets.
Walton said he was approached by several people when he went to the semifinal games Saturday but that he would not part with his ticket
However, the lure of instant wealth won out over school spirit for some.
"I would rather have the memories than the money," he said. "I couldn't be bought."
Ken, a KU student who asked that his last name not be used, said that he bought three tickets for $300 Saturday night in a Kansas City, Mo., bar with the intention to scalm them.
Ken said he was nervous when he bought the tickets from two coaches because he had heard that
a lot of people had been arrested for scalping tickets. He said the money he could make from selling them was too attractive to pass up.
Ken said he had posted signs advertising the tickets in KU fraternities in hopes of making money to help pay for his tuition. He says he has been have been for $300-$325. He hopes to get $500 for the tickets.
Ken said that he probably would not go to Kemper Arena to sell his tickets because it was too risky.
Oklahoma fans are primed for a national championship
Bv ill less
Kansan staff writer
By Jill Jess
Oklahoma may have lost the national football championship this year in the Orange Bowl, but Sooner fans have their eyes set on the NCAA basketball championship tonight, and they think they can win it.
Oklahoma students said yesterday that they thought the game would be a challenge, but predicted that Billy Oowers would come up on top tonight.
"I think it'll be OU anywhere from eight to 10 points," said John Wellborn, a junior at the University of Oklahoma.
He said that a basketball championship would be more exciting than football because everyone expected Oklahoma to be good in football, while basketball was more unpredictable. Scott Ellirad, a senior at Oklahoma, agreed. Elird said that although football was an institution at Oklahoma, basketball was just as exciting.
game Saturday
"Basketball isn't as standard at OU as football," he said. "But a national basketball championship would be just as sweet."
Eilod, who is also a bartender at Brothers, an Norma, Okla., drinking establishment, said that the bar had been packed Saturday night.
He said that the fans had been celebrating the victory since the final basketball game.
"It was standing room only. It was crazy," he said. "They kept playing the OU fight song, and people were really getting into it. It was crazy."
be full tonight before and after the game.
"I'm just glad I'm not working,"
"I'm just glad I'm not working," Elrod said.
Oklahoma fans said that the Kansas-Okahoma rivalry would make a good game. Debbie Shukis, a sophomore at Oklahoma, said that she was excited about the game because she hadn't expected an all-Big Eight championship.
"I'm really surprised that Kansas won over Duke," she said. "But it's great. We've beat them twice now. We can do it again."
Steve Stice, a sophomore at Okla-
mia, said that he couldn't wait for lipstick.
"Everything has stopped for Monday," he said.
He added his prediction for the outcome of the game.
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"There'll be a lot of partying Soon ers after we win," Stice said.
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