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Sinclair makes transition well from Tulsa sandlots to 'Hawks
By PATSLATTERY
Sports Writer
There's a lot of difference between playing softball on a Tulsa, Oka, sandlot and on the KU team. And Shelley Sinclair is well aware of that.
She currently leads KU pitchers with a 9-0 record and a .390 ERA.
"I couldn't believe it when I first cam-
ber," Sinilar said. "Everybody was so competicile. I never seen anybody so
big, so deep game. I didn't think I
"make the team."
When she first came to KU, however,
she had a tough time getting to play.
Sinclair not only made the team, she is now one of its stars.
HER HIGH school didn't have a softball team until her senior year, and most of her experience came from sandlot and local league games.
After graduating from high school, she had planned to go to Oklahoma University and came to KU almost by accident.
"We were playing in a tournament in McPherson, and I saw Dr. (Sharon) Drydale there," Sinclair said. "She watched me play and offered me a scholarship. I took it without even seeing the campus. Now I'm glad I did."
Drysdale is the former head coach and currently is an assistant professor in the physical education department.
Last year, as a freshman at KU, most of Sinclair's playing time came in the outfield. The Jayhawks had an abundance of good pitchers that year, and she had a tough time cracking the starting line up.
SINCLAIR SAID she attributed her success this year to experience gained playing summer ball.
The coach of a Hutchinson team called Purple Power she played for the Jayhawks in the state tournament last year and signed her up for the summer.
"I was one of two pitchers on the team, and I got in a lot of playing time." Sinchlair said. "We weren't in a league of kind but spent a lot of time on the跑。
Purple Power played in tournaments from Kansas to New Mexico. The team played as many as four games a day.
"Pitching two games a day can be really tiring," she said, "but I was glad to be getting the experience. It helped give me the confidence that I needed."
SINCLAIR'S confidence has increased as KU's season has progressed. Her statistics show it.
Six of her nine wins have been shut out. She has given up just three earned runs and 22 hits in 60-1 3 innings. She has struck out 53.
She also has been effective at the plate,
batting. 251. She has 10 hits in 39 at-bats
and scored nine runs.
Control has been an occasional problem for Sinclair. She has walked 14 and committed three errors.
KU coach Bob Stanclift said he thought the control problems would clear up in time.
"SHELLEY IS young and has a lot of potential," he said, "If anything, she's going to get better."
Sinclair, a business major, would some like to have her own business, but her husband wanted it. Last year was the first for a professional women's fast pitch softball league in the United States and, she said, professionally was still up in the air.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Sinclair leads KU's pitching staff with 9-0 mark
"I haven't really looked into it yet. I know they only play for three months out of the year, so I have to quit any job I do." He said. "I'll probably end up long the legue is going to be around."
If the pro league folds, Sinclair said, she would try to find a team to play for somewhere.
"It's hard to give up something you've loved doing for 10 years."
Golf squad plays today
Today's opening round of the Drake Invitational in Des Moines, Iowa, will provide the KU men's golf team with its last competition for nearly a month.
The Drake meet, which lasts through Friday, is the only meet remaining for the Jayhawks until the Big Eight championship season. 18-21 at Alvamar Hills in Lawrence.
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Scott Wright's fan club had plenty to cheer about yesterday in KU's doubleheader sweep over the Emporia State Hornets.
Sweep ends home season
By JASON NUSS
Snorts Writer
Wright, who is greeted by chants of "Wu. Wu" (his nickname), each trip to the plate, bloomed a single in the bottom of the eighth inning and moved into the first game of the doubleheader.
"It's my fraternity brothers who yell my nickname everytime I come up to the plate." Wright explained. "It makes me relax a little bit when they yell because I know they are up there watching. It's just a little added incentive."
**WRIGHT'S BLOOP** single scored Carl Heinrich from third to give KU the 3-victory. Heinrich led the inning off with a single and advanced to second on Vince McCarthy. Heinrich went to third on a wild pitch to score on Wright's game-winning hit.
KU bombed three Emporia pitches in the nightcap to defeat the Hornet, 13-5. The two victories completed KU's home season with a 12-5 record.
KU took an early lead in the game, scoring two runs in the first inning. But Emporia State countered with two runs in the ninth, and the remained tied until Wright had his single.
Stan Messner, 3-1, picked up the win in relief. Messner repaired Terry Sutcliffe in the eighth inning after Sutcliffe walked the leadoff hit. Sutcliffe allowed only four hits and retired nine consecutive batters before the leadoff walk in the eighth.
KU EXPLODED in the second game, scoring 13 runs on 14 hits. The Jayhawks scored a run in the first inning, five in the second inning, reach with seven runs in the sixth inning.
Bird nails win over Rangers
KANSAS CITY (AP) - John Mayberry lashed a two-run home and Al Cowens tripled his pair of runs in support of Doug Bird's gritty relief pitching as the Kansas City Royals whipped the Texas Rangers 6-3 last night.
Bird, 1-0, entered the game in the fourth inning after Ken Henderer slammed a base hit off starter Andy Hassler's knee to load the bases with none out.
One out later, Juan Benjamue borne bone Texas third run with a ground ball, but the Orioles beat the Rangers.
With the Rangers clinging to a 3-2-lead,
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Carl Heinrich and Andy Gilmore homered and Lee Ice collected three hits in the night.
Gilmore's home run drove in three runs, giving him 28 RBIs for the year and a share of the KU single-season record. He tied Dick Fanning's 1962 total.
"I was having a bad day, until that home run, "Gilmore said. "I was way ahead of everything, so I just told myself to wait and he gave me a fast ball over the plate."
RICK BOGDAN, who relieved Clay Christians in the fourth inning, was credited with win. Bogdan, a sophomore walk-on, is now 3-0.
KU coach Floyd Temple was pleased with
the doubleheader sweep for more than one reason.
"Emporia State is a good club ball." Temple said. "They could play in the Big Eight but couldn't make a living in it." Emporia State pitched pitching staff, but they are a good team."
But Temple was even more pleased with what the sweep could mean to the Jayhawks' morale as they travel to Columbia this weekend for a key Big Eight game. The Tiger's lead the 'Hawks by two games in the Eastern Division.
"I think this will give us momentum," Temple said. "A loss would have really hurt us psychologically. Momentum is really important going into a big series."
Concerts for Young People, Inc. in cooperation with SUA presents the
in a one hour performance
HARTFORD BALLET
One performance only SUNDAY, MAY 1, 3 to 4 p.m. UNIVERSITY THEATRE
KUF Student Tickets in advance
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SEVEN THINGS NOT TO DO THIS SUMMER.
Summer can be fun if you know a few common things to avoid doing.
2. Do not, under any circumstances, try to pick up a cow.
1. Do not swim at any beach where they have loudspeakers playing the soundtrack from "Jaws."
3. Do not answer any want an aim for a summer job that sounds too good to be true —unless you enjoy selling steak knives
4. Do not tell your parents that, after graduation, you have decided on an exciting career in hotel management.
5. Do not accept a date from anyone wearing a green leisure suit and roller skates.
6. Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to feed your pet gerbil a boa constrictor.
Tom See
Schlitz Campus Rep
843-3058
7. Do not forget the one word for beer As your Dean of Beer,
I can think of nothing more important to you to remember
So have fun, have Sohibz and I will see you next fall
©1972, JOS SCHLITZ (BREWING CO., MILWAUkee, WI)