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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 24, 1991
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Jayhawks shocked in 15-run Wichita rally
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
WICHTI - The Kansas baseball team amazed the 5,300 fans at Eck Stadium last night by winning Wichita State after 3-1/2 innings. Wichita State after 3-1/2 innings.
But, it was the Jayhawks who were left with their mouths agape after the Shockers post 15 unanswered runs en route to a 15-6 victory.
Two batters later, Moore advanced to third base when Kansas first baseman Jeff Niemeyer singled up the middle. Green's next hit was Doug Mirabelli and Moore raced home with Kansas' first run.
The Jayhawks started off red-hot when Kansas center fielder Chris Moore led the game with a center foot off Shocker ace Tyler Green.
With Niemeyer standing on second, Kansas right fielder Denard
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Stewart bounced a ball between Wichita State shortstop Chris Wimmer's legs. Niemeyer came all the way around to score and Kan-
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Kansas left fielder John Wuycheck drove in the two runs with a bloop single to left.
The Jayhawks added two more runs in the top of the second, thanks to three hits and two Shocker errors.
On the mound, Kansas lefthander Rory Ramsdell was virtually untouchable after three innings
After the 'Hawks increased their lead to 5-0 in the fourth, Ramsdale cleared an invincibility with seven hits and the Shakers with seven hits and five runs.
Kansas right hander Chris Corn relieved Ramsdell, but surrendered another run before the inning was over. The Shocker rally tied the score at six heading into the fifth
"It was a miserable performance at the start for us," Shocker coach Gene Stephenson said.
From that point on, the Shockers were all take and no give.
Wichita State racked up six more hits and nine more runs in their last four innings.
Kansas coach Dave Bingham said the Jayhawk pitchers did not help the Kansas cause by walking 13 Shockers.
"We were flirting with disaster from the start by walking hitters of that caliber," he said. "I don't mind giving up home runs, but I do mind giving up three-run home runs."
The two teams will play again at 7 tonight in Lawrence at Hogland-Maupin Stadium.
KU keeps regional tourney
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan sportswriter
The United States Volleyball Association is so pleased with the way the University of Kansas and Lawrence put on a tournament that they have decided to the regional volleyball association for a fourth consecutive year.
The tournament will be Saturday and Sunday.
"The region seems to be happy with the way we are running the tournament, so they are not anxious to take it away from us." said Ed Lechyse, KU men's volleyball club coach.
Lecluyse said KU had an advantage over other schools because of the many gymnasiums in the area.
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including Robinson Center, the Holcim Sports Complex, Haskell Indian Junior College, Allen Field House and West Junior High School.
The regional tournament in the past was moved every two years.
For the area club teams, this tournament will be a springboard to the zonal and national tournaments that will be in May.
For the Kansas women's varsity volleyball team, it is the end of the season.
Kansas coach Frankie Albizt said that no matter how well the Jayhawks did in the tournament, they could not advance to zonal meets.
"There are NCAA regulations that prohibit us from going." she said.
She said that rules restricting the number of tournaments that one team could play in were one reason the team would not continue after the tournament.
The women's varsity team has fared well in its three previous tournaments, finishing in the top four at each one, including a fourth place finish at an April 13th tournament in Lawrence.
"There are also rules about playing in the summer after school is out." she said.
"We have been right up there with the top dogs every time," Albitz said.
Royals shut out Cleveland
CLEVELAND — Storm Davis got a little spoiled during more than two years with the Oakland Athletics. It adjusted to a different style of baseball
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Davis, using a new delivery that he developed during spring training, in 1985 last night as the Kansas City Royals beat the Cleveland Indians 6-0.
"Every time out in spring, I got more comfortable dropping my arm down to three-quarters," Davis said. "There comes a time in your career when you need to make adjustments. Fortunately, Pat Dolson came along at the right time."
"In Oakland, I was able to pitch up in the strike zone a little more." Davis said, explaining that Oakland's defense made the offense more capable of offense made life easier on a pitcher.
"That's about as good as Storm has pitched for us," manager John Wathan said. "He liked I likeled him. Pat has been working with him on himkeeping it down."
In Kansas City, it's been a different story. After going 19-7 during 1889, his final season with the A's, Davis stumbled to 7-10 last year, the first of his three-year contract with the Royals.
Pitching coach Pat Dobson, signed by Kansas City last October, helped Davis modify his delivery so that he could hit the ball as an angle instead of straight overhand.
It was the fourth time the Indians not been blanked in 12 games this season.
The new motion helps Davis keep the ball low.
Davis, 2-1, pitched his first complete game of the season and only his third in the last five years, yielding five hits, walking none and striking three home runs. His shutout was a three-hit, 6-0 victory against Seattle on Aug. 30, 1985.
Davis is 10-2 lifetime against Cleveland, including 6-1 in Cleveland Stadium.
"Davis threw strikes," Cleveland
Royals predict knee injury keeps Brett out for a month
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A knee injury will keep George Brett out of action for about four weeks, the Kansas City Royals said yesterday.
Brett suffered a partial tear of the medial collateral ligament in the right knee, said Steve Joyce, the team physician.
Joyce said his examination revealed no damage to the cartilage or cruciate ligament and surgery would not be necessary.
Brett, who won the American League batting championship for a third time last season, was injured while running out a grounder in the eighth inning of Monday's 10-4 loss to Cleveland.
Brett said he slipped on loose dirt as he came out of the batter's
The Royals said Brett would likely be placed on the 15-day disabled list today.
box after hitting a sharp grounder up the middle.
"It made a real loud pop. The same thing's happened to me four times before, twice to each knee. This was a very similar sensation. Each time it's happened, I've torn a ligament."
"I felt something when I was running, but it didn't seem real bad," he said. "Then it popped when I went out to play first base.
Ligament tears in the same knee caused Brett to miss 24 games in 187 and 35 in 1989. Staying healthy last season, he rebounded from a miserable start with a crown-buckling crown with a 329 average.
Brett is off to another slow start this season, hitting only .170.
Joyce said the knee should be immobilized for two weeks, and Brett would need about two weeks of rehabilitation after that.
manager John McNamara said. "That's his reputation. You give him that kind of a lead and he's going to throw strikes."
Kirk Gibson had three his including a home run, his fifth. He has homered in three consecutive games.
Warren Cromartie also had three hits, including an infield single that started the Royals' four-run second inning.
Loser Eric King, 1-2, lasted $4^{1/3}$ innings, giving up six runs and 10 hits.
Kansas City scored four runs on six hits in the second inning. Mike Macfarlane doubled the first run, and Kevin Hearn hit a single and Keenan Seltzer hit a RB1 single.
The Royals single runs in the third on Kurt Stillwell's RBI single and in the fifth, on Gibson's 420-foot home run to right center.
Notes: Kansas City center fielder McRae flaged down several long fly
balls in center field, including deep drives by Brook Jacoby and Joel Skinner. McRae had plenty of room to work because the Indians pushed the center-field fence back 15 feet during the offseason, to 415 feet from home plate. . . Gibson last homered in three straight games Sept. 17-19, 1985, against the New York Yankees at Tiger Stadium. Those home runs were off Ron Guidry, Phil Niekro and Rod Scurry. 'Davis' last complete game was Aug. 19, 1989, when he beat Minnesota 5-4 for Oakland. . . Indians reliever Shawn Hillegas pitched 3% scoreless innings, striking out five. The Cleveland bullpen has given up one run in its last 21½ innings. . . Cromartie started at first base in place of George Brett, who will be out about a month because of a partially-torn medial collateral ligament in his right knee. Brett hurt the knee Monday night while leaving the batter's box on a grounder.
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Ruqby maul
Tom Smith, Wichita senior, grips the ball as he begins a rugby play with teammates (from left) Mike Meenahan, Lawrence
Kansas Rugby Club trounces Kansas City
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resident; Don Harris, Lawrence resident; and Paddy DeLarge,
London senior.
The Kansas Rugby Club traveled to Kansas City last weekend where it played the Kansas City Rugby Club. Kansas won the match 40-4 and avenged last fall's loss to Kansas City.
Kansas will travel to Dallas tomorrow, where the team will play in the Western Union Club Championship. The winner will advance to the National Final Four in San Diego. The Kansas Collegiate.
The Kansas Collegiate side, made up of only collegiate players, beat the
the Johnson County Rugby Club 32-0. The Kansas Collegiate and Reserve teams will finish their spring seasons at home against the Topeka/Washburn Rugby Club this weekend.
Kansas City Rugby Club's B-team by a score of 18-4.
Kansas softball team goes 2-0 against SMSU
The Kansas Reserve team lost to the Johnson County Rugby Club 32-0
The Kansas softball team went 2-0 yesterday against Southwest Missouri State in Springfield, Mo.
Kansas freshman pitcher Stephani Williams was credited with the first game victory.
The Jayhawks defeated SMSU 2-0 in the first game and 11-1 in the second.
Junior pitcher Shelly Sack grabbed the second game victory, which boosted her record to 11-0.
Junior third baseman Camille Seiell was Kansas' star hit in both games against SMSU. She had a game and two games and two triples in the second.
The 'Jayhawks' next game will be the Big Eight Conference Round Robin on Saturday in Lincoln, Neb.
Suspension upheld for shot-put record-holder
INDIANAPOLIS — A two-year drug-related suspension of Randy Barnes, the world record-holder in the shot put, was upheld by an appeals panel, The Athletics Congress said yesterday.
Barnes, 24, tested positive for methyltestosterone, a banned substance, at a meet in Sweden on Aug. 7, 1990. His suspension began in November and runs through Nov. 1, 1992.
From staff and wire reports
Boxers' camps trade stinging word blows Sides don't agree on bout terms
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NEW YORK — Evander Hollyfield and Mike Tyson have not agreed to fight yet, but their camps already are engaged in a war of words.
Tyson's promoter, Don King,
started the verbal volley yesterday
with a barrage of challenges and
charges against Hollyfield and his
three closest associates; promoter
Joe Dava and manager Shelly Finkel.
During an informal luncheon with reporters, King repeatedly called Finkel and the diars and deceivers, accused Holyfield of ducking Tyson and challenged the heavyweight champion to a winner-take-all against Tyson in September or October.
"We'll fight him anytime, anywhere, anyplace." King said. "The winner goes home with everything, the loser goes home with nothing."
King said, "The public wants this fight, I want this fight and Mike Tyson wants this fight, but Hollyfeld and his people are trying to avoid it. It's a bravacity. Boxing fans are tired of being treated like Bozo the Browm."
Informed of King's comments, Dan Duya launched a counterattack.
Dua said Friday's Holyfield George Foreman fight breathed fresh air into the sport.
"Now Don King has gone back to polluting the environment." Duva
King said a 50-50 split was fair because Tyson was a bigger draw than Holvfeld.
"When I was the challenger, Tyson was going to get 75 percent and I was going to get 25," Hollyfield said.
Dua dismissed King's winner-
take all challenge, as well as an
alternate offer of a 50-50 split
champion and No.1 a challenger.
Holyfield, who won a unanimous decision against Foreman, criticized King's 50-50 proposal Monday night on the "The Arsenio Hall" show.
"Evander Holfyde can't draw flies to a dump," King said. "Just because he's the champion doesn't mean he should get the most money. When Muhammad Ailu fought Larry Brown, his money got $3 million even though he was the champion. That's because people came to see Ali, not Holmes."
Dan Duva said he was wining to negotiate the spurse pilt, but was not going to debate it point by point in the media. If the two sides cannot settle their differences by June 1, the payouts would be decided in a "purse bid" by one of boxing's three main sanctioning bodies: the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation.
"They're both ridiculous," Dua said. "Fighters work too hard for one guy to come away with nothing."
Spinks considers return to ring
The Associated Press
Spinks, 37, would fight Harold "Hackie" Reitman, a 41-year-old doctor from Plantation, Fla., who began his professional boxing career two years ago and has a record of 8-1-2
"This is not a done deal," matchmaker Tommy Torino said. "I've been told by the state boxing commissioner that Spinks will have to undergo a medical workout, and we have to make sure he's clean from
"But if he meets all the requirements, he's going to be Hackie's opponent."
The fight would be May 23 at War Memorial Auditorium, on the same card as actor Mickey Rourke. Rourke's ononent hasn't been selected.
Spinks, the 1976 heavyweight Olympic gold medalist, is younger than Larry Holmes, 41, and George W. Bush, 43, who come-back bouts earlier this month.
Spinks beat Muhammed Ali in February 1978 to win the heavy-weight title, then lost it to Ali in his next fight in September 1978. He has since been involved in several well-publicized motoring mishaps, filed for bankruptcy protection, tended bar in Detroit and, more recently, moved to Chicago and apparently resumed training.
He was suspended by the Nevada state boxing commission in June 1986 for testing positive for an unspecified depressant after a March 1986 fight with Dwight Qawl.
Reitman has sparred with former heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick and, in February, met former lightweight champion Roberto Duran in a three-round exhibition in Hollywood, Fla.