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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 17, 1991
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Tennis teams snag 9-0 sweep
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Jeff Gross returns a serve against Missouri's David Leslie. Gross defeated Leslie 6-1, 6-0.
By Mark Spencer Kansan sportswriter
It was a case of the good, the bad and the ugly for the Kansas tennis teams against Missouri yesterday at the Allen Field House tennis courts.
The good was that both teams drilled the Tigers 9-0. The women extended their undefeated Big Eight Conference record to 5-0, and the men improved to 4-0.
The bad was an injury to Kansas freshman Rhain Buth's left leg when he tripped during the No. 2 doubles match.
"They did an X-ray on Rhain and it showed no fracture," Kansas men's tennis coach Scott Perleman said. "They said the fracture will be a bone scan done tomorrow."
The ugly side of tennis, if indeed the ball was also evident in the No 2 doubles game.
Buth and Kansas junior Pat Hat battled Missouri's Ryan Tucker and Robert Rogers. The final score, 6-7, 6-2, 6-4, might indicate a competitive match, but more was involved than that.
Missouri's Rogers and Tucker preferred to taunt the Kansas duo more than play tennis. Han and Tucker exchanged words early, but Han concentrated his efforts towards tennis after being calmed by Pereiman.
Tucker, however, continued to taint Hant and Buth and even antagonized a spectator standing outside the restaurant into the surrounding chain-link fence.
"They were hitting some shots and put us down 4-1 early." Han said. "Then, the guy starts calling me names. I guess it gets frustrating for those guys when they lose every match 9-0."
Han said the verbal taunting came as no surprise to him.
"Teams have been taking some shots at us," he said. "We took a lot of abuse at Nebraska. I guess if they hit them, we would beat them, they'll beat us some other way."
As evidenced on the court, the Tigers plainly could not beat the Javahawks with the racquet.
Kansas senior Chris Walker was the only Jayahawk pushed to a third
set for a singles victory
Kansas seniors Craig Wildey and Jeff Gross, and juniors Rafael Rangel, Paul Garvin and Han polished off their Tiger opponents in straight sets.
The women's team took an equally productive but less eventful course through the Missouri lineup in its 9-0 victory.
Kansas women's tennis coach Michael Center said he was pleased with the Jayhawks' domination of the overmatched Tigers.
"I told them from the start to give this team respect and play them hard," he said. "I was hoping it would turn out this way, and it did."
Kansas juniors Eveline Hammers, Renee Raychaudhury, Page Golns and Laura Hagemann and freshmen from several colleges were victorious in singles competition.
Raychaudhuri's match, like nearly all the others, lasted just over 25 minutes.
She said, "We all went into the thinking they were like any other, but we were."
The Kansas doubles teams of No. 1 Hamers and Raychaudhuri. No. 2 Bowers and Goins and No. 3 Buffy and Jasmin Pelz added straight set victories.
In coming crucial conference confrontations, both tennis teams play Oklahoma State on Saturday and Oklahoma on Sunday at the field house courts. On both days the women play at 9 a.m. and the men play at 2 p.m.
Walker one of three finalists for scholarship
Kansas senior Chris Walker, the No. 2 singles player on the men's tennis team, has been chosen as one of the top four players by Bayers Post-Graduate Scholarship.
The Byers scholarship is awarded annually to a senior varsity athlete who plans to further his or her studies. The objective of an undergraduate degree.
The nationwide field of candidates includes every sport before the three finalists are chosen.
Questions linger over Phelps resignation
Williams and Bobby Cremins cited as possible candidates for position
The Associated Press
The huge Monogram Room, an upstairs banquet hall in the Joyce Athlete and Convocation Center from 393 games, didn't lack for space.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Did he jump or was he pushed? Diggle Phelps was flanked by his family, and not by Notre Dame officials, when he announced his retirement after 20 years as coach of the Fighting Irish.
The long walls were lined with well-wishers and the curious: friends and coaches from the athletic depart- ment here make public relations staff and priests.
The dean of the law school, where
Phelps' wife, Terry, teaches, came to listen.
But Phelps' two immediate bosses were at the farthest corners of the country. Athletic director Dick Rosenthal was attending an NCAA tournament in Atlanta, E. William Beauchamp, vice president for athletics, was in Alaska.
So Terry Phelps, and the coach's daughters, Karen Phelps Moyer and Jennifer, sat at his side.
The timing and symbolism gave ammunition to those who argue that he was pushed out, said the basket-knife him's former academic adviser.
"The Knight Commission report
just came out a week or 10 days ago, and they talked about how won-loss records should not be a reason to fire the coach," Michael A. DeCisco said.words that appears to be of the reasons or Phelis decision to leave, he said.
"It reinforces the people who think he was fired rather than retired," DeCico said.
The commission report, issued March 19, sharply criticized universities that give short shrift to graduates and fire coaches for losing
The chairperson of the commission, former Notre Dame president the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, asked that his commissioner the question in his own backyard.
Beauchamp's statement was more generous. The disappointing 12-20 season of 1990-91 would be overshadowed by his dozen 20-victory seasons, 14 NCAA appearances and several dramatic upsets, he said.
"I told myself when I retired from here that I was not going to secondguess the management," he said.
"Above all, there are 54, soon to be 66, graduated student-athletes every scholarship athlete who has completed four years under Digger," he said.
The list of possible successors to Phelps includes Xavier coach Pete Gillen, a former Phelps assistant who said he was happy in Cincinnati.
Other names popping up include Roy Williams of Kansas; Southern Methodist coach John Shumate, a former player and assistant under Chelps; George Raveling of Southern Bobby Cremins of Georgia Tech.
'Hawks work on stature of Relays
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan sportswriter
All three phone lines in the Kansas Relays headquarters were lit up Monday afternoon.
"They have been lit up all day," David Kaiser, Relays manager, said.
Kaiser was answering the phones and taking registrations from high school and college with the 66th Annual Kansas Relays.
The rekeys begin today and are the end result of a seven-month planning process Kaiser has undertaken in an effort to regain the stature the Relays once had.
Kaiser, a self-proclaimed "rookie" Roles manager, said that several independent athletes would add to the excitement of the
Ed Kammans of the New York Athletic Club is the favorite in the men's javelin. He comes to match with a mark of 241 feet. Lunch.
"We started working on this in September," he said. "I think it could be the second coming of the Kansas Relaws."
On the women's side, Laverne Eave from the Bahamas is entered in the javelin with a throw of 214.
The Kansas record for women's javelin is 16-10, a mark that may be challenged by Kansas' freshman sensation Heather Berlin. Berlin has had consistent marks in the high 150's and recorded her personal best of 162-4 in late March.
The pole vault will feature not
only Kansas All-American Pat Manson, but five former Kansas All- Americans as well. One of those is Jeff Buckingham, the owner of the Kansas outdoor vault record of 18·10³⁴.
A throw of 223-8 is the high mark for favored John Billingsley of the Stars and Stripes track club in the hammer.
Kansas freshman Michael Cox is another athlete who Kaiser said should add to the excitement. Cox competed in the Junior World Cross Country Championships, then began his outdoor season by blowing away the field in the 1,500-meter run last week in Nebraska.
Kansas coach Gary Schwartz said that the Jayhawks were looking forward to the Relays.
Kaiser said that in an effort to get more fans in Memorial Stadium, he sent letters to elementary schools in surrounding communities inviting students to the Relays.
He said the teams had not altered their training for the meet, but that he expected to see games in front of the home crowd.
He said he hoped to have nearly 500 elementary students in the stands.
"Having those younger kids will add to the excitement and put some more youth back into the Relays." Kaiser said.
If the Relays can avoid its legendary rainy weather jinx, Kaiser said the switches and high voltage circuits be the right formula for success.
Foreman predicts miracles for fight
The Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — George Foreman has a new definition for the word “miracle.”
"What is a miracle?" asked Foreman at a news conference yesterday.
A miracle is someone who eats too much and fights for the heavyweight championship at the age of 42, the self-proclaimed, 250-pound cheese-burger champion said. A miracle is what Foreman predicts will happen when he challenges Evander Holyfield for boxing's most important title.
Foreman, an evangelist, sees the unbeaten Holyfield's role in the fight as destiny.
"He was born so I could get my chance to become heavyweight champion of the world," said Foreman, who won the title with a second-round knockout of Joe Frazier in 1973. He lost it on an eight-round knockout to Muhammad Ali in 1974 and then retired from 1977 to 1987.
Hollyfield, who was 10 at the time, watched on closed-circuit television as Foreman beat Frazier.
"Joe Frazier's style was just cut out for Foreman," the 28-year-old Hollyfield said.
Foreman predicted that he would knock out Holyfield in two rounds.
Frazier's style was to attack. Foreman knocked him down six times.
Frazier's style was to attack. Foreman knocked him down six times. Foreman is different now, says Holvield.
"Foreman was a lot longer then and threw a lot more punches. Today, he doesn't throw a lot of punches," the champ said.
There's no question that Foreman still punches hard. He has scored 23 knockouts in winning all 24 of his comeback fights.
The revenue from pay-per-view and closed-circuit television, foreign television rights and the live gate will clearly make it the first $100 million event in history, said co-promoter Bob Arum.
Two-game scoring blast propels baseball team to big wins
Bv Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
in its second Pearl Harbor-like offensive attack in three days, the Kansas baseball team rapped 26 hits en route to a 22-0 mauling of the Emporia State Hornets last night at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
Last night's statistics and those from Sunday's 28-3 Kansas victory against Graceland College give the Jayhawks 50 runs, 56 hits and no fielding errors in their last two games.
"I like these games," Kansas coach Dave Bingham said. "I thought it might happen on Sunday, but I didn't think it would tonight."
Jayhawk hitting stars have been numerous the last two games, but Kansas catcher Kent Mahon has been especially noteworthy, playing in the place of the injured Garry Schmidt.
"The key tonight was scoring seven in the first two innings and getting into their bullpen early," Bingham said.
The Jayhawks struck often and severely against the Hornets, scoring runs in every innings but the third and sixth.
Mahon entered last night's game batting .571 with four hits in six trips to the plate. Against the Horizon, he runs three runs with a 4-for-3 performance.
He said that there was no pressure on him and that he hoped Bingham might consider him if a left-hander obtained from the bench later in the year.
Kansas right-hander Curtis Schmidt improved his record to 44 for the year, and right-hander Jim Linder does not allow a hit in the last two innings.
Mahon said he had no problem going back to the bench when Schmidt returns to the line-up Friday night at Oklahoma.
Kansas right-hander Eric Stonei-
pier struck out the side in the sixth
and seventh innings in relief of
Schmidt.
Three Jayhawk pitchers combined to limit the Hornets to only five hits while striking out 12.
"Coach has always been on me to concentrate for nine innings, so that what's it. Tried to do when I was out there." Stonecipie said.
Kansas outfielder Darrul Monroe dives back to second base after rounding it on a single to left field.
Attitudes bring down golf team in tournament
After finishing fourth at the Azalea Festival Tournament in Hampstead, N.C., during the weekend, the Kansai National High School how attitudes can affect a game.
Bv Lana Smith
Kansas coach Sarah Johnson said that all the players would agree that
Kansan sportswriter
"They had a few bad rounds, and those will kill you every time," Johnson said. "They were just not willing to play the ball, keeping the ball in play very well."
"Everyone has a tendency to take it too seriously," Johnson said.
After Kansas shot 321 in the first round, Johnson said she told the team
Kansas junior Laura Myers said the Jayhaws probably could have done better in the tournament, especially since he had played the course last year.
Pennsylvania State University won the tournament, and the University of Mississippi finished second. Kansas University broke behind third-place Iowa State.
“As a team, we played better than we've been playing, but I still don't think we've played as well as we can and will play.” Myers said.
Johnson said the loss to Iowa State might be a motivating factor for the Jayhawks as they prepared for the NCAA vice tournament, which is April 29-30.
"With golf, from week to week it changes, and a lot of it is attitudes." Myers said. "Whoever is fired up will win."
Myers said that whoever went into the Big Eight tournament with the most enthusiasm would probably win.
"If anything, that has them fired
She said that she would be practicing hard in the next two weeks before the tournament and trying to keep her attitude positive.
Johnson said she wanted the Jayhawks to become more consistent in
their ball-striking before the Big Eight tournament. She also said she wanted to help them with their course management.
"Sometimes I see them get in situations when their decisions aren't the best," Johnson said.
"If we had played to our potential, I think we could have placed higher," she said.
Kansas freshman Holly Reynolds said the competition at the Azalea tournament was not the toughest the Jaehwaks had faced.
Back at home, Johnson said that the Jayhawks would be using the next two weeks to get ready for the conference tournament.
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Boston homers sock it to KC
Darwin, signed as a free agent for $11.8 million over four years, retired 16 straight batters after walking with two outs in the second innning.
BOSTON — Tom Brunanksy, Wade Boggs and Mike Marshall hit solo homers as Boston ended a 22-inning scoring drought, beating Kansas City
Mike Macfarlane ended the streak with a single off the left-field wall to start the eighth. Stillwell then hit his first homer into the Boston bollin in
Danny Darwin (1-1) got his first American League victory in five years. He allowed five hits, including Kurt Stillwell's two-run homer in the eighth, struck out seven and walked one in 72 innings.
right-center.
Darwin got the next two batters, but was lifted in favor of Tony Fossas after Kevin Seitzer's ground single to the buckets pitched the nath for his first save.
The Red Sox, blanked twice by Cleveland and winner of just one game in six starts since beating Toronto in the season opener, jumped in for the first inning with a pair of unearned win of Kevin Aperi (1-1).
With two outs, Mike Greenwell singled to right and took second as Stilwell fumbled Marshall's ball for an even play. Brunasyk nudged with RRI singles.
With two outs in the third, Brunansky hit his first homer of the season.