Sports
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 17, 1991
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Tennis teams snag 9-0 sweep
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 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 trapped during the No. 2 doubles match.
"They did an X-ray on Rhain and it showed no fracture." Kansas men's tennis coach Scott Perelman said. "I was worried, but he will be a bone scan done tomorrow."
The ugly side of tennis, if indeed there is one, was also evident in the No. 2 doubles match.
Buth and Kansas junior Pat Han 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.
Jeffsen seniors Craig Wildey and Jeff Gross, and juniors Rafael Rafael Garvin and Han polished off their Tiger opponents in straight sets.
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 tennesi after being calmed by Perelman.
The women's team took an equally productive but less eventful course through the Missouri lineup in its 9-0 victory.
Tucker, however, continued to taint Han and Buth and even antagonized a spectator standing outside the building into the surrounding chain-link fence.
Kansas women's tennis coach Michael Center said he was pleased with the Jayhawks' domination of the overmatched Tigers.
"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
"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."
set for a singles victory.
Kansas juniors Eveline Hamers, Renee Rayheaudhui, Page Golns and Laura Hagemann and freshmen Cyril Kotz and Victoria vicious in singles competition.
Raychaudhuri's match, like nearly all others, lasted just over 25 minutes.
The Kansas doubles teams of No. 1
Hamers and Raychaudhurst, No.
2 Makers and Goinns and No. 3 Buffy
Mowers and Peltz, Pelz added
straight-set victories.
She said, "We all went into the match thinking they were like any other team."
In coming concure conference confrontations, both tennis teams play Oklahoma State on Saturday and OKC North on Sunday field house courts. On both day fields the women play at 9 a.m. and the men play at 2 p.m.
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'Hawks work on stature of Relays
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan sportswriter
Kaiser was answering the phones and taking registrations from high school and college in the 66th annual Kansas Relays.
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.
The Relays begin today and are the end result of a seven-month planning process. Kaiser has insisted that Relay 12 be the stature the Relays once had.
"We started working on this in September," he said. "I think it could be the second coming of the Kansas Relays."
Kaiser, a self-proclaimed "rookie" Relays manager, said that several independent athletes had come to the excitement of the Relays.
Ed Kaminski of the New York Athletic Club is the favorite in the men's javelin. He comes to competition with a mark of 241 feet, 1 inch.
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 166-10, a mark that may be challenged by Kansas freshman sensation Heatner Berlin.
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, 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.
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.
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 he hoped to have nearly 500 elementary students in the stands.
"Having those young kids will add to the excitement and put some more youth back into the Relays," Kaiser said.
Jeff Gross returns a serve against defeated Leslie 6-1, 6-0.
"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 to relax and have fun.
"They had a few bad rounds, and those will kill you every time," Johnson said. They were just not sure. "They here are keeping the ball in play very well."
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Kansas coach Sarah Johnson said that all the players would agree that Kansas should have won.
The long walls were lined with well-wishers and the curious: friends and coaches from the athletic department and the public relations staff and priests.
The huge Monogram Room, an upstairs banquet hall in the Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center with 393 games, didn't lack for space.
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In its second Pearl Harbor-like offensive attack in three days, the Kansas baseball队 rapped 26 hits en route to a 22-0 mauling of the Emporia State Hornets last night at Hogwain-Munford Stadium.
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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.
Attitudes bril
"I like these games," Kansas coach Dave Bingham said. "I thought it might happen on Sunday, but I didn't think it would tonight."
The Jayhawks struck often and severely against the Hornets, scoring runs in every inning but the third and sixth.
By Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
Sportswear turns away from neons
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Sportswear this spring is returning to traditional colors and styles, and turning away from the bright neons and fluorescent colors of the past few years.
"College kids are going back to the basics this year," said Butch Logan, manager of Jock's Nitch Inc., 840 Massachusetts St. "Two years ago, neons were as hot as they could be, but trends go in cycles. Too many people were wearing it."
Logan said he expected darker colors such as hunter green and purple to do well this spring.
"Any darker jewel or eartl
tones are going to be big this spring;" he said.
Tim McBride, owner of Prime Time Sports, 711 W. 23rd St., agreed that neons were not as popular this year, but added that traditional bright colors, such as red and blue, still would sell well.
"Bright colors are still in, but fluorescent colors are not as hot," he said.
The trend towards darker colors is evident in the types of team sportswear that people are buying. Teams with dark colors, particularly black, are extremely popular. Clothing featuring the Los Angeles Raiders, Los Angeles Kings and the Atlanta
Falcons have sold well so far this spring.
"Anything with the Raiders on it is really popular." MrMcBride said. "It is the No. 1 selling licensing item."
Van Schaffer, employee at The Athlete's Foot, 942 Massachusetts St., said the trend towards black and dark colors in sportswear was sometimes more powerful than tradition.
"Even if black is not in the team colors, it well sell," he said. "If we had a black cap that had Kansas on it, it would sell."
Schaffer said that the trend this year in styles of sportwear was similar to that of the past two years. He said cotton was
The one exception to cotton is nylon. Nylon jackets and shorts are particularly popular for jogging.
generally the fabric of choice in spring sportswear. Cotton T-shirts and sweatshirts were especially popular, he said.
"This year, people are wearing long, loose, baggy shorts - usually Umbro or Nike. The layered look, wearing a pair of shorts under a pair of shorts, is in," he said.
Schaffer said that Nike's Michael Jordan line of sportswear was as popular as ever.
"The Jordan shirts and shorts are popular, even though they
are expensive," he said.
Trends in spring clothing for golf and tennis are closely linked to prices.
Bev Smith, an employee of the Alvamar Country Club Pro Shop, said that people were looking for cheaper, more casual clothing for golf and tennis.
"People are buying things to use with other things," she said. "You used to see only collared shirts for golf and tennis. Now there is a real surge in T-shirts."
Smith said the reason for the shift in popular styles in golf and tennis clothing was that most people were looking for sportswear that was more casual and less expensive.
Baseball hats serve as more than spirit items
By Derek Nolen
Baseball season is here and it's time to pull out your baseball hats and show you team spirit.
What was once a way for diehard fans to show team spirit has become a big industry. People these days wear baseball hats everywhere.
The biggest seller this year is the fitted baseball hat. The hats
This time, however, everyone has been wearing their baseball hats a bit early.
come in different sizes which are made to fit different people with different size heads. The hats carry logs ranging from baseball teams, colleges, football teams and fraternity names.
"It's definitely a big industry," said Matt Gowen, an
The Jock's Nitch, 840 Massachusetts St. has about 85 different hats hanging on its walls. Most of the major university and professional baseball teams are represented.
employee at the store. "We sell about 40 hats a week. The college hats are by far our largest seller, especially the two-tone hats."
It is hard these days to walk around a college campus and not see someone wearing a baseball hat.
Chris Leonardi, Lawrence senior, said he liked to wear hats because it made getting ready for class easier. He said he didn't have to worry. He could just
put the hat on.
The new hat craze also might have something to do with the new sport look in fashion.
"It used to be that no one would go into a bar with anything less than an Izod or a Polon on," said Tim Christian, St. Louis senior. "These days, a hat is considered fashionable. People are dressing more relaxed when they go out."
Scott Florez, Topeka junior, said he thought people were
wearing the hats as more of a statement.
"I have never really thought of hats as a piece of an outfit," he said. "I think most people are wearing them to show who they are rooting for."
There may be no answer to how the hat craze got started. However, you can be fairly certain that as long as guys are lazy in the morning, or want to show their team spirit, baseball hats will be around.
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