University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 2, 1991
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'Hawks leave injuries behind
Bv Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
Healthy minds and even healthier bodies will be on the side of the Kansas men's tennis team when it plays Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at 2 p.m. at the Allen Field House tennis courts.
The Jayhawks played almost the entire month of March at less than full strength.
"I feel good about where we stand as far as health," Kansas coach Scott Perehlman said "The timing of doing healthy is excellent for the team."
“Chris” Walker has had arm problems, but he’s better now and will play his best tennis in April.” Perelman said. “Pat Han is coming off a broken foot that, knock on wood, hasn’t been giving him problems
"Rafael Rangel is coming off of mononucleosis, but in the last two weeks it seems he has had as much strength as he had last November."
With the 'Hawks at full strength, Perelman said he was eager to go after Kansas' first Eight Conference championship since 1988.
"I don't think we've come anywhere close to peaking," he said. "This hasn't been the kind of team where we have to depend on one or two guys, which I think, in the end, is making us a much stronger operation."
The Jayhawks, in spite of their injury woes, have been impressive.
Behind the strength of several victories against top-ranked opponents, the Jayhawks have soared up
- Scott Perelman Men's tennis coach
'This hasn't been the kind of team where we have to depend on one or two guys, which I think, in the end, is going to make us a much stronger operation.'
the national rankings
"The latest ITCA collegiate team rankings have us going from 21st to 14th. Perelman said." That is the same we have been ranked in the top 15.
The 'Jayhawks' impressive early season record, including two victories over No. 5 Tennessee has betrayed the advancement of the other Big Eight teams.
"To the best of my knowledge, no one else has a win in the top 25." Perelman said. "There's a consensus that we are the favorite to win the conference."
Walker said the Jayhawks needed to concentrate on their own game and not worry about any national rankings to win the Big Eight.
"I think this is the best team I've been on here at KU," the fifth-year senior said. "The rankings show us where there are the best. This team's chemistry is really good."
"This is the first time since I've been on the team. We all got along well," Walker said.
The Jayhawks will play Colorado at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Allen Field House tennis courts in their Big Eight opener.
Ron Klein/KANSAN
Jayhawks handle softball surprise
Craig Wildey prepares for today's match against Missouri.
By Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas softball team was getting ready to practice yesterday when it got a big surprise. The team played today and we play today showed up one day early.
Jayhawk freshman pitcher Stephen Williams improved her record to 9-4 after pitching seven innings in eight games, runs and recorded eight strikeouts.
"They were geared up mentally for practice," Kansas coach Kalum Haack said of the Jayhawks. "We had to hustle to warm up, get dressed and get in batting practice. They did a good job."
The surprise did not shake Kansas too much, however, and the Jayahaws claimed a doubleheader victory against Wisconsin in Green Bay 3-0 and 2-1. Kansas improved its records to 19-7 with the victories.
Haack said Kansas could have used the scheduled day of practice, especially because the team had just come off a three-day weekend.
Saxby also had two RBI singles.
In the first game, Kansas junior third baseman Camille Spitaleri went 1-for-2, and junior shortstop Christy Arburnt went 1-for-3, as did senior second baseman Kim Sacco and junior Ty Saxby.
The first game was dominated by the Jayhawks, but Haack said Kansas seemed to go flat in the second game.
"We should have hit off of them
'We had to hustle to warm up, get dressed and get in batting practice. They did a good job.'
-Kalum Haack Kansas softball coach
Arterbum went two for three and scored a run, senior outfielder Jodi Hoyer went two for two with one RBI, and Spatieleri went one for three with an RBI double. Kansas junior outfitter Jennifer Frost had a triple.
better during the second game," Arterburn said. "We had opportunities to score in other innings. We should have scored more than two runs."
Kansas sophomore pitcher Jil Bailey relieved Sack and pitched two and one-third innings, giving up three hits and one run.
With one out in the seventh inning, Wisconsin-Green Bay loaded the bases against Bailey.
Williams relieved Bailey and recorded the last two outs.
Arterburn said the one-day-tooearly game was a good test for the Jayhawks, even though they could have played better.
"They weren't pretty, but they're two wins, and we'll take them," Arterburn said.
N. Michigan wins NCAA puck title
The Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Northern Michigan has claimed the biggest prize in college hockey, thanks in part to the best little players in the game.
Scott Beattie and Lou Melone are 5-foot-7. Darryl Plandowski is 5-8. Mark Beafait is 5-9. Dean Antos and Bill Pye are 5-10.
The hockey world already has told a number of them that they are not good enough to be pros. But they were good enough to keep their peers, not losing in 26 games (24-0-2) since late December.
The Wildcats (38-5-4) won their first NCAA title with Saturday's 8-7 triple-overtime victory over the Oklahoma State championship longest championship game ever.
Melone, who was not even supposed to play because of an injury, had three assists. Beautiful's perfect pass set up Plandowski's the list that held Boston's top at bay most of the game.
And Pye went all the way in goal, making seven of his 33 saves in overtime and stopping Boston sniper Tony Amonte from point-blank range with one second left in regulation. Pey led the country with 32 victories and finished the season with a 20-0-2 stretch.
Plandowski and Beattie each scored a hat trick. Plandowski's third goal won the game 1:57 into the third OT after 81 minutes, 57 seconds of hockey in a game that took 4 hours, 2 minutes to play. Beattie led the nation in goals (48) and points (89).
"It's tough for a small guy. I used to dream of being 6-2 and 200 pounds," said Plandowski, who
said he was not interested in pro hockey because he was too small.
Beattie, an undrafted 22-year-old sophomore, has not been invited to the Canadian Olympic tryouts.
"I'm ready to sign with anybody willing to take a risk on a 5-7 player," he said. "I've always thought it was a big man's game, but Theo Fleury (of the Calgary Flames) has 50 goals and he's big as I am. There's room for small players in hockey."
Plandowski didn't always think there would be room for him at Northern Michigan.
He was a prolific scorer for his Canadian junior team but quickly found himself overwhelmed in the Collegiate Hockey Association
Boston (28-11-2) had taken a 3-0 lead after one period. Northern came back with six straight goals and still led 7-4 before Amonte McCachener scored, then McCachener's score, and the Terrers made it 7-7 on David Sacco's goal with 39 seconds remaining in regulation.
His 16 goals this season were a career high.
"I played against Darrly's队 by Lloydminder (Alberta), and he had 155 points or something his last year," Beattie said. "I came here last year and went, 'Whew, what happened to you?'
"But what happened (Saturday) made up for it. How fitting can it be for a senior to get a hat trick and the winning goal in overtime for the national title? He worked so hard for so long."
Mavericks' Tarpley faces DWI charges
The Associated Press
DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks' Roy Tarpley's latest brush with trouble could cost him dearly in money and even prison time.
Police prepared to file a formal charge of drunken driving against Tarlip when the NBA and the CFL decided what to do about the forward.
Tarpley, who twice has violated the NBA's anti-drug policy, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.
Tarpley denied Sunday that he was drunken or that he cursed and verbally threatened arresting officers.
"I didn't do any of those things," he said. "I was very cooperative."
sad. I was very cooperative.
Tarpley said that on the advice of his attorney he could not say whether he had been drinking before his arrest. But he denied that he was drunken.
Brian McIntyre, the league's vice president of public relations, said the NBA was looking into the situation. Mr. McIntyre and his team banned from the league because the
policy states that a player cannot pick up a "third strike" unless he is hit by an incoming ball.
There was nothing mentioned in the police report about drugs.
He still could be suspended without pay, however, if David Lewis, the medical director of ASAP Family Treatment Center in Van Nuy, has a patient at Tarley that未 adhered to his aftercare program for substance abuse.
Tarley is tested an average of three times a week, and none of the tests have warranted a third strike. He has also played the minimum two-year ban from the league.
Tarpley was suspended for 33 games last season after his Nov. 15, 1989, drunken drive arrest.
Tarpley, who suffered a season-
ending knee injury on Nov. 9, is serving two years' probation for a
1989 DWI conviction.
When Tarpley was put on probation
Sept. 5 after his first DWI charge, Criminal Court Judge Mike Schwiew warned that Tarpley failed to meet the terms of his probation, Schwiew would send the player to jail for one year.
“It’s very disheartening.” Mavrerick coach Richie Adubato said. “He’s been doing so well of late with his rehabilitation. He slipped. I can’t comment beyond this until I get the police report.”
The team has not indicated what action it might take against Tarpley.
If convicted on the latest DWI charge, Tarpley could face between 15 days and two years in prison and a maximum fine of $2,000.
Police officers gingerly handled Tarpley's arrest because a crowd of 80 bystanders included two onlookers who were videotaping the scene. A police officer and police said Sgt. Richard Baumgardner, who assisted in the arrest.
Tarpley was pulled over after two Dallas police officers said they observed him in his black 1988 Mercedes-Benz traveling 63 mph in a 35
mph zone.
Baumgardner said Tarpley was cursing and directing a tremendous amount of insults toward the officers. But he said he reminded his officers that physically subduing a public character would probably equally would result in an investigation.
Certain unusual steps were taken during Tarpley's arrest and transfer to jail, Baumgardner said.
"("Tarpie) got into the front seat with me, and I didn't handcuff him because he said he didn't want that," he said. "I let him use my (car attorney) attorney because I wanted to hide him on anything but the ride to fail."
Police representative Ed Spencer said Tarpley, who told officers he was not drinking, took a field sobriety test but refused to take a Breathalyzer or blood test. His alleged refusal could result in his license being revoked for up to 90 days.
However, Tarpley's attorney, Jay Ethington, said police refused to give his client a Breathalyzer test.
Gooden, Mets agree to 3-year, $15.45 million deal
The Associated Press
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Dwight Gooden vaulted to No 2 on baseball's salary list yesterday, agreeing with the New York Mets to a three-year contract extension worth a guaranteed $15.45 million.
The average annual value of $5.15 million places Gooden just behind Boston's Roger Clemens, who will average $3.83 million during a four-year extension he agreed to Feb. 8. The two former Cy Young Award winners are the only players with contracts averaging $5 million a year or more.
Gooden's new deal contains a total of $750,000 in performance bonuses that, if earned, would leapfrog his
"It is important, but it's so close that it really doesn't matter." Gooden said of the race for the top spot. "It depends on how you look at
deal over Clemens' contract.
Gooden will be making $2.25 million this year in the final season of a three-year contract worth $6.7 million. When he agreed to the deal on Feb 8, 1989, it made him the highest-paid player in baseball. But Clemens passed him one week later with a three-year $7.5 million contract.
Under the new deal, Gooden gets a $2 million signing bonus and salaries of $4 million in 1992, $5 million in 1993 and $6 million in 1994. A guaranteed $250,000 a year under a
joint video-promotion deal with the Mets that is part of the extension.
Finally, Gooden can make a $250,000 bonus each year if he pitches 200 innings. He would pocket the full $750,000 in bonuses if he pitches a total of 500 innings during the three years.
If Gooden makes all the performance bonuses, he would earn $16.2 million over the three years, an average of $5.4 million each season.
"The bottom line is we got what we wanted," said Gooden's agent, Jim Neader. "The Mets got Dwight for three years, and Dwight got his 5.4 in the last game." The difference is guaranteed, but the difference up to $2.4 million is what he'll get if he
pitches 200 innings, or 500 innings over the three years. And if you know Dawt, that will not be a problem."
The Mets now must turn their attention to left-hander Frank Viola, who is eligible for free agency after the second-round approaching $5 million a year.
Gooden becomes the 43rd player to top a $3 million-a-year contract and the fifth to top the $4 million mark
Jose Cascone is third on the salary list at $4.7 million a year, Tony Gwynn fourth at $4.08 million and Darryl Strawberry fifth at $4.05 mil-
"He will be the best-paid player in the National League," Mets executive vice president Al Harazin said.
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