Sports
University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 29. 1991
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Kansas slides past Wyoming
Javhawk Gerrv Camara ducks when a pitch from Wvoming's Mike Shultis glances off his helmet.
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas baseball team salvaged the last game of a three-game series against the Wyoming Cowboys at Holliday Stadium on April 10, 2014, noon at Holland-Munton Stadium
Wyoming had defeated the Jayhawks twice during the week by 7-6 score.
"We really needed to get back on the winning track," Kansas coach Dave Bingham said. "I didn't think we played hard in the first two games of the series. Overall today, we played harder."
The Jayhawks jumped on Wyoming starter Rigo Bledran for four runs in the first inning.
Kansas was leading 1-0 after one inning when Kansas catcher Garry Schmidt drilled a bases-empty home run fourth round-tripper of the season.
Kansas' third and fourth runs of the game were game pushed across the plate by center field Darryl Monroe's two-run shot over the left field
Kansas scored one more run in the bottom of the fifth off an RBI-single by Schmidt, and the Jayhawks' two-run lead was erased in the next inning with two swings of the Cowboys' bats.
Two Cowbys scored on the play and the Jayhawks led 43.
Kansas left hander David Meyer had not given up a hit until the fourth inning when Wyoming center fieldier Michael Rupp empty home run to deep center field.
Wyoming's Eicher and third base
man David Lacroix blasted back-to-
back bases-empty home runs to tie
the score at five.
In the bottom of the inning, the Jayhawks loaded the bases with two outs, and Monroe slapped an RBI-single to left field.
After shutting out Kansas in the first half of the sixth, the Cowboys' Warner gave Wyoming a 6-5 lead in the seventh—empathy home run in the seventh.
Kansas right-hander Jim Walker relieved Meyer with one out in the eighth and shut out the Cowboys the rest of the way to pick up the victory.
Kansas first baseman Jeff Nie meer scored the game-winning run from second base when Wyoming catcher Jim Robinson was charged with a passed ball and a subsequent errant throw.
Monroe, who was 2-for-2 with 3 RBIs in yesterday's game, said the Jayhawks tried to keep their intensity level high the entire game.
"I was confident we'd come back," Monroe said. "The last couple of
days we've come to the park with a bad attitude, but today we came out to the park.
Bingham said he was not worried about the Jayhawks' play yesterday affecting them against Big Eight Conference rival Nebraska tonight.
"We have never come out flat in a Big Eight series since we've been here, even years back when I first got here and we were awful." he said.
first of a four-game Big Eight weekend series at 7 tonight at Hogland-Maupin Stadium.
Kansas and Nebraska will play the
Javhawk Note:
- Yesterday, Bingham confirmed reports that Kansas catcher/designated hitter Mark Moore had left the team recently because of personal problems, Moore, a junior, was batting 333 and had start 12 games for the Jayhawks.
Golf team plays poorly in bad weather
By Rick C. Honisl
Kansan sportswriter
By Rick C. Honish Kansan sportswriter
"Waiting for the Sun" could have been Kansas men's golf team this week.
"Bad weather seems to follow us around sometimes," sophomore Jim Young said.
While Lawrence residents suffered through an onslaught of golf-ball-sized hail, the team suffered through a non-stop non-rapid rain in Santa Cruz, Calif.
Could it be worse?
But this was not normal bad weather.
Sleet, snow, falling trees and road closing mudslides added to the disaster that was to be the Western Intercollegiate golf tournament.
"There was an earthquake one night," Kansas coach Ross Randall said.
The team was in a restaurant at the time of the quake and did not feel the shake. Randall said it registered about 4.8 on the Richter scale and the epicenter was about 20 miles from the restaurant.
The tournament was to be played at the Pasatiempo Golf Club, but rain forced it.
"We walked around the course the day of our practice round. Young said it was a bit like a rock climbing lesson."
Young said the team as a whole did not shoot well. Sophomore Brad Bruno had the low score for the team with a 77.
We just teed up and played.
Yay! We have!
a chance to look at the course.
The tournament was moved to a public course in Monterey for the first time.
"We played on a public course in Carmel," Young said. "It was about an hour drive, and it rained on the road." He continued. The temperature never got above 50.
The Monterey course was not available for the second round.
Young said the team played better in the second round, but not well
by sophomore Matt Gogel, who had a round of 75.
Senior Len Johnsen had the low score for the team with 74, followed
Gogel and Bruno finished the tournament tied at 155, two strokes shy of the third round cut. The team missed qualifying for the third round by one stroke. They finished the tournament in 21st place out of 28 teams.
Young said the team hoped to rebound next week for the Augusta/ Forest Hills tournament in Augusta, Ga.
As far as this week's tournament goes, "It was the worst trip I’ve ever been on," Young said.
Taman agreed. "It was the most bizarre tournament I have ever seen," he said.
All KU coaches rooting for team
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams thrust two fists in the air as the clock counted down on the Arkansas Razorbacks.
But he wasn't the only Kansas coach feeling the glory of reaching the Final Four.
"I want you to know that all of us in the football office are extremely proud of the accomplishment of our basketball team," Kansas football coach Glen Mason said at his spring football media session earlier this week.
"There's going to be no one rooting those guys on harder to beat North Carolina and take on a championship game," he said.
Kansas men's tennis coach
Scott Perlman said that he was
pleased with the basketball
from more than a fan's standpoint.
"The thing I notice the most is our recruiting and the signing date on April 10," he said. "For kids 17 and 18 years old, it's very easy for them to tell their peers they're attending KU when they see us playing for a national championship on TV."
Kansas women's tennis coach Michael Center said that his program also received recruiting from KU's success on the hardwood.
"It makes everyone excited about our school and Kansas in general," he said. "I don't know how much it will help women's tennis, but it gives us more national appeal."
The Kansas baseball team is also showing its appreciation for the basketball team.
After Monday's game against Wyoming, Kansas baseball coach Dave Dingham had he understood the game for KU's crowd's game for the KU community.
The Jayhawks were originally scheduled to play Big Eight Conference rival Nebraska in a p.m. doubleheader tomorrow.
After being told the basketball team would tip off against North Carolina at 4:39, Bingham said, "I might split those games up. I think that would be better for everyone concerned."
As a result, die-hard Kansas sports fans will be able to see all three games.
Frisbees to invade city this weekend
32 teams will compete in tournament
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan sportswriter
Flying sancers will fill the air this weekend over the fields off Wakarus Drive between 15th and 23rd streets.
Teams attending the 10th annual Fool's Fest Ultimate Frisbee tournament will be the source of the airborne discs. Thirty-two teams from around the United States will be in Lawrence to compete in the tournament, held every year during the weekend closest to April Fool's Day.
College teams from as far away as Winona, Mim., and Santa Fe, N.M. will participate in the tournament. Play will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday. The semi-finals and finals will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday.
KU Frisbee club president Holly Larrison said that Kansas would field four teams, including two reunion teams.
"About 50 old KU players from Washington, D.C., New York, Seattle and other places are coming in," she said.
The reunion teams are made up of KU graduates who played while in school. Larrison said most of the players still were involved in the
sport through clubs and leagues in their towns.
The KU women's team, known as "Betty," is coming off a fourth place finish at a spring break tournament at Stanford.
"California is the strongest region for 'Ultimate'," Larrison said. "That tournament exposed us to the caliber of play that we will see at nations."
She said the team named itself Betty after numerous name changes.
"It is singular, like beer or fish," she said. "There are a lot of famous people named Betty, and it’s sort of a name. Anyone can be a Betty."
"We have some good experience," she said.
The team also has many new members. One is Giselle Hernandez, a Costa Rica graduate student, who joined the team this semester.
She said this tournament would be her first.
"I am very excited about playing," she said. "I am playing well, and it is so fun."