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University Daily Kansan / Monday. February 25, 1991
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Intense 'Hawks stop Sooners
KU's Alonzo Jamison hounds Oklahoma forward Kermit Holmes.
By S. J. Bailev
Kansan sportswriter
For the last two weeks, Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams has hounded his players about concentrating for an entire game without any letdowns.
Saturday, all of Williams' harping paid off.
"Our whole game plan was to give more effort than we've given in a long time." Williams said. "We decided our goal today was to really play for 40 minutes. I didn't want 30. I didn't want 36. I wanted 40."
And except for a little sloppiness in the second half, that's exactly what Williams got from his Jayhawks, who played with 9-3 and 9-3 in the Big Egg Conference.
Senior forward Mark Randall's steal on the Sooners' first possession set the tone for a focused Kansas team. It led to 22 Oklahoma turnovers in the game.
Tenacious Jayhawk pressure caused 12 Sooner miscues in the first half and allowed Kansas to build an advantage, would prove to be insurmountable.
Senior guard Terry Brown, who missed his first four three-point shot attempts, hit his next four in a row, and sophomore guard Adonis Jordan added another three-pointer as the team's fifth goal-breaker from a with 57.49 half-time advantage.
With the score knotted at 13-13, freshman guard Patrick Richie came off the bench and scored eight points in less than two minutes, igniting a 17-5 Kansas run that gave the Jayhawks a 30-18 lead.
During the past three or four games, such leads were the times for Kansas letdowns. But Saturday's Jayhawks would not falter. Kansas' defense kept up the pressure while the offense continued to click.
In the second half, the breaks continued to go the Jayhawks' way — but with a bizarre twist.
Oklahoma's Jeff Webster, who hit the Jayhawks for 18 first half points, picked up his fourth foul at the 15:49 mark and left the game.
Less than a minute later, the Kansai front line of Randall, senior coach, passed by.
Kansas 109 Oklahoma 87
Oklahoma
| | M | FG | FT | R | A | F | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Webster | 31 | 6-15 | 8-11 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 20 |
| Holmes | 31 | 6-12 | 8-11 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 16 |
| Harris | 16 | 1-2 | 4-4 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Harris | 32 | 1-4 | 3-4 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Price | 30 | 5-12 | 3-4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Price | 30 | 5-12 | 3-4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Mulllins | 7 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Ware | 7 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Ware | 17 | 5-12 | 1-2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| French | 17 | 5-12 | 1-2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
Kansas
Percentages: FG, 42.9, FT, 62.4. Three-point goals: 4-14 (Pick 2, Backs 5, 27) Holmes (Pick 8, Backs 31), Duncan (Pick 8), French, Webster). Turnovers: 22 (Hicks, 5) Price, 5 French, 2 Harris, 2 Keane, 2 Ware, 2 Mullins, Sailer, Webster). Steals: 6 (Harris, 2) Hicks, Holmes, Price, Weal). Technicals:
| | M | FG | FT | RT | R A | F A | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Jamison | 20 | 6-13 | 2-5 | 2-5 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Maddox | 20 | 4-11 | 7-8 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Booth | 21 | 3-6 | 7-8 | 4-3 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
| Brown | 30 | 9-20 | 2-2 | 7-8 | 3 | 4 | 24 |
| Jordan | 29 | 8-16 | 4-6 | 2-3 | 3 | 23 | 3 |
| Woodberry | 12 | 2-13 | 4-6 | 3-3 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Wagner | 12 | 0-11 | 6-7 | 1 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| Johanning | 6 | 2-21 | 6-7 | 1 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Tungai | 12 | 0-11 | 6-7 | 1 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Scott | 17 | 1-3 | 2-6 | 6 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Nash | 3 | 0-11 | 2-6 | 3 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Czaplikowski | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Knobel | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Percentage: FG 57.0 GJ 85.2 BJ 3.2
Tumors:
1. Woodbury Jr. - 1 Richey I-3) Blocked Shots: 3 (Jamison M, Madcoz J) Turnovers: 18 (Madcoz M, 4 Brown, Nash II, 2 Scott II, 2 Randall III)
Streams: 11 (Jordan 3, Jamison 2, Randall 2, Madcoz M, Richer, Woodbury)
Men's Basketball
Haltifield: Kansas 57. Oklahoma 39
Officials: Wulkow, Reynolds, Petro.
A: 15,800
forward Alonzo Jamison were on the Kansas bench, each with four fouls. Elapsed time for the three fouls — 11 seconds.
"It helped us when Jeff went out, just as it helped Oklahoma when I had Mike, Mark and Alonzo sitting over there with me." Williams said. "I love those kids, but they're not very good as assistant coaches."
With three Kansas starters on the bench, Oklahoma mounted a charge against the 17-point Jayhawk lead. Kake Hicks came off the Oklahoma offense and surer surge that cut the Jayhawk lead to 10 at 84-7 with 8:59 remaining.
Once again, the Jayhaws kept their poise and managed a 12-2 run during the next three minutes, but never got out of the box and putting the game out of reach
Williams said he was pleased with the Jahawks' increased intensity.
"Defensively, we were really good today," he said. "We've got to have that kind of play for 40 minutes every game. I don't think we're the kind of person who can always win but still beat you, so we definitely needed the type of game we had today."
Jordan said the team may have solved some of its intensity problems
than we have been lately," Jordan said "we attacked them a lot on offense and defense and played our best to win. That's what our goal is to just keep attacking."
Brown and Jordan led the assault for the Jayhawks with 24 and 23 points respectively. Randall ended the game with 15 points.
We were more aggressive today
The Kansas bench also was a factor, outscoring the Sooners' reserves 35-21. Steve Woodberry and Joe Johnson held reserves with nine points each.
Webster led the Sooners with 20 points. Kermit Holm and Erent Price added 16 and 15 points respectively.
Wagner sets example in spite of injuries
Kansan sportswriter
"I don't see much time," he said.
Kirk Wagner is different from the rest of the seniors on the Kansas basketball team.
Bv Mark Spencer
While seniors Mike Maddox, Mark Randall and Terry Brown routinely steal the show by logging many songs on their iPods, the content to be a leader in other ways.
"I just try to work hard when I do get in there to show the younger guys what it takes."
Wagner, who has missed seven games this season with knee and knee injuries, played 12 minutes and hit six of seven free throws against Oklahoma on Saturday and finished with six points.
It was the first time the 6-foot-7 forward has plaved more than nine
minutes since Kansas took on North Carolina State on Jan. 5.
Wagner said that he was frustrated by the injuries during the season but that he now felt completely recovered.
"I just want to come out and do the best that I can," he said. "Some nights I please Coach (Roy Williams) more than other nights."
against the Sooners by breaking up several passes and taking charges from the driving Oklahoma guards.
"They put in that freshman guard, (Keke) Hicks, and he'd try to dish it or penetrate all the way in with it," it says. "In a lot of cases, there is a lot of charges called on them."
Wagner was effective on defense
Maddox said that Wagner and the rest of the reserves deserved credit for the victory against the Sooners
Hamers wins 100th singles match at KU
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
"I was always eager to beat it in my sophomore year," Hamsers said. "Now, 'it's just a number that I don't want' I beat or not because I know I will."
Kansas junior Eveline Hamers registered her 100th victory in women's tennis singles yesterday as she defeated France's Stacey Sanders Banuelos 6-1, 3-1.
Hamers' victory was part of the Jayhawks' second victory of the weekend at the Alvamar Tennis and
"I didn't know until this morning when someone told me about it," Hamers said.
Hamers is cruising toward the Kansas women's all-time victory mark of 106 set by Tracy Treps from 1984-88.
The victory looked good in the record books but not so on the court. Hamers said.
"It was an OR match," she said. "I got to practice on some things I needed to work on. It wasn't a pretty job, but it was a productive match for me."
Swim Club.
Kansas destroyed SWMS yesterday and Illinois-Chicago on Friday in 9-0 decisions.
The Jayhawks were equally impressive against SWMS as they won every match in straight sets.
Against Illinois-Chicago, Kansas
dropped only six games in the nine-
meet.
"It was nice to get a couple of wins like this," he said. "Every match can't come down to 5.4, so this allows us to get a little confidence, work on some things, and hopefully we improved our games."
Kansas coach Michael Center said that he was pleased with the Jaya-hawks' performances over the weekend.
The Jayhawks' over-matched opponents provided a good chance to rest some injured Kansas players, Center said
"We've got two tough weeks ahead of us to get ready for our spring break trip," he said. "We will have four top-20 schools in a row, then."
The Jayhawks, 6.3, will host Southern Illinois-Edwardsville on March 4
KU men's tennis team places 18th in tourney
The Jahayh rebounded from Wednesday's first-round loss to 13th-ranked Notre Dame and defeated 17th-ranked Arizona, 5-4. Thursday.
The 20th ranked Kansas men's tennis team placed 16th at the USTA/ITCA National Indoor Team Championship this weekend.
Kansas seniors Craig Wildley, Jeff Gross and junior Patrick Han won their singles matches against the Wildcats.
Sports briefs
The doubles teams of Gross and Wildey and juniors Paul Garvin and Rafael Rangel also contributed to the Kansas victory.
Wildey, freshman Rhain Buth and the doubles team of Wildey and Gross were victorious over the Waves.
The Jayhawks' performance will have an effect on the next Volvo Tennis/Collegiate rankings which come out on March 12.
The Jayhawks lost to 16th-ranked Pepperdine on Friday, 3-6.
Kansas, 6-3, will travel to Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday for the Drake Invitational.
Arkansas sweeps series as Jayhawks lose three
In the first game, Kansas out-hit the Razorbacks 198 but was able to score.
The Jayhawks lost 8-1 Friday, 6-5 Saturday and 17-3 yesterday.
The Kansas men's baseball team lost three games to the Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayetteville this weekend.
Kansas shortstop David Soult was three (for three at the plate, and pitcher Curtis Schmidt struck out five batters in six innings.
After four innings in the second game, the two teams were tied at five, but Arkansas seared three runs in the bottom of the fifth innig.
Yesterday, the Jayhawks could not recover from an early deficit and lost 17-3.
Kansas, 2-3, will play its home opener against Washburn on Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
OSU trips Buffs 79-67, owns part of Big-8 lead
STILLWATER, Okla. — Byron Houston scored 31 points yesterday, including 10 straight in the second half, as No. 16 Oklahoma State pulled away to beat Colorado 7946 and first or for first in the Big Eight Conference.
Oklahoma State led by 13 at halftime, but the Cowboys went more than six minutes without scoring as they outlasted the Ravens and played the lead to 45-43 with 13:39 to play.
Then Houston made 'one free throw, John Potter added two more and Darwyn Alexander scored on a run from Hewon to make the score 50-43.
After Stevie Wise made two free throws, the Cowboys went on a 7-0 run that Houston capped with his first career 3-pointer.
Potter had 13 points, the only other Cowboy in double figures. Wise led Colorado with 18 points.
From staff and wire reports
Men's, women's teams finish fifth at Big Eight
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan sportswriter
The Big Eight Conference coaches were wrong.
The Kansas women's track team, eight place finishers at last year's Big Eight Championships, was picked by the conference coaches to finish a dismal seventh at this year's college in Columbia. Mo.
Instead, the young Jayhawk team surprised everyone but themselves, at the Hearnes Center by finishing in fifth place.
High-jumper Marybeth Labosky said that team spirit played a big role in the team's improvement.
"The men and women's teams really pulled for each other," she said. "I don't think you will see many other schools with the same spirit on them."
"Our freshmen performed incredibly well for their first Big Eight championships," she said. "When such a young team can make this kind of improvement, it makes the future very bright."
Among other Jayhawks who did well in the women's jumps were freshmen Cassandra Bryant, who leaped 39.2% and captured three placements jump, and Tracie Anderson who jumped fifth and finished fifth in the long jump.
Labosky jumped 5-feet, 10-inches and placed fourth in the high jump. She said that her technique was at its best during the weekend.
The junior also commended her younger teammates for their grace under pressure.
Freshman Helena Hafstrom placed third in the 800-meter run. Senior Sherlanda Brooks placed fourth in the 400 meters, and senior Margaret Sullivan placed fifth in the 600 meters.
Track
second consecutive year were the Nebraska women and the Iowa State men.
The conference champions for the
The Kansas men also finished in fifth place.
Freshman runner Michael Cox blazed to a first place finish in the 3,000 meters, beating Iowa State's defending conference champion and first-place finisher at a Hearnes Center record of 8 minutes, 15.97 seconds in the process.
Cox, who won the Junior World Cross Country Trials earlier in the season, said the race would be his first at Antwerp, Belgium, in March.
Defending conference champion and five-time all-American pole vaulter Patrick Manson continued to dominate his event as he won his fifth Big Eight title Friday night. Manson vaulted 17-43%.
"I didn't jump as high as I wanted to, but I got the team points we needed," he said.
Senior Donovan Anderson ran the mile in 4.12.93 and placed fourth, while fellow senior Sam Froese placed sixth in the 5.000 meters.
Freshman John Bazzoni and Sophomore Kenyon Holmes placed fifth and sixth in the vault, respectively.
The distance medley relay team consisting of Froese, freshman Dan Waters, freshman Joe Pickett and junior Jason Teal took third place.
"I think we have turned the corner," Schwartz said, speaking about the future success of the teams.
Kansas Coach Gary Schwartz said that he was pleased with the performance of both teams.
Cats' free throws kill Lady'Hawks
By Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
"Our shooting wasn't strong." Washington said. "We were really flat. We got in a hole, and the rhythm of the game was intruded upon. We just couldn't get back into the game."
"It's very clear to me that the free throws made a difference in the ball game." Kansas coach Marlan said. "We never really did get into the game."
Washington said that the number of times the game was interrupted had a direct effect on the players' ability to focus and play intensely.
The final score in the Kansas State victory was 73-64. The Kansas State Lady Cats scored on 27 of their 40 attempted free throws.
MANHATTAN — The free throw line was the place to be Saturday night in Manhattan, and unfortunately for the Lady Jayhawks, Kansas State made the trip there 20 more times than Kansas did.
The Lady Jayhawks trailed behind Kansas State 30-26 at the half, and the Lady Cats dominated most of the times, Kansas State led by 20 points.
Even though Kansas sent the Lady 'Cats to the free-throw line so often, Washington said she was pleased with the efforts of her team.
Washington said she tried to find areas for outside shooting to counter the Kansas State force, and as a result, sophomore guard Shannon Chichelt and sophomore forward Misti Chichelt saw increased playing time.
Kansas State coach Susan Yow said she noticed a more aggressive perimeter game for Kansas.
"Kansas' perimeter game is not
Women's Basketball
always good," Yow said. "Tonight the shots just weren't falling through Kansas did not shoot as well here."
However, in the last three minutes of the game, the Jahayhaws made a comeback and got within two points of Kansas State, 66-64.
"Kansas got on a hot streak there." Yow said. "We lost our focus ofisively and got stagnant in movement. We had waited when we lost the 20 point lead."
Washington said, "We came close. It was a galant effort by this club."
Unfortunately though, just as Kasan got close, the Lady 'Cats started going to the free-throw line again.
In the last two minutes of the game, Kansas State senior guard Nadira Hazim and senior forward Teresa Holmes secured the Kansas State victory.
Miller led the Lady 'Cats with 28 points and 12 rebounds.
Hazim finished with 25 points and 5 rebounds. Hazim was 12 of 13 from the floor.
Sophomore guard Stacy Truitt led Kansas with 14 points.
Kansas fell to 16-10 overall and finished the Big Eight Conference season 7-7
Junior forward Terrilyn Johnson grabbed 15 rebounds for Kansas and contributed 11 points. It was the eighth time this season that she reached double figures in scoring and rebounds.
Kansas State bettered its record to 15-10 overall and 8-6 in the conference.
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Kansas' Terrilyn Johnson shoots over two K-State opponents.