Sports
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 14, 1991
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Lady'Hawks trap the Tigers
Kansas forward Marthea McCloud gets a rebound in Kansas' 83-54 victory against Missouri.
By Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
The Jayhawks killed the Tigers 83 54 at Allen Field House.
The game turned around for Kansas after the first 15 minutes of close play, when Kansas took a one-point shot that saw that narrow point margin again.
Kansas led 29-23 at the half, and the Jayhawks were relentless when the game resumed after intermission. They continued to apply pressure inside and force Missouri to make mistakes.
Tigers may be fast, but those from Missouri may be from another species. The many traveling fouls testified that the Missouri team walked with the ball more than they would have liked to.
The Tigers could not keep up with them and they could keep their possession of the ball.
Several times, the Tigers failed in their attempts to get the ball past baskets.
It seemed that every time the Tigers got the ball, Kansas took it away. Kansas junior guard Kay Kay was taken to the Jayhawks game total of 19.
"Kansas played a great game."
Masoumi coach Joann Hulforder
of Iowa threw for 317 yards.
Rutherford said she attributed Kansas' domination to Missouri's 35 turnovers and the Jayhawks' penetration.
The Tigers lost power early in the second half after senor forward Lisa
Sandbite was able to grab only four rebounds and score seven points before she fouled out of the game with 8 minutes left.
Kansas junior forward Tanya Bonah led the Jayhawks with 22 points, and for a two-minute stretch it seemed as if she had a string attached to the basket. No one could stop her.
nonham attributed her success to Kansas' aggressive defense. The players were consistently able to find through which to pass her the ball
"Our defense was awesome," Bonham said. "Everyone on their feet."
Junior forward Terrilyn Johnson grabbed nine rebounds for the Jaya-hawks, more than any other player in the game.
Kansas sophomore forward Marta McCloud, who scored 16 points, ran a close second in rebounds with eight.
Kansas coach Marian Washington
Women's Basketball
agreed that defensively Kansas was on the ball, and she said the players' hard work was paying off.
"They're survivors," Washington said.
Before the game, Bonham had said the team was ready to win, and win it did.
The Kansas women's basketball team will participate in a phone-a-thon tonight.
The team's objective in this endeavor is to raise money for the Margin of Excellence for women's basketball.
Beginning at 6 p.m., team players and Jayhawk supporters will call individuals in the community and ask for contributions.
By Rick C. Honish
With only one dual meet left before the Big Eight Championships come to Lawrence, Kelly Seavall and
Kansas sportswriter
Senior swimmers look toward goals
Kelly Seavall and
Nicky Naviaux are two senior swimmers focused on the same goals.
Both said that in their last season with the Jayhawks they wanted to bring the conference
championship back to Kansas and qualify for the NCAA meet.
Seavall, a distance sprinter, said she did not think about her strategy before the race.
However, the ways in which they plan to go about meeting those goals are completely different.
"I think of the perfectly swam race while I am doing my warm-ups," she said. "I run through it a couple of times." And for the race, she stank thinking about it.
She said that she had struggled the previous two years but that her confidence was at a peak this year.
Sophomore swimmer Michelle Wilde said she had seen a change in Seavall's swimming this year.
"She is swimming really well," Wilde said. "I don't have any doubt she will make the NCAA."
Wilde said Seavall had helped her learn to take things for what they were worth.
"She showed me how to put the things that didn't matter as much to the side and concentrate on the things that count." Wilde said.
Seavail has been on the swim team since her freshman year, when she was the Big Eight champion in the 202-ward individual medley.
She said that she looked forward to getting her degree in elementary education next May but that right now she had a different priority.
"I plan to have the meet of my life at the Big Eights this year," she
said
Naviau, who swims distance events, has a diffrent philosophy about her
"Before each
each race, I imagine
the Olympics
and the gold
medal block, she said. "It is a way for me to aim for the highest level of performance."
She said the distance events required a great deal of concentration.
"You've got a mile to think about a lot of things. Sometimes when I am swimming the event, I will sing a song in my head to give me an even
Naviux took the long way to Kansas, having attended Wyoming and Peppardine before becoming a Jawhawk.
"I came to KU and my dad told me I seemed to major in colleges," she said.
Naviax actually majors in political science and Eastern culture, with an eye cocked toward the Peace Movement, she has another hobby on the gile.
She has performed stand-up comedy routines since she was 17, including routines at several clubs in the Kansas City area.
Her roommate, former KU diver Julie Pierce, said Naviaux dealt with life with a sense of humor.
"I think she really just wants to give something back to others." Pierce said.
Cowboys stop Sooners
Fire Associated Press
STILLWATER, Okla. — Byron Houston had 20 points and 18 rebounds last night as No. 21 Oklahoma State, after losing a nine-point second-half lead, hung on to beat Oklahoma 77-74.
The Associated Press
Oklahoma State 17-5 overall and in the Big Eight, took a 76-71 lead with 44 seconds remaining on two free throws by Corey Williams. Willett led to seven, but he missed two free throws with 26 seconds left.
Brent Price, who led Oklahoma with 17 points, hit a three-pointer with 12 seconds left and brought the Sooners within two points, 76-74.
John Potter made one of two free throws with 10 seconds left to give Oklahoma State a 77-74 lead. After a time-out, Oklahoma got the ball to
Price, whose three-pointer from left of the key with 3 seconds left bounced off the rim. Potter grabbed the rebound as time expired.
The victory, the Cowboys' sixth in seven games, left Oklahoma State in second place in the Big 8*. The loss to the sixth in seven games for the Sooners.
Oklahoma State had a two-point lead at halftime but stretched it to 55-46 with 15:06 left on a 10-2 run capped by a three-point by Wi
Oklahoma, despite the fact Jef Webster was on the bench with his four foul, rallied behind Terry Evans and Price. Evans had eight points in the span of 4 minutes and Price extended the rally with a three-pointer that gave the Sooners a 64-2 lead with 7:30 to play.
NCAA: Fighting players should sit out next game
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Schools and athletic conferences share the responsibility for suspending players for fighting during a game, the NCAA said yes.
The rule is being tested by a bench-clearing brawl that occurred Tuesday during a game between Illinois State and Chicago State. Two players from Chicago State and one Illinois State were ejected for fighting.
The rule states that any player ejected for fighting must sit out the team's next game. Second-time offenders are sidelined for the rest of the season and cannot participate in possesseason play.
The NCAA gets involved only if the rule in question is listed in the NCAA manual, Marchiony said. This might involve violations of recruiting and scholarship rules or unwarranted bonuses to players.
NCAA communications director James Marchiony said, "The rule is in the basketball rules book, so the NCAA national office has nothing to do with the game over game violation, it's for the game officials and the schools to resolve."
Chicago State, an independent, and Illinois State, a member of the Missouri Valley Conference, will abide by the rule and suspend the players ejected for fighting, officials of the universities said. But it remains unclear what would happen if the schools decided to ignore the rule.
Gene Bartow, chairperson of the NCAA's Basketball Rules Committee, said a school might be banned from postseason play for ignoring the rule, but he acknowledged there was no prior precedent to deal with these cases.
"I don't think there's any doubt a team would pay somehow for ignoring the rule. I'm sure they'd end up having to leave the athletic director and basketball coach at
Alabama-Birmingham.
Bartow said he was certain conference officials had advised referees to be especially cautious about ejecting players for fighting.
"We will definitely follow the rules of the NCAA. There's no second thought about that." Chicago State coach Mark Sweeney said, "I don't want to be an outlaw school."
The brawl began with 1 second remaining in the first half and Illinois State领导 39-27. An unidentified Chicago State player landed on top of Illinois State's Scott Taylor when the team bounded and refused to let Taylor get up, according to Illinois State coach Bob Bender.
Avant said other teams might shy away from playing the Cougars if the school ignored the rule.
Game officials ejected 11 Chicago State players — eight for leaving the bench, two for fighting and one for an injury. The State player was ejected for fighting.
"This is the only time I've been involved in something like this." Bender said. "It had potential to be one of those worse on TV, but it wasn't good."
Chicago State's bench cleared during the fight, which lasted about three minutes. After game officials handed out ejection notices, Chicago players were forced to forfeit the game before 9,200 fans in Normal, Ill.
The rule, which took effect this season, applies only to fighting violations.
Bender said Antoine Hicks, a junior guard ejected for fighting, would be held out of Illinois State's game Saturday against Drake.
Avant said he wanted to confirm with the game officials who of the Cougar players was ejected for fighting, and would then bar them from Saturday's game against Wright State.
KU pitcher has a ball in minor leagues
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
Shaw's performance earned him an invitation to a mini-camp for minor-league pitchers and catcher for the N.Y. team in, Scottstadt, Azire, on Feb. 27.
Curtis Shaw is living his dream.
"Ever since I was two feet tall, all I've ever wanted to do was play baseball," Shaw said.
Shaw signed with the American League champion Oakland Athletics after his junior year at KU and was assigned to the short-season Class A Southern Oregon Athletics in Medford, Ore.
Shaw, a former relief pitcher and all-conference honoree at KU, was the second player drafted in the second round of the Major League Baseball amateur player draft in June.
At Medford, Shaw recorded a 4-6 record while surrendering 26 earned runs and striking out 74 batters in 6/3 innings.
Shaw, who is in Lawrence working out with the Jayhaws for two weeks, said he witnessed some of the difficulties of a life in professional baseball during his first season.
"I'm excited about that because it gives me an extra two and a half weeks to get coaching before I start training on March 13." Shaw said.
"The league I was in was a long-
travel league," he said. "We had
one three-hour bus trip. The rest
were right around ten hours."
Shaw said that his team played a 76-game schedule that began in late June, with only two scheduled days off and no rainstorms.
"That's one of those things you have to live with," Shaw said. "By the end of the season, it was no big deal."
After playing in Medford, Shaw pitched in a six-week instructional
Baseball
league in Scottsdale, where he said he received word of his invitation to the minor league mini-camp.
Kansas coach Dave Bingham said that Shaw had the necessary talent to play in the major leagues, but alone alone would not get him there.
"I tell him and other players that they're choosing a professional that is much different than college." Bingham said. "He should make sure his goal is to be a major-leaguer and play a minor 'league player forever."
Shaw's climb up the farm-system ladder to the major leagues would be easier if he were not with the A's, Shaw said.
"With a team like Oakland, which has such a great pitching staff at the major league level and has had it for the last few years, you're not going to move up as quick," he said.
The tough competition in the Oakland farm system has been enjoyable. Shaw said.
"If I make it with Oakland, I will know I deserve it," he said.
Shaw's decision to leave KU was difficult, but, almost a year after leaving, he said he was comfortable with his decision.
"I looked at it in terms of a job," he said. "If I graduated my senior year, what kind of job offer would I get?" He would I would I get the same package?
"Secondly, it's every kid's dream to play at the major league level. Now that I have the chance, it's hard to pass up."
Curtis Shaw, Oakland A's pitcher and former KU hurler (right), takes time out from practice to talk with coach Wilson Kilmer.
Shaw said that he had not yet reached the level where he thought
Shaw said he was two semesters short of graduation.
"Depending on what happens with the team, I'm planning on coming back to KU next fall," he said.
of baseball as a job.
"I don't think I'm there yet, and I would be happy if I never get there," he said. "or as running, or stalking." That is what's that when you have to look at it as
a job and that's only when I'm off the field.
"Baseball is like any other sport; if it's not fun, you can't play, and I have a great time when I'm out on the mound."