University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 27, 1990
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Six 'Hawks make All-Big Eight list
By Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswriter
In the final spring scrimmage last in the quarterback Chip Hilleryd didn't even let the pain show after he came across the face, breaking his nose.
Hilary was the only scholarship quarterback on the team remaining to fill Kelly Donohoe's shoes, but he didn't earn the gift, anybody say he did.
So Hillery, with a nose full of cotton, went back in the next possession and went on to guide the Blue squad to a 20-6 victory against the
Hilleary did not expect to take as great a role in the offense during the 1990 season, but the kind of toughness he showed that day during the spring, was the kind that earned him honorable mention All-Big Eight Conference last week from the Associated Press.
Hilleary is one of six Jayhawks who appeared on the All-Big Eight list a Conference list from the United States. International will come out today
But Hilleary said the loss to Missouri overshadowed any individual honors he had received.
In his first season as a starter, Hilleary set a school record completing 57.6 percent of his passes and gained 2,072 in total yards which placed him sixth on the Jayhawks' all-time single-season list.
Hilleary, who finished the season with 1,730 yards passing and was the team's second leading rusher with 342 net yards, didn't even know he had a lead. And friend co-gratulated him after he returned home to Westerville, Ohio.
Offensive lineman Chris Perez, who has started every game of his collegiate career, didn't know he earned second team All-Big Eight MVP votes. He was up with the news the day after he returned home to Palatine, Ill.
Perez said the honor meant more to offensive linemen since there were no statistics kept that stood one player out from another.
He said that since being an offensive tackle meant relying on his teammates so much, that he wanted the award with his friends on the line.
"The guys on the line feel proud when the quarterback tells us he got great protection, or the running back runs into end zone standing up." Perez said. "So it's nice when somebody gives you a little credit, but since we're like a team within a team, all the guys deserve the award too."
Center Chip Budde also shared a second-team spot with Perez. Budde has earned a spot on the all-conference list for the third year in a row. He also has started every game he has played in
On the other side of the line,
defensive lineman Gilbert Brown
made the second team all-Big Eight
list after he made 30 tackles, seven
for a combined loss of 30 yards, and
had two sacks for a loss of 19 yards.
season he made 7 tackles, had one interception, and broke up seven
The only Jayhawk to make first team All-Big Eight was freshman kicker Dan Eichlob, who made first team power. He also made second-time power.
Eichloch was one punt short of being the conference's leading putter with a 2.6 yard average and was 15 for 21 on field goal attempt.
Eichloh kicked a 38-yard field goal against Kansas State, which was the longest field goal in school history.
He made 22 straight extra points which, combined with his field goals, made him the leading scorer on the team.
"But, my goal for next year is to make first-team place kicker, because that is what I came to Kansas for," Eichloff said.
Season ticket availability scarce for general public
Kansan sportswriter
By Derek Simmons
You can't get a seat in Allen Field House for the first home basketball game of the season if you don't already have one. It can't be done, unless you want to get friendly with a scabber at game time.
Students can buy season tickets only in the sports combination pack age Tickets must be sold out by ticket office manager, said. Miller, ticket office manager, said.
Student Seating
Williams Fund donors preferred
Faculty and staff preferred
"We can sell more football tickets in the package deals," she said. "Once football grows in popularity, maybe that will change."
There are new seating arrangements for men's basketball games at Allen Field House.
Down in front
Students are allocated about 45 percent of the seating in the field house on a first-come, first-served basis. The price a student pays for a great seat is time — often three or four hours — must be wafted out before game time.
Members of the general public have a more liquid option, Scott McMichael, assistant Williams Fund dircctor, said.
source; KU ticket office
Priority for seating locations for all games corresponds directly to the amount donated In addition to the cost of all public season tickets cost $200.
"There are two approaches you can take if you aren't a student," he said. "You can get on the public waiting list, which numbers several thousand people and make a contribution to the Williams Fund and get on the priority list."
Privileges also include a subscription to the Jayhawk Newsletter and an educational tax deduction for donations of $50 to $99 and admittance to the stadium dining room and ticket priority for post-season tournaments for donations of $1,000 or more.
Contributing to the Williams Education Fund, which is responsible for financing scholarships for more than 430 Kansas scholarship athletes in 16 sports, gives privileges to donors. The top privilege is priority for basketball tickets and seating locations.
A donation of $10,000 wouldn't guarantee a seat for next season, McMichael said, but it would give the donor a very good chance.
"It's all on a space-available basis, and there's not much of a turnover," McMichael said. "Someone would have to die or choose not to renew their ticket for someone else to move up."
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Seating priority is based on the amount of the donation, the number of consecutive years donations have been made, the number of consecutive years season tickets have been ordered, the number of tickets requested and the availability of recordings according to a Williams Fund brochure.
The second priority for tickets and seating location goes to faculty and staff, who pay half the public price for tickets.
McMichael said the ticket office tried to maintain a balance between the allocation of tickets for Williams and other firm members and the general public.
"It is kind of a shuffling procedure," he said. "If a professor who had seats in section six leaves, we send him to Wiley." From section eight give a dean of
"People tend to buy based on the last year's performance," he said. "At the beginning of last year, when we were coming off of the first year of probation, $250 would put you at the top of the list. Coming of a 39-5 year like last year, everybody is keeping their seats.
McMichael said that a $500 donation would put a donor at the top of the ticket list for next year, although he did not include it in the top corners of the field house.
"The Williams Fund supports athletics and students, and that is what the contributions are for, but this is one way we can reward generosity."
a school the section eight seats, and so on."
Bv Chris Oster
Kansas season filled with highs and lows
Kansan sportswriter
"Almost!" again became the kc word for the Kansas voleyball team when it came close to upsetting the second-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers in the first round of the Big Eight Conference tournament Friday.
Volleyball
"We never finished what we started," junior Kris Kleinschmidt said. "We would get a lead and blow it. It wasn't like we gave away the matches, but the other teams were able to push it more than we were."
But as had happened in a number of matches this season, the almost came packaged with a "but didn't I."
The blown early lead plagued the Jayhawks all season. From an early season loss to Wichita State to a three-game road trip through Texas to a a home loss to the then top-ranked Cornhuskers, Kansas seemed unable to put away opponents after quick starts.
Coach Frankie Albitz said the Jayhawks were impressive at times during the season.
Despite the disappointing losses, the Jayhawks had their best record since 1986 as they finished 15-16 overall and 5-7 in the conference.
"Two things come to mind about this year," she said. "We played some great volleyball at times, but we need to get more consistent. It is hard to know what to think about this season. We had so many highs and lows."
One of the season's highs was an eight-game winning streak to start the season. That streak included home tournament wins in the Jayhawk Early Bird Classic and the KU Invitational Tournament.
Kansas also managed to qualify for the four-tourne conference postseason tournament for the first time since 1987.
In Big Eight play, the Jayhawks
swept series with rival Kansas State and with Oklahoma, traditionally a top-three conference team.
Individual honors came to a few of Kansas' players as many were named to all-tournament teams during the season. Junior Jumie Woodruff was named to the all-Big Eight team at the conference tournament.
Junior Adrian Powell took a spot in the Big Eight record book as her 400 digs placed her sixth on the single-season list.
Mixed in with the high points were disappointing losses to Division II schools Central Missouri State and Regs in Denver, Colo., as well as a win to a Missouri team that hadn't wob a conference contest in two years.
Kansas showed its best side in meetings with nationally-ranked Nebraska. Despite losing all three meetings, the Jayhawks were the only conference team to take a game from the Cornhuskers this season.
Kleinschmidt said that the season female against Nebraska showed the players that they could compete on a higher level
"We've been rebuilding this team for the last two years. Now we're done with our building seasons. We're definitely going to be in the top three in the conference next year."
"After the match, they were telling us to hold our heads high." she said.
Albizt said that with strong leadership, next year's team should show the lessons learned from this year's trials.
How else can the NFL's UNmanly decision to reinstate Dexter Manley be explained?
Kansas will lose two seniors from this year's team, Lisa Patterson and April Chavey, and will return four seniors to lead next year's groun
NFL used hypocrisy with Manley
"I think they have played at an extremely high level at times this season, but we have been inconsistent at times," she said. "We made some stries. We need to build up. We re reaching for a higher level."
Manley was banned from the NFL. a year ago for being a third time offender of the league's substance-abuse policy.
In baseball, the number three signifies a strikeout. In football, however, three must be a charm.
Ann Sommerlath
Associate sports editor
On Nov. 19, the former Pro Bowl defensive end was simultaneously reinstated to the NFL and waived by the Washington Redskins. Both parties issued carefully-worded statements that, in essence, altogether avoided any implications of the real problem at hand — the hypocrisy obviously condoned by the league and at least one of its member teams.
The problem of mixed messages obviously started at the top and filtered down through the ranks, until a major player in its perception of professional sports.
First, the NFL said Manley would have to avoid drug involvement and participate in a "structured support program" to remain in the league.
This is deplorable. How can the leaders in a professional sport talk about making a strong statement against drug abuse when they have the gall to reinstate an athlete who struck out a long time ago? And what makes the league leaders so confident that Manley will "avoid drug involvement" and participate in a "structured support program" when they have thus far been so readily tolerant of his actions?
Then Commissioner Paul Tagliabue basically based the league's decision when he allowed Manley to begin practice last week. By not opposing the league's determination to reinstate Manley, Tagliabue sent a personal signal to the league that it would say that said it was acceptable to break the rules because offenders usually get another chance anyway.
Finally, Redskins coach Joe Gibbs said Manley was released because the team already had enough defensive linemen. Does anyone seriously believe that? I think it's closer to the truth that Gibbs didn't want to be implicated as a perpetrator of this ridiculous fiasco. Instead of placing Manley on waivers long ago, Gibbs made sure the team would be determined. When it became evident that the league was essentially condoning Manley's actions by not punishing them, Gibbs rid himself of the blame by riding himself of Manley.
Ann Sommerlath is a St. Louis senior majoring in journalism.
Yankees lure Farr from KC
The Associated Press
The Kansas City Royals, who have signed several free agent pitchers in the last two years, lost one yesterday — and it was their 1990 Pitcher of the
No, it wasn't Bret Saberhagen or Mark Gubicza or any of the Royals other big names. The New York Yankees signed Kansas City's Steve Farr, a 33-year-old right-hander who was 13-7 last season with a 1.98 ERA. He pitched 51 games in relief and made six starts.
The Yankees' signing of Farr to $6.3 million, three-year contract was seen as protection against losing a free agent of their own, long-time relief ace Dave Righetti, who is seeking a five-year contract.
"He can start, be middle relief or be a stopper." Yankees' general manager Gene Michael said. "It gives us an assurance of having a strong bulleen. He can do any of the three things."
"I know that it is a business and I had to make sure that we had something," Michael said. "And this guy gives us quality innings."
who made $775,000 in 1990,
will get a $1.2 million sign bonus,
$2 million next season, $2 million in
1992 and $1.1 million in 1993.
Farr, who has a 37-35 career record, has pitched in parts of seven major league seasons and has 50 career saves. He started in Pittsburgh's minor league system and was traded to Cleveland. The Indians released him during spring training in 1985, and the Royals signed him.
Jayhawks capture third in tournament
Bv. Juli Watkins
Women's Basketball
Kansas forward Misti Chennault set a new scoring record and was named to the Amana-Hawkeye Classic All-Tournament team after her performance last weekend in Iowa City, Iowa.
Kansan sportswriter
Chemnault, a sophomore, led the Jayhawks to a 1-1 record last weekend with a tournament-record, two-day win and 44 points in Jayhawks' two games.
Chenault scored 22 points in each game and averaged 80 percent in free throws in Sunday's game. She was the third-leading score for Kansas
Kansas lost to 19th-ranked Louisiana State 74-63 in the first round Saturday but then defeated UCLA 76-63 in the consoction round Sunday for third place in the tournament, which was won by Iowa.
"It was really an honor and was definitely something that reflected the whole team," Chemnaul said. There are two or three other girls who were there, and that position, so it was really an honor for me to be the one who filled it."
last season as a freshman, averaging 10 points a game, and is the top returning scorer this season.
"Terrilyn had one of those fine performances where her athletic ability surfaced." Washington said. "She will be able to do a lot of things for us. Kay Kay had just an awesome performance. She played with tremendous poise. I think that her performance was commendable and should have been considered for the All-Tournament team."
Kansas coach Marian Washington said that Chennault was a fine offensive player and that she thought that the offense should have been Kay Hart also played strong games.
Johnson had nine steals and 19 points against UCLA. Johnson, Hart
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Washington said that the tournament was a good one for Kansas. She said that opening the season with tough opponents made it especially difficult but that the team was responding well.
and forward Danielle Shareef were the rebound leaders against the Bruins with eight aniece.
The good showing by the Jayhawks was reflected in the Associated Press' Top 25 poll, which came out yesterday. After not receiving any votes, Kansas received four votes of consideration for this week's Top 25 poll.
"The mistakes we made are correctable," Washington said.
Washington said the Jayhawks needed to maintain the kind of tempo they were playing in the second half of Sunday's game. Kansas came out on top, and Washington trailing throughout most of the game and defeated the Bruins by 13 points.
Kansas plays Minnesota tomorrow night at Minnesota.
Two Sooners honored as players of the week
Tight end Adrian Cooper and linebacker Joe Bowden of Oklahoma were named players of the week yesterday in the Big Eight Conference after the Sooners defeated Nebraska in a conference's final regular-season game.
Kansas bowling teams score high in tourney
Cooper caught a 36-yard touchdown pass and set up another Sooner score with a 40-yard reception as Oklahoma beat Nebraska 14-15周日.
Bevden made 12 tackles in the game, eight of them unassisted. He also intercepted a pass, recovered a brow and broke up a pass.
Fueled by the highest single game total in team history, the Kansas men's bowling team finished 38th in the tournament. The Team Match Games during the
weekend in St. Louis.
The men total of 1,170 in the sixth of 10 games eclipsed the previous Kansas record of 1,140
William Patterson College, (N.J.)
won the men's side of the event.
The women's team finished 23rd out of 23 teams in the same tournament and also posted one of the highest totals ever by a Kansas队.
In the ninth game, Kansas rolled a 1,025, the highest total from the Jayhawks in three years.
Big Eight Conference foe Nebraska won the women's tournament with a 875 average.
Amy Gentz posted the highest average for the Kansas women, finishing with a 20. Judy Fester added another win, and Debbie Wolf came with an 183.
The men were led by sophomore Loyce Smith, whose average of 215 was highlighted by a high game of 279. Junior Batch Riley rolled a 211 for the Jayhawks, and junior Stefan Cox was the only other Kansas bowler above a 200 average, finishing with a 202.
Kansas men's golf team ties for fifth in tourney
The Kansas men's golf team, tied by senior Len Johnson and junior Brad Bruno, tried Baylor for fifth place during the weekend at the Rice University/Columbia Lakes Invitational in West Columbia, Texas.
Eighteen schools, including 12 from Texas, competed in the three-round tournament at Columbia Lakes Country Club.
Clinton Johnson of Abilene Christian was the tournament's medalist. Johnson scored a total of 218, which included 75 points in victory over four players tied at 219.
Johnsen and Bruno finished six
strokes behind Johnson at 222. No
Kansas player finished higher than
4th in the 90-player field.
The Kansas team's total of 899 hef
i14 strokes behind Rice's winning
885. Missouri, the only other Big
field in the field, finished 17th at 946.
From staff and wire reports