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Women take fifth at Big Eight meet
Men disappointed with eighth place
By Kent Hohlfeld Kansan sportswriter
CROSS COUNTRY
The Kansas women's cross country team saw its hopes of bringing home the first Big Eight championship in team history slip away Saturday on the A.L. Austin Golf Course in Columbia, Mo.
The Kansas men's team finished eighth with 194 points and the women's team finish fifth with 90 points in the Big Eight Championships.
Nebraska, who won the women's meet with 57 points, was followed by Kansas State, Colorado and Oklahoma
Julia Saul led the Kansas women's
team with her best time of the season. She ran the 5,000-meter course in 17 minutes, 55 seconds, matching her time at last year's Big Eight meet in Boulder, Co.
Saul said that the team was disappointed with its performance but that the meet showed the parity within the conference. Kansas finished one point behind fourth place Oklahoma and 12 points behind third place Colorado.
"Ithink we showed we can compete with those teams," Saul said. "We expected it to be close and it was, except for Nebraska."
Nebraska won the meet by 15 points over second place Kansas State. Kansas coach Gary Schwartz said the women's team has the potential to better than it did in the meet Saturday.
"Our result today was just not having our top performers all perform at their best together as a team," Schwartz said.
He said that it was disheartening to see the potential to win not materialize in the competition.
"It's disappointing when you're ready for the challenge, but can't put it all together," Schwartz said.
Saul said the team would have to run better to have a chance of qualifying for the NCAA Championships on Nov. 22. The first step in qualifying will be Nov. 13, when they attend the District V meet at Southern Illinois in Carbondale, Ill.
The men's team also had a difficult time with the level of competition at the meet. The No. 2 Iowa State Cyclones dominated the men's competition, scoring 27 points. The Cyclones came within two points of scoring the lowest possible number
of points that can be scored, which is 25.
The top Kansas runner was freshman Bryan Schultz, who finished 27th with a time of 25:45 on the men's 8,000-meter course. He was followed by Bobby Palmer who finished 32nd with a time of 26:09.
Palmer said that he did not think the team ran up to its capabilities. He said that he was at a loss to explain the team's slow performance.
"I felt sluggish," Palmer said. "The competition was all that we expected though."
He said that he thought the team's runners would use the meet as a learning experience that would help them when they compete in the District Vmeet.
"We need to take a look at some of the mistakes we made and learn from them," Palmer said.
Shula ties coaching mark as Miami tops KC
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Because Scott Mitchell passed for three touchdowns, Don Shula caught George Halas.
Mitchell, making his second start in place of the injured Dan Marino, gave the Miami Dolphins an early lead, and the defense did the rest in a 30-10 victory against Kansas City as Shula tied Halas' NFL record of 324 coaching wins.
"It's nice to be part of it," said Mitchell. "I know he's excited about it. But I also know he would like to get to the Super Bowl, and that would make it even better."
The victory improved Shula's record to 324-152-6 in 31 seasons with the Dolphins and Baltimore Colts. The late Halas was 324-151-31 in 40 years with the Chicago Bears.
"It's been a lot of years," Shula said. "The important thing is the win — beating Kansas City."
Shula will have a chance to break the record Sunday when Miami plays at the New York Jets.
West
AFC
"The players have so much respect for him," safety Louis Oliver said of his coach. "There's so much professionalism in him. He wants to win so badly, and he instills that in you. He makes you want to play for him."
W L T Div.
Kansas City 5 2 0 3-0
L.A. Raiders 4 3 0 2-20
Denver 4 3 0 2-20
Seattle 4 4 0 1-30
San Diego 3 4 0 2-30
Central
West
NFC
Miami 6 1 0 34-10
Buffalo 5 1 0 24-0
N.Y. Jets 3 4 0 18-0
Philadelphia 3 4 0 17-0
New England 1 7 0 030
Green Bay 17, Chicago 3
Miami 30, Kansas City 10
Tampa Bay 28, Tampa Bay 31, Atlanta 24
N.Y. Jets 19, N.Y. Gians 6
New Orleans 29, Phoenix 17
San Diego 30, LA Raiders 23
San Francisco 40, L.A. Rams 11
Detroit 30, Minnesota 27
Central
Detroit 6 2 0 1-10
Minnesota 4 3 0 4-10
Gilbert 4 3 0 4-10
Gincar Bay 3 4 0 1-30
Tampa Bay 2 5 0 1-30
East
N.Y. Giants 5 2 0 2-0
Dallas 5 2 0 2-10
Philadelphia 6 2 0 2-10
Philadelphia 2 6 0 2-20
Washington 1 5 0 1-40
Joe Montana aggravated a strained left hamstring and departed in the second quarter with the Chiefs behind 13-0. He did not return, and his status for Kansas City's next game, Nov. 8 against Green Bay, is uncertain.
The matchup was billed as a possible preview of the AFC championship game, but the Dolphins, 6-1, easily won their fifth in a row.
"I'm not even the starting quarterback, and we're still winning," Mitchell said. "So we must have a pretty good team."
Kansas City, 5-2, lost for the first
time in five games.
Linebacker Bryan Cox led Miami's defense with one fumble forced and two recoveries.
"We got our butts kicked all over Joe Robbie Stadium," coach Marty Schottenheimer said. "I did a lousy job, our staff did a lousy job, and our players did a lousy job. I think that says it all."
"We didn't score every time; we didn't stop them every time," Cox said. "So it wasn't perfect. But we played a great game."
Cox's jarring tackle to cause a fumble left running back Harvey Williams motionless on the field for 15 minutes in the second quarter with a concussion. Williams was removed on a stretcher, taken to a hospital and held overnight for observation.
"Everybody on the sidelines was just hoping he was all right," Chiefs receiver Willie Davis said.
Mitchell threw touchdown passes of 27 yards to Irving Fryar, eight yards to Keith Byars and 77 yards to Mark Ingram. Repeatedly fooling the NFL's fourth-ranked defense, Mitchell completed 22 of 33 passes for 344 yards with no interceptions.
"I don't know that you could give a team better quarterbacking and leadership than he's given us," Shula said of Mitchell.
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