Sports
University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 9, 1990
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'Hawks split four with'Cats
By Brent Maycock
Teammates mob pinch runner Kevin Marozas, No. 33, after he scores the winning run.
Kansan sportswriter
After getting pounded in the first game, Kansas rebounded and split a four-game series with Big Eight Conference rival Kansas State during the weekend at Hoghund-Maupin Stadium.
Kansas baseball
Kansas will play Northwest Missouri State at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Hoglund-Mauin Stadium.
Three of the four games were decided by just one run and two of the four games by just two.
The Jayhawks, 16-16 overall, have a record of 4-4 in the Big Eight. The Wildcats, 16-13 overall, are in first place in the conference with a 6-2 record.
"You're not going to see three better ballgames than these," K-State coach Mike Clark said.
Kansas catcher Mark Moore hit a two-out single in the tenth innings of yesterday's game, giving Kansas a 5-4 victory.
"I think Mark is starting to play he's capable," Kansas coach Dave Bingham "As the game goes on, he gets tougher and better."
Pinch hitter Dan Niemeier opene, the inning with a single up the middle and was replaced by pinch runner Kevin Marosaz. Marosaz went to second on a sacrifice fly by center fieldater Pat Karlin. Shortstop David Soult walked on four consecutive pitches by Wildcat reliever Greg Laddish. After third baseman Gerry Camara popped out to K-State first baseman Blair Hanneman, Moore delivered a single to center field. Marosaz slid under Wildcat catcher Dan Skala's tass with the winning run.
"I was just trying to stay relaxed and trying not to do too much," loooms said an extremely boobtastic woman. We wandered take all four, but a split isn't bad."
Earlier in the game, Kansas catcher Garry Schmidt and right fielder Denard Stewart hit back-to-
sack home runs off Wildcaster starter Chris Hmielewiel. It was Schmidt's first home run of the season and his second in Martt's second home run of the series.
Kansas starter Eric Stonecipher struck out 13 Wildcats in nine innings but left the game without a decision. Kansas reliever Curtis Shaw, who made appearances in three of the four games, worked the tenth and picked up his second victory of the series, raising his record to 6-2.
"I usually pitch my best against the best teams and when it's close," Shao said.
It was the second time in two days that Moore had delivered the game-winning hit.
ace David Hierholzer's hanging slider over the left field fence in the bottom of the eighth, giving Kansas a home to Moore's first home run of the season.
In the first game of the double-
header Saturday. Moore hit Wildcats
Earlier in the game, Kansas right fielder Denard Stewart hit a two-run home run to left, his fifth of the season. The hit snapped Hierboler's streak of 40 consecutive innings without allowing an earned run.
"He's a tremendous college baseball pitcher and he has very good stuff," Bingham said. "He just made a couple of mistakes. He hung a breaking ball to Moore, and Mark was sitting on it."
In Saturday's second game, K-State rallied from a 4-1 deficit and defeated the Jayhawks 6-5. However,
it was a costly victory for the Wildcats.
First baseman Kevin Kaufman suffered a separated shoulder in a collision with Kansas catcher Garry Schmidt at home plate while trying to score in the third inning. Kaufman will be out for at least one month.
K-State walloped the Jayhawks 14 in the series opening Friday night. A grand slam by Wildcats left field highlighted highlighted the Wildcats' victory.
Bingham said the split was crucial for the Jayhawks.
"If we were to stay in the Big Eight race, we needed that second win," he said. "We should have won three, but it was just a great college baseball series."
Pitcher's streak continues; team wins twice
Kansan sportswriter
By Paul Augeri
Kansas softball
Kansas pitcher Jill Bailey added 14 more innings to her scoreless inning streak this weekend.
Bailey, a freshman righthander, threw a one-hitter yesterday as Kansas blanked Pittsburgh State 4-0 at Jayhawk Field. She has pitched 22 consecutive scoreless innings.
In their Big Eight Conference opening Saturday, the Jayhawks split a doubleheader as braselas at a tossed a Nebraska, 50-40 shutout in the second game.
"I felt very good pitching against Nebraska," she said. "I learned the way to play."
I'm going to pitch at the Division I level."
Kansas is 23-14 overall and 1-1 in.
the Big Eight. Nebraska, 15-12 and
1-1, defeated the Jayhawks 6-1 in
the Brazier, 14-4, was the losing mitcher
Bailey, who has pitched five shutouts this season, said she had improved in recent weeks.
"I feel like a whole different plant," he said. "Everything worked well."
"When two good teams like this play, you just can't run wild." Kansas coach Kalum Haack said. "We did not have that many base runners, but we were both very cautious."
Kansas and Nebraska, known for their running games, had only two stolen bases each in the double-breaker.
After Kansas lost the opener, Haack prepared the Jayhawks for the second game with a post-opening game speech.
"I made them stare at the scoreboard when I was chewing on them," Haack said. "I told them, 'You can tell me' and mentioned them to realize we got thumped."
Nebraska scored four times in the second inning and twice in the sixth. Cornhusker second baseman Michelle Cuddeford hit a triple in the top of the second inning, scoring three runs. First baseman Deanna Mays then hit a sacrifice飞, scoring Cuddeford.
Nebraska pitcher Stephanie Skega allowed six hits and walked one
Shortstop Shae Sloan hit a two-run home run to left-center field in Nebraska's two-run sixth inning.
However, Coach Ron Wolforth said the Huskers lost their intensity in the second game.
"We are a young and very mentally immature team," Wolfron said. "We are very talented and have beaten Oklahoma State and Texas A&M, but we are not old enough to know what it takes to win game after game."
Wolford said the Jayhawks and Cornhuskers are very similar in their game approach.
"When we are playing Kansas, it is like looking at a mirror," he said. "They pitch out, like to run and are aggressive. I think Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma State will be the top three schools on top of the Big Eight."
Pekka decides to return home
Bv Molly Reid
Kansan sportswrites
Kansas center Peka Markkane announced Friday that he would not return to the University of Kansas this last year of basketball eligibility.
Men's basketball
The 6-foot-10 junior and his wife, Rikika, will return to their home-town of Jyvaskyla, Finland, when this semester ends in May.
"I have decided to go back to Finland," Markkanen said in a prepared statement. "This decision was extremely hard for us, I was outraged." He has been done for us and we have had many memorable moments here.
"We will always remember the basketball staff and the team, and of course the great Kansas fans, which led our team to all those wins. Part of us will remain in Lawrence even after we have left.
I want to thank everyone who has been in contact with my wife and myself."
Williams said Markkanen would be missed.
During Markkannen's one season with the Jayhawks, he was named the captain of the United Press International All-Defense team and a member of the All-Surprise team, averaging 6.9 points and 3.9 goals per game. He started in 33 games for Kansas during the Jayhawks 20-5 season.
"Pekka is an outstanding young man and we are deeply saddened by this decision, but it does not change our feelings for him. This has been a very, very difficult experience, and this season immensely and did a great job on the court and in the classroom." he said.
He will return to the university in Jwaskyla and compete on a club basketball team as well as the Finnish national team.
Kansas' top recruit prefers home court
By Molly Reid
Kansas basketball was the victim of a recruiting upset Friday.
Just hours after the announcement of center Pekka Markannen's plans to return to Finland, Kansas recruiting prospect Kenneth Roberts announced that he had signed a letter of intent to attend Brigham Young.
Recruiting
Roberts' coach George Shuga said the 6-foot-7, 217-foot forward received a lot of pressure to remain in Utah because of his Mormon background.
"The first thing he said was, 'I want to do for my nieces and nephews what my brothers did for me' that is to be a role model at U.Saq said. 'I was shocked that he didn't choose Kansas or Utah."
Roberts' older brother Fred Roberts played basketball for Brigham Young before playing for the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA.
Sluga said he told Roberts that he did not think the decision was wise regarding basketball but also said he would consider his family in his decision.
"I feel really bad for Kansas. But it doesn't matter. It's Kenneth's choice," said Shuga, who said he was very impressed with the coaches at Kansas. "He made the decision.
There is no way to judge that
"The coaches didn't do anything wrong. They couldn't have done anything else. Sometimes Utahans won't leave Uah."
The Jayhawks recruited Roberts to fill the big-man gap which has now grown even larger with Markkanen's departure.
Roberts was named Most Valuable Player two consecutive years and helped his team establish a 61-9 record and win two state titles during his three years at Bingham High School in South Jordan, Utah.
He shot 74 percent from the field his senior year, averaging 25.9 points, 12.3 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 3.1 blocks a game.
Roberts also maintained a 3.3 grade point average and scored a 27 composite score on his ACT exam.
Sluga said Roberts would probably get a good deal of playing time at Brigham Young because two players will be leaving for a two-year Morton. Roberts said Roberts and Brigham Young program would benefit from the presence of Roberts.
Van Coleman, publisher of National Recruiter's Cage Letter, said Roberts would have been an offensive power for Kansas, but his loss would not affect the Jayhawks junior college big-man prospects.
Coleman said Kansas was still recruiting available players to fill the big-man needs, although they had been extremely interested in Roberts.
Competition jolts Kansas
By Molly Reid
Kansan sportswriter
The SEMotions Relays were a little bit of a surprise for the Kansas men's and women's track distance runner Jason Teal said.
Kansas track
"We thought it would be an easy meet," he said. "But we found out a lot of the teams were better than we thought."
The Jayhawks' comeback performance in the 3,200-meter relay was a positive surprise for Kansas.
"We all had a part in it," Teal said. "It showed us we had the confidence to win — heck, we overcame that."
Another runner knocked the baton out of the hand of Kansas runner Brian Gray in the first leg of the race. The fumble slowed the team to sixth position by the time the baton was handed to Teal.
Teal's performance brought the team into third position and Jon Handy maintained the position.
Teal said he gave most of the credit to anchor runner Jon Joolin, who ran the final leg and moved the team into first with an overall time of 7 minutes, 43.87 seconds.
The 3,200 relay was one of the
Teal, who also ran in the 1,600 relay and the distance medley relay, said he was surprised by his performance in the distance relay.
three events the Kansas men's team won. The relay team of Donnie Anderson, Sam Froese, Sean Sheridan and Steve Heffernan won the 6,400 relay in 17:11.89. Spot putter Chris Reddson also won the only field event for the Jayhawks by playing 55-7.
Triple jumper Johnny Brackins and javelin thrower Vince Labsky did not compete in the SEMoTions with the rest of the Kansas team, but instead went to Texas to compete in the Texas Relays.
"We didn't run what we should have," Teal said. "I think we were in team cam out there. It was the first race — I don't think we were ready."
The only women's event won by Kansas was the 100-meter hurdles. Amy Hadley finished first with time of 14.45.
Labosky placed second in the javelin throw with a toss of 240-1. Brackins placed sixth in the triple jump,
Kansas coach Gary Schwartz said Friday that the meet was an ideal time to experiment with the personnel on relay teams.
Sports briefs
SOCCER TEAM UNDEFEATED: The Kansas soccer team improved its 6-01 by posting two victories during the weekend at Shenk Complex.
SOCCER TEAM UNDEFEATED: The
Ed Nelson and Danny O'Keele scored the goals and goalies Scott Schaffer and Andy Nordquist preserved the shutout for Kansas.
Kansas scored two goals late in the second period Saturday and defeated Kansas State 2-0.
Schafer, Nordquist and John Carrico had their second shutout of the weekend yesterday as Kansas beat Pittsburgh State 3-0.
"We came alive in the second half." John Weist, Omaha, Neb., senior said. "We haven't had time to work out a lineup, but we tried some different combinations and they blended pretty well."
Dan Stoke, Marc Moreano and
Steve Hodes all scored for Kansas.
Initial scrimmage of spring encourages Mason
Young defense shows improvement, but offense still is struggling, coach says
By Kate Lee
Special to the Kansan
Before Saturday's first spring football scrimmage, Kansas coach Glen Mason told his players to be tough and to play tough. After the scrimmage ended, he said he had seen a good effort from his team.
Football
"For our first scriffimage, I was pleased," Mason said.
He was especially pleased with the performance of the defense.
Mason said he particularly was impressed with the improved play of defensive tackle Gilbert Brown. The two sacks and a number of tackles.
"The defense got into some tough situations and came out looking good."
"Our defense has definitely improved," he said. "It's far ahead of our offense right now.
"He's a much improved football player," Mason said. "Those plays you saw him making today, he's been making all spring."
"We've got a lot of young players," he said. "It'a a remade defense, and it' s not."
Mason said he could not account for the overall defensive improve-
"I think Chip Hilleary did a good job," he said. "He ran the offense well and made some good decisions. One of my mottons is that you have to avoid losing before you can win, and he didn't make bad decisions.
Sophomore Chip Hilleary will replace Kelly Donohoe at quarterback in the fall, but Mason discounted Hilleary's inexperience as a factor in the offense's trouble.
"Our offense is struggling. We're struggling with consistency and coming up with the big play."
The Jayhawks scored twice during the scrimmage. Both were touchdown passes from Hilleary to wide receiver Jim New.
Mason said he was concerned about the offensive line which has dwindled in number since spring practice began. The Jayhawks
'I think Chip Hilleary did a good job. He ran the offense well and made some good decisions. One of my mottoes is that you have to avoid losing before you can win, and he didn't make bad decisions.'
— Glen Mason Kansas football coach
started the spring with eight players on the line. That number was reduced when tackle Lance Snyder suffered a knee injury that will keep him on the sidelines until fall, Guard Scott Inwalle and tackle Keith Loneker both had the flu but played Saturday.
Running back Frank Hatchett breaks a tackle in the scrimmage.
"We're down to one offensive line with two spares," Mason said. "If those two hadn't have played today, we'd have called it off."
"Some got in more, some less," Mason said. "The offensive line got in a lot more."
The game plan called for most of the players to participate in about 35 games.
The Jayhawks will practice tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They will have Easter weekend off. The spring game is April 22 Running back Dwayne Chandler did not practice yesterday because of an
ankle injury. Players injured during the scrimmage included wide receiver Terry Bell, who hurt his ankle, nose guard Matt Nolen, who hit in the eye, and cornerback Tim Hill, who injured his wrist. Running backs Tony Sands and
Frank Hatchett combined for 113 yards on 23 carries. Hilleary completed 10 of 15 passes for 145 yards Chris Maumalanga, who signed with the Jayhawks this spring, watched Saturday's scrimmage from the sidelines.
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