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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 20, 1990
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Tennis walk-on now sits at No.4
By Paul Augeri
Kansan sportswriter
Paul Garvin played challenge matches against Kansas-tennis players as a walk-on during the team's fall practice in 1988, eager to earn a starting role in the singles lineup.
Garvin said he worked hard and was determined to win a starting spot.
Kansas coach Scott Perelman rewarded the sophomore's efforts when he propelled Gavin to the No. 6 singles position that year.
Paul Garvin concentrates on a return shot during tennis practice.
"Everyone on the team is really proud of the way that he's committed himself and the way he has built his work ethic," said John Falbo, Kansas. No.1 singles player.
"His contribution has been extremely important," Falbo said, "one of the most important on the team."
Garvin has climbed the single, ladder during the last two seasons and is now ranked at the No. 4 singles spot. He has won four of his last five matches and has a 6-8 record so far this year.
"We had him play challenge matches early on, and he earned his way into the lineup." Perelman said. "Paul has excellent fundamentals."
"To be a champion he has to have emotional control and a great desire to win. Paul has taken gigantic responsibility in the direction of becoming a champion."
Garvin played 22 of his 25 matches last spring at the No. 6 singles spot.
He started at the No. 5 position last fall.
Garvin moved up a spot to No. 4 at O'Charley's Classic on Jan. 12 in Knoxville, Tenn., as did the rest of the team when Falbo became ill. He won two matches against players from Southern Methodist and Georgia Tech and since has remained at No. 4.
"Coach Perelman gave me a shot," Garvin said, "and the rest was up to me and what I would do with the opportunity."
Jeff Gross, a junior and fellow walk-on who plays with Gavin in the
doubles lineup, said Garvin had improved his net and volleying games. The pair will play at the No. 3 doubles spot this week at the USTA/ITCA Indoor Team Championships in Louisville, Ky.
"He has shown a lot better concentration on the court this year, and it is showing in the way he's winning," Gross said. "When you are a walk-on, think you're your ability. I think Paul made great choice of walking on at Kansas."
Garvin also attributed his on-court success to an improved diet after following the advice of Reiko Mizutani. He said Mizutani, a private practitioner in chiropractics and acupuncture, has helped nurture his physical, mental and athletic capabilities.
"I call it relaxed aggression," Garvin said. "I'm so calm out there, and not tense, that I can go out and play well without worrying about anything else."
Mizutani has administered acupuncture to Garvin, which he said has helped end a battle with bursitis in his right elbow last season.
"The most important thing is getting Paul to increase his stamina and energy level," Mizutani said. "Paul did an amazing thing in committing himself to taking care of his body."
Garvin said he would not be happy with his performance until he pushed the
"I am not satisfied with No. 4," he said. "Being a walk-on is sort of a motivator; it gives you something to shoot for."
Jayhawks fall to nation's top softball teams
The Jayhawks, 25-2, received half a first-place vote and, 1,510 points in this week's voting. Missouri will play at Oklahoma this week, while Kansas will face the Sooners in Norman on Feb. 27. The Sooners, ranked No. 10 this week, have a 43-game homecourt winning streak
The Tigers, 24-2, beat Kansas and Oklahoma in big Eight games last week and garnered $61^{1/2}$ first-place votes and, 1,586 points from the nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. Missouri was second in last week's poll.
"I was disappointed we didn't at least go .500." Haack said. "But I saw a lot of good things. That is what the early trouches are for."
Kansas softball coach Kalum Haack was relieved to be rid of the top-ranked competition the Arizona Softball Classic had to offer last weekend.
MU regains No.1 basketball ranking
The Tigers returned to the top spo in The Associated Press college basketball poll yesterday after a week in which they beat Kansas and played Jayhawks out of the No. 1 ranking, both for the second time this season.
By Paul Augeri
Long Beach State beat Kansas 5-3 in nine innings Saturday, ending the Jayhawks' four-day stay in the tournament. Kansas finished its pool-
Kansan sportswriter
Missouri is No.1—again.
Kansas lost four of its five games to teams nationally ranked sixth or higher among NCAA Division I softball teams.
play games at 2-4 and left Tucson with an overall mark of 2-5.
"The pressure of feeling that they have to do well is something that I've been concerned about," he said. "In the pre-season, there were no expectations. We've played so well, now there are tremendous expectations and those kind of things do bother your team. But our guys are very happy about the success and I'd rather have that than a poor record."
Bv a Kansan reporter
"When we made errors, in most instances, we gave up runs," Haack said. "When you start giving up two or three runs, it's hard to come back. We were not overmatched, and we did not lack talent. We just have to execute better."
Kansas coach Roy Williams said last night that the rankings really didn't concern his players.
free ball. However, Kansas committed a total of 12 errors in its five losses.
and Kansas mustered just one run in the bottom of the inning.
In their victories against the University of Toledo and New Mexico State, the Jayhawks played error-
The Jayhawks and the Forty-Niners entered extra innings tied, 1-1. According to international tiebreaking rules, a runner is put on second base at the start of each extra inning.
"But we cannot use the good teams as an excuse for our performance," said Roanna Brazier, senior starting pitcher. "We have to work on most of the things that we didn't accomplish in Tucson."
In Saturday's game, Forty-Niner left fielder Carrie Smith smacked a two-run homer for the deciding runs in the top of the ninth inning. Long Beach State scored three times in all,
Haack said the Jayhawks' defense was a drawback to the team's overall performance.
"The teams we did play hard against had averaged 10 games already," Haack said, "and we had an average of three days outside. Our pitching just wore out."
Duke beat Stetston, East Carolina and Wake Forest last week and moved from sixth to third with 1,384 points, just one more point than UNLV, which also jumped three points. Rummin' Rebels three victories last week were against ranked teams — New Mexico State and Arizona.
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Georgetown, received one first-place vote and fell two places to fifth after a loss to Providence. La Salle, which received the other first-place vote, was 14th.
Connecticut followed the Hoyas in sixth with 1,127 points, while Michigan was seventh with 1,088 points.
Georgia Tech was eighth with 1,042 points, 19 more than Purdue and 44 more than Oklahoma, which rounded out the Top 10.
The top 10 teams come from just five conferences. The Big Eight has the top two teams and Oklahoma, while the Atlantic Coast Conference has Duke and Georgia Tech in the top 25.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
1. Missouri (61.5) 24-2 2
2. Kansas (.5) 25-2 1
3. Duke 22-4 6
4. UNLV 22-4 7
5. Georgetown (1) 20-3 3
6. Connecticut 22-4 10
7. Michigan 19-5 5
8. Georgia Tech 19-4 13
9. Purdue 18-4 12
10. Oklahoma 19-4 11
11. Syracuse 18-4 4
12. LSU 20-5 9
13. Arkansas 21-4 8
14. La Salle (1) 22-1 14
15. Michigan St. 21-5 21
16. Louisville 20-5 18
17. Oregon St. 19-4 16
18. Minnesota 17-6 17
19. Illinois 18-6 15
(tie) Xavier, Ohio 21-2 22
21. Arizona 17-5 20
22. Loyola Marymount 20-5 19
23. Clemson 20-5 - -
24. New Mexico State 21-3 25
25. Indiana 16-3 -
Others receiving votes: St. John's (77), UCLA (44), Georgia (36), Houston (30), Providence (24), E. Tennessee St. (22), Alabama (21), N. Carolina St. (21), California (18), Texas (17), Brigham Young (13), Idaho (5), Ohio St. (5), Ala.-Birmingham (4)
*First place votes in parentheses
Despite losses, KU baseball team improves
By Brent Maycock
Vancouver sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
Although the Kansas baseball team lost its first two games of the season, Coach Dave Bingham said he was pleased with his team's perform-
Kansas lost to Texas Christian
"It thought we played very well in every phase of the game except for driving in runs," Bingham said. "Every facet of the game was played well and it gave us a chance to win, except for hitting in the clutch."
University, 5-4 and 4-3, last weekend in Fort Worth.
"We had plenty of innings created but we just didn't finish it off," Bingham said.
In the two games against Texas Christian, Kansas left 21 men on base.
The Jayhawks started six players who had never played in a NCAA
Division I baseball game. However, center fielder Mark Hummel said the newcomers performed very well.
"The more we play, the better we will get as a team," he said. "These first games will serve more as a learning experience, even though we want to win."
Senior has few regrets about swimming
By Molly Reid
Kansan sportswriter
Scott Berry said he was tricked. He said he didn't know any better when his mother signed him up for swimming lessons when he was eight years old.
Berry, now a senior on the Kansas swim team, said he was one of the worst swimmers on his team as a child. But after sticking with it for 13 years, Berry has become one of the leading swimmers for the Javahwks.
Swimming coach Gary Kempf said he did not need to trick Berry into the water.
"He has done a great job for three years," Kempf said. "He has great pool leadership."
"He's modest and doesn't say much," he said. "But once he races, he is out to win. That is the nice thing about this sport. You can be whatever you want to be when you're in the water."
Despite his devotion to swimming, Berry said that like all athletes, there had been times when he wanted to turn in his goggles. His sophomore year was one of those times.
Berry's leadership is a silent strength that is seen but not heard. Berry leads by demonstrating hard work and determination, Kempt said.
"Every swimmer, at least one time, doesn't like it and wants to quit," he said. "I wasn't really tired of a bull. Then things picked up."
Last season in the Big Eight Conference championship meet, Berry placed third in the 1,650-yard freestyle, fourth in the 400-yard individual medley, and fifth in the 500-yard freestyle.
ual medley, Teammate Mike Soderling holds the conference best in the 1,850 freestyle with a time of 15:56.45. Jayhawk swimmer Zawn Stevens holds the best conference time in the 400 medley with a finish of 4:01.96.
Kempf said Berry was one athlete he could count on to perform 100 percent at all times and he helped his teammates to do the same.
Berry, a psychology major, said he was beginning to focus on the future because his career will end with the season. Kansas will travel to Lincoln, Neb., for the Big Eight championships March 1. It will be
Berry said he ended his full right before the conference meet last year
He holds two of the No. 2 besttimes in the Big Eight this season. Berry's positions are marked by a finish of 16 minutes, 2.61 seconds in the 1,658-yard freestyle, and a finish of *4:04.41* in the 400-individ-
the last team meet of the season.
"Swimming isn't my whole life, but it's weird because I've been swimming for so long," he said. "At first I'll enjoy the extra time, but I'm used to having something to do from 2:30 to 5:30 every day."
The three-week gap between the Nebraska meet Feb. 10 and the conference meet has not lessened Berry's enthusiasm to compete.
"It's not hard to get motivated because two weeks is not long at all, considering we've been training since August," he said. "Knowing there is just two weeks left in your career makes it more final."
ready to do its best in the conference meet, and he said he hoped the other seniors on the team end their swimming careers at Kansas with good performances. Jeff Rodgers, Andy Flower and Kevin Toller also will compete in their last conference meet.
"I think we all have mixed emotions," he said. "We're all pretty good friends, and I hope we all do really well."
While glancing at the end of his swimming career, Berry said he had a few minor regrets.
"I don't think I'd do anything different, but I would appreciate things more than I did," he said.
Berry said the men's squad was
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Keness swimmer Scott Berry Mattsa to Instructions during practice.
Kansan sportswriter
By Brent Maycock
Men's golf team is prepared for season
With less than a month until its first tournament of the spring season, the Kansas men's golf team is ready for some warmer weather to come its way.
"It's been pretty good to us until the last week," Randall said. "We expect to get a few more good days. But we'll still be at a disadvantage."
Despite the recent cold spell, an uncommonly mild winter has allowed the team to get much-needed outdoor practice. However, Kansas coach Ross Randall said the team would need many more days of practice to catch up with the teams in the South.
The team's first tournament in the spring semester is the Central Florida Classic, March 12-13, in Orlando, Fla. Randall said the competition would be extremely good and would include teams from Florida and Arizona.
"Of the 18 teams competing, eight or nine of them are ranked in the top 30." Randall said. "We'll be behind most of the teams, but that's how you have to start."
Kansas competed in three tournaments during the fall. Randall said that his team's performance in those tournaments was fair but that he was not worried about the spring season.
"We were trying to determine what our fifth and sixth men would be." Randall said. "We ended on a high note, but we're the type of team that will play better as the season continues."
Kansas' highest finish during the fall was second place at the Miami Sun and Fun Invitational, Kansas also finished sixth at the PING Tour in Las Vegas. And the Butler National Intercollegiate in Oak Brook II.
"I feel that based on the results, we
"I hope I'll be ready," Thayer said.
"As far as I'm concerned, I feel I'll be able to play."
didn't play anywhere near our potential," senior Sean Thayer said. "I think it was a lackluster performance."
Jon Bruning and John Ogden are the other Jayhawk seniors. Bruning took sixth place at the Miami Sun and Fun Invitational for his best finish during the fall. Ogden had his best finish at that tournament also, placing eighth.
Randall said the three seniors on the team would be the group he expected to provide leadership and score well this spring. However, Thayer, who was Kansas' top finisher in all three fall tournaments, severely sprained his ankle while playing basketball and could be out for five weeks.
"Ogden and Bruning have an awful lot of talent, but they struggled during the fall." Randall said.
Randall said one of his team's goals was to finish in the top half of the Big Eight Conference. The Jaya-hawks finished in third place behind Oklahoma and Oklahoma State last year. Oklahoma won the NCAA championships last year and Oklahoma State is ranked No.1 nationally this year by the Golf Coaches Association.
"I thought we had our best year ever last year," Randall said. "We came within two strokes of finishing in the top 15 at the NCAA championships. I think it's important for us to quality for nationals again."
Randall said the team would be playing in some of the best tournaments in the country this spring. He also said Kansas was ranked 28th in a recent issue of Golf World Magazine.
"If we have a good spring, we can land in the top 20," Randall said.
Sports briefs
By a Kansan reporter
Kansas assistant football coach John Hadl yesterday was appointed assistant athletic director for development Kansas athletic director
Hadl has been an assistant at Kansas for the past two years. He was also the offensive coordinator for Kansas from 1979 to 1981.
With the ready position, Hard will be in charge of supervising all fund-raising activities related to
annas athletics, including the Williams Educational Fund, according to a press release issued yesterday by the KU Sports Information Office.
"In emphasizing our efforts in fund-raising activities, it's highly appropriate that we are represented by one of KU's all-time great athletes," Frederick said. "John Hadl signifies a meaningful part of our athletics history, and I'm confident that he'll play a major role in the success of our athletic future."
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