Sports
University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 4, 1989
13
Lady Jayhawks win championship 44-41 Team beats UMKC for 3rd straight title
By Paula Parrish Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team won the Lady Jayhawk Dial Classic for its third title in as many years Saturday in a game that was soft on the scoreboard and hard on the nerves.
"I'm absolutely pleased about the championship," Coach Marian Washington said. "I think a low-scoring game keeps people on edge."
Kansas beat the University of Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroo 44-11 in the championship round Saturday at Vail House in front of a crowd of 625.
In a game that went down to the wire, Kansas only managed 29.1 percent from the field. UMKC, which didn't do much better, put in 30 percent. Both teams managed to pull down a total of 78 rebounds, 20 defensively for Kansas as UMKC had 28.
"It was obviously a defensive game," Washington said.
Kansas led 17-15 at the half.
Kansas led 14-15 at the half.
UMKC, who beat Kansas last year,
45-44 in regular season play, didn't let up,
keeping even or ahead of the
Jayhawks throughout much of the second half.
With 3:41 left in the contest and Kansas trailing 39-35, guard Kay Kay Hart kept the Jayhawks in the game with two free throws, pushing the
Jayhawks to within two. Forward Shannon Bloxom followed up with a three-pointer, giving Kansas the upper hand, 40-39, with three minutes left.
Forward Misti Chennault took the Jayhawks' lead to three, 42-39, with a shot from the lane, but UMKC battled back to within one on a basket by forward Wendy Newman. But her team was not on for her team, as Kansas went on to win the Classic for the fourth time in seven years.
"I think that our shooting as a whole has been inconsistent," Washington said. "We're going to have to work on it a lot more."
Kansas met UMKC in the final round after defeating the Radford Highlanders 63-56 in first-round play Friday night. UMKC, in its first year of NCAA Division I play, defeated the Texas Pan-American Broncs Friday 50-35 to qualify for Saturday's championship round.
Chennault was voted the tournament's most valuable player. She had a total of 18 points, 11 rebounds, three assists and one steal for the tournament.
Radford beat Texas-Pan American 71-40 for third place in a consolation match before the championship game.
Center Lynn Page and forward
See DIAL. p. 14
Michelle Arnold retains control of a loose ball over Kay Kay Hart and UMKC center Bernice Dorsey.
Jayhawk freshman gets MVP
By Kate Lee
Kansan sportswriter
Shock was Kansas freshman center Misti Cennault's immediate reaction Saturday night to being tipped over by a hitter at the Lady Jayhawk Dial Class.
The Kansas women's basketball team defeated the University of Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos 44-11, taking first place in the tournament. "There were three or four other girls I would have chosen before me."
Chenault was the first Kansas freshman to win the award. Her victory puts Kansas' streak of MVP winners in the Classic at three, Senior guard Lisa Braddy won the award in 1987 and 1988.
"Most coaches try to reinforce that you don't have to be a starter to make a contribution to a team," Coach Marian Washington said. "She's certainly an example of that, so we're proud of that."
Chenault came out flat in the first half of Friday night's first-round contest against the Radford Highlanders, scoring only one free throw. In the second half, she scored 10 points from the field and added another free throw.
Swim teams place in weekend tourney
See CHENNAULT, p. 14
'Hawks play tonight, try to end slugishness
By a Kansan reporter
The Kansas men's and women's swim teams took second and third respectively at the Arkansas Invitational last week in what Coach Gary Kempf called an outstanding and important invitational.
In the men's races, Arizona won with 798 points, Kansas placed second, Kentucky tied for third, State, Arkansas, New Mexico and Drury.
Freshmen Troy Reynolds won the 200-yard butterfly in 1:49.62 and Zhaun Stevens took the 200-yard dash in 1:51.48, breaking a personal record.
In the 200-yard freestyle relay, the team that is comprised of sophomores Ed Riddle and Jeff Branton, junior John Easton and freshman Robert Townsend, fell to second place with 1.22.89 to Arizona, the winner of the invitational.
In the women's races, Arkansas won with 736.5 points. Georgia came in second with 681, and Kansas grabbed third with 644.5.
By Dan Perkins Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas Jayhawks will attempt to overcome their string of sluggish performances tonight against the Tennessee Martin Faces at Allen Krug's
Kevin Pritchard, Jeff Gueldner,
and Mark Randall came off the bench to score 14, 0 and 10 points respectively in that game.
The Jayhawks, though, haven't struggled as much with their opponents as with themselves.
The fourth-ranked Jayhawks are 6-0, but Coach Roy Williams hasn't been pleased since the Jayhawks Vegas in the Dodge NIT on Nov. 22.
Kansas has won its last three games by a total of 57 points, but have shot under 50 percent in two of the games. Kansas as a team is still shooting $2.9 percent for the season.
The Pacers, 3-2, enter the game at Missouri on Saturday in Columbia.
The Pacers are led in scoring by 6-foot-6 forward Shannon Redmon with 14.8 points per game, and 6-1 guard
Kansas won its only game against Tennessee-Martin in the first official game of the 1966 season, 88-69. Three starters were on the team that year.
Marcus Nelson with 14.6 points per game.
Last season, the Pacers, a Division II team, were 1-25, but were forced to forfeit five games because they used an ineligible player.
In all, the Pacers feature eight pewcorns, seven of them from the junior college ranks. One of the newcomers is Kansas City-product Stan Bradley, 11 points per game, who attended Ruskin High School and Kansas City Kansas Community College.
The Pacers lost five lettermen from last season's team, including three who averaged double figures in scoring.
Kansas Basketball GAME 7
KANSAS JAYHAWKS
Coach: Roy Williams
Record: 6-0
Tennessee-Martin Pacers
Coach: Tom Hancock
Record: 3-2
Player Ht. PPG RPG
G-Kevin Pritchard 6-3 13.0 3.3
G-Jeff Guelder 6-5 11.7 4.0
C-Pekka Markkanen 6-10 6.3 3.0
F-Rick Calloway 6-6 9.3 5.7
F-Mark Randall 6-9 17.5 6.0
PROBABLE STARTERS
Mike Maddox, Rick Calloway and Melvin Swann try to rebound.
Game Notes: In the only other meeting between the two schools, Kansas won 88-69 in the 1986 season-owner at Allen Field House. Tip-off is 7:35 p.m. at the field house. The game will be broadcast on JKHK (9.07 FM) and KLZR (106 FM). It will be telecast time-delivered on cable channel 43.
Player Ht. PPG RPG
G-Stan Bradley 5-11 9.8 2.4
G-Marcus Nelson 6-1 14.6 2.6
C-Craig Malone 6-7 7.4 6.4
F-Mike Werts 6-6 9.8 6.2
F-Shannon Redmon 6-6 14.8 5.8
KANSAN Graphic
Jayhawks fetch ugly victory KU struggles from the floor, at the line against Retrievers
By Dan Perkins Kansan sportswriter
If basketball games were paintings, it's a safe bet no one would call the Kansas Jayhawks' performance Saturday afternoon a Picaso.
"It doesn't take a nuclear physicist to realize that wasn't very pretty," Coach Roy Williams said after watching Kansas, 6-0, struggle to the 86-67 victory against the Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers.
"We played pretty ugly, and you have to give UMBC some credit for that." Williams said. "I'm tired of saying you've got to win some ugly games. I'm ready for us to play a little better."
It wasn't pretty, but the fourth-ranked Jayhawks remained unbeaten, despite hitting a season-low 41.2 percent from the field and committing 19 turnovers against the Retrievers, 2-2.
Guard Kevin Pritchard, who led five Jayhawk players in double figures with 15 points, wasn't too thrilled with Kansas' shot selection.
"I classify this game as a win," Pritchard paused, "but an ugly one. Against their zone we were settling too much on the jump shot. We needed to look to get the ball inside a little more."
Also scoring in double figures for the Jayhawks were Terry Brown with 14 points; Rick Calloway, 12; Mike Maddox, 11, and Mark Randall, 10.
Kansas shot just a little better (41.7 percent) from 15 feet and beyond than it did from within 15 feet (40.9 percent).
The Jayhawks weren't much better from the free throw line, where they continue to struggle.
Kansas, which entered the game hitting 63.4 percent from the line, didn't do anything to help that average, but the difference in the game was the number of free throws the Javahws hit.
Kansas hit 23-of-37 from the line for 62.2 percent. The
See RETRIEVERS, p. 14
Calloway outshines KU victory
There was only one consistency in Kansas' 86-67 sludge trudge over Maryland-Baltimore County Saturday afternoon.
Bv Paula Parrish
Kansan sportswriter.
"The ball was flying around the rim on the offensive boards, and he was coming, flying in and grabbing it," guard Kevin Pritchard said. "I've never seen him go to the offensive boards like that."
His name was Rick Calloway.
Calloway, expected by some to step into the lineup and be a key contributor on the scoreboard this year, has been quietly consistent all season, averaging 8.8 points, five rebounds, and more than three assists per game. But on an afternoon when Kansas could only
manage 41 percent from the floor, far from its 55.5 percent shooting average. Calloway's above-average play was bound to make him stand out.
"I wanted to come out and play a total game," Callaway said. "I just wanted to come out and do some other things, play defense, rebound, and I think I did pretty well."
Calloway dropped in 12 points on nine attempts, for 44 percent shooting, right around his season average of 47.1 percent. Calloway hit both ends of the court hard, keeping the Retrievers down and nabbing nine rebounds to lead the Hawks on the boards. He broke his previous season record of seven rebounds against Alabama-Birmingham.
Calloway was modest about his play Saturday afternoon.
"It it was more evident some of the things he did today because he got more rebounds and did score." Coach Roy Williams said. "I really like the help he gave us on the boards. Ricky is important to this team and is going to continue to be important."
Calloway also contributed a team-high five assists and two steals with an acrobatics show that left many wondering why they hadn't noticed him earlier in the season.
"We don't have really big, big people, so I have to concentrate on rebounding and defense," Calloway said. "We spread it out so nobody plays more than 30 minutes on this team.
Chiefs win over Miami
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Marty Schottenheimer offers a simple explanation for why his long-suffering Kansas City Chiefs have jumped into contention in the AFC.
"That which was once a group of men is now a team of men," Schottenheimer said yesterday after the Chiefs withstood a fourth-quarter challenge, defeating the Miami Dolphins 26-21. "And that's very important."
Wide receiver Stephone Paige caught seven passes from a revitalized Steve DeBerg for 133 yards, and Christian Okie rushed for 148, cracking the team's single-season yardage record as the Chiefs went to 6-6-1 and plunged the Dolphins to 7-6.
Marino, held to four completions for 42 yards in a miserable first half, exploded for three touchdown passes in the fourth period.
"That Dan Marino is just unbelievable," Schottenheimer said. "What a great, great quarterback he is."
"We stopped ourselves all day, and I wasn't throwing the ball well in the first half," said Marino, who finished 18-for-37 for 218 yards. "We felt we could move the ball against them in the second half. We got some things done."
After Marino's 15-yard touchdown pass to Mark Clayton made it 19-14 midway through the fourth period, DeBerg engineered a 75-yard drive capped by his 8-yard touchdown pass to Herman Heard that turned out to be the winning margin. Marino, on fourth down, hit Jim Jensen with a 9-yard scoring strike with 53 seconds remaining.
"The first half was a real disappointment," said Miami Coach Don Shula. "They did it to us both ways, rushing and throwing the football."