SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 11, 1993
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Wildcats slip past Jayhawks
10-9 defeat has shades of 1991 K-State victory
Kansas strong safety senior Clint Bowen took down Kansas State wide receiver sophomore Mitch Running during a game at KSU Stadium. Kansas was defeated Saturday 10-9.
By Matt Doyle
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas' 10-9 defeat at Kansas State on Saturday had the earmarks of the Jayhawks' 16-12 defeat at K-State in 1991.
MANHATTAN — Similar scenarios. Similar frustrations. Similar results.
The Jayhawks failed to convert on a key fourth-down situation from the Wildcat 1-yard line in the second quarter Saturday. In 1991, Kansas failed on a fourth and one from the Wildcat 6-yard line leading 12-3 with nine minutes to play.
Kansas committed no turnovers and forced three K-State turnovers Saturday. The Jahayhawks had no turnovers and forced six Wildcat turnovers in 1991.
Time, once again, ran out on Kansas as they were driving into K-State territory for a potential game-winning score.
And, once again, the goal posts at KSU Stadium were torn down by K-State students.
Walking back to the dressing room, some Jayhawk players said that they let this game slip away again, just like in 1991.
"I definitely think that we should have beaten this team," said senior free safety Clint Bowen. "I know the guys in our locker room are better than the guys in the other locker room."
However, the scoreboard showed that the Jayhawks were one point less than the Wildcats.
K-State took advantage of a 25-mile-per-hour northeast wind in the first quarter to jump into the lead. Junior quarterback Chad May connected with senior wide receiver Andre Coleman for the touchdown with 10:12 to play in the quarter.
Senior kicker Tate Wright connected on a career-long 50-yard field goal with 4:51 remaining in the quarter making it a 10-0 game.
Kansas used the wind in the second quarter to get field goals of 26 and 29 yards from senior Dan Eichloff to cut the margin to 10-6 at halftime. But the most significant play for Kansas in the second quarter resulted in no points and severe frustrations for the Jayhawks.
The Jayhawks were fourth and goal from the K-State 1-yard line on the second play of the second quarter. But junior quarterback Asheikil Preston left his pass short to a wide-open senior tight end Dwayne Chandler in the end zone.
"I short-armed that pass," Preston said. "It needed to be a better pass, and if it would have been, it would have been a touchdown."
Chandler said the pass was catchable and that he should have come up with the reception.
Kansas coach Glen Mason decided to take the wind to start the third quarter with intentions of regaining the lead. But the Jayhawks only could muster an Eichloff 24-yard field goal to cut the lead to 10-9 after a 16-play, 72-yard drive that ate 8:14 off of the clock.
"The wind was significant, and at that point in time we needed to make our move," Mason said. "I didn't want to fall any farther behind than we were, so I figured to take the wind right then and there."
But the decision that Mason will be remembered for in the game was his electing not to go for a first down in the fourth quarter. Mason sent Eichlöch to punt with his team facing a fourth down and two situation at the K-State 48-yard line with six minutes to play.
"There was a lot of time left on the clock, and I was playing it that we could hold them and get the ball back," Mason said. "I would have gone for it if there had been a little bit less time left."
The Wildcats made three first downs on the next drive and took the clock down to 20 seconds before the Jayhawks held them on fourth down at the Kansas 29-vard line.
Preston got the Jayhawks to the Wildcat 30-yard line, but time expired on the Jayhawks.
"All we needed was a little more time," Mason said. "If he could have got out of bounds with a click left on the clock, we would have taken a shot at a field goal, but that's the way it goes."
Bv the numbers
...KAN ...K-ST
First downs ...17 ...21
Rushes-yards ...52-258 ...40-161
Comp-Att ...6-14-0 ...18-27-2
Passing yards ...96 ...159
Fumbles-lost ...1-0 ...2.1
Penalties-yards ...7-46 ...3-26
Sacked-Yards Lost ...1-7 ..0-0
Punts ...5-179 ..4-175
Average yards per punt ...35.8 ..43.8
Time of possession ...30:33 ..29:27
Kansas .0 6 3 0—9
K-State .10 0 0 —10
kick)
K-St — Wright 50-yard FG
Kan — Eichloff 26-yard FG
Kan — Eichloff 29-yard FG
Kan — Eichloff 24-yard FG
K-St—Coleman 19-yard pass from May (Wright
Source: The Associated Press KANSAN
Kansas junior running back June Henley tries unsuccessfully to break away from a pack of Kansas State players. Kansas was unable to score a touchdown Saturday.
Kansas bombs inside red zone
By Matt Doyle
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Kansan sportswriter
MANHATTAN — The red zone in football is the area of the field inside the opponent's 20-yard line. This season the red zone has been a bloody红 for the Jayhawks, and that did not change in the 10-9-defeat Saturday at Kansas State.
The Jayhawks penetrated the Wildcat 20-yard line four times, but they only managed three field goals and failed to score a touchdown on fourth down from the Wildcat 1-yard line.
Kansas was successful in the red zone in 1992, scoring 28 touchdowns in 38 trips inside. This season, the Jayhawks have 10 touchdowns in 25 trips inside the red zone.
Kansas coach Glen Mason said he could not find a common denominator on why his team has struggled in the zone.
"Sometimes when you get the ball first and goal at the 10, that's awfully tough," Mason said. "The field shrinks, and we were playing against some pretty good people. Those people become a bigger factor in the red zone."
Mason said the failure to score on fourth down from the K-State 1-yard line early in the second quarter was because of poor execution by junior quarterback Asheikd Preston. Preston short armed his pass to a wide-open senior tight end Dwayne Chandler in the end zone.
"We didn't execute the play very well; who knows if that was the difference in the game." Mason said.
K-State's defense tightened the reins on Kansas' other trips inside the 20-yard line. The Jayhawks were forced to settle for Dan Elichlou field goals of 26, 29 and 24 yards.
K-State senior cornerback Thomas Randolph said the Wildcats were more focused once the Jayhawks got inside the red zone.
"When they get inside the 20, we get a different mentality," Randolph said. "We think that they shouldn't be in there, and we bear down."
Chandler is one of many players on offense left wondering why the Jayhawks have had so many shortcomings once they reach the red zone.
"We were running it up and down the field, but we couldn't do anything from the 20 on in," Chandler said. "We haven't been able to do that all year."
Alvamar tees up for invitational
By Kent Hohlfeld
Kansan sportswriter
This week, as the Kansas men's golf team plays host to the 13-team Kansas Invitational, spectators won't see the months of preparation that went into the tournament.
For the last three years men's golf coach Ross Randall has been in charge of making the preparations for the annual tournament which runs today and tomorrow, at the Alvamar Golf and Country Club. Randall started the tournament three years
ago after a four-year break in the tournament
"We really didn't need the tournament several years ago because of tournaments at other schools," Randall said. "Then a couple of schools canceled their tournaments and I decided to start up the tournament again."
He said that he enjoyed having a tournament in Lawrence because it gave him a chance to get all his players into competition. Randall said that his team would field two teams in the tournament.
"The Big Eight doesn't allow us to have junior varsity," Randall said. "This allows us to look at some of our players who don't get to travel with us."
In preparation for this tournament Randall had to cover a wide range of activities from sending invitations to schools last March to clearing course time with Alvamar.
Stuntz said that the preparation for the tournament would include intensive mowing of the course before the tournament. He said that his crew usually mowed the greens once a day but that they would double cut the greens for this tournament.
"We have dozens of tournaments every year," Stuntz said. "This one is little more work than some, but it's not too bad."
"Mowing the greens twice makes for a little faster putting which the college players really seem to appreciate," Stuntz said.
Maintaining the course for playing is the responsibility of Dick Stuntz, vice president of golf course faculties at Alvamar. He said that he and his 15-person crew were used to the work load caused by the tournament.
His crew will also repair the out of bound markers and make pin sheets for all the players. Pin sheets tell players how far the pin is from the middle of the green.
Brad Demo, director of golf at Alvamar has to ensure that the play goes smoothly on the manicured courses. He said that the workload from the tournament was normal.
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This week's tournament takes on special meaning for the staff at Alvamar because the Jayhawks will be playing on their home course.
"It's not just a normal tournament because our local kids are in it." Demo said.
Kansas is the two-time defending tournament champion. Last year the team defeated Kansas State by three strokes. K-State will return to this year's field as well as other Big Eight foes Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa State and in-state rival Wichita State.
Kansas junior Derek Scott dodges a member of the St. Louis rugby team after receiving a kick during a match at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets. Kansas collegiate A rugby team defeated the St. Louis Ateam 27-10 Saturday.
Rugby teams achieve mixed success on field
Kansan staffreport
Kansas men's rugby battled it out Saturday at Shenk Complex. The collegiate teams were victorious, and the club teams were defeated at the fields on 23rd and Iowa streets.
Kansas collegiate A team defeated the Saint Louis A team 27-10. Senior Joel Foster ran in two tries for Kansas. Senior Matt Delargy and sophomore Danny Lilch both contributed one try to the Jayhawks' victory. Delargy kicked two conversion points and one penalty kick for seven points.
Next weekend, the teams will travel to Kansas City, Mo., to participate in the 26th Heart of America tournament.
Kansas club Ateam lost by one point to the Omaha Goats 20-19. Kansas scored in the last few minutes of the match but missed a 2-point conversion kick that would have put Kansas
Collegiate B team defeated Saint Louis 32-21. Five Kansas players, seniors Egea Fernando and Philip Olson, juniors John Weishaar and Derek Scott, and sophomore Erik Sutton ran in trys for 25 points. Olson scored eight with four conversion kicks.
Club B team failed to score against the Goats, but Darryll Lane kicked in two penalty kicks. The Goats defeated Kansas 13-6.
on top. Scott Emerson and Rog Rogers both scored one try, and Manna Rangi kicked in three penalty kicks for nine Kansas points.
Inspired Iowa State team tops Kansas in volleyball
By Gerry Fey
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas currently is ranked No. 12 in the Mideast region.
But after losing against Iowa State 12-15, 7-15, 11-15,
Saturday at Ames, Iowa, Kansas' record dropped to 1-2 in
the conference and 11-7 overall.
In Kansas' Big Eight volleyball defeats, the difference has been the opponents' desire to defeat the Jayhawks, Kansas coach Frankie Albiz said.
"One thing we're facing is that we're regionally ranked, and these teams are really ready for us," Albitz said. "We don't realize that yet."
Albizt said that the match was a grim reminder of Kansas's other Big Eight defeat on Oct. 2, when Oklahoma defeated the Jayhawks 15-3, 15-1, 15-13.
"It reminded me of OU," Albitz said. "At OU, we were two steps behind. Against Iowa State, we were a step behind. Iowa State played really well."
Iowa State increased its record to 2-2 in the Big Eight and 4-10 overall.
Kansas errors rather than Iowa State's ability cost the Jayhawks a victory on the road, Kansas sophomore Jenny Larson said. At the right-side position, Larson had eight kills and a 294 hitting percentage in the match.
"We didn't play as a team," Larson said. "We basically beat ourselves with errors. I don't think our play had anything to do with what Iowa State did."
A glaring statistic from the match was team hitting percentage. This number reflects how efficient a team is with its kills.
Kansas ended the match with a .092 percentage compared to .242 for Iowa State. In game three, the Cyclones' .000 percentage was worse than the Jayhawks' .065, but not by much.
"The three game, their hitting percentage was lower than ours," Albitz said. "But we still lost, and kind of miserably too, even though we had an early lead."
Kansas didn't come ready to play, sophomore setter Lesli Steinert said. But Iowa State might have been inspired by the Jayhawks' regional rank, she said.
"Nothing was working on the outside, and I couldn't get it to the middle," Steinert said. "Knowing that everyone is after us, it's possible that we don't realize it."
Steinert had 17 set assists, her lowest production since Sept. 10 in a three-game victory against Tulsa when she had 12. Iowa State freshman setter Jenny Lansink had 40 set assists, but Larson said Lansink did not do anything amazing on the court.
"She was a good hustler," Larson said. "She ran balls down, but she wasn't anything spectacular."
Larson said that Kansas was not playing to its potential. "We need to play like a team that is regionally ranked," Larson said. "We're a lot better team than we play."
Despite losing another Big Eight match, Albizt said that the Jahwhaws just needed to put the defeat behind them.
"I'm sorry we lost," she said. "I guess we just keep moving on."
Top 25 teams
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press 1993 college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 9. Total points are based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and ranking in the previous poll:
| | Record | Pts | Pvs |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Florida St. (61) | 6-0-0 | 1,549 | 1 |
| 2. Alabama (1) | 5-0-0 | 1,480 | 2 |
| 3. Notre Dame | 5-0-0 | 1,413 | 4 |
| 4. Florida | 5-0-0 | 1,365 | 5 |
| 5. Ohio St. | 5-0-0 | 1,245 | 6 |
| **6. Nebraska** | **5-0-0** | **1,169** | **7** |
| 7. Penn St. | 5-0-0 | 1,163 | 8 |
| 8. Miami | 4-1-0 | 1,156 | 3 |
| **9. Oklahoma** | **5-0-0** | **1,073** | **10** |
| 10. Tennessee | 5-1-0 | 1,021 | 11 |
| 11. Arizona | 5-0-0 | 957 | 12 |
| 12. Washington | 4-1-0 | 828 | 13 |
| 13. Texas A&M | 4-1-0 | 809 | 14 |
| 14. North Carolina | 6-1-0 | 697 | 15 |
| 15. Virginia | 5-0-0 | 613 | 18 |
| 16. Wisconsin | 5-0-0 | 556 | 21 |
| 17. West Virginia | 5-0-0 | 470 | 24 |
| 18. Michigan | 3-2-0 | 451 | 9 |
| 19. Auburn | 6-0-0 | 426 | 22 |
| **20. Colorado** | **3-2-0** | **408** | **20** |
| 21. California | 5-1-0 | 346 | 16 |
| 22. UCLA | 3-2-0 | 287 | 25 |
| 23. Louisville | 5-1-0 | 212 | 17 |
| 24. Syracuse | 3-1-1 | 178 | 23 |
| 25. Michigan St. | 3-1-0 | 142 | — |
Others receiving votes: Kansas State 85, Indiana 30, Clemson 29,
Boston College 22, Brigham Young 19, Army 1.
Source: The Associated Press