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BIG 12 UPDATE
Besides this weekend's Sunflower Showdown, in which Kansas State beat rival Kansas 38-12, the Big 12 featured several other interstate showdowns — Oklahoma 27, Oklahoma State 17; Texas
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS
A&M 24, Baylor 7. Rounding out the action was Nebraska 51, Missouri 7 and Colorado 49, Iowa State 42.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UPDATE
The Kansas women's basketball team will take on the Russian National Team at 7 p.m. tonight on Allen Field House. It is the last preseason game for the team. Doors open one hour before game time. The event is free.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1996
CHIEFS UPDATE
Greg Hill, Marcus Allen's backup, had touchdown runs of 8 and 24 yards and caught a 34-yard TD pass as Kansas City beat Green Bay 27-20 yesterday, ending the Packers' five-game winning streak. It was an uncharacteristic offensive show for the Chiefs (7-3), who completed a 69-yard pass on their first play from scrimmage and gained 383 yards against the NFL's top-rated defense. The defense, led by Neil Smith and Derrick Thomas, held the Packers (8-2), the NFL's highest-scoring team, to just two touchdowns.
SECTION 2
Oklahoma blocks Kansas to clinch volleyball match
The Kansas women's volleyball team lost to Oklahoma Friday night in Norman, Okla.
Oklahoma won the match in three games (15-5, 15-2, 15-5), improving its record to 14-10 overall and 5-8 in the Big 12 Conference. Kansas' record dropped to 9-19 overall and 3-11 in the Big 12.
Oklahoma had a total of 15 blocks to Kansas' two. The Sooners had 34 digs to the Jayhawks"22. Kansas recorded only one service ace while Oklahoma had four.
Oklahoma had 42 kills for a .397 attack percentage to Kansas' 24 kills for a .061 attack percentage.
Individually, Kansas outside hitter Moira Donovan led the team with seven kills.
The Jayhawks will play Colorado at 4 p.m. Friday and Nebraska at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, both at Allen Field House.
Kansan staff report
Women's doubles team wins Central Region V title
No. 1 seeds Hunt and Sim defeated second-seeded Alison Passmore and Jane White of Wichita State in a straight-set victory (6-3, 6-4) to capture the doubles title.
Senior Kylie Hunt and junior Christie Sim won the doubles title yesterday as the Kansas women's tennis team played at the Central Region V Rolex Championships Nov. 7-10 in Omaha, Neb.
The Jayhawk tandem had good luck entering the championship match. Hunt and Sim defeated opponents from St. Louis, Montana and Boise State before winning by default in the semifinals.
The Jayhawks' top singles player entering the tournament was No. 16 Sim, who lost her first match to Colorado's Emily Smith.
The Jayhawks' top doubles team reached the championship match of a tournament for the second time during the fall season. Hunt and Sim were runners-up in September at the National Clay Court Championships in Baltimore.
The only Kansas player to advance to the second round was freshman Julia Sidorova, who defeated Nancy Shannon of Southwest Missouri State before losing to second-seeded Gavineen McManus of Boise State.
Two Jayhawks lost in the first round to players from Boise State. Junior Maria Abatjoglou lost to Kim Vocker, while freshman Brooke Chiller lost to Summer Redondo.
—Kansan staff report
The Top Twenty Five teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records thought Nov. 9.
AP Top 25
rank team rec pts prv
1. Florida (46) 9-0 1,650 1
2. Ohio St. (17) 9-0 1,597 2
3. Florida St. (2) 8-1 1,560 3
4. Arizona St. (2) 10-0 1,486 4
5. Nebraska 8-1 1,411 5
6. Colorado 8-1 1,282 7
tie North Carolina 8-1 1,282 8
Alabama 8-1 1,231 10
9. Kansas St. 8-1 1,060 13
10. Brigham Young 10-1 1,041 12
11. Penn St. 8-2 979 14
12. Tennessee 6-2 852 6
13. Northwestern 8-2 813 18
14. Notre Dame 8-2 795 17
15. Washington 7-2 669 19
16. Michigan 7-2 638 9
17. LSU 6-2 570 11
18. Miami 6-2 500 21
19. Syracuse 6-2 492 24
20. Auburn 7-2 415 22
21. Virginia Tech 7-1 409 25
22. Army 9-0 281 —
23. Wyoming 9-1 227 16
24. Virginia 6-3 162 15
25. Southern Miss. 8-2 117 20
Other teams receiving votes: West Virginia 96,
Clemson 88, San Diego St. 37,江延 12, Iowa
16, Michigan St. 7, East Carolina 6, Texas
2, Colorado St. 1, Georgette St. 1
Wildcats claw'Hawks
Kansas State senior wide receiver Kevin Lockett gets tackled by Kansas junior defensive back Jason Harris. Lockett caught 11 passes for two touchdowns and 167 yards in Saturday's game.
Two more victories needed for bowl slot
By Dan Gelston
Kansan sportswriter
Nobody felt worse after Kansas' 38-12 loss to No. 11 Kansas State on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium than the Jayhawk seniors.
This year's senior class became the first to lose to the Wildcats four straight years since the 1924-1927 lettermen.
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Senior defensive tackle Kevin Kopp said everyone, especially the seniors, should be thoroughly embarrassed.
"It hurts so bad," he said. "You gotta look back the rest of your life and say 'Hey, I lost to K-State four years in a row. There's really not an answer for it. They beat us pretty good. From a KU football player's standpoint, it's our worst nightmare."
Senior quarterback Ben Rutz was sacked for an 11-yard loss on third down of the Jayhawks' opening second-half series. And it went downhill from there.
K-State quarterback Brian Kavanagh scored on a one-yard touchdown run in the Wildcats' first second-half drive for a 21-12 lead.
Kavanagh threw two second-half touchdowns — to Andre Anderson and Kevin Lockett — and Jamie Rheem added a 42-yard field goal to the second-half scoring.
The Wildcats' 24 points were the only scoring in the second half.
Quarterbacks Rutz and junior Matt Johnner were sacked seven times, and Rutz, defensive tackle Maurice Gaddie and cornerback Dewey Houston all left with injuries.
"I though we were very competitive in the first half," Kansas coach Glen Mason said. "After the first series in the second half we didn't seem to be the same."
Byrd, who continues to put up career-best numbers every week.
The second-half collapse was surprising to the Javahaws.
Kansas senior wide receiver Isaac Byrd also couldn't explain the collapse.
"I really can't say what we did," senior defensive back Tony Blevins said. "We didn't make plays when we needed to, I guess. This hurts bad."
"I don't think we did anything too much different," Byrd said. "We counted on the big play, and it just didn't happen in the second half."
The big, first-half plays centered mostly on
Although the Jayhawks did get three points out of that drive, they should have had seven. On the previous play, wide open senior tight
end Hosea Friday dropped an easy touchdown pass from Rutz.
Byrd had nine receptions for a career-high 178 yards. He scored the Jayhawks' only touchdown on a four-yard pass from Rutz when he beat Wildcat cornerback Chris Canty in the right corner of the end zone with 231 left in the half.
Rutz connected with Byrd for pass completions of 32, 27 and 17 yards on an earlier Jayawk drive that resulted in a 35-yard field goal by junior Jeff McCord.
Rutz was 12 for 24 in passing for 231 yards and a touchdown before leaving with a sprained right shoulder suffered on the last series of the third quarter.
While Byrd and Rutz were impressive, senior running back June Henley was not. Henley had 19 carries for only 42 yards. His counterpart, Mike Lawrence, finished with 159 yards on 27 carries.
Although the Jayhawks played much better in the first half, they still blew several scoring opportunities.
McCord missed a 51-yard field-goal
attempt, Rutz was stopped on a two-point conversion attempt, and Johner threw an interception on a fake field-goal attempt.
Lockett scored on an eight-yard touchdown pass from Kavanagh on the ensuing drive, putting the Wildcats ahead 7-3, a lead they would never relinquish.
The loss put the Jayhawks in a must-win situation for their final two games if they want to qualify for a bowl. Kansas, 4-5 overall, 2-4 Big 12 Conference, needs six wins to qualify for a bowl bid.
"It's hard to focus on next week when you get beat as badly as we did today," Mason said. "We have to regroup and march on."
Balanced offense key to'Cats' success
By Matt Woodruf
Kansan sportswriter
equal efficiency, they usually go home with a victory, often a convincing one.
The numbers don't lie. When a team can run and pass the ball with
Such was the case in Kansas State's 38-12 victory against
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Kansas State senior quaterback Brian Kavanahag tries to avoid the hands of Kansas junior outside linebacker Ron Warner. Kavanahag threw four touchdown passes and rushed one in the Kansas State 38-12 victory against Kansas.
Kansas, which improved the Wildcats' record to 8-1 overall and 5-1 in the Big 12.
Of K-State's 395 total yards, 212 were through the air and 183 came on the ground.
Compare those numbers to Kansas' lopsided 255 yards passing and a mere 30 yards rushing, and it's not difficult to tell which team was in control.
"I think it was one of the most balanced games we've had," said Kevin Lockett, an All-American candidate for K-State who caught 11 passes for 168 yards. "It was big for us to run and pass effectively. That allowed us to move the ball, especially in the second half, and control the game."
K-State running back Mike Lawrence accounted for most of the Wildcats' rushing yards, finishing with 27 carries for 165 yards.
"You have to have a balanced attack and if one's going, then the other one's going to open up," Lawrence said. "We just wanted to run the ball. Glen Mason said they could match up, against our rushing attack, and that they were going to stop us. As you can see, that didn't happen too much."
K-State's offensive proficiency left Kansas players looking for answers
"We had such a hard time stopping them and I don't know why," said defensive tackle Kevin Kopp.
"We had such a hard time stopping them and I don't know why. It seems like opposing running backs have a field day on us this year."
Kevin Kopp
KU defensive tackle
"It seems like opposing running backs have a field day on us this year and I don't know why that is. Lawrence is no exception."
Besides the performances of Lockett and Lawrence, K-State coach Bill Snyder said that another reason for the team's success offensively was the improved play of Brian Kavanagh, who finished the day 15 of 25 for 212 yards and
four touchdowns.
"Brian played very well," Snyder said. "He's just gotten himself a little bit better week in and week out, save the Nebraska game. He's playing with confidence, throwing the ball accurately and making good decisions. I'm pleased with what he did."
Kavanagh said that the play of the offensive line and the balance provided by a strong running game were the keys to his success.
"That was very important," Kavanagh said. "That opened things up for me. The line played great today. Mike ran hard and they gave him the holes to run through."
Kavanagh also said that it helped to have a receiver as talented as Lockett.
"It makes my job a whole lot easier," he said. "I can think of three times right off the bat where I made bad passes and he hailed me out. He's a great receiver and to have a guy like that, that's so athletic. When the ball's in the air he thinks it's his ball, and he just goes up and takes it."
Most Kansas players agree on Lockett's ability.
"He just gets it done," defensive back Tony Blevins said. "I guess that's the best compliment any football player can give to another. He can make plays, and that's what it's all about."
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