UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 28, 1995
3B
Men's club soccer team loses all three games at nationals
Tough competition keeps Kansas down at Phoenix matches
By Jeffrey Auslander Kansan sportswriter
Phoenix was not a friendly place for the Kansas men's club soccer team when it competed in the Soccer Nationals there Nov. 16-18.
The team lost all three of its games in round-robin competition, leaving it only with a sense of what could have been.
"We expected to do a lot better and hopefully reach our goal of winning nationals," said team member Joel Buffington, Leawood senior. "However, heading down there, we knew the competition was going to be tough."
Kansas' first game was against Colorado State, a team that members of the Kansas squad said they should have defeated. However, Kansas
squandered many chances in a 1-0 loss.
"We didn't play well in the first game, and they just slipped one goal in," Buffington said. "We didn't finish on any of our opportunities."
Buffington's teammate, Will Stelle, Overland Park senior, agreed and said that an early loss had led to a snowball effect.
"Once you get down in a tournament, it's hard to come back," Stelle said. "For us, it caused a lack of intensity."
After the first loss, the team fell to Southwest Texas State, 4-0, and Brigham Young, 6-0.
Buffington said that by the last game, the team members had adopted the attitude that they should enjoy themselves.
"Against BYU we started all seniors and let everyone have a chance to play," he said. "It was fun, but BYU was really strong, fast, big and physical. That probably explains why they made it to the finals."
Even though the team didn't play as well as it would have liked to on the field, Stelle said his teammates had enjoyed themselves when they were off the field.
Stelle also said that having a good time off the field with the other teams was a good experience. He said that during the second game, many Southwest Texas State players didn't like him much, but after the game he was able to make friends with them.
"Some of their guys wanted to kill me during the game," Stella said. "However, two days later I went on a one-hour road trip to an adidas outlet with them. It just showed that the hard feelings were left on the field."
Now that the players are back in Lawrence and looking to next year, they also are reflecting back on the season.
"It was a good season," Buffington said. "We started off real slow, but to come back and win the conference was quite an accomplishment. We finished very strong."
Gillick chosen to rebuild Orioles
Baltimore hires former Toronto general manager to lead team back to glory days
The Associated Press
BALTIMORE — Pat Gillick, architect of two World Series titles with the Toronto Blue Jays, was hired yesterday as general manager of the
Baltimore Orioles.
The former Blue Jays general manager, whose teams won the Series in 1992 and 1993, signed a three-year contract. Other contract details were not disclosed.
Ginck, voted major league baseball's executive of the year in 1985 and 1993, replaces Roland Hemond, who resigned last month after eight years. Gillick became Toronto's general
manager H. Gillick also played for five years with the Orioles as a minor leaguer and was a teammate of new manager Davey Johnson in 1962.
manager in 1977.
At a brief afternoon news conference, Gillick said he returned to baseball, and to Baltimore, because he liked a challenge.
"The one thing I think about the Orioles is they've been so close the last three or four years," he said. "They're just one game here or one game there, another pitcher, another player, and I think they'd be over the top. I think we can get over the top."
The hiring was the second major appointment in less than a month for the Orioles, who hired Johnson Oct. 30.
The Orioles finished 71-73 last season with Phil Regan as manager and Hemond as general manager. Owner Peter Angelos fired Regan at the same time Hemond resigned.
Hemond, a three-time winner of major league baseball's executive of the year award, was one of the main forces behind the Orioles' 32 1/2-game improvement in 1989, the third-greatest improvement in major league history.
Shortly after Hemond quit the Orioles, he was hired to run the baseball operations of the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks.
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