Sioux City Journal from Sioux City, Iowa • 39

HSabres close out Bruinspage D2 BMarlins win battle of new teamspage D3 BNFL holds draft todaypage D6 The Sioux City Journal Sunday, April 25, 1993page D1 up to bo OHIO Natasha Kaiser Brown nets win in special 400 hi A- a Amy Wikus, who later won a special 800, anchored in 2:04.1. In the open 800, Wikus, the NCAA Division I national champ, won in 2:07.96. Morningside's Gina DeWitt, who will transfer to Drake after this season, was sixth in 2:11.96. "I ran the best race possible considering the situation," said DeWitt, who had hoped the fast field would take her below 2:10. For nearly 600 meters the 14 runners ran in a congested mass and there was no room for speed.

"I wanted to go out faster, but it was physically impossible to break out of the pack," said DeWitt, a sophomore who won last month's NCAA Division II indoor title. DeWitt, who stormed past seven runners in the final 80 meters, was well ahead of Drake's best half-miler, freshman Trisha Allen, who was 13th in 2:15.4. The only other runner under 2:10 was second-place finisher Jill Stamison of Western Michigan, who ran 2:09.37. Another special Drake guest who is never late to the finish line, former Baylor Ail-American Michael Johnson, won a 200 invitational in :20.39. "If I didn't come to the Relays, I know wherever I was I would wish I was at Drake," said Johnson, an A By Steven Allspach Journal sports writer DES MOINES None of the 1993 Drake Relays special guests disappointed their hosts.

Consider the elite guest list. And, how well they minded their manners. High jumper Hollis Conway, who holds the American record of 7-lO'i, won a special event with a record leap of 7-6 Vi. Interestingly, Brian Brown of the Southern Cal Cheetahs tied for third at 7-1. Brown's wife, Natasha Kaiser Brown, won a women's special 400 in :51.60.

Kaiser, an Olympian and the darling of the Drake crowd since her prep days at Des Moines Roosevelt, also donated her silver medal from the Barcelona Olympics in the 4x400 relay to the Iowa State Historical Society in a special afternoon ceremony. In addition, Jim Spivey, America's best miler, won a special 5,000 in 13:58.81 and Iowa's Anthuan Maybank blazed a :44.99 special 400-meter race. Bryan Kueny of the University of South Dakota was sixth in the same race, doing :47.83. Maybank had set a Drake Relays record of 27-1 in the long jump Friday. Wisconsin's 4x800 women's relay quartet, the reigning national champions, stormed to victory in 8:36.23.

I if ft I 1 kL David Oaks of Oklahoma raises his arms in triumph as he crosses ry in the 4x100 relay in Saturday's next-to-last event in Drake finish line ahead of Nebraska's Isaac Carson in the Sooners' victo- Relays. (AP Photo) SEE NORTHWESTERN continued on page D2 Dubuque's Oleson clears record 5-10 in Drake high jump By Steven Allspach Journal sports writer AAhr- ff -i In the Class 2A state meet last year, DeJong was third and Hasenkamp fourth in the run. Sioux City's best showing was Heelan's sixth-place finish in the boys sprint medley relay. Noel Maxey did a 1:59.4 anchor 800 in bringing Matt Campbell, Rob Hutchinson and John Kennedy home in 3:38.56. The Crusaders ran three seconds faster in Friday's prelims, when Maxey's concluding two laps took only 1:56.5.

Iowa City High won the medley in 3:30.5 with Tim Dwight running a :47.5 400 leg. Later in the day, Dwight ran a :48.9 anchor in hauling Iowa City to victory in the 4x400 relay in 3.22.11. That finished off a weekend of four gold medals for the Little Hawks' star, who won the 400-meter low hurdles on Friday and added the long jump title Saturday. "Our school record in the medley is right around 3:33 and we'd like to get it this year," said Maxey. "I thought the finals would be faster than yesterday." The highlight of the prep division Saturday was an all-time Iowa girls best by Dubuque Senior's Amy Oleson, clearing 5-10 to win the high jump.

Oleson shattered the previous Iowa prep record of 5-9 shared by Holli Harberts and Janine Gremmel. SEE BREYFOGLE continued on page D2 DES MOINES Phil Hasenkamp, sort of an adopted Siouxland son, saved his best until last Saturday in the high school division of the Drake Relays. Hasenkamp, a senior at Council Bluffs St. Albert who was named outstanding male high school athlete at last weekend's Sioux City Relays, won a star-studded boys "dash" late in the afternoon. Hasenkamp, never at a loss for words, had some disparaging remarks for the runner-up, Roba Bati of Iowa City West.

"I always thought Roba was a neat guy, but he didn't have any business elbowing me at the finish," said Hasenkamp, who ran a personal best 4:23.64. "He kicked me, too, and that stuff just uncalled for." Bati, last year's Class 4A state 1,600 champ, was close behind in 4:23.96. Hasenkamp was also fifth in the 3,200 in the morning, doing 9:35.29. His afternoon victory was the lone gold-medal performance Saturday by a Western Iowa prep. In the 1,600, Daron DeJong of Maurice-Orange CityFloyd Valley was ninth in 4:31.0.

Cherokee's Bob Mangan wound up no better than 16th in the 3,200 in 9:59.91. Dan DeGroot of Hull Western Christian was 18th and Nolan Speichinger of Sioux City East 19th. Armstrong has 2 TD receptions LINCOLN (AP) Tight end Gerald Armstrong of Ponca pulled in two touchdown passes as the Red defeated the White 29-8 Saturday in the 44th annual Nebraska spring scrimmage. The game, attended by an estimated 25,000 people, is the final scrimmage of spring football practice. Coach Tom Osborne said he was disappointed in the quality of play, blaming part of the problem on an attempt to wet down the Memorial Stadium's artificial turf to prevent injury.

The field was only partially wet, so players wore dry weather shoes and the game was marred by many slips. "It's kind of a mixed thing. At times, the offense moved the ball well, but we've got some guys on defense that can really close," Osborne said. "I really think our defense is going to be improved." Nebraska is using its former pass situation dime defense as its standard set, putting the emphasis on team speed and closing quickly to the ball. "This defense we have now is more aggressive than the one we had last year," said sophomore free safety Troy Dumas, who had four unassisted tackles, two assists and a pass interception.

Dumas also ran a muffed extra point back for two points. "Once we get comfortable with it, we're going to get a lot of turnovers and people aren't going to score on us," Dumas said. The Red and White teams threw the ball a combined 59 times, completing 29. But Osbome said fans should not expect to see footballs filling the air in the fall. "If you want to score points, you put (I-back) Calvin Jones in there behind that big offensive line and ram it at them," Osborne said.

"Today we threw it around a lot. We're looking to improve our passing." Osborne said he wants the team to increase its completion percentage from 45 percent to 55 percent. If that happens, the Cornhusker offense will include more passing, he said. Jagodzinski (93) and Jon Ortlieb in Hawkeye Running back Sedrick Shaw of Iowa's Black team sprints past White team defenders Shawn spring scrimmage. (AP Photo) Burmeister goes 1 4-f or-22 geis i usinsurimmaye IOWA CITY (AP) Paul Burmeister has waited passes for 98 yards and Ryan Terry and Sed passes for 98 yards and Ryan Terry and patiently for his chance to quarterback the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Well, maybe not patiently. "At times, I wondered if I would ever get a chance," said Burmeister, an Iowa 85-foot putt helps Elkington tie for lead City West product who will be a fifth-year senior in the fall. "I never doubted my ability." Burmeister is Iowa's No. 1 quarterback heading into fall and Saturday he put on an impressive show while leading the Black squad to a 55-0 shutout of the White squad in Iowa's annual spring football came at Kinnick Stadium. He Quarterback Tommie Frazier completed 14 of 22 passes for 174 i i fl 1111 completed seven of 16 passes for 57 Sedrick Shaw ran for 83 and 71 yards, respectively.

The black squad scored four of the first six times it had the ball. "It was a better game than I anticipated by the number ones," Fry said. "And it wasn't as good of a game as I anticipated by the number twos. Obviously, we need to develop some quality depth on our football team." For the moment, it looks like Burmeister, who started the last three games for Iowa last fall, is ready to take over at quarterback. "Paul threw the ball real well," Jasper said.

"Everybody has a lot of respect for him. He'll get out there and do what needs to be done." "He's hung in there for five years now and really matured," Fry said. "He's a real sound quarterback a big strong kid, very intelligent." Several other Hawkeyes had good performances Saturday including Willie Guy, who caught four passes for 41 yards and returned two kicks for 31 yards while playing for both squads. "We'll utilize Willie more than you saw today," Fry said. "He's a very gifted athlete and try to get the ball to him any way we can." Backup quarterback Matt Eyde completed 2 of 3 passes for the white squad and 7 of 1 1 for the black.

Terry, Cliff King and. Kent Kahl also scored on short runs, Tom Knight returned a fumbled kickoff 14 yards for a score and Eyde ran in from the 1 and passed 12 yards to Ernest Crank for a TD to round out the scoring in the game. Fry said he was happy with his team's progress this spring. The Hawkeyes will try this fall to bounce back from last year's 5-7 campaign. yards and one touchdown for the Red team.

Frazier said spring practice has helped him fully understand the "You don't know what the weather has in store," said Azinger, who finished third here last year. "You have a bunch of guys who can win. Anybody within five shots of the lead could win." It appeared Sullivan would hang onto the lead after going 1-under on the front side, continuing his unspectacular but solid play, as the wind continued to blow and no one was able to string birdies together. But he stumbled down the stretch with bogeys at Nos. 15 and 16 for a 73.

He had posted his first consecutive sub-70 rounds of the season with a first-round 67 on Thursday and a 68 Friday. "I probably was a little conservative a couple of times where I shouldn't have been as conservative," said Sullivan, who has won only twice in 17 seasons on the PGA Tour. "It's been awhile since I've been in this positive so in the back of my mind I was kind of wondering how I would react. GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -Former Greater Greensboro Open champion Steve Elkington sank an 85-foot putt on the 17th hole Saturday to forge a tie with Mike Sullivan heading into the final round of the $1.5 million tournament.

Elkington, who won the tournament in 1990, and Sullivan, who led after each of the first two rounds, were tied at 8-under-par 208 on the Forest Oaks Country Club course. Gil Morgan was another shot back at seven under after matching Elk-ington's 69, while Lennie Clements and Paul Azinger were at six under. Azinger recovered to shoot a 70 after swinging and missing on a shot near a tree on his second hole, which he double bogeyed. Clements shot even-par 72. The golfers have had to battle strong winds for three rounds and the forecast for Sunday's final round was for wind of 25-30 mph and possible thunderstorms.

That should make it a wild scraml'-- for the $270,000 top prize. "It gave me a lot more time to learn the system at its fullest, Frazier said. "Last year as a freshman, I knew the offense well enough to start, but I didn't know the yaius aim buuicu on a pair ui siiou runs. Burmeister "I thought Paul Burmeister did an excellent job, even throwing into the wind," Iowa Coach Hayden Fry said. "I was a little surprised he could throw such a tight spiral with the velocity he had throwing into the wind." It was a big day for Burmeister.

Before the game, the team announced that he will be one of Iowa's captains for the fall. "He just ran off with it offensively," Fry said. "That means a lot," Burmeister said. "My teammates voted for it. I have a lot of respect for my teammates and to know they respect me means a lot.

It's a great honor and I'm going to do my best to live up to it." The black squad Iowa's first team at the end of spring drills was sharp. Harold Jasper caught five reads and the options the way I do now. The only serious injury Saturday was suffered by cornerback Willis Brown, who jammed his neck on an open-field tackle. Jones left the game on the first play of the second quarter when a tackier bruised his leg..