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Thursday, May 4, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
Perfect putt
Craig Palmer, KU senior co-captain, concentrates on his putting in preparation for the Big Eight golf tournament and season's end. Palmer leads the KU golfers with a 78-stroke average and recently played KU's best individual round—a 72-against Missouri.
Women's softball team headed for tough test
Kansas, fresh from its state tournament victory, gets a chance to prove itself against national caliber competition when it takes on the Southwest Missouri State University softball team today in a 2 p.m. doubleheader.
Respective state champions, both teams could meet again later this month when they advance to the regionals in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Mav 11-13.
Today's games will be the first rematch of the two teams since last year's regional tournament when SMS defeated KU twice, 8-4 and 3-2.
KU coach Bob Stanclift said yesterday that SMS returned its entire team from last season, including two fine sophomore pitchers.
"I thought they had everything to make them a potential national champion," Stanciflusk said last year's SMS team. "They're a good hitting team and one of their pitchers has a rising pitch that, at least last year, we had trouble hitting."
'Our girls help them a lot in summer ball. They all know each other. It is fun.'
Rovals lose slugfest
NEW YORK (UP1)—A two-out home run by Craig Nettles in the eightinning lifted the New York Yankees to a 6-9 victory. The triumph was the third homer of the game for the Yankees, who also got a two-run blast from Jim Spencer and a solo homer from Reggie Leveque.
The Royals have also three home runs ... all with the bases empty. Amos Olsz, Clint Hardie and Al Cowens connected off Ed Carpenter's 20-ear win with relief help from Rich Gossage.
A positive factor for KU is the return of several players who recently have been injured. Only two players remain questionable for today's game.
Sophomore third baseman Jill Larson is still recovering from an undetermined knee injury, Standlift said, and probably will not play today. Sophomore outfielder Jane Kolebee, who injured her in practice Tuesday, will be limited to practice Tuesday and probably will see limited action today.
Stancliff left KU had not beaten SMS since a doubleheader during the regular season two years ago that Kansas won, 13-6 and 6-1.
“It’s important that we play well,” he said. “These games can prove to be a real challenge.”
Stanfair had the Jahyawks had started to play to their potential in this past weekend's game.
Sports Writer
Palmer keeps golfing excellence
In what has been a goofy Spring for the University of Kansas men's golf team, a former Mets coach.
Bv STEVE SELL
It shouldn't come as a total surprise. For the past two seasons, the Independence, Kan., senior has led the Jayhawks in leading the team for the third straight year.
Palmer, a KU co-captain, said recently that he thought the Jayhawks, despite their losing record, could finish their season strongly.
"We've got a real young team and a lot of guys haven't been exposed to the pressures
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of college golf," Palmer said. "But if you play to our potential, I think we can finish third in the Big Eight, as Oklahoma State is in Country and Oklahoma has a good real team."
PALMER HAS ALL the ingredients of a fine college golf. According to KU golf coach JHanna Hanna, however, Palmer's most important attribute may be his competitive
"Craig is an exceptional competitor and he wants to do his very best in every meet," Hanna said. "He has been our brightest spot this spring."
Fairman said his scores would have been lower this season except that he had some shot put and long jump skills.
"My wedge play has been ridiculous." Palmer said. "I could probably get closer to the hole sometimes if I used my three iron rather than my wedge."
PALMER ALSO has putted inconsistently, but the rest of his game is
At 5-9 and 155 pounds, he uses a picture-perfect swing to drive the ball 230-240 yards off the tee. He said his long irons into the green were probably the strength of his
"I have to hit my two to five iron really well. I have a lot of confidence in my long arm."
If Palmer had been a few inches taller, the Jayhawks might have been without their No. 1 golfer the last two years. Palmer was sought as both a golfer and a basketball player.
"I HAD TO MAKE a decision whether to play golf and basketball at a small four-year university or concentrate on golf only up here, but I had a friend (Bo Dennis) who was on the team and he persuaded me to come here," Palmer said.
Palmer enjoyed an outstanding high school career at Independence, shooting a 78 stroke average for three years. In addition, he played on the state runner-up two man team as a junior and was on the championship two man team his senior year.
BUT HE ALSO was a leader on the basketball team that he won the Southeast Kansas title his senior year. He was noted for his ability and his accurate outside shooting.
KU is favored in tennis match
The University of Kansas men's team will enjoy a role in their next three matches that has eluded them so far this season.
"We'll be the favorite," KU tennis coach Iom Krvisto, said recently. "And the team will win."
The Jahwahys have Arkansas City (Kan.) Junior College, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Iowa.
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Palmer decided to stay home his freshman and play golf and basketball.
He made the Jayhawk Juco Conference first team in the fall golf season and turned his attention to basketball. After playing with the team, however, he quit to concentrate on golf.
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HE MADE THE all-conference golf team again in the spring, and transferred to KU.
He decided on KU not only because many his friends were in Lauterbach, but also because of the need for a new football team.
As a sophomore, Palmer led the Jayhawks with a 77-stroke average. His mark was the same as a junior, that same year. He became triangular with Missouri and Kansas State.
"I wanted to be exposed to many aspects of college life and to go to a school that offered all these things," he heard that KU had an excellent business school and with all these factors, this was
Throughout this spring, which has been disappointing for the Jayhawks, Palmer has remained consistent, maintaining his 77 to 78 average.
LAST FALL, he won medalist honors in a dual here against Missouri. He started slowly on the front nine with a 40, but then scored 38 scores on the back nine, and finished with a 72.
As the Big Eight tournament approaches, Palmer said he thought his game was improving and he expected the whole KU golf team to play better golf.
Paimier, who shot a 72 recent against MacMourl, finished 20th out of 49 in last week's NL.
"With the home course advantage, we should do real well," he said.
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