University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 24, 1978
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Defending champ
time of two hours, 20 minutes and one second broke the Old Kelly record by 39 seconds. He was one of more than 200 runners to
Bob Bushy, a teacher from Kansas City, Mo. won his second consecutive Kansas Relays' marathon race Saturday. Bushy's
NORMAN, Okla. —When Oklahoma University's men's track coach J.D. Martin agreed last December to hold the university and open divisions of the Kansas Relays, he thought he knew how much time and money he could be to spend to make the meet a success.
Sports Writer
By RODNEY ANDERSON
CLIFFORD WILEY, the 1977 meet's most outstanding performer, won both the open 100 and 200 last year. Wiley missed the meet because he had a broken arm.
"I knew they'd perform well but they completely dominated the meet; they did a
Kansas, the team that won the most in the three-meet Midwest Relays circuit, was shut out in the Kansas Relays and limited to two individual crowns. Tad Scaled cleared 17-0 to win the pole vault Saturday and won the bronze by discus with a loss of 172-5.
Martin's return on his investment amounted to nine first-place finishes and ten second-place finishes. Sooners dominated the Kansas-Oklahoma Relays before a two-day crowd of about 50,000.
The Jayhawks competed without their three defending champions from last year's Kansas Relays. KU won four individual events last year.
Oklahoma dominates KU Relays
The university and open divisions were held at Oklahoma this year because KU's Memorial Stadium, usually the scene of the Kansas Relays, is undergoing renovation
Jay Rearden, who won the 1977 long jump, underwent knee surgery last week and is out of work.
KU KTR COACH Bob Timmons credited Oklahoma with a fine meet.
Anderson said she was pleased with the performances of several individuals and the
"They amaze me more and more every day," she said.
FIRST-PLACE finishes came from hurdler Lori Lowrey, spinner Sheila McGraw and skier Katie Olsen.
Michelle Brown finished third in the 1,500-meter run in 4:31.56, which was four seconds
Snoddy said Jones' injury affected the outcome of the race.
"I knew he could run a lot faster than he did." Snowy said. "I wasn't too concerned about the final leg of the race. I didn't see anybody and I knew I had it."
KU women's track coach Teri Anderson said Saturday that she thought that if team scores had been kept, KU would have won two of the games and the number of high place finishers for KU
THE SOONERS also captured the sprint medley, 440-yard relay and the mile relay, a
Okahama's Mike Wilson spurred past Lester Mickens of KU in the anchor leg and gave the Sooners a track record time of 3:08.14 for the 39-81.14 season, the Janhawks' best time this season.
Snoody raced past Jones, who was slowed
by his haramwring, and finished about 10 yards.
But lost in the shuffle was a brilliant performance by Elvis Jennings of Mississippi State. Jennings turned in a 44.8 split on the anchor leg for Mississippi State, the quickest anyone has ever turned the final 440 on the circuit.
The women's and college divisions of the Kansas Reserves were moved to Emporia State University from KU because of a financial project on KU's Memorial Stadium.
Women win three events at Emporia State
By MARY HOENK
This weekend, the Sooners were led by OU sprinter and NCAA 200-meter champion, William Snoddy. He won two individual titles and earned the four Sooner relay teams that placed first.
SNODDY ANCHORED the Oklahoma 880-yard relay team, which set a track record in a time of 1:24.6. Snoddy, a Tulsa sophomore, had to come from about five yards behind Texas Olympian Johnny "Lam" Jones, who led after the final baton exchange.
EMPORIA — The KU women's track team captured three first-place finishes and qualified another team member for the national championship, the women's division of the Kansas Relays.
The Jayhawks have not won a relay event since a mile relay victory at the Drake on Sunday.
Sports Writer
KANSAN Sports
KU's third title defender, also missed the event because of an injury.
One of the three first-place finishers for KU was Lori Lowrey, who ran the 100-meter hurdles in 14.7. Lowrey has the KU record in 2013 and is BIG Eight this year in the 100-meter hurdles.
ANDERSON SAID the woman who won the event, Deb Esser of Iowa State, was one of the best in the country in that event. Derek Jones of Michigan came fourth in the same event i: 106:3.
"She had a lot of trouble getting over those last two sets," Anderson said.
Sheila Calmese turned in a fine performance in the 100-meter dash. After being sidelined recently with a sore foot, Calmese won the event in 12.0.
Lowrey was an expected favorite in the 400-meter hurdles, but took third place with a time of 1:04.3 after hitting the next to last set of hurdles.
KU finished third in the mile relay with a time of 3:57.2.
BROWN ALSO anchored the two-mile
team team, which finished third in a time of
10:43.
Gagle Crate finished sixth in the discus throw, tossing 1234<sup>6</sup>.
In one of the meet's most exciting moments, Kathy Devine from Emporia State set a new national record in the shot put Saturday with a throw of 53.3³. The throw broke her old record set in 1976 by two inches. She won the event by more than 10
off her best. The time qualifies her for the AIAW nationals.
DESPIE THE GOOD showing by several team members in several events, Anderson said times were adversely affected because of a slower track.
Karen Fitz finished fourth in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 17:59.0.
KANSAS PICKED up a second-place finish in the 440 relay. Team members Calmes, Lowery, Kuhman and Amy Miles finished with of a second behind Kansas State's 46.8.
Corwin also took seven place in the long jump behind Charmaine Kahmani and Kim Coates. Corwin was 169.5.
In the high jump, Shawn Corwin took first place by jumping 5-8, which also was a KU best. Cindy Skillman tied for sixth in the same event.
Brown agreed that the track was a bit hard and also cited the wind as a disastrous factor.
She also said it was hard to get motivated to go to the Kansas Relays in Emporia State.
"It's really a downdressing of the Relays," she said. "We had to run on a track that wasn't quite as good as ours and I don't think we were quite up for the meet."
Calmese agreed that because the Relays were not at KU, everyone did not look forward to them as much as they had in the past.
She also said she thought the competition Saturday was good, even though only five of the Big Eight schools showed up for the Relays.
IN THE MEN'S college division, Fort Hays State dominated the standings with 14-7.
Fort Hays State took the 5,000-meter hurdles with a 14:39.3, the javelin with 22:50, the two-mile relay with a time of 8:28 and the 110-meter high hurdles with a time of 14.4.
Relays bring recognition to OU track team
Sports Editor
Ry GARY REDORE
NORMAN, Okla.—It isn't often the people
or Oklahoma get excited about a tricker ticker.
However, the football engulfed town of
Kansas and about football for a weekend
and turned out for the 43rd running
of the Kansas Relays.
An overflow crowd of more than 3,000 fans crammed John Johns Field on a pleasant rainstake Saturday to the crowd the final day of school. Friday the crowd exceeded 1,500 people.
THE FANS HAD much to cheer about. The Sooners grabbed nine first-place finishes in the two days. KU won two events. OU sprinter William Snody, who wore the 200-meter dash and took part in four relay, said he appreciated the crowd's support.
"It's great to get some of the home crowd
"Track fans really aren't that good at Oklahoma. This is a football school. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State really didn't get along very well," he adds, after, when they got some good athletes.
to root for us." Snoddy said. "This weekend is a good promotion for Oklahoma track and field."
Distance runner Randy Wilson, who won the 800-meter run and on two winning relay teams, said the attention that track season weekend would be a boost to OU's program.
"THE NEWSAPERS and TV have been here, which has been excited," he said. "It also will help our program from the point of recruiting."
Some of the top high school trackmen of Oklahoma participated in the meet.
recruiting," OU men's track coach J.D. Martin, the team coordinator, said. "It's the biggest event since I've been here." He did a great job of running things."
KU men's track coach Bob Timmons, who with Martin organized the meet's transfer to Oklahoma for a year because of construction in Memorial Stadium, agreed the meet went smoothly. Timmons said he was hanny for OU's track program.
"The high school players see how smooth everything went, and it's great for
"ITS GREAT FOR them," Timmons
"they performed us this weekend.
They."
Timmons can afford to lend support to Oklahoma's program. The Jayhawks, long dominant in the Big Eight conference, have won the Big Eight outdoor title 23 of the past season (1978-79 and 1980-81) met in 1961 and 1962. This year's Big Eight also will be held in Norman, May 19-20.
Marathon runners brave cold, wind
THE JAYHAWKS brought just 15 men to compete in the Relays because of injuries. Timmons said that he recognized OU's superior ability and a challenge to win the conference title again.
By NWA BROOKS
Associate Sports Editor
Rv WAUT RRAUN
When the gun sounded at 7 a.m. Saturday in KU's Memorial Stadium to start the Kansas Relays marathon race, only a few teams entertained serious thoughts of victory.
One of those was Bob Bussy, who slipped at the start and stretched a high muscle. He also had a left hand. Bob Bussy, a 28-year-old high school math teacher and assistant track coach from Kansas City, Mo., won his second consecutive high school marathon and his third in four years.
With Oklahoma's strong showing in the Kansas Relay, the Sooners pose a major challenge.
Martin said it was too early to tell how the Sooners would fare in the conference meet. The Sooners finished fourth in this year's Biz Eight indoor championships. KU won it.
“It’s hard to say how we’ll do,” Martin said. “Kansas will be back. They’ve got a lot of sprinters out and they’ve got good talent.”
Busy's time for the 28-mile, 385-course broke the old Relays' marathon record by 99 seconds and was more than 10 minutes faster than the second-plane runner. George Mason, a former KU Alabama distance runner, placed second in 2:30:42.
BUSY WAS one of several runners who shipped on the wet track at the race's beginning. He said he felt a sharp pain in his hip but got up quickly to avoid being runner-up.
"I didn't come here to withdraw after six feet," he said. "I wanted to get a jump on the field and found myself looking at everyone's backs. I just got up and caught up. Once you begin to compensate for the hurt, you're dead."
strong, cold win tested their endurance on their trip to Vinland.
BUSBY SAID he thought the weather and course were ideal for a long race. Temperatures throughout the morning were in the low 40s.
"Everything was just great," he said. "The weather was terrific and the temperature was terrific. There was no sun, good crowd people and good aid stations. The course itself is not difficult, except this last hill."
"The past couple years I was too young to compete in the Masters division and didn't have much chance of winning," he said. "I wasn't confident." It's fun to compete and it just is fun to run."
The joy of running in and finishing the marathon was victory enough for most of the entrants. Runners who finished more than two hours behind Busywhee were estatic. Some flashed victory signs when they crossed the finish line. One runner, who took an odd turn at the end of the course, skipped across the finish line. Another shouted "Praise the Lord."
The wet track, soaked by overnight rains, was only one of the obstacles that runners faced on their round trip to Viland, 13 miles south of Lawrence.
SHOUTS OF "Here comes another one" signaled each runner's approach and each runner was cheered as he ran the last few minutes. The audience hooded, Handshakes and congratulations followed.
One runner who didn't enjoy the weather was Don Morris from Boulder, Colo. Morris, 41, won the Masters division and finished seventh overall with a time of 2:40.18.
By the five-mile marker the runners were stretched in a single file, alone now, except for the people in the accompanying cars, the horses, and the lighting in the southeastern sky.
By the time they reached Broken Arrow Park, the group was no longer a group, but dozens of groups of three and four. They later divided further as the miles took their
The runners started the race before this same faithful crowd. Built together on a track that is nearly 600 yards long, ran their obligatory趴 and trudged hopefully up the sidewalk past the Campanile and toward Louisiana Street. By the end of the race, the lead runners were already out of sight.
The soft ground slowed their times and a
"I think we'll be back," Timmons said. "We have a month to get there. But it will be a challenge with Oklahoma and Missouri doin' so well."
About 100 friends and relatives waited for the runners to arrive.
"I've been running for years," he said, "and compete in about two marathons a year. An event like this is great. It gives people a chance to do something and be successful. They are 20 or 70. It beats the hell out of watching cartoons on a Saturday morning."
MORRIS, a 1959 KU graduate, and was his three Relays marathon and the first to win.
"I was hoping for a hot day and this is we got. Morris said, "The wind was pesh! (we) had it."
The weekend of the Big Eight championships promises to be another busy one for Martin, who during the Relays was seen playing at the 2014 photographs of athletes to set up hurdles.
Despite his victory, however, Busy admitted that he was not the only winner.
THE DISTANCE between Bauby and the
water, will be until, at the finish,
he makes up about two feet.
"This was the busiest I've been in five years," Martin said.
Women's team to meet WSU
After losing a pair of games this weekend, the KU softball team will try to amalgamate its talents today against Wichita State University.
The Jayhawks lost twice to Central Missouri State Friday, 3-4 and 11-4. KU had swept a doubleheader earlier this season from CMSU.
Injuries and a lack of offensive punch were the reasons for Friday's performance, KU softball coach Bob Stanclift said yesterday. Kansas had five hits in each game but could not come up with key hits that produced runs.
"WE USUALLY have people step in and pick up our hitting when someone is having an off day," Stanciff said. "We just haven't bad anyone doing that."
The KU lineup Friday had many substitutions because of injuries and illness, Stancill said. A rain that cancelled a scheduled doubleheader with the University of Nebraska at Omaha Saturday may have answered to the Jayhawk's injury problems.
Although Snoddy and the Sooners were walking away with most of the first-place finishes, the most outstanding performer was Roggy of Southern Illinois University.
"I hope that extra day's rest will help out our team," he said. "The rain may be the best thing for us."
Stancliff said he expected Wichita State's team to be tougher than last year, KU was 2-0.
ROGGY DAZZLED the Saturday crowd of about 3,000 by tossing the jersey 290-71%; the best in the world this season and the best ever by an American collegian.
Roggy's rots shattered a Relays record set 13 years ago by a Kansas State performer and earned him the most outstanding performer award.
The record throw came on the heels of a 282-3/8-foot by Frank Lyons of Texas, Roggy Hawkins of Oklahoma.
"After I saw Lyons I got psyched," he said. "I wanted to win this thing."
Kustek only took warmup throws and said afterward he was disappointed that he faced a big mistake.
Although Friedman, a freshman from
Great Bend, won the discus, he was not
proud of it.
Friedeman was two inches short of qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor two weeks ago.
TAD SCALES vaulted 17-0 to win the university division of the pole vault for KU's national championship.
"I didn't do as well as I had expected."
Friedman said. "I was shooting for 180, the NCAA Outdoor qualifying distance. I'm starting to get worried about qualifying for the NCAA. I didn't like the throw at all but I pleased I won."
IN OTHER FIELD events for Kansas,
Friedman won the discus with a toss of 171-
5. Ray Bradley of K-State finished second
with a toss of 183-2.
11 FELT REAL light this morning, "he
was Saturday after the score throw. "It
sanded on."
KU javelin thrower Mark Kostek, who watched Rogg's record-breaking performance, scratched from competition because of a recurring muscle strain.
Roggy said he spent most of Friday night and Saturday morning loosening light on the floor.
Scales' 17-foot vault marks the first time this season he has cleared that mark. Scales, who was using a new pole, said he should have vaulted 17-5⁄₄.
he said "I was just rushing it and it cost me" he,
"I said, 'I'm not used to jumping at that kind of"
floor."
Jayhawk distance runner Kendall Smith had his best time ever in the 5,000-meter run but did not place. The event was won by the Killin of Wyoming University in 18.01.3
In the sprint medley, the Sooner quartet of Mike Kelly, Bobby Arnaud, Wilson and Snoody broke a track record set in 1969 by Kansas with a first-place finish of 3.19:13.
Timmons said his team would be competing well soon, although currently he was far behind.
"It's one of those things," "Tumors said. "
"We have to get together, turn the corner and "
"pass by."
Larry Sims of tiny South Plains Junior College in Texas won the mile and three-mile runs and anchored South Plains' winning mile relay team at the junior college division of the Kansas Relays Saturday at Haskell Indian Junior College.
Sims won the mile in 4:10.2 A few hours later he won the three mile in a time of 14:00.7 He also turned in a 4:07.8 sprint in the team to win the third mile in a team to a victory time of 10:07.0
Tony Burney of Garden City Junior College turned in a 106-yard dash time of 9.6 and then anchored his 440-yard relay to him. He also placed second in the 220-yard dash.
Sims a winner three times in Relays' JUCO division
HUTCHNSON JUNIOR College won the rain-drenched JUCO division of the 53rd Kansas Relays. The Blue Dragons scored 108 points, followed by Garden City with 98 and Butler County with 69 points to complete a Kansas sweep.
Twenty schools were entered in the competition.
In the boy's and girl's high school division of the KU Relyas at Sainte Rose Mission, they play on the first floor.
cool temperatures forced postponement of Saturday morning events until early afternoon.
But once the weather cleared up that afternoon it didn't take long for a record to be set.
SCOTT LOFQUIST in broke a Kansas Relays record in the throw discuss with a loss of 1B-24, shattering the old mark set by Mission South ace Mark Sutherland.
But the senior from Shawnee Mission South failed to break the all-time Kansas record.
In the field, KU signer Jeff Buckingham from Gardner cleared 15-4 to win the pole vault competition. His hault of 14-0 came as rain began to fall.
He hurriedly ordered the bar set to 16-0 but missed all three tries. Hed hit that second with a low ball, and his team was
BUCKINGHAM CLEARED 16-3 at the state indoor recently.
Topela high senior Mark Hanson fell short of a Relays record in the long jump. Hanson's jump of 23-4½ was more than a foot better than his runnerup.
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