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Friday, March 10, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Lady Jayhawks win in Ahearn
MANHATTAN—The stage was the same, but this time the script was different.
The KU women's basketball team ended a nine-year losing streak in Ahearn Field House last night by beating Northwest Missouri State University, 68-43, in the first round of the AIAW Region 6 postseason basketball tournament.
But the Lady Jayhawks, 19th in the country, needest is second and third points from the left.
Trailing by as many as seven points in the second half, the Lady Jawhaws combined pin-point passing and tenacious player-player defense to stage a last minute
comeback
he played good defense." KU head coach basketball coach Marian Washington said. "They stayed with us the whole way, but our desire is what got us here, and our desire will take us through the rest of this tournament. We're just gutsy ballplayers."
THE LADY Jayhawks had to contend with more than just Northwest Missouri State, as freak accidents plagued them before and during the game.
In an early morning practice, freshman forward Susan Chilkey was hit in the face with a basketball. The accident broke her glasses and sent her to a Manhattan
hospital.
Unhurt, and wearing another pair of glasses. Chystek connected for six first-half points—all from long range.
The Lady Jawkies has sophomore guard Cheryl Burnett temporarily when she collided with a Missouri player midway through the first half.
THE BLOW loosened one of Burnett's teeth, and she was taken to a dentist. She returned, however, and played in the second half.
The Lady Jayhawks were led to victory by three players who scored in double figures: Woodard, Adrian Mitchell and Karen Jamison. The three combined for 48 points.
Woodard, who was held to four points in the first half, finished with 17. Mitchell scored 16 and Jamison scored a season-high 15.
New streak sought
Their record-setting streak halted at four wins last weekend, the University of Kansas men's gymnastics team is anxious to get back on track. A teammate from Iowa tomorrow in Robinson Gymnasium.
KU advances tonight against the Missouri Tigers. The Tigers rallied to a first round 88-72 victory over Iowa State University yesterday. Missouri is now 23-5 for the season. The Lady Jayhawks are 21-7. Tipoff is scheduled for 6:30.
And it's understandable, considering that that Big Eight Championships but too few.
*Looking ahead to the conference meet, KU coach Bob Lockwood said the Jayhawks were more concerned with scoring well than with beating their guests from Iowa.
IN PREPARATION for the conference meet, the Jayhawks have been conquered in the first two games of the pulmonary exercises—the required parts of the gymnast's routine. By concentrating on the compulsories, Lockwood said, the team has neglected the physical aspect still at 10.9 point total is within reach.
Although he's had no word on how his visitors have fared this season, Lockwood is far from worried about his team's chances of winning.
"They're traditionally a 185-point-a-meter team," he said. "It's not a matter of winning or losing; we just want to see if we can keep our team together and hopefully break 219 and set a new record."
Lockwood said the team's spring break would be filled with two-a-day practices, part of Lockwood's preparatory schedule for the conference championships.
"We will have two-o-days over spring break, working on the options in the morning and compulsions in the afternoon," he said. "We'll be going down a bit, since the meet is that week."
nasts, Karen Mundy and Laurie Propst will represent KU in the AIAW Region VI women's gymnastics championships.
The two-day meet is set to begin at 2:30
Midnight Southwest Missouri State
University. Saturday, Feb. 16.
"Karen has a good chance in three events—the vault, the uneven parallel bars and the balance beam," KU head women's gymnastics coach Ken Snow said. "Laurie has always been one of the best vaulters in the region."
Netters travel West
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just the only Jayhawk athletic team visiting
the university.
The KU men's and women's tennis teams left yesterday on a seven match tour that includes five matches in five days on the West Coast.
"This is a great thing," KU tennis coach
great competition. I'll be
great competition.
one of KU's opponents on the West Coast will be UCLA, whose tennis team, like its basketball team, is ranked second in the nation. The tennis team features six All-America players.
The Jayhawks also face California-Redlands, a small college power that has produced more All-America players than any other school in the country. Other universities in the state include University of California-San Diego, Arizona State University, and New Mexico State.
Kansas must also play Oklahoma State today and Oklahoma on the return from the west. The Oklahoma schools are the early favorites for the Big Eight conference tennis title. Oklahoma has won the tennis championship for the last nine seasons.
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