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Monday, March 6, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Jayhawks stunned by KSU in tournament
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Contemplation
Various expressions engulfed the KU bench Friday night when the
Jayhawk lost to K-State, 7-12, in the semifinals of the postseason tournament. K-State lost to Missouri in the finals Saturday night
Gymnasts split Colorado meets
BvSTEVE HERBERT
Sports Writer
They had to battle a long trip over rough roads, strict judgements and teams with a home floor advantage, and it showed in the national anthem of antigua jamaica team's performance this weekend.
Accustomed to setting new school records, a feat they had accomplished in four previous meals, the Jayhaws easily beat Northern Colorado Friday, 200-179.85, but lost Saturday to Colorado University, 201.95-199.3.
The score against Colorado marked the first time in five meets that the Jayhawks had lost a game.
KU men's gymnastics coach Bob Lock-
ow attributed this to strict judging
terms.
"TIVE DISCOVERED that when you go on the road, you have to score probably five more points than the other team to win." *I am sure you are a generality tighter and I don't think our*
performances were rewarded quite as they should have been."
Admittedly unhappy that KU's dual meet record dropped to 6-4 Saturday, Lockwood still found several reasons for optimism about the remainder of the season.
"Naturally I'm disappointed about losing, but we learned that we can beat Colorado, so we'll be shooting for them in the conference meet." he said.
KU got a chance to fix its muscles Friday against Northern Colorado, capturing first, second and third place in every individual event. Sean Williams won both the floor exercise and the vaulting, Bill Harmons won the pommel horse, Cris Cohen the still rings, Mark Folder the parallel bars and Mike Hynes the high bar.
Saturday, however, wasn't so easy. Folger and William repeatedly called for a wapling, and Marshall Kelley won the high bar, but some of the other Jayhawks didn't score as well. Lockwood said several KU gymnasts, especially Ron Ortmann, deserved higher ratings.
"I THOUGHT RON'S all-around performance was probably his best this season, " it was really outspoken, but only he scored 49.6 and he scored 50.8 before."
Ortman, who finished second in the all-around, took third on the rings and second on the parallel bars. Brad Foerch trailed him in the all-around, scoring 47.36 for third.
Lockwood said his team might not have responded as well as it should have to the long trip and competing away from home, but they are confident about meeting the Bafuores again.
Harms scored half a tenth better Saturday but finished second, followed by Chad Kelley, whose 8.1 earned third. Mike Laden finished third in the vaulting.
"We went through a lot of things that weren't really good for us, which as a young team we could bounce back from." he added. "We've been strong, so we'll be ready for them the next time."
By GARY BEDORE Sports Editor
What everyone feared did happen.
The fifth-ranked Kansas Jayhawks, who had rolled to the Big Eight regular season conference champions, ran into a torrid shooting Kansas State team Friday night and lost to the Wildcats, 87%, in the second round of the Big Eight postseason tour-
The defeat placed Kansas State in the finals against Missouri. The Tigers, who stunned Nebraska, 61-58. Friday night in the semifinals, KState in overtime, 71-60.
MISSUIR'S VICTORY allowed the Tigers, 14-15, to qualify for the NCAA subregional game Sunday in Wichita. The Tigers will face Utah, 23-5. Meanwhile, the Jayhawks will pack their bags and traveled to play the New 9-Pinked UCLA Bruins.
"It it's disappointing, but it isn't the end of the world," KU men's basketball coach Ted Owens said after Friday's game. "The team is very down. We tried very hard to win the conference championship and play the regionals in our own state.
"But we have a fine group of young men who have a tremendous amount of character. I think we can prove how good a team we team, we has played well on the road."
WHEN STEVE SOLDNER hit a 15-foot jump shot with 8:40 left in the first half, K-State had a 31-19 lead. It was the fourth time this season that K-State had jumped to leads of ten or more when playing KU. But the other times KU was able to come back and win.
The Jayhawks, who are 9-3 on the road this season, faced a K-State team that hit 55.6 percent of its shots for the game. K-State hit 63.3 percent in the first half.
The Jayhawks battled back many times in Friday's game, but after the game's early start, they went into the win.
KU cut the lead to 0-38 with just less than two minutes to go in the machine, but K-14 had been out for 44-47 by 8:37.
In a see-saw second half, KU pulled within two at 62-40 with 7:29 to go, but the Wildcats spurted and again increased their lead. It was 72-61 at the 5:23 mark. Many of KU's opponents were able to make Wildcats making 21 of 26 shot shots in the second half, 27 of 34 for the game.
"FOULS WERE a key," senior Donny Von Moore said. "They shot twice as many as we did. When you make that many free throws, anybody can beat you."
The Jahawkes were in four trouble all night. Ken Koenigs and Paul Mokemaskou fled out. Koenigs was in foul trouble in the second third foul at the 11:53 mark of the first half.
Von Monroe said the Wildcats played better than they are normally canable of,
He had just 4 points in the game. Mokesi scored 18 for KU.
"They played a lot better than they should have." Vom Moore said.
Von Moore was speaking in part of K-State's Rolando Blackman, Steve Solidin and Curtis Redding, who had 23, 22 and 19 points respectively.
"IT SEEMED like everything they did, they did right," senior forward John Douglas said. Their shots seemed to be balanced and all the balls seemed to be bouncing their way.
"It was probably the best game they had played against us all year."
"We didn't do a very good job of switching on defense," Mokksi said.
Mokesh said K-State did a good job of setting screens for such players as Dean Danner and Soldner. Soldner had 12 points, like Danner, scored many from the
Danner said the Wildcats were intent on keeping the lead they attained early.
"BEFORE WHEN we played them, we'd get ahead of them and then we'd have lazes," Darner said. "But when the score is right, they didn't and didn't let them get control of the game."
Swimmers regain championship
By KEN DAVIS
Sports Writer
Getting some help from some friends, the University of Kansas men's swimming team jumped to an early lead and then breezed to victory in the 1978 Big Eight swimming championship last weekend in Lincoln, Neb.
The Jayhawks splashed to 428 points in the meet and won six of 18 events as they dethroned two-time defending champion Iowa State. The Cyclones finished third in the meet with 341 points, just behind Missouri, which tallied 354 points.
Most important in the Jayhawks' drive to the title was the fact that every KU swimmer contributed points to the cause.
BEFORE THE MEET, KU men's swimming coach Bill Spahn said he hoped that Oklahoma State could help the Jayhawks by taking away some points from the favored Cyclones in the freestyle events, an area in which the Jayhawkes are weak.
The team up the victory in women's swimming team rolled to a very impressive victory in the Big Eight championship meet.
"Oklahoma State helped us just as I thought they would," Spahn said. "They started helping us in the 500-yard freestyle, which was the first event.
"Iowa State was counting on winning that event but they didn't even qualify anyone in the preliminaries. Psychologically I think that hurt them. We didn't expect to do much in that event anyway and so that gave us some encouragement at that time. We got some momentum and then maintained it through the entire meet."
But this past weekend KU women's swimming, coach Gary Kempf says the women swimmers turned in an even more stunning performance as they won the Region Six championship over 12 other Midwest teams.
"I was really pleased with the way the girls swam in their new events," Kempf said. "I put the girls who are going to be in nationals in different events. That made us dependent on our other girls to pick up the slack in those areas."
Women dominate regional meet
regular events. Instead Kempt moved them to events that they hadn't sworn before.
Once again it was Janet Lindstrom leading the way for KU. Lindstrom, a freshman, won the 200-ay backstroke, the 100-ay and the 400-ay butterfly and the 100-yard freestyle.
and 12 first-place scores and scored 693 points in the three-day meet in Minnesota. Mim. The host team from Minnesota finished second with 540 points. Nebraska finished third with 557 points and was followed by Iowa with 367 points.
Debbie Bunker captured the 50-year freestyle with a time of :24.96. Teammate Erin McMorrow finished second only :00.03 behind.
Lanny Schaffer took first in the 50-yard backstroke in 29 seconds. Vicki Ingham had a national qualifying time by winning the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:29.32.
KU also won five relay events. In three of those, the 200-yard medley, the 800-yard freestyle and the 200-yard freestyle, the Jayhawks had national qualifying times.
CATHY CALL, who became the ninth member of the KU team to qualify for national competition by swimming in the 800-meter freestyle relay, drew special praise
Call also took second in the 500-yard freestyle, third in the 200-yard freestyle, sixth in the 100-yard freestyle and swam in the 400-yard relay.
Tennis team proves confident coach right
KU men's tennis coach Tom Kivio knew the Kansas dayah coach better than the University of Colorado team team. Now all has to do is prove it to the rest of the Big Eight.
The Jayhaws defeated the favored Bailenales, 5-4, to succeed to their record at 72-63.
"The rest of the Big Eight's going to look and say. 'What's the matter with you?'
Against Colorado, Kansas had to win four of the six singles matches after losing all but one in the first two games.
First singles player Mark Hosking defeated freshman Bill Gordy, who last year was one of the country's top junior commentators.
The Jayhawks' other scheduled weekend match with Southern Illinois University was canceled when it could not get to Lawrence because of heavy snow in Carbondale.
But once again doubles hurt Kansas. Only Hosking and KCU, KU's No. 1 doubles pair, recorded a victory. Both second and third singles were defeated.
THEN CHET Collier defeated Bill Brawer 6-4, 1-6 in four singles.
"I knew we'd beat them," Kivisto said. "We'd team did really well."
"We had to win those four singles to win it." Kivisto said.
"We have a lot of improvement to do in doubles," he said. "Because we are young there is improvement needed in doubles. Singles are very strong."
Kivisto thinks doubles need help.
Kempf said he was very encouraged by the versatility displayed by the team.
"BUT IF they saw us in a match they'd see we are stronger than they think."
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"Cathay has had a lot of trouble with the 'cathary injury this year.' Kempf said. "She has been in the pool very sparingly the past five weeks. But I think she had what you could term the most outstanding meet of her life."
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"After the first day of the meet we were tied with Nebraska," Kemp said. "We were a little slow. The long bus ride Friday night had to be awful." Friday and Saturday really put it together.
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KU's other first place came in the 200-year butterfly in which David Estes had the win. The team also took a preliminary round, Estes set a Big Eight record in the event with a time of 1:50.66. Bid Crampton set a KU freshman record in the same event with a fifth-place finish and a third-place finish.
Oklahoma State finished fourth in the meet with 252 points. Rounding out the team scoring were Oklahoma, 217 points, Colorado, 201 points, and Nebraska, 72
Leading the scoring for Kansas was freshman Steve Graves. Graves won three events during the meet. His times in those victories established two Big Eight records and qualified him for national competition in two events.
Craig Pennis shattered the KU variety and freshman records in the 1,650-yard freestyle with a time of 16:12.43. His time was good for fourth.
"IF YOU HAD to point to any one individual who really did well it would have to be Steve Graves," Spahn said. "He just had a fantastic meet."
Graves' first victory came Thursday in the 200-yard individual medley. His time of 1:53.54 set a pool record, a Big Eight record confirmed him for the NCAA championship.
His second gold medal came in the 400- yard individual medley. With a mark of 4:02.9 he also qualified for the NCAA meet in that event.
Graves, who comes from Wichita, set another Eig Eight record in the 200-yard breakheart Saturday with a time of 2:07.48. He also set a national record as a second from national qualifying time.
The 40-yard freestyle relay team of Jesse Gray, Jay Kerusis, Brent Barnes and Peter Bakker-Arkema also set a KU varsity record in the meet. It was 0.757 and they took fourth in the meet.
However, Graves was not awarded the trophy for most outstanding swimmer of the meet. That honnor went to Kevin DeForrest who held a two-footed bird-dove and a 100-yard butterfly.
"THAT WAS A raw deal for Steve," Spahn said, "For deforest own three events and had
MARK HILL completed the KU sweep in the diving events Saturday by winning the three-meter event. His point total of 400.12 qualified him for the NCAA championships. Anselmi took second and Anagnos finished third.
two national qualifying times too. But he didn't set any new records. There is no doubt in my mind and the minds of others who knew she was the most outstanding swimmer,
James Samuels won the long jump with a jump of 234⁴. Paul Smith won the twomenl in 9:08.7 Tail Scales tied for first in the pole vault with a vault of 16-0, and Anthony Coleman won the 60-yard high hurdles in 7.7 seconds.
KU led Iowa State 116-91 after the first day of competition. The only other first-place finish for the Jayhawks Thursday was in the one-meter diving.
Defending champion Tom Anagnos was dethroned in that event by teammate Kurt Anselmi. Anselmi's point total was 459.93. Anagnos was second with 455.46.
The KU track team relaxed this weekend and won four events at the Kansas State Federation meet in Manhattan.
The meet, occurring on the weekend between the Big Eight Indoor Championships and the NCAA Championships, drew only partial squads from most of the Big Eight Teams. About 20 Jayhawks competed in the meet and did well.
Partial squad fares well
**TIBEE JAYHAWK** placed in the 440,
**JAYHAWK** placed in the 440,
Little's time was 7:17, Billy Washington
placed third in the 440 and Glenn Weatherby was fifth.
Other Kansas placings included Bob Lozito's third place in the 90-yard dash, unattached Steve Rainbow's third in the high jump, and Kendall Smith's second in the long jump.
Of the Kansas entrants, only Scales and Coleman had qualified for the NCAA meet. KU men's track coach Bob Timmons had said before the meet that the team would approach the meet candidates without pressure. The optional press allowed him to rest some of the NCAA qualifiers and give others the opportunity to remain sharp.
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