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Trackmen win despite injuries at indoor
Rv WALT BRAUN
Associate Sports Editor
KU men's track coach Bob Timmons turned prophet last week when he discussed KU's chances at the Big Eight Indoor Track and Field Championships in Lincoln,Neb.
Timmons said at the time that the meet would be won or lost on second and third places and that the Jayhawks would need more than Cliff Wiley if they expected to be conference indoor champions again.
expected.
The jailbreaks, who lost Cliff Wiley in the 300-yard dart and updressed up seconds and thirds all afternoon and edged Nebraska 93.6 to 87.2 to retain their indoor crown.
Wiley, who placed second in the 60, leaned at the tape in the 200, to boot William Heyward. He wore a bracelet to broke two wheels.
THE INJURY forced him out of the mule rail. It will cause him to miss the NCAA indoor championships and part of the outdoor season.
"It it was a devastating blow," Tirmons said. "CITF's arm just looked awful. For a minute we
thought we'd had it. The guys were just standing around like the life had gone out of them.
"But we all got together and regrouped. The meet was far from over and Cliff's injury made every event more important.
Wiley was the only casualty in the 300. At the time of Wiley's fall, Timmons wasn't even at the finish line. He had gone down the track to check on the condition of Kevin Newell. Newell, who had finished third in the 60, pulled a hamstring in the turn and did not finish the race.
"BOY, THAT was an expensive race," Timmons said. "I was around the corner with Kevin when someone ran up to me and asked Cillah had been there. I was glad to happen next. These two guys were half the mile relay team."
Fortunately, things improved for the Jayhawks after the disastrous 300.
Junior college transfer Lester Mickens, who was sick with the flu for most of the week, settled a personal score with Nebraksa's Scott Poehling and the 600 with a time of 1:09.61. The last time the two
raced, Poohling won by eight-hundredths of a second
and they recorded the two best times in the world this
year.
The 600 was one of only two events the Jayhawks won en route to the title. Tad Scales won the pole vault with a vault of 18-6.
Mickens, in addition to his 600 victory, added a fifth place in the 800.
STAN WHITAKER finished third in the 440 with a time of 48.17—three-hundredths of a second behind the winner.
Senior Anthony Coleman placed second in the 60-vard high hurdles and third in the 80 lows.
Rick Eason added a third in the 1,000-yard run and qualified for the NCAA meet in the event with a time of 1.10:31. KU scored another third in the two-mile run with Kendall Smith's time of 8:57.5. Bray Coldsmith ran a personal best at 4:08.70 in the mile to give the Jayhawk yet another third place.
Jay Reardon, who Timmons had practiced only one day in the past two weeks because of a knee
KU'S MAKESHIFT mull relay team of Mickens, McCALL Wutker and Jerry Lime placed with the 19th overall pick, with a tie for fourth.
injury, tied for third in the high jump with a leap of 6-9.
"I can't say enough about this team," Timmons said. "All the way from Wiley, who run great healthy races all year and got hurt, to the all guys who have been sore or hurt all year and ran on gats."
Timmons said the meet progressed about as he expected.
The lead changed hands often as teams would surge in one event and do poorly in another.
"Mickens had the flu all week and tripped for us, Reardon high jumped with a bad knee. Frank Angeloel shouldn't have competed, Newell recovered from a pull in one leg and hurt the other one in the 80s. Scales came back from the wound up at competitors. They're not only fine athletes, they don't give up."
"Part of the time I didn't even know who was ahead, but said it would lead to a bad game," she added and we had to beat, so we
couldn't key on any one school. That what made it so special was that the best championship meet was at the High School.
BEHIND KU and Nebraksa was Missouri with 82.6 points. The Tigers, who won seven events and very little else, had the meet's only double winners. Dan Lavitt dwelt the second-place Huskers' a blow by winning both hurdles and Andy Agbeauk won the triple jump and the long jump.
Oklahoma scored 77 points and finished fourth. Two of the three Sooner victories cost the Jayhawks' points. Mike Kelley edged Cliff Wiley in the 60 and Snoody beat Wiley in the 300. Both Snoody and Wiley beet Wiley's world record in that event. Snoody's time was 29.47 to 24.48 for Wiley when he fell.
Kansas State was fifth in the meet with 64 points. The Wildcats' only first place came in the mile run, where they beat Missouri by one point.
Far behind the field were Colorado with 34 points. Iowa State with 31, 18 and Oklahoma State with 24.
uat schools in the number of qualifiers with 12. Nebraska had nine men in the finals and Oklahoma had six men.
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
Concentration
College, Conner, an All-American and ex-Olympian, won four
games, and was the top all-around performer in
saturday's meet at Stanford.
Bart Conner, Oklahoma's best gymnast, performs on the pommel horse in a triangular meet against KU and New Mexico Junior
Technical foul deflates Buffaloes
By GARY BEDORE
sports Editor
Playing Kansas this season has not been colorado men's basketball coach Bill Hornsby.
Kansas left Blair frustrated for the second time this season as the Jayhaws walked off with a 70-60 victory Saturday night in Boulder.
Earlier in the season when KU dumped the Buffaloes, 85-56, in Lawrence Blair fumed about Kansas using its full-court pressure defense until the game's end.
SATURDAY NIGHT Blair was hit with a costly technical foul after Colorado forward Clayton Bullard fumed Valentine Mallard, and left, and KU was hanging on to a 89-49 lead.
When Bullard and Valentine collided at mid-court lunging for a loose ball, Bullard was called for the foul and the ball bounced out of bounds when he held it a moment and flung it skyward.
Blair was immediately given a bench foul, which allowed KU two free throws.
Valentine made one of his two free throws, and Koenigs made the two technical foul shots. Kansas got the ball out of bounds and KU's got it out of bounds, 49, and CU's chances all but finished.
DONNIE VON MOORE said the points
made possible by the technical foul
pads made easier for him.
"I thought it was a terrible call when I got the T," Blair said. "I shouldn't have gotten the technical, not that I didn't deserve it when I had the ball in my hands. But I didn't want to throw it at one of the officials so I threw it in the air."
"The technical helped," Von Moore said.
By STEVE HERBERT
Sports Writer
Powerful Sooners win gym meet
When Oklahoma gymnast Bart Conner dismounted from the parallel bars Saturday at Robinson Gymnasium, almost everyone knew where they were. His 8 gymnastics team stood and applauded.
It wasn't just Croner's routine, an almost perfect 9.7 and the best in the Big Eight Conference this season. He scored 18 points for Conner, an All-American and ex-Olympian, was nothing
less than awe-inspiring in the meet. He won four individual events and sparked the Sooners to a victory over KU and New Mexico Junior College, 218.2 to 208.6 to 208.6.
"We just hoped we get close to our score against Nebraska two weeks ago,
But KU men's gymnastics coach Bob Lockuw, judging the nature of the competition, was hardly disappointed about his performance. He was fourth in a row, marked a school record.
since we've had problems with injuries," he said. "I'm very pleased. It was a good ef-
INDIVIDUALLY, it was the Sooners' meet. Conner took first in the pommel horse, still rings, parallel bars and high bar, making his 65.3% all-around score equally the highest in the gymnasium, first finished first in the floor exercise and trained Conner by 1.8 points in the all-around.
In vaulting, KU's Sean Williams performed in record-breaking style. His 9.5
Even women's tennis coach Kintiov sait it as somewhat strateq: how KU's top two players win against Southwest Missouri State University's first and second singles players, but lose to the same pair in first doubles.
"that's what I asked them afterward," he said.
Tennis team second at SMSU
That occurrence made the difference in the match. The Lady Jayhawks lost 4-2 to the host of the Southwest Missouri State Bison, ending their season, finishing second in the four-temple field.
KU'S BEST player, Carrie Fopoloups, handled Jodie Adams 6-4, 6-4, before the Jayhawks' Marry Stauffer finished off Jane Risi easily 6-4, 6-3 in second singles. But they also won four more cups, including first doubles, to the same Southwest Missouri State pair.
"The they played really good doubles," Klivisto said. "Southwest Missouri State has a very strong double team—they're known for their doubles.
IN KANSAS' first team match of the tournament, the Jayhawks split 3-4 with Stephens College of Columbia, Mo, before back to shut out the University of Tulsa, 6-1.
Disappointing to Kivisto, however, was the Jayhawks' play at the third and fourth spots. Kansas could get only two victories against the Cardinals and both of those against Tulsa.
Jode Adams has one of the hardest serves in women's tennis. She can hit as far as 10 feet and is the only player to have
Against Stephens only one Jayhawk was victorious in singles play. Fotopolous defeated Stephens Nulter in three sets. Kansas won in both doubles matches to gain the tie.
three sets; Fotopoulos, Staffer, Shari
Kathryn, Kathryn McRory recorded
sugaries victories
"We didn't have really good performances at three and four." Kivisto said. "I think they can play a lot better than that."
Those positions may have been the difference against Southwest Missouri State. Three of the four losses occurred in those positions.
scorebroke him all-KU all-time record.
score Mike Hines also earned a place in the book records, with a 0.25 performance and a second place and a tie for KU's third-best ever.
Almost overshadowed by his Oklahoma counterparts was freshman Ron Ortman, who scored a team season high of 50 in the first round of the tournament and new scoring system this year. Ortman, a short but muscular Adison, III, native, finished third on the rings and fifth in the conference.
Tulsa was the easiest foe in the competition. Only one of six matches went to
"We could best southeast Missouri if we played them tomorrow," Kvistov said. "we were here."
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'I broke their momentum. Until then they were playing heads-up.'
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Gym team second
Wichita State University broke the Lady Jayhawks' grip on the state title, winning the Kansas State tournament and scoring 129 points.
Colorado, trailing 31-25 at the half, closed the gap to 45-43 at the 10-27 mark of the second half. The shooting of Ken Koegens, who had 15 points in the second half and 24 in the third, was followed by Mokesi, who had 13, helped the Jayhawks stay ahead of the stubborn Buffaloes.
For the past two years, the KU women's gymnastics team has captured the Kansas state championship. But that reign ended Saturday afternoon in Hays.
Kansas tumbled second in the five-tier
kings, and 14 points, KU's highest
number of points this season.
"We had our best meet of the year by far," KU women's gymnastics coach Ken Snow said. "We didn't give the meet away, Wichita State was just a better team."
SPECIALIST LAURIE Prop captured the side burr horse vault competition for KU,朱俊峰。
"everybody did a good job of hitting me when I was open in the second half," Koenigs said. "What Colorado tried to do was keep us off balance. They played a match-up defense, and 2-3 and 1-3-1 zones against us."
KU all-arounder Angie Wigel tied Wichita state's Grazer Kruger for first in the balance held in Iowa.
Wagle fell off the uneven parallel bars while practicing a dismount Friday. Snow said she had a very good meet considering the injury.
Snow said the difference in the meet was KU's performance in the floor exercise event. The Lady Jayhawks opened the meet in the floor exercise routine, hampering their chances for high scores, because, according to Snow, shooting is harder in winter than summer. The Lady Jayhawks had difficulty scoring high in that event all season long, Snow said.
second in the all-around with 33.05 points and third in the vault with 8.6 points.
Baren Mundy placed first in the uneven parallel bars routine with a score of 8.45.
"We hit all of our routines," he said.
"They just weren't good enough to get good scores. Being the first team in that event, it was hard for us to get high scores."
Kansas will end the regular season
to 7-30 Friday night in Robinson Gymnastics.
ALTHOUGH STILL displeased with the Jayahwyn's performance on the pommel horse, Lockwood thinks his team is in a good place with the Big Eight Champlinnings a month away.
Women finish sixth
Two members of the KU women's track team finished in the top six at the National Championship.
Sheila Calmesia finished sixth in the 60- yard dash with a time of 7.11. Shawn Corwin also finished sixth in the high jump with a jump of 5-8.
Track coach Teri Anderson said the women did not perform as well as she had expected, but she was still pleased with their efforts.
"We're not hitting on the pennul horse like we should," Lockwood said. "When we finally hit the maximum, considering our experience, we should do much better. We hope to peak in two weeks and hold it through the competition championships."
"This was their first time competing in a meet like this one," Anderson said. "I think they both did all right considering the high level of athletes that were competing in the meet."
"WE WERE impatient at times," KU head coach Ted Owens said. "We were not really in good rhythm. Considering we had a few days up was up for the game, I thought it went well."
Kansas, which finished 23-3 all and 13-1 in conference play, played well early and showed no effects of being rusty after having a week layoff. The Jayhawks jumped to an early 22-10 lead and increased it to 29-15 with 3:30 left in the first half. But CUalled in the final few minutes to cut Kansas' lead to 31-25.
Koenigs agreed that the Jayhawks could they could pull ahead to stay in the first half.
He had a chance to blow it open, but we knew of the shots that didn't drop. "I was told." He said.
Colorado's Balch Fieldhouse had a standing room only crowd of 4,000. It was Colorado's largest home for the Buffalo to 11 in the conference and 9-17 overall.
Besides Koenig's 24 points, John Douglas and Valentine each had 14. After that the scoring tapered to 10 points, and Mokesl, and Mokesl, Clint Johnson, and Von Moore each scored four.
CU CENTER Larry Vacullik led Colorado with 14 points.
Von Moore said Vaculik played a good game for the Buffalooes.
Mokski said the game was a physical one. Each team committed 25 fouls.
"It really was physical; they let us play underneath." Mokske said.
The Jayhawks return home on Tuesday night to face Colorado again, this time in the first round of the second annual Big Eight tournament.
KANSAS' VICTORY established the Jayhawks' regular season record as the second best in Kansas' 80 years of basketball.
John Douglas said that he thought the Jayhawks could beat the Buffaloes for a second time in less than a week but that they were playing at a lot since the first time the teams played.
"they definitely have improved," Douglas said. " Their young kids, like Tuz (Jack, 6-8 freshman) and Austin (6-8 sophomore) are learning on. It's about time for them to rebound."
| KANSAS | FT | REB | PF | PTS |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Douglas | 7-13 | 16-13 | 5 | 14 |
| Mikeens | 7-13 | 16-13 | 5 | 14 |
| Mukelsen | 2-7 | 0-2 | 13 | 4 |
| Johnson | 2-7 | 0-2 | 3 | 4 |
| Van Horn | 3-12 | 4-7 | 4 | 14 |
| Van Moore | 0-4 | 0-4 | 1 | 1 |
| Fowler | 0-4 | 0-4 | 1 | 1 |
| Sanders | 0-4 | 0-4 | 1 | 1 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 36-14 | 16-13 | 32 | 35 | 70 |
KANSAS (70)
COLORADO (60)
| | FG | FT | REB | PF | PTS |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Vancik | 5-14 | 4-14 | 2-8 | 4-14 | 14 |
| Baidu | 4-36 | 4-36 | 2-8 | 4-36 | 14 |
| Schaehoff | 0-6 | 1-2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Lewis | 2-6 | 1-2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Rinka | 2-8 | 1-2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Austin | 3-4 | 3-4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Rudelson | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Rodriguez | 2-7 | 4-4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Tatton | 1-2 | 4-4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Watson | 1-1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Tullery | 0-4 | 0-4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tullery | 0-4 | 0-4 | 30 | 25 | 6 |
KANASAS 21 39 - 76
CUO QIAPADIO 31 35 - 60
Internet and George Oberle
Technical Fonds. KU-Mokeski; CU-Coach Bill Blair.
Attendance: 4,000 (SRO).
Woodard scores 45 points as Jayhawks stomp WSU
Performing with the destructiveness of a Kansas tornado, Lynette Woodward raged through Henry Levitt Envik in Wichita and Erik Schoenberg in Mandela-destroyed Wichita State University.
Woodard, Wachawai freshman, scored 40 points to lead the KU women's basketball team in scoring (19-11).
Woodard shot 68 percent from the field, grabbed 17 rebounds and according to her coach, Marian Washington, contributed to the rout in other areas.
"SHE DID a really good job of finding the open player. Washington said. "She was very good."
passed off to a teammate in certain instances."
Woodard's performance made her the first player in the nine-year history of women's basketball at KU to score more than 700 points in a single season.
She also leads the team in scoring with a 26.25 average in rebounding, grabbing 14.5.
The Lady Jayhawks' game against the Shockers marked the end of the regular season and the Kansas Conference season. The Lady Jayhawks won 29-7 for the year and 2-3 in conference play.