6. University Daily Kansan Monday, February 20, 1978 Valentine sparks KU Bv BILL NEWSOME Snorts Writer Maybe Darnell Valentine forgets quickly. Or maybe Kansas basketball fans have yet to see everything the freshman sensation can do on a basketball court. call do or draw some a reason, Valentine was buttent to give himself the credit he deserved for KU's tough 75-70 victory over Nebraska Saturday night. "Overall, I guess I played all right," he said. Sassafras immediately wasn't best my way, but it was okay. Okay, in Valentine's words, meant almost single-handedly carrying the Jawhays down the stretch to the victory over the pecky Cornhuskers. He scored 21 points and hau NU guard Brian Banks, a strong candidate for All-Big Eight, to 10 points ASIDE FROM a rather meaningless free throw by Dominie Von Moore with 13 seconds left in the game, Valentine scored all 10 of KU's points in the last 45 minutes, looked as if it had a good shot at meeting the goal. Jayhawks for the second time this season. "I have a lot of confidence in whatever I do," Valentine said of the six free throws and two jumpers. "I thought I came through pretty well at the end of the game." And Valentine combined with John Douglas played what was probably the play of Mayo. One minute remained and the Cornhuskers were losing, 72-70, and had the ball. They worked it inside to their 8-four. Then they blistered KU for 9 points in the game. McPIPE SPUN past Von Moore on the baseline and was seemingly headed for an easy, game-tying buoy. But Dougles charged in and tied McPipe up for a jump "It was my intention to tie him up," Douglas said. "And I was willing to give up a foul to do it. In that situation, it would have been better if I hadn't thrown fire, free throws from 15 feet than a dead layup." Another star for KU was 7-1 center Paul Mokesi, who had been out of the limelight since the start of the year. Mokesi made eight of 11 shots from the field, including five key batches in the second half, and his output since the fourth game of the season. "THIS WAS my type of game tonight, a physical one," Mokeki said. "They had three big guys and we had three big guys, and we just went at it." The Jayhawks mainly have faced zone defenses this season, and Mokeski said Nebraska's man-to-man defense made it easier for him to score. "It's easier for me to get open underneath against a man-to-man," he said. "Whoooo? It's too hard." ALTHOUGH THE Jayhawks were able to avenge their 62-58 loss in Lincoln, Neb. last month,NU again was able to neutralize KU's fast break.Douglas said the Cornhuskers' slow-down tactics were a bit frustrating. "That just isn't our type of ball, he said. "The ball was really stationary; it wasn't moving. As long as they're able to control the tempo, they're going to play us touch." Despite the closeness of the contest, Moksel was elated with the victory. 14. gives us confidence that we can win even when we don't blow the other team out," he said. "We know we can win the close ones. And by beating Nebraska, we proved that we can beat everyone in the Big Eight." Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER Stuffing the 'Husker Freshman Darrell Valentine jumps high to block Nebraska guard Brian Banks' attempt jump shot. Valentine held tanks to 10 points and scored 21人才 help lead ATU to a tense 75-29 victory over the Cornhuskers Saturday night. Tigers beat UTEP in a runaway, KU, 12-14. It is going ahead of Nebraska at Iowa State, who are at 8-5. It seemed as if someone forgot to tell the Nebraska basketball players Saturday that KU had already won the Big Eight championship. KU wins shootout,75-70 Associate Sports Editor protect. The Cormhuskers, the only conference team to beat KU, pushed the Jayhawks for 39 minutes before Darnell Valentine's two free throws with 31 seconds in the game. By WALT BRAUN KI avenged its only conference loss of the season with a tense 75-70 victory over the Huskers before 15,680 howling fans in Allen Field House. Valentine, who committed his fourth personal foul and left the line-up when there was 14:51 left in the game, returned at the 9:23 mark, when KU trailed 55-54. He scored 12 of KU's final 20 points, including 10 of the last 11. Nebraska again drew within two points, 72-70, when Terry Novak also scored his only basket of the game, but again Valentine responded. When 31 seconds remained Valentine pushed the lead back to four with two more free throws, making Donnie Von Moore end the scoring with a left throw. Three seconds were left. Four Nebraska free throws brought the Huskers within two at 68-66 before Valentine struck again, this time from 18 feet. He sunk two more free throws after Mike Nadere, playing for Banks, who had fouled out, scored his only basket of the night. KU head basketball coach Ted Owens had nothing but praise for his prize freshman, who, in addition to his 21 points, contributed four assists and two steals to the KU attack. THE VERSATILE freshman's two free throws at the 4:30 mark gave KU its biggest lead of the game, 66-40. After a basket hit by Tyler Crawford of Pipe, Valentine hit a turnover from 17 feet. "TID LIKED to have kept him out of the game longer because he did have four fours, but we had to him in there." Owens said. "This is a great competitor. What else can I say?" Nebraska coach Joe Cipriano, whose record in the field house fell to 214, was equally impressed by Valentine's performance. "We had a hard time covering Valentine," he said. "He hit a clutch shot from the top of the key late in the game. Darnell is an awfully fine player." "Kansas beat us. Kansas is tough to stop, especially when they are射击 that well. I thought we played about as well as we could. We just couldn't get the break when we needed it. It was so tough to get ahead. We were just fighting to keep even." NEBRASKA DID better than keep even for much of the game. Twice the Huskers led by five points, and they never trailed by more than 4 points. At times and the score was tied 11 times. MepC scored at will from the inside and Bob Moore from the outside, each scoring 14 points in the first half to give the Huskers a 7-6, 6-4 lead. But 68.4 percent and KU 9/9 in the first half. Owens admitted that McPhee, who finished the game with a season-beginning 29 points, was the best of the two. "We didn't give him different looks on defense." Owens said, "and we got little support from the outside. We didn't shut him off in the second half but we did a better job. "This was the type of game we needed; to play under pressure and to be successful has to help us in postseason play. Nebraska played an excellent game, but we shot 60 percent and committed only 10 turnovers so we got to we say to play a good game." AS MCPIE and Bob Moore were connected on 19 of 30 shots, Koen Kenians, Paul Mokesi and Valentine combined to hit 19 of Mokesi and was 4-4, Mokesi 8-11 and Valentine 7-9. "It takes a lot of things to win the Eight title and I'm proud our big team," Owens said. "I know coach Cipriano is proud of his team and the way they played." OWENS DISMISSED the element of revenge as a factor in the game and said that pride and the teams' records provided the motivation. "There is no need to put all your eggs in one basket," Owens said. "Naturally we want to win the postseason tournament and win in Wichita and be back here. But we need to build our record in case something happens in Kansas City." Owens said he thought the Jayhawks had accomplished that with their 22d victory of the year and would be a likely choice for an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament if they didn't win the Big Eight postseason conference tournament. Verbarn (a), 2017 Newak 1.2 1-2 FT REB PF PTS Novak 1-2 1-4 0 1 2 2 McPipe 10-16 9-10 10 1 4 29 Banke 4-10 4 10 1 4 28 Banke 9-14 2 10 1 4 28 Nadverer 1.1 0-4 0 1 4 2 Nadverer 1.1 0-4 0 1 4 2 Smith 1-2 1-4 0 1 2 20 Smith 27-18 14-28 24 24 70 | Kicks in | FT | REB | P | PTS | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Douglas | 4.0 | 1.2 | 2 | 10 | | Kaito | 4.4 | 1.4 | 3 | 15 | | Mokunai | 8.11 | 1.2 | 5 | 17 | | Johnnie | 9.1 | 1.6 | 5 | 17 | | Johnnie | 7.9 | 1.6 | 4 | 21 | | Powder | 0.3 | 3.4 | 3 | 2 | | Van Moore | 0.4 | 3.4 | 2 | 2 | | Van Moore | 30.50 | 14.18 | 3 | 75 | NEBRASKA 36 32 - 70 KANSAS 38 36 OUNCES: Dave Phillips and John Overty Attendance—15,680. Strong finish propels swimmers It was a fight to the finish, but the University of Kansas men's swimming team managed a 644 victory over the Colorado State at Columbin in Stillwater, OKa. The Cowboys won all but one of the freestyle events, and Kansas had its hands full. The Nuggets third-meter diving and the 400-yard freestyle relay. Mark Hill and Kurt Anselmi finished first and second in the diving, and the Titans also learn won the final race to ice KU's victory. "The meet was a lot closer than we expected it to be." KU mens' swimming coach Bill Spaun said. "Things were pretty tense going in the three-meter diving. If we hadn't gone one and two in the diving we would have had to have won the 400-yard freestyle relay. We just didn't swim really well in the meet." HILL, WHO also won the one-meter diving, and Anselm took a lot of heat off the team of Brent Barnes, Jesse Gray, and Andrew Smith. The HILL scored 293.95 and the Anselm scored 291.45. "Mark Hill dove extremely well," Spahn said. "It was the best meet for me." The winning time for the Kansas team was 3:10.99, three seconds faster than the team's season best and the best time in the Big Eight Conference this year. KU's 409-yard medley relay team of Rick Jenkins, jacks Blendanken, Bill Crampton and Kerutis also was a winner with a time of 3:38.2. AFTER THAT event, the first race of the meet, OSU began its domination in the freestyle events. Rolf Meyer, a freshman, won the gold medal in freestyle styles. Australian John Marshall took blue ribbon honors in both the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyles. Keruis came up with KU's only freestyle victory in the 50-yard event with a time of 22.2. Rick Jenkins posted first for the Jawahks with a 2:03.7. in the 200-yard backstroke and Steve Graves won the 200-vard breaststroke in 2:12.2. "Under the conditions I thought we swam okay," Spahn said. "the guys were not looking forward to the meet that much. So he had to get up early and drive down there." "One of our vans didn't have any heat in it and by the time the guys in that one got warm, they were ready." The contest closed out the KU dual meet season and left the Jayhawks with a 7-3 record. The Big Eight Championships will be March 24 in Lincoln, Neb. Women swimmers dominate Big Eight conference meet Rv KENDAVIS Snorts Writer Winning 14 of 24 events and rewriting the Big Eight record book, the University of Kansas women's swimming team splashed to its fourth straight Big Eight Championship during the weekend in Columbia, Mo. The Jayhawks, who have won every championship meet in the history of Big Eight women's swimming, tallied 604.5 points, breezing to the conference crown. "I was very pleased," KU women's swim coach Gary Kemp said. "The girls have worked hard all year and they deserve to win. I'm really proud of them." Missouri, a darkhorse team in the meet, finished second with 490.5 points. The Nebraska Cornhuskers finished third with 487.5 points. Colorado was fourth with 382.5 points, followed by Oklahoma, 349 points, Iowa State, 108 points, and Oklahoma State. KU SET Big Eight records in every event UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Weekend Sports Roundup Track team second Surprising everyone, including themselves, the KU women's track team finished second in the Big Eight Conference meet last night in Lincoln. Neb. Iowa State finished first with 93 points, KU second with 71 and Nebraska third with 68. Sophomore Sheila Calmese successfully defended her titles in the 60-year and 300-year wars. The only other KU winner was freshman Lori Lowry in the 60-yard hurdles. She set a Big Eight and KU record in the race with a time of 8.0. **Newport coast KCU Anderson said** CALMESE SET Big Eight and KU records in winning both events. Her time in the final was 35 minutes 41 seconds. women's track coach Teri Anderson said her performance was the best she had ever seen. "THE TEAM really put out the effort." Anderson said. "The great thing about it is that everybody was pulling for everyone else to win their events. It was a true team Senior Charmanne Kuhman set a KU record the 440 as she finished second in a Basketball game. A KU record was set by the mile relay team Kuhman, Lowrey, Calmese and Jo McMillin—when they turned in a time of 4:00.49. Netters lose twice Freshman Cma McMillin qualified for nationals in the 800 with a rate of 2.0:6. If the weekend schedule wasn't staggering enough for the University of Kansas' men's tennis team, sickness to several players was the knockout punch. Second singles player Chet Collier was in the hospital all weekend with a bad case of the flu, depleting the Jayhawks' firepower on southern Illinois, Edwardville up with it. "We would have won more one more singles match and a couple more doubles matches with Chel," said KU head tennis coach Tom Kivisto. "We could have beat BUT FRIDAY wasn't the worst of it. Besides the absence of C菲, the fug bit regular third singles player Wayne Sewall, putting him in the hospital. Joe his singles team had a temperature in his singles matches but couldn't come back for the doubles competition. Already a top team, with five of six starters from outside the United States, Wichita Shut out the Jayhawks 6-0 before the doubles competition was called off when the loss of Ruysser left KU without a full team. Saturday morning SIU, Edwardville had trouble with Wichita State, defending the trophy. "We had a chance to take it to Wichita State," Kivisto said. "We felt stronger than Wichita State but we just weren't physical there. Had it not been for the doubles competition, KU might have beaten SIU. Edwardville Friday. First singles Mark Hosking surprised highly touted Juan Farrow, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 to help KU to a 3-13 tie entering doubles play. But Kansas couldn't even manage one victory in the doubles matches, losing in a tie. "ISI is the team to beat in the country in outlets," Kivisto said. "They were that team." "THEY CAUGHT us on a night we. Had to plaver a lot of inexpenienced people." Women trip SMSU The Lady Jayhawks, 17th-ranked in the nation, discovered a way to penetrate SMSU's stunny zone defense to come from behind. They scored five minutes of play to beat the Beas 84-35. OTHER KU winners Fridays included John Jummes and sophomore Bill Zirko. N.Y.C. will host a free show. If necessity is the mother of invention, the KU women's basketball team should put a patent on the way it defeated Southwest Missouri State University Saturday in Allen Trailing most of the game, the Lady awkwards had plenty of built-in excuses to carry them on. “WE WERE definitely not mentally in the game tonight,” KU women’s basketball coach Marwin Washington said. “Of course I’m glot at win but we were not intense out love.” The hot outside shooting of freshman Susan Chlystek and fast-break layups by V.C. Sanders brought the Lady Jayhawks back to within reach of SMSU. The Lady Jayhawks' mental lapse was most apparent in the opening minutes of the Led by freshman Joanie French, the Bears raced to an 18-2 lead at the 13-25 mark in the first half when Washington wisely called a timeout. that they wore and had national qualifying times in 13 events. The only events that KU did not qualify for nationals in were the 500-meter freestyle and the 200-yard breaststroke. KANSAS NARROWED the Bears' lead to one point with 6:34 left in the half and went ahead later on one of Chlystes's bombs. But the Lady Jayhawks could not hold the lead and fell behind 46-37 at half-time. Janet Lindstrom won the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:35.3 and Vicki Ingham won the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:30.8. KU qualified for national competition in the 200-yard freestyle relay despite finishing second to Missouri. Kansas' time was 1:40.3 and the Tigers won in 1:39.4. four-tour percent shooting from the field by the Bears in the first half and 18 points by French contributed to the Lady Jayhawks' demise in the half. But Washington had a simpler explanation for the Kansas offensive lull. "The ball just wouldn't fall for us in the first half," she said. "They were taking good percentage shots, we just had a lid on the basket." "Our girls gave an awfully good effort," Kemp said. "It's something that the conference hasn't seen the likes of before. We were all a little nervous, but just happened to be the outstanding team." "Oklahoma had one or two national qualifying times and Missouri had a good swim in the 200-yard freestyle relay. That was the only relay we lost and MU had an excellent time and best times ever this year. We finished second and still qualified for nationals." RELAYS WON by the Jayhawks were the 200-medley medley, the 800-yd freestyle, the The Lady Jayhawks, without specialist Laurie Props, who was competing with the women's swim team, scored 110.6 points. Nico Gervasi scored 130.75. Norberto nelo scored 129.15. Gym team finishes last KU women's gymnastics coach Ken Snow said KU would have had a chance to challenge third-place fincher, Iowa State, if Pronst had competed. The University of Kansas women's gymnastics team suffered through another dismal meet, finishing last in the five-team Big Eight championships held last weekend. Oklahoma State University finished fourth, scoring 114.1 The Lady Jayhawks defeated the Cowboys in a meet earlier this year. all-around gymnast Karen Mundy was the only Kansas gymnast to qualify for the finals. Mundy placed fifth in the side horse vault and sixth in both the balance beam and uneven parallel bars competition. She finished eighth in the all-around. "IN VAILTING and floor exercise she really adds depth." Snow said. "She's usually our No.1 in those events. We're a lot different team without Propst." 400-yard medley and the 400-yard freestyle relay. The meet was dominated by Colorado's Debbie Willcox, a former Olympic gymnast. Willcox won every event except the side horse vault, in which she placed second. Lindstrom won three other events in the meet. She won both the 200-yard and 400-meter KU had what Kempf called one of the best times in the country this year in the 400-yard medley relay. The team of Lanny Schaffer, Ingham Crosby and Debbie Bunker won the race in 4:01.7 L KU's winning time in the 400-yard freestyle relay was 3.372. Bunker, Lindstrom, McMorrow and Sheehan were the members of the victorious relay team. Schaffer, Ingham, Maureen Sheehan and Erin McMorrow composed the 200-yard medley relay team, whose winning time was 1:51.89. Bunker, Lindstrom, Linda Sawhite, and Emily Armstrong forced to trump in the 600-yard freestyle relay. Their combined time was 7:46.6. Schaeffer also took first-place honors in two other events. Both of her titles came in the backstroke events at 2014: *21:04* and *20:59*. She won the 2014-2015 200-meter race with a time of 20:59. In the 100-meter race her time was 1:01.1. Bunker rounded out the first-place winning pair, with a time of 1.552 in the 2003-04 freestyle. yard individual medleys and the 1,650-yard freestyle. Her times were 2:10.9 in the 200-yard IM; 4:33.3 in the 400-yard IM and 17:17.9 in the 1,650-yard freestyle. INGHAM CHIPPED in two more first-place finishes for the Jayhawks. The freshman swimmer won the 50-yard and 100-yard breaststroke. She finished the 50-yard event in 31.7 seconds and she captured the 100-yard race in 1.098. Net Work Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER Senior guard Clint Johnson got the honors of cutting the net after the Jahwahns' exciting victory over Nebraska Saturday. Johnson contributed six points and five assists to the Jahwahns' attack. Kansas' nex and final Big Eight game is Saturday in Boulder, Colo., against the Colorado Buffaloes.