University Daily Kansan Monday, February 13, 1978 7 Jayhawks peel apart Wildcats in Manhattan, 75-63 Staff Photos by ELI REICHMAN Emotional win Kansas and Kansas State hooked up in an emotional contest Saturday, the Jayhawks coming out on top, 75-68. The victory the Jayhawks' first at Ahearn Field House in seven years, Curtis Redding, top left, was miffed at KU's Ken Keenings in the first half when some of the action got physical. Darnell Valentine, bottom left, who scored 12 points for the Jayhawks, off the offensive move at KU's zone defense, and, after a series of shots, moved to the net. When the net ended, KU's Wilmore Fowler and Clint Johnson, above, showed some joyous emotion. Rising scores becoming routine Sports Writer By STEVE HERBERT A confident Bob Lockwood sent a conversation into Saturday's home arrest labeled Nathan. Not that Lockwood, KU men's gymnastics coach, didn't respect the Cornhuskers, the eight-ranked team in the nation. He just thought his Jayhawks, spurned by some ever-improving newcomes, could beat them. Thus, he had a cresstaff attitude after Saturday's 209.7-206.9 loss. But, in his cloud of disappointment, he found one silver lining. "It was our goal to score 120 and we went to win." Lockwood said. "But still we had our highest score ever. I feel happy as long as we are improving." KU'S SCORE, a point higher than last week's score at Hays, is a record. Continued improvement, Lockwood said, is a matter of smoothing out the rough edges. "You never have a perfect meet," he said, "but you've got to hit your routines. We're making little mistakes and missing too many routines." KU beat the Huskers in only one event the parallel bars. That is one area in which Lockwood insists improvement is forthcoming. "We're a good performing team in the parallel bars," he said, "but we haven't hit well. I think we can pick up a few points there." MIKE HYNES won the parallel bars with an 8.95 score. He also tied for first in the high bar. No other Jayhawk finished first in an individual event. Lockwood said Hynes had been suffering from the flu this week. For the third consecutive week, the Jayhawks had a different top all-around performer. This time it was freshman Brad Johnson, who tilted a KU record and put him in third place. "He's been pretty tired from the flu and remarkably had his best two events at the golf tournament." MARK WILLIAMS of Nebraska finished heist. He had a 52.2 second for the event. Wiliam also scored on the first hit. Other all-around men for KU were Ortmann who had a batting average with a 48.9. He was an ace on the field. Mile relay team joins qualifiers; conference meet next challenge By WALT BRAUN Associate Sports Editor Two first-places, three seconds, two thirds and one fourth place is not a bad share of the total. But to the KU track team, which has only one more meet before the NCAA Championships, what wasn't accomplished at the Oklahoma Track Classic in Oklahoma City, Okla. Saturday is just as important as what was accomplished. For KU, that was the high point of the meet. The record shows that the two-mile relay team picked up the Jayhawks' only other victory. It seemed like a partial victory, though, because their winning time was two seconds above the NCAA standard. What KU was able to do, finally, was to qualify its mile relay team for the NCAA indoor championships. Eight individuals have already qualified for the nations. THE MILE RELAY team, composed of Cliff Wiley, Stan Whitaker, Tommy McCall and Lester Mickens, won the event and beat the NCAA qualifying time by a full second. BOB TIMMONS, KU head track coach, was gratified that his sprinters, who seem to take turns getting the flu or getting hurt, are being able to stretch time and healthy long enough to compete. Timmons expressed disappointment that the two-mile relay team didn't meet the qualifying time but said that the team, composed of Glenn Harter, Rick Enzs, Tim Jantsch and Mickens, took three seconds off KU's season best. "I's one less thing to worry about," Timmons said. "We still aren't in top shape, and we got another one hurt (David Blut-ger) and many opportunities to go full speed." Besides the two relay victories, KU placed second and third in the Invitational 60-yard race and second in the 100-meter race, respectively 60s in 6.0, finished second with a time of 6.24. Dennis Collins of Texas Christian beat him by two-hundredths of a second. Kevin Newell finished third with a time of Billy Washinton placed fourth in the 300 with a time of 31.2. McCall, who ran a leg on the mile relay team, placed second in the 880. His time in that event was 1:54.7. THAT OPPORTUNITY will come at the Championship in two weeks at Lima, Italy. "It is good that we won, but we only have one more chance to qualify for the NCAA in this game." BRUCE COLDSMITH ran a personal best of 4-10 to earn second place in the mile. KU's only other points came in the 60-yard field, and the team's Coleman finished third with a time of 27.1. KU was hurt in the field events by the absence of jumper Jay Reardon, who injured himself in practice before the meet, and by the absence of pole vault Tad Johnson, a former Alabama City but returned to Lawrence upon receiving word that his father died. The Jayhawks failed to score in the 440- yard dash, the 600, two-mile run, 60-yard low hurdles or any of the field events. KU did not enter the 1,000. "It will take a lot of concentration and effort on my part and the team's in determining who will be entered at the conference. I have to think about the injuries and injuries will play a big part in who goes." "The conference meet should be pretty close between five teams: Missouri, K-State, Oklahoma, Nebraska and us. I don't think the five teams are separated by more than 10 points, and the winner could be outstanding individuals but less depth. We'll be a whole lot better off if our people are healthy. It has slowed us down all winter." TIMMONS SAID that the team would devote the next two weeks to preparations for the Olympics. Lockwood was particularly disappointed about the Jayhawks' performance on the pennal horse, on which they were shut out of the first three places. Another freshman, Mike Laden, set a record with his 9.4 vault. Nebraska's Rich Brid仕 topped him, however, with a 9.5 K. Sean Williams tied for third, scoring 128 points. KU's highest score was Bill Harams, a dollar-studded player. He had an 815. Foerchard and his team scored 630. O'Brien Sean Williams took second place in the floor exercises, scoring 9.05, and Ortman's 9.1 on the still rings placed him second in that event. "WE MISSED three out of four routines," he said, "so I expect to gain at least point By GARY BEDORE "They're disappointed they lost but they're proud of what they did in the meet," he said. "They're not taking a back seat to anybody." Lockwood said the gymnasts naturally were disappointed after the defeat. Sports Editor MANHATTAN—Not even wide Alaina Berg—Mauro Baldacci, hugging Kansas Jayhawks Saturday afternoon. The gymmats will compete next in a twelfth annual meet with Oklahoma and New Mexico Junior College. The Jayhawks, who had lost their last six outings in Ahearn, reversed things Saturday when they whipped the Kansas State Wildcats. 75-63 Kansas, now 20-3 overall and 10-1 in the Big Eight, had to dodge a deluge of bananas to open the contest but made monkeys out of KState before it was over. The Jayhawks took a slim 33-head lead into halftime and struck in the second half to hit 11 of their first 13 shots. The onslaught made it into the final quarter and Kansas was in control the rest of the way. "WE DEFINITELY won the game at the start of the second half," senior forward Ken Koenigs said after the game. "All year I think we've been a great team the first five minutes of the second half. We came out fired-up after halftime. "We started to run and got the ball inside against their zone. That was something we haven't been able to do the past two games." The Jayhawks had trouble moving against the Wildcats' sliding 2-1-2 zone defense in the game's early moments. Kaneland scored in each of the 12,37 mark to the delft of the home fans. But, just like that, Kansas raged back, scoring the next eight points to cut K-State's lead to 16-13. Freshman Wilmore Fowler came off the bench to hit six of the eight points. He and John Douglas kept the Javahinks in the game in the first half. Between the two, they hit 11 of 13 first-half shots. Fowler hit his first eight shots of the "AT THE BEGINNING I was confident we'd play all right," Ted Owens, KU head basketball coach, said. "We had poise on us and we just couldn't get the ball in the basket. "Our poise kept us in the game, and our fast break oenited it up." Kansas center Paul Mokesi agreed that Kansas need a and a lot to do with Kansas' eventual success. Jack Hartman, KState basketball coach, said the Jayhawks' hot second-half shooting was the difference. Kansas shot 58.6 percent in the second half. "When you set up against a zone, it's hard to score. Mokkei said, "You have to run." "WHEN A team starts hitting from the perimeter at Kansas was, then it's hard for us to execute our defense the way we would like to," Hartman said. "Good outside shooting spreads out the defense and causes some big guns to cover." Hartman also said the loss of Mike Evans in the second half affected his team. Evans KANSAN Sports burt his back in the early stage of the second half and never returned to the game. "When Mike Evanes went out, it became increasingly difficult for us to control the tempo of the game," Hartman said. "It's hard for us to be effective without him." Owens said that Kansas 'fast break, not Evans' loss, was the difference. "I suppose it hurt them, although he wouldn't have been when that big a factor with him." "All the need to do was get some fast breaks and get the crowd going." Johnson Kansas started the four-corner offense with 8:35 left and a 10-point lead. Clint Johnson, Kansas guard, said it was a good move by Owens. WITHOUT EVANS, the Wildcats played a coqeward offence, trying to cause individu- al harm. "We got phone calls all week saying Manhattan stores were out of bananas," Johnson said. "We expected it and blanked it out of our minds." ★★ "They wanted some offensive rebounds," Moksiak said. "We knew they had four big men in there so we went to the four-corner fence and cut their eight men could it stop our uards." Kansas was led by Fowler and Douglas, who each hit nine of 12 shots for 18 points. Darnell Valentine had 12 points and Ken Koenius 10 for the Jawhaws. The victory in Ahearn was the first for the Kansas' senior class competing in the game. The Jayhawks said they were not about to play against a group of bananas both them, during the game. RANKED BY TEAM RMTH PT REB PE PTS Douglas 9-12 4-2 3-4 18 Koenigs 6-12 4-2 3-4 18 Mokeki 2-6 4-2 3-4 8 Takahara 2-6 4-2 3-4 8 Valentine 1-4 12 4-2 4-12 Powell 9-12 6-2 3-4 12 Vancee 0-2 0-0 3-2 0 Gilson 0-2 0-0 3-2 0 Lindquist 15-17 14-10 31 23 Kansas State (63) | | PG | PT | REB | PF | PTS | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Blackman | 4-11 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 13 | | Redding | 4-10 | 1-9 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | Langren | 2-9 | 6-10 | 10 | 3 | 16 | | Evans | 2-9 | 6-10 | 2 | 3 | 18 | | Evans | 4-10 | 5-3 | 7 | 1 | 16 | | Barton | -3 | 4-1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | | Barton | -1 | 4-0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | | Barton | -4 | 0-1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | | Goodaw | 0-1 | 6-1 | 3 | 2 | 18 | | Goodaw | 0-1 | 11-27 | 3 | 18 | 18 | KANAS 36 20 - 76 KANASSTATE. 23 10 - 63 Sports Writer Yes, the win was something extra special for Koeniz and Johnson. Officials: John Overby & Ken Kurtz Technical foul: KU-Von Moore Attendance: 11,220 KU seniors rejoice after beating K-State Bv BILL NEWSOME Both are in-state products—Koenigs from Goddard and Johnson from Leavenworth. And both, after watching the series as they grew up, had been the victims of three consecutive K-State victories in Ahearn while wearing KU uniforms. BUT THE Jayhawks were loving every minute of it. As the court was being cleaned for the game's final seconds, the Jayhawks led by Koenigs and Johnson, verbally showed the heckling K-State crowd who was No. 1 in the state. MANHATTAN—It was a scene that Ken Koenigs and Clint Johnson won't forget: Kansas State's Ahern Bank House—the first victory in the battle—31 seconds remaining in the game. "I'm from Kansas; I've followed the series for many years; I was recruited by both schools and I never won here," Koenigs said. "Because of all that, this has to be one of the most satisfying victories I've ever been associated with." It was at that moment Koenigs and Johnson were able to start a celebration for which they had been waiting many years. Both were finally able to raise their arms in the air. The last event was evident RU was about to win on the Wiki home court for the first time in seven years. At that moment the game was being delayed. The frustration of losing to KU for the third straight time this season had an impact. Ms. Dellouche's arms. The court was being helped with bananas. "WEVE BEEN talking about this for a long time," Johnson said. "Especially the seniors—Donnie (Von Moore), Milt (Gibson), John (Douglas), Ken and myself. The crowd haddened us as they always have. But we were in their get quiz, and we were able to do that." To say the least, the Jayhawks weren't treated like guests by the K-State crowd. in past years, the KU players have been the targets of live chickens. this year it was bananas. The court looked like a fruit market when the KU players were introduced, when the first KU players were introduced and end, when the victory was obviously KU's. But in the game's opening minutes, the Jayhawks had a lot more to worry about than bananas. K-State had reeled off 12 straight points to take a 12-3 lead, a lead that later increased to 11, and packed Ahearn was going crazy. The Jayhawks responded like a team boasting a 20-3 record. After making just one of their first nine shots, they made 13 of 18 and had 5-of-10 turnovers, and took an 36-33 lead into the dressing room. "WHEN WE CAME back from being 11 down," Johnson said, "We knew we could beat their crowd and we knew we could beat them." And when the Jayhawks came out for the second half, the K-State crowd and the Wildcats' zone defense, a pair of elements were not so buff. KU before, suddenly weren't to baffle. Swimmers top OU in home finale By KENDAVIS Sports Writer Sparked by some outstanding individual performances, the University of Kansas men's swimming team closed its home season Saturday by bailing Oklahoma. 8-1 The Jayhawks won 11 of the 13 events in the meet, losing only the 100-yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle to the Sooners. KU now stands 6-3 in dual meets this year, and only one dual meet remains before the Biz Eight Championships. Leading the Jayhawks to victory was freshman Craig Penzler. The freestyle swimmer with Wichita won the 1,000-yard freestyle, anchored the winning 400-yard freestyle relay team and finished second in the 500-yard freestyle on a jude's decision. PENZLER SWAM the 1,000-yard event in 9:52.2, smashing the freshman record and setting a season-best time in the event for the first time since 1971. His freshman mark of 10:01.5 sent in 1971. STEVE GRAVES, another freshman from Wichita, calls a Robinson pool and freshman Penzler went on to swim a strong race in the 500-yard freestyle. Sooner Rob Schutt won the event on a judge's decision, even though Penzler lost one-tenth of a second slower than Penzler. The freshman's performance also placed him third on the all-time Jayawk honor roll in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Kempf has the all-time best with 9:48.00. Gary Kempf is second on the all-time chart with a time of 9:50.13. "Craig Pender had an outstanding meet," Bill Spahn, KU had swimming coach, said. "We're really happy about !m. He swam the way we've been looking for him to swim. we tried to try in the 1,000 last week but he just wasn't up to par. He's been sick the last couple of weeks and he's still healthy now and I was really proud of the way he came back to win in the 500. That was his best time of the year." record in the 400-yard individual medley His time was: 41.19. * Kick Jenkins won the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:59.4, The Ornulae, Neb., Utah. (AP) "Jenkins a fine job in the backstrok," Spawn said. "He's beginning to show more Diver Kurt Anselmi had a fine meet, winning both the one-meter and three-meter diving against the Sooners. His point total of 62-10 was an impressive this year to qualify for national competition. "ANSELMI DOVE very well," Spahn said. "Tom Anagnos is beginning to dive better; so is Rocky Vizzari. Mark Hill is doing okay but he'll do a lot better. I think the divers will to great at the conference meet." "Oklahoma has much depth. They were tired also. They had had a meet the right before against Nebraska and then we went back to look at a meet right now, we swan real well."