6 Monday, January 23, 1978 University Daily Kansan Jayhawks rally to trip tenacious Wildcats Snorts Editor Bv GARY BEDORE Just like a car sitting in the cold, the Kansas Tweakers had trouble待到started Saturday night. Jaynads all rhinoceros powerful, eighth-ranked. Big Cate machine 10 minutes into the second half to finally get moving and speed by the Wildcats 56-62 before 15,790 fans in Allen Field House. Kansas sputtered against a tough KState zone defense and trailed 44-37 with 10-35 left in the game. But the Jawahks held the Wildcats to eight points in the last 10 minutes and iced a victory with 21 seconds left when Darnell Valentine hit two free throws to give the Jawahks a 54-60 lead. Kansas shot just 35.5 percent from the field but showed some poke in the last minutes to secure its fifth conference win. The Jayhawks have no conference losses. Kansas State fell to 23 in Big Eight ANSAN Sports "WHEN WE WERE down by seven we did the trungs an outstanding team needs to do." Ted Owens, Kyle used basketball coach, said after the game. Kyle used the word "outstanding" in his speech. Donnie Von Moe, who hit a 15-foot turnaround jumper to put the Jayhawks in the lead 48-47 at the end of the first quarter. "It was one of those crucial do-or-die situations." Von Moore said. "The fellows realized what we had to do and that helped us out. We've seen a zone the last five games and it finally caught up with us." Kansas expected K-State to use its 2-1-2 defense and immediately had trouble with it. The Jayhawks don't score a basked unit 17-22 of the first quarter,命中 a short shot of a good pass by Ken Königs Jack Hartman, K-State's head basketball coach, said he was pleased with his team's defensive play. By halftime, the score was 30-30 and the Jayhawks still weren't penetrating the zone. "I though we went about the game and carried out our plan as good as we could," Hartman said. "We had a plan and executed it well, had the tempo down and a chance to win the game. *Mike (Evanes) was five for 14; Curtis (Reldiam) five for 20. We had to be doing a lot things right just like that.* CLINT JOHNSON held Evan's scoreless in the first half, but Evans went on a tear in the early going of the second half, scoring 10 of his points in the first six minutes. The shooting gave K-State a 42-36 lead with 15:42 left. But Johnson and M. Powter scored in the end of the game when it counted the most. "You won't hold a person like Mike down all night." Johnson said. "I try to not give him too much, but they picked for him well." Valentine said the Jayhawks' pressure defense might have tired Evans out after his 10 point spree. "He might have gotten tired but you can attribute come of it to our defense." Valentine end HARTMAN SAID his team was tired at the end when it lost the seven-point lead. man said. "We were hesitant and didn't have the crispness we had earlier. We looked tired and we weren't coming up with the ball." The 'Jayhawks' final rally was different from the way they played during most of the game. The Jayhawks began to pass the ball around more and hit some long shots. Fowler and Von Moore hit long Johnson said the Jayhawks were patient and waited for the chance to catch up. "I knew it was a matter of time," Johnson said. "Once we got to four and two and the crowd got down." Kansas State (12) Ft FT REB PB Pts Blackman 7-10 4-11 6 3 15 Redding 8-20 0-0 6 3 15 Solomon 7-00 0-0 6 3 15 Landon 1-3 0-0 2 3 15 Evans 5-14 0-0 6 3 10 Barton 7-14 0-0 6 1 4 Town 23-39 0-4 24 17 FG PT REB PTE PTS Douglas 5-16 4-4 4 7 Koerings 4-18 3-7 4 7 Vuom Moor 4-4 10-4 12 2 Jimmy Jones 14 7-8 6 2 Valentine 4-11 7-8 6 2 Pickens 2-14 4-6 10 5 Totals 2-6 13-2 41 10 Koerings State 2-8 13-4 41 10 ★★ Kansas Officials: John Overby and Roy Clymer Attendance—15,790 Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN Airborne Gymnasts lose to flu, NU Darnell Valentine, Kansas' freshman guard, moving on K-State's Mike Evans, prepares to give a pass to another Jayhawk during Saturday night's 56-42 victory over the Wildcats. Valentine led the Jayhawks' scoring, getting 15 points, and added six assists to help the KU attack. Valentine and the Jayhawks battled a tough K-State zone defense and rallied from a seven-point deficit to win their second game of the season over the Wildcats. With the victory, Kansas is 5-0 in conference play, one game in front of second-place Iowa State. K-State is now 2-3. The Jayhawks travel to Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday night to face Nebraska. 3-2. Unfortunately, Karen Mundy's winning performance in the Jayhawks' loss to Nebraska was not as catching as the flu that the KU women's gymnastics team recently. Kansas dropped its fourth match of the year Saturday, losing to Nebraska, 12-6. Mundy captured the floor exercise with a score of 8.6 and the balance beam with 8.0. She also placed third in the all-around with 31.1 points. KU was without the services of Laurie Propt, who was in Columbia, Mo., competing with the KU swim team. Snow said Propt's absence affected the team's vaulting score, one of the four events Kansas lost to NU. Ken Snow, KU's women's gymnastics coach, said the Jayhawks' score was the lowest of the year and listed injuries and flu outbreaks. "ON A normal night, if we'd had everybody healthy, it would've been a fairly close meet," he said. "We're normally a better team than that." KU players satisfied with hard-earned win Not many people thought Kansas would need a strong second-half rally to beat the Cincinnati Reds. But midway through the second half Saturday night, the Jayhawks were down by seven points and had to outscore K-State, 19-8, down the stretch to win 56-32. Despite the struggle it took to get the victory, there was still satisfaction in the KU locker room. "It's something special to beat K-State." Darnell Valentine, who now has two victories in as many attempts against the state rivals, said. "It was a great game." By BILL NEWSOME Sports Writer It was a great game, but certainly not an artistic one. DEFENSE DOMINATED. K-State's clogging 2-12 one division limited KU to 35 percent shooting from the field, and KU's sticky defense gave the Wildcats only 30 percent shoting. K-State wanted to keep the game at a show, delineate pace and its zone acces- ding that. "We never got the game into a running match like we wanted," Ted Owens, KU's head basketball coach, said. "Most of the game was kept at Kansas State's pace." The Wildcat's zone frustrated the taller Jayhawks by keeping them from getting the ball down. "THEY WEREN'T giving us anything inside," 6-9 Donnie Von Moore said. "We shot only 35 percent, which made it especially tough." "It was a tight zone," r.I. Pai Mokesi told him. "We had to bounce the ball like we had in the last few games." The K-player plays said that for most of the game, things were going just about how it came out. "We were making them play our type of ball," guard Scott Langton said. "We didn't want to get into an up-and-down the floor game with them, and we didn't." But during the last seven minutes I think we got caught up in their momentum. We were all sweating and shouting. THE JAYHAWKS finally started to make their move midway through the --reg. $6.49 20 Exposure Color Film Developed & Printed only $499 1741 Mass. & with coupon It was far from an artistic success, but the University of Kansas Lady Jayhawks escaped their first conference game of the season with an B3-57 decision over Wichita State University Friday in Allen Field House. Women win sloppy game THE LADY Jayhawks, 11-9 and ranked 28th in the nation, led the entire game but kept Wichita State in the game with 17 fouls and 11 turnovers in the first half. KU shot 32 percent from the field, hitting 19 of 60 attempts, and 35 percent for the game. After the game, Marian Washington, KU's women's basketball coach, out a suit of relief and rebounded to the sloppy play of Kansas. "It was rough tonight," she said. "We were just dead out there. It was obvious that some of us are still suffering from the trip East. They've been a very sick ball club. The anemic Shocker hit only 26 percent of their first-half shots from the field and committed 20 turnovers. For the game, WSU shot 30 percent. (24 exposure rolls only $5.49 reg. $7.49) (36 exposure rolls only $7.99 reg. $10.99) Coupon must be presented with film when left for processing. fresman guards Valentine and Wilmore Fowler clinched the game by making six of six pressure free throws in the final two minutes. Owens was quick to praise the free throws, calling Valentine and Fowler "unusual freshmen." "Once we got the lead we had to spread them out and get them out of their zone," Von Moore said. "We throw the ball away a few times, stretch, but they didn't take advantage of it." Coupon expires Feb. 1, 1978. DESPITE TWO wins over the Wildcats already this year, KU hasn't respect for the second half. They took the lead with just more than five minutes to go and went into a delay with more than three minutes left to bring K State out of its zone. Mokeski said KU's game at Nebraska Wednesday was a very important one. "They are our greatest competition, even though they are three games behind." Valentine said. "They can come back and beat some good teams." "if we can go into Nebraska and get that one, we're sitting pretty," Mokesi said. NOW IN PAPERBACK! 330 MAINE Evening & Saturday appts. available Phone 843-1557 DR. LES MILLER announces the moving of his dental office from 930 Iowa to