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Friday, January 20, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Trackmen await Sooner Relays
By WALT BRAUN Associate Sports Editor
The KU track team returns to the scene of some of its most impressive performances today when it competes against eight other teams in the Innoer Indoor Relays at the Myriad in Oklahoma City, Okla.
KU, which won the inaugural Sooner Relays last year on the same track, also won the 1972 United States Track and Field Federation indoor championship there. At the 2014 event, KU recorded for a board track in the 300-yard dash. His record time was 29.8 seconds.
Bob Timmons, track coach at KU, was cautiously optimistic about today's meet and said the team was looking forward to competing there again.
"WEVE RUN well down there the last
few years and I hope we can continue to be successful. "Timmons said."
Timmons said the meet, which features several strong teams from the Southwest and Big Eight conferences, would be one of three nominations for the College he said he expected Oklahoma, Kansas State, Baylor and Southern Methodist University to offer the stiffest opposition. The other teams entered are Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, North Texas State and Texas-Arlington.
"The overall competition this year will be pretty rugged," Timmons said, "so we may need excellent times and field performances to win."
Tinnims can count on excellent times from his track sprint corps. In last week's 76-43 victory over strong Southern Illinois University. Cliff Wiley tied the Allen Field
House record in the 60-yard dash with a time of 6.0 seconds. David Blutcher and Kevin Newell followed close behind in 6.1 finishing second and third respectively.
BLUTCHER AND WILLE also will compete in the 300-yard dash, and Newell will join Stan Whitaker in the 440. They will against SUI with a time of 48.3.
Timmons said he thought the team's speed and depth in the running events would enable KU to score well in those games, but not confident, however, about the field events.
"WE'RE NOT as strong yet in the field as I would like to be," he said, "but we are improving daily. We'll miss Tad Scales in the pole vault."
Scales, whose indoor best is 16.8, has not recovered from an injury he suffered
Freshman Frank Angelone, who broke Scales Kansas state high school record, scores 120.5.
before the SIU meet.
Tirmims said he considered the Sooner Indoor Relays to be an important meet for KU, not only because it is the first big meet of the season, but also because it is the team's first look at some of the Big Eight powers. Equally important is the opportunity it offers KU's men and two-mile relay teams to qualify for the NCAA in March.
Four individuals from KU have already qualified for the NCAA championships. "WED LOVE to run the relay events because it's been said," said, but just as important, it's one of the few chances we'll have to qualify for the nationals, especially in the two-mile."
KU swim team ready to face Minnesota, ISU
After almost a month without a meet, the Kansas men's swim team will return to action this weekend with home dual meets Minnesota tonight and Iowa State Saturday.
The Jayhawks 2-1 in dual meets this season, have been out of competition since they lost to nationally ranked Southern Methodist Dec. 10. Bill Spahn, head swim coach at KU, has not let the KU team relax, however.
"I THINK we swam 150 miles during semester break," Spahn said. "I know it was a lot of swimming. We swam 15,000 yards a day, six days a week. I gave them Sunday off and I think that was being pretty lenient.
"We're in much better shape than we have been all year and I thought we were in good shape before. I think this is really going to pay off."
"oann said that although the Jayhawks were in top shape, it did not mean that they would win both meets this weekend. He said that all the work we work showed most at the end of the year."
"it's hard to say how we'll do this weekend," Spahn said. "I think we'll do well but we'll do better later. I just hope we swim fast enough to win a couple of meets."
KU'S WEEKEND begins at 6 tonight when Minnesota visits Robinson Natatorium. Spain said he was not quite sure what to expect from Minnesota.
"they've been swimming against some weak schools," Spahn said. "But from what I can tell they've got about one good person in every event. There's not a lot of depth on their team. It should be a pretty good meet. We'll win but we can't look past them."
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K-State beats Soviets
MANHATTAN (UPI)—Curtis Redding stole the ball twice in the final two minutes, scoring on a layup the first time and sending Mike Evans in for a layup the second time, to lift Kansas State to a 57-48 win over the tucking Russian National team.
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The Russians then played for the last shot only to have Redding steal the ball with 17 seconds left to set up the final bank of the ball and the Soviets their first loss in three games.
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