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Tuesday, November 22, 1977
University Daily Kausan
Mokeski stars in intrasquad game
Rv. JASON NUSS
"Big Mo" is back
P马 Makeski, the 7-1 junior from Encino, Calif., who had been bothered by a series of nagging injuries in the past two seasons, had Allen Field House ringing last night with shouts of "Mo, Mo" after each dunk and shot in the annual Crismont-Blue game.
Mokesi played for the Whites, who lost to the Blues 68, but that did not damp his performance.
Mokaikei both teams in scoring and rebounding with 25 points and 15 rebounds.
Mokeki, who sprained an ankle last week in practice, said he had made three injuries in the past.
"Coach (Bob) Hill has helped me with my offense," Mokeski said. "That's the most improved part of my game. I feel like I have a lot more confidence when I get the ball."
Mokesi's efforts were not enough to overcome the Blue team, which had five players in double figures. Center Ken Koenigs and guard Darnell Valentine led the balanced attack with 20 and 17 points respectively.
THE WHITE SPOTTED the Blues and early 1-2 lead but stormed back to take the lead 24-23 on a pair of free throws by Mokeski with 8:51 to play in the half. Mokeski scored 14 of his team's first 24 points.
But the Blues, paused by Valentine, regained the lead seconds later when the freshman guard hit a jumper from 18 feet and scored on a driving lavun.
Valentine, who came to KU after a illustrious high school career at Wichita Heights, said the game, though ragged, was good for the Jawhavas.
"I wasn't really nervous, but it was a little tense," Valentine said. "But that's part of the purpose of this game; just to let us play with people and get the butterflies out of the way."
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The Blues came out strong in the second half and quickly opened up a 10-point lead. They moved to their biggest lead of the game with 2:15 to play when Valentine hit a 10-foot jump shot to give the Blues a 15-point lead, 79-64.
THE BLUES, MUCH to the disap-
lay of the final three minutes to seal the
Along with Valentine, three other players made their KU debut last night. Wilmore Fowler finished with 12 points, but hit only 5 of 21 field goal attempts. Booty Neal and John Crawford added seven and 11 points respectively.
"Our younger players are going to be good," Owens said. "This was the first college basketball game and it's going to take them awhile."
Owens said he was disappointed with the ragged play, especially on the pressure of the ball.
"OUR PRESSURE defense was not nearly as intense as it has been," Owens said. "The players were a little tight and they played with less intensity."
"I was disappointed with our running game. We should be able to run everytime we get a rebound or a steal. We may not get the primary break, a three-on-two or two-on-one, but we should get the secondary break."
The Jayhawks will scrimmage again Friday in Hutchinson with the benefits going to the Danny Knight Memorial Fund. The former KU basketball player, died last summer.
"The game on Friday will be a good one for us," Owens said. "It will give us a chance to go against each other again and correct some of our mistakes."
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kansas center Paul Mokeski scored 23 points and grabbed 15 rebounds last night to highlight the individual performances in the Citron-Blue game. The Jayshawks will have a strong start against the Giants on Friday.
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UPI selects Fitch to all-Big 8 team
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—Kansas safety Trom Fitch joined seven University of Oklahoma players as a first team selection on the United Press International All-Big Eight Conference team, which was announced today.
Derative tacitie Tink Dinkel and punter Mike Hubach were named to the second wrestling team.
Fitch, a Topeka senior, had five interceptions this year. He behind finished Oklahoma's Zace Henderson in the number of votes cast for defensive backs.
Heading the squad was Oklahoma State tailback Terry Miller, who topped the 100-yard mark in all 11 games this season to set a conference single season rushing record.
MILLER, The Big Eight's leading all-time rusher with 4,784 yards, was one of two unanimous picks to the 25-member team. Miller finished the 1977 season with 1,860 yards and ended his career with 19 straight 100-vard races.
Oklahoma placekicker Uwe von Schamann, who led "Block That Kick" cheers at Ohio Stadium before boating a 41-yard field goal with three seconds left to give the Sooners a 29-28 victory over Ohio State. The game ended in a season, was the other unanimous selection.
I. M. HIPP, THE sophomore walk-on sensation at Nebraska who finished second to Miller in rushing, was three votes short of the 34th in the state and who rushed for 1,000 yards for the second straight year and led the conference in scoring with 90 points, was four votes sly of the second team.
Green led a group of five Iowa Staters chosen to the first team, making the Cyclones runner-up to Oklahoma in the playoffs. With punter Rik Blabilli, defensive tackles
Von Schamann was joined on the first team by six of his teammates--quarterback Thomas Lott, tackle Karl Baldschiller, kick return Freddie Nixon, middle guard Reggie Kinawl, linebacker Daryl Hunt and Henderson.
Women cagers counting on youth, speed
Sports Writer
"Right now we are kind of like a
bear, so we don't expect to
bang, we just don't know how
loud."
Comparing her team to a firecracker ready to explode, KU women's basketball coach Marian Washington is hoping she mixed the right ingredients to make it heard in the season begins against Duke University at 7:30 tonight in Allen Field House.
At Wichita North, Woodward averaged 33
points and 20 rebounds a game, leading her
Entering her fifth year as head coach, Washington spent the off-season bolstering the team by recruiting high school All-America selections Lynette Woodard of Wichita and Susan Chlyster of Grand Ranches Mich
By RODNEY ANDERSON
teams to a 23-1 season and the Kansas Class 5 championship last season.
Washington said she thought that Woodard would prove to be one of the finest (at least for a while) in the city.
"She's just a well-rounded player." Washington said. "Her body control is excellent and her ball-handling ability is great. But can't say where she could go if she wanted to."
ALSO PROMINENT in the Lady Jayhawks' plans for this season is Chylek, with a 74 per cent free throw average and a 66 per cent scoring average from the field. She also set a Michigan state record for points with 1,248 points as a high school center.
"If we can get her adjusted to college ball, she'll be able to shoot the eyes out of the ball."
Lockwood said that the meet was the biggest championship meet in the country and features many of the top gymnasts from the Midwest and across the country. He said there will be 100 to 300 entries in each event.
Lockwood added that the meet was open all classes of amateur gymnasts and that no students were allowed.
Gymnasts to travel to meet
LOCKWOOD SAID his goal in the meet was to improve individual scores while maintaining a competitive pace.
"It'll be the first time we've been back there in a number of years basically because this is the first year we've had the talent to meet the qualifying standards," Lockwood said. "This is by far the largest group we've ever taken."
Kansas demonstrated its improvement three weeks ago with a 388.05 score at the Big Eight Invitational. That was the highest score a KU team had ever registered in a championship meet in 13 years of competition.
much have an average score of 8.5 or better in an event.
For the first time in several years, University of Kansas gymnastics coach Bob Lockwood will take a squab of nine men to the annual Midwest Open gymnastics meet, which begins Friday in Rolling Hills, Ill., a suburb of Chicago.
Lockwood said that the attitudes of the team had a good work and injuries had不 hardened work.
"Their attitude is real good," Lockwood said. "This meet is a prestige meet and the kids that are entered in it are entered because they deserve to be."
Of the nine KU entries, all-around gymnast Ron Ortman is the only Jayhawk hampered by an injury Ortman is suffering from a back strain practicing a routine on the horizontal bar.
Other recruits include 5-4 Sandy Knox, Salina; 5-11 Stephanie Smith, Kearney, Neble; 5-6 LaTeecy, Wilmette, III.; and 5-6 Dana Wilson, Fairfax, Va.
"We have tried to recruit to enhance our style." Washington said. "We're a fast-break team and we will be a pressing and running ball club."
Complementing the newcomers are veteran lettermen Karen Jamison, Kelly Phipps, V. C. Sanders, Cheryl Burnett, Mari Penner and Adrian Mitchell.
Washington said that her building period had been centered on Mitchell, who had been a candidate for the World University Games team last season. Only a junior this year, Mitchell averaged 14 points and 10 rebounds a game her sophomore season.
"ADRIAN PLAYS well at both ends of the "CARD
To be eligible for the meet, a gymnast
"We lost some games last year because of our inexperience and I would expect that we'll lose some games this year," Washington said. "This year we have five teams that are nationally ranked on our schedule."
Washington said that Kansas' top six or seven ballplayers would be the best the school has ever had and she would be challenged to keep them healthy.
"If we don't utilize our quickness, we'll be playing away from our strength,"
"They've been working real well and we've been spending a lot of time on the basics," Washington said. "We've shown a lot of hurst and quickness combined with our experience, but we made some mistakes that we won't be able to make against our competitors.
The Jayhawks' schedule includes No. 1-ranked Wayland Baptist andphan power Immaculata. KU will also play fifth-ranked University of Maryland.
WASHINGTON SAID that practices for the home opener against Drake have been productive but the team had been making mistakes typical of preseason play.
"We should be able to combat most of what the opposition will throw at us. Our philosophy as a team is going to be run, run, run."
Washington said that KU would employ its running game against the Drake Baldogs in a playoff.
She said that Drake was undefeated this year and had posted wins over the University of Iowa and Grand View College. She graduated by 6-3, 300-pound center Sharon Ushawon.
THE DRAKE CONTEST will prepare the Jayhawks for the Turkey Tournament hosted by Southwest Missouri State University on Saturday, Saturday and Sunday in Springfield, Mo.
Torn Randall and Mike Stenswid and defensive back Kevin Hart.
"Our chances of doing well are excellent," Washington said. "If our defense is
The Jayhawks lost 18 to Louis, and then to
St Cloud of Minnesota in the consolidation
game.
Missouri landed four players on the first team: wide receiver Joe Stewart, who was one vote short of unanimous; tight end Kellen Winslow; tackle James Taylor; and defensive back Russ Calabrese. Nebraska was represented by three players: center Tom Davis, guard Greg Jorgenson and Tom Horn.
The team managed to end on a winning note by beating Missouri for seventh place.
"There were some upsets in the other pool," he said, "and their rankings were messed up. If we could have beaten St. Louis and not I think we would have been on our way."
Spani, who made 25 tackles in each of his last two games and finished the season with an average of 17 tackles a game, received more votes than any other defensive player and fell only three votes short of being a unanimous selection.
Miller, White, Stenandr and Henderson spread Spani as repeat selections of the 1970s.
OKLAHOMA STATE and Colorado each had two players on the first team. Defensive end Daria Barta joined Miller from the team, who played at Westendorf and guard Leon White represented the Buffaloes. White, who played center in 1977 and tackle in 1975, received votes at all three front-line teams. Oklahoma State was a repeat selection at linebacker.
Southwest Missouri State won the tournament and Kansas State finished second. KU coach Stan Blancit said the team had a tough opportunity going into the final round of play.
The KU volleyball team wrapped up its season Saturday in Grand Forks, N.D., taking seventh place in the Region VI match, which ended the season with a 37-22-4 record.
Volleyball team falls in regional
The team was selected by a panel of 24 writers, three from each conference city.
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