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Friday, April 25. 1980
University Daily Kansan
KU to send 13 to Drake Relays
A sell-out Drake Relays crowd of 18,000
attains 13 members of the KU's men race
this weekend in the last leg of the
Midwestern Relixes Triple Crown.
-UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The 71st Drake Relays, the oldest of the Texas-Kansas-Drake relay competitions, will attract athletes from 50 universities, offer a host of schools and national power Texas-EPaso.
KU, the 1980 Big Eight indoor champion,
will send a pair of relay teams and six field competitors to Drake. The rest of the team will rest last following the week 5 at Kansas City.
In the mile relay, KU will send Lester Mickens, Mike Ricks, Deogan Hogan and Leonard Martin against a strong field which should include Texas-EJ-Pa soud's.
Sports
MARTIN TAKES over for Stan Whitaker, who pulled a muscle during the mile relay prelimits last week. Mickens who twisted his
knee during the 400-meters last week has recovered...
Hogan captured the open division of the 400 in the Kansas Relays and Ricks ran his fastest split ever on the mile relay.
Rickies will also antero the two-mile relay team, joining Tim Jantzch. Ray Marks and his son, Willie, both turned in an impressive performance last week, giving KU on edge after the first halffire. Marks and Ensz also ran on that relay team, finishing second behind Oklahoma.
IN THE POLE vault, KU will send Jeff Buckingham and Owen Buckley. Buckingham, winner of the invitational pole, improved with each outdoor test this season.
Buckley, a freshman, won the pole vault competition in the Jim Bausch decathlon last weekend.
Jay Reardon will be KU's only entrant in the long jump. Reardon, who has competed in at least two events each meet this season, has a personal outdoor best of 24-10-10.
high jump. Light, who won the high jump last week, has cleared 7-2 outdoors.
Discus thrower Matt Friedman and Mike Morse, who is entered in the javelin, complete the team.
Oerter, the ageless winger of the discus game at 47, won the Mt. SAC Relays invitational discus competition last week by beating 1876 Olympic gold-medalist Mac Whetting.
THE DRAKE Relays, which have been sold-out for more than two weeks, will include world-class competitors Mike Bott or former and former KKU great Al Olerer.
Several winners from last week's Kansai will also be competing, including Kenyaan champion Wang Wu in 1,000-meters. Koskie will face former NCAA 1,000-meter champion Wilson Wunga in the final.
Jayhawks face must-win situation
By KEN DAVIS
Snorts Writer
The Kansas baseball team has reached the point where it needs all the help it can get. But the Jayhawks aren't going to get any assistance from their schedule.
KU faces what can only be a must-wait situation as it begins a four-game series with Iowa State this afternoon in Ames. The state is slated to host off of 18 double-headders and tomorrow.
The Jayhawks, with a 7-5 record in the Big Eight's Eastern Division, trail first place Missouri by three games and second-place Nebraska by two games.
WITH ONLY eight games remaining in the conference, the Jawahres have their work cut out for them to qualify for the conference championships May 10-13 in Oklahoma City, OK. The two top teams in the host state's western divisions advance to the
Making matters worse for the Jayhawks the fact that an acquaintance gamble at a freezing point after the After the Cyclones this weekend, KU must travel to Lincoln, Neb., next Friday and Saturday for a game.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A report published yesterday said career Darrrell Williams was enrolled in an alcohol-rehabilitation program, might rejoin the club for this week's series with the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers called the report 'pure speculation.'
"Darrall he was he trying for the end of this week," a source who asked not to be identified said. "He also said he might be there a little bit longer."
return to the team. He was eligible to return from the disabled last dayster. Carnahan said Porter's family had indicated that he might be back early in
Bruce Carnahan, assistant director of public relations, said there had been no indication of when Porter the American League All-Star catcher last year, would
The only person in our organization who knows about Porter is Joe Burke and he has made a commitment to Porter not to discuss it," Carnahan said.
"The schedule is against us this year," the coach, Josh Hankerson, said. "Only one series against our team in our own division at home and the other (we) on the road. But the schedule was for us last week."
Burke, the Royals' general manager,
said that he would not speculate on
Porter's return and that clinic officials
had not set a date.
Porter, who batted .291 with 20 home runs and 112 RBI's, left the team's spring training camp March 15 to enter the clinic.
LAST YEAR Kansas finished third.
behind Missouri and Nebraska, in the Eastern Division with an 11-9 record.
The Jayhawks didn't help themselves any last weekend when they dropped three out of four games to Missouri at Quigley Field. The team hoped for an even break against the Tigers.
“This puts us in a position where we have to win at Iowa State,” Temple said. “If there is any hope for qualifying for the playoffs, we must beat our Iowa State three out of four.”
The Cyclones are 4-8 and in last place in the East. Iowa State is 13-23 overall and KU is 21-13.
TEMPLE SAID that Loren Hibbs was to shortstop for the Jayhawks today. Hibbs missed KU's double-header with a hard-hit Tuesday because of a slight hamburger pull.
Temple plans to start pitchers Randy McIntosh, 6-2, and Jim Phillips, 7-2, in their twinship. Tomorrow the starting pitcher is Chris Foley (10) and Dwayne Hicks, 8-3.
With Hibbs back, Steve Jeltz will move with him to right field and mark Gile will move from second to third. Gile will be bothered this week by a seeshow throwing.
in big Other Eight conference games this week, Missouri and Nebraska will play a crucial series in Lincoln, Kansas State will play at Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will be at Oklahoma.
Kansan files
Jumping Jay
KU trackman Jay Reardon his long jumping form in preparation for the Drake RELays this week. Reardon, who is one of the more versatile athletes on KU's track team, is entered in the long jump and high jump at Drake. Reardon, is coming off one of his best long jump performances last weekend at the Kansas RELays.
Men golfers in 4th place after 2 rounds
By KEVIN BERTELS Sports Writer
The last round of the Drake Relays Invitational golf tournament should be anticlimactic for the KU men's golf team.
After yesterday's second round, KU was in fourth place, five strikes behind Missouri, 14 strikes behind second-place Minnesota, and 27 strikes behind the leader, Minnesota.
"The best we can figure to get is third." Coach Ross Randall said. "Minnesota is a good team and Nebraska is playing well on a touch course."
One factor, the weather, was on KU's side. Randall said. The weather, down around 60 degrees and wind, was expected to be worse for today's final round.
"Bad weather makes it easier to make in a lot of strokes." Randall said.
The bright spots for KU were few, but Randall was pleased that three of the KU golfers were among the top 12 scorers. The top 12 receive watches.
Mark Crow, a senior on the KU team, was eight with a 151 total after rounds of 75 and 64. He also scored for 128 with 154 totals. Anderson scored 76 Wednesday and 78 yesterday while he scored 30 Sunday.
KU's other two golfers were not far ahead of them. Aaron Johnson, 70 and 78, and John Lyon was at 188 with 70 and 78. Randal contributed the high scores to the tough 12-Witacona Country Club
Not many teams were able to score well. After two rounds the team standings showed that North Carolina at 638, Northern Iowa at 642, Manatee State 643, Buena Vista University at 646, Montana College at 649, Central College at 652, Loyola University at 653, College at 653, Simpson College and St. Ambrose at 666, Grinnell College at 665, University at 700 and William Penn College at 723.
"It's a really tough course," he said. "You have to shoot really well to score on it."
Endurance kev for KU softballers
D. R. Senseman
By PATTI ARNOLD Sports Writer
Bob Stancifl will get a chance to see just what his women's softball team is made of between now and Wednesday.
KU plays 10 games in six days, six of them this weekend. Nebraska, Creighton, Southwest Missouri State and Big Eight champion Oklahoma State are in Lawrence for a weekend of softball KU will play against the Nebraska today and Creighton tomorrow.
The weekend was scheduled to be doubleheaders against two different teams, Stanford said, but Oklahoma State asked to cancel the game before canceling out of a California tournament.
Stancliff said he had a good collection of teams involved, and was anxious to see how his pitching staff handles the heavy schedule.
"UP UNTIL now we've given all our pitchers an equal opportunity to pitch," he
said. "We need somebody to surface so we can give them the burden of being our No 1 pitcher. This will kind of put them in the hot water and get them getting a chance to prove themselves."
"This isn't going to be like the double-headers where they each have been going three or four innings. This should help them to rise to the top."
The team could rise to the top this weekend in number of victories for any KU athletic team in one season. The softball and basketball teams were victories in one season with 35. The softball team is currently 33-13, but Stancill said he was not aware that his team had a shot at winning.
"IVECHECKED to me if we were ahead or behind of last year, but I didn't even see about breaking any kind of record like that," he said.
According to Starcht, his team is playing basically the same schedule as last year.
But after the Big Eight tournament last year, KU was 21-8. This year, the Jayhawks were 23-12 after the conference tournament.
"I really don't know how we got so many more wins," Stantill said. "We're in the same tournaments, so I guess it is because we've made it out of pool play in every tournament this year that gave us the extra games. I like to see us get to 36 before we win."
"WE HAVE a good chance to win more games and lose more games than we have any other year. Right now, we're very close to winning that finished ninth in the nation last year.
"We have three pitchers, each with a chance to win 10 games this year. That's never been easier for us when she Sinclair did last year, and she is by far the most productive pitcher we have," she says.
The Jayhawks split a double-header with Wichita State Tuesday.
KU women golfers break school record in OKC
KU's women's team placed second, and four golfers shot personal bests to a school record at the Saoner Invitational in Oklahoma City. Okla., earlier this week.
The squad shot a 54-hole total of 947 to set the record and finish second to host Oklahoma in the four-team tournament.
The tournament which ended Wednesday, was expected to have more teams, but several Texas schools pulled out.
"It's like we dreamed it would be. We've been shooting for this a long time." Coach Sandy Bahan said. "The weather is good and we're ready for the Big Eight tournament."
KU's top four scoreers recorded their personal bests at the four-day tournament. On the final day of play, Sally White fired a 72 to lead KU with her lowest score of her team of five (56). But she scored a 73. Barb Goodshee carded a 78, and Lisa Howard an 80 to round out KU's scoring.
Babaan said her team was "super-pachyed" for the Big Eight tournament, which KY will be hosts to Monday to participate in schools except Colorado will send teams.
"Any of six schools could win it," Isham said. "One or two teams are better in terms of consistency, but we can beat anybody in terms of skill."
"We've got an advantage on our home course, Alvamar, which is one of the best courses in the Midwest. And we've got a psychological advantage, too."
"The winner will depend on how the teams handle Alvamar, how up they are, and how much they want it."
Omanan said sand and Burgess of Burghu
Alice Giora of Oklahoma State and Barb
Thomas of Iowa State were the main com-
munities in individual homers in the
tournament.
Women netters out to salvage so-so season
Kansas, coming off a tough 6-3 loss to Nebraska last weekend, will have an opportunity to avenge a six-placed finish at the Big Eight conference championships two weeks ago. This weekend's Championship in Valley Championship in Columbia, Mo.
The KU women's tennis team has a chance to salvage something this weekend from a disappointing season. This weekend's competition consists of two rounds of play, each on the nation at the Missouri Valley Championships in Columbia, Mo.
There are going to be a lot of Big Eight teams there, "KU coach Mark Haskins said. We have other other strong schools from outside the conference, like Minnesota and Iowa."
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presents
Dr. Robert Dirks (Illinois State University) speaking on:
"West Indian Slave Culture:
a new perspective"
Monday, April 28
7:00 P.M.
International Room of the Student Union