10 Monday. March 3. 1980 University Daily Kansan Magic of Kemper Arena disappears for Kansas By GENEMYERS KANSA CITY, Mo.-The Kemper magic disappeared one game too early. Kemper Arena, with its new top, brought out the best in the Kansas Jayhawks Friday night against Missouri. But one night later the Jayhawks immedately closed up the Kansas State playoff bound and KU homeward bound. Friday night the magic was there. David Magley, ili his teammate and bit hit 16 and rebounded six rebounds. Kelly King, this year'sMagley, scoring 10 points and clamping off Missouri's Steve Slipovich, the bottom line was that he scored 23. BUT SATURDAY NIGHT almost nothing could have baited out KU. The 'Hawks drag an early and permanent breeze by missing 10 of their first 12 field goals, and they eight-eight minute span, there also were four turnovers. K-State eventually coasted to a 79-88 triumph to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. After spending the entire championship, by one point, but, according to KU coach Ted Owens, Saturday's game was decided warm-up time. OWENS SAID THE game was a disappointment, but he wasn't surprised. The entire 19-14 KU season had turned into an overtime battle. "Maybe, I thought, we'd have to something early to get out of the flattening. You go out and talk to them," she said. "I'll give you a phone." "We were really flat tonight. I sensed it when warming up and tried to do something to bring about a change and get them going," Owens said. "I waited until they came in, and you could tell they were just emotionally right. The Jayhawks played like wosters beaters some of the time and like their own worst enemies at others. Few players had ever nationally ranked Missouri, but Saturday they could not get untracked. Instead, the Hawks got routed for the first time. "I can't account for our poor start," Owens said. "I don't know if it was coming down on an emotional high or what. I was disappointed it ended like this, because I'm very proud. "The team battled back to place them one step away from an NCAA bid. I was disappointed it had to happen." BUT THE MISSOURI victory wasn't a complete waste for Kansas. The Jaquawks ontoured the tour-game and the only other team that toured them. The last game was regional Thursday in the 48 team NCAA playoffs. There, Missouri will face San Jose State in a "unroutine" match of playing Notre Dame Saturday. Kansas State, 21-8, also must play a preliminary game. The Wildcats meet Arkansas, who they beat once this season, the same night in Lincoln. The winner scores Louisville. Nebraska, which lost to K-State Friday night because of Roland Blackman's last minute heroics, received a bite to the 32-game National Invitational miss, and the other Big Eight teams, received nothing. THERE WAS NOTHING disappointing, however, about Friday's triumph for KU. The 'Hawks led by eight at the half, 40-32, and repeatedly held on after the Bengals won 9th by United Press International and IIBs. They closed the score to 59-48 with 12-57 left, but John Crawford sank a dunk, Knight hit a 9-foot, Dearborn Valentine carried two free throws, Knight hit a layup and lost a 10-foot 8-foot and a free throw to push the lead to 65-49. Missouri pressed from the seven-minute mark on but never inched closer than five points. Stiponville, the Big Eight newcomer of the year, finished with a score of 6-2 and a high-29 against KU FI. 9 scored one in the first half. "Even when we were only five behind after that lance run, we didn't play it like a machine; the mistakes we made were offensive mistakes. My MU coach Norm Stewart said. "I haven't seen them play this has迪而 the opening game of the comeback." IN THE CONFERENCE opener Jan. 9, KU won Missouri in Lawrence 69-66. The Missouri standout to score was Daniel Bentley, 70-61. MISSION: Berry was injured entering the game Friday and didn't start. But he was forced to leave for good after undercutting Valentine at the 9:36 mark of the second half. behind 54-64; pursued. Both crashed under the basket, and fell to the ground, plowed into the basket support, landing in the basket support, lying on the body on the wooden court and the upper half on the floor. In this week we repair damaged auralite in his knee. Valentine stole the ball and Berry, with Missouri K-STATE ALSO HAS been bothered by injuries. Entering the tournament, the 'Cats had dropped four straight. The streak started after Tyrone Adams fractured a finger and wrist. But Blackman, the wire service player of the year, scored twice for Nebraska in second mark against Nebraska and then blocked Andre Smith's shot at the buzzer for a 60-59 victory. Neely had 18 shots in the one and 17 against Blackman and Nealy joined Valentine, K-State's Jari Wills and Nebraska's Jack Moore on the all-tournament team. It was Valentine's third straight appearance on the team. "That was a beautiful basketball game," KState coach Jack Hartman said. "It was a pleasure to watch. I thought we played extremely well from start to finish." Magley FG FT REB PF TP Crawford 3-10 6-10 2-10 10 Crawford 3-10 6-10 2-10 10 Valentine 3-10 0-4 5 2 Guy 2-4 2-2 0 5 Douglas 1-4 2-0 0 6 Rogers 4-1 0-4 2 4 Ogden 4-11 1-12 3 8 Honey 1-12 1-12 2 2 Giles 1-1 0-4 2 0 Carroll 1-1 0-4 2 1 Temps 14-19 10-12 30 7 Total 14-19 10-12 30 7 Nealy FG PT IT REB TP TF Willis 9-13 6-10 3 1 3 17 Wills 9-13 6-10 3 1 3 17 Marshall 12 6-0 4 4 3 2 Blackman -714 8-11 1 1 12 2 Jayko -714 8-11 1 1 12 2 Jayko -714 8-11 1 1 12 2 Levens 0-1 0-2 2 0 0 0 Douglas 1-2 0-2 2 1 4 4 Galbad 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 0 Hayward 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 0 Total 29-58 21-49 39 12 75 79 KANANS 77 21 - 58 KANANS STATE 40 28 - 78 Officelle-Bain, Clymer Officele-Bain, Clymer JEFF HARRING/Kansan staff Talented twosome Davalline Nellart glides past Kansas State in Rolaño Blackman for a layup in the finals of the post-season tournament while Glen Marshall (left) attempts to draw a charge. Valentine scored on the play, but KU came up short against the Wildcats at 7-8 sigh. Valentine and Blackman were named to the post-season tournament team along with Ed Neally and Jill Worms of Kansas State and Jack Moore of Nebraska. JEFF HARRING/Kansan stat Stuffed star John Crawford (left) and Chester Giles team up to reject a hit by Missouri center Steve Stipinow with post-season tournament action Friday night. Stipinow, who scored career-high 29 points against KU when the teams met in Columbia earlier this season, was held to one point in the first half and finished the game with 13 points. Men's track team wins Big 8 title Snorts Writer The KU men's track team had little trouble living up to its advance billing as the team to beat. The Jayhawks captured their first indoor Championship over the weekend. Sparked by a meet record in the 440-yard dash by Lester Mickens and Mike Rick's record-tying 600-yard run, Kansas rolled up 121 points. The Jayhawks won seven individual titles to easily outdistribute second place teams, which scored 80 team points. The victorious team was in coach Bobby Tommings 15 years at KU. THE FIRST KU points come Friday night when senior Jay Reason丹 the long jump with a loop of 24-9.% he effort nipponed State's Kevin Slaan by one-quarter maze. Before the victory, Reardon's best championship effort was a third place finish in the long jump his freshman year. Friday night's action also set the stage for what was to follow Saturday. Mickens, a two-time indoor champion in the 600, elected to run in the 440. In his preliminary heat, he set a meet record with a time of 47.95. RICKS TOOK OVER in the 600 with a 1.002 clocking, his best run ever The 'Hawks also received some bad news Friday. Stan Whitaker suffered a hamstring strain that pulled him out of all competition. But on Saturday, Mickens and Ricks But on Saturday, Mickens and Ricks picked up where they left Friday. Mickens, who likes to run in the outlands,网扮的 fastest 400 time any U.S. tracker, ran at a pace of 125 miles per trailing in the race. Mickens easily whipped Iowa State's Kevin Kecui and shattered the world record by 6 minutes. "I finally got to start in the fourth lane," Mickens said. "That's where I run the best." RICKS ALSO BETTERED his Friday time in winning the 600-yard run. The junior held off a late charge by Nebraska's Everton Davon C to meet the record held by Mickens. The record was the second fastest time ever in the event by a collegiate athlete. "I think I could have run even faster if I was pushed by tougher competition," Ricks said. And again, like Friday night, the Hawks received bad news Saturday when sophomore speedster Dean Hogan withdrew from events because of a pulled barnstorm. Timmons said the team took Hogan's injury hard. "It turned out to be a tough meet right from the beginning," Timmons said. "I think a lot of our guys were down in the dumps about麻麻, but we kept it gone." The 'Hawks especially kept it going in the meet's last five events. TIM TAYS DEFEATED favorite Erin Rankin of Oklahoma in the two-mile run with a time of 8:51.54. Rick Ensez, KU's most consistent distance runner this season, won the 1,000-yard run by more than a second over Iowa State's Bob Verbeek. Ensz clocked in 2:11.48. A makeshift mile relay team of Warren Wibote, Bullock Rodney, Ricks and Mckens proved too much for the rest of the Mackens to victory with a winning time of 3.12.99. But it was the field events that were the showstoppers. In the high jump, Missouri's Nat Page defeated KU's Joel Light on misses. Both jumpers cleared 7-1/4, but Light took two extra jumps at 6-10. In the continuing battle of triple jumpers Sanya Owolabi and Vince Parnette, it was KState's Parrot flying above all. On his first jump of the day,帕reette uncoached a 55-10 12 flight, the second best indoor jump in U.S. history.帕reette might have been the record, but he started his landing too soon. "I was so excited after the step, I couldn't wait to get to the pit." Parrete said. "I didn't concentrate and let my feet fall when I landed." PARRETTIE'S EFFORT broke the Big Eight record by more than two and a half feet. Despite his record-shattering leap, it was Oklahoma State's James Butler that was named the team's outstanding performer. He sprinted to the nation's best collegiate 60-yard dash and a conference record with a 6.41 electronic clocking. He broke that record with a hand-clocked time of 24.2. Hand-held times at 24 seconds slower than electronic times. Birdsong, Wedman lead Kings past Rockets HOUSTON (UP1) - Usa Birdsong and Scott Wedman each scored 24 points and a total of 57 shots for Houston Rockets to four field goals in the second quarter of a 9-48 Kings victory. Rick Bairy's three-point goal with four seconds left made the score 92-91 for the Kings. After Robinizme's free throws, after Alen Leavell was long with a half-court shot. Bill Robinize's two free throws with three seconds remaining insured the King's straight victory after the Rockets, which 12:39 to 1:29, railed to pull within one point. Rockets center Moses Malone scored a game-high 29 points and grabbed 15 rebounds as the Rockets depended on him offensively in the absence of injured guard Calvin Murphy. Kings guard Birdson, Phil Ford and Billy McKinney went virtually unchecked by the Rockets backup guards McKinney in 10 points and Ford had seven assists. Houston, 33-44, lost its second straight game. The Rockets led by two points early in the second quarter but a tough Kings offense kept City move to a five-point lead by the half. Robinize chipped in 16 points for the Kings. For the Rockets, Leavell scored 21, and Barry added 14 Eastern Conference Atlantic Division NAME URBAN NAME URBAN NAME URBAN NAME URBAN NAME Boston 10 12 Pct. GB Philadelphia 9 17 New York 33 48 Houston 33 48 New Jersey 38 49 Central Division Atlanta 180 384 612 8 Houston 224 354 693 – Indiana 21 36 463 10 Indiana 21 36 463 10 Cleveland 13 34 391 10 Michigan 13 34 391 10 Western Conference Midwest Division Kansas City 42 27 609 — Milwaukee 42 27 609 — Denver 25 43 368 128 Oakland 23 43 368 128 Utah 21 43 368 128 Pacific Coast 18 Seattle 47 20 706 - - Los Angeles 47 20 706 - Portland 31 38 463 18% San Diego 31 38 463 18% Denver 40 38 463 18% Saturday's Games New York 115, New Jersey 108 Yesterday's Games Alabama 108, Derby V96 Atlanta 104, Burrow State 99 Washington 128, Indiana 104 Houston 105, Derby 115 Boston 107, Derby 113 Michigan 94, City State 91 Kansas City 94, City State 91 Portland 110, Chicago 107 Portland 110, Chicago 107 Milwaukee 101, San Diego 98 Today's Games Numerous scheduled 'Hawks fall flat at sub-regional tourney Sports Writer By PAM CLARK Friday night in the semi-finals, KU lost to Kansas State for the third time last season, 79-74. The following night in the consolation game, Kansas State defeated three times this season, 77-73. PITTSBURG--The climb to success can be long and hard and the fail from the top abrupt and fast, as the KU women's basketball team has found. The Jayhawks went into their sub-regional tournament at Pittsburgh State this weekend as the 1. seed. They had a 24 record and were ranked 10th in the nation. CUPLED WITH LAST year's loss to KState, the Jayhawks have lost three consecutive games. The last time KU lost three straight was in March 1978. The losses hurt the 'Hawk's chance for a good seed in the Region VI tournament in Des Moines, Iowa. That tournament begins Thursday. also were awarded and that is how Kansas backed into the regional. But it didn't turn out quite as she had planned. KU must face Central Missouri State in the first round of regionals. The state had decided seventh, while the Jenaes are Nq. 11. KU coach Marian Washington said before the tournament that the sub-regional was only important for seeding purposes. She was correct. THE JENNIES, BEHIND their two high-scoring seniors, Kathy Anderson and Marigle Nelsen, had little trouble sweeping sub-regulation championship this weekend. The top three teams in the north and south sub-regions received automatic bids to the regional tournament. Two at-large berths Kansas now faces a must-win situation at regions. The team is 2/5 and is likely to drop several places in the top twenty poll, possibly even out of the poll. After regionals come sectionsal. The top teams in each regional automatically, along with eight at-large selections, go to selection. The winners then advance to the Final Four. The two other teams in KU's bracket are Missouri and Nebraska. If KU had won its sub-regional but not its regional, the odds were the Hawks still would have received an at-large berth into the sectional round. But now with seven defeats, the 'Hawks' chances of an at-large berth are lessened considerably. They need to repeat as Region VI win. The Rockets themselves a position in the section round THE TEAM SHOULD have guessed that it was going to be one of those weekends when everything went wrong. But based on their performances this past weekend, this could be a formidable task Three minutes into their game against K-State, the vapor lights dimmed and the game had to be stopped for about five minutes. Washington would have preferred to continue the contest. But when the officials asked KShate coach Lynn Hickey, she said she would wait for the lights to return to full strength. It proved to be a smart move for K-State. At the time, KU had the momentum and led 9-2. When the game resumed, KU stretched to lead eight points, 14, with 13:34 In the first three minutes of the second half, KU stretched its 34-31 halftime lead to 10 points and led 41-31. But Feeeney and Tammie Romstad brought the Wildcats back and K-State took its first lead of the game, 62-60, with 6-49 left. The lead grew to three points, 64- IN THE SECOND HALF, Mizzou put together strings of 11 and nine points to break open the game. In the consolation final, Missouri came out sizzling from the opening tip-down. Dana Supakis hit 18 of her 24 points in the first most of which came from the 18-foot-9 range. remaining in the half. The 'Hawks maintained that bulge for about three minutes. BUT KU'S DEFENSE crumpled and K-State went on a 134 scoring binge in the three and one-half minutes to sew up the victory. Sports Writer KU coach Mark Hosking said he scheduled the exhibition match to give his team playing experience. Kansas has posted because of snow last month. David Theis led the KU onslaught by After weeks of anticipation and day-to-day preparation, the team teamkicked off its 1980 season with 8-3 victory over top tennis professionals from around the world at the match Friday in Kuala Lumpur City. "Our practices were getting very stable and we needed to play against someone else in the league, so we moved into the regular season." Hosking said. "This material helped us tremendously. We learned that you can play different styles and different styles but also gave us a chance to look at our own games and look for opportunities." Rv JIM SMALL Men netters start year with exhibition victory defeating Bill McGowan in 1. Singles, 6-2, 6-4, 7-6. Ironically, McGowan almost had been 'Their' coach this year. McGowan had verbally agreed to take the team from Tom Kivisto as the head coach at KU, but turned out of the deal earlier this semester. Kivisto is now working for the Koch Oil Refinery in Wichita. Chet Collier, No. 3, singles; Ricz Wertz, No. 5, Wayne Swall, No. 6, Ed Bolen, No. 7 and Dave Willingham, No. 8 also won their matches. Bill Krizman, No. 2 and John Runnels, No. 4. singles, lost their matches The No. 1 doubles combination of Calder and Krizman was beaten by the No. 2 double, all of the other double matches. These and Runnels beat Kirkland Gates, former KU coach, and Andy Scott. Wertz and Sewall beat Keegan and Grege Bulle in No. 3 doubles. ---