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Page 12 University Daily Kansan, April 17, 1981
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Former Kansas athlete places 2nd in decathlon
ByPAULD.BOWKER
Sports writer
Even after receiving a traffic ticket, the drive to the Kansas Relays had to be worth the effort to John Sayre of Southern Illinois University.
Rainbolt, a former KU athlete and winner of the event last year, placed second with 7.235 points.
Sayre, a sophomore, scored 7,563 points during the last two days and won the decination yesterday afternoon, Steve Hainbok of Athletes in Action.
IT WAS TWELFIRST first decathlon victory for Sayre, who led Rainbow by 25 points after Wednesday's first five events. Owen Buckley of KU, who was in third after five events with 3,613 points, finished seventh with 6,739.
Sayre's victory came on the strength of a 16-foot-3 vault in the pole vault, beating second-placed finisher Gary Anderson by two inches and bolted for 11 with a 14-foot-3 vault.
"I picked up over 300 points on him (Rainbow) in the pole vault. "Sayre said, "I beat him by 20 feet in the pole which picked up another 100 points."
The women's heptathlon, held for the first time at the Kansas Relays, also finished yesterday. Marlene Harmon of the Los Angeles Naturite Track Club won the seven-event competition with 5,704 points, beating an American team of 5,638 points was set by Sharon Hattfield in California meet last year.
Dave Miley of Oklahoma and Peter Skorseth of Marquette.
Kelly Catherine of Oklahoma won the 5,000, yesterday's other event, with a time of 16:33.52. Dan Osak of Iowa finished second in 16:38.06 and Katie Schilly of the Iowa United Track Club came in third at 16:41.18.
IN THE MEN'S 10,000-meter run, Joe Nzau of the University of Wyoming won with a time of 29-36,42, beating out
Sayre, who competed in the decathlon a month ago in Florida, drove by himself to Lawrence after John White, an athlete he works out with at Southern Illinois, canceled out of the Relays with an injury.
"I've waited for this," Sayre said. "I still wanted to come. I even got a speeding ticket on the way out here."
For Sayre, it was not a wasted trip. Besides winning the decathlon, he scored more points than he ever had.
MARK MCDONALD/Kansan staff
"I'M SURPRISED to score that many points," Sayre said as he relaxed after the competition's final event, the 1500 run. "I won't believe it until next week, probably I will hard in the game, but I will have a good decade, you have to."
Rainbow, who won the decathlon with 7,179 points last year—a career high—and outdistanced his nearest opponent by more than 300 points, might have lost the decathlon in the final vault, but he did. "He's got a headache," didn't have him with happy memories, either.
"I wasn't running every well at all," he said. "It's a perfect reflection of my training. I trained for my throwing events and I had two personal beats."
Rainbolt said he fell behind in his training earlier this year and never was able to catch up.
shaky in September--you know, I was just marmalade and and and
Rainbow, who set a personal high in the pole vault last year with a mark of 16 feet and 12 feet 3 inches yesterday, tying Greg Hayduckell of South Dakota.
"I NEED A SOLID foundation to work on and then progress on my skills." Rainbow said. "I was married in August, and then it was a little bit
Owen Buckley of KU reaches the finish line first during a preliminary heat of the 400-meter run Wednesday afternoon at the Kansas Relays in Memorial Stadium. Greg Brittenham of Colorado and Steve Rainbow, a former KU athlete, of Athletes in Action finished behind Buckley, who placed seventh in the decathlon competition.
"I'm just out of shape because of the way I've been trained." Rainbolt said. "I haven't pole vaulted enough and I blew it in the pole vault. It was a big downfall, but there were other events, also.
"I've never competed against him (Sayre). He obviously a very fine athlete. I don't feel the least bit afraid about losing to such a fine athlete."
Harmon, an 18-year-old student at Golden West Junior College in Huntington Beach, Calif., was the first heptathlon ever. Besides beating opponents yesterday, Harmon had to win against a team that gained through Memorial Stadium.
"It WAS HARD," she said. "It was tough on the long jump because it became gusty."
Nzau, of Kenya, found the wind especially difficult during the 10,000, a race he won for the second time in three years.
"It was too much," he said. "When it's windy like this, you can't make any moves. What was that, 20 miles?"
Bev Fuller of KU finished seventh in the hevathlon with 4,798 points. Her highest finish was a second place in the 800 with a time of 2:21.11. Fuller was 11th after Wednesday's first four events.
"I was really pleased with today's effort," Fuller said. "This is by far the best competition I've had."
Fuller, who won the hepatition at the Murray State Invitational, said she was able to adjust to the strong wind yesterday.
"Today (Thursday), it was a little bit harder," she said. "You have to run with the weather conditions. You have toaster faster when the wind is at your back."
JAYHAWK NOTES: The Relays events start at 8 a.m. (fishing at 8 a.m.)
Jim Ryun, Glenn Cunningham and Wes Santee were honored during a
One of Saturday's highlights could be the running of the invitational mile relay. The Philadelphia Fliers, who will relay record last year, will compete.
"The Kansas Relays is a meet that is given a very high priority by us," Pioneers' Assistant Coach Bill Collins
said, "because our guys really enjoy running there. It's one of the few opportunities we have to run relay races in yards, so we'll be shooting for world records in the three relay races we're entered in."
Events start at 8 a.m. today and 8:30 tomorrow morning. General admission tickets for today cost $1.
Reserved tickets for Saturday's events cost $5, general admission tickets cost $10 and student tickets are also of equal value to the tickets remain to be sold in all categories.
Owens signs second recruit
Head Coach Ted Wowens' methodical and secretive recruitment process cranked out another recruit yesterday in the Florey of El Camino Junior college.
Fleury, 6-foot-3, of New Orleans, averaged 10 points and seven rebounds per game and connected on 62 percent of his shots to earn All-Eagle honors last winter. He also was named the most valuable player of the California State Junior College Tournament, which El Camino won.
Fleury, who will have two years of eligibility with the Jayhawks, joins another guard, Tad Boyle, as the Jayhawk's only signees so far. Boyle, a high school guard from Greeland, Colo., signed a letter of intent with KU April 8.
In other Big Eight conference news, the Kansas State Athletic Department announced yesterday that the K-State football team will play its g-kgame series in Japan this summer.
Midnight Madness - Fri & Sat
Softball team drops pair to Creighton
Kansas' softball team displayed a powerful offense in the early innings against Creighton last night.
Unfortunately for the Jayhawks,
however, that offense disappeared
in the late innings as Kansas
capped the doubleheader, 6-5 and 1-0.
THE JAYAHKAWS earned all their runs in the first and second innings. Creighton followed KU's pattern, scoring six runs in the first three innings of the first game and the lone run in the second game in the first innning.
"We hit the ball well in the first two or three innings, but there wasn't much chance after that," Coach Bob Stlaift said. "We made a couple of errors at shortstop and third base, which isn't usual."
THE JAYHAWKS collected four hits in the game, but only one came in the late innings. Creighton did only slightly better, gifting five hits
only slightly better, getting five hits off Jayhawk starter LuAnn Stanwix.
The lone run in the first inning of the second game was all the scoring Creighton needed as the Jayhitters were shut out on a two-hitter.
Bluejay pitcher Holley Hesse pitched perfect ball until the fourth inning when Larson stroked a single down the third-base line.
"She (Hesse) did a pretty good job of pitching by not allowing us any scoring opportunities," Stanclift said.
The Jayhawks have four games slated for the weekend. KU will meet Big Eight rival Nebraska today for the first time this season, then face the Missouri State, a team the Jayhawks have beaten once this year.
Tomorrow the Jayhawks will meet Wichita State at 11 a.m. then play Southwest Missouri again in the final contest.
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Joe Nzau of the University of Wyoming grimaces as he battles a strong wind during the 10,000-meter run at Memorial Stadium yesterday. Nzau, from Kenya, won the race for the second time in three years with a time of 29:36.42.
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