Page 6 University Daily Kansan, March 24, 1981
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Owolabi sets KU record but'Hawks 20th indoors
By PAUL D. BOWKER
Sports Writer
Sports Writer
KU's Sanya Owolabi did not successfully defend his national title in the triple jump at the NCAA indoor championships but he couldn't complain.
Owlabi, who won the triple jump at the Big Eight Conference championships in late February with a leap of 8-23, set a KU record with a jump of 54-4-3 at the national. He still finished second behind Keith Connors of Southern Methodist University.
tones, originally from England, won the triple jump with a leap of 80-8½, an indoor jump with a leap of 82-8¾.
OWOLABI, the only Jayhawk who scored points at the national championships, said he was ready for the meet and wasn't surprised by his school-record jump.
"Yeah," Owolabi said, "I expected to do well. I was ready at the nationals."
Owaliab's performance, however, was outdone by Connors, who placed fourth in the triple jump at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
"He's real good, Owlabah." He "sures he hurt in the world. I just went out there." He "pressed me."
Conner's record-setting jump eclipsed the old mark by a quarter-inch, set by Shamil Abhijasof of the Soviet Union earlier this year.
Owlaboi's second-place finish was the only bright spot for the Jayhawks, who finished in a 20th place tie with Texas-Arlington, Georgia and Virginia.
Sanya Owolabi
Junior Deon Hogan was the only KU spinner to advance to the finals in a race and won the MVP.
BESIDES THE disappointing finish, the Jayhawks lost the services of junior Mark Rau, who fractured his ankle during a qualifying heat of the 600.
The meet was only the second one in the last five years that the Jayhawks have finished out of the top five in the NCAA championship. KU finished fourth the last two years.
"Losing Rai to the fracture . . . that hurt a lot," KU Coach Bob Timmons said. "That offset the 600 and it offset the mule relay. We just had a bad meet.
"I think Sanya (Owolabi) did a great job.
He had to go against a world-record jump.
That's the best indoor mark he's ever had.
He could have let down, but he didn't."
The University of Texas-EI Paso won the meet with 76 points, capturing the national indoor championship for the sixth time in the last eight years.
SMU, which had held a 47-point lead after one day of the meet, settled for 51 points and a second-plain finish. Nebraska, which finished with 60 points, was the Big Eight's highest winner.
Owolabi, a junior, said the Jayhawks 20th-place finish should not hurt KU in the outdoor season, which starts Saturday with a dual meet at Arizona.
"We JUST HAD a lot of things that went wrong," he said. "Everything else just started following along. We have a better way to think about animals. Everybody has a getting a little excited now."
JAYHAWK NOTES: The Big Eight's best event at the national championships was the pole vault. Nebraska's RANDY RAYMOND won the men's division. States State's DOUG LYTLE placed fifth (17-0).
UTEP, which is made up almost entirely of foreign athletes, is also one of the strongest outdoor teams in the country. "They only have five American on their team," KU Coach BOB TIMMONS said. "They scored no points with their American athletes."
The Jayhawks, defending Big Eight outdoor champions, travel to Tucson, Arizona. For a dual meet with Arizona, the Wildcats already three weeks into their outdoor season.
KU junior spinner MARK RAU, who suffered a fractured ankle during the NCAA championships, will be out for most of the season. He will be in a cast for five weeks.
The Jayhawks will have just one home meet during the outdoor season, the Kansas Relays. The Relays are scheduled for April 15-18 at Memorial Stadium.
Midwestern swim teams show well in AIAW meet; KU women finish 17th
For years the AIAW swimming championship has been dominated by schools from the coasts.
By JIM SMALL Sports Writer
Kansas" women's swim team was one of three midwestern teams to finish among the top 20 at this year's championship in Columbia, S.C., last week.
Freshman Jenny Wagstaff was named an All-American in six events, an honor extended to the top 16 finishes in each national event. KU won 717th, the highest finish in the school's history.
INDIANA, 12th and Southern Illinois, 16th and the other midwestern teams to finish in the nation.
"I suppose that we could have done better, but every team says that."
Our performance proves that we are making excellent progress on a year-by-year basis with our students. Our students are happy.
Wagstaff capped off an excellent freshman year with individual placings of fifty (100 fly), seventh (200 freewlety), 11th (100 individual medley) and 12th (200 individual medley).
All of the finishes earned Waggastall All-
American honors. Waggastall is also an All-
American in the 200 freestyle relay and the 400
medley relay.
"I WAS VERY happy," Wagstaff said. "That was the first national meet that I placed in. But I guess that I feel that I could have done better. I'm happy, but I could have done better."
Wagstaff's performance caught the eyes of
wagstaff, including teammate Tammy Thomas.
"She's amazing," Thomas said. "Every time an swims she amazes me. She's a great girl, a swimmer."
Thomas was not far behind Wagstaff in All- America honors.
The Lawton, Okla., sophomore returned from
the national meet a five-time All-American with finishes of 13th (50 freestyle), 12th (100 freestyle) and relay finishes of 15th (200 freestyle), 12th (400 medley) and 13th (200 medley).
The fact that Kansas was one of the highest finishers in the Midwest was important to the success.
Thomas echoed Wagstaff's opinion.
"I SWAM for my school, not for myself"
Wangstaff said. "I wanted people to Kansas dao"
"and I'm a teacher."
"I guess that it is in the back of everyone's mind to do well for their school," she said. "I just wanted to do well and make a good name for Kansas."
Despite the loss of seniors Janet Lindstrom and Erin McMorrow, KU will return a strong num-
"We will do well next year," Thomas said. "I think that we will finish in the ten 15 or 12."
"But there is always room for improvement. If there wasn't, Gary (Kempf) would be scared."
Softball team ends trip south with 7-5 record
Some KU students were lured to Texas by the sun and the surf. Others visited for another
Instead of heading for the beaches of Padre Island, the Kansas softball team traveled to the softball diamonds of Texas and Oklahoma for their first games of the spring season.
THE JAYHAWKS compiled a 5-3 record in the southern swing through Texas and finished up 7-5 overall after competing in the Oklahoma Sooner Invitational tournament.
At their first stop, the Jayhawks split their doubleheader with Texas Wesleyan but dropped two games to Texas A&M before taking the next three headers from Baylor and Texas-Arlington.
In the Oklahoma tournament, KU tied for second in its sub-division by defeating its first two opponents, Mexico State and Central State of Oklahoma, before falling to Stephen F. Austin and the winner of the division, Western Michigan.
The four doubleheaders played in Texas were considered warm-up games for the Oklahoma tournament that included 30 teams from around the nation, Coach Bob Stancil said.
Stanlift was disappointed with KU's hitting and defense, both of which were inconsistent on the trip. He said he had not expected that from a team composed of experienced players.
"WITH THE number of experienced players, I expected them to be consistent in both offense and defense but they didn't show it." Stancliff said the trouble was hitting because it was inconsistent."
But Stanclift said he was optimistic about the returning players, and especially about their defense, which he called the team's strongest asset.
"The return of a number of starters and defense will be our strongest suit," he said. "I expect to be better because of our length of time in the league, but we never get to play a game on a natural field."
Men's tennis team's trip fruitless; Emporia State today could stop slide
Spring break was too short for most Kansas students, but the KU men's tennis team probably didn't start back to school early enough for the players.
The Jayhawks will return home for a match today against Emporia State, an NAIA school and not the powerful team that KU met in Louisiana.
Traction competition made for a long week on the team's trip to Baton Rouge, LA., where it lost to Louisiana State, 8-1, Pennsylvania, 7-2, Illinois; in the tournament at Louisiana State, KU finished last.
The tough competition early in the season help the team later in the year, however. Coach Kane said.
Wayne Swail, KU's 1. singles player, had a better spring break than the rest of the team. His high point came when he defeated LSU's Stacy who was ranked No. 2 in the country in singles.
He said his play in that match gave him confidence for today's meet with Emporia State.
"You have to improve playing teams better than you," he said.
Kings hope skid ends on road against Jazz
"I was pretty steady," Sewall said. "I'll have a good match."
SALT LAKE CITY-With the end of the National Basketball Association's regular-season schedule less than a week away, the Kansas City Kings are running out of time.
Caught in a 4-game losing streak, the Kings face the Utah Jazz here at 8:30 tonight. The Kings, 37-41, are tied with Houston for second place in the Midwest Division. Both teams are batting for the last available playoff spot in the Western Conference.
The Jazz, 27-51, are in fourth place in the Midwest Division and out of playoff contention.
After tonight's game, the Kings travel to Phoenix and Houston before closing the season with a win over Toronto.
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