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Page 8 University Daily Kansan, February 23, 1981
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KU falters in title race after 53-50 loss to CU
By KEVIN BERTELS
Sports Editor
With three games to play on the basketball schedule, Kansas had a chance to win the big Eight championship all by itself, with no help from the rest of the Big Eight.
Now there are two games left and the Jayhawks have new corner corners to a hit of the championship.
THE COLORADO Buffaloes changed the situation by beating KU 53-50 Saturday night in Boulder. A jump shot by KU's 6-foot-5 senior guard Booty Neal with 10 seconds left and the Jayhawks down by one point bounced away. KU fouled after the rebound and Colorado forward Vince Kelly made the free throws for the final score.
The sad fact is that Saturday's game could have been a nothing game had the Jaywhays not two other close play games; to Nebraska and to Alabama, to the same extent, lost in three overtimes. Against Nebraska, the
Jayhawks were never able to get a grip on the game and trailed the entire time before losing by three, 57-54.
Saturday, against Colorado, KU held leads of points in the first half three different times, including a 10-point lead.
While the loss confused KU's situation in regards to the Big Eight Championship, it helped to simplify the rest of the race. Not much, but a little. Now, instead of a four-way tie for first, the Blue Devils won both the State and Nebraska all lead with 8-4 records. KU is next with 7-5, tied with Oklahoma State.
"WE COULD HAVE been in the driver's seat," KU Coach Ted Owens said.
Instead, the Jayhawks have to hope for several breaks to have a chance to tie for the lead and the possibility of a four-way tie for the championship still exists.
Nebraska, the leader by one game before the weekend, was beaten by Missouri at Columbia 55-45. That game brought NU into a tie for the lead with Missouri. Kansas State, tied for second
before Saturday, was expected to beat Oklahoma easily and did by shooting 62.5 percent, a school record. The Wildcats won 108-71 and grabbed their share of the lead.
Oklahoma State beat Iowa State, the last place team, to stay close, but the Cowboys play two road games, the last at KU, to end the season. Two loses would doom them to fifth in the Big Eight Post-season tournament, unless KU loses two home games, which is unlikely.
ALL OF THIS discussion will be unnecessary if KU has one more game like the one Saturday. The Jaeyhawks were outbounded badly and shot free throws poorly, according to Owens.
"It really came down to the fact that we were whipped on the backboards," Owens said. "That's simply effort. They played better position than we did."
KU's starters on the frontline, Victor Mitchell, Dave Magley and Art Housley, combined for only seven rebounds. Colorado center Joe Cooper grabbed that many by himself, as did forward
Brush Johnson, but the rest is not good. Jison shows us not as obvious as the bad free movie shootings.
For the game KU was 8 of 14 and Colorado was 13 of 14.
"FREE THIRWS killed us," Owens said. "We were Jerry one of five in the second half. Colorado"
"No, that was his."
If the bullseye is easy to hit with contact with a big lead, Owens said two things contributed to the Buffalo comeback. One could be controlled by the Jayhawks. The other was bad luck.
KU may have suffered from the same problem Saturday that Iowa State suffered when the Jayhawks came back from 17 points down to win by a basket a week ago. The trailing team's attitude is that "we don't have anything to lose, so why be tense?"
"WE DIDN'T exercise good judgment in shot selection when we had the lead," Owens said.
And the Jayhawks didn't show much luck when they gave Colorado a three-point play and a four-point play when they were leading by 10 in the first half. The four-pointer was a result of a foul on John Crawford under the boards while CU scored. Jo Hunter was shooting and hitting a jump shot.
KU women down Drake, 75-73
pointers," Owens said. "There were a number when we were 10 up."
R. SANDY CLARK
JAYHAWK NOTES: Another football recruit signed with KU over the weekend. Sylvester Byrd, from Kansas City Ward High School, signed a national letter-of-intent with the Jayhawks Saturday. Byrd is a 6-1, 215 pound linebacker and the third Kansas All-Star pick to sign with the Jayhawks. He brings KU recruiting numbers to 13.
Sports Writer
DES MOINES, Iowa—From the look on KU
HEAD Coach Marian Washington's face, no one would have guessed that the Jahwahks had just
gone to the game last season before I-2020 fans in Drake Fieldhouse.
| | COLUMBIA | JACKSON | COLUMBIA | JACKSON |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| MN | 35 | 3-7 | F | REB A | PF | TP |
| Tax | 18 | 3-7 | 4-4 | 3 | 8 | TP |
| Johnson | 29 | 3-4 | 4-4 | 3 | 8 | TP |
| Cooper | 29 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 7 | 0 | 4 |
| Humphries | 29 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| Hammersley | 29 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| Keller | 29 | 2-4 | 3-3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Washburn | 18 | 2-4 | 3-3 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| Clark | 21 | 3-4 | 3-3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Martin | 19 | 3-4 | 3-3 | 1 | 16 | 13 |
As far as Washington was concerned, the officials might as well have traded in their black-and-white stripes for the blue-and-white uniforms of the Builders.
TOTAL 200 204-50
KANSAS 33 17--50
COLORADO 35 18--53
KANSAK (19-7)
MIN 28 29 30 31 FF 1 FF 2 REB A 1 FP 4 TP
Magley 29 28 36 2 FF 0 1 0 1 0
Mitchell 21 31 2-3 0-3 0 1 3 4
Valentine 21 31 2-3 0-3 0 1 3 4
Valentine 21 31 2-3 0-3 0 1 3 4
Crawford 28 17 13 -14 3 2 6 1 15
Crawford 28 13 2-3 0-3 4 1 1 5
Total 28 18 21-45 8-14 2 1 1 5 10
but there was a reason for the absence of her usual post-victory smile.
"THE CALLS all night I couldn't understand." Washington said after the game. "I don't mind if the officials call the game tight and I don't mind if I don't understand the calls as long as they call it both ways. Drake has a fine ball club so there was no reason for that."
Washington was visibly upset after seeing the final stats for the game. The Jayhawks were whistled for 20 fouls to nine for the Bulldogs. What inspired even more anger was the fact that the Jayhawks lost the line only three times the entire night. The Bulldogs, meanwhile, received 25 free throw attempts.
"You have to deal with those calls, but I couldn't believe some of them." Washington said. "There were so many times we were attempting baskets and they were pushing from behind on rebounds. They wouldn't get called for that, and we couldn't get away with anything."
Technical Fouls: none
Officials: Mayfield, Van Why
Attendance: 7,138
When the officials weren't giving KU headaches, the sharpshooting Buildings were.
DRAKE CAME OUT hot, hitting the first three baskets to take a 6-10 lead.
Tracy Claxton grabbed an offensive rebound and took it in for the score.
With 16:04 on the clock, the Bulldogs pulled ahead by five on a free throw by Lori Bauman.
KU finally registered its first points when
Drake came back to ti the score, but with 7:55 left, the yahawkw took the lead for good on 12:30.
But then Lynette Woodward got her scoring
baskets to give KU a 12-10 lead, four consecutive
baskets to give KU a 12-10 lead,
I've never seen so many three- and four-
KU built up as much as a nine-point lead before going into balftime up. 36-29.
AS EXPECTED, KU put the ball in the hands of Woodard for the last shot. With eight seconds
Woodard, who finished the game with a second point, was still upset with the offence at the ball.
Both teams continued to trade baskets until washington called time out with KU leading 75-30.
For most of the second half, the Jayhawks were in control, but at the 4:11 mark with KU leading by six, Drake began batting back. The Bulldogs connected on two long jumpers from the right to trim the KU lead to only two points with 2:45 left in the contest.
"We wanted to use the clock as much as we could," Washington said. "We figured we had 28 seconds left on the 30-second clock and only 32 seconds left in the rame.
Christ Stewart extended the lead to four again with a 17-foot jumper, but her shot was answered by his opponent.
"We knew that the best that could happen was for them to die the game. I didn't want that so we were better prepared."
left in the game, Woodward penetrated the Drake zone and put up an errant shot, but was able to rebound it. However, the ball went back to Drake after she was called for traveling.
The Bulldogs called time out to discuss their last-chance strategy, but Shera Legrant intercepted the cross-court inbounds pass to subway the KI victory.
Drake Head Coach Carole Baumgarten declined to comment after the game, but she made no secret of how she felt as she angrily stormed out of the dressing room.
wasington had a kinder statement about the
tough Drake team.
"WE HAD TO continually switch our offenses and defenses with a team the caliber of Drake," she said. "Drake did what we expected. They had a great outside shooting game."
The victory raised KU's record to 22-4 and drowned the Bulldogs to 19-5.
KU will close out its regular play season when it hosts Minnesota in Allen Field House.
| | MIN | PG | FG | FT | REB A | A | PF | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Claxton | 37 | 6-13 | 9-10 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 1 |
| Taylor, A. | 19 | 0-13 | 0-14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Taylor, A. | 19 | 3-18 | 0-14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Woodward | 18 | 19-33 | 0-14 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 41 | 1 |
| Legrant | 27 | 3-6 | 0-14 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Stewart | 19 | 2-6 | 0-14 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Stewart | 4 | 1-1 | 0-14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Chreibel | 23 | 0-24 | 0-14 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Chreibel | 28 | 0-24 | 0-14 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 108 | 36-71 | 36-71 | 34 | 27 | 10 | 75 | 1 |
KARLSON TEAMS
| MIN | DIMENSIONS | FT | FT | REB A | AP | PF | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Newin | 40 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 7 |
| Newin | 40 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 7 |
| McMerton | 34 | 5-7 | 2-4 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| Leonard | 14 | 1-5 | 0-4 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 12 |
| Leonard | 14 | 1-5 | 0-4 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 12 |
| Wumtee | 7 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bauman | 7 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bauman | 7 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 260 | 6-1 | 12-5 | 14 | 9 | 20 | 73 |
Brother and sister reunite with common bond—sports
By JIM SMALL
DES MOINES, Iowa—There have been a few famous brother-sister combinations in athletics through the years.
Tennis champion Billy Jean King and her brother, San Francisco Giant's pitcher Randy Moffit, played catch together when they were growing up in California.
Sports Writer
Former NBA star David Meyers and his sister Anne are both basketball players at ICHI.
ANOTHER BROTHER-sister, not so famous duo was reunited Saturday night in DesMoines when the KU women's basketball team played Drake. For the first time, Joe Christrel watched his sister Mary, a guard for KU, play collegiate basketball.
The elder Chrineel was a four-year starter for the University of Wisconsin basketball team. He arrived in Des Moines Saturday afternoon with his father, John. Chrineel, who graduated last year, said that he would make to make the team as soon as possible. Mr. Chrineel recently Saturday morning to broadcast the Wisconsin-Ohio State basketball game.
KANSAS 36 39 — 75
DRAKE 29 44 — 73
Although the two are very close now, Joe and Mary haven't always been that way. As a matter of fact, the two never played much music together, and I received a scholarship to Wisconsin in 1976.
were little," Mary said. "But when he went to Madison, I would go up there for a couple of weeks in the summer and we would play basketball."
"WE DIDN'T get along too well when we
Mary said that the summer sessions in Wisconsin greatly helped her basketball class.
KU's Anne Johanneson breaks the string as she crosses the flash line at the women's track meet Friday night at Allen Field House. Johanneson ran the last leg of the medley relay. KU won that event and eight others.
"THE CROWD loved him," she said. "He wasn't a big scorer but he played good defense. They always put him on the other team's big guys. He was a lot like Megan (Scott, KU's center) on our team. The team would really hurt without him."
tact. "We would go over to the gym and run and shoot together," Mary said. "He helped me a lot with my shot."
Mary said that her brother helped her in other ways too. "When he watches me play, I get real pumped up," she said. "I look up in the stands and he gives me the sign and it really does a lot for me." Mary described her brother as a crowd pleaser in college.
Joe said that he was not only impressed
by the Drakke play, but also with the entire KU team.
"I think that Lynette Woodard might be the first female to play in the NBA," he said. "She moves so well and she is so quick. She has unreal ballhandling."
As for his sister, Christel said that she had improved since those summers in Madison.
"She looked alright out there," he said. "I think that she has got to shoot the ball a little more when she gets it up at the top of the key, but she did all right. She plays real tough."
Technical fouls—none
Attendance—1,020
Women's track team beats K-State, Wichita
High jumping is a peculiar track event in that the competitor must complete the jump only once in three tries. Thus it was that Shawn Corwin, a senior high jumper for KU, was under a lot of pressure on her last attempt, at 5-4 during KUA women's meet Friday in Allen Field House.
"EM EXITED about the way we performed tonight," Jayhawns' Coach Carla Coffey said. They all did a good job. There were a lot of PFRs involved in the practice, this week's practice was really hard. It pays off."
She made it and took first place. The jump helped the Jahawks win the meet with 187 points, followed by Kansas State with 122 and Wichita State with 60 in the triangular.
KU took first in of 13 events at the meet. The team also snared second and third 11 times.
won the 300-yard run in 35.57. The qualifying time is 35.84.
The only other team member qualified for the AIAW meet is hurder Gwen Poss in the 60-year hurdles. Corwin came within two inches of the mark in the high jump. The qualifying jump is 5-10.
"TVE JUMPED 5-10 three times in my life," Corwin said. "All the work I've put into it, I'll get something sooner or later."
The Jayhawks will compete in the Big Eight Championships in Lincoln, Neb., next weekend. KU has met every Big Eight team except Nebraska this year.
"OU is picked to win," Coffey said. "Nebraska is strong, too. I think we can finish in the top three. We're going to place people in events that they will score in."
FRIDAY'S RESULTS
Spot shot-1. Janice Stucker, KSU, 45-4; Becky McGranahan, KU, 41-34; Linda Neville, KU, 41-49.
Jump jump-1: .1. Annette Sitterson, JTU-10:5; 2. Shaw
Corwin, KUW-13; 3. Dex Hassey, WSHE-14; 4. Pegelman,
KUW-16; 5. DeVos, KUW-17; 6. Tsai, KUW-18; 7. Tsai, KUW-
19; 8. Tsai, KUW-20; 9. Tsai, KUW-21; 10. Tsai, KUW-22;
11. Tsai, KUW-23; 12. Tsai, KUW-24; 13. Tsai, KUW-25; 14.
40 hardheads - 1. Gown Poas KU, 7.2; Cochlee McmKenan
30 hardheads - 1. Fergus Poas KU, 7.2; Cochlee McmKenan
100-xy hardheads - Kaukai LansuL, KSL 2/4; 2. Grechen-Baum
100-xy hardheads - Kaukai LansuL, KSL 2/4; 2. Grechen-Baum
jema, KU. 2K: 42.2*1 *Dob Harfel, KSU: 2K: 30.*1
darr@lack-1. Land Green-Jones, KU: 6.2 *Pafoster, WSU: 5.1
100-yard run--Janet Lauvalier, KSU; 2.41: 41. 2 Gretchen Bauer, KU; 2.42: 3. Deb Harrell, KSU; 2.94:
**6.9.3** L. Lawrente KSU, 7.1.0
**6.9.4** D. Hertzog uni-1. L. Herring Hertzog U, 11.8:19.2 D. Deb PHL, KSU,
U, 11.8:19.3 D. Deb PHL, KSU,
1. Sara Yearge, HSU; 2. 1923; 2. 1924; 2. 1925; 2. 1926; 2. 1927; 3. Sarah Yearge, HSU; 2. 1821; 1. 1976; 2. Dense Huma, KU;
4. **yard**204
600 yard track -1 buil. Fever KU, 1, 17:95. 2 Dense Homa, UK,
13:56. 3 Taucher KU, 13:51. 4 Lorku KU, 13:50.
440-vard run -1, Mindy Cummingman, WSU; $8.51; Lorna T疼u
KU; $8.88; C. Chipy Coxu, KI; 1.09;
a.0,58.88, 3. Ciny Chao CK, Shawn KUW: 4-10.
High jump -11, Shawn Crown, KUW, 9-4: 2. Beet Koenkai, KSU
54-3. Nordt Børgård, KSU-94,
54-2. Norwegian Licei, KU 35.57; Skein Harlan,
KU 35.57; Jens Green-Jones, KU 35.57; Skein Harlan,
KU 35.57; Nils Krager, KU 37.78
Milerun, 1- Tampa HEAD, KU; 11:30, 2 Grechtein Bajetta, KU; 5:17, 3 Ssheila Variaa, KU; 51:78, 3 Grichstein Bajetta, KU.
Mibereley -1, KU 1: 59, 1: 59, KSU 1: 40, 8: 38, W SUE 4: 20, 23
troma scores: KU 1: 65, KSU 1: 72, KU 1: 52
Men's tennis team splits matches on road
ine Jayhawks had to face that after beating St. Louis University Friday 9-0. They lost 9-0 to Southern Illinois at Carbondale after cooling off and becoming the earliest SIU could get court time was 7 a.m.
The first tennis matches of the season are hard enough without having to sit around all day thinking about them, the KU men's tennis team discovered Saturday.
"MADE A LONG day," Randy McGrath, KU men's tennis coach, said. The Jayhawks left after the match at 11 p.m. and didn't get back to Lawrence until 7 a.m.
Despite the loss to SIU, McGarth said, "I was pretty happy overall." McGarth said he had been looking forward to the matches because he badn't seen all the team members in match play.
"I saw some pretty good tennis over the court," he said. "I'll get them all back with three going to three sets each day, with three going to three sets each day."
"WE WON't BLOW anyone out," he said. "A lot of the matches will be closed."
Oklahoma State won the conference title last year and McGhett expects them to be good again this year. He said the Cowboys would have a chance to get into the Top 20.
The Jayhawks are basically inexperienced with only two members of last year's team returning, Jayne Seau (left) and Joelsen Owen. Two players, Mike McKenzie and Bill Krizanov, were declared ineligible because of grades.
The Jayhawks will begin Big Eight play in April but they will face Nebraska and other conference teams in a match at Nebraska in March.
King leads Golden State past Kansas City, 104-96
By United Press International
Until Bernard King started the fourth quarter last night, it looked like the Kansas City Kings were going to extend their winning streak to seven games.
King, a forward for the Golden State Warriors, scored 30 points, 17 of those in the fourth quarter, to lead the Warriors past the Kinsa. 104-98.
The Warriors overcame a seven-point Kings'
The Kings were in scoring by All-Star Otis Birdsong with 30 points.
lead in the third quarter but still the Kings were close at 69-68 at the end of the quarter. Then King started his scoring spree.
For Golden State, both Lloyd Free, a high-scoring guard and Coach Al Attles, missed the game. Free will wear a cast for the next two games, if a dislocated right thumb. Attles has a virus.
Pittsburg State game with KU cancelled
Kansas' women's basketball game with Pittsburg State scheduled for tonight has been cancelled, the KU Sports Information Department announced yesterday.
The game was originally scheduled for Feb. 10 but was cancelled because of snow. It was rescheduled for tonight but Pittzburgh State won by 42-35. Did Wilson, Sports information director said?
KU will play again on Wednesday against Minnesota in Allen Field House. Tipoff is at 5:15 and the game will be played before the men's game against Nebraska.