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University Daily Kansan, February 16, 1981
Detroit Titans hold Legrant, Woodard, beat women, 52-46
By SANDY CLARK Sports Writer
Ever since her women's basketball team became nationally ranked last year, Coach Marvin Marian Washington has been the head coach for her players not to take any team lively.
If that message wasn't clear before, it is now.
As the third-ranked team in the nation, the Jayhawks were a marked team when they went to play the Detroit Tigers. When they didn't leave the Motor City unaccounted.
The unranked Titans made the most of their only shot at KU this season by defeating the Jayhawks 52-46 before 1,154 fans in Cailan Hall. Detroit.
Kansas' All-America Lynette Woodard admitted that the Jayhawks might have underestimated the Titans.
"WE MAY HAVE taken Detroit too lightly," Woodard said. "We knew they were a good team, but they weren't as bad. They didn't play as hard as we should have."
No one, however, could say the Titans weren't ready for KU.
Employing a tenacious 1-3-1 zone, Detroit stopped KU's two offensive guns, Woodard and senior forward Shebra Legrant.
Woodard was held to only 11 points, her lowest point total this season. But she spent much of the first half on the bench after being whistled for three fouls. She also was forced to sit out much of the second half after picking up her fourth foul with 15:19 left in the game.
LEGRANT DIDN'T dawn any better, scoring only eight points. She and Woodard had combined for an average of 43 points this season.
Detroit coach Mary Roiolek was more than pleased with her team's performance.
"We played the best defense that we have played all season," she said. "We knew we had a chance to beat Kansas if we went out and executed."
In spite of the Titans' 13-5 record, KU should have known that they would be facing a tough opponent. The Titans had won the Michigan championships for the past two years and qualified last year for the AIAW national championships. They also were 7-1 on their home court.
FROM THE opening tip off, they made it known that they wouldn't be intimidated by the Jayhawks. Junior forward Lisa Blackburn took control of the tip and hit a 15-foot jumper to give Detroit a 2-1 lead.
Both teams traded baskets and the lead several times in the first ten minutes of play, with 8:40 left in the first half, the Titans took the lead for good on a layup by All-America guard Cheryl Williams. Williams finished the game with 28 points for game high scoring honors.
The Jayhawks should have guessed that things weren't going to get better in the second half after they walked into the locker room at halftime and found that some of their belongings had been stolen.
"WE WERE DOWN by six points at halftime but it was hard to tell them anything when their minds were on their stolen belongings," Washington said. "Shebra lost her cassette player, Mary Cmarchich had her watch taken and Tracy Claxton lost a pair of tennis shoes. It was a really bad experience."
And so was the second half. KU rallied back from a 12-point deficit with 7:38 left in the game but could not get closer than four points.
"Detroit played a good game," Washington said. "The officials permitted them to play very aggressively. It wasn't an evenly called game but defensive." Defensively we didn't get some calls but offensively we hurt ourselves."
Track team suffers weekend setback
By PAUL D. BOWKER
Sports Writer
The domination of opponents by the KU men's track team quickly came to a halt in a quadrangular meet Friday in Manhattan.
The Jayhawks, undefeated in three previous meets, finished last in the meet. Arkansas, the only non-Big Eight representative, won with 54 points. Oklahoma finished second with 42, K-State scored 38 and Kansas 27.
There were reasons for the Jayhawks' last-place performance, however. Five of the team's top competitors were not at the meet.
The Jayhawks won just two events and didn't place in five. Mark Hanson, a junior, the long wong with a leap of 24-10 and freshman Greg Jones won the 60-yard hurdles with a time of 7.63. Jones also placed fourth in the 300.
Mark Rau, Deen Hogan, Mike Ricks
and Rodney Bullock, all sprinters.
competed in the Los Angeles Invitational, while triple jumper Sanya Owolabi and pole vaulter George Buckingham were out with injuries.
Actually, KU wasn't really worried about winning the meet. With the Big Eight indoor championships just two weeks away, Jayhawks' Coach Bob Timmons was more concerned with entering different athletes in events.
"We did not go over with the idea that it was a big meet for us," Timmons said.
Despite the disappointing point totals, eight KU competitors had career beests, including Hanson in the long jump. Hanson jumped 25-5, but the leap was negated when officials ruled that he had fouled.
"I think Mark did well on that run," Timmons said. "He's just one and one-quarter off the hill for the NCAA championships."
work hard in practice this week, before slacking off a little next week to prepare for the conference championships.
Although Hogan and Ricks each had second-place finishes at the Los Angeles Invitational, the meet probably won't be fondly remembered.
The meet did clear up a few things for Timmons, who said the team would
Hogan, who suffered a hamstring pull earlier this season, was ahead in the 500 until he suffered the injury again and was passed late in the race by Urs Kamber of San Jose, who edged Hogan by 1-10th of a second.
Ricks settled for a second-place finish in the 600, an event that might be more accurately described as the 605.
Hogan said Ricks crushed the finish line ahead of Billy Konchellah of San Diego. However, track officials, using judges instead of a photo finished, rided Konchella the winner when he passed Ricks before crossing a line where a bell was, five yards beyond the actual finishing line.
Do or die for the "Hawks because they had everything to lose; the Cyclones had nothing to lose. KU stood at a agilging fifth place in the conference before the game, but Oklahoma's 60-55 victory over Missouri Saturday afternoon made the contest more important. K-State downed Nebraska to give both those clubs a share of the lead. Colorado's defeat of Oklahoma State muddied the water even more.
"Coach told us we would have to dig way down to win," Neal said of Owens' halftime message. "He said that we had to want the Big Eight championship."
KU gets rare road victory
JAHWYK NOTES: This is basketball season but it is also a very important part of the football season, time to sign Big Eight letters of intent. KU is not releasing the names of all signers but it was reported early that the Jahwayks had handed Hamed Abdullah a 195 round prep All-America fullback from Arkansas City High School. Fields is considered the top running back prospect in Kansas and one of the best in the nation.
By TRACEE HAMILTON
Associate Sports Editor
The contest started in the mold of all KU road games—the Jayhawks played less-than-average basketball. Iowa State, on the other hand, played with the reckless abandon seen only in teams that are 1-8 in the conference anyway but want to preserve some pride.
"THEY PLAYED near-perfect basketball," Booty Neal, 6-foot-5 guard, said of the Cyclones' first-half performance. "Without Ron Buckek, a few of them were out of position. But they played great ball."
"But the game was in balance. It was a do-or-die situation."
Kansas basketball fans are accustomed to seeing this season's Jayhawks fall behind and lose by large margins on the road (Kansas State). They are used to seeing the Jayhawks fall behind and lose close games. They are not used to seeing they aren't used to is seeing the Jayhawks win away from home.
But that's exactly what happened Saturday night when KU bumped off the cellar-dwelling Iowa State Cyclones 51-49 in Ames.
John Kunnert, 6-foot-6 center, led Iowa State to a 14-20 halftime lead. Radios in Jayhawk homes across the state were broken. Some old KU fell on the road.
"Never in my career have I seen anything like it," Guy said. "Never have I been a part of anything like it." We never let up. It was incredible.
"I guess I hit the ones that counted," Neal said. "The player was on me, but Coach said if you have an open shot to take it. As long as you don't force it, anyway. He stresses that."
But KU played its second half with the reckless abandon of a team that had to win to stay in the conference race. The 'Hawks outscored Iowa State 31-15 in the second half, largely due to Tony Guvins's 15-point effort.
WELL, YES. Incredible that none of the Jayhawks fouled out. Increible that KU outscored Iowa State 25-6 in the last 14 minutes. And incredible that Neal, who was 2-0 from the field, hit the last two shots of the game, including a 2-footer with six seconds left on the clock.
The KU women's track team had not displayed much strength in the indoor season. Its best finish was second place in a regular meet in Allen Field House Jan. 30.
That changed Friday when the Jayhawks beat nine other teams at the Central Missouri State Invitational.
Women's track team wins meet
"This meet was a turning point improvement-wise," Coach Carla Coffey said. "They've been working hard and practicing every day. Everything is beginning to fall into place. We're right where we want to be."
KU placed first with 167 points, followed far behind by Missouri, which had 83 points. Wichita State was third with 90 points. The rest of the field scored below 35.
THE JAYHAWKS two-mile relay, Debbie Hirtz, Tangy Henan, Denise Homa and Anne Johannessen, snared Alma and she relay also placed first with a marker of 41. Of the twelve other events, KU took first place in five and second in five.
Besides helping the mile relay win, sophomore Lori Green-Jones placed first in the 80-yard dash with a time of
HOWEVER, the results of the meet gave the Jayhawks confidence.
"The meet was a positive sign," Coffey said. "It gave the athletes a bit of confidence for the championships. I'm really enthusiastic about the team. I'm really pleased. The coaching staff is behind them 120 percent."
THE CASTLE TEA ROOM
"MY TIME AT the meet was disappointing," Pess said. "I guess that I was too high on the hurdle and I knocked the third one with my knee."
7. 0, her best time this season. She also took first in the 300 with 36.62. In the same event, Green-Jones took second in a regular meet at KU with a time of 36.49.
Senior hurdler Gwen Poss placed first in the 60-yard hurdles with 8.2. He was qualified for the AIAW National Championships in that event with a time of 8.08.
"Most of the teams were community colleges," Poss said. "I don't want to knock them, but they're just used to competing with themselves."
The competition at this meet was not as good for the Jayhawks as it had been for the Raptors.
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