Page 8 University Daily Kansan, January 27, 1981
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"Other" TopTen team ignored
By BRENDA DURR Sports Writer
It's not exactly common knowledge but Kansas has two sports with teams ranked in the top 10 in the nation.
one, of course, is the women's basketball team. With superstar Lynette Woodard on the team, the women have received some regional success.
"The only KU team ranked higher than us is the women's basketball team," said Mark Nicholson, a senior on the team.
The second doesn't have a nationally known superstar but some of the players are pretty well known in some Lawrence circles. Most of the top bowlers in town know KU's eight-hittered bowling team.
The ranking has not grabbed the attention of the students yet, according to team captain and grad student Mike Smallwood.
"Most of the student body doesn't even know we exist," he said.
Smallwood, Nicholson, Dave Wagner, Sam Malinowski and Bob Golden, all seniors but Smallwood, are the five members of the team that recently defeated Wichita State, the defending national champion.
Even though most KU students haven't heard of the team's achievements, Nicholson said that the Kansas team often gets the most support of all the schools in the tournaments it attends. The team's support comes mostly from friends and fellow bowlers.
"It will be packed but with only friends and hardcore bowlers watching," he said.
Not all bowling teams suffer from a lack of local recognition. Wichita
State, always a national power, receives local media attention and financial support.
"Wichita is a bowling town, and the team is covered well in the paper and helped financially," Nicholson said.
The Jay Bowl in the Kansas Union sponsors the team but each player must buy his own equipment.
The KU team, on the other hand, has its usual rooters and good support from local bowlers, but little more.
The team beats that financial crunch with some aid from two Lawrence bowling alleyts that provide free bowling. Also, those alleyts help to defer the cost of lodging and food when the team goes to a tournament.
But, as is the case with most unfunded sports, when the team members talk money they talk KU Athletic Department.
"We could use the support of the athletic department," Nicholson said.
Besides the financial aspect, there are other less tangible but equally frustrating problems with being a KI1 bowler.
One problem faced by bowlers, Nicholson said, was being stereotyped. He said a popular image was that of a cigar-smoking bowl who lifts a glass of beer more than his bowling ball.
Smallwood said that tournaments were on weekends but the bowlers still lose school time.
But there is a carrot at the end of the stick that keeps the bowlers working. The reward may come the day of May in the national tournament.
Mike Smallwood, graduate student and captain of KU's 8th-ranked bowling team, rolls another one in league competition last night.
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan staff
The KU men's track team always seems to have depth in the sprint events, but opposing Big Eight teams may encounter more trouble with the addition of freshman football sensation KERN Bell wilt to the KU roster.
Bell will try track
Bell, who won the Big Eight Newcomer of the Year award with the KU football team this fall, Monday night said he has joined the men's indoor track team and will compete in the 60-vard dash.
Wayne Capers, a football teammate of Bell's, has also joined the team.
KU track coach Bob Timmons said he is glad to have Bell on his team, the defending Rie Flight injury champs.
Bell, a native California who was one of head football coach Don Fambrough's top recruits, said he originally didn't intend to join the track team.
"I'm really thrilled because we need help in the 68-yard dash," Timmons said. "He'll be a very, very big improvement to our program. He can really help us in the short races and that's where we need help."
"When I came to school, I didn't plan on running track," Bell said. "They do have one of the best programs. I'm really anticipating it."
Bell will also get a long-awaited showdown with Georgia freshman running back Herschel Walker in a special race Feb. 13 in Los Angeles. Walker, a top candidate for this year's Heisman Trophy award, was the only freshman to win the game more yards than Bell, who ran for over 1,000 yards for the 4-5 Jayhawks.
The 60-yard race, promoted as the "Football Heroes" race, will also include Kevin Williams of Southern California and Curtis Dickey, a professional football player with the Baltimore Colts.
Swimmers win at home
If there is such a thing as a home pool advantage, Kansas' women's swim team used it well over the weekend. The team captured its second invitational championship of the season, winning the Annual Kansas Invitational Swim Meet.
Kansas scored 1032 points to
Ohio, 66, Iowa State, 612 and
Minnesota.
Leading the way for the Jayhawks, who won all but seven of the 24 events, was Jenny Wagstaff who won four individual events.
Kansas won the Cyclone Invitational in Ames, Iowa earlier this season.
"Jenny is one of the top swimmers in the country," said Kansas coach Gary Kemp. "But I don't look at it as though I could swim." We have a lot of strong swimmers.
relay team of Wagstaff, Lanny Schafer, Tammy Thomas and Erin McMorrow. Those four swimmers recorded a national championship qualifying time of 1:37.4, the seventh best time in the nation this year.
Indicative of the strong swimmers on the team is the 200-meter freestyle
Wagstaff had a national qualifying time of her own in the 200 individual freestyle with a time of 1:51.4. That knocks Wagstaff .6 6 in the country.
Senior Janet Lyndstrom also had a fine meet, winning three individual events and placing first with the 800-meter medley relay.
Although Kempf said that he was happy with the number of first place winners on his dad; he was even more pleased with the depth the Jayhawks showed.
KU women hope to end streak
"I discovered that we have a great amount of depth," he said. "We will finish deep."
By SANDY CLARK Sports Writer
Nobody knows exactly when Kansas women's basketball team last defeated Kansas State in Manhattan. One thing happened, however. It was a long, long time ago.
Since 1968, when records were first kept, the Wildcats have beaten KU in 12 straight games in Manhattan.
Kansas will be out to end that streak tonight when the two teams meet in the unfriendly confines of Ahearn Fieldhouse.
Anytime KU and K-State play, there's always an emotional element involved," said Kansas head coach Marian Washington. "K-State is very proud to beat on their home court. Great games have played there and lost there."
Although the Jayhawks finished that game with only a 51-48 rebounding edge, Hickey said that was enough to doom her Wildcat team.
K-State Head Coach Lynn Hickey should be particularly relieved to have her 18-5 Wildcats playing the Jayhawks in Manhattan. In the first meeting this year between the two teams, the Wildcats are going to the Field House dropping them 8-60 in the finals of the Big Eight Championship Tournament.
"They had a real advantage because everytime they got a rebound,
something good would happen for them,” Hickey said. “*Rebounding and tempo should be the keys in this game too. We have to make KU slow down and we have to play more our own style which is setting it up outside and inside.”
If ever KU had a chance to end K-State's home court dominance, this should be the year.
The Wildcats, who dropped out of the top twenty this week, have been plagued by inconsistency all season.
"Our main problem has been inconsistency," Hickey said. "We play one good half and one poor half. KU did not see the ball being hit by the receiver. In the first half, we played very well. In the second half, our offense totally stopped."
The Wildcats have also been saddled with injuries. Their starting center Tammie Romstad has been out with a knee injury since early January. Romstad had been averaging 20 points and 11 rebounds, K-State also lost the services of their head coach for leg injury. In addition, guard Jeanne Daniels is still not at full strength after coming off an eight-month layoff following knee surgery.
"I guess you could call us the crippled association," Hickey said. "Without Tamnie, the big thing was that we lost some on the defensive end and some quickness inside. We also lost some offensive aggressiveness."
Women pass test at KC
The KU women's track team passed its first test of the indoor season this weekend when it traveled to Kansas City, Mo. for the Track and Field Association/United States of America meet.
Only 12 Jayhaws made the trip to face a strong field that included two Russian gold medalists and several American Olympians, but Coach Carla Coffey said she was happy with the team's effort.
"Considering it was our first meet I was pretty well pleased," Coffey said. "It was a good start to start off with."
The Jayhawks will stick with the same game plan that has keyed their success this season—applying pressure offensively and defensively. They will have a big ball inside to Legrant, Woodard and 6-2 sophomore center Megan Scott.
The top performance for the Jayhawks was in turn by Gwen Pos, one of the three KU women to compete in invitational events. Pos finished second and third in the American stars Gayle Watkins and Stephanie Highower, but ahead of
Russian gold medalist Vera Komisova.
"I still think they're a nationally ranked-caliber team," she said. "It's always disappointing to lose someone like Romstad, but K-State has worked hard to keep going. I think without her they're a quicker team. They're working together well if not better than before they lost her."
The open competition produced the only victories for KU in the meet. In the open 60-yard hurdles, Connie McKernan won with a time of 8.26 minutes while Shawn Corwin cleared 5-6 to win the high jump and Tudie McKnight took the long jump with a leap of 18-11½.
Washington pointed out, however, that her Jayhawks would not be lulled into overconfidence by the K-State injury situation.
Debbie Hertzog took third for KU in
these games and Tanya Heard
finished fourth in the league.
The full team opens its season Friday at Allen Field House against Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Arkansas, and Coffey said she was very optimistic.
Coffey said that the top returnees from last year's team were hurdier Poss and spinner Lori Green-Jones in the running events and McKnight and Corwin in the field events. There could be a risk of switching around in the other events.
K-State leads the series 25-9, but that margin will narrow in the next few years, Washington predicted.
K-State has the advantage in the overall record because in the early years their program was far more advanced than most basketball programs in the Midwest," Washington said. "But I think things are about to change. We're always ready to respond to their challenge."
"I think its wide open," she said. Our talent is very diverse."
Jayhawks 18th in UPI poll
place flags and win-lost records in par-
trees-before.
1. Oregon State (31) (15-6)
2. Virginia (97) (16-6)
3. Delaware (14) (15-6)
4. LSU (21) (13-7)
5. LSU (21) (13-7)
6. Wake Forest (15-1)
7. Arizona St. (14-2)
8. Utah (14-2)
9. Notre Dame (12-3)
10. UCLA (13-4)
11. North Carolina (11-4)
12. Iowa (12-3)
13. Maryland (13-4)
14. Alabama (13-3)
15. Tennessee (13-3)
16. Indiana (11-7)
17. Kansas (16-4)
18. Connecticut (13-3)
19. Minnesota (13-3)
20. Michigan (13-3)
21. Michigan (13-3)
22. Michigan (13-3)
23. Michigan (13-3)
24. Michigan (13-3)
25. Michigan (13-3)
26. Michigan (13-3)
27. Michigan (13-3)
28. Michigan (13-3)
29. Michigan
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