University Daily Kansan, February 18, 1985
SPORTS
Page 11
NEWS BRIEFS
Tennis team wins on the road
For the second straight weekend, the women's tennis team was on the road and returned to Lawrence victorious.
Friday, Kansas defeated Oklahoma City on Saturday the Jayhawks swept Olive Robert.
"It was really pleased with the way we played with the amount of time we've had outside." Perelman said.
A last minute change had to be made in the line-up Friday in the singles ladder. Janelle Bolen had a sore knee and Stefanie Dicke came in and split in two singles matches. But Bolen competed in the doubles and won both matches.
"Barabara Inman had an outstanding weekend." Perelman said.
The Jayhawks lost the No. 1 and No. 6 singles matches to a much improved Oklahoma City team. Perelman said.
For the first time since Perelman's been the coach at KU, Kansas defeated jokey Martin, Ori Roberts' No. 1 singles player Barbara Inman defended Martin 6-4 and 6-0.
The other loss came at the No.1 doubles position.
The women return to action March 1 when they play in the Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Invitational in Edwardsville, Ill.
Good bowling not enough
Sometimes the user isn't braver.
Sometimes the men's bowling teams bowled well above their season averages this weekend in the regional championship in Wichita. However, it wasn't enough to advance them to the sectional championship in March.
The men's team finished fifth and the gmmen scored 6.0th. Both team had to be eliminated.
We faced the best teams in the country and it is hard to be too discouraged with the team. We are very proud of our team.
The men started off strong, leading the competition after the first round Friday.
Head coach Mike Fine said he wasn't with either team's performance.
"We bowed fantastic Friday," he said.
"Allen had a great day for us."
Allen Kepler, Kansas City, Kan., senior, came out of the first round with a 680 average for three games, the best of the 14 teams competing.
The second round on Saturday didn't go as well.
"We didn't shoot bad Saturday." Fine said, "but we were up against national powers and you have to shoot unbelievable scores all day long to stay in contention."
The women's weekend was the highlight of their season. Fine said.
"The women did real well. Sixth place was a fantastic finish for them," he said.
Tracy Clarke, Kansas City; Karr,
sophomore, led the women with a 180
average. Kepler's 206 average was the
best for the men.
Blackburn wins in San Diego
LA JOLLA, Calif. — Woody Blackburn needed three putts on the fourth playoff hole yesterday, but was still able to beat Ron Streck and win the $400,000 San Diego Open.
The win, worth $72,000, was Blackburn's first solo victory since joining the PGA tour in 1974. The previous best year for the team, his residence was 184 when he won $29,074.
Blackburn and Streck struggled through the playoffs until Streck hit his second shot into the pond on the par-5 18th. Blackburn salvaged par.
"It's so much fun being in the hunt — just being here," said Blackburn. "When I start thinking about it tonight, I can tell you I'll be happy."
You need the money to live, but winning the tournament is what's important.
It looked as though neither golfer wanted the win during the playoffs. Both bogeyed the second playoff hole and could do no better than par on the others.
St. John's beats Depaul 93-80
NEW YORK — Chris Mullin, recovering his shooting touch in the second half, struck for 31 points at top-ranked St. John's began its most demanding stretch of the season yesterday by surging to a 93-80 victory over No. 20. DePaul.
Mulin, a 16-foot-6 All-American, made just two of 10 shots in the first half before hitting for 24 points in the second half. St. John's easily pulled away after trailing by 10 points and shooting. Mulin finished 9-of-17 from the floor while hitting 13 of 15 free throws.
The Redmen, 22-1, ran their winning streak to 17 games — the longest in the nation among major teams and matching teams. The 1979-80 season for consecutive victories.
The DePaul game was the start of an ardous test for St. John's, which faces Boston College, Syracuse and Georgetown in its next three games.
DePaul, once ranked No. 2 this season,
continued its plunge. The Blue Demons,
15-8, have lost five of their last seven,
the school's worst slump in two years.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Red-shirt wins 1,000-yard run for win No.1
By DAVID O'BRIEN
Sports Writer
Greg Dalczell took advantage of the only opportunity he's had to race during this indoor season, winning the 1,000-yard run Saturday at Anschutz Park. Open track meet at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
Running from the front of the pack most of the way, Dalzell won the race in 2 minutes, 12.69 seconds for the first victory of his coltling season. Torey Keller finished second in 2-13.75.
"I wanted to run 2:10," Dalzell said after the race. "I still think I could have done it, but it's the only race I'll run this season, so I knew it would be hard."
knee would be BAKERSFIELD, CALIF,
DALZELL, BAKERSFIELD, CALIF,
senior, is being redshirted during the indoor
season and cannot compete in collegiate
meets for KU. He ran in Saturday's all-
comers meet unattached.
"I can usually control my nerves," Dalzell said. "But today, since it was my first race, I was more nervous than usual." I think that
Saturday's win came in the first race Dalzell has run since last March. He was forced to sit out last spring when he was injured before the outdoor season began.
"I was really confident going into the meet," Dalzell said, "because this is the first time I've been really healthy and uninjured since my sohombear year.
Tracey Keith, KU sophomore, strains to catch her teammate, Heather 'Sterbenz, during the final lap of the Women's Open Mile at the Missouri Open and Masters Indoor Championships in the Anchustsch Pavilion on Saturday. Keith 'Sterbenz, did but go on to finish second with a time of 32.1. Sterbenz' winning time was 5:18.0.
THE HIGHLIGHT OF the meet came early when Scott Lloistquit won the shot put with a put of 66 feet, $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches. That mark ranks as the top throw in the United States this season. Lloistquit, the former Southwest Conference champion while at Arkansas, now trains in Lawrence with the KU shot-putters.
No team scores were kept in Saturday's meet, which featured athletes of all ages and backgrounds.
Former KU sprint standout Deon Hogan returned to finish second in the 60-yard dash in 6.45 seconds. Current team members Tony Berry and Raymond Mitchell finished third and fourth in the event. Berry was clocked in 6.47, while Mitchell finished in 6.51.
"I wasn't that pleased with my time, but I was pleased with winning my first college race."
Several KU women turned in strong individual performances
Rose Wadman won the triple jump with a leap of 38 feet, five inches. That mark is a
personal record for Wadman in the event. Julie Hall finished second in the triple jump at 36-11 $ _{2} $ .
Ann O'Connor continued to perform well in the high jump, clearing 5-8% for second place. Wadman also jumped 5-8%, finishing third. The remaining eightights Jac Tavaa jumped 5-8%, to finish sixth.
Kim Jones won the long jump with a leap of 10.65, national quality-standard of its kind.
Jara Rudak finished second in the shot put with a mark of 41-12-1 to round out the
Jayhawk's scoring in the field events.
KU women dominated the middle-distance running events, sweeping the top five places in the 880-yard dash and four of the top five finishes in the mile run.
Angie Helmer won the 800 in 2:14.24, followed by Kelly Wood in 2:16.10, Susan Glatter in 2:18.26, Trisha Mangan in 2:20.18 and Laura Peart in 2:26.12.
Heather Sterbenz won the mile in 5:18, followed by Tracey Keith in 5:21.3 and Paula Berquist in 5:27.5. Kim Sheridan finished in 5:28.8.
Turnovers hit hard in losses of past week
By MIKE BRENNAN
Sports Writer
When the game is over, it is over.
At least that was what head coach Larry Brown said yesterday as he talked about the two losses Kansas suffered this week, including Saturday's 72-70 loss to Iowa State.
"I was disappointed that we lost," Brown said. "No need worrying about it. They are over."
It was the first time this season that Kansas had lost two games in a row. Kansas is now 7-3 in the Big Eight, 20-6 overall. The team was to Missouri in Columbia on Tuesday.
The same problem that plagued Kansas in its game against the Tigers appeared again when Kansas played the Cyclones — turnovers.
"Offensively, I thought we played well," Brown said. "We turned the ball over a little."
THE JAYHAWKS TURNED the ball over 15 times against Iowa State. That isn't the highest turnover total for one game for KU this season, but Brown said it was too many.
One other problem Kansas had to face was the loss of Cedric Hunter with 8:50 left in the game.
Hunter collided with Ron Virgil and required eight stitches above one of his eyes. But he returned and played the final minutes of the ball game.
"We really could have won both of those games," he said.
Brown said he thought both Missouri and Iowa State could go to the NCAA tournament.
KU improved in two areas that were less loss to the Tigers - rebounding and
KANSAS OUT/REHOUNDED MOSQUIER
brown bison bounced nine more rebounds
by the Iowa State 21-7.
But the field goal percentage passed the Jayhawks' season average.
For the first time this season, KU hit 80 percent of its shots from the field, making 16 of 20 in the second half. That boosted the game percentage to 58.3.
"We are a young team, we are improving," Brown said. "It's not easy to win on the road in this conference."
All three of the Jayhawks' losses in the Big Eight were on the road. The loss to the Cyclones also left little hope for a Big Eight championship this season for the Jayhawks.
Tubbs says Sooners own Women win narrowly; Big Eight championship Arkansas defeats men
By United Press International
Coach Billy Tubs has been around the Oklahoma Sooners long enough to know they aren't going to lose three of their next four games. So Tubbs thinks the Big Eight office can pack the basketball championship trophy in a crate and send it on down to Norman.
"The they can throw water on the fire and call in the dogs." Tubbs said after his No. 5 Sooners ran their record to 10-0 in the conference with an 88-84 victory Saturday over Missouri. "We put it out of sight. It's not over, but we put it out of sight."
Oklaahoma extended its Big Eight record of consecutive conference victories to 23 and also tied another league mark with 11 consecutive road race wins in opening round. The Big Eight surged over runner-up Kansas, which was upset 72-10 at Iowa State Saturday.
Kansas hosts Oklahoma in a nationally televised game Saturday, but winning there would still leave the Jayhawks who loses could miss another big game or two more games, and that doesn't seem likely.
Two of Oklahoma's other three games are at home, where the Sooners are 13-0, and all three of the opponents — Colorado, Nebraska or Utah State — are under 500 in the Big Eight runs.
After Malcolm Thomas sank two free throws to forge that tie for Missouri, Darryll Kennedy hit a 15-foot jumper to put Oklahoma ahead for good. Big Eight steals leader Tim McCalister then stripped Jeff Strong of the ball on Missouri's ensuing trip
The Sooners blew a seven-point halftime lead and found themselves five points back midway through the second half. The score was tied with two minutes to play at 80-80.
It hasn't been as easy for Oklahoma as its 10-0 record would indicate. Saturday was an example.
"Our guys play with guts and pride." Tubbs said. "They have a lot of poise and are playing like champions. A lot of teams would have packed up and quit in this place. But our guys bowed up and took it to them when we were. That's what I like best about this team."
down court and the Sooners converted that turnover into a basket underneath by bjoop Borg, brig (19)
Wayman Tisdale scored 23 points, David Johnson came off the bench to score 20 and Kennedy chipped in 19 points and 9 rebounds for the Sooners.
McCallister and Kennedy each then sank two free throws in the final 16 seconds to enable Oklahoma to improve its record to 21-4. Missouri fell to 15-10.
Elliott wins at Daytona
Kansas moved into the Top 10 in the UPI poll last week but will now vacate the premises: the Jayhawks lost twice on the road last week, falling to Missouri 62-55 and then to Iowa State. Iowa State guard Jeff Hornacek scored a basket on a drive of the lane with seven seconds left to sink the No. 10 Jayhawks Saturday.
"It was a great play by Hornacek," iowa State coach Johnny Orr said. "I think if you look at the film, you'll see he got fouled five times, but that's the way it is in the Big Eight."
Barry Stevens scored 22 points for Iowa State to reach the 2,000-career point plateau as the Cyclones snapped a three-game losing streak to get their NCAA Tournament charge back on course. The Cyclones are now 17-9 while Kansas dropped to 20-6.
Randy Downs scored 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to carry Colorado past Oklahoma State while Tom Alfaro scored 23 points to enable Kansas State to snap, a six-game losing streak
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Bill Elliott used three late caution flags to ready his car for a blazing first-place finish in yesterday's Daytona 500, but said he was just trying to finish the biggest race of his career.
Elliott, 29, twice slapped four new tires on his Ford Thunderbird in the closing 30 laps of the race, on one occasion allowing his team to compete, and take the lead while Elliott was in the pit.
In other games, Colorado defeated Oklahoma 83-83 and Kansas State upset Nebraska 68-69.
By United Press International
"I was just waiting to get it over with, whatever the results," Elliott said. "Each caution flag gets you a little unnerved."
The final caution flag came at the beginning of the last lap. As the flag went up Lake Speed, another driver, was sitting on the grass with his hands in his pockets, he could but Elliott, running on the fresh
Early in the race Elliott dueded with Cale Yarborough, whose Thunderbird started in second position. Elliott held the pole after record 208.114 mph lap in qualifying.
tires, pulled away and won by seven car lengths.
The victorious driver said Yarborough's car appeared to be the one to beat and was concerned his lack of experience would give the older driver the edge.
"He'd been in this situation many times and here I was the green kid," said Ellott, who was voted the most popular driver on the NASCAR tour in 1984. "I knew I had a car capable of winning. I just didn't want to get myself in a situation where I let myself get
Elliott said the 500 was a race that favored veterans, but many of the tour's most successful drivers were forced to drop out early with mechanical problems.
By DAVID O'BRIEN Sports Writer
The men's and women's swim teams got a loss and a scare, respectively, in their dual meet with Arkansas in Fayetteville on Saturday.
The women had to win the last two events on the card to squeeze out a 60-33 victory.
"I hope we wake up a little bit," head coach Garry Kempf said yesterday of the women's performance. "All season we've been carried by five or six people, and that continued, although we did get a lot out of the others in the relays."
Kempf said he needed to prepare the team better for meets.
"I've got to do a better job on my part to get them ready mentally," he said. "There's no problem physically; I see them perform well every day in practice."
"We have to realize that we have to get point production out of everybody. We've got to do this."
Marcie Herrold paced the women with victories in the 200-yard butterfly in 2 minutes, 9.8 seconds and the 500-yard freestyle in 5'01.9.
Tammy! Pease won the 200-yard individual medley in 2.07'9. and swag legs on winning teams in both the 400-yard medley and the 400-yard freestyle relay
Liz Duncan won the 50-yard freestyle in
Although the men lost, Kempf said they continued to make progress.
Brad Coens finished first in the 50-yard backstroke and the 100-yard backstroke in his last collegiate dual meet. He finished the 100 in 52.2. Coens also finished second in the 200-yard individual medley in 1:55.8.
"People need to realize that four of our
team meet losses have come against
100, 20 team."
Several freshmen continued to perform well.
"We got out and raced well against
Anthony. We're really pleased with
that up fight."
Chris Cook finished second in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:43.8 and Chuck Jones won the 1000-yard freestyle in 9:46.3
Other winners were Celine Cerny in the 200-yard backstroke and Becci Ream in the 150-yard breaststroke.
Grant Seavall finished third in the 90- yard treestreet in 21 and second in the 75- yard treestreet.
24. 2 and was narrowly defeated in the 100-yard freestyle in a personal-best time of 51.2.
Both teams will begin final preparations this week for the Big Eight Conference Championships.
Celia Gales scored 250.8 points in the three-meter diving competition to qualify for the national championships later this season. Gales finished third in the event.
Women beat ISU 64-61
Bv TONY COX
Sports Writer
The women's basketball team is back to its winning ways, and just in time for the most crucial part of the Big Eight season.
The Jayhaws held on for a 64-61 victory over Iowa State Saturday in Ames.
Kansas had its five-game winning streak broken on Wednesday in a loss to Missouri, but with the Iowa State victory, the game was to control their own destiny in the Big Kick race.
"A good club finds a way to win and we're a good ball club. When we play hard, things fall into place, we run the floor. We lead the league in defense."
"We are a strong ball club," KU head coach Martian Washington said yesterday. If we play the way we are capable of playing, we can beat any team in the Big Eight.
For the sixth time in the last seven games, KU found a way to win. The help came from one of the most experienced players on the
KU, now 7-3 in the conference and 16-7 overall, will face Kansas State Wednesday at home and Oklahoma, conference co-leader, Saturday at home.
team and one of the least experienced players on the team.
After leading by as much as 14 midway through the second half, KU held only a 61-59 lead late in the game.
Barbara Adkins, one of three seniors on the team, hit both ends of a one and one with: 40 remaining to give the Jayhawks a 63-59 lead. Then, with only seconds remaining, freshman Sherri Stoecker made one free throw to put the game out of reach for the Cyclones.
The win over Iowa State, now 1-9 in the conference and 10-13 overall, demonstrates that the conference is getting tougher, Washington said.
"The fact is, everybody is a lot tougher." Washington said. "In the second half of the season we have a chance to see films of each other and be more prepared for each other. I don't think any game is going to be easy."
Against Iowa State, KU got help from more than one player named Adkins. Barbara Adkins, who hit the late free throws, finished with 10 points. Her sister Vickie Adkins led the Jayhawks with 20 points and eight rebounds.
Vickie Adkins' opportunity to shoot more against Iowa State than in recent games was a positive factor, Washington said.