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The University Daily KANSAN
February 27,1984 Page 10
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MANHATTAN - The eyes of 11,220 Kansas State fans are riveted on Carl Henry as he launches this shot out the outstretched arms of Kansas State's Eddie Elder. Henry's shot gave the Jayhawks a 63-61 victory that enabled them to clinch second place in the Big Eight Conference.
K-State throttles Adkins, whips KU women 81-63
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
The Kansas women's basketball team found out Saturday afternoon that it can't always depend on center Vickie Adkins.
Adkins, averaging 20 points a game in Big Eight conference play before Saturday's game against Kansas State, was held to four shots and three points for the wildcats, who shot to the 11th-ranked Wildcats in Manhattan. It was Kansas' fourth straight loss.
Kansas State's win avenged an earlier loss to the Jayhawks. Kansas defeated the Wildcats 71-58 at home and 28. Adkins scored 29 points in that game.
KANSAS STATE head coach Lynn
Hickey said, "We worked on cutting off the middle with our zone defense and having the back two players in the 3-2 zone stay in front of Adkins."
Kansas head coach Marian Washington said, "When you have two or three people guarding you at all times, it's kind of difficult to score. We kind of let down on the perimeter. We have to give us out of our opportunities from the outside.
"I can't say enough about Vickie. Her worked hard on offense and defense."
Kansas State neutralized Adkins inside, so other Jayhawks were forced to pick up the scoring load. Valerie Quarles responded with a career-high 30 points against the Wildcats, but it wasn't enough to offset the accurate shooting of the Wildcats.
Kansas State made 61 percent of its shots from the field, compared with 43 percent for Kansas. The Wildcats made 74 percent of their shots in the second half, when they broke open what had been a close ballgame.
WITH 13:28 left in the game, Quarles made a shot in the lane to pull the Jayhawks to within four at 42-38. Kansas State then reeled off 17 unanswered points to go up 57-38. The Jayhawks never threatened after that.
Seven of Kansas State's points in that string came from Angie Bonner. The 6-foot-1 center finished with a game-high 32 points. She hit 11-of-13 shots field, most of them from point-blank range, and made 10-of-12 free throws.
Kansas State led 32-22 at halftime.
After falling behind 9-4 in the first four
minutes of the game, Kansas switched from a man-to-man defense to a zone and crawled back to within two at 16-14 with 6:28 left in the first half. Kansas State outscored the Jayhawks 16-8 in the locker room with a 19-point lead.
"WE HAD OUR opportunities." Washington said. "We're just struggling on the perimeter right now. Our young players have to realize that they need to come through for us if we want to be effective. They're going to learn."
Barbara Adkins and Angie Snider joined Quarles in double figures for Kansas with 15 and 12 points. Saturday's game was the first this season in which neither Snider nor Vickie Adkins led the Jawhavas in scoring.
Saturday's loss, the Jayhawks' fourth in a row, drops KU's record to 6-6.
KU clinches 2nd by edging 'Cats on Henry's shot
By JEFF CRAVENS Sports Editor
MANHATTAN  All the principa- characters agreed. Saturday's Kansas-Kansas State game was a great basketball game. Period.
"That was a belluva game, wasn't it," KU coach Larry Brown said after watching the Jayhawks grab a 63-61 victory in Manhattan.
K-State's Jack Hartman said, "I gotta believe that was a great basketball game."
The final statistics backed up both statements. Kansas shot 54.2 percent from the field, compared with 56.3 percent for K-State. KU had six of their runs and had five Kansas hit all 11 of its throwies; K-State made seven of nine.
Neither team led by more than six points, and the game came down to a last second shot by KU's Carl Henry. His sliding conclusion for a spectacular game.
THE JAYHAWKS held the ball for almost three minutes at the end of the game to set up the shot by Henry. With three seconds left from behind the backboard and with K-State's 6-foot-9 Eddie Elder draped all over him, he scored from 16-feet. The victory clinched a second place Big Eight finish for KU.
The crowd of 11,220 fans, who provided a constant roar throughout the entire game, acted as if they had just witnessed a terrible accident.
Brown said, "We wanted that shot, but about six feet close. And not barely."
THE GUY WE wanted to shoot it,
shot it and the kid we wanted to pass it
to him, passed it to him. And it came at
him, was very calmly, we
would have wanted a lauw."
Brown admitted the play didn't go well as planned but said he was happy with it.
Henry, who had been averaging more than 19 points a game, scored just eight points against Oklahoma last week and finished with 12 against the Wildcats, hitting six of 15 shots from the field. But he bit the one that counted.
Kansas State had threatened to take charge of the game when Timo Alfaro hit one of two free throws with 8:38 left to give KState a 54-49 lead. Alfaro finished with 23 points, all from long range.
"I'd been missing all night, but I was happy," Henry said about his final shot, "I don't think I've been struggling. I've just been hitting the open man."
'I thought they had McCalister
back." Brown said referring to Oklahoma's "Tim McCallister who scored 31 points against KU last Wednesday. "It meant them. They had Mitchell and Alfaro.
But KU, playing with its newly found confidence on the road, did not finch.
Henry also won the game at Nebraska with a shot in the closing seconds. That started KU's present three-game winning streak on the road.
"I THINK EARLIER in the season, if we would have got down five, we would have got down on ourselves and given up," Kelly Knight said. "But ever since the big win at Nebraska, we've been playing with a lot more confidence."
After Allara's free throw, K-State center Ben Mitchell scored six of the Wildcats' final eight points. Mitchell finished with 18 points, the final two giving K-State its final lead at 61.50 with 4:03 left to play.
Henry then followed his own miss and Alfaro threw up a rare miss to set up the final minutes of play and Henry's heroes.
"I TOUGHT THE Oklahoma game, for forty minutes, was a real testimony to college basketball," Brown said. "But somebody asked me at halftime and I thought we played great the first half."
Kansas State scored the first six points of the game, but the Jayhawks battled back to take a 12-8 lead on two free throws by Clinton Thompson. Thompson led KU's balanced scoring attack with 14, and his two free throws ran his consecutive streak to 26, short of David Magley's school record.
K-State rode the scoring of Mitchell, Al-Karfo and Eddie Elder in the first half while KU had three players. Thompson, Greene Dreining and Ron Kellogg, who drew six points, Drewling he free throws to tie the game at 32 at halftime.
THE VICTORY ENDED a highly emotional week for the Jayahawks, one which started with the overtime loss to Oklahoma.
"That was the most disappointing loss of the year for me, maybe one of the biggest of all time," Drreiling said. "It really hurt. I just know we wanted to win here really bad, and we came back and proved ourselves."
KU continues on the road against Colorado Wednesday night before finishing up the regular season by playing host to Oklahoma State Saturday afternoon. The first round of the Big Eight post-season tournament will start a week from Tuesday, with KU hosting the No. 7 team in the conference
KU women swimmers start slow but roll to 10th straight title
Associate Sports Editor
Bv COLLIN HERMRECK
Led by sophomore Tanny Pease and senior Jenny Wagstaff, KU captured 11 of the 20 events in the three-day minicamp.
It may have been the closest Big Eight championship meet in five years, but the Kansas women's swimming team had all the reason to celebrate again after the Jayhawks captured its consecutive title Saturday night in Robinson Natalorum
KU finished the meet with 645 points, followed by Nebraska with $542^{\circ}$; Missouri 294, Oklahoma 280$^{\circ}$ and Iowa State 231.
"It really was a close meet," said KU head coach Gary Kempt, who along with Missouri John Little was named Big Eight swimming coach of the year. "It was real important that it was close because the conference needs to improve."
"NEHASKA DID A tremendous job. They're a team to be reckoned with. The University of Missouri made great strides in this field."
"But this the first time in five years now that we were really challenged, and I mean really challenged. And I was a little bit concerned about if the ladies knew how to accept the challenge."
Wagstaft, named the meet's outstanding swimmer for the third time in her four years at KU, scored first-place finishes in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly events and the 200-yard medley. She finished second in the 200-yard freestyle.
Wagstaff also played a part in three of KU's top finishing relay teams, the 800-yd freestyle, 300-yd freestyle and
IN THE 400 freestyle relay. Wagstaff helped KU take the lead for good on the third leg as the Jayhawks were trailing them.
"It's a nice honor, but anyone could've won it going into the meet," Wagstaff said. "There were so many good people this week."
Kempf credited the three-time All-American as KU's biggest accomplishment in the meet.
"Jenny is a phenomenal athlete and a true pressure perfomer." Kempf said.
THE JAYHAWKS led by $64\frac{1}{2}$ points going into Saturday's competition but increased the final point spread by winning 55-38.
Pease, who had a disappointing second-place finish Thursday in the 50-yard greetings, got started for KU by winning the 100-yard freestyle with a national qualifying score of 67.4, home in fourth, was the other championship-heat finisher for KU
KU freshman Marcie Herrold, who missed her first two events Friday to attend a funeral, came back to win the 1,650-yard freestyle in 17.01.86. Cathy Coulter won the consolation heat and was seventh overall in the event.
Pease continued her comeback by winning the 200-year breaststroke in 2:24.07. Pease edged OU's Dawn Lamarca and teammate Kelly Burke for the title. Burke set a new Big Eight record in the 2:24.13, time of 2:23.05, erasing Lamarca's 1962 record time of 2:24.73.
"My last day was good, but the other two weren't as good," Pease said. "I was really down. It was hard because no one had beaten me in the 50 all year. It took a day, but I came back."
PEASE FINISHED with two firsts, two seconds and a part of three first-place relay teams.
Despite having the home advantage, Pease said it proved to be a negative factor for her the first day.
"It was like practice swimming at home," Paase said. "It was more like a workout. I didn't really taper or anything."
Pease says she is saving the best for last - the National
Collegiate Athletic Association championships March 15-17 at Indianapolis, Ind.
"I've been looking forward to it for a long time," Pease said. "I think I've gotten a lot better. In some events I swam a lot faster. In the 100 free, I wasn't really expecting to go that fast."
KU KEPT UP the pace Saturday with Wagstaff winning the 200 breaststroke. She edged teammate Celine Cerny in a national qualifying time of 2:01.94. Cerny also qualified for the bronze, which she safter finished fifth. Chris Hays 11th and Cathy Caterl 12th.
Oklahoma's Sarah Newcombe won the 3-meter diving competition with 422.35 points. KU's Cayla Gales finished sixth.
In Saturday's final event, the 400 freestyle relay, the KU team of Cerny, Wriglett, Wagtail and Pease set a new conference record in 2:37.06, also a national qualifying time. The group was set by KU 'Tammy Thomas', Cerny, Wriglett and Wagtail.
"THE FIRST NIGHT we were a little bit tentative, the second night we got rolling and tonight we won every single individual event," Kemp said. "We qualified for nationalists to compete there in the water. The ladies are true athletes. They really are."
"I could go on and, on such as Marcie Herrell coming out of a family crisis and winning the mile like that. Celine Cerny made her Olympic trial cut in the 200 fly tonight and has so much to do," she said. "There's just so many. Every single class produced tonight."
One disappointment for Kemp and the Jayhawks came Friday night when Darcy Gregor was called for a false start in the last leg the 400-yard medley relay. The team of Tana Bowen, Burke, Cerny and Gregor had finished the race in a Big Eight record-setting time of 3:56.58. ISU, which finished in 3:78.84, was given the title.
"THE DISQUOALIFICATION was definitely disappointing." Kempi said "To a normal team, it could've been a very crushing blow, but to our ladies, who have a great deal of pride, they didn't like it. I didn't like it.
"But that's the way it was called and that's the way it stands. They accepted it and came back and swam even better today. The false start did not win them the relay. We won it by a length and a half."
Despite the disqualification, KU went on to finish the night with a first-place finish by Liz Duncan. Bowen, Wagstaff and Pease in the 200 freestyle relay with a national qualifying time of 1:35.18.
Cerny also won the 100-yard backstroke in a national qualifying time of 58.64, followed by Bowen in 59.50. In the preliminaries, Cerny broke her own conference record with a time of 58.61. Duncan finished sixth in the event.
KU's divers had some trouble during the competition with only two finishes in the top 12 in the 1-meter competition on Thursday and Gales' sixth place finish in the 3-meter on Saturday.
OU'S DAWN LAMARCA set a new conference record Friday in the 100-yard breaststroke. Her national qualifying time of 1:05.46 erased the 1982 time of 1:06.52 set by Tammy Pease.
"Our divers were a little bit inconsistent this year." Kempf said. "It was a little bit weaker."
Missouri edges O-State 65-64 as Jones hits shot in 2nd OT
The Jayhawks will have a week to practice for the grand finale in Indianapolis. Kemp said he wasn't sure of the exact figures, but between eight to 12 KU swimmers have qualified in more than 20 events.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Ron Jones banked in a shot with two seconds left in the second overtime yesterday to give the Missouri Tigers a 65-44 Big Eight victory over Oklahoma State.
KU finished seventh last year and reached its goal of placing in the top 10 for the first time in KU history. The Jayhawks are ranked 13th in the nation, but Kempf said that rating was too low.
By United Press International
The win gave the Tigers a 5-7 mark and allowed them to catch Colorado and Iowa State and move into four place in the Big Eight. Missouri is 16-11 in the league, 21-8 overall, are 4-8 in the league and fell into the cellar with Kansas State.
Missouri forced both overtimes, as Blake Wortham tied the game at 61.61 with a dunk with 30 seconds left in regulation, and Prince Bridges, after a period-long Missouri stall, missed the only shot taken by either team in the first overtime.
The Tigers changed tactics in the second extra period. Bridges scored on a layup just eight seconds into the overtime. Oklahoma State's Raymond Woods headed three points during the minute to give the Cowboys a 64-13 lead.
Women fifth, men eighth at conference Indoor
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
The Kansas men's track team had its worst finish in 40 years at the Big Eight Indoor Championships Saturday at the Bob Davenport Sports Center in Lincoln, Neb., while the women's team did better than expected.
The men's team, which has some of its best performers on the sidelines because of injuries or redshirting, was the first time the team finished last 1943. Iowa State won the meet with 143 points, followed by Missouri with 142.
points; Nebraska, 81; Oklahoma State, 65; Oklahoma, 60; Kansas State, 28; and Colorado, 26.
THE WOMEN'S TEAM, which had been picked by conference coaches to finish seventh, finished in fifth place at 38$\frac{1}{2}$ points. Nebraska finished first with 167 points, followed by Kansas State with 94; Missouri, 65$\frac{1}{2}$ Oklaoma, 52; Kansas, Iowa State, Colorado, 28; and Oklahoma State, 14.
Greg Leibert and Jim Metzger had the highest finishes for the KU men's team. Leibert finished fourth in the mile with a time of 4 minutes, 12.08
Stine Lerdahl was the top finisher for the KU women, taking first place in the shotput with a throw of 48·10<sup>½</sup>. The Jayhawks picked up 17 points in the shotput and scored 65 points. Buchanan's third place finish and Lisa Bossch's sixth place finish.
seconds. Metzger placed fourth in the pole vault, going 16-6.
THE JAYHAWKS also did well in the pentathlon. Rosie Wadman finished second in the event, Connie McKernan finished third, and Julie Hall finished fifth. McKernan also finished sixth in the 60-yard hurdles.
Other women placing at the meet
were Kelly Wood, fifth in the
winners' class of 1945, who
took for birth in the high up
side.
The two-mile relay team of Paula Berquist, Cindy Blakeley, Vicki Fulcher and Wood finished sixth, as did the mile relay team of Vyette Grove, McKernan, Kim Jones and Rene Goree.
Roundout out the scoring for the men's team were Craig Glicken, fifth in the shot put; Craig Branstrom, sixth in the high jump; and Tom Hays, sixth in the pole vault. The mille relay队 of Kelly Kilcrease, John Creighton, Greg Dalzell and Bill bunten finished sixth.
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